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* Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, and
Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
Infection with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Central and South America. Control of acute experimental infection with T. cruzi is dependent on a robust T cell and type 1 cytokine response. However, little evidence exists demonstrating the development and persistence of a potent antiparasite T cell memory response, and there has been much speculation that the majority of the immune response to T. cruzi infection is not directed against the parasite. In this study, we used an experimental mouse model of T. cruzi infection to test both the Ag specificity and the functional and phenotypic characteristics of the responding T cell population. We observed a vigorous antiparasite response from both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells that was maintained in the face of persistent infection. T cells from infected mice also proliferated in response to re-exposure to Ag, and CD8+ T cells underwent spontaneous proliferation when transferred to naive congenic mice, both characteristic of central memory T cells. Interestingly, T cells from infected mice showed significant down-regulation of CD62L, a characteristic associated with an effector memory phenotype. These results suggest that T cells maintained in mice with chronic T. cruzi infection are fully functional memory cells that cannot be easily categorized in the current central/effector memory paradigm.
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