title: [Etiology of sepsis occurring in the immunocompromised host and its prevention. 2. Preventive effect of BRM to experimental Pseudomonas endogenous septicemia and analysis of its immunological etiology].
abstract: In the former report, the bacterial portal of entry in experimental mice with bacteremia were analysed in detail. And it was clarified that almost all of the isolates from blood of cyclophosphamide (CY) and antibiotics treated mice were entered by their own flora, especially by their faecal flora. From this point of view, great care must be taken when using antibiotics for immunosuppressed patients, because it easily causes a super-infection, that is one of the most important factors of endogenous infections. In order to potentiate host immunity, we examined the preventative effect of biological response modifiers (BRM) to experimental endogenous septicemia. MDP-Lys (L18), rhG-CSF, and rhIL-1 were effective on experimental Pseudomonas aeruginosa endogenous septicemia of mice. The effect did not depend on the increased number of total leukocytes and PMN. Further experiments using nude mice suggested that the host defence mechanism inhibiting Pseudomonas endogenous infection might not depend on T-cell mediated immunity.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tomono
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007108:Immune Tolerance; D007111:Immunity, Cellular; D007155:Immunologic Factors / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008819:Mice, Nude; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D018805:Sepsis / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control*
chemical_list: D007155:Immunologic Factors