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Evaluation of eight live attenuated vaccine candidates for protection against challenge with virulent Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis in mice

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Title Evaluation of eight live attenuated vaccine candidates for protection against challenge with virulent Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis in mice
Names Bannantine, John P. (creator)
Everman, Jamie L. (creator)
Rose, Sasha J. (creator)
Babrak, Lmar (creator)
Bermudez, Luiz E. (creator)
et al. (creator)
Date Issued 2014-07-01 (iso8601)
Note This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by the author(s) and published by the Frontiers Research Foundation. The published article can be found at: http://www.frontiersin.org/Cellular_and_Infection_Microbiology.
Abstract Johne’s disease is caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP), which
results in serious economic losses worldwide in farmed livestock such as cattle, sheep,
and goats. To control this disease, an effective vaccine with minimal adverse effects
is needed. In order to identify a live vaccine for Johne’s disease, we evaluated eight
attenuated mutant strains of MAP using a C57BL/6 mouse model. The persistence of the
vaccine candidates was measured at 6, 12, and 18 weeks post vaccination. Only strains
320, 321, and 329 colonized both the liver and spleens up until the 12-week time point.
The remaining five mutants showed no survival in those tissues, indicating their complete
attenuation in the mouse model. The candidate vaccine strains demonstrated different
levels of protection based on colonization of the challenge strain in liver and spleen
tissues at 12 and 18 weeks post vaccination. Based on total MAP burden in both tissues
at both time points, strain 315 (MAP1566::Tn5370) was the most protective whereas
strain 318 (intergenic Tn5367 insertion between MAP0282c andMAP0283c) had the most
colonization. Mice vaccinated with an undiluted commercial vaccine preparation displayed
the highest bacterial burden as well as enlarged spleens indicative of a strong infection.
Selected vaccine strains that showed promise in the mouse model were moved forward
into a goat challenge model. The results suggest that the mouse trial, as conducted, may
have a relatively poor predictive value for protection in a ruminant host such as goats.
Genre Article
Access Condition http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
Topic Johne’s disease
Identifier Bannantine, J. P., Everman, J. L., Rose, S. J., Babrak, L., Katani, R., Barletta, R. G., ... & Bermudez, L. E. (2014). Evaluation of eight live attenuated vaccine candidates for protection against challenge with virulent Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis in mice. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 4, 84. doi:10.3389/fcimb.2014.00088

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