Non Cystic Fibrosis bronchiectasis is characterised by perpetual neutrophilic inflammation in the lungs. The ongoing vicious cycle of bronchiectasis leads to further damage to already damaged airways and is a culmination of repeated infection, inflammation and failure of the host response to maintain sterility of the airway, despite a sophisticated innate and adaptive immune system. Pseudomonas aeruginosa commonly colonises the lungs of patients with bronchiectasis. I hypothesised that the concept of inhibitory antibodies in the serum may be a feature of Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonisation through a specific interaction between the host adaptive immune system and strain specific features. Here I have identified a mechanism where some patients colonised with Pseudomonas aeruginosa produce IgG2 antibodies specifically against the O antigen of bacterial LPS, which rather than promote complement-mediated killing actually inhibits it.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:760423 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Whitters, Deborah |
| Publisher | University of Birmingham |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8548/ |
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