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Infect. Immun., 04 1997, 1566-1569, Vol 65, No. 4
Copyright © 1997, American Society for Microbiology

Salmonella typhimurium aroA, htrA, and aroD htrA mutants cause progressive infections in athymic (nu/nu) BALB/c mice

K Sinha, P Mastroeni, J Harrison, RD de Hormaeche and CE Hormaeche
Department of Microbiology, The Medical School, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Athymic (nu/nu) BALB/c mice and their euthymic (nu/+) littermates were inoculated intravenously with live attenuated vaccine strains of Salmonella typhimurium. All strains caused progressive infections in the athymic mice but not in their euthymic littermates. Athymic mice given strain SL3261, an aroA derivative of SL1344, in doses between log 4.7 and 5.7 CFU were all severely ill and were killed by weeks 4 to 5. Athymic mice given log 4.7 CFU of a derivative of S. typhimurium C5 carrying a mutation in htrA, encoding a stress protein, were ill and were killed by week 7 in one experiment but survived to week 13 in another. Athymic mice given log 4.6 CFU of a C5 aroD htrA double mutant were ill and were killed at week 7. Athymic mice given SL3261 had high bacterial counts in the reticuloendothelial system at 4 weeks. Athymic mice given SL3261 or C5 htrA made immunoglobulin G3 (IgG3) (and to a lesser extent IgM) antibody to lipopolysaccharide (LPS), whereas euthymic mice made IgM, IgG1, IgG2a, IgG2b, and IgG3 anti-LPS antibodies. The results indicate that both aroA and htrA strains will produce slow, progressively lethal infections in athymic mice, that the htrA strain is more attenuated than the aroA strain as measured by time to death in this model, and that IgG3 anti-LPS antibody alone cannot suppress the progress of infections by very attenuated strains in athymic mice.

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