ArticleJournal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS2025
A Novel Strategy to Mitigate Corynebacterium bovis-Associated Hyperkeratosis in Athymic Nude Mice.
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Nude mice were inoculated with a nonpathogenic Corynebacterium bovis isolate (NPI) or Corynebacterium amycolatum to assess whether either could prevent skin lesions following inoculation with a pathogenic C. bovis isolate (PI). Crl:NU(NCr)-Foxn1nu mice (n = 6/group) were randomized into 6 groups: NPI (108 colony-forming units [CFU]); C. amycolatum (108 CFU); NPI or C. amycolatum followed 2 weeks later by PI (104 CFU); and negative and positive controls receiving sterile media or the PI (104 CFU), respectively. Colonization was assessed biweekly using isolate-specific PCR assays. Skin lesions were scored 0 to 5 daily for 4 or 6 weeks, at which point skin biopsies were collected, evaluated, and scored. No mice inoculated with the NPI and subsequently infected with the PI developed clinical signs, nor was a significant amount of the PI detected by PCR. Mice inoculated with C. amycolatum before the PI developed milder, delayed skin lesions reaching a significantly lower mean peak clinical score (MPCS; 1.2 ± 0.4) as compared with the positive control (MPCS 2.5 ± 0.5). The C. amycolatum-inoculated mice with and without PI had similar total histopathology scores, both of which were significantly higher than those for the mice inoculated with the NPI followed by the PI. These results led to evaluation of a practical exposure strategy in which nude mice (n = 6/group) were housed on NPI seeded bedding (SB) for 3 or 7 days prior to PI administration; mice housed on C. bovis-free bedding served as controls. Only 1 of 12 mice housed on SB receiving the PI developed Corynebacterium-associated hyperkeratosis (peak score of 4), whereas all unvaccinated mice receiving the PI developed Corynebacterium-associated hyperkeratosis (MPCS 2.83 ± 0.69). The PI was not detected in the SB + PI groups until 21 days postinfection with the PI. There was no significant difference in total histopathology scores across groups, but the histopathology scores were lower in mice receiving the SB.
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