Mbao_207-213.indd INTRODUCTION The inoculation of Theileria parva sporozoites into cattle usually causes East Coast fever (ECF), an acute and often fatal lymphoproliferative disease of major economic importance in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (Young, Groocock & Kariuki 1988). This obligate intracellular parasite is transmitted main- ly by the three-host tick, Rhipicephalus appendicula- tus, from which sporozoites can be extracted. These sporozoites extracts are then cryopreserved as sta- bilates and used for immunization by the infec tion and treatment (I&T) method, challenge of immune or vaccinated animals, in vitro testing and re search investigations. The I&T method of immuni zation (Rad- ley, Brown, Burridge, Cunningham, Kir imi, Purnell & Young 1975) is the only means currently available 207 Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 73:207–213 (2006) Infectivity of Theileria parva sporozoites following cryopreservation in four suspension media and multiple refreezing: Evaluation by in vitro titration V. MBAO1, D. BERKVENS2, T. DOLAN3, N. SPEYBROECK2, J. BRANDT2, P. DORNY2, 4, P. VAN DEN BOSSCHE2, 5 and T. MARCOTTY2* ABSTRACT MBAO, V., BERKVENS, D., DOLAN, T., SPEYBROECK, N., BRANDT, J., DORNY, P., VAN DEN BOSSCHE, P. & MARCOTTY, T. 2006. Infectivity of Theileria parva sporozoites following cryopreser- vation in four suspension media and multiple refreezing: Evaluation by in vitro titration. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research,73:207–213 Theileria parva sporozoite stabilates are used for immunizing cattle against East Coast fever and in in vitro sporozoite neutralization assays. In this study, we attempted to identify a cheaper freezing medium and quantified the infectivity loss of sporozoites due to refreezing of stabilates, using an in vitro technique. Pools of stabilates prepared using Minimum Essential Medium (MEM), Roswell Park Memorial Institute (RPMI 1640), foetal calf serum (FCS) and phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) were compared. All were supplemented with bovine serum albumin except the FCS. RPMI 1640 was as effective as MEM in maintaining sporozoite infectivity while the infectivity in PBS and FCS reached only 59 % and 67 %, respectively. In a second experiment, a stabilate based on MEM was subjected to several freeze-thaw cycles including various holding times on ice between thawing and refreezing. Refrozen stabilate gave an average sporozoite infectivity loss of 35 % per cycle. The results indicate that RPMI can be used as a cheaper freezing medium for T. parva stabilates and that refrozen stabi- late doses need to be adjusted for the 35 % loss of infectivity. Keywords: Cryopreservation, culture media, in vitro, refreezing, sporozoites, Theileria parva, ticks * Author to whom correspondence is to be directed: E-mail: tmarcotty@itg.be 1 Department of Veterinary and Livestock Development, Minis- try of Agriculture and Cooperatives, P.O. Box 670050, Maza- buka, Zambia. Present address: Department of Animal Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium 2 Department of Animal Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium 3 Livestock Services Limited, P.O. Box 24437, 00502 Karen, Nairobi, Kenya 4 Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Salisburylaan 133, B9820 Merelbeke, Bel gium 5 Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Vet er- inary Sciences, Private Bag X04, Onderstepoort, 0110 South Africa Accepted for publication 11 April 2006—Editor 208 Infectivity of Theileria parva sporozoites: Evaluation by in vitro titration for immunizing cattle against ho m ol ogous challenge (Uilenberg 1999). The technique requires simulta- neous inoculation of T. parva sporozoites and a long acting tetracycline. It is widely used in several prov- inces of Zambia and other countries in the region (Ui len berg 1999; Marcotty, Billiouw, Chaka, Berk- vens, Losson & Brandt 2001; Fandamu, Thys, Du- chateau & Berkvens 2006). Univalent stabilates are used in Zambia but stabilates containing several T. parva stocks are required elsewhere, e.g. in Tan- zania (Morzaria, Nene, Bishop & Musoke 2000). The extraction of T. parva sporozoites into different media has been described for both experimental and field-use stabilates (Cunningham, Brown, Burridge, Joyner & Purnell 1973a; Cunningham, Brown, Bur- ridge & Purnell 1973b; Purnell, Brown, Cunningham, Burridge, Kirimi & Ledger 1973; Kimbita, Silayo & Dolan 2004). These media include bovine serum and Eagle’s Minimum Essential Medium (MEM) supple- mented with bovine serum albumin (BSA). The sta- bilates for field immunization are routinely produced