Infection of mice lacking interleukin-7 (IL-7) reveals an unexpected role for IL-7 in the development of the parasite Schistosoma mansoni.

abstract：:Amebic erythrophagocytosis is characteristic of invasive amebiasis, and mutants deficient in erythrocyte ingestion are avirulent. We sought to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying erythrocyte phagocytosis by Entamoeba histolytica. Following adherence to amebae, erythrocytes became round and crenulated, and p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boettner DR,Huston CD,Sullivan JA,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is a primary pathogen of swine and turkeys and sporadic cause of disease in a variety of other hosts, including humans. A genomic library of the highly virulent strain of E. rhusiopathiae E1-6P was constructed in the expression-cloning vector lambda gt11 and screened with serum from a pig ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galán JE,Timoney JF

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis is the causative agent of meningococcal disease. Onset of meningococcal disease can be extremely rapid and can kill within a matter of hours. However, although a much-feared pathogen, Neisseria meningitidis is frequently found in the nasopharyngeal mucosae of healthy carriers. The bacterial fact...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ren X,MacKichan JK

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified, by two-dimensional electrophoretic analysis and microsequencing, a protein of Chlamydia trachomatis elementary bodies which corresponds to the polypeptide (pgp3) encoded by open reading frame 3 (ORF3). Amino acid analysis showed that the first residue (Gly) found in the native protein is the one encoded...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Comanducci M,Manetti R,Bini L,Santucci A,Pallini V,Cevenini R,Sueur JM,Orfila J,Ratti G

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filifactor alocis is a recently recognized periodontal pathogen; however, little is known regarding its interactions with the immune system. As the first-responder phagocytic cells, neutrophils are recruited in large numbers to the periodontal pocket, where they play a crucial role in the innate defense of the periodo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Armstrong CL,Miralda I,Neff AC,Tian S,Vashishta A,Perez L,Le J,Lamont RJ,Uriarte SM

更新日期：2016-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian host response to infection includes the production and secretion of antimicrobial peptides from phagocytes and epithelial cells. Protegrins, a group of broadly microbicidal peptides isolated originally from porcine neutrophil lysates, were found to be stored as inactive proforms in porcine neutrophil gra...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shi J,Ganz T

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Salmonella typhimurium gene for Mn-cofactored superoxide dismutase (sodA) was cloned by complementation of an Escherichia coli sodA sodB mutant for growth on minimal medium. Sequence analysis revealed an open reading frame of 618 bp encoding a polypeptide with 97% identity to E. coli SodA. A S. typhimurium sodA mu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tsolis RM,Bäumler AJ,Heffron F

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were vaccinated with plasmid DNA (pDNA) encoding antigen 85A (Ag85A), Ag85B, or PstS-3 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis either in saline or formulated for intramuscular injections in VC1052:DPyPE (aminopropyl-dimethyl-myristoleyloxy-propanaminium bromide-diphytanoylphosphatidyl-ethanolamine) (Vaxfectin; Vical, Inc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： D'Souza S,Rosseels V,Denis O,Tanghe A,De Smet N,Jurion F,Palfliet K,Castiglioni N,Vanonckelen A,Wheeler C,Huygen K

更新日期：2002-07-01 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

abstract：:Affinity-purified rabbit polyclonal (PAB96-1) and mouse monoclonal (1G9-1C2) antibodies to synthetic H-DDDDDDD-OH, an antimicrobial anionic peptide (AP) originally isolated from ovine pulmonary surfactant, were prepared and used to assess the concentrations of AP-like molecules in human respiratory tract samples. In b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brogden KA,Ackermann MR,McCray PB Jr,Huttner KM

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterium Listeria monocytogenes causes meningoencephalitis in humans. In rodents, listeriosis is associated with granulomatous lesions in the liver and the spleen, but not with meningoencephalitis. Here, infant rats were infected intracisternally to generate experimental listeric meningoencephalitis. Dose-depende...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Remer KA,Jungi TW,Fatzer R,Täuber MG,Leib SL

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dialyzable Lawrence-type transfer factor was prepared from the spleen cells of CF1 mice inoculated with Coccidioides immitis- and Candida albicans-killed vaccines and with live Mycobacterium tuberculosis vaccine (BCG). These preparations were shown to transfer antigen-specific cell-mediated immunity to naive mice, as ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rifkind D,Frey JA,Petersen EA,Dinowitz M

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colony variants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae differ in their interactions with eucaryotic cells. When gonococci were cultivated with HeLa cell monolayers, the opacity phenotype (Op) became increasingly dominant in the subpopulation of organisms which adhered to the HeLa cells. Once bound, Op organisms displayed very low l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bessen D,Gotschlich EC

更新日期：1986-10-01 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：:Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) binds to receptors on rat intestinal cells and brush border membranes (BBM). We devised experiments to examine the reversibility of ST binding. We found that both 125I-labeled ST and native ST were spontaneously dissociable from the BBM receptor. Radiolabeled ST bound to B...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cohen MB,Thompson MR,Overmann GJ,Giannella RA

