Most of the Response Elicited against Wolbachia Surface Protein in Filarial Nematode Infection Is Due to the Infective Larval Stage

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 120-127

  Lamb, Tracey J ^a   Le Goff, Laetitia ^a   Kurniawan, Agnes ^b   Guiliano, David B ^a   Fenn, Katelyn ^a   Blaxter, Mark L ^a   Read, Andrew F ^a   Allen, Judith E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; LARVAL STAGE; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BRUGIA MALAYI; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FILARIASIS; FILARIOIDEA; HUMANS; LARVA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 1642457333     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/380490     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Ottesen EA, Duke BO, Karam M, Behbehani K. Strategies and tools for the control/elimination of lymphatic filariasis. Bull World Health Organ 1997;75:491-503.
2. Bandi C, Trees AJ, Brattig NW. Wolbachia in filarial nematodes: evolutionary aspects and implications for the pathogenesis and treatment of filarial diseases. Vet Parasitol 2001;98:215-38.
3. Taylor MJ, Cross HF, Bilo K. Inflammatory responses induced by the filarial nematode Brugia malayi are mediated by lipopolysaccharide-like activity from endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria. J Exp Med 2000; 191:1429-36.
4. Saint Andre A, Blackwell NM, Hall LR, et al. The role of endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria in the pathogenesis of river blindness. Science 2002; 295:1892-5.
5. Taylor MJ, Bandi C, Hoerauf AM, Lazdins J. Wolbachia bacteria of filarial nematodes: a target for control? Parasitol Today 2000; 16:179-80.
6. Bazzocchi C, Jamnongluk W, O'Neill SL, Anderson TJ, Genchi C, Bandi C. wsp gene sequences from the Wolbachia of filarial nematodes. Curr Microbiol 2000; 41:96-100.
7. Paxton WA, Yazdanbakhsh M, Kurniawan A, Partono F, Maizels RM, Selkirk ME. Primary structure of and immunoglobulin E response to the repeat subunit of gp15/400 from human lymphatic filarial parasites. Infect Immun 1993; 61:2827-33.
8. Kurniawan A, Yazdanbakhsh M, van Ree R, et al. Differential expression of IgE and IgG4 specific antibody responses in asymptomatic and chronic human filariasis. J Immunol 1993; 150:3941-50.
9. Sartono E, Kruize YC, Partono F, Kurniawan A, Maizels RM, Yazdanbakhsh M. Specific T cell unresponsiveness in human filariasis: diversity in underlying mechanisms. Parasite Immunol 1995; 17:587-94.
10. Yazdanbakhsh M, Paxton WA, Kruize YC, et al. T cell responsiveness correlates differentially with antibody isotype levels in clinical and asymptomatic filariasis. I Infect Dis 1993; 167:925-31.
11. Diagne M, Petit G, Liot P, Cabaret J, Bain O. The filaria Litomosoides galizai in mites: microfilarial distribution in the host and regulation of the transmission. Ann Parasitol Hum Comp 1990; 65:193-9.
12. Petit G, Diagne M, Marechal P, Owen D, Taylor D, Bain O. Maturation of the filaria Litomosoides sigmodontis in BALB/c mice: comparative susceptibility of nine other inbred strains. Ann Parasitol Hum Comp 1992; 67:144-50.
13. MacDonald AS, Maizels RM, Lawrence RA, Dransfield I, Allen JE. Requirement for in vivo production of IL-4, but not IL-IO, in the induction of proliferative suppression by filarial parasites. J Immunol 1998; 160:4124-32.
14. Le Goff L, Martin C, Oswald IP, et al. Parasitology and immunology of mice vaccinated with irradiated Litomosoides sigmodontis larvae. Parasitology 2000; 120:271-80.
15. Grafen A, Hails R. Modern statistics for the life sciences. 1st ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
16. Hoffmann W, Petit G, Schulz-Key H, Taylor D, Bain O, Le Goff L. Litomosoides sigmodontis in mice: reappraisal of an old model for filarial research. Parasitol Today 2000; 16:387-9.
17. Marechal P, Le Goff L, Petit G, Diagne M, Taylor DW, Bain O. The fate of the filaria Litomosoides sigmodontis in susceptible and naturally resistant mice. Parasite 1996; 3:25-31.
18. Taylor MJ, Hoerauf A. Wolbachia bacteria of filarial nematodes. Parasitol Today 1999; 15:437-42.
19. Bazzocchi C, Ceciliani F, McCall JW, Ricci I, Genchi C, Bandi C. Antigenic role of the endosymbionts of filarial nematodes: IgG response against the Wolbachia surface protein in cats infected with Dirofilaria immitis. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2000; 267:2511-6.
20. Punkosdy GA, Dennis VA, Lasater BL, Tzertzinis G, Foster JM, Lammie PJ. Detection of serum IgG antibodies specific for Wolbachia surface protein in rhesus monkeys infected with Brugia malayi. J Infect Dis 2001; 184:385-9.
21. Ottesen EA. Infection and disease in lymphatic filariasis: an immunological perspective. Parasitology 1992; 104(Suppl):S71-9.
22. Taylor MJ. A new insight into the pathogenesis of filarial disease. Curr Mol Med 2002; 2:299-302.
23. Keiser PB, Reynolds SM, Awadzi K, Ottesen EA, Taylor MJ, Nutman TB. Bacterial endosymbionts of Onchocerca volvulus in the pathogenesis of posttreatment reactions. J Infect Dis 2002; 185:805-11.
24. Day KP, Gregory WF, Maizels RM. Age-specific acquisition of immunity to infective larvae in a bancroftian filariasis endemic area of Papua New Guinea. Parasite Immunol 1991; 13:277-90.
25. Michael E, Bundy DA, Grenfell BT. Re-assessing the global prevalence and distribution of lymphatic filariasis. Parasitology 1996; 112:409-28.
26. Witt C, Ottesen EA. Lymphatic filariasis: an infection of childhood. Trop Med Int Health 2001; 6:582-606.
27. Maizels RM, Lawrence RA. Immunological tolerance: the key feature in human filariasis? Parasitol Today 1991; 7:271-6.
28. Maizels RM, Kurniawan A, Selkirk ME, Yazdanbakhsh M. Immune responses to filarial parasites. Immunol Lett 1991; 30:249-54.
29. Taylor MJ, Cross HF, Ford L, Makunde WH, Prasad GB, Bilo K. Wolbachia bacteria in filarial immunity and disease. Parasite Immunol 2001; 23:401-9.
30. Freedman DO. Immune dynamics in the pathogenesis of human lymphatic filariasis. Parasitol Today 1998; 14:229-34.
31. Kazura JW, Bockarie M, Alexander N, et al. Transmission intensity and its relationship to infection and disease due to Wuchereria bancrofti in Papua New Guinea. J Infect Dis 1997; 176:242-6.
32. Michael E, Simonsen PE, Malecela M, et al. Transmission intensity and the immunoepidemiology of bancroftian filariasis in East Africa. Parasite Immunol 2001; 23:373-88.