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Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, July 1999, p. 537-541, Vol. 6, No. 4
Department of Microbiology,
Received 31 August 1998/Returned for modification 19 January
1999/Accepted 23 April 1999
We evaluated the effect of antiflagellar human monoclonal antibody
on gut-derived Pseudomonas aeruginosa sepsis. Mice were given a suspension of P. aeruginosa SP10052 in their
drinking water and were simultaneously treated with ampicillin (200 mg/kg of body weight) to disrupt the normal bacterial flora.
Cyclophosphamide was then administered to induce leukopenia and
translocation of the P. aeruginosa that had colonized the
gastrointestinal tract, thereby producing gut-derived generalized
sepsis. In this model, intraperitoneal injection of 100 µg of
antiflagellar human monoclonal antibody (SC-1225) per mouse for 5 consecutive days significantly (P < 0.01) increased
the survival rate compared with that for mice treated with bovine serum
albumin (BSA). Treatment with SC-1225 significantly reduced the average
number of viable bacteria in portal blood, liver, and heart blood
compared with the average number after treatment with BSA. Furthermore,
the presence in serum of the inflammatory cytokines tumor necrosis
factor alpha and interleukin 6 were evaluated as markers of severity of
infection, and the results showed that the levels of these cytokines in
mice treated with SC-1225 were significantly decreased in comparison with those in BSA-treated control mice. Although there was no significant difference in the number of bacteria that colonized the
intestine, SC-1225 treatment significantly increased bacterial opsonophagocytosis by cultured peritoneal macrophages from mice with or
without cyclophosphamide pretreatment. Our results indicate that
antiflagellar human monoclonal antibody SC-1225 protects mice against
gut-derived sepsis caused by P. aeruginosa and suggest that
such an effect is due to its opsonophagocytic activity and the reduced
motility of the translocated bacteria once the bacteria move from the
intestine into the bloodstream.
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Effect of Antiflagellar Human Monoclonal Antibody on
Gut-Derived Pseudomonas aeruginosa Sepsis in
Mice
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Microbiology, Toho University School of Medicine, 5-21-16 Omori-Nishi, Ota-ku, Tokyo 143-8540, Japan. Phone: 81-3-3762-4151, ext. 2396. Fax:
81-3-5493-5415. E-mail: tetsu{at}med.toho-u.ac.jp.
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