Middle ear fluid cytokine and inflammatory cell kinetics in the chinchilla otitis media model.

abstract：:Understanding the physical characteristics of the local microenvironment in which Mycobacterium tuberculosis resides is an important goal that may allow the targeting of metabolic processes to shorten drug regimens. Pimonidazole hydrochloride (Hypoxyprobe) is an imaging agent that is bioreductively activated only unde...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Via LE,Lin PL,Ray SM,Carrillo J,Allen SS,Eum SY,Taylor K,Klein E,Manjunatha U,Gonzales J,Lee EG,Park SK,Raleigh JA,Cho SN,McMurray DN,Flynn JL,Barry CE 3rd

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was demonstrated that complement-coated sheep erythrocytes bind to Candida albicans cells grown in serum-free RPMI 1640 medium. Testing of purified complement components proved that iC3b and C3d were responsible for the reaction, whereas C3b and C3b-H reacted only slightly if at all. Binding occurred only to C. alb...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heidenreich F,Dierich MP

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental model of "chronic" diphtheria intoxication in the guinea pig was developed. Adult guinea pigs, subjected to a regimen of multiple sublethal doses of purified diphtheria toxin (total of 1.4 minimum lethal doses divided equally in four daily doses), developed a toxemia which terminated in death between 6...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bonventre PF

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin-producing Escherchia coli (STEC) comprises a group of attaching and effacing (A/E) enteric pathogens of animals and humans. Natural and experimental infection of calves with STEC may result in acute enteritis or subclinical infection, depending on serotype- and host-specific factors. To quantify intestinal...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stevens MP,Marchès O,Campbell J,Huter V,Frankel G,Phillips AD,Oswald E,Wallis TS

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbred CBA/J mice were used in developing a defined in vivo model for studying host-parasite relationships in cryptococcosis. Mice were infected either intranasally or intraperitoneally with 10(3) viable Cryptococcus neoformans cells. At weekly intervals over a 92-day period, C. neoformans growth profiles in the lungs...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lim TS,Murphy JW,Cauley LK

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane of pathogenic Leptospira species grown in culture media contains lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a porin (OmpL1), and several lipoproteins, including LipL36 and LipL41. The purpose of this study was to characterize the expression and distribution of these outer membrane antigens during renal infection. Ha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barnett JK,Barnett D,Bolin CA,Summers TA,Wagar EA,Cheville NF,Hartskeerl RA,Haake DA

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) from patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) fail to produce microbicidal concentrations of reactive oxygen species (ROS) due to mutations in NOX2. Patients with CGD suffer from severe, life-threatening infections and inflammatory complications. Granulibacter bethesdensis i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Greenberg DE,Sturdevant DE,Marshall-Batty KR,Chu J,Pettinato AM,Virtaneva K,Lane J,Geller BL,Porcella SF,Gallin JI,Holland SM,Zarember KA

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiserum and purified immunoglobulin directed against Mycoplasma pneumoniae membrane protein P1 were examined for their influence on mycoplasma viability, metabolism, and cytadsorption. Anti-P1 immunoglobulin inhibited adherence of M. pneumoniae to hamster tracheal rings in vitro by up to 80% and inhibited hemadsorpt...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krause DC,Baseman JB

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual 120-kDa alkaline peptidase contained in a trypomastigote soluble fraction (TSF) of Trypanosoma cruzi is associated with the induction of repetitive Ca2+ transients and subsequent invasion by the parasite of a number of mammalian cell lines, including tissue culture L6E2 myoblasts (B. A. Burleigh and N. W. A...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barr SC,Han W,Andrews NW,Lopez JW,Ball BA,Pannabecker TL,Gilmour RF Jr

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is a leading diarrheagenic bacterial pathogen among travelers and children in resource-limited regions. Adherence to host intestinal cells mediated by ETEC fimbriae is believed to be a critical first step in ETEC pathogenesis. These fimbriae are categorized into related classes ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liu Y,Shahabudin S,Farid S,Lee LH,McVeigh AL,Maciel M Jr.,,Poole ST,Broadman M,Prouty MG,Savarino SJ

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Two Escherichia coli strains (B/M 369 and C-35) belonging to enteropathogenic serogroup O86 were isolated from patients with infantile diarrhea and studied with respect to their cellular adherence properties. Both strains exhibited adherence (Ad+) to HEp-2 and HeLa cell monolayers in vitro and expressed mannose-resist...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pal R,Ghose AC

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a study of virulence gene regulation in Streptococcus pneumoniae, we have identified a gene encoding a homologue of the staphylococcal catabolite control protein CcpA in the pneumococcal genome sequence. The pneumococcal protein, designated RegM, has significant similarity to members of the LacI/GalR family...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giammarinaro P,Paton JC

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a model of experimental Chagas' disease induced with metacyclic forms of Trypanosoma cruzi, CD4+ but not CD8+ T cells undergo T-cell receptor (TCR)-CD3-mediated activation-induced cell death (AICD) in vitro. CD4+ T cells from T. cruzi-infected mice also developed unresponsiveness in proliferative responses to TCR-C...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lopes MF,DosReis GA

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was developed to detect soluble peptidoglycans in biological fluids. It makes use of the similar affinities of vancomycin and purified rabbit antibodies to peptidoglycan precursor sequences found in soluble peptidoglycans. This assay has been used to detect as little as 500 p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Park H,Zeiger AR,Schumacher HR

