Isolation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae mutants that show enhanced trafficking across polarized T84 epithelial monolayers.

abstract：:Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an emerging cause of diarrheal illness. Clinical data suggest that diarrhea caused by EAEC is predominantly secretory in nature, but the responsible enterotoxin has not been described. Work from our laboratories has implicated a ca. 108-kDa protein as a heat-labile enteroto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eslava C,Navarro-García F,Czeczulin JR,Henderson IR,Cravioto A,Nataro JP

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In C3H gnotobiotic mice, no significant difference was observed between the translocation of nine clinical isolates of enteropathogenic Campylobacter spp. and that of seven nonisogeneic Escherichia coli strains with or without various determinants of pathogenicity. In addition, there was no correlation found between t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Youssef M,Corthier G,Goossens H,Tancrede C,Henry-Amar M,Andremont A

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most strains of Shigella flexneri 2a and enteroaggregative Escherichia coli carry a highly conserved chromosomal locus which encodes a 109-kDa secreted mucinase (called Pic) and, on the opposite strand in overlapping fashion, an oligomeric enterotoxin called ShET1, encoded by the setA and setB genes. Here, we characte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Behrens M,Sheikh J,Nataro JP

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III secretion system (TTSS) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is induced in vivo upon contact with eukaryotic cells and in vitro by calcium depletion in culture medium. We have observed a previously identified protein, PsrA, necessary for full activation of TTSS gene expression in P. aeruginosa. Electrophoretic mobil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shen DK,Filopon D,Kuhn L,Polack B,Toussaint B

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HT29MTXE12 (E12) cell line harbors an adherent mucus layer, providing a novel technique to model mucosal infection in vitro. In this study, we have characterized the interaction of Campylobacter jejuni with the E12 cell line and exploited its unique mucus layer to examine the potential efficacy of probiotic treatm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alemka A,Clyne M,Shanahan F,Tompkins T,Corcionivoschi N,Bourke B

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have mapped a group of virulence genes of Porphyromonas gingivalis to a single large fragment of the genome. These genes (rgpA, kgp, and hagA) all contain a consensus repeat sequence (HArep). rgpA and kgp encode cysteine proteases with Arg-X and Lys-X specificity, respectively, and hagA encodes a hemagglutinin. Gen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lewis JP,Macrina FL

更新日期：1999-05-01 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：:Insertional inactivation of the Streptococcus mutans spaP gene was used to construct an isogenic mutant (834) of strain NG8 (serotype c) which lacked the major cell surface-associated protein referred to as P1 (15). Results of several studies suggest that P1 is involved in the adherence of S. mutans to saliva-coated a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bowen WH,Schilling K,Giertsen E,Pearson S,Lee SF,Bleiweis A,Beeman D

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mice infected with virulent blood (trypomastigote) forms of Trypanosoma cruzi, complement depletion with cobra venom factor caused a marked exacerbation of the disease evidenced by significantly increased parasitemia levels and early mortality as compared with those of untreated infected animals. The effect was gre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Budzko DB,Pizzimenti MC,Kierszenbaum F

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Archival gastric tissues from 10 of 39 gnotobiotic piglets colonized with Helicobacter pylori 26695 contained stromal leukocytic inflammation along with ulcers and erosions. In contrast, gastric tissues from 54 archival control piglets were devoid of both inflammation and ulcers. These data confirm the hypothesis that...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krakowka S,Eaton KA,Rings DM

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with sickle cell anemia are subject to serious infections caused by a number of bacteria, including Salmonella species and Staphylococcus aureus. It has been suggested that in sickle cell anemia, extensive erythrophagocytosis by macrophages may interfere with their antibacterial function and thereby predis...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hand WL,King-Thompson NL

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serotype-specific polysaccharide of Streptococcus mutans AHT (serotype a) was shown to be loosely associated with the cell surface of this organism. The antigen was extracted from whole cells by boiling in sodium acetate buffer, pH 4.0, for 10 min. The purified product was found to be a diheteroglycan of galactose...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Craig RA,Riege DH,Bleiweis AS

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a frequent colonizer of the upper respiratory tract and a leading cause of bacterial pneumonia. The innate immune system senses pneumococcal cell wall components, toxin, and nucleic acids, which leads to production of inflammatory mediators to initiate and control antibacterial defense. Her...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ruiz-Moreno JS,Hamann L,Jin L,Sander LE,Puzianowska-Kuznicka M,Cambier J,Witzenrath M,Schumann RR,Suttorp N,Opitz B

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis continues to ravage humanity, killing 2 million people yearly. Most cases occur in areas of the world to which the disease is endemic, where almost everyone is vaccinated early in life with Mycobacterium bovis BCG, the currently available vaccine against tuberculosis. Thus, while more-potent vaccines are ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Horwitz MA,Harth G,Dillon BJ,Maslesa-Galic S

