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Mao Q, Hao X, Hu Y, Du R, Lang S, Bian L, Gao F, Yang C, Cui B, Zhu F, Shen L, Liang Z. A neonatal mouse model of central nervous system infections caused by Coxsackievirus B5. Emerg Microbes Infect 2018; 7:185. [PMID: 30459302 PMCID: PMC6246558 DOI: 10.1038/s41426-018-0186-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2018] [Revised: 10/12/2018] [Accepted: 10/21/2018] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
Abstract
As one of the key members of the coxsackievirus B group, coxsackievirus B5 (CV-B5) can cause many central nervous system diseases, such as viral encephalitis, aseptic meningitis, and acute flaccid paralysis. Notably, epidemiological data indicate that outbreaks of CV-B5-associated central nervous system (CNS) diseases have been reported worldwide throughout history. In this study, which was conducted to promote CV-B5 vaccine and anti-virus drug research, a 3-day-old BALB/c mouse model was established using a CV-B5 clinical isolate (CV-B5/JS417) as the challenge strain. Mice challenged with CV-B5/JS417 exhibited a series of neural clinical symptoms and death with necrosis of neuronal cells in the cerebral cortex and the entire spinal cord, hindlimb muscles, and cardiomyocytes. The viral load of each tissue at various post-challenge time points suggested that CV-B5 replicated in the small intestine and was subsequently transmitted to various organs via viremia; the virus potentially entered the brain through the spinal axons, causing neuronal cell necrosis. In addition, this mouse model was used to evaluate the protective effect of a CV-B5 vaccine. The results indicated that both the inactivated CV-B5 vaccine and anti-CVB5 serum significantly protected mice from a lethal infection of CV-B5/JS417 by producing neutralizing antibodies. In summary, the first CV-B5 neonatal mouse model has been established and can sustain CNS infections in a manner similar to that observed in humans. This model will be a useful tool for studies on pathogenesis, vaccines, and anti-viral drug evaluations.
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- Qunying Mao
- Institute for Biological Products Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China
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- Institute for Biological Products Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China
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- Quality Control Department, Hualan Biological Engineering Inc., Henan, China
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- Institute for Biological Products Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China
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- Shandong Xinbo Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Dezhou, China
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- Institute for Biological Products Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China
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- Institute for Biological Products Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China
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- Institute for Biological Products Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China
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- Institute for Biological Products Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China
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- Vaccine Clinical Evaluation Department, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, China
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- Institute for Biological Products Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China.
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Swine vesicular disease virus (SVDV) and Coxsackie B5 virus (CVB5) are closely related viruses that can infect swine and man and give rise to cross-reacting serum antibodies. It is, therefore, possible that SVD antibodies found in serologic screenings of pigs are induced by CVB5. Single positive animals found in screening programmes are generally referred to as singleton reactors (SR). To determine whether SR in SVDV screenings are induced by CVB5 infection, virus neutralisation tests (VNTs) and radioimmunoprecipitation assays (RIPA) were carried out on sera of SR, sera of pigs experimentally infected with SVDV, and sera from pigs vaccinated with CVB5 isolates. The SR sera reacted repeatedly positive in the SVDV UKG/27/72 VNT, but reacted differently in three other VNTs (SVDV NET/1/92, CVB5A, and CVB5B). The VNT titres obtained with the SR sera revealed a correlation between both SVDV strains, and also between both CVB5 stains, but no correlation was found between SVD and CVB5 VNT titres. Sera of experimentally infected (SVDV) or vaccinated (CVB5) pigs showed titres in all four neutralisation tests. In the RIPA, the reaction patterns of the SR sera varied considerably with all four antigens used, in contrast to sera from pigs experimentally infected with SVDV that reacted with all antigens used, and sera from pigs vaccinated with CVB5 that reacted only with CVB5 antigens. The results presented in this paper show that neither CVB5 nor SVDV infections are the only cause of the SR phenomenon. Testing for CVB5 specific antibodies can reduce the number of SR sera in the serodiagnosis of SVDV.
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- P Moonen
- Institute for Animal Science and Health (ID-Lelystad), Department of Mammalian Virology, Houtribweg 39, 8200 AB Lelystad, Netherlands.
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A highly sensitive detection of swine vesicular disease virus (SVDV) based on a single tube RT-PCR system and digoxigenin (DIG)-PCR-ELISA detection was developed. Using a one tube RT-PCR system, optimisation of the PCR conditions and optimisation of the microwell hybridisation and colourimetric detection of the amplicons resulted in a method that could detect viral RNA in infected tissue culture fluid with a titre as low as 0.1 TCID50/100 microl. The same sensitivity was obtained with SVDV-spiked faeces, if the samples were pre-treated with 1,1,2-trichlorotrifluoroethane/chloroform and subsequently concentrated using an ultrafiltration system and RNA extracted with the Purescript kit. The specificity of the test was validated on 27 SVDV strains belonging to four different groups. No cross-reactivity with genetically and symptomatically related viruses was detected using RNA of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), porcine enterovirus (PEV), vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), Coxsackie B5 virus (CV-B5) and encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV). The test was validated successfully on clinical samples, being slightly more sensitive and much faster than virus isolation on cell cultures. Moreover the possibility of automating the procedure will allow the processing of large numbers of clinical samples.
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- M Callens
- Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre, Brussels (Ukkel), Belgium
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The nucleotide sequence of a swine vesicular disease virus (SVDV) strain that is pathogenic for pigs has been determined and compared with that of a non-pathogenic strain of SVDV, as well as a number of other enteroviruses. It shows only 98 base changes in comparison with a non-pathogenic strain of SVDV (Inoue et al., 1989, J. Gen. Virol. 70, 919-934). Fourteen of these nucleotide differences between the pathogenic and the non-pathogenic SVDV strains occur in the 5' non-coding region which, by analogy with the other picornaviruses, has been implicated in the efficiency with which the RNA is employed as mRNA. Additional differences found throughout the coding regions are largely conservative in nature. A number of residues are discussed as candidates for determinants of pathogenicity. This sequence has been submitted to the PIR database and has accession number A30061.
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- P Seechurn
- AFRC Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Woking, U.K
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