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Journal of Virology, August 2000, p. 7496-7507, Vol. 74, No. 16
Institute for Virology, Johannes Gutenberg
University, Hochhaus am Augustusplatz, 55101 Mainz, Germany
Received 21 March 2000/Accepted 22 May 2000
Interstitial pneumonia (IP) is a severe organ manifestation of
cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease in the immunocompromised host, in
particular in recipients of bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Diagnostic criteria for the definition of CMV-IP include clinical evidence of pneumonia together with CMV detected in bronchoalveolar lavage or lung biopsy. We have used the model of syngeneic BMT and
simultaneous infection of BALB/c mice with murine CMV for studying the
pathogenesis of CMV-IP by controlled longitudinal analysis. A
disseminated cytopathic infection of the lungs with fatal outcome was
observed only when reconstituting CD8 T cells were depleted. Neither
CD8 nor CD4 T cells mediated an immunopathogenesis of acute CMV-IP. By
contrast, after efficient hematolymphopoietic reconstitution, viral
replication in the lungs was moderate and focal. The histopathological
picture was dominated by preferential infiltration of CD8 T cells
confining viral replication to inflammatory foci. Notably, after
clearance of acute infection, CD62Llo and
CD62Lhi subsets of CD44+ memory CD8 T cells
were found to persist in lung tissue. One can thus operationally
distinguish an early CMV-positive IP (phase 1) and a late CMV-negative
IP (phase 2). According to the definition, phase 2 histopathology would
not be diagnosed as a CMV-IP and could instead be misinterpreted as a
CMV-induced immunopathology. We document here that phase 1 as well as
phase 2 pulmonary CD8 T cells are capable of exerting effector
functions and are effectual in protecting against productive infection.
We propose that antiviral "stand-by" memory-effector T cells
persist in the lungs to prevent virus recurrence from latency.
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Murine Model of Interstitial Cytomegalovirus
Pneumonia in Syngeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation: Persistence of
Protective Pulmonary CD8-T-Cell Infiltrates after Clearance of
Acute Infection
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institute for
Virology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Hochhaus am Augustusplatz,
55101 Mainz, Germany. Phone: 49-6131-39-33650. Fax: 49-6131-39-35604. E-mail: Matthias.Reddehase{at}uni-mainz.de.
Present address: Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, 51429 Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany.
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