The subcutaneous movements of filarial infective larvae are impaired in vaccinated hosts in comparison to primary infected hosts |
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Authors: | Simon A Babayan Tarik Attout Phat N Vuong Laetitia Le Goff Jean-Charles Gantier Odile Bain |
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Institution: | 1. Parasitologie Comparée et Modèles Expérimentaux, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France 2. Institutes of Evolution, Immunology and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 3. Unité d'Anatomie et de Cytologie pathologiques, H?pital St Michel, Paris, France 4. Laboratoire de Parasitologie, Faculté de Pharmacie, Chatenay-Malabry, France
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Abstract: | Our aim in this study was to observe the movements of filarial infective larvae following inoculation into the mammalian host and to assess the effect of vaccination on larval migration, in situ. Here we present recordings of larvae progressing through the subcutaneous tissues and inguinal lymph node of primary infected or vaccinated mice. We used the filaria Litomosoides sigmodontis in BALB/c mice that were necropsied 6 hours after the challenge inoculation of 200 larvae. Subcutaneous tissue sections were taken from the inoculation site and larvae were filmed in order to quantify their movements. Our analyses showed that the subcutaneous larvae were less motile in the vaccinated mice than in primary-infected mice and had more leucocytes attached to the cuticle. We propose that this reduced motility may result in the failure of a majority of larvae to evade the inflammatory reaction, thereby being a possible mechanism involved in the early vaccine-induced protection. |
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