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A battery of lymphoid and nonlymphoid cells was examined for susceptibility to lysis by natural killer cells of chickens. Several susceptible targets were recognized, and most susceptible among these were cells of line LSCC-RP9, derived from a lymphoid tumor induced by Rous-associated virus 2. The natural killer react...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sharma JM,Okazaki W

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent infection with Borrelia burgdorferi in the presence of a vigorous host immune response has been demonstrated in humans and in animal models of Lyme disease. Long-term persistence of B. burgdorferi was documented recently in our studies of BALB/c and C3H mice infected with cloned and uncloned strains of B. b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Persing DH,Mathiesen D,Podzorski D,Barthold SW

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, the gram-negative agent of Legionnaires' disease, possesses type IV pili and a type II protein secretion (Lsp) system, both of which are dependent upon the PilD prepilin peptidase. By analyzing multiple pilD mutants and various types of Lsp mutants as well as performing trans-complementation of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rossier O,Starkenburg SR,Cianciotto NP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were performed to determine the optimal sites for primary isolation of Mycoplasma pulmonis from the respiratory system of laboratory rats. In a preliminary study, a group of 42 rats was cultured for respiratory M. pulmonis at several sites. Tracheal washes yielded the highest number of positive cultures (61.9%...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lentsch RH,Wagner JE,Owens DR

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Babesiosis has long been recognized as an economically important disease of cattle, but only in the last 30 years has Babesia been recognized as an important pathogen in humans. Invasion of erythrocytes is an integral part of the Babesia life cycle. However, very little information is available on the molecules involv...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lobo CA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After lysing the phagocytic vacuole, Shigella spp. accumulate filaments of polymerized actin on their surface at one pole, leading to the formation of actin tails that enable them to move through the cytoplasm. We have recently demonstrated that the Shigella protein IcsA is located at the pole that is adjacent to the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goldberg MB,Theriot JA,Sansonetti PJ

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of a standard bacterial vaccine (SBV) affords some protection against influenza infection in mice if given 4 to 5 h before inoculation of the virus. This effect was enhanced by repeated injections of SBV 7 and 14 days earlier, as measured by the length of survival, mortality rate, development of gross p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Degré M,Dahl H

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody to Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin was detected in human sera by using a cytotoxicity-neutralization assay. Serum antitoxin was present in high titer in all 14 patients who recovered from serious pseudomonas infections (log2 of 50% neutralization titer, mean +/- standard deviation = 6.0 +/- 1.2). In contrast,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pollack M,Callahan LT 3rd,Taylor NS

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishment and maintenance of chronic lung infections with mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) require that the bacteria avoid host defenses. Elaboration of the extracellular, O-acetylated mucoid exopolysaccharide, or alginate, is a major microbial factor in resistance to immune effe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pier GB,Coleman F,Grout M,Franklin M,Ohman DE

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：:Immunochemical analyses of soluble antigens derived from microaerophilous stationary phase cultures of Babesia bovis demonstrated that at least three parasite antigens were released in vitro. These antigens have molecular weights within the range of 37,000 to 40,000, fast electrophoretic mobility in the albumin and al...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： James MA,Levy MG,Ristic M

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis evolved from Y. pseudotuberculosis to become the causative agent of bubonic and pneumonic plague. We identified a homolog of the Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium lipoprotein (lpp) gene in Yersinia species and prepared lpp gene deletion mutants of Y. pseudotuberculosis YPIII, Y. pestis KIM/D27 (p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sha J,Agar SL,Baze WB,Olano JP,Fadl AA,Erova TE,Wang S,Foltz SM,Suarez G,Motin VL,Chauhan S,Klimpel GR,Peterson JW,Chopra AK

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonization of the large bowel of healthy infants by Clostridium difficile was studied. Feces were collected from five breast-fed aand five formula-fed infants throughout the first year of life, and levels of C. difficile were quantitated. Three breast-fed and five formula-fed infants were colonized for periods of be...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stark PL,Lee A,Parsonage BD

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the causative agent of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) gonorrhea, is a growing public health threat for which a vaccine is urgently needed. We characterized the functional role of the gonococcal MetQ protein, which is the methionine binding component of an ABC transporter system, and as...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Semchenko EA,Day CJ,Seib KL

更新日期：2017-01-26 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

abstract：:Human gamma delta T cells are known to respond at high frequencies to pathogenic mycobacteria. Here we show that opportunistic strains of mycobacteria share with pathogenic mycobacteria the ability to trigger at high frequencies human V gamma 9V delta 2 T-cell-receptor-positive T lymphocytes. Stimulating ligands were ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Häcker G,Kromer S,Heeg K,Ivanyi J,Wagner H,Pfeffer K

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00