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. 1997 Mar;65(3):853–857. doi: 10.1128/iai.65.3.853-857.1997

Protective immunity against Salmonella typhimurium elicited in mice by oral vaccination with phosphorylcholine encapsulated in poly(DL-lactide-co-glycolide) microspheres.

K Allaoui-Attarki 1, S Pecquet 1, E Fattal 1, S Trollé 1, E Chachaty 1, P Couvreur 1, A Andremont 1
PMCID: PMC175059  PMID: 9038287

Abstract

Encapsulation of vaccines in biodegradable microspheres provides excellent mucosal immunogens with a high potential for immunization against bacterial infections. We tested the protective immunity elicited by intragastric vaccination with phosphorylcholine (PC) encapsulated in poly(DL-lactide-co-glycolide) (DL-PLG) microspheres against Salmonella typhimurium in a mouse model of invasive intestinal infection. We chose PC as the antigen because it was found to elicit an immune response after intestinal exposure of mice to PC-bearing S. typhimurium and because anti-PC immunity protects mice against Streptococcus pneumoniae, another PC-bearing microorganism. Mice were primed intragastrically on days 1, 2, and 3 and boosted on days 28, 29, and 30 with PC (280 microg) coupled to porcine thyroglobulin (PC-thyr) encapsulated in DL-PLG microspheres, free PC-thyr, or blank microspheres. A significant rise in anti-PC immunoglobulin A (IgA) titers, as measured by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, was observed in the intestinal secretions after immunization with PC-loaded microspheres, compared to the titers of mice immunized with free PC-thyr or blank microspheres. This antibody response peaked 14 days after the last boost and correlated with a highly significant resistance to oral challenge by S. typhimurium C5 (P < 10(-3)). Control mice were primed intraperitoneally on day 1 with 15 microg of PC in complete Freund's adjuvant and boosted on days 10, 14, and 20 with the same dose without adjuvant but via the same route. In these mice, the levels of anti-PC IgA in intestinal secretions were equivalent to those of the mice intragastrically immunized with PC-loaded microspheres, but protection was significantly weaker, suggesting that either the IgAs were not functional or that other immune mechanisms are important in protection. Taken together, our results highlight the potential of antigen encapsulation in DL-PLG microspheres for eliciting protective immunity against invasive intestinal bacterial diseases and suggest that a similar strategy could be used against diseases caused by other PC-bearing microorganisms.

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