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Enterotoxigenicity of Vibrio parahaemolyticus with and without genes encoding thermostable direct hemolysin.
Infection and Immunity 1992 September
Vibrio parahaemolyticus produces a thermostable direct hemolysin (TDH) that has been implicated in the pathogenesis of diarrheal disease caused by this organism. However, previous studies attempting to demonstrate the contribution of the hemolysin to virulence have been inconclusive. We investigated this putative virulence factor by using an isogenic TDH-negative (TDH-) strain constructed by specifically inactivating the two copies of the tdh gene encoding TDH. The enterotoxigenicities of the parent strain (AQ3815) and the mutant strain were tested by adding sterile culture supernatants to rabbit ileal tissue mounted in Ussing chambers. The culture filtrate of the parent strain produced a significant increase in short-circuit current (Isc), compared with the change induced by the TDH- mutant. The capacity of the culture filtrate of AQ3815 to increase the Isc was reduced by neutralization with anti-TDH serum, and the return of the cloned tdh gene to the TDH- mutant restored the ability to increase the Isc. These results were corroborated by rabbit ileal loop assays in which AQ3815 caused fluid accumulation but the TDH- mutant did not. No microscopic damage was seen in mucosal tissues exposed to the culture filtrate of either strain. These results indicate that TDH has an enterotoxigenic effect on rabbit small intestine and could be responsible for the watery diarrhea seen with V. parahaemolyticus.
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