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  • Neutrophil and macrophage influx into the central nervous system are inflammatory components of lethal Rift Valley fever encephalitis in rats.

Neutrophil and macrophage influx into the central nervous system are inflammatory components of lethal Rift Valley fever encephalitis in rats.

PLoS pathogens (2019-06-21)
Joseph R Albe, Devin A Boyles, Aaron W Walters, Michael R Kujawa, Cynthia M McMillen, Douglas S Reed, Amy L Hartman
RESUMEN

Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) causes severe disease in livestock concurrent with zoonotic transmission to humans. A subset of people infected with RVFV develop encephalitis, and significant gaps remain in our knowledge of how RVFV causes pathology in the brain. We previously found that, in Lewis rats, subcutaneous inoculation with RVFV resulted in subclinical disease while inhalation of RVFV in a small particle aerosol caused fatal encephalitis. Here, we compared the disease course of RVFV in Lewis rats after each different route of inoculation in order to understand more about pathogenic mechanisms of fatal RVFV encephalitis. In aerosol-infected rats with lethal encephalitis, neutrophils and macrophages were the major cell types infiltrating the CNS, and this was concomitant with microglia activation and extensive cytokine inflammation. Despite this, prevention of neutrophil infiltration into the brain did not ameliorate disease. Unexpectedly, in subcutaneously-inoculated rats with subclinical disease, detectable viral RNA was found in the brain along with T-cell infiltration. This study sheds new light on the pathogenic mechanisms of RVFV encephalitis.

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