Bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein prevents mucosal damage in an experimental rat model of chronic otitis media with effusion.

abstract：:Streptococcus suis serotype 2 is a porcine and human pathogen with adhesive and invasive properties. In other streptococci, large surface-associated proteins (>100 kDa) of the MSCRAMM family (microbial surface components recognizing adhesive matrix molecules) are key players in interactions with host tissue. In this s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baums CG,Kaim U,Fulde M,Ramachandran G,Goethe R,Valentin-Weigand P

更新日期：2006-11-01 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

abstract：:Both Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus pneumoniae are widely thought to rapidly die outside the human host, losing infectivity following desiccation in the environment. However, to date, all literature investigating the infectivity of desiccated streptococci has used broth-grown, planktonic populations. In this...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marks LR,Reddinger RM,Hakansson AP

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonacylated form of protein D (PDm) of Haemophilus influenzae has been shown to induce the production of antibodies that are bactericidal to homologous and heterologous nontypeable H. influenzae (NTHi) strains. In this study, immunization of rats with lipoprotein D (LPD) induced higher levels of anti-protein D imm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Akkoyunlu M,Melhus A,Capiau C,van Opstal O,Forsgren A

更新日期：1997-12-01 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：:Previous studies demonstrated that Mycoplasma arthritidis strain 158 acquired a high degree of virulence upon lysogenization with bacteriophage MAV1. In the present study, the association between MAV1 and virulence was reexamined by creating new lysogens of 158 and of a relatively avirulent mutant, strain 158-1. In th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clapper B,Tu AH,Simmons WL,Dybvig K

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type Bordetella bronchiseptica and a bvg mutant strain were used for invasion and survival experiments in human Caco-2 and A549 epithelial cells. Both bacterial strains were able to enter and persist within the host cells for at least a week. A significant proportion of the bacteria from both B. bronchiseptica st...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schipper H,Krohne GF,Gross R

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human genital Chlamydia infection is a major public health concern due to the serious reproductive system complications. Chlamydia binds several receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) on host cells, including the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and activates cellular signaling cascades for host invasion, cytoskelet...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Igietseme JU,Partin J,George Z,Omosun Y,Goldstein J,Joseph K,Ellerson D,Eko FO,Pohl J,Bandea C,Black CM

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Di-, tri-, and tetrasaccharides, synthesized according to the chemical structure of pneumococcal polysaccharide type 3 (PS3), were coupled to the cross-reactive material (CRM(197)) of modified diphtheria toxin in different molar carbohydrate/protein ratios using the squarate coupling method. To study protective immuni...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Benaissa-Trouw B,Lefeber DJ,Kamerling JP,Vliegenthart JF,Kraaijeveld K,Snippe H

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte blastogenesis assays and immunoblotting were used to investigate and compare murine B-cell responses to preparations of extracellular membrane blebs (BAg) and spirochetes (Ag) of Borrelia burgdorferi. Immunoblotting BAg, Ag, and medium control preparations with serum from naive and infected C57BL/10 mice re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whitmire WM,Garon CF

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arg-gingipain (Rgp) and Lys-gingipain (Kgp) are Porphyromonas gingivalis cysteine proteinases implicated as major virulence factors in pathologies of periodontitis. We purified a 660-kDa cell-associated gingipain complex existing as a homodimer of two catalytically active monomers which comprises their catalytic and a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takii R,Kadowaki T,Baba A,Tsukuba T,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ExoU, a phospholipase injected into host cells by the type III secretion system of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, leads to rapid cytolytic cell death. Although the importance of ExoU in infection is well established, the mechanism by which this toxin kills host cells is less clear. To gain insight into how ExoU causes cell d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rabin SD,Veesenmeyer JL,Bieging KT,Hauser AR

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinically isolated strain of polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN)-resistant Pseudomonas was found to produce an extracellular substance (PMN inhibitor) that inhibits the phagocytic and killing activities of PMN. The PMN inhibitor was purified from culture filtrates by precipitation with (NH4)2SO4 and chromatography on...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nonoyama S,Kojo H,Mine Y,Nishida M,Goto S,Kuwahara S

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of the actin filament capping protein CapG has no apparent effect on the phenotype of mice maintained under sterile conditions; however, bone marrow-derived macrophages from CapG(-/-) mice exhibited distinct motility defects. We examined the ability of CapG(-/-) mice to clear two intracellular bacteria, Listeria ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Parikh SS,Litherland SA,Clare-Salzler MJ,Li W,Gulig PA,Southwick FS

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The she gene of Shigella flexneri 2a, which also harbors the internal enterotoxin genes set1A and set1B (F. R. Noriega, GenBank accession no. U35656, 1995) encodes a homolog of the virulence-related immunoglobulin A (IgA) protease-like family of secreted proteins, Tsh, EspC, SepA, and Hap, from an avian pathogenic Esc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rajakumar K,Sasakawa C,Adler B

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined apoptotic cell death associated with Shiga-like toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli. Renal cortices from three children with postenteropathic hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) and from mice infected with E. coli O157:H7 and pediatric renal tubular epithelial cells stimulated with Stx and E. coli O...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karpman D,Håkansson A,Perez MT,Isaksson C,Carlemalm E,Caprioli A,Svanborg C

