Capsular polysaccharide is a major complement resistance factor in lipopolysaccharide O side chain-deficient Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates.

abstract：:The ability of intracellular pathogens to sense and adapt to the hostile environment of the host is an important factor governing virulence. We have sequenced the operon encoding the major heat shock proteins GroES and GroEL in the gram-positive food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. The operon has a conserved or...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gahan CG,O'Mahony J,Hill C

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improvement of antibody responses to polysaccharides through their linkage to proteins is thought to be mediated by protein-specific T helper (Th) cells. To investigate whether the carrier protein of a conjugate could be substituted by a Th epitope, Streptococcus pneumoniae type 17F polysaccharide (PS) was bromoacetyl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de Velasco EA,Merkus D,Anderton S,Verheul AF,Lizzio EF,Van der Zee R,Van Eden W,Hoffman T,Verhoef J,Snippe H

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of L cells with Chlamydia psittaci inhibited the burst of deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis that occurs when the host cells are released from a double thymidine block. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tribby II,Moulder JW

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The P2 porin protein is the major outer membrane protein of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae and is a potential target of a protective immune response. Nine monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to P2 were developed by immunizing mice with nontypeable H. influenzae whole organisms. Each MAb reacted exclusively with the homol...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Haase EM,Yi K,Morse GD,Murphy TF

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a rabbit model of Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis, we studied the effects of aspirin on the natural progression of this infection. Compared with untreated animals, the aspirin-treated animals showed a 30% (P = 0.11) reduction in the weight of the vegetations and an 84% (P = 0.03) reduction in the bacterial ti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nicolau DP,Freeman CD,Nightingale CH,Quintiliani R,Coe CJ,Maderazo EG,Cooper BW

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group B streptococci (GBS) adhere to surface receptors present on epithelial cells; these receptors include fibronectin and laminin. To identify other possible receptors, plasma membranes from A549 cells, a respiratory tract epithelial cell line, were prepared. These plasma membranes were tested in a protein blot anal...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tamura GS,Nittayajarn A

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile causes pseudomembranous colitis in humans. The enterotoxin (i.e., toxin A) from this organism is believed to be responsible for the initial intestinal pathology associated with this disease. Previous work shows that this toxin binds to carbohydrates that contain Gal alpha 1-3Gal beta 1-4GlcNAc. H...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tucker KD,Wilkins TD

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumolysin is a 471-amino-acid toxin produced by Streptococcus pneumoniae which has both cytolytic and complement activation properties. We have constructed a derivative of the type 2 S. pneumoniae strain D39 in which the portion of the pneumolysin gene encoding amino acids 55 to 437 has been deleted in-frame. The vi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Berry AM,Ogunniyi AD,Miller DC,Paton JC

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently introduced choleragen-induced rat foot edema model has been employed as a bioassay for evaluating the immunogenicity of three purified preparations containing cholera exo-enterotoxin antigen, choleragen, choleragenoid, and Formalin-treated choleragen (formagen). The results indicated that choleragen evoke...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Finkelstein RA,Hollingsworth RC

更新日期：1970-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmid-encoded structural gene cofA necessary for the production of the major pilin subunit of pilus colonization factor antigen III (CFA/III) of human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli was identified, and the nucleotide sequence of the gene was determined. cofA consists of 714 nucleotides encoding a 238-amino-aci...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Taniguchi T,Fujino Y,Yamamoto K,Miwatani T,Honda T

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of phagocytosis-stimulating factor (PSF) derived from polymorphonuclear neutrophils on macrophage functions were studied. PSF enhanced the initial rate of phagocytosis of serum-opsonized zymosan particles by macrophages, whereas it did not affect the phagocytosis of immunoglobulin G-sensitized and inert zy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ishibashi Y,Yamashita T

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the proinflammatory effects of gram-negative bacteria are elicited by the interaction of bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) with Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) expressed on host cells. TLR4 signaling leads to activation of NF-kappa B and transcription of many genes involved in the inflammatory response. In this s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li X,Tupper JC,Bannerman DD,Winn RK,Rhodes CJ,Harlan JM

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenicity of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi for laboratory mice is known to be influenced by at least three factors: (i) route of inoculation, (ii) antigenic strain, and (iii) natural resistance of the host. By using Karp, Gilliam, and Kato strains of R. tsutsugamushi, we examined the effect of these three pathogenicity...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Groves MG,Kelly DJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory mediators orchestrate the host immune and metabolic response to acute bacterial infections and mediate the events leading to septic shock. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) has long been identified as one of the proximal mediators of endotoxin action. Recent studies have implicated peroxisome proliferator-activ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hill MR,Clarke S,Rodgers K,Thornhill B,Peters JM,Gonzalez FJ,Gimble JM

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum antibody responses to toxic shock syndrome (TSS) toxin 1 (TSST-1) and staphylococcal enterotoxins A, B, and C were determined by western blot (immunoblot) analysis of acute- and convalescent-phase paired sera from 18 TSS- and 31 non-TSS-associated Staphylococcus aureus infections. Compared with non-TSS cases, se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whiting JL,Rosten PM,Chow AW

