Colonic innate immune defenses and microbiota alterations in acute swine dysentery.
Microb Pathog
; 173(Pt A): 105873, 2022 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
Brachyspira hyodysenteriae, an etiologic agent of swine dysentery (SD), is known for causing colitis. Although some aspects of colonic defenses during infection have been described previously, a more comprehensive picture of the host and microbiota interaction in clinically affected animals is required. This study aimed to characterize multiple aspects of colonic innate defenses and microbiome factors in B. hyodysenteriae-infected pigs that accompany clinical presentation of hemorrhagic diarrhea. We examined colonic mucus barrier modifications, leukocyte infiltration, cathelicidin expression, as well as microbiome composition. We showed that B. hyodysenteriae infection caused microscopic hemorrhagic colitis with abundant neutrophil infiltration in the colonic lamina propria and lumen, with minor macrophage infiltration. Mucus hypersecretion with abundant sialylated mucus in the colon, as well as mucosal colonization by [Acetivibrio] ethanolgignens, Lachnospiraceae, and Campylobacter were pathognomonic of B. hyodysenteriae infection. These findings demonstrate that B. hyodysenteriae produces clinical disease through multiple effects on host defenses, involving alterations of mucosal innate immunity and microbiota. Given that B. hyodysenteriae is increasingly resistant to antimicrobials, this understanding of SD pathogenesis may lead to future development of non-antibiotic and anti-inflammatory alternative therapeutics.
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Infecções por Spirochaetales
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Doenças dos Suínos
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Infecções por Bactérias Gram-Negativas
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Colite
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Disenteria
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Microbiota
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Animals
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En
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2022
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Article