Vibrio cholerae-induced inflammation in the neonatal mouse cholera model.

ABSTRACT: Vibrio cholerae is the causative agent of the acute diarrheal disease of cholera. Innate immune responses to V. cholerae are not a major cause of cholera pathology, which is characterized by severe, watery diarrhea induced by the action of cholera toxin. Innate responses may, however, contribute to resolution of infection and must be required to initiate adaptive responses after natural infection and oral vaccination. Here we investigated whether a well-established infant mouse model of cholera can be used to observe an innate immune response. We also used a vaccination model in which immunized dams protect their pups from infection through breast milk antibodies to investigate innate immune responses after V. cholerae infection for pups suckled by an immune dam. At the peak of infection,

SUBMITTER: Bishop AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4019157 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature