Experimental infection of mice with Rhodococcus equi: differences in virulence between strains |
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Authors: | P M Bowles J B Woolcock M D Mutimer |
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Affiliation: | Department of Veterinary Pathology and Public Health, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia. |
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Abstract: | The growth kinetics in outbred mice of clinical and environmental isolates of Rhodococcus equi were followed by serial bacterial enumeration of organ homogenates. Clinical isolates multiplied until Day 4 before being progressively cleared, but could still be recovered from the liver at 3-4 weeks post-infection. Intravenous inoculation of clinical strains was associated with histopathological responses very similar to those elicited by intravenous infection with various facultative intracellular parasites. Whereas lesions in mice and foals at 7-9 days following respiratory infection are those of severe bronchopneumonia with massive consolidation, a week later the patterns of host response have diverged as the murine lesions resolve. The type strain, NCTC 1621 and 4-6 environmental isolates were eliminated without prior multiplication and these strains caused negligible lesions. The two environmental strains which behaved as the clinical strains were recovered from a stud with an R. equi problem. No association of colonial morphology of R. equi with virulence was apparent. |
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