title: Acute oral intragastric pathogenicity and toxicity in mice of Paecilomyces fumosoroseus isolated from whiteflies.
abstract: Paecilomyces fumosoroseus, monospore culture EH-506/3, isolated in Mexico from Bemisia tabaci whitefly was tested for acute oral intragastric pathogenicity and toxicity in CD-1 mice. Animals were inoculated by gavage with only one dose (10(8) conidia/animal) of viable (72 mice), heat-killed (24 mice) fungus and compared to 18 control mice. Clinical observations were done daily; mycological and histological tests were performed during necropsies at days 3, 10, 17, and 21 after the inoculation. No mice were clinically ill or died. At the end of the study, their mean weight corresponded to healthy adults. Positive fungal cultures of feces were obtained only 24 h after inoculation. Positive cultures were found in 15 out of 360 organs (liver, spleen, kidney, brain, lung) in 12 of 72 mice inoculated with viable conidia. Gross pathology exhibited splenomegaly and liver paleness in mice inoculated with viable and heat-killed fungus. Non-germinated conidia were observed in studied organs, without any pathological tissue reaction, suggesting no mycological or histopathological evidence of fungal multiplication. The fungus was able to persist, but did not cause permanent damage to the host. This study supports the non-pathogenic/toxic status of P. fumosoroseus EH-506/3 when administered intragastrically in mice.
authors.affiliation: Departamento el Hombre y su Ambiente, División de Ciencias Biológicas y de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico D. F., 04960, Mexico.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mier
authors.forename: Guadalupe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Olivares-Redonda
authors.forename: Hortensia
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Navarro-Barranco
authors.forename: Amelia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pérez-Mejía
authors.forename: Marte
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lorenzana
authors.forename: Armando
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pérez-Torres
authors.forename: Conchita
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Toriello
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000382:microbiology; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006430:Hemiptera / Q000382:microbiology*; D007668:Kidney / Q000382:microbiology; D008099:Liver / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D008168:Lung / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice / Q000382:microbiology*; D023421:Models, Animal; D009181:Mycoses / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D010143:Paecilomyces / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D013154:Spleen / Q000382:microbiology; D013163:Splenomegaly