using MEM supplemented with BSA. Well-characterized and homogeneous stabilates need to be available for immunizing cattle against East Coast fever, use in in vitro sporozoite neutrali- zation assays and research in general. For develop- ing countries, they should be cheap and easy to produce. The powdered formulation of MEM is much cheaper to import into Africa than the liquid form but is not always readily available. Therefore, other me- dia for their efficiency in maintaining sporozoite in- fectivity were evaluated. Two media to test and com- pare with MEM were selected, namely the powder formulation of Roswell Park Memorial Institute (RPMI 1640) and phosphate-buffered saline (PBS). RPMI 1640 is the most common medium used for cell culture while PBS, which does not contain nutri- ents, is a very basic buffer solution found in most laboratories. BSA, on the other hand, is expensive. Hence, the possibility of using FCS instead of MEM with BSA was investigated. The objective of the second study was to quantify the loss of infectivity for stabilates undergoing a re- freezing step after production. This technique is used in the production of polyvalent ECF vaccines to allow titration of individual components before mixing them. It is also envisaged that, with the onset of veterinary services privatization in Zambia and several other countries in the region, stabilate refreezing may be considered by some animal health service providers in an attempt to salvage left-over doses after an im- munization campaign. Refreezing may also be use- ful in cases where homogeneous stabilate needs to be used at different time periods for research work. Ensuring homogeneity of the stabilates by pooling and refreezing aliquots for use in particular sets of experiments is one practical method of removing variability in infectivity seen in stabilate taken from different storage vials (V. Mbao, unpublished obser- vations 2005). From immunization protocol using re frozen stabilates (Njuguna & Musisi 1996), it is known that T. parva sporozoites do survive refreez- ing cycles and it is expected that they lose some vi- ability at each cycle. It is, however, not known to what extent. There is therefore need to have empir- ical data on the effect of such a process for quality assurance. In this study, sporozoite infectivity was evaluated after single and multiple refreezing cycles. Multiple cycles were included to amplify any effects there might be, and to aid in calculating the average loss per cycle. Titration of stabilates was done in vitro. Equivalence testing (Mbao, Speybroeck, Berkvens, Dolan, Dorny, Madder, Mulumba, Duchateau, Brandt & Marcotty 2005) was used to calculate the effect of alternative media on sporozoite viability compared with the standard medium (MEM/BSA) and quantify loss of sporozoite infectivity due to refreezing. A random effect model was applied in view of the levels of con- founders at tick batches, grinding pools and storage vials. MATERIALS AND METHODS Media All media and additives were obtained from Invitro- gen (Carlsbad, California), unless otherwise stated. The following media were used for preparation of the sporozoite suspensions: MEM (with Earle’s salts), RPMI-1640 (powder formulation), PBS and heat in- activated FCS. The MEM, RPMI and PBS solutions were supplemented with BSA (Acros Organics, Bel- gium) at 35 g/l and all of them, including FCS, with L-Asparagine (BDH Biochemical, UK) at 100 mg/l HEPES (25 mM/l), Penicillin-Streptomycin at 100 iu/ ml and Kanamycin at 100 μg/ml. The pH of media was adjusted to 7.0–7.2 using sodium bicarbonate. Stabilate preparations Three batches of nymphal R. appendiculatus ticks were infected at different times and locations with the T. parva Katete stock and allowed to moult to adults in an incubator at 22 °C and 85 % relative hu- midity. Six to 8 weeks after engorgement as nymphs, the adult ticks were fed on rabbits for 4 days to in- 209 V. MBAO et al. duce sporogony of T. parva (FAO 1984) and re- moved. The ticks in Batches 1 and 2 were divided randomly into groups as shown in Table 1 and ground separately in each of the four media in the volumes shown. For Batch 1, eight groups were ground (Table 1) us- ing an Omni-mixer Homogeniser® (Omni Inter na- tional, USA, model 17106) following the standardized international protocol (OIE 2005) with some modifi- cations (Mbao et al. 2005). The Batch 2 ticks were ground using an Ultraturax® tissue homogeniser (Jan ke & Kunkel KG, Staufen, Germany, model TP18/2). Batch 3 ticks were ground manually using a mortar and pestle for 15 min (Cunningham et al. 1973b). The different methods of grinding were used due to different