Humoral and cell-mediated immune responses of d/d histocompatible pigs against classical swine fever (CSF) virus
2003
Piriou, L. ((Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments, Ploufragan (France). Unité de Virologie et Immunologie Porcines)) | Chevallier, S. | Hutet, E. | Charley, B. | Le Potier, M.F. | Albina, E.
A better understanding of cell-mediated immune responses to classical swine fever virus (CSFV) is essential for the future development of improved vaccines. We analyzed the generation of cell-mediated and humoral immune responses in d/d histocompatible pigs following CSFV infection or vaccination. Viral infection induced high T cell responses with high primary and secondary CTL activity correlated with high IFN-gamma production, whereas vaccination with a live vaccine followed by infection mainly induced neutralizing antibody but low cell-mediated responses. Moreover, high IgG1 response was associated with high IFN-gamma response following infection whereas a weak IFN-gamma response was related to a good IgG2 response but a low IgG1 production. These data could reflect Th1/Th2-like balance of immune responses depending upon immunization protocols, which has not yet been described in the pig. T-cell responses to CSFV were evidenced by CSFV-specific CD25 upregulation on CD4-CD8+, but not on CD4+CD8-cells, which further illustrated the importance of CTL responses after infection. Our results indicated that generation of cell-mediated immune responses was much higher following intranasal/oral CSFV infection than after intramuscular vaccination, which implies that the capacity of new CSFV vaccines to induce higher T-cell responses should be considered
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