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Low dose influenza virus challenge in the ferret leads to increased virus shedding and greater sensitivity to oseltamivir
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Marriott, Anthony C., Dove, Brian K., Whittaker, Catherine J., Bruce, Christine, Ryan, Kathryn A., Bean, Thomas J., Rayner, Emma, Pearson, Geoff, Taylor, Irene, Dowall, Stuart, Plank, Jenna, Newman, Edmund, Barclay, Wendy S., Dimmock, N. J., Easton, A. J. (Andrew J.), Hallis, Bassam, Silman, Nigel J. and Carroll, Miles W. (2014) Low dose influenza virus challenge in the ferret leads to increased virus shedding and greater sensitivity to oseltamivir. PLoS One, Volume 9 (Number 4). Article number e94090. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094090 ISSN 1932-6203.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094090
Abstract
Ferrets are widely used to study human influenza virus infection. Their airway physiology and cell receptor distribution makes them ideal for the analysis of pathogenesis and virus transmission, and for testing the efficacy of anti-influenza interventions and vaccines. The 2009 pandemic influenza virus (H1N1pdm09) induces mild to moderate respiratory disease in infected ferrets, following inoculation with 106 plaque-forming units (pfu) of virus. We have demonstrated that reducing the challenge dose to 102 pfu delays the onset of clinical signs by 1 day, and results in a modest reduction in clinical signs, and a less rapid nasal cavity innate immune response. There was also a delay in virus production in the upper respiratory tract, this was up to 9-fold greater and virus shedding was prolonged. Progression of infection to the lower respiratory tract was not noticeably delayed by the reduction in virus challenge. A dose of 104 pfu gave an infection that was intermediate between those of the 106 pfu and 102 pfu doses. To address the hypothesis that using a more authentic low challenge dose would facilitate a more sensitive model for antiviral efficacy, we used the well-known neuraminidase inhibitor, oseltamivir. Oseltamivir-treated and untreated ferrets were challenged with high (106 pfu) and low (102 pfu) doses of influenza H1N1pdm09 virus. The low dose treated ferrets showed significant delays in innate immune response and virus shedding, delayed onset of pathological changes in the nasal cavity, and reduced pathological changes and viral RNA load in the lung, relative to untreated ferrets. Importantly, these observations were not seen in treated animals when the high dose challenge was used. In summary, low dose challenge gives a disease that more closely parallels the disease parameters of human influenza infection, and provides an improved pre-clinical model for the assessment of influenza therapeutics, and potentially, influenza vaccines.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS One | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Public Library of Science | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 7 April 2014 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 9 | ||||||||
| Number: | Number 4 | ||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 9 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | Article number e94090 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0094090 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 December 2015 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 December 2015 |
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