Marine Mammal Brucella Reference Strains Are Attenuated in a BALB/c Mouse Model

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dc.bibliographicCitation.titlePlos Oneen
dc.contributor.authorNymo, Ingebjorg Helenaes_ES
dc.contributor.authorArias Cabrero, Maykel Albertoes_ES
dc.contributor.authorPardo, Juliánes_ES
dc.contributor.authorÁlvarez, María Pilares_ES
dc.contributor.authorJiménez de Bagüés Picazo, María Pilares_ES
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-05T11:33:26Z
dc.date.available2016-05-05T11:33:26Z
dc.date.issued2016es_ES
dc.description.abstractBrucellosis is a zoonosis of worldwide distribution with numerous animal host species. Since the novel isolation of Brucella spp. from marine mammals in 1994 the bacteria have been isolated from various marine mammal hosts. The marine mammal reference strains Brucella pinnipedialis 12890 (harbour seal, Phoca vitulina) and Brucella ceti 12891 (harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena) were included in genus Brucella in 2007, however, their pathogenicity in the mouse model is pending. Herein this is evaluated in BALB/c mice with Brucella suis 1330 as a control. Both marine mammal strains were attenuated, however, B. ceti was present at higher levels than B. pinnipedialis in blood, spleen and liver throughout the infection, in addition B. suis and B. ceti were isolated from brains and faeces at times with high levels of bacteraemia. In B. suis-infected mice serum cytokines peaked at day 7. In B. pinnipedialis-infected mice, levels were similar, but peaked predominantly at day 3 and an earlier peak in spleen weight likewise implied an earlier response. The inflammatory response induced pathology in the spleen and liver. In B. ceti-infected mice, most serum cytokine levels were comparable to those in uninfected mice, consistent with a limited inflammatory response, which also was indicated by restricted spleen and liver pathology. Specific immune responses against all three strains were detected in vitro after stimulation of splenocytes from infected mice with the homologous heat-killed brucellae. Antibody responses in vivo were also induced by the three brucellae. The immunological pattern of B. ceti in combination with persistence in organs and limited pathology has heretofore not been described for other brucellae. These two marine mammal wildtype strains show an attenuated pattern in BALB/c mice only previously described for Brucella neotomea.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the grants RTA 2013-00065-C02-01 from The National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA) and agrifood research in Spain (MPJdB) and SAF2014-54763-C2 from the European Social Fund (JP). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.es_ES
dc.description.statusPublishedes_ES
dc.identifier.citationPlos Oneen
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203*
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10532/3249
dc.language.isoenes_ES
dc.relation.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150432es_ES
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.agrovocMamíferos acuáticoses
dc.subject.agrovocBrucellaes
dc.subject.otherProducción y sanidad animales_ES
dc.titleMarine Mammal Brucella Reference Strains Are Attenuated in a BALB/c Mouse Modelen
dc.typeJournal Contribution*
dc.type.refereedRefereedes_ES
dc.type.specifiedArticlees_ES

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