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The Journal of Medical Microbiology, Vol 44, Issue 4 285-294, Copyright © 1996 by Society for General Microbiology


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Penetration of M cells and destruction of Peyer's patches by Yersinia enterocolitica: an ultrastructural and histological study

I. B. Autenrieth and R. Firsching
Institut fur Hygiene und Mikrobiologie der Universitat Wurzburg, Germany.

Yersinia enterocolitica is enteropathogenic for man and rodents. Previous studies provided evidence that Y. enterocolitica invades the lymphoid follicles of the Peyer's patches (PP) of the small intestine. In this study Y. enterocolitica-induced tissue alterations of the follicle-associated epithelium (FAE) and the underlying PP tissue were analysed by scanning (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) as well as by conventional histological examination. For this purpose, an experimental mouse infection model including orogastric infections as well as ileal loop experiments were used. A rapid and selective colonisation of the FAE after orogastric yersinia infection was observed by SEM. TEM studies confirmed that Y. enterocolitica adhered closely to the FAE including M cells and enterocytes. Histological studies and TEM revealed that Y. enterocolitica selectively invaded the PP via M cells but not via other cells of the FAE. One day after Y. enterocolitica infection the FAE was altered and small micro-abscesses comprising yersiniae expressing the major outer-membrane protein YadA were observed immediately beneath the FAE. Adjacent villi were dilated from lymphangiectasis and transmigrating polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNL) were found within the epithelium. At 5-7 days after infection the FAE and parts of PP were destroyed. Profound alterations of the cyto-architecture of the PP were due to the enormous recruitment of PMNL. By day 5 after infection, abscesses were found in the mesenteric lymph nodes. However, TEM studies revealed evidence that Y. enterocolitica may disseminate from the PP not only via the lymphatics but also by invasion of blood vessels. Taken together, the results of this study demonstrate that the FAE is the primary site of host-pathogen interaction in Y. enterocolitica infection and that this pathogen penetrates M cells and subsequently induces destruction of the PP.


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