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SUMMARY: A fibrin clot model for intra-abdominal abscess formation was used to study the migratory properties of peritoneal cells from rats during the early stages of infection. Peritoneal cells and fibrin clot remnant were harvested 6 h after implantation of a sterile, singly infected ( or ) or mixed infected ( and ) fibrin clot. Histological study of fibrin clots, removed 6 h after implantation, showed a deeper infiltration by host cells of infected clots compared to the others. This difference in infiltration by peritoneal cells was not due to differences in fibrinolytic activity of the bacterial strains. Differential cell counts of the peritoneal cells from rats implanted with sterile, singly and mixed infected fibrin clots showed distribution over subpopulations to be independent of the bacterial content of the infected clots used. migration assays showed no significant differences in migration by peritoneal cells from rats implanted with clots containing a different bacterial composition. Since infected fibrin clots were more deeply infiltrated by host defence cells than the other clots, and only mixed infected clots led to persistent abscesses in this model, we conclude that local conditions within the fibrin matrix rather than intrinsic cellular capacities of the host cells are important for the process of abscess formation.

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