Mice with Inflammatory Bowel Disease are Susceptible to Clostridium difficile Infection With Severe Disease Outcomes
| Autor: | Jonathon Heath, Hua Yu, Kevin Chen, Hanping Feng, Ashley Saint Fleur, Ye Chen, Fenfen Zhou, Yongrong Zhang, Therwa Hamza, Haihui Huang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
genetic structures medicine.drug_class Antibiotics Disease Comorbidity Inflammatory bowel disease Article Proinflammatory cytokine Pathogenesis 03 medical and health sciences Feces Mice 0302 clinical medicine medicine Immunology and Allergy Animals Colitis business.industry Clostridioides difficile Incidence Dextran Sulfate Gastroenterology Clostridium difficile medicine.disease Inflammatory Bowel Diseases digestive system diseases Anti-Bacterial Agents Mice Inbred C57BL Disease Models Animal 030104 developmental biology Immunology Clostridium Infections 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology Disease Susceptibility business |
| Zdroj: | Inflammatory bowel diseases. 24(3) |
| ISSN: | 1536-4844 |
| Popis: | Background Over the past several decades, there has been a significant increase in the incidence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in patients suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, a wild-type animal model is not available to study these comorbid diseases. Methods We evaluated the susceptibility to CDI of mice with dextran sulfate sodium salt (DSS)-induced colitis (IBD mice) with or without antibiotic exposure; we examined the histopathology and cytokine response in the concomitant diseases after the model was created. Results No CDI occurs in healthy control mice, wherease the incidence of CDI in IBD mice is 40%; however, in IBD mice that received antibiotics, the incidence of CDI is 100% and the disease is accompanied by high levels of toxins in the mouse feces and sera. Compared to IBD and CDI alone, those IBD mice infected with C. difficile have more severe symptoms, toxemia, histopathological damage, and higher mortality. Moreover, several proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines are significantly elevated in the colon tissues from IBD mice infected with C. difficile. Conclusions We, for the first time, demonstrate in an animal model that mice with dextran sulfate sodium induced-inflammatory bowel disease are significantly more susceptible to C. difficile infection, and that the bacterial infection led to more severe disease and death. These findings are consistent with clinical observations, thus, the animal model will permit us to study the pathogenesis of these concurrent diseases and to develop therapeutic strategies against the comorbidity of IBD and CDI. |
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