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Plasma interferon-gamma and interleukin-10 concentrations in systemic meningococcal disease compared with severe systemic Gram-positive septic shock.

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OBJECTIVE:To analyze plasma interferon-gamma and interleukin-10 concentrations in patients with systemic meningococcal disease and patients with severe Gram-positive septic shock caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae or Staphylococcus aureus. To study the in vitro cytokine (interferon-gamma and interleukin-10) responses in a whole blood model boosted with heat-killed Neisseria meningitidis, S. pneumoniae, and S. aureus before and after treatment with recombinant interleukin-10 or recombinant interferon-gamma. DESIGN:Experimental study. SETTING:Laboratory. SUBJECTS:Plasma samples were collected from patients with systemic meningococcal disease (n = 66) and patients with severe Gram-positive septic shock caused by S. pneumoniae (n = 4) or S. aureus (n = 3). INTERVENTIONS:Whole blood was boosted with heat-killed N. meningitidis, S. pneumoniae, and S. aureus (1 x 106 colony forming units/mL), and plasmas were analyzed for interleukin-10 or interferon-gamma at 0, 5, 12, and 24 hrs. Furthermore, recombinant interleukin-10 or recombinant interferon-gamma was added before bacteria, and the effect on the secretion of interferon-gamma and interleukin-10, respectively, was analyzed after 24 hrs. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:The median concentration of interferon-gamma was 15 pg/mL and of interleukin-10 was 10,269 pg/mL in patients with meningococcal septic shock (n = 24) compared with median interferon-gamma concentration of 3400 pg/mL and interleukin-10 concentration of 465 pg/mL in patients with severe Gram-positive shock (p =.001). Increased interferon-gamma concentrations were associated with case fatality (p =.011). In a whole blood model we demonstrated that 1 x 106 colony forming units/mL of N. meningitidis induced more interleukin-10 but less interferon-gamma than S. pneumoniae. S. aureus induced minimal secretion of both cytokines. Recombinant interleukin-10 efficiently down-regulated the secretion of interferon-gamma, and vice versa, as shown in a whole blood model. CONCLUSION:We speculate whether high concentrations of interleukin-10 contribute to the low concentrations of interferon-gamma in fulminant meningococcal septicemia. In addition, it appears as if interferon-gamma plays a minor role in the pathophysiology of meningococcal septic shock.

journal_name

Crit Care Med

journal_title

Critical care medicine

authors

Bjerre A,Brusletto B,Høiby EA,Kierulf P,Brandtzaeg P

doi

10.1097/01.CCM.0000104950.52577.97

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-02-01 00:00:00

pages

433-8

issue

eissn

0090-3493

issn

1530-0293

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Plasma interferon-gamma and interleukin-10 concentrations in systemic meningococcal disease compared with severe systemic Gram-positive septic shock.