In Vitro Studies of Rickettsia-Host Cell Interactions: Ultrastructural Study of Rickettsia prowazekii-Infected Chicken Embryo Fibroblasts
AUTOR(ES)
Silverman, David J.
RESUMO
Secondary chicken embryo fibroblasts infected in suspension with the Breinl strain of Rickettsia prowazekii and grown in monolayer culture were examined by both transmission and scanning electron microscopy at specific intervals after infection to study the effects of prolonged intracellular growth on the fine structure of the host cell and the rickettsiae. Cytopathological changes in the infected host cells were not apparent until late in the intracellular growth cycle when the cells began to rupture as a result of a large rickettsial burden. The only recognizable changes in heavily infected cells before lysis were the condensation of the intercristal matrix of some mitochondria and the apparent dissociation of ribosomes from the rough-surfaced endoplasmic reticulum. Although the effects of intracellular growth of rickettsiae on the fine structure of the host cell were rather unremarkable when compared with those imposed by Rickettsia rickettsii in a similar cell system, noticeable morphological changes in the rickettsiae were recognized during the intracellular growth cycle. These changes first became apparent about 40 h postinfection and consisted primarily of an increased electron density of the rickettsiae, the appearance of numerous vacuoles in the rickettsial cytoplasm, and a slight reduction in size of the rickettsiae. Changes of this nature may reflect transitional phases of growth characteristically seen in free-living bacterial cell systems.
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