Blockade of costimulation prevents infection-induced immunopathology in interleukin-10-deficient mice.

abstract：:Unmethylated CpG dinucleotide motifs present in bacterial genomes or synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) serve as strong immunostimulatory agents in mice, monkeys and humans. We determined the adjuvant effect of murine CpG ODN 1826 on the immunogenicity and protective efficacy of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae-expres...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kumar S,Jones TR,Oakley MS,Zheng H,Kuppusamy SP,Taye A,Krieg AM,Stowers AW,Kaslow DC,Hoffman SL

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A soluble hemagglutinin/protease produced by Vibrio cholerae, which has previously been shown to hydrolyze fibronectin and ovomucin and to cleave lactoferrin and the A subunit of the heat-labile enterotoxin of Escherichia coli, appears to be a zinc metalloendopeptidase. Both its hemagglutinative and protease functions...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Booth BA,Boesman-Finkelstein M,Finkelstein RA

更新日期：1983-11-01 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：:Oral administration of polymyxin to specific-pathogen-free C3H/Law mice which with previously contaminated with gram-negative bacteria resulted in complete suppression of cecal gram-negative bacteria. Suppression of cecal gram-negative bacteria was accompanied by reduction of the cecal endotoxin concentration from 10 ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goris H,de Boer F,van der Waaij D

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sephadex G-200 filtration was used for fractionating dengue type 2 (DEN-2)-infected suckling mouse brain (SMB) supernatant fluids. The high-molecular-weight fraction, which was eluted in the void volume, showed no increase in type specificity when tested against immune ascitic fluid to the four prototype dengue viruse...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cornesky RA,Hammon WM,Atchison RW,Sather GE

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyme disease (LD), the most prevalent tick-borne illness in North America, is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi The long-term survival of B. burgdorferi spirochetes in the mammalian host is achieved though VlsE-mediated antigenic variation. It is mathematically predicted that a highly variable surface antigen prolongs ba...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogovskyy AS,Gillis DC,Ionov Y,Gerasimov E,Zelikovsky A

更新日期：2016-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In the enteric pathogen Vibrio cholerae, expression of the major virulence factors is controlled by the hierarchical expression of several regulatory proteins comprising the ToxR regulon. In this study, we demonstrate that disruption of the fadD gene encoding a long-chain fatty acyl coenzyme A ligase has marked effect...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ray S,Chatterjee E,Chatterjee A,Paul K,Chowdhury R

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the primary etiologic agent of tuberculosis, is the world's leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, and new vaccines and drugs to combat it are urgently needed. The major extracellular proteins of M. tuberculosis, which are released into its phagosome in macrophages, its host...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harth G,Lee BY,Horwitz MA

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas' disease is a chronic infection caused by Trypanosoma cruzi and represents an important public health burden in Latin America. Frequently the disease evolves undetectable for decades, while in a significant fraction of the affected individuals it culminates in death by heart failure. Here, we describe a novel m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marinho CR,Bucci DZ,Dagli ML,Bastos KR,Grisotto MG,Sardinha LR,Baptista CR,Gonçalves CP,Lima MR,Alvarez JM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hallmarks of pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection are lung granulomas. These organized structures are composed of host immune cells whose purpose is to contain or clear infection, creating a complex hub of immune and bacterial cell activity, as well as limiting pathology in the lungs. Yet, given cellular...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wong EA,Joslyn L,Grant NL,Klein E,Lin PL,Kirschner DE,Flynn JL

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) is a major etiologic agent of nontyphoid salmonellosis in the United States. S. Enteritidis persistently and silently colonizes the intestinal and reproductive tract of laying hens, resulting in contaminated poultry products. The consumption of contaminated poul...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McKelvey JA,Yang M,Jiang Y,Zhang S

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assembly of adherent biofilms is the key mechanism involved in Staphylococcus epidermidis virulence during device-associated infections. Aside from polysaccharide intercellular adhesin (PIA), the accumulation-associated protein Aap and the extracellular matrix binding protein Embp act as intercellular adhesins, mediat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schommer NN,Christner M,Hentschke M,Ruckdeschel K,Aepfelbacher M,Rohde H

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peru-15 is a live attenuated oral vaccine derived from a Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Inaba strain by a series of deletions and modifications, including deletion of the entire CT genetic element. Peru-15 is also a stable, motility-defective strain and is unable to recombine with homologous DNA. We wished to determine whe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cohen MB,Giannella RA,Bean J,Taylor DN,Parker S,Hoeper A,Wowk S,Hawkins J,Kochi SK,Schiff G,Killeen KP

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera enterotoxin and the related heat-labile enterotoxins of Escherichia coli enter their target cells through noncoated vesicles, but how the toxins are processed intracellularly and how they get to their targeted enzyme, adenylate cyclase, remain to be defined. Brefeldin A, an inhibitor of the trans-Golgi network...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Donta ST,Beristain S,Tomicic TK

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring antibodies for Vibrio fetus with whole-cell and O antigen specificities were detected in sera of mature cattle by means of the agglutination and indirect immunofluorescence reactions. O antibodies occurred in each of 21 sera examined, and whole-cell antibodies, in lower concentrations, occurred in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Duncan JR,Wilkie BN,Winter AJ

