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| Content Provider | Springer Nature Link |
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| Author | Verhoeven, David Nesselbush, Monica Pichichero, Michael E. |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | About 30 % of young children experience excessive, frequent episodes of middle ear infection and are classified as acute otitis media prone (OP). Streptococcus pneumoniae (Spn) is a predominant otopathogen in OP and non-OP (NOP) children. The pathogenesis of middle ear infection involves otopathogen nasopharyngeal (NP) colonization followed by an upper respiratory viral infection that modifies the NP environment to allow a sufficient inoculum of bacteria to reflux via the Eustachian tube into the middle ear space. Here, we analyzed the NP mucosal repair response between age-matched stringently defined OP (sOP) and NOP children who progressed to middle ear infection caused by Spn. We found lower epidermal growth factor, epidermal growth factor receptor, and angiogenin cytokine concentrations in nasal washes of sOP compared with NOP children. Despite higher expression of TLR2/4 transcript expression in nasal epithelium and in polymorphonuclear cells present in nasal secretions in sOP children, sOP children had lower expression of proinflammatory cytokines such as IL-6 and IL-8 in the NP. Chemotaxis-associated cytokine expression at onset of AOM in sOP children was also lower compared with NOP children, possibly indicating a lower capacity to signal the innate immune system. We conclude that lower epithelial cell repair responses during viral infection in the NP combined with diminished innate inflammatory responses potentiate Spn pathogenesis in the sOP child. |
| Starting Page | 295 |
| Ending Page | 302 |
| Page Count | 8 |
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| ISSN | 03008584 |
| Journal | Medical Microbiology and Immunology |
| Volume Number | 202 |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| e-ISSN | 14321831 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Publisher Date | 2013-04-11 |
| Publisher Place | Berlin/Heidelberg |
| Access Restriction | One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) |
| Subject Keyword | Streptococcus pneumoniae Nasal epithelial repair Innate immune responses Acute otitis media Otitis-prone Medical Microbiology Immunology |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Immunology and Allergy Immunology Microbiology (medical) |
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