Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 produces Tir, which is translocated to the host cell membrane but is not tyrosine phosphorylated.

abstract：:Whole blood and plasma from animals in the acute stage of leptospirosis contained a toxic factor which produced a cytopathic effect on fibroblastic L cell monolayers. Firm adsorption of cytotoxic factor (CTF) to L cells occurred within 1 h. The highest titer of CTF in plasma was reached at 24 h and declined after 48 h...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Knight LL,Miller NG,White RJ

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus fibronectin-binding proteins (FnBPs) play a critical role in S. aureus pathogenesis. FnBPs mediate adhesion to fibronectin and invasion of mammalian cells, including epithelial, endothelial, and fibroblastic cells, by fibronectin bridging to the host cell fibronectin receptor integrin (alpha(5))b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grundmeier M,Hussain M,Becker P,Heilmann C,Peters G,Sinha B

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hybridoma produced by the polyethylene glycol fusion of the NS-1 variant of the P3x63Ag8 BALB/c plasmacytoma to splenocytes harvested from a BALB/c mouse immunized with whole gonococci was found to be producing antibody to a common region on gonococcal lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay inhi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Apicella MA,Bennett KM,Hermerath CA,Roberts DE

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two extremely oxygen-sensitive strains of Clostridium sp., designated Clostridium E and P, were obtained from digestive microflora of conventional mice and found to constitute a barrier against Shigella flexneri SF-2 when associated in vivo with Escherichia coli K-12. These and other simplified fractions of the conven...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ducluzeau R,Ladire M,Callut C,Raibaud P,Abrams GD

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunogenic aminopeptidase was purified from Brucella melitensis strain VTRM1. The purification procedure consisted of ammonium sulfate fractionation and three chromatographic steps. This procedure resulted in a yield of 29% and a 144-fold increase in specific activity. The aminopeptidase appeared to be a monomeric...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Contreras-Rodriguez A,Ramirez-Zavala B,Contreras A,Schurig GG,Sriranganathan N,Lopez-Merino A

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis that the intensity of specific antichlamydial T cell-mediated immunity in the genital tract of female guinea pigs infected intravaginally with the chlamydial agent of guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis would determine the resistance or susceptibility to reinfection after a primary chlamydial ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Igietseme JU,Rank RG

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucins are high-molecular-weight glycoproteins and major constituents of the mucus layer which covers the airway surface. We have studied the interactions between bacteria, mucins, and epithelial cells from the human respiratory tract. Nontypeable strains of Haemophilus influenzae were found to bind to purified airway...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Davies J,Carlstedt I,Nilsson AK,Håkansson A,Sabharwal H,van Alphen L,van Ham M,Svanborg C

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurological syndrome caused by Plasmodium berghei ANKA in rodents partially mimics the human disease. Several rodent models of cerebral malaria (CM) exist for the study of the mechanisms that cause the disease. However, since common laboratory mouse strains have limited gene pools, the role of their phenotypic va...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bagot S,Idrissa Boubou M,Campino S,Behrschmidt C,Gorgette O,Guénet JL,Penha-Gonçalves C,Mazier D,Pied S,Cazenave PA

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, our laboratory and others have demonstrated that human peripheral blood T and NK lymphocytes directly inhibit the growth of Cryptococcus neoformans. In this study, we further define the conditions under which lymphocyte-mediated fungistasis against C. neoformans occurs and examine whether mechanisms implicat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Levitz SM,North EA,Dupont MP,Harrison TS

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human lactoferrin (hLf), a glycoprotein released from neutrophil granules during inflammation, and the lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-binding protein (LBP), an acute-phase serum protein, are known to bind to the lipid A of LPS. The LPS-binding sites are located in the N-terminal regions of both proteins, at amino acid resid...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Elass-Rochard E,Legrand D,Salmon V,Roseanu A,Trif M,Tobias PS,Mazurier J,Spik G

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia in cancer patients develops from initial gastrointestinal (GI) colonization with translocation into the bloodstream in the setting of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia and GI mucosal damage. We established a reproducible mouse model of P. aeruginosa GI colonization and systemic spread ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Koh AY,Priebe GP,Pier GB

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonization by Bordetella bronchiseptica results in a variety of inflammatory respiratory infections, including canine kennel cough, porcine atrophic rhinitis, and a whooping cough-like disease in humans. For successful colonization, B. bronchiseptica must acquire iron (Fe) from the infected host. A vast amount of Fe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mocny JC,Olson JS,Connell TD

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A secreted nuclease, SsnA, was identified in the virulent Streptococcus suis isolate SX332 and subsequently in each of the type strains of capsular serotypes 1 through 9. Screening of 258 porcine clinical isolates from surface (nasal mucosa or palatine tonsil) or internal (joint, brain or other internal organ) locatio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fontaine MC,Perez-Casal J,Willson PJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is a leading cause of infectious diarrhea throughout the world. In addition, there is growing evidence that Guillain-Barré syndrome, an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the peripheral nervous system, is frequently preceded by C. jejuni infection. In the present study, the hrcA-grpE-dnaK gene ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thies FL,Karch H,Hartung HP,Giegerich G

