An improved quantitative method to assess adhesive properties of Trichomonas vaginalis to host vaginal ectocervical cells using flow cytometry.

Abstract:

:Microbial adhesion is a critical step for infection and colonization of the host. Trichomonas vaginalis, a human urogenital extracellular parasite, relies on host cell adhesion for infection and pathogenesis. Although host cell adhesion of T. vaginalis is strain-dependent and it may be influenced by many environmental factors, a technical limitation to quantify T. vaginalis adhesion falls upon a laborious and time-consuming protocol of fluorescent microscopy. This technical limitation reduces the ability of screening multiple parameters or detecting multiple cell types simultaneously. Here we tested the capability of using flow cytometry as a qualitative and quantitative method to measure adhesion of this human infectious microorganism to vaginal ectocervical cells. Various strains of T. vaginalis with different adhesion properties were stained with CellTracker Orange (CMTMR) prior to incubation with host cells. Analyses by flow cytometry revealed that adhered CMTMR-stained parasites were clearly distinguishable from the host cells and also enabled absolute cell counts to be determined. This method was validated with the comparison of parasite strains that display variable degrees of host cell adhesion. This assay can now be applied to test many variables and environmental factors simultaneously that may affect T. vaginalis adhesion.

journal_name

J Microbiol Methods

authors

Brooks AE,Parsamand T,Kelly RW,Simoes-Barbosa A

doi

10.1016/j.mimet.2012.10.011

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-01-01 00:00:00

pages

73-8

issue

1

eissn

0167-7012

issn

1872-8359

pii

S0167-7012(12)00344-2

journal_volume

92

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