The capsule supports survival but not traversal of Escherichia coli K1 across the blood-brain barrier.

abstract：:Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis patterns of proteins and externally exposed labeled surface constituents were analyzed in promastigotes of three etiological agents of kala azar (Leishmania donovani, HS70 strain from India; L. chagasi, Imperatriz strain from Brazil; L. infantum, ITMPA K263 str...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lemesre JL,Rizvi FS,Afchain D,Sadigursky M,Capron A,Santoro F

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gonococcal pilus is a primary virulence factor, providing the initial attachment of the bacterial cell to human mucosal tissues. Pilin, the major subunit of the pilus, can carry a wide spectrum of primary amino acid sequences which are generated by the action of a complex antigenic variation system. Changes in the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Long CD,Madraswala RN,Seifert HS

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three monoclonal antibodies (MAbs), E4, L1-4, and L1-24, to the major outer membrane protein (MOMP) of Chlamydia trachomatis were identified that neutralized in vitro the infectivity of members of the B- and C-related complex as well as the mouse pneumonitis strain. MAbs L1-4, L1-24, and E4 gave a strong signal in an ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peterson EM,Cheng X,Markoff BA,Fielder TJ,de la Maza LM

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant clinical complication of pulmonary infections with Klebsiella pneumoniae is peripheral blood dissemination, resulting in a systemic infection concurrent with the localized pulmonary infection. In this context, little is known about the role of tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 (TNFR1)-mediated innate immu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moore TA,Perry ML,Getsoian AG,Monteleon CL,Cogen AL,Standiford TJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stimulation of mononuclear phagocytes by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is facilitated by the binding of complexes of LPS and LPS-binding protein to CD14. Although it is clear that CD14 is involved in LPS-induced signaling, other investigators have hypothesized the existence of additional signaling pathways in macrophag...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lynn WA,Liu Y,Golenbock DT

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of glycosylinositol phospholipid 1 (GIPL-1) of Leishmania (Leishmania) major in the interaction of promastigotes and amastigotes with macrophages was analyzed. Monoclonal antibody MEST-1, which recognizes glycolipids containing terminal galactofuranose (Galf) residues (E. Suzuki, M. S. Toledo, H. K. Takahashi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suzuki E,Tanaka AK,Toledo MS,Takahashi HK,Straus AH

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salivary gland lysates of the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis markedly enhance the course of infection with Leishmania major in mice. Here we examine various parameters of this phenomenon. The exacerbative effect of L. longipalpis salivary gland lysates occurred in five different mouse strains; however, the character o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Theodos CM,Ribeiro JM,Titus RG

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intraerythrocytic apicomplexan Babesia microti, the primary causative agent of human babesiosis, is a major public health concern in the United States and elsewhere. Apicomplexans utilize a multiprotein complex that includes a type I membrane protein called apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1) to invade host cells. We...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moitra P,Zheng H,Anantharaman V,Banerjee R,Takeda K,Kozakai Y,Lepore T,Krause PJ,Aravind L,Kumar S

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine proteases and serine protease homologs form the second largest gene family in the Drosophila melanogaster genome. Certain genes in the Jonah multigene family encoding serine proteases have been implicated in the fly antiviral immune response. Here, we report the involvement of Jonah66Ci in the Drosophila immune...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yadav S,Eleftherianos I

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial strains of Haemophilus species and Streptococcus pneumoniae were examined for synthesis of the enzyme immunoglobulin A1 (IgA1) protease. Of 36 H. influenzae strains examined, 35 produced IgA1 protease; strains included all six capsular types, unencapsulated variants of types b and d, and untypable H. influen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Male CJ

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-one patients with a variety of different illnesses were studied with respect to skin test anergy and the presence of serum chemotactic inhibitors. In initial testing, 55% of the patient tests demonstrated negative skin test responses to all six test antigens. Sera from 65% of these anergic patients were capable ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Van Epps DE,Frierson JA,Williams RC

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis of Borrelia burgdorferi by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes triggers oxygen-dependent and -independent mechanisms of potentially cidal outcome. Nevertheless, no factor or process has yet been singled out as being borreliacidal. We have studied the B. burgdorferi-killing ability of the myeloperoxidase-H2...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Garcia R,Gusmani L,Murgia R,Guarnaccia C,Cinco M,Rottini G

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of the chromosomal DNA flanking the Actinomyces naeslundii (formerly A. viscosus) T14V type 1 fimbrial structural subunit gene (fimP) was determined. Six open reading frames (ORFs), in the order 5' ORF3, ORF2, ORF1,fimP, ORF4, ORF5, ORF6 3', were identified. ORF1 encoded a protein of 408 amino ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yeung MK,Ragsdale PA

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that serum samples from patients with different clinical forms of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) contained immunoglobulin G and immunoglobulin M antibodies which reacted with laminin but not with various other purified connective tissue components, such as collagen types I, III, IV, and V and fibronec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Avila JL,Rojas M,Rieber M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of human monocyte-derived macrophages (HMDM) and J774 cells (murine macrophage cell line) with several enteroaggregative and cytodetaching Escherichia coli (EAggEC and CDEC, respectively) strains demonstrated that some strains could induce macrophage cell death accompanied by release of lactate dehydrogenase...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernandez-Prada C,Tall BD,Elliott SE,Hoover DL,Nataro JP,Venkatesan MM

