EFFECT OF DIFFERENT PURINE AUXOTROPHIC MUTATIONS ON MOUSE-VIRULENCE OF A VI-POSITIVE STRAIN OF SALMONELLA-DUBLIN AND OF 2 STRAINS OF SALMONELLA-TYPHIMURIUM
EFFECT OF DIFFERENT PURINE AUXOTROPHIC MUTATIONS ON MOUSE-VIRULENCE OF A VI-POSITIVE STRAIN OF SALMONELLA-DUBLIN AND OF 2 STRAINS OF SALMONELLA-TYPHIMURIUM
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DOI:
10.1016/0882-4010(87)90071-4
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发表时间:
1987-08-01
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
STOCKER, BAD
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作者:
MCFARLAND, WC;STOCKER, BAD
Ten cfu of a Vi-positive strain of Salmonella dublin, given i.p. to BALB/c mice, caused death. Of transductional derivatives with nutritional requirements expected to reduce virulence, those with complete blocks at aroA (therefore aromatic-dependent) or a purA (therefore adenine-dependent) were non-virulent; no deaths from i.p. inocula of 106 or 107 cfu, respectively. Transductants with identified blocks at purF, purG, purC or in the purJHD operon, all with purine requirement satisfied by hypoxanthines or any other purine, were of reduced virulence, with some deaths from 104 cfu or, for most of the derivatives, from only 102 cfu. Blocks at guaA or guaB, causing guanine requirement, likewise resulted only in reduced virulence, with some deaths from inocula of 102. Transductional derivatives of two mouse-virulent (LD50, i.p., < 25 cfu) strains of S. typhimurium were similarly tested, with generally similar results, in that purA and purB (adenine-requiring) transductants were non-virulent, no deaths from 2.5 .times. 107 cfu, and those with purF, purGor purC defects (hypoxanthine-responding) retained partial virulence. However, the guaA and guaB (guanine-requiring) derivatives were of much reduced virulence; all mice survived 2.5 .times. 105 cfu but only one survived 2.5 .times. 107 cfu. In both the S. dublin and the S. typhimurium tests autopsy cultures showed that fatal infections resulted from multiplication of the auxotrophic strain, not from that of non-exacting revertants.