title: Susceptibility and resistance to poliovirus-induced paralysis of inbred mouse strains.
abstract: Susceptibility to human poliovirus-induced disease in different inbred mouse strains was analyzed after intracerebral inoculation of two mouse-adapted type 2 polioviruses, the attenuated W-2 strain and the virulent Lansing strain. In contrast to inoculation with the Lansing strain, which was invariably lethal, inoculation with the W-2 strain defined three groups of mice with high, intermediate, or low disease incidence. Those in the high-disease-incidence group, the DBA/1J and DBA/2J mice, exhibited a high level of virus replication in the spinal cord by day 2 postinfection, with no detectable neutralizing-antibody response. Mice in the intermediate- and low-incidence groups had lower levels of virus replication in the spinal cord and/or produced neutralizing antibodies. No correlation was observed between H-2 haplotype and the extent of virus replication, production of neutralizing or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay-detectable antibodies, or T-cell-proliferative response. However, mice of the H-2k haplotype manifested a low incidence of disease.
authors.affiliation: Les Turner Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jubelt
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Ropka
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goldfarb
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Waltenbaugh
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Oates
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000382:microbiology; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D007113:Immunity, Innate; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D011051:Poliomyelitis / Q000276:immunology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D017955:Poliovirus / Q000502:physiology*; D013045:Species Specificity; D014779:Virus Replication