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites to differentiate into latent bradyzoite forms is essential for pathogenesis of clinical disease. We examined the effects of cyclic nucleotides on T. gondii bradyzoite differentiation in vitro. Differentiation of tachyzoites to bradyzoites was measured in an immunofluorescen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kirkman LA,Weiss LM,Kim K

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillary angiomatosis (BA), one of the many clinical manifestations resulting from infection with the facultative intracellular bacterium Bartonella henselae, is characterized by angiogenic lesions. Macrophages have been identified as important effector cells contributing to the angiogenic process during B. henselae ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McCord AM,Burgess AW,Whaley MJ,Anderson BE

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae causes infections and fatal disease in marine animals and in humans. Highly hemolytic strains produce damselysin (Dly) and plasmid-encoded HlyA (HlyA(pl)). These hemolysins are encoded by plasmid pPHDD1 and contribute to hemolysis and virulence for fish and mice. In this study, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rivas AJ,Balado M,Lemos ML,Osorio CR

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates constitute a great clinical challenge. One important resistance mechanism in K. pneumoniae is the metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs), which require zinc for their function. Thus, zinc chelation could be a strategy to resensitize K. pneumoniae to β-lactams. However, the pote...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karadottir H,Coorens M,Liu Z,Wang Y,Agerberth B,Giske CG,Bergman P

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Human colostrum, parotid saliva, and serum were assayed for the presence of naturally occurring antibodies to five serotypes of Streptococcus mutans. Appreciable levels of agglutinins to strains AHT, BHT, 10449, 6715, and LM-7 (groups a leads to e, respectively) were detected in normal colostrum and saliva, whereas re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Arnold RR,Mestecky J,McGhee JR

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A GroEL-like protein from Bordetella pertussis was purified. This protein was found to have the tetradecameric subunit structure typical of the GroEL family of proteins and to contain epitopes similar to those of other members of this family, including a human GroEL-like protein. Active immunization of neonatal mice w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Burns DL,Gould-Kostka JL,Kessel M,Arciniega JL

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses in the guinea pig model are understudied because of a lack of commercial reagents. We have developed a custom-made guinea pig oligonucleotide microarray (81 spots) and have examined the gene expression profile of splenocytes restimulated in vitro from Mycobacterium bovis BCG-vaccinated and naive anima...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tree JA,Elmore MJ,Javed S,Williams A,Marsh PD

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonellae with differences only in the O-antigenic polysaccharide of their lipopolysaccharide were previously shown to differentially activate complement via the alternative pathway, causing them to be ingested at different rates by the mouse macrophage-like cell line J774. We now show that this mechanism could expl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liang-Takasaki CJ,Saxén H,Mäkelä PH,Leive L

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunochemically identical components were isolated from water-soluble phases of five Staphylococcus aureus strains by affinity chromatography on fibrinogen-linked Sepharose 4B. The elution was performed with 1 M MgCl2. The component could be isolated from sonicated preparations of whole cells, cell walls, and extrace...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Espersen F,Clemmensen I,Barkholt V

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenethyl alcohol, at the maximum concentration which did not inhibit growth (0.3% [vol/vol]), inhibited the production of alpha-lysin and exoproteases but not that of delta-lysin in Staphylococcus aureus Wood 46. The inhibition of alpha-lysin was reversible, and transient accumulation of cell-associated alpha-lysin o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee KY,Birkbeck TH

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes colonized the gastrointestinal tract of adult germfree rats (10(10) to 10(11)/g, dry weight) within 24 h after oral exposure. Between 3 and 14 days after monoassociation, L. monocytogenes caused a self-limiting pseudomembranous colitis, bacteremia, and infection of the spleen and liver. Monoasso...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Czuprynski CJ,Balish E

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin (VacA) is a secreted protein that induces vacuolation of epithelial cells. To study VacA structure and function, we immunized mice with purified type s1-m1 VacA from H. pylori strain 60190 and generated a panel of 10 immunoglobulin G1kappa anti-VacA monoclonal antibodies. All ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vinion-Dubiel AD,McClain MS,Cao P,Mernaugh RL,Cover TL

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we have investigated the evolution and impact on virulence of a 350-kb genomic duplication present in the most recently evolved members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis East Asian lineage. In a mouse model of infection, comparing HN878 subclones HN878-27 (no duplication) and HN878-45 (with the 3...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Domenech P,Rog A,Moolji JU,Radomski N,Fallow A,Leon-Solis L,Bowes J,Behr MA,Reed MB

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-molecular-weight, immunogenic form of the lipopolysaccharide O side chain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Fisher immunotype 4 (type 4, International Antigenic Typing System 1, Lanyi O:6) was isolated and characterized. Analysis by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy confirmed the structural similarity of this hig...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pier GB,Pollack M

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelias that cause Lyme disease lose the ability to infect and cause disease in laboratory animals following 10 to 16 passages of in vitro culture. In this study, clonal populations of the Sh-2-82 (Sh2) and B31 strains of Borrelia burgdorferi were isolated by subsurface plating on BSK-II agar plates and examined for...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Norris SJ,Howell JK,Garza SA,Ferdows MS,Barbour AG

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans is surrounded by an antiphagocytic polysaccharide capsule whose primary constituent is glucuronoxylomannan (GXM). Three prominent structural features of GXM are single xylosyl and glucuronosyl side chains and O acetylation of the mannose backbone. Isogenic pairs of O-acetyl-positive and O-acety...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR,Levitz SM,Dromer F,Gates MA,Thorkildson P,Janbon G

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00