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We wished to find a simple, biologically relevant method to evaluate the virulence of dengue viruses for human beings. Since cells of mononuclear phagocyte lineage may be important sites of dengue infection in primates, we evaluated the permissiveness of these cells to dengue virus as a correlate of virus virulence. T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Halstead SB,Tom MC,Elm JL Jr

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A murine respiratory infection model was used to study the mechanism of protective immunity to Bordetella pertussis. We found that nude mice, which are deficient in T cells, developed a persistent infection and failed to clear the bacteria after aerosol inoculation. In contrast, normal adult nonimmune mice cleared a r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mills KH,Barnard A,Watkins J,Redhead K

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Encapsulated Staphylococcus aureus strains are more virulent than unencapsulated staphylococci, and this phenomenon has been associated with decreased opsonization of encapsulated bacteria by normal human serum. Peptidoglycan, a major cell wall component of S. aureus, has been shown to promote opsonization of this bac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wilkinson BJ,Sisson SP,Kim Y,Peterson PK

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of murine Toll-like receptors 2 and 4 (TLR2 and -4, respectively) to cytokine induction by heat-killed bacteria was analyzed in vitro and in vivo. Gram-negative bacteria induced cytokines primarily via TLR4; the contribution of TLR2 was only minor. Neither TLR4 nor, surprisingly, TLR2 was required in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lembo A,Kalis C,Kirschning CJ,Mitolo V,Jirillo E,Wagner H,Galanos C,Freudenberg MA

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:Three open reading frames (ORFs) were identified by a genome walking strategy in the genomes of serotype M49 group A streptococcal (GAS) strains CS101 and 591. These ORFs were located between the mga core regulon and the dipeptide permease operon. The deduced amino acid (aa) sequences contained signature sequences ind...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Elsner A,Kreikemeyer B,Braun-Kiewnick A,Spellerberg B,Buttaro BA,Podbielski A

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the specific role of transmembrane tumor necrosis factor (tmTNF) in protective and pathological responses against the gastrointestinal helminth Trichinella spiralis, we compared the immune responses of TNF-alpha/lymphotoxin alpha (LTalpha)(-/-) mice expressing noncleavable transgenic tmTNF to those of TNF-alp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ierna MX,Scales HE,Mueller C,Lawrence CE

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the 35-kDa immunogenic Treponema pallidium subsp. pallidum (T. pallidum) membrane protein C, TmpC, was cloned, sequenced, and expressed in Escherichia coli. The deduced amino acid sequence carries on N-terminal signal sequence with a four-amino-acid motif, which is characteristic for bacterial lipopr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schouls LM,van der Heide HG,van Embden JD

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group A streptococci (GAS) are highly prevalent human pathogens whose primary ecological niche is the superficial epithelial layers of the throat and/or skin. Many GAS strains with a strong tendency to cause pharyngitis are distinct from strains that tend to cause impetigo; thus, genetic differences between them may c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rouchon CN,Ly AT,Noto JP,Luo F,Lizano S,Bessen DE

更新日期：2017-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacterial pathogens utilize virulence-associated secretion systems to inject, or translocate, effector proteins into host cells to manipulate cellular processes and promote bacterial replication. However, translocated bacterial products are sensed by nucleotide binding domain and leucine-rich repeat-cont...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zwack EE,Feeley EM,Burton AR,Hu B,Yamamoto M,Kanneganti TD,Bliska JB,Coers J,Brodsky IE

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin-producing Escherchia coli (STEC) comprises a group of attaching and effacing (A/E) enteric pathogens of animals and humans. Natural and experimental infection of calves with STEC may result in acute enteritis or subclinical infection, depending on serotype- and host-specific factors. To quantify intestinal...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stevens MP,Marchès O,Campbell J,Huter V,Frankel G,Phillips AD,Oswald E,Wallis TS

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactoperoxidase catalyzes the oxidation of thiocyanate by hydrogen peroxide into hypothiocyanite, a reaction which can protect bacterial and mammalian cells from killing by hydrogen peroxide. The present study demonstrates, however, that lactoperoxidase in the presence of thiocyanate can actually potentiate the bacter...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carlsson J,Edlund MB,Hänström L

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune response of mice to live, heat-killed, or autoclaved Mycobacterium leprae was investigated. After sensitization with 10(7) organisms in each group, recipient mice were transfused with the sensitized splenocytes 28 days later. A selected number of these mice were infected with 5 X 10(3) M. leprae, and the re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Graham L Jr,Navalkar RG

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the alternative sigma factor sigma(B) in Staphylococcus epidermidis was investigated by the construction, complementation, and characterization of a sigB deletion mutant. Electrophoretic analyses confirmed a profound influence of sigma(B) on the expression of exoproteins and cytoplasmic proteins. Detailed ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kies S,Otto M,Vuong C,Götz F

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moraxella catarrhalis expresses surface receptor proteins that specifically bind host transferrin (Tf) and lactoferrin (Lf) in the first step of the iron acquisition pathway. Acute- and convalescent-phase antisera from a series of patients with M. catarrhalis pulmonary infections were tested against Tf and Lf receptor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yu RH,Bonnah RA,Ainsworth S,Schryvers AB

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00