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidial infections in severe combined immune deficient (SCID) mice produce a chronic disease state which in the later stages leads to extraintestinal involvement and hepatic dysfunction. To further characterize the infection dynamics in this model and monitor the changes in the hepatic system, a dose titration...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mead JR,Ilksoy N,You X,Belenkaya Y,Arrowood MJ,Fallon MT,Schinazi RF

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific pathogen-free guinea pigs were infected via the respiratory route with viable, attenuated Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra and maintained on purified isocaloric diets. The control diet contained 30% protein (ovalbumin) and 50 ppm of added zinc (50 micrograms/g), the low protein diet contained 10% protein and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McMurray DN,Carlomagno MA,Cumberland PA

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial adherence to mucosal surfaces is an important virulence trait of pathogenic bacteria. Adhesion of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) to the intestine is mediated by a number of antigenically distinct colonization factors (CFs). One of the most common CFs is CFA/I. This has a fimbrial structure composed ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jansson L,Tobias J,Lebens M,Svennerholm AM,Teneberg S

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei is a CDC tier 1 select agent that causes melioidosis, a severe disease in humans and animals. Persistent infections are common, and there is currently no vaccine available. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a potential vaccine candidate. B. pseudomallei expresses three serologically distinct LPS ty...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wikraiphat C,Saiprom N,Tandhavanant S,Heiss C,Azadi P,Wongsuvan G,Tuanyok A,Holden MT,Burtnick MN,Brett PJ,Peacock SJ,Chantratita N

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome sequencing of the relapsing fever spirochetes Borrelia hermsii and Borrelia turicatae identified three open reading frames (ORFs) on the chromosomes that contained internal, tandemly repeated amino acid sequences that were absent in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. The predicted amino acid sequ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guyard C,Chester EM,Raffel SJ,Schrumpf ME,Policastro PF,Porcella SF,Leong JM,Schwan TG

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obligate intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii can actively infect any nucleated cell type, including cells from the immune system. The rapid transfer of T. gondii from infected dendritic cells to effector natural killer (NK) cells may contribute to the parasite's sequestration and shielding from immune recogni...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sultana MA,Du A,Carow B,Angbjär CM,Weidner JM,Kanatani S,Fuks JM,Muliaditan T,James J,Mansfield IO,Campbell TM,Liu L,Kadri N,Lambert H,Barragan A,Chambers BJ

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) is defined as the triad of anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute kidney injury. Enterohemorrhagic Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (EHEC), which causes a prodromal hemorrhagic enteritis, remains the most common etiology of the typical or epidemic form of HUS. Because no licens...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mejias MP,Cabrera G,Fernández-Brando RJ,Baschkier A,Ghersi G,Abrey-Recalde MJ,Miliwebsky E,Meiss R,Goldbaum F,Zylberman V,Rivas M,Palermo MS

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During bacterial infection of the bovine mammary gland, large numbers of leukocytes migrate into the udder, resulting in the establishment of a host response against the pathogen. Currently, the specific leukocyte populations mediating this immune response are not well defined. In the studies described here, we analyz...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Soltys J,Quinn MT

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite that is able to penetrate human monocytes by either passive uptake during phagocytosis or active penetration. It is expected that immunoglobulin G (IgG) opsonization will target the parasite to macrophage Fc gamma receptors for phagocytic processing and subsequent degradation....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fadul CE,Channon JY,Kasper LH

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 224 strains were serogrouped by coagglutination (COA) and serotyped by protein I enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Of these strains, 61 were from patients with disseminated gonococcal infection, 21 were from patients with pelvic inflammatory disease, and 115 were from patients with uncomplicated go...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sandstrom EG,Knapp JS,Buchanan TB

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxin preparations were obtained by growing Clostridium difficile VPI strain 10463 in 2-liter brain heart infusion dialysis flasks at 37 degrees C for 3 days. The initial step of the purification scheme involved ultrafiltration through an XM-100 membrane filter. Two toxic activities, designated toxins A and B, were se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sullivan NM,Pellett S,Wilkins TD

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Duffy binding protein (DBP) is a vital ligand for Plasmodium vivax blood-stage merozoite invasion, making the molecule an attractive vaccine candidate against vivax malaria. Similar to other blood-stage vaccine candidates, DBP allelic variation eliciting a strain-specific immunity may be a major challenge for deve...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ntumngia FB,Schloegel J,Barnes SJ,McHenry AM,Singh S,King CL,Adams JH

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group A streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin (SPE) type C, produced by strain T18P grown in the presence of 32P, was separated from culture supernatant fluids by using alcohol precipitation. The resulting toxin (EtOH-1) contained 3 X 10(6) to 5 X 10(6) cpm of 32P per milligram of protein. The radiolabel migrated with SPE ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schlievert PM,Bettin KM,Watson DW

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histoplasma capsulatum induces a cell-mediated immune response in the lungs and lymphoid organs of mammals. In this study, we analyzed the progression of the cytokine and inflammatory reactions in the lungs of mice infected intranasally with H. capsulatum. We measured cytokine mRNA levels and determined the inflammato...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cain JA,Deepe GS Jr

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00