Dextran Sulfate Sodium Colitis Facilitates Colonization with Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli: a Novel Murine Model for the Study of Shiga Toxicosis

Infection and Immunity
Gregory HallD J Stearns-Kurosawa

Abstract

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) bacteria are globally important gastrointestinal pathogens causing hemorrhagic gastroenteritis with variable progression to potentially fatal Shiga toxicosis. Little is known about the potential effects of E. coli-derived Shiga-like toxins (STXs) on host gastrointestinal immune responses during infection, in part due to the lack of a reproducible immunocompetent-animal model of STEC infection without depleting the commensal microbiota. Here, we describe a novel and reproducible murine model utilizing dextran sulfate sodium (DSS) colitis to induce susceptibility to colonization with clinical-isolate STEC strains. After exposure to DSS and subsequent oral STEC challenge, all the mice were colonized, and 66% of STEC-infected mice required early euthanasia. Morbidity during STEC infection, but not infection with an isogenic STEC mutant with toxin deleted, was associated with increased renal transcripts of the injury markers KIM1 and NGAL, histological evidence of renal tubular injury, and increased renal interleukin 6 gene (IL-6) and CXCL1 inflammatory transcripts. Interestingly, the intestinal burden of STEC during infection was increased compared to its isogenic Shiga toxin deletion s...Continue Reading

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