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Gene L. France, MD; Daniel J. Marmer, MS; Russell W. Steele, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1980;134(2):147-152.

Abstract
• Various assays were used to examine chemotaxis, opsonization, phagocytosis, and killing of Salmonella organisms by colostral and breast-milk components. Vigorous responses of colostral and milk cells against this organism and nonspecific opsonizing capacity of the aqueous phase of colostrum and milk were demonstrated. An assay with acridine orange was used to directly visualize the phagocytic and killing processes; colostral and milk cells were demonstrated to be more active against Salmonella than blood neutrophils. In a restrospective survey, a diagnosis of Salmonella infection was confirmed in 253 infants less then 1 year of age. Only 12 infants had ever been breast-fed, and only one near the time he had the disease. During the same period of time, 27% of matched control infants were breast-fed.

(Am J Dis Child 134:147-152, 1980)

Author Affiliations
From the Section of Infectious Disease and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Ark.

Footnotes
Presented in part at the meeting of the Southern Society for Pediatric Research, New Orleans, Jan 19, 1979; and at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Los Angeles, May 6, 1979.

Reprint requests to Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4301 W Markham, Little Rock, AR 72201 (Dr Steele).

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