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Development and Characterization of a Caprine Aerosol Infection Model of Melioidosis
Infection with Burkholderia pseudomallei causes the disease melioidosis, which often presents as a serious suppurative infection that is typically fatal without intensive treatment and is a significant emerging infectious disease in Southeast Asia. Despite intensive research there is still much that...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3419728/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22916225 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043207 |
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author | Soffler, Carl Bosco-Lauth, Angela M. Aboellail, Tawfik A. Marolf, Angela J. Bowen, Richard A. |
author_facet | Soffler, Carl Bosco-Lauth, Angela M. Aboellail, Tawfik A. Marolf, Angela J. Bowen, Richard A. |
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description | Infection with Burkholderia pseudomallei causes the disease melioidosis, which often presents as a serious suppurative infection that is typically fatal without intensive treatment and is a significant emerging infectious disease in Southeast Asia. Despite intensive research there is still much that remains unknown about melioidosis pathogenesis. New animal models of melioidosis are needed to examine novel aspects of pathogenesis as well as for the evaluation of novel therapeutics. The objective of the work presented here was to develop a subacute to chronic caprine model of melioidosis and to characterize the progression of disease with respect to clinical presentation, hematology, clinical microbiology, thoracic radiography, and gross and microscopic pathology. Disease was produced in all animals following an intratracheal aerosol of 10(4) CFU delivered, with variable clinical manifestations indicative of subacute and chronic disease. Bronchointerstitial pneumonia was apparent microscopically by day 2 and radiographically and grossly apparent by day 7 post infection (PI). Early lesions of bronchopneumonia soon progressed to more severe bronchointerstitial pneumonia with pyogranuloma formation. Extrapulmonary dissemination appeared to be a function of pyogranuloma invasion of pulmonary vasculature, which peaked around day 7 PI. Histopathology indicated that leukocytoclastic vasculitis was the central step in dissemination of B. pseudomallei from the lungs as well as in the establishment of new lesions. While higher doses of organism in goats can produce acute fatal disease, the dose investigated and resulting disease had many similarities to human melioidosis and may warrant further development to provide a model for the study of both natural and bioterrorism associated disease. |
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spelling | pubmed-34197282012-08-22 Development and Characterization of a Caprine Aerosol Infection Model of Melioidosis Soffler, Carl Bosco-Lauth, Angela M. Aboellail, Tawfik A. Marolf, Angela J. Bowen, Richard A. PLoS One Research Article Infection with Burkholderia pseudomallei causes the disease melioidosis, which often presents as a serious suppurative infection that is typically fatal without intensive treatment and is a significant emerging infectious disease in Southeast Asia. Despite intensive research there is still much that remains unknown about melioidosis pathogenesis. New animal models of melioidosis are needed to examine novel aspects of pathogenesis as well as for the evaluation of novel therapeutics. The objective of the work presented here was to develop a subacute to chronic caprine model of melioidosis and to characterize the progression of disease with respect to clinical presentation, hematology, clinical microbiology, thoracic radiography, and gross and microscopic pathology. Disease was produced in all animals following an intratracheal aerosol of 10(4) CFU delivered, with variable clinical manifestations indicative of subacute and chronic disease. Bronchointerstitial pneumonia was apparent microscopically by day 2 and radiographically and grossly apparent by day 7 post infection (PI). Early lesions of bronchopneumonia soon progressed to more severe bronchointerstitial pneumonia with pyogranuloma formation. Extrapulmonary dissemination appeared to be a function of pyogranuloma invasion of pulmonary vasculature, which peaked around day 7 PI. Histopathology indicated that leukocytoclastic vasculitis was the central step in dissemination of B. pseudomallei from the lungs as well as in the establishment of new lesions. While higher doses of organism in goats can produce acute fatal disease, the dose investigated and resulting disease had many similarities to human melioidosis and may warrant further development to provide a model for the study of both natural and bioterrorism associated disease. Public Library of Science 2012-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3419728/ /pubmed/22916225 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043207 Text en © 2012 Soffler et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Soffler, Carl Bosco-Lauth, Angela M. Aboellail, Tawfik A. Marolf, Angela J. Bowen, Richard A. Development and Characterization of a Caprine Aerosol Infection Model of Melioidosis |
title | Development and Characterization of a Caprine Aerosol Infection Model of Melioidosis |
title_full | Development and Characterization of a Caprine Aerosol Infection Model of Melioidosis |
title_fullStr | Development and Characterization of a Caprine Aerosol Infection Model of Melioidosis |
title_full_unstemmed | Development and Characterization of a Caprine Aerosol Infection Model of Melioidosis |
title_short | Development and Characterization of a Caprine Aerosol Infection Model of Melioidosis |
title_sort | development and characterization of a caprine aerosol infection model of melioidosis |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3419728/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22916225 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043207 |
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