laboratory set-ups in the three places where the stabilates were produced. An equal volume of chilled medium with 15 % (w/v) glycerol was added drop-wise to the ground up tick supernatant (FAO 1984). The extracts were stirred continuously in an ice bath. The 13 suspensions con- taining the numbers of ticks per ml (tick equivalents [t.e.]) are shown in Table 1. All suspensions were ali- quoted into 1.5 ml cryogenic vials (Nalgene) (1 ml per vial), cooled in an ultra freezer at –80 °C for 24 h and then stored in liquid nitrogen. Refreezing cycles The stabilate from Batch 3 was used for the stabi- late refreezing experiment. A ‘cycle’ was defined as a refreeze and subsequent thaw process. Vials were thawed by placing them in a water bath at 37 °C for 5 min. Before the first refreeze cycle, thawed vials were pooled to ensure homogeneity, centrifuged (400 g for 10 min) to remove fungi and yeasts (Mar- cotty et al. 2004) and supernatants re-aliquoted. In a first step, two titration sessions were set up to com- pare control and single-refreeze stabilates. Aliquots of the thawed, pooled and centrifuged stabilate ma- terial were kept on ice (control material, not for re- freezing) while the rest was refrozen. Refreezing was for 1.5 h in a –80 °C freezer. In a second step, five groups of vials from the same homogeneous pool were subjected to several cycles. All groups were refrozen once. After 1.5 h, four of these groups were thawed and refrozen. After a further 1.5 h, three groups from the previous four were refrozen and this continued until the last group had undergone a fifth cycle. Each group had been subdivided into three subgroups and each of these subgroups was held on ice for 5, 30 and 60 min before a subsequent re- freezing. In vitro titrations The protocol for in vitro titration of T. parva tick- derived stabilates that was used is that described by Marcotty, Speybroeck, Berkvens, Chaka, Besa, Madder, Dolan, Losson & Brandt (2004) and modi- fied by Mbao et al. (2005). Briefly, test stabilate is serially diluted in 96-well microtitration plates and then bovine Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells are added to the wells. The plates are incubated for 10 days at 37 °C in 5 % CO2 after which cyto-centri- fuged samples are taken, giemsa stained and micro- scopically examined for T. parva macroschizonts. Titrations for media comparison were conducted in two stages. The first stage comprised six sessions in which all four media were titrated in parallel. There were four sessions for tick Batch 1 stabilates and two for tick Batch 2 stabilates. In the second stage, only MEM and RPMI 1640 stabilates were compared in six sessions: four sessions for tick Batch 1 stabilates and two for tick Batch 2 stabilates. The total number of microtitration wells read for the first and second stages were 855 and 574, respectively. Stabilates from Batch 1 were diluted serially six times (1.5 times per dilution step) and those from the second (Batch 2) 12 times (1.5 times per dilution step). This was necessitated because the first batch had lower in- fectivity, as determined by a preliminary in vitro titra- tion. TABLE 1 Number of ticks ground per batch per medium Medium Batch 1 Batch 2 Batch 3 Vol* (ml) Final conc. (t.e./ml) MEM PBS RPMI FCS 20 5 200 200 200 200 20 5 200 200 200 200 25 10 500 500 500 500 50 10 1 000 * Volume of medium per group 210 Infectivity of Theileria parva sporozoites: Evaluation by in vitro titration The multiple frozen and thawed stabilates (Cycles 1–5) were titrated in parallel a day after the refreez- ing cycles. Six and two titration sessions for the mul- tiple freezing and control experiments, respectively were conducted. A total number of 1 115 and 335 microtitration wells were read for multiple freezing and control experiments, respectively. Statistical analysis Data from the two experiment stages of media com- parison (i.e. all four media and MEM vs RPMI) were pooled. Wells either scored positive or negative. The binary results were analysed by logistic regression using Generalized Linear Latent and Mixed Models (GLLAMM) in Stata8/SE® (StataCorp, 2003). The proportion of positive wells was the response varia- ble. The three explanatory variables were: the natu- ral log of the stabilate concentration in tick equiva- lents (ln t.e.), the experiment stage and the stabilate medium. Several random effects that could affect the model were identified, namely the tick batch, grinding pools and stabilate storage vials. Random effects are factors or hidden variables that do not interest us but still have an effect on the variability of the data and as such should not be ignored during the