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Strain-specific antibodies reduce co-feeding transmission of the Lyme disease pathogen, Borrelia afzelii

Auteur(s)
Jacquet, Maxime 
Institut de biologie 
Durand, Jonas 
Institut de biologie 
Rais, Olivier 
Institut de biologie 
Voordouw, Maarten 
Institut de biologie 
Date de parution
2016-3
In
Environmental Microbiology
Vol.
3
No
18
De la page
833
A la page
845
Mots-clés
  • BURGDORFERI SENSU-LATO
  • IXODES-RICINUS TICKS
  • OUTER-SURFACE PROTEIN
  • BORNE ENCEPHALITIS-VIRUS
  • SALIVARY-GLAND EXTRACT
  • NON-VIREMIC TRANSMISSION
  • PARASITE IMMUNE EVASION
  • PEROMYSCUS-LEUCOPUS
  • GENETIC DIVERSITY
  • ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION
  • BURGDORFERI SENSU-LAT...

  • IXODES-RICINUS TICKS

  • OUTER-SURFACE PROTEIN...

  • BORNE ENCEPHALITIS-VI...

  • SALIVARY-GLAND EXTRAC...

  • NON-VIREMIC TRANSMISS...

  • PARASITE IMMUNE EVASI...

  • PEROMYSCUS-LEUCOPUS

  • GENETIC DIVERSITY

  • ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION

Résumé
Vector-borne pathogens use a diversity of strategies to evade the vertebrate immune system. Co-feeding transmission is a potential immune evasion strategy because the vector-borne pathogen minimizes the time spent in the vertebrate host. We tested whether the Lyme disease pathogen, Borrelia afzelii, can use co-feeding transmission to escape the acquired immune response in the vertebrate host. We induced a strain-specific, protective antibody response by immunizing mice with one of two variants of OspC (A3 and A10), the highly variable outer surface protein C of Borrelia pathogens. Immunized mice were challenged via tick bite with B.afzelii strains A3 or A10 and infested with larval ticks at days 2 and 34 post-infection to measure co-feeding and systemic transmission respectively. Antibodies against a particular OspC variant significantly reduced co-feeding transmission of the targeted (homologous) strain but not the non-targeted (heterologous) strain. Cross-immunity between OspC antigens had no effect in co-feeding ticks but reduced the spirochaete load twofold in ticks infected via systemic transmission. In summary, OspC-specific antibodies reduced co-feeding transmission of a homologous but not a heterologous strain of B.afzelii. Co-feeding transmission allowed B.afzelii to evade the negative consequences of cross-immunity on the tick spirochaete load.
Identifiants
https://libra.unine.ch/handle/123456789/25191
Type de publication
journal article
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