Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2024.105413
Julia Avian Vassalakis , Denise Harumi Silva Yamashita , Leonardo Moura Midon , Bruno Cogliati , Marcos Bryan Heinemann , Thaís Akemi Amamura , Lourdes Isaac
Leptospirosis is an infectious neglected disease estimated to affect more than one million people worldwide each year. The Complement System plays a vital role in eliminating infectious agents. However, its precise role in leptospirosis remains to be fully understood. We investigated the importance of C3 in L. interrogans serovar Kennewicki strain Pomona Fromm (LPF) infection. Lack of C3 leads to decreased leukocyte number, impaired inflammatory response and failure to eliminate bacteria during the early stages of infection, which may cause interstitial nephritis later. These findings could be explained, at least in part, by the lower presence of local opsonins. Furthermore, antibody production against Leptospira was compromised in the absence of C3, highlighting the importance of CR2 in B lymphocyte proliferation and the adjuvant role of C3d in humoral immunity. Leptospires can be eliminated through the urine, and according to our study, the lack of C3 delays the elimination of LPF through urine during the early stages of the infection. These results strongly suggest the crucial role of C3 protein in orchestrating an appropriate inflammatory response against LPF infection and in effectively eliminating the bacteria from the body during the acute phase of leptospirosis.
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Bats are important natural hosts of various zoonotic viruses, including Ebola virus, Lyssa virus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Although investigation of bats is valuable for predicting emerging infectious diseases from these animals, few surveys of bat-derived viruses have been conducted in Japan. In the present study, samples were collected from a total of 132 bats of 4 different species from 4 different locations within Yamaguchi Prefecture; these sample were employed for comprehensive detection of bat-derived viruses by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and reverse transcription (RT)-PCR using primers universal for each of 4 different viral classes. As a result of PCR and RT-PCR, various herpesviruses, astroviruses, coronaviruses, and adenoviruses were identified from a total of 80 bats. The detected herpesviruses belong to the Betaherpesvirinae or Gammaherpesvirinae subfamily, the detected adenoviruses to the genus Mastadenovirus, the detected astroviruses to the genus Mamastrovirus; and the detected coronaviruses belong to the genus Alphacoronavirus. The detected sequences of 12 strains of 4 families showed 100 % amino acid identity with viruses previously detected either in China or South Korea. These findings expand our understanding of viruses carried by bats, and provide insights into the nature of bat-derived viruses in Japan.
{"title":"Detection of various DNA and RNA viruses in bats in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan","authors":"Miyuka Nishizato , Urara Imai , Chisato Shigenaga , Miho Obata , Saki Mitsunaga , Marla Anggita , Samuel Nyampong , Shelly Wulandari , Weiyin Hu , Kazuki Kiuno , Lydia Mali Langata , Hiroyuki Imai , Masashi Sakurai , Tetsuya Yanagida , Ai Takano , Takashi Murakami , Chang-Gi Jeong , Jae-Ku Oem , Daisuke Hayasaka , Hiroshi Shimoda","doi":"10.1016/j.micinf.2024.105425","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.micinf.2024.105425","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Bats are important natural hosts of various zoonotic viruses, including Ebola virus, Lyssa virus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Although investigation of bats is valuable for predicting emerging infectious diseases from these animals, few surveys of bat-derived viruses have been conducted in Japan. In the present study, samples were collected from a total of 132 bats of 4 different species from 4 different locations within Yamaguchi Prefecture; these sample were employed for comprehensive detection of bat-derived viruses by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and reverse transcription (RT)-PCR using primers universal for each of 4 different viral classes. As a result of PCR and RT-PCR, various herpesviruses, astroviruses, coronaviruses, and adenoviruses were identified from a total of 80 bats. The detected herpesviruses belong to the <em>Betaherpesvirinae</em> or <em>Gammaherpesvirinae</em> subfamily, the detected adenoviruses to the genus <em>Mastadenovirus</em>, the detected astroviruses to the genus <em>Mamastrovirus</em>; and the detected coronaviruses belong to the genus <em>Alphacoronavirus</em>. The detected sequences of 12 strains of 4 families showed 100 % amino acid identity with viruses previously detected either in China or South Korea. These findings expand our understanding of viruses carried by bats, and provide insights into the nature of bat-derived viruses in Japan.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18497,"journal":{"name":"Microbes and Infection","volume":"27 2","pages":"Article 105425"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142349787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2024.105335
Jiale Ma , Huizhen Wu , Zhe Ma , Zongfu Wu
Zoonotic streptococci cause several invasive diseases with high mortality rates, especially meningitis. Numerous studies elucidated the meningitis pathogenesis of zoonotic streptococci, some specific to certain bacterial species. In contrast, others are shared among different bacterial species, involving colonization and invasion of mucosal barriers, survival in the bloodstream, breaching the blood–brain and/or blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier to access the central nervous system, and triggering inflammation of the meninges. This review focuses on the recent advancements in comprehending the molecular and cellular events of five major zoonotic streptococci responsible for causing meningitis in humans or animals, including Streptococcus agalactiae, Streptococcus equi subspecies zooepidemicus, Streptococcus suis, Streptococcus dysgalactiae, and Streptococcus iniae. The underlying mechanism was summarized into four themes, including 1) bacterial survival in blood, 2) brain microvascular endothelial cell adhesion and invasion, 3) penetration of the blood–brain barrier, and 4) activation of the immune system and inflammatory reaction within the brain. This review may contribute to developing therapeutics to prevent or mitigate injury of streptococcal meningitis and improve risk stratification.
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