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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 106-B, Issue SUPP_18 | Pages 40 - 40
14 Nov 2024
ESTABLISHING A HUMAN OSTEOCYTE-STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS INFECTION MODEL TO REVEAL MECHANISMS OF CHRONIC BONE AND JOINT INFECTIONS
Siverino C Sun Q Yang D Solomon B Moriarty F Atkins G
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Introduction

Bone and joint infection (BJI) is often characterized by severe inflammation and progressive bone destruction. Osteocytes are the most numerous and long-lived bone cell type, and therefore represent a potentially important long-term reservoir of bacterial infection. Staphylococcus aureus is known to establish stable intracellular osteocytic infections, however, little is known about the less virulent yet second most prevalent BJI pathogen, S. epidermidis, associated with late-diagnosed, chronic BJI. Thus, this study sought to establish an in vitro model to study the infection characteristics of S. epidermidis in human osteocyte-like cells.

Methods

SaOS2 cells (1 ×104 cells/cm2) were grown to confluence either without differentiation, representing an osteoblast-like (OB) state (SaOS2-OB) or differentiated to an osteocyte-like stage (SaOS2-OY), using established methods. Four S. epidermidis strains used (ATCC-12228, ATCC-14990, ATCC-35984 and a clinical osteomyelitis strain RAH-SE1) were tested to be Lysostaphin-resistant, necessitating antibiotic (Levofloxacin) control of extracellular bacteria. Infection of host cells (OB or OY) was tested at three multiplicities of infection (MOI: 10, 100 and 1000). Extracellular bacteria were controlled by overnight incubation at a 10X minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of Levofloxacin and thereafter at 1XMIC. At each time point (days 1, 3, 5) viable intra- and extracellular bacteria were quantified.

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