Prophylactic Administration of Vector-Encoded Porcine Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor Reduces Salmonella Shedding, Tonsil Colonization, and Microbiota Alterations of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Salmonella-Challenged Swine.

ABSTRACT: Salmonella colonization of food animals is a concern for animal health and public health as a food safety risk. Various obstacles impede the effort to reduce asymptomatic Salmonella carriage in food animals, including the existence of numerous serovars and the ubiquitous nature of Salmonella. To develop an intervention strategy that is non-specific yet effective against diverse Salmonella serovars, we explored the prophylactic use of a cytokine to decrease Salmonella in swine by boosting the host's innate immune system. Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) is the major cytokine regulating the production, differentiation, function, and survival of neutrophils. Neutrophils play a critical role in the response to Salmonella; therefore, we evaluated the vectored-delivery of porcine G-CSF as a prophylactic to reduce Salmonella in pigs. Crossbred pigs, 5?weeks of age, were intramuscularly injected with a replication-defective human adenovirus (Ad5) engineered to express porcine G-CSF (Ad5-G-CSF, n?=?9). Control pigs received the same Ad5 vector lacking the gene encoding G-CSF (Ad5-empty, n?=?7). Four days later, all pigs (n?=?16) were intranasally inoculated with 1?×?10(7)?colony forming unit (CFU) of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium UK1. At 2 and 3?days post-challenge with Salmonella, Ad5-G-CSF-treated pigs shed significantly less Salmonella (~10(3)?CFU/g) in their feces than Ad5-empty-treated pigs (~10(4)-10(5)?CFU/g; P?

SUBMITTER: Bearson SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4996822 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature