Flagellar preparations from Pseudomonas aeruginosa: animal protection studies
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Infection and Immunity
- Vol. 35 (1), 276-280
- https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.35.1.276-280.1982
Abstract
Motility may be associated with virulence in P. aeruginosa. Groups of mice immunized with P. aeruginosa flagellar-antigen preparations display enhanced survival when they are subsequently burned and challenged locally in the burned area with strains of P. aeruginosa. The protection appears to be due to the immobilization of the microorganisms in the burned skin tissue. Liver elongation factor 2 is also protected. The protection afforded by immunization with flagellar-antigen preparations is independent of the somatic antigenic type of the challenging strain but it is flagellar-antigen specific. Thus, vaccination with flagellar-antigen preparations may provide a viable prophylactic or therapeutic alternative to antibiotic therapy for use in compromised patient populations in which P. aeruginosa poses a serious infection threat.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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