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent pulmonary infections with Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are a major problem in cystic fibrosis (CF), leading to severe and progressive deterioration of the respiratory tract. Fibronectin (FN) has a binding site(s) for S. aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes. This bacterial bindings site(s) wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stanislawski L,Sorin M

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of mice suggest that pneumococcal proteins, including PspA, pneumolysin, PsaA, and CbpA, are promising vaccine candidates. To determine whether these proteins are good mucosal immunogens in humans, adenoidal lymphocytes from 20 children who had adenoidectomies were isolated and tested by ELISpot for antigen-sp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang Q,Choo S,Finn A

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium can undergo phase variation to alternately express two different types of flagellin subunit proteins, FljB or FliC, no biological function for this phenomenon has been described. In this investigation, we constructed phase-locked derivatives of S. enterica serovar Typhi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ikeda JS,Schmitt CK,Darnell SC,Watson PR,Bispham J,Wallis TS,Weinstein DL,Metcalf ES,Adams P,O'Connor CD,O'Brien AD

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enteric pathogens enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli employ a type 3 secretion system (T3SS) to manipulate the host inflammatory response during infection. Previously, it has been reported that EPEC, in a T3SS-dependent manner, induces an early proinflammatory response through a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pallett MA,Berger CN,Pearson JS,Hartland EL,Frankel G

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis has received increasing attention for its involvement in severe human infections worldwide as well as in multidrug resistance. Two-component signaling systems (TCSSs) play important roles in bacterial adaptation to various environmental stimuli. In this study, we identified a novel TCSS located in S...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhong X,Zhang Y,Zhu Y,Dong W,Ma J,Pan Z,Roy S,Lu C,Yao H

更新日期：2018-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine bone marrow-derived macrophages were infected with a panel of virulent isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis including laboratory strains Erdman and H37Rv and various clinical isolates in order to determine the sensitivity of each of these strains to the antimycobacterial activities of macrophage-generated rea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rhoades ER,Orme IM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed the expression vector pSK-SCP containing the streptococcal exotoxin B gene (spe b) which expressed protease activity. We showed that the recombinant streptococcal pyogenic exotoxin B/streptococcal cysteine protease (rSPE B/SCP) was secreted into the culture supernatant of the transformant and retained i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Watanabe Y,Todome Y,Ohkuni H,Sakurada S,Ishikawa T,Yutsudo T,Fischetti VA,Zabriskie JB

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto is the major causative agent of Lyme disease in the United States, while B. garinii and B. afzelii are more prevalent in Europe. The highly complex genome of B. burgdorferi is comprised of a linear chromosome and a large number of variably sized linear and circular plasmids. Many pla...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chan K,Casjens S,Parveen N

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human defensins play a fundamental role in the initiation of innate immune responses to some microbial pathogens. Here we show that colonic epithelial model HCT116 cells respond to Trypanosoma cruzi infection by secreting defensin α-1, which reduces infection. We also report the early effects of defensin α-1 on invasi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Johnson CA,Rachakonda G,Kleshchenko YY,Nde PN,Madison MN,Pratap S,Cardenas TC,Taylor C,Lima MF,Villalta F

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay technique was used to quantitate, in milligrams per milliliter, anti-colonization factor antigen/I (CFA/I) immunoglobulin G (IgG) in acute- and convalescent-phase sera of individuals who experienced diarrhea associated with CFA/I-positive enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. Purified...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clegg S,Evans DG,Evans DJ Jr

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified group A streptococcal peptidoglycan-polysaccharide (PG-PS) fragments were either de-O-acylated, or acetylated and then de-O-acylated to yield N-acetylated PG-PS. Native PG-PS was poorly degraded, N-acetylated PG-PS was extensively degraded, and de-O-acylated PG-PS was only slightly degraded by hen egg white l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stimpson SA,Lerch RA,Cleland DR,Yarnall DP,Clark RL,Cromartie WJ,Schwab JH

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of meningococcal pathogenesis have been severely restricted due to the absence of an adequate animal model. Given the significance of iron in meningococcal pathogenesis, we developed a model of Neisseria meningitidis colonization in outbred adult mice that included daily administration of iron dextran. While r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yi K,Stephens DS,Stojiljkovic I

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three strains of anaerobic, dextranase-producing, gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria were isolated from human dental plaque associated with root carious lesions. The isolates produced a molar ratio of acetate to lactate from glucose fermentation ranging from 1.1 to 1.9. Each strain also produced fructose-6-phosphate p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kaster AG,Brown LR

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the murine model of urinary tract infections (UTI), cystitis by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) occurs through an intimate relationship with the bladder superficial umbrella cell entailing cycles of adherence, invasion, intracellular bacterial community (IBC) formation, and dispersal (fluxing) from the intrac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wright KJ,Seed PC,Hultgren SJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of whether Campylobacter jejuni produces a cholera toxin-like toxin (CTLT) has been controversial. The objective of this study was to identify the factor that cross-reacts with CT from C. jejuni. Filtrates of C. jejuni grown in four different liquid media reported to promote CTLT production were tested by...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Albert MJ,Haridas S,Steer D,Dhaunsi GS,Smith AI,Adler B

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00