title: Differential pattern of infection and immune response during experimental oral candidiasis in BALB/c and DBA/2 (H-2d) mice.
abstract: We used an experimental model of oral candidiasis in the mouse to investigate the impact of the introduction of Candida albicans into a Candida-free system. We report that 2 strains of mice with the same major histocompatibility complex haplotype (H-2d) display different kinetics of primary oral infection after topical application of the same inoculum. The mucosal reactions in both DBA/2 and BALB/c mice involve a similar recruitment of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and of MAC-1+ cells in mucosal tissue during the infection. A carrier state is maintained following the resolution of the infection in both strains and is associated with the persistence of intraepithelial CD4+ T cells. However, there is a time-specific recruitment of gamma delta T cells that coincides with a dramatic decrease in viable Candida in the mucosal tissue; this occurs on day 3 in BALB/c mice and on day 6 in DBA/2 mice. The denouement of an oral contact with Candida is also different in the 2 mouse strains, cell-mediated immunity being triggered in DBA/2 mice but not in BALB/c mice. The different kinetics of Candida clearance in BALB/c vs DBA/2 mice may therefore signal a differential priming of T cell subsets whose modalities do not appear to be associated with the H-2 complex.
authors.affiliation: Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie Buccale (GREB), Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chakir
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Côté
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Coulombe
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Deslauriers
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015496:CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D002176:Candida albicans / Q000254:growth & development; D002180:Candidiasis, Oral / Q000276:immunology*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D006968:Hypersensitivity, Delayed; D007111:Immunity, Cellular; D007156:Immunologic Memory; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C / Q000276:immunology*; D008811:Mice, Inbred DBA / Q000276:immunology*; D009055:Mouth / Q000382:microbiology; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000276:immunology; D013045:Species Specificity; D016176:T-Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000276:immunology