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacterial cells exposed to a complement source may carry membrane attack complexes containing variable numbers of C9 molecules per C5b-8 site. In order to investigate the assembly of this complex, the ability of C9 molecules to bind to C5b-8 complexes was compared with the binding characteristics of C9 f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： MacKay SL,Dankert JR

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits were immunized with the synthetic peptide EENVEHDA or (EENV)2, corresponding to a tandemly repeated sequence in the C-terminal part of the Plasmodium falciparum antigen Pf155/RESA, or with Escherichia coli-derived fusion proteins containing the corresponding repeats. For all sera, the capacity of the total imm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wåhlin B,Berzins K,Perlmann H,Anders RF,Perlmann P

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current efforts to develop plague vaccines focus on LcrV, a polypeptide that resides at the tip of type III secretion needles. LcrV-specific antibodies block Yersinia pestis type III injection of Yop effectors into host immune cells, thereby enabling phagocytes to kill the invading pathogen. Earlier work reported that...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miller NC,Quenee LE,Elli D,Ciletti NA,Schneewind O

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretion of aspartic proteases (Saps) has long been recognized as a virulence-associated trait of the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans. In this study, we report that different recombinant Saps, including Sap1, Sap2, Sap3, and Sap6, have differing abilities to induce secretion of proinflammatory cytokines by huma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pietrella D,Rachini A,Pandey N,Schild L,Netea M,Bistoni F,Hube B,Vecchiarelli A

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) is the leading cause of urinary tract infections. These bacteria undertake a multistage infection cycle involving invasion of and proliferation within urinary tract epithelial cells, leading to the rupture of the host cell and dispersal of the bacteria, some of which have a highly...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Iosifidis G,Duggin IG

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Brewer thioglycolate medium, a bacterial culture medium which is widely used as a nonspecific in vivo macrophage stimulant, was tested for its effect on mouse resistance to bacterial infection. Mice which did or did not receive thioglycolate medium were challenged with Listeria monocytogenes. Injection of thioglycolat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker LA,Campbell PA

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin (VacA) is a secreted protein that induces vacuolation of epithelial cells. To study VacA structure and function, we immunized mice with purified type s1-m1 VacA from H. pylori strain 60190 and generated a panel of 10 immunoglobulin G1kappa anti-VacA monoclonal antibodies. All ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vinion-Dubiel AD,McClain MS,Cao P,Mernaugh RL,Cover TL

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture filtrate proteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis induce protective immunity in various animal models of tuberculosis. Two molecular mass regions (6 to 10 kDa and 24 to 36 kDa) of short-term culture filtrate are preferentially recognized by Th1 cells in animal models as well as by patients with minimal disease...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosenkrands I,Rasmussen PB,Carnio M,Jacobsen S,Theisen M,Andersen P

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, similar to various facultative intracellular pathogens, has been shown to respond to the hostile conditions inside macrophages of the host organism by inducing stress proteins, such as DnaK. DnaK forms a chaperone machinery with the cochaperones DnaJ and GrpE. To elucidate the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takaya A,Tomoyasu T,Matsui H,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lewis (Le) antigens have been implicated in the pathogenesis of atrophic gastritis and gastric cancer in the setting of Helicobacter pylori infection, and H. pylori-induced anti-Le antibodies have been described that cross-react with the gastric mucosa of both mice and humans. The aim of this study was to examine the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heneghan MA,McCarthy CF,Janulaityte D,Moran AP

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) strains have been associated with sporadic cases and outbreaks of hemorrhagic colitis and with the hemolytic uremic syndrome in humans. Since adherence of enteric pathogens to epithelial surfaces is often a prerequisite for the subsequent delivery of bacterial enterotox...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sherman P,Soni R,Karmali M

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis has been implicated as an etiologic agent of adult periodontitis. We have previously shown that P. gingivalis can degrade the epithelial cell-cell junction complexes, thus suggesting that this bacterium can invade the underlying connective tissues via a paracellular pathway. However, the preci...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Katz J,Yang QB,Zhang P,Potempa J,Travis J,Michalek SM,Balkovetz DF

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral inoculation of 5-day-old gnotobiotic pigs with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strain F98 resulted in severe enteritis and invasive disease. Preinoculation 24 h earlier with an avirulent mutant of Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis (1326/28) completely prevented disease for up to 14 days (when the exper...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Foster N,Lovell MA,Marston KL,Hulme SD,Frost AJ,Bland P,Barrow PA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is an amphipathic macromolecule that is highly aggregated in aqueous preparations. LPS-binding protein (LBP) catalyzes the transfer of single LPS molecules, segregated from an LPS aggregate, to high-density lipoproteins (HDL), which results in the neutralization of LPS. When fluorescein isothi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de Haas CJ,Poppelier MJ,van Kessel KP,van Strijp JA

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic microorganisms were isolated and identified from 9 of 10 malignant tissues aseptically obtained from surgical patients. The organisms isolated are species commonly associated with the flora of the human body. When these cancer-associated organisms were grown in Trypticase soy broth (BBL Microbiology Systems), ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Backus BT,Affronti LF

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00