Reduced recovery of a Cryptococcus neoformans adherence mutant from a rat model of cryptococcosis

Canadian Journal of Microbiology
G J MerkelJ L Grosfeld

Abstract

Stable mutants of Cryptococcus neoformans (strain CSF-1) induced by treatment with ultraviolet light and nitrosoguanidine were isolated that demonstrated reduced adherence to glial cells in culture. Adherence of the mutants, as measured by a radiometric assay, was reduced by 50-70% of that attained for the parent CSF-1 strain. The adherence mutants appeared to be phenotypically similar to the CSF-1 strain. However, all but one mutant (designated as CSF-23) demonstrated slightly slower growth rates than the wild-type strain. The CSF-1 and CSF-23 strains were injected intravenously and intratracheally into normal rats and rats immunosuppressed by cyclophosphamide treatment, and the organ distribution and recovery of viable yeasts determined over 2-96 h. During this relatively short period of observation the majority of the yeasts were localized in the lungs. By either route of injection, the recovery of the CSF-23 adherence mutant was reduced by as much as 90% of that obtained for the wild-type strain. The results indicated that host cell adherence may be important for the persistence of cryptococci in tissue and that further studies with the adherence mutants are warranted.

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