| Autor: |
Castro-Sesquen, Yagahira E., Gilman, Robert H., Yauri, Verónica, Angulo, Noelia, Verastegui, Manuela, Velásquez, Daniel E., Sterling, Charles R., Martin, Diana, Bern, Caryn |
| Zdroj: |
American Journal of Pathology; July 2011, Vol. 179 Issue: 1 p281-288, 8p |
| Abstrakt: |
The guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) is a natural reservoir for Trypanosoma cruzibut has seldom been used as an experimental infection model. We developed a guinea pig infection model for acute and chronic Chagas disease. Seventy-two guinea pigs were inoculated intradermally with 104trypomastigotes of T. cruzistrain Y (experimental group); 18 guinea pigs were used as control group. Eight animals from the experimental group and two from the control group were sacrificed 5, 15, 20, 25, 40, 55, 115, 165, and 365 days after inoculation. During the acute phase (15 to 55 days), we observed parasitemia (with a peak on day 20) and positive IgM and IgG Western blots with anti-shed acute-phase antigen bands. The cardiac tissue showed vasculitis, necrosis (on days 40 to 55), moderate to severe inflammation, and abundant amastigote nests. Smaller numbers of amastigote nests were also present in kidney, brain, and other organs. In the early chronic phase (115 to 165 days), parasitemia disappeared and anti–T. cruziIgG antibodies were still detectable. In cardiac tissue, the number of amastigote nests and the grade of inflammation decreased. In the chronic phase (365 days), the cardiac tissue showed vasculitis and fibrosis; detectable parasite DNA was associated with higher grades of inflammation. The experimental T. cruziinfection model in guinea pigs shows kinetics and pathologic changes similar to those of the human disease. |
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