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Division of Geographic Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106;
Division of Vector Borne Diseases and
Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
Human neonates are generally deficient in their ability to generate humoral immunity. This deficiency is thought to reflect physiologic immaturity of T and B cell function and lack of previous exposure to exogenous Ags. To determine whether neonatal humoral immunity can be modified by maternal helminth infection during pregnancy, we assessed Ig production by cord blood lymphocytes from healthy newborns of mothers living in an area of Kenya where schistosomiasis, bancroftian filariasis, and geohelminth infections are endemic. Twelve of 40 and 17 of 39 cord blood lymphocyte preparations from healthy newborns in Coast Province, Kenya, spontaneously made polyclonal IgE (range, 0.15–21 ng/ml) and IgG (1.6–10.1 ng/ml) in vitro. In vitro IgE synthesis by cord blood lymphocytes (CBL) was, on the average, 10-fold less than that of PBMC of Kenyan mothers (1.1–98 ng/ml) and was undetectable for CBL from newborns delivered in the United States. Schistosome and filarial Ags stimulated a 3- to >100-fold increase in the production of polyclonal IgE and parasite-specific IgG Abs by lymphocytes from 10 of 40 and 6 of 39 Kenyan newborns, respectively. CBL observed to have helminth Ag-driven B cell responses were more likely to be from newborns of schistosome- or filaria-infected mothers than from uninfected mothers (p < 0.05). These data indicate that the human fetus can be sensitized in utero to produce helminth-specific B cells and that neonatal B cells are intrinsically capable of IgE and IgG production.
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