title: Lipopolysaccharide pseudomonas vaccine: efficacy against pulmonary infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
abstract: Pneumonia due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa occurs with increased frequency and high mortality in certain populations of patients. The potential of vaccination with a heptavalent lipopolysaccharide pseudomonas vaccine for specific protection of respiratory tissues from infection with Pseudomonas was evaluated with a guinea pig model of experimental pseudomonas pneumonia. Animals routinely responded to vaccination with a fourfold rise in titer of serum hemagglutinating antibody to Pseudomonas. Of 25 control animals, all but nine died after lung challenge with Pseudomonas, whereas vaccinated animals had a greater survival rate (22 of 25 animals survived; P less than 0.01). Rates of clearance of viable Pseudomonas from lung tissue were significantly greater in vaccinated animals than in controls during the first 6 hr after infection. Both gross and microscopic findings of lung tissue damage from pseudomonas pneumonia were less in vaccinated than in control animals. Thus, lipopolysaccharide pseudomonas vaccine appears to produce a local protective response in respiratory tissue against Pseudomonas.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000096:biosynthesis; D001428:Bacterial Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000276:immunology*; D008168:Lung / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D001428:Bacterial Vaccines; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides