Capacity of passively administered antibody to prevent establishment of Brucella abortus infection in mice.

Infection and Immunity
A J WinterL G Adams

Abstract

In contrast to immunity against some other facultative intracellular parasites, protective immunity against Brucella abortus is mediated in mice by antibodies as well as by cell-mediated immune responses. It was the purpose of this study to determine whether antibody alone would prevent infection with B. abortus. The majority (82%) of CD-1 outbred mice infected with 100 CFU of virulent B. abortus 2308 preincubated with graded quantities of an O polysaccharide-specific IgG2a monoclonal antibody (MAb) were free of infection 1. 2, 4, and 6 weeks later, based on detection limits of 13 brucellae per spleen and 39 per liver. Infection was present in 95% of control animals. Similar results were obtained with a challenge dose of 500 CFU, but with a challenge dose of 5,000 CFU, infection became established even with the highest concentration of MAb used (50 micrograms of MAb per 5,000 brucellae). Pretreatment with an O polysaccharide-specific IgG1 MAb or with convalescent-phase serum diminished but did not prevent establishment of infection by 100 CFU of B. abortus. A majority of culture-negative mice tested 6 weeks after infection were serologically negative, which could have signified either the absence of previous infection or the ea...Continue Reading

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