In vivo behavior of revertants from Stahylococcus aureus L-phase variants compared with the parent strain.

abstract：:Nonimmune binding of immunoglobulin to whole bacteria was quantitated for North American isolates of Haemophilus somnus recovered from cattle with pneumonia, reproductive failure (abortion), or thromboembolic meningoencephalitis or from the vagina or prepