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ArticleInfection and immunity2000

Inactivation of Pasteurella (Mannheimia) haemolytica leukotoxin causes partial attenuation of virulence in a calf challenge model.

S K Highlander, N D Fedorova, D M Dusek, R Panciera, L E Alvarez, C Rinehart

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31 citing papers in PubMed, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

S K HighlanderDepartment of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. sarahh@bcm.tmc.edu
N D Fedorova
D M Dusek
R Panciera
L E Alvarez
C Rinehart
Baylor College of Medicine · USBoehringer Ingelheim (United States) · USOklahoma State University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The leukotoxin of Pasteurella (Mannheimia) haemolytica is believed to play a significant role in pathogenesis, causing cell lysis and apoptosis that lead to the lung pathology characteristic of bovine shipping fever. Using a system for Cre-lox recombination, a nonpolar mutation within the lktC transacylase gene of the leukotoxin operon was created. The lktC locus was insertionally inactivated using a loxP-aph3-loxP cassette, and then the aph3 marker was excised from the chromosome by Cre recombinase expressed from a P. haemolytica plasmid. The resulting lktC strain (SH2099) secretes inactive leukotoxin and carries no known antibiotic resistance genes. Strain SH2099 was tested for virulence in a calf challenge model. We inoculated 3 x 10(8) or 3 x 10(9) CFU of wild-type or mutant bacteria into the lungs of healthy, colostrum-deprived calves via transthoracic injection. Animals were observed for clinical signs and for nasal colonization for 4 days, after which they were euthanized and necropsied. The lower inoculum (3 x 10(8) CFU) caused significantly fewer deaths and allowed lung pathology to be scored and compared, while the 3 x 10(9) CFU dose of either the wild-type or mutant was lethal to >/=50% of the calves. The estimated 50% lethal dose of SH2099 was four times higher than that of the wild-type strain. Lung lesion scores were reduced twofold in animals inoculated with the mutant, while clinical scores were nearly equivalent for both strains. The wild-type and mutant strains were equally capable of colonizing the upper respiratory tracts of the calves. In this study, the P. haemolytica lktC mutant was shown to be less virulent than the parent strain.

Indexed as

AnimalsBase SequenceCattleDNA PrimersDrug Resistance, MicrobialExotoxinsFemaleGenes, BacterialMaleMannheimia haemolyticaModels, BiologicalMutationPasteurellosis, PneumonicVirulenceDNA PrimersExotoxinsleukotoxin

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PMID10858203
PMCPMC101667
OpenAlexW2074472460

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