PMID: 9657316Jul 10, 1998Paper

Rhodococcus equi infection of monocytes/macrophages from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients and healthy individuals: evaluation of intracellular killing and nitric oxide production

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology
V VulloS Delia

Abstract

Monocytes/macrophages from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients had a defect in their ability to kill Rhodococeus equi in vitro, as compared with healthy HIV-seronegative individuals. Virulent and avirulent R. equi strains isolated from humans and horses showed no significant intracellular replicative differences within both HIV-positive and -negative monocytes/macrophages. Infection with R. equi induced the production of nitric oxide (NO) by monocytes/macrophages from healthy individuals, but not by cells from HIV-positive patients. The NO formation was significantly inhibited by L-NG-monomethyl arginine and arginase. However. neither competitive inhibition of NO synthesis from L-arginine with L-NMMA nor depletion of arginine with arginase altered the killing activity of human monocytes/macrophages against R. equi, thus suggesting that L-arginine:NO pathway is not required for the intracellular antirhodococcal mechanisms of human monocytes/macrophages.

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