analysis. Comparison of respective infectivities of test stabi- late media to those of MEM stabilates were con- ducted by calculating the ratios of effective doses EDMEM/EDX  where ED = the effective dose, in tick equivalent, of stabilate that results in a given propor- tion of wells to be positive and x = test media. The ratios were calculated by use of non-linear combina- tion of estimators (nlcom) in Stata8/SE® (Mbao et al. 2005) which also fits 95 % confidence intervals around the estimates (ratios). The level of signifi- cance was set at 5 %. The same model was used for the assessment of the effect of multiple freezing. The natural log of the sta- bilate concentration (ln t.e.), the cycle number and the holding time were continuous explanatory vari- ables. The cycle was regarded as a continuous vari- able so as to enable estimation of a loss of infectivity per cycle. The response variable was proportion of pos itive wells and ‘session’ of titration was a random effect. Ratios of effective doses, EDX/EDX + 1  where x = cycle number or holding time, were calculated to compare sporozoite infectivities at each cycle and holding time. To express this as infectivity losses between subsequent cycles, the calculated ratios were subtracted from unit (1-ratio) e.g. a ratio of 0.99 per cycle is actually 1 % loss of infectivity per cycle. RESULTS Differences in the infectivity of stabilates prepared and stored in PBS (n = 215), RPMI (n = 502) and FCS (n = 212) were not statistically significant (P > 0.05) when compared to MEM (n = 500). Estimates of ED ratios were 0.59, 1.03 and 0.67 for PBS, RPMI and FCS, respectively (Table 2). The regression curves of predicted values, comparing infectivities, were TABLE 2 Ratios of effective doses (EDMEM/EDx) with lower and upper 95 % con- fidence limits Medium Estimate* Lower limit Upper limit PBS RPMI FCS 0.59 1.03 0.67 0.31 0.63 0.35 1.14 1.67 1.29 * This ratio is an indicator of the relative infectivity of stabilates in compari- son to the reference (MEM) MEM = Minimum essential medium X = Test stabilate medium (PBS, RPMI or FCS) TABLE 3 Percentage loss of sporozoite infectivity (1– ED ratio) after several cy- cles of refreezing with lower and upper 95 % confidence limits Cycle Estimate Lower limit Upper limit Single Multi 32 % 35 % 5 % 28 % 52 % 40 % ED (effective dose) ratio = EDcycle/EDcycle +1 211 V. MBAO et al. very close, with MEM and RPMI showing a super- imposition of their curves (Fig. 1). While the dose (ln t.e.) was significant (P < 0.001), the stage did not sig- nificantly influence the outcome (P = 0.10). A single re-freezing cycle resulted in a significantly lower infectivity (P = 0.03) than the control kept on ice for 1.5 h (Fig. 2). The ED ratio was 0.68 (95 % CI: 0.48–0.95) and the estimated loss in infectivity was 32 %. The loss during multiple freeze cycles was also significant (P < 0.001). On average, the ED ratio was 0.65 (95 % CI: 0.60–0.72) giving an esti- mated loss of 35 % per cycle (Fig. 3). In both single and multiple refreezing cycles, dose effect was sig- nificant (P < 0.001). These results are shown in Table 3. Holding times were not significant (P = 0.88) nor was the random effect of session (P = 0.34). A stabi- late kept on ice for 1 h did not lose more than 30 % of its infectivity. DISCUSSION Sporozoite infectivities for stabilates prepared in PBS, RPMI and FCS when compared to MEM were not statistically significantly different. However, the RPMI stabilates were closest in infectivity to MEM stabilates as shown by the equivalence test estimate (minimum 0.63 times). This observation agrees with the findings of Kimbita et al. (2004) when they com- pared different media including Leibovitz-15, Opti- mem and Iscove’s MEM. In their study, RPMI and MEM stabilates showed similar infectivity when com- pared to L-15. Gray & Brown (1981) showed that neat serum could have inhibitory effects on sporo- zoite infectivity and this could explain why the ED of FCS was lower than that of MEM. However, the ef- fect may not be very pronounced as the confidence interval is wide. FCS is expensive (about €107/l) due to the stringent standards required for international distribution. If it could be produced locally in existing FIG. 2 Titration curves of stabilate that underwent a single re- freeze/thaw cycle (broken line) and control stabilates (1.5 h storage on ice) (solid line) � �� � �� �� � �� � �� �� � � � � �� �� � � � �� � ��� ��� ��� ��� ��� �� �� ��� ��� ��� � ���� ��� ����� �� ����� �������� � ������ ������� � ������ ������� �� ����� ��� � �� � �� �� � �� � �� �� � � � � �� �� � � � �� � ��� ��� ��� ��� ��� �� �� ��� ��� ��� � ���� ��� ����� �� ��������� � ����������� � ����������� �� ���������� �� ���������� �� FIG. 