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DC) suffer a maturation defect following interaction with erythrocytes infected with malaria parasites and become unable to induce protective malaria liver-stage immunity. Here we show that, by contrast, maturation-arrested DC in vitro are capable of the successful induction of antigen-specific gamma ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pouniotis DS,Proudfoot O,Bogdanoska V,Apostolopoulos V,Fifis T,Plebanski M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is limiting in the human host, and bacterial pathogens respond to this environment by regulating gene expression through the ferric uptake regulator protein (Fur). In vitro studies have demonstrated that Neisseria gonorrhoeae controls the expression of several critical genes through an iron- and Fur-mediated mech...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Agarwal S,King CA,Klein EK,Soper DE,Rice PA,Wetzler LM,Genco CA

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in molecular composition of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) between serum-sensitive (S) clinical isolates of Escherichia coli and serum-resistant (R) clones derived by serial passage in serum were demonstrated to determine sensitivity or resistance to killing by normal human serum (NHS). LPS from R clones had a ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Porat R,Johns MA,McCabe WR

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combining sites of type 1 fimbrial lectins of various species of enterobacteria were studied by measuring the inhibitory activity of linear and branched oligosaccharides and several glycosides of D-mannose on the agglutination of yeast cells by the organisms. The results showed that all five strains of Escherichia...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Firon N,Ofek I,Sharon N

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated antigenic differences among the pili expressed by various strains of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). In order to understand the molecular basis for these differences, the structural gene for pilin was cloned from Hib strain Eagan (p+) and the nucleotide sequence was compared to ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Forney LJ,Marrs CF,Bektesh SL,Gilsdorf JR

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) against herpes simplex virus (HSV) were induced in vitro from human peripheral blood lymphocytes by stimulation with HSV antigen. CTL generated by HSV type 1 (HSV-1) antigen stimulation killed not only HSV-1-infected target cells but also HSV type 2 (HSV-2)-infected target cells, though a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yasukawa M,Shiroguchi T,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the role of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) lipooligosaccharide (LOS) in the induction of proinflammatory cytokine gene expression during otitis media, we compared the abilities of formalin-killed NTHI strain 2019 and its LOS htrB and rfaD mutants to stimulate human middle ear epithelial (HMEE) cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tong HH,Chen Y,James M,Van Deusen J,Welling DB,DeMaria TF

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytotoxic effects of bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS) on mouse leukocytes have been examined in vivo and in vitro. Intraperitoneal injection of LPS into C57BL/6 mice greatly reduced the recovery of mononuclear cells; LPS was cytotoxic for macrophages, but had a mitogenic effect on lymphocytes. Similar effects o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peavy DL,Baughn RE,Musher DM

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytes derived from 72- to 90-day-old fetal piglet thymuses respond in vitro to phytohemagglutinin quantitatively greater than do spleen cell lymphocytes. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rodey GE,Day N,Holmes-Gray B,Good RA

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adhesion of Trichomonas vaginalis is believed to be dependent on four adhesion proteins, which are thought to bind to vaginal epithelial cells in a specific manner with a ligand-receptor type of interaction. However, the specific receptors on the host cell have not yet been identified. In this work, the ability of the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Addis MF,Rappelli P,Fiori PL

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ethanol-insoluble product formed from sucrose by purified enzyme encoded by the gtfA gene from Streptococcus mutans, expressed in recombinant Escherichia coli, was analyzed by 13C and 31P nuclear magnetic resonance. The product was identified as alpha-D-glucose-1-phosphate, and it was concluded that the GTF-A enzy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Russell RR,Mukasa H,Shimamura A,Ferretti JJ

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the mechanisms that lead to the production of proinflammatory mediators by human monocytes when these cells are exposed in vitro to live Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes. We first focused on myeloid differentiation primary response protein 88 (MyD88), an adapter molecule that is essential in the Toll-l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dennis VA,Dixit S,O'Brien SM,Alvarez X,Pahar B,Philipp MT

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After transmission by Anopheles mosquitoes, Plasmodium sporozoites travel to the liver, infect hepatocytes, and rapidly develop as intrahepatocytic liver stages (LS). Rodent models of malaria exhibit large differences in the magnitude of liver infection, both between parasite species and between strains of mice. This ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kaushansky A,Austin LS,Mikolajczak SA,Lo FY,Miller JL,Douglass AN,Arang N,Vaughan AM,Gardner MJ,Kappe SH

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced human periodontitis is considered to be a B-cell lesion, but the cellular infiltrate contains several cell types, the distribution of which has not been determined. This experiment was designed to characterize and identify the immunocompetent cells on histological sections and in eluates from diseased human g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Okada H,Kida T,Yamagami H

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that a mutant (designated C4) of Streptococcus mutans 6715 wild type (WT) is defective in glucosyltransferase (GTF)-synthesized insoluble glucan and is avirulent in gnotobiotic rats. This study investigated the factors which would render this mutant virulent in gnotobiotic rats. Microbial a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hirasawa M,Kiyono H,Shiota T,Hull RA,Curtiss R 3rd,Michalek SM,McGhee JR

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00