scholarly journals Gamma Interferon/Interleukin 10 Balance in Tissue Lymphocytes Correlates with Down Modulation of Mucosal Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

2004 ◽  
Vol 78 (8) ◽  
pp. 4011-4019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Avery ◽  
Edward A. Hoover

ABSTRACT Understanding the early cytokine response to lentiviral infections may be critical to the design of prevention and treatment strategies. By using the feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) model, we have documented an interleukin 10 (IL10)-dominated response in lymphoid tissue CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytes within the first 4 weeks after mucosal FIV infection. This profile coincided with the period of high tissue viral replication. By 10 weeks postinfection, tissue viral levels decreased significantly, and gamma interferon (IFNγ) production in CD8+ T cells had increased to restore the IL10/IFNγ ratio to control levels. Concurrently, increased production of IL6 and viral RNA was detected in macrophages. These temporal associations of viral replication with cytokine balance in tissues suggest roles for IL10 in the permissive stage of infection and IFNγ in the subsequent down modulation of lentiviral infection.

AIDS ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 747-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Dawson ◽  
Neil R. Smyth ◽  
Malcolm Bennett ◽  
Rosalind M. Gaskell ◽  
Christine M. McCracken ◽  
...  

Viruses ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Frankenfeld ◽  
Theres Meili ◽  
Marina Meli ◽  
Barbara Riond ◽  
A. Helfer-Hungerbuehler ◽  
...  

Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a lentivirus of domestic cats worldwide. Diagnosis usually relies on antibody screening by point-of-care tests (POCT), e.g., by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA), and confirmation using Western blot (WB). We increasingly observed ELISA-negative, WB-positive samples and aimed to substantiate these observations using 1194 serum/plasma samples collected from 1998 to 2019 primarily from FIV-suspect cats. While 441 samples tested positive and 375 tested negative by ELISA and WB, 81 samples had discordant results: 70 were false ELISA-negative (WB-positive) and 11 were false ELISA-positive (WB-negative); 297 ambiguous results were not analyzed further. The diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of the ELISA (82% and 91%, respectively) were lower than those reported in 1995 (98% and 97%, respectively). The diagnostic efficiency was reduced from 97% to 86%. False ELISA-negative samples originated mainly (54%) from Switzerland (1995: 0%). Sixty-four false ELISA-negative samples were available for POCT (SNAPTM/WITNESSR): five were POCT-positive. FIV RT-PCR was positive for two of these samples and was weakly positive for two ELISA- and POCT-negative samples. Low viral loads prohibited sequencing. Our results suggest that FIV diagnosis has become more challenging, probably due to increasing travel by cats and the introduction of new FIV isolates not recognized by screening assays.


1992 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Ohashi ◽  
Ryo Goitsuka ◽  
Toshihiro Watari ◽  
Hajime Tsujimoto ◽  
Atsuhiko Hasegawa

2000 ◽  
Vol 181 (2) ◽  
pp. 576-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret C. Barr ◽  
Salvador Huitron‐Resendiz ◽  
Donald R. Selway ◽  
Steven J. Henriksen ◽  
Tom R. Phillips

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. e56135
Author(s):  
Sylvain Roche ◽  
Hanane El Garch ◽  
Sylvie Brunet ◽  
Hervé Poulet ◽  
Jean Iwaz ◽  
...  

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