Priming of a beta-galactosidase (beta-GAL)-specific type 1 response in BALB/c mice infected with beta-GAL-transfected Leishmania major.

abstract：:Chlamydial inclusions were demonstrated by indirect immunofluorescence (IF) with antiserum to the chlamydial group antigen when McCoy cell monolayers infected with either Chlamydia trachomatis or Chlamydia psittaci were fixed in formaldehyde or paraformaldehyde, provided the monolayer was not allowed to dry. If these ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Richmond SJ,Stirling P

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A zone of extracellular digestion of the mucin layer around Candida albicans blastoconidia was observed by transmission electron microscopy in the jejunum of mice inoculated intragastrically (G. T. Cole, K. R. Seshan, L. M. Pope, and R. J. Yancey, J. Med. Vet. Mycol. 26:173-185, 1988). This observation prompted the hy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Colina AR,Aumont F,Deslauriers N,Belhumeur P,de Repentigny L

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization with ribosomal preparations from Haemophilus influenzae type b elicited protective immunity in mice. Ribosomes from disrupted cells where isolated by differential centrifugation using sodium dodecyl sulfate. The washed ribosomes contained 25% protein and 75% ribonucleic acid and sedimented as a single pea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lynn M,Tewari RP,Solotorovsky M

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine sera for tissue culture use were shown to contain heterophil antigen of the Paul-Bunnell-Davidsohn type by immune adherence hemagglutination tests with sera from patients with infectious mononucleosis. The antibody titers observed were comparable to those determined by two other methods; i.e., the immune adhere...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lennette ET,Henle G,Henle W,Horwitz CA

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic lipid A analogs which have two amide-bound and two ester-bound (R)-3-hydroxytetradecanoyl groups at the C-2 and -2' and C-3 and -3' positions of beta(1-6)glucosamine disaccharide mono- or diphosphates showed high activities in most in vitro assays, and the lethality of a diphosphate derivative to galactosami...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kotani S,Takada H,Tsujimoto M,Ogawa T,Harada K,Mori Y,Kawasaki A,Tanaka A,Nagao S,Tanaka S

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nasal vaccine, consisting of outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) from group B Neisseria meningitidis, was given to 12 volunteers in the form of nose drops or nasal spray four times at weekly intervals, with a fifth dose 5 months later. Each nasal dose consisted of 250 microg of protein, equivalent to 10 times the intramu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Haneberg B,Dalseg R,Wedege E,Høiby EA,Haugen IL,Oftung F,Andersen SR,Naess LM,Aase A,Michaelsen TE,Holst J

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnant mice, guinea pigs, rats, and rabbits responded to injections of Moraxella bovis strain EPP-63(300) with abortion, death, embryo resorption, and production of small litters. The nature of response appeared to depend primarily on the number of viable cells injected and to some extent on the species of animal an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Norman JO,Elissalde MH

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have discovered two distinctly different fimbriae expressed by the same Porphyromonas gingivalis strain. The construction of a fimA mutant of P. gingivalis ATCC 33277 has previously been reported by N. Hamada et al. (Infect. Immun. 62:1696-1704, 1994). Expression of fimbriae on the surface of the fimA mutant and th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hamada N,Sojar HT,Cho MI,Genco RJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel in vivo expression technology (IVET) was performed to identify Klebsiella pneumoniae CG43 genes that are specifically expressed during infection of BALB/c mice. The IVET employed a UDP glucose pyrophosphorylase (galU)-deficient mutant of K. pneumoniae which is incapable of utilizing galactose and synthesizing ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lai YC,Peng HL,Chang HY

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plaque assay system for pathogenic rickettsiae, which utilizes primary chick embryo tissue cultures, is described. It proved to be a highly reproducible measure of infectiousness for Rickettsia rickettsi and R. typhi, which were employed in most studies; as well as for R. canada, R. prowazeki, R. sibirica, R. akari,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wike DA,Tallent G,Peacock MG,Ormsbee RA

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is the leading cause of infectious gastroenteritis in industrialized nations. Its ability to enter and survive within nonphagocytic cells is thought to be very important for pathogenesis. However, little is known about the C. jejuni determinants that mediate these processes. Through an extensive t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Novik V,Hofreuter D,Galán JE

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At pH 7.4 and in the presence of NaHCO3, human milk and bovine colostrum inhibited the growth of Escherichia coli O111. Adding sufficient iron to saturate the iron-binding capacity of the lactoferrin present in the milk or colostrum prevented bacteriostasis. At pH 6.8 neither molk nor colostrum inhibited E. coli 0111....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Griffiths E,Humphreys J

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of vaccines for prevention of diseases caused by pathogenic species can encounter major obstacles if high sequence diversity is observed between individual strains. Therefore, development might be restricted either to conserved antigens, which are often rare, or to multivalent vaccines, which renders t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nayak A,Schüler W,Seidel S,Gomez I,Meinke A,Comstedt P,Lundberg U

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monocytes displayed increased expression of CD40 following infection with virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nevertheless, soluble CD40 ligand (CD40L; also designated CD154) had no effect on the intracellular growth of the organism. Restriction of the intracellular growth of M. tuberculosis by peripheral blood...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Larkin R,Benjamin CD,Hsu YM,Li Q,Zukowski L,Silver RF

