Cell-mediated immune responses to chlamydial antigens in guinea pigs injected with inactivated chlamydiae |
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| Authors: | George Senyk Margaret Sharp Daniel P. Stites Lavelle Hanna Hermine Keshishyan Ernest Jawetz |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California Medical Center, 94143 San Francisco, California, USA;(2) Laboratory Medicine and Medicine, University of California Medical Center, 94143 San Francisco, California, USA |
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| Abstract: | Cell-mediated immunity (CMI) to chlamydial antigens was readily induced in guinea pigs by a single injection of Betaprone-inactivated chlamydiae in complete Freund adjuvant. The CMI was measured in vivo by delayed hypersensitivity skin tests, and in vitro by inhibition of migration of peritoneal exudate cells and by proliferation of lymph node lymphocytes. There was an overall correlation between in vivo and in vitro responses. Of the in vitro assays, migration inhibition reflected the state of sensitization, as judged by skin tests, more uniformly than lymphocyte stimulation. Extensive inter- and intra-species cross-reactivity was noted between LB-1, a strain ofC. trachomatis, and three strains ofC. psittaci, 6BC, GPIC, and 562F. Cross-reactivity between LB-1 and 6BC was one-way only, by all three parameters: LB-1 elicited strong cross-reactions in 6BC-immunized animals but not vice versa. Antichlamydial antibodies could not be demonstrated in any of the animals by microimmunofluorescence. |
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