Plasmodium chabaudi-infected erythrocytes adhere to CD36 and bind to microvascular endothelial cells in an organ-specific way.

abstract：:Peritoneal exudate cells from chickens immunized with two species of coccidia, Eimeria tenella or Eimeria maxima, were examined for their capacity to phagocytose stages of the parasite in vitro. True phagocytosis of the sporozoite stage is difficult to estimate because of its ability to invade cells, but may be evalua...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rose ME

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:K99 prepared by acid precipitation hemagglutinated guinea pig erythrocytes, whereas K99 prepared by chromatography on diethylaminoethyl-Sephadex did not. K99 purified by either procedure hemagglutinated horse erythrocytes. K99 prepared by acid precipitation contained a second antigen not presnet in the K99 prepared by...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Isaacson RE

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been previously reported that although inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) gene knockout (NOS2(-/-)) mice resolve Chlamydia trachomatis genital infection, the production of reactive nitrogen species (RNS) via iNOS protects a significant proportion of mice from hydrosalpinx formation and infertility. We now r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ramsey KH,Sigar IM,Rana SV,Gupta J,Holland SM,Byrne GI

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehrlichia chaffeensis is an obligately intracellular gram-negative bacterium and is the etiologic agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME). Although E. chaffeensis induces the generation of several cytokines and chemokines by leukocytes, E. chaffeensis lacks lipopolysaccharide and peptidoglycan. Bioinfomatic analys...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huang H,Lin M,Wang X,Kikuchi T,Mottaz H,Norbeck A,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intraerythrocytic apicomplexan Babesia microti, the primary causative agent of human babesiosis, is a major public health concern in the United States and elsewhere. Apicomplexans utilize a multiprotein complex that includes a type I membrane protein called apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1) to invade host cells. We...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moitra P,Zheng H,Anantharaman V,Banerjee R,Takeda K,Kozakai Y,Lepore T,Krause PJ,Aravind L,Kumar S

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella spp. and Shigella spp. are responsible for millions of cases of enteric disease each year worldwide. While these pathogens have evolved distinct strategies for interacting with the human intestinal epithelium, they both induce significant proinflammatory responses that result in massive transepithelial migr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mumy KL,Bien JD,Pazos MA,Gronert K,Hurley BP,McCormick BA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid extracts derived from a group A Streptococcus, when preincubated with tumor cells before inoculation, were shown to prevent completely the development of Ehrlich ascites tumor in mice. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kigoshi S

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the ultrastructural distribution and immunological accessibility of proteins II (P.IIs) on the surfaces of whole gonococci, anti-P.II gold probes were developed and used in electron microscopic studies of viable P.II-expressing variants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae FA1090. Anti-P.II probes clearly marked the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Robinson EN Jr,Clemens CM,McGee ZA,Cannon JG

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 133 Listeria monocytogenes isolates were characterized by ribotyping and allelic analysis of the virulence genes hly, actA, and inlA to uncover linkages between independent phylogenetic and specific virulence markers. PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphisms revealed 8 hly, 11 inl4, and 2 actA alleles....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wiedmann M,Bruce JL,Keating C,Johnson AE,McDonough PL,Batt CA

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 51 patients with herpes simplex labialis, 50 had detectable interferon (IFN) in samples of lesion vesicle fluid. The median titer of vesicle fluid IFN was 8,200 U. and the range of values was 400 to 63,600 U. The amount of vesicle fluid IFN was correlated with lesion age (r = 0.32, P = 0.024) and vesicle fluid viru...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Spruance SL,Green JA,Chiu G,Yeh TJ,Wenerstrom G,Overall JC Jr

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of Candida albicans strain WO-1 and related strains switch frequently and reversibly between a white-colony-forming unit (white phase) and a gray-colony-forming unit (opaque phase). Cells in the budding white phase exhibit the usual smooth round phenotype observed in other C. albicans strains, but cells in the b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anderson J,Cundiff L,Schnars B,Gao MX,Mackenzie I,Soll DR

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：:We have investigated the possibility that nitric oxide (NO) synthesis may affect the course of a trypanosome infection via T-cell responses using mice deficient in inducible NO synthase (iNOS). Parasitemia levels increased at the same rate in both iNOS-deficient homozygous and control heterozygous mice, and peak paras...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Millar AE,Sternberg J,McSharry C,Wei XQ,Liew FY,Turner CM

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo behavior of revertants of Staphylococcus aureus L-phase variants were studied in mice. The Giorgio strain of S. aureus was induced into L-phase variants by methicillin. After 13 serial passages in methicillin agar and six passages in antibiotic-free agar, reversion occurred. Six revertants, all phage untyp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Watanakunakorn C,Glotzbecker C

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small-colony variants (SCVs) are slow-growing variants of human bacterial pathogens. They are associated with chronic persistent infections, and their biochemical identification and antimicrobial treatment are impaired by altered metabolic properties. To contribute to the understanding of SCV-mediated infections, we a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Roggenkamp A,Hoffmann H,Hornef MW