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the pathological events evoked by infection are commonly described, effective host responses to bacteria and their products should primarily be protective. Heat shock protein (Hsp) expression is upregulated by many stimuli and serves to maintain intracellular protein integrity. The ability of the prototypic supe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Musch MW,Petrof EO,Kojima K,Ren H,McKay DM,Chang EB

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The M1inv+ subclone of M1 group A streptococci that spread globally in the late 1980s and early 1990s was previously identified by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), M protein, and SpeA exotoxin sequence analyses. Strains representing this subclone were characterized with regard to carriage of bacterioph...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cleary PP,LaPenta D,Vessela R,Lam H,Cue D

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Plasmodium falciparum liver-stage antigen 3 (LSA3), a recently identified preerythrocytic antigen, induces protection against malaria in chimpanzees. Using antibodies from individuals with hyperimmunity to malaria affinity purified on recombinant or synthetic polypeptides of LSA3, we identified four non-cross-reac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brahimi K,Badell E,Sauzet JP,BenMohamed L,Daubersies P,Guérin-Marchand C,Snounou G,Druilhe P

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus is the leading cause of bacterial seafood-borne gastroenteritis worldwide, yet little is known about how this pathogen colonizes the human intestine. The alternative sigma factor RpoN/sigma-54 is a global regulator that controls flagellar synthesis, as well as a wide range of nonflagellar genes...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whitaker WB,Richards GP,Boyd EF

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human lactoferrin is an iron-binding glycoprotein that is particularly prominent in exocrine secretions and leukocytes and is also found in serum, especially during inflammation. It is able to sequester iron from microbes and has immunomodulatory functions, including inhibition of both complement activation and cytoki...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Håkansson A,Roche H,Mirza S,McDaniel LS,Brooks-Walter A,Briles DE

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 9.5-kilobase plasmid of Yersinia pestis determines plasminogen activator, coagulase, pesticin, and pesticin immunity activities. We have mapped and cloned the loci encoding these activities and demonstrated that both plasminogen activator and coagulase were determined by the same gene, designated pla. The primary ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sodeinde OA,Goguen JD

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Once Candida albicans comes in contact with endothelial cells, it induces cellular injury. This endothelial cell injury may be a mechanism by which blood-borne organisms escape from the intravascular compartment and invade the tissue parenchyma during hematogenous infection. We have been investigating the ability of c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fratti RA,Ghannoum MA,Edwards JE Jr,Filler SG

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defensins are antibiotic peptides expressed in human and animal myeloid and epithelial cells. Due to the limited availability of natural peptides, the properties of human epithelial defensins have not been studied. We assayed the microbicidal activity of recombinant human intestinal defensin 5 (rHD-5) in the presence ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Porter EM,van Dam E,Valore EV,Ganz T

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, similar to various facultative intracellular pathogens, has been shown to respond to the hostile conditions inside macrophages of the host organism by inducing stress proteins, such as DnaK. DnaK forms a chaperone machinery with the cochaperones DnaJ and GrpE. To elucidate the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takaya A,Tomoyasu T,Matsui H,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are the sole reservoir of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, an organism which undergoes a marked increase in metabolic rate after exposure to a low-molecular-weight, heat-stable component(s) of human serum. Further studies on the effect of serum on gonococcal metabolism were undertaken. Gonococcal broth (GCB) is commonly ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Britigan BE,Chai Y,Cohen MS

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A2G mice are genetically resistant to lethal infection with neurotropic and pneumotropic influenza viruses. A possible immunological explanation for this resistance was sought by assessing the effect of cyclophosphamide and X irradiation immunosuppression on the infection of A2G mice with lethal doses of neurovirulent...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fiske RA,Klein PA

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antigen recognized by monoclonal antibody specific for Bacteroides gingivalis was purified in the presence of 0.5% (wt/vol) beta-octyl-glucoside by immunoadsorbent column chromatography. The purified antigen was homogeneous as judged by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and silver...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miyoshi T,Hanazawa S,Hirose K,Saitoh K,Amano S,Ohmori Y,Kitano S

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neospora caninum is a recently identified coccidian parasite which shares many features with, but is clearly distinct from, Toxoplasma gondii. N. caninum tachyzoites infect a wide range of mammalian cells both in vivo and in vitro. The mechanisms by which infection is achieved are largely unknown. Recent evidence has ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hemphill A

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of macrophages in protecting mice from murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) was studied in Swiss, CBA/J, and C57BL/6J mice. CBA/J mice were more resistant to virus than were C57BL/6J mice at all ages tested. Prior treatment of adult Swiss mice with 60 mg of silica, a dose selectively toxic to macrophages, increased ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Selgrade MK,Osborn JE

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transplacental infection of mouse fetuses with Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis was produced by intraperitoneal injection of dams at various stages of gestation with 10(3) suckling mouse intracerebral median lethal doses of an attenuated strain (TC-83). Virus inoculation, at times ranging from 6 days prior to matin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Spertzel RO,Crabbs CL,Vaughn RE

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemin induced germination of Candida albicans blastoconidia when cells grown up to the early exponential phase were shifted from 28 to 37 degrees C (70 to 75% of cells exhibited germ tubes). N-Acetyl-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc), another inducer of myceliation in this fungus, caused a similar effect. The combination of hemi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Casanova M,Cervera AM,Gozalbo D,Martínez JP

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00