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxiella burnetii is the causative agent of Q fever, a zoonotic disease that threatens both human and animal health. Due to the paucity of experimental animal models, little is known about how host factors interface with bacterial components and affect pathogenesis. Here, we used Drosophila melanogaster, in conjunctio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bastos RG,Howard ZP,Hiroyasu A,Goodman AG

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular growth of Legionella pneumophila occurs in a replication vacuole constructed by host proteins that regulate vesicular traffic from the host endoplasmic reticulum (ER). This process is promoted by a combination of approximately 300 Icm/Dot translocated substrates (IDTS). One of these proteins, Ceg9, was p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Haenssler E,Ramabhadran V,Murphy CS,Heidtman MI,Isberg RR

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly recognized Fic family virulence proteins may be important in many bacterial pathogens. To relate cellular mechanisms to pathogenesis and immune protection, we studied the cytotoxicity of the Histophilus somni immunoglobulin-binding protein A (IbpA) direct repeat 2 Fic domain (DR2/Fic) for natural host target cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zekarias B,Mattoo S,Worby C,Lehmann J,Rosenbusch RF,Corbeil LB

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum opacity factor (SOF) of Streptococcus pyogenes is a serotyping tool and pathogenesis factor. Using SOF-coated latex beads in cell adherence assays and antiserum directed against SOF in S. pyogenes-HEp-2 cell adherence inhibition experiments, we demonstrate SOF involvement in the fibronectin-mediated adherenc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Oehmcke S,Podbielski A,Kreikemeyer B

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We purified three proline-rich antimicrobial peptides from elastase-treated extracts of sheep and goat leukocytes and subjected two of them, OaBac5alpha and ChBac5, to detailed analysis. OaBac5alpha and ChBac5 were homologous to each other and to bovine Bac5. Both exhibited potent, broad-spectrum antimicrobial activit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shamova O,Brogden KA,Zhao C,Nguyen T,Kokryakov VN,Lehrer RI

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In attempts to reactivate latent herpes simplex virus, we instilled Diplococcus pneumoniae intratracheally into mice harboring latent infections in sacrosciatic spinal ganglia. All mice developed a severe pneumonia within 24 h and were given penicillin therapy. Representative mice that survived the penumonia were sacr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stevens JG,Cook ML,Jordan MC

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a PCR-based strategy and degenerate oligonucleotides, we isolated a Legionella pneumophila gene that showed high sequence similarity to members of the fliI gene family. An insertion mutation that disrupted the fliI open reading frame was recombined onto the L. pneumophila chromosome and analyzed for its effects ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Merriam JJ,Mathur R,Maxfield-Boumil R,Isberg RR

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated full-length cDNAs encoding two distinct types of CuZn superoxide dismutases (SODs) from the filarial nematode parasite Brugia pahangi. The derived amino acid sequences suggested that one class of cDNAs represented a cytoplasmic form of SOD and the second class represented an extracellular (EC) variant...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tang L,Ou X,Henkle-Dührsen K,Selkirk ME

更新日期：1994-03-01 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：:AMA-1 of Plasmodium falciparum is a promising candidate antigen in malaria vaccine development. In this study, we have mapped the immunodominant T-cell determinants in this antigen by using synthetic peptides. From the amphipathic scores, 17 putative T-cell determinants were identified. Nine of the 17 peptides complem...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lal AA,Hughes MA,Oliveira DA,Nelson C,Bloland PB,Oloo AJ,Hawley WE,Hightower AW,Nahlen BL,Udhayakumar V

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite that resides in the cytoplasm of its host in a unique membrane-bound vacuole known as the parasitophorous vacuole (PV). The membrane surrounding the parasite is remodeled by the dense granules, secretory organelles that release an array of proteins into the vacuo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rome ME,Beck JR,Turetzky JM,Webster P,Bradley PJ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans is a facultative intracellular opportunistic pathogen and the leading cause of fungal meningitis in humans. In the absence of a protective cellular immune response, the inhalation of C. neoformans cells or spores results in pulmonary infection. C. neoformans cells produce a polysaccharide capsu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Geunes-Boyer S,Oliver TN,Janbon G,Lodge JK,Heitman J,Perfect JR,Wright JR

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that splenocytes from mice acutely infected with Trypanosoma cruzi exhibit high levels of nitric oxide (NO)-mediated apoptosis. In the present study, we used the gamma interferon (IFN-gamma)-knockout (IFN-gamma(-/-)) mice to investigate the role of IFN-gamma in modulating apoptosis induction a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Martins GA,Vieira LQ,Cunha FQ,Silva JS

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin (CPE), a single polypeptide of 319 amino acids, has a unique multistep mechanism of action. In the first step, CPE binds to claudin proteins and/or a 50-kDa eukaryotic membrane protein receptor, forming a small ( approximately 90-kDa) complex. This small complex apparently then asso...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kokai-Kun JF,Benton K,Wieckowski EU,McClane BA

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a genetic disorder of NADPH oxidase in which phagocytes are defective in generating reactive oxidants. CGD patients suffer from recurrent infections and exuberant and persistent tissue granuloma formation. We hypothesized that abnormal granulomata in CGD may result from aberrant ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Segal BH,Doherty TM,Wynn TA,Cheever AW,Sher A,Holland SM

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00