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivated Marek's disease virus-infected chicken kidney cells and inactivated MSB-1 lymphoblastoid Marek's disease tumor cells were used to immunize chickens as virus- and tumor-associated antigens, respectively. Immune and nonimmune birds were then challenged by exposure to live virulent Marek's disease virus. Both...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murthy KK,Calnek BW

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternate modalities for the treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are needed due to the rise in numbers of immunosuppressed individuals at risk for serious disease and the increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant isolates. Interleukin-12 (IL-12) has been shown to improve immune responses against M. tuberculosis...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nolt D,Flynn JL

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) producing colonization factor antigen III (CFA/III) and coli surface antigens 4, 5, and 6 (CS4, CS5, and CS6) of CFA/IV were examined ultrastructurally and for ability to adhere to human small intestinal enterocytes and to cultured human intestinal mucosa. Strains of serot...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Knutton S,McConnell MM,Rowe B,McNeish AS

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic resistance to lethal infection with Rickettsia tsutsugamushi was studied in over 30 inbred strains, inbred hybrids, and outbred stocks of mice. Inbred mice infected intraperitoneally with the Gilliam strain of R. tsutsugamushi showed three patterns of response: susceptible (A/HeJ, C3H/HeDub, C3H/HeJ, C3H/HeN, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Groves MG,Osterman JV

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsia rickettsii infection of endothelial cells is manifested in very distinctive changes in cell morphology, consisting of extensive dilatation of the membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum and outer nuclear envelope and blebbing of the plasma membrane, as seen by transmission electron microscopy (D. J. Silverma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eremeeva ME,Silverman DJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The smooth lipopolysaccharide complex of the outer surface of smooth Brucella abortus cells is believed to be the antigenic component involved in serological tests routinely used for the diagnosis of brucellosis. Sera from cattle vaccinated or infected with B. abortus generally contain antibody directed toward the smo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schurig GG,Jones LM,Speth SL,Berman DT

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein I (OprI) is one of the major proteins of the outer membrane of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. OprI is a candidate for a vaccine against P. aeruginosa, because it cross-reacts antigenically in all serotype strains of the International Antigenic Typing Scheme. We recently cloned and expressed the gene coding for Op...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Finke M,Duchêne M,Eckhardt A,Domdey H,von Specht BU

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which bacterial heat-stable enterotoxins (ST I STA) cause diarrhea in humans and animals has been linked to the activation of an intestinal membrane-bound guanylate cyclase. Guanylin, a recently discovered rat intestinal peptide, is homologous in structure to ST I and can activate guanylate cyclase pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carpick BW,Gariépy J

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) are the most toxic proteins for humans. The current clostridial-derived vaccines against BoNT intoxication have limitations including production and accessibility. Conditions were established to express the soluble receptor binding domain (heavy-chain receptor [HCR]) of BoNT s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baldwin MR,Tepp WH,Pier CL,Bradshaw M,Ho M,Wilson BA,Fritz RB,Johnson EA,Barbieri JT

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Merozoite surface proteins of Plasmodium falciparum play a critical role in the invasion of human erythrocytes by the malaria parasite. Here we describe the identification of a novel protein with a molecular mass of 40 kDa that is found on the merozoite surface of P. falciparum. We call this protein merozoite surface ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marshall VM,Silva A,Foley M,Cranmer S,Wang L,McColl DJ,Kemp DJ,Coppel RL

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is one of the most important infectious diseases worldwide. The susceptibility to this disease depends to a great extent on the innate immune response against mycobacteria. Host defense peptides (HDP) are one of the first barriers to counteract infection. Cathelicidin (LL-37) is an HDP that has many immun...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Torres-Juarez F,Cardenas-Vargas A,Montoya-Rosales A,González-Curiel I,Garcia-Hernandez MH,Enciso-Moreno JA,Hancock RE,Rivas-Santiago B

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous passive antibody transfer experiments have indicated that immunity to a 46-kilodalton membrane glycoprotein (M-2) of Leishmania amazonensis may protect against infection with this parasite. In the studies described in this paper, we investigated the ability of the purified M-2 molecule to elicit a protective ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Champsi J,McMahon-Pratt D

更新日期：1988-12-01 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：:We investigated the ability of two overlapping fragments of staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB), which encompass the whole toxin, to induce protection and also examined if passive transfer of chicken anti-SEB antibodies raised against the holotoxin could protect rhesus monkeys against aerosolized SEB. Although both fra...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： LeClaire RD,Hunt RE,Bavari S

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus fibronectin-binding proteins (FnBPs) play a critical role in S. aureus pathogenesis. FnBPs mediate adhesion to fibronectin and invasion of mammalian cells, including epithelial, endothelial, and fibroblastic cells, by fibronectin bridging to the host cell fibronectin receptor integrin (alpha(5))b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grundmeier M,Hussain M,Becker P,Heilmann C,Peters G,Sinha B

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00