1 Titration curves of RPMI (thin continuous line), MEM (thick broken line), FCS (thick continuous line) and PBS (thin broken line) based sporozoite stabilates � �� � �� �� � �� � �� �� � � � � �� �� � � � �� � ��� ��� ��� ��� �� �� ��� ��� ��� � ���� ��� ����� �� ����� �������� � ����� ������ � ������ ������ �� ���� ��� � � � FIG. 3 Titration curves of multiply frozen stabilates (Cycles 1–5) 212 Infectivity of Theileria parva sporozoites: Evaluation by in vitro titration regional laboratories with nationally or regionally ac- cepted quality control standards from known naive dams, it could be very much cheaper than interna- tional grade FCS. Newborn calf serum might also be used (€67.4/l) and would be much cheaper from local sources. The cost of using locally produced reagents would then be lower than commercial me- dia supplemented with BSA (1 l of RPMI with BSA at 3.5 % costs €72). The PBS stabilates were also less infective than MEM stabilates but still showed a reasonably high infectivity (59 % of that of MEM). It could be that the nutritive value of the defined medium components may not be as critical as their buffering and cryopro- tective qualities during storage. If this is the case, PBS supplemented with BSA has the potential to be the cheapest alternative medium (€62/l). Although PBS and FCS were found to maintain a high propor- tion of the infectivity of the sporozoite dose, their suit- ability needs further investigation. One refreezing cycle significantly decreased the in- fectivity of sporozoites in comparison to storage for 1.5 h on ice. The latter should not affect the infectiv- ity as Marcotty et al. (2001) found that keeping a sta- bilate on ice for up to 6 h did not reduce sporozoite infectivity significantly. Although the actual freezing temperature was not measured in these experiments, 1.5 h was found to be sufficient to freeze the vial contents to –60 °C (Njuguna & Musisi 1996). This is below the critical temperature range (–20 to –50 °C) at which ice crystals form and raise extra-cellular solute concentrations, a process that is detrimental to cell integrity in cryopreservation (Farrant 1970). Subsequent refreezing cycles caused similar losses in infectivity. Refreezing of stabilates seems to induce consider- able loss in infectivity. Attempts to refreeze stabilates left over from field immunization would result in low quality stabilates that may not be protective upon inoculation. It would be helpful to have this informa- tion in the extension packages for stabilate delivery especially for the private sector involved in ECF im- munizations. A re-titration of such stabilate may be necessary to determine appropriate immunizing doses. This would be beyond the expertise of the service provider. Moreover, they may not have appro- priate equipment to undertake a standard refreez- ing process. In unavoidable situations, e.g. polyva- lent ECF vaccine production, it would be advisable that the infectivity loss is considered and immuniz- ing doses adjusted accordingly. The process of re- freezing may be useful in research work for reducing variability arising from different storage vials. This involves thawing the stabilate, pooling the contents of vials and refreezing for later use. Holding the stabilates for up to 1 h on ice did not re- duce the quality or infectivity of stabilates significant- ly. This is important as the process of preparing sta- bilates, particularly centrifuging and aliquoting, takes time before the stabilate is ready for freezing. In ad- dition, including “batch” as a random effect not only takes into account the tick batches but the different methods of grinding (Omni-mixer Homogen iser®, Ultraturax® and manual) used in these exper iments. In conclusion, the study confirms the findings of Kim- bita et al. (2004) that RPMI 1640 is as effective as MEM in supporting sporozoite infectivity. Therefore, it is recommended that RPMI 1640 that is properly supplemented can be used as an alternatively cheap- er freezing medium in T. parva stabilate production where MEM is either too costly or not available. We also showed that there is an estimated loss in spo- rozoite infectivity of 35 % when stabilates are refro- zen. This loss needs to be adjusted for in both re- search and field use stabilates. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The study was supported financially by the Belgian Government through the “Assistance to the Vet eri- nary Services of Zambia” (ASVEZA) project in col- laboration with the Government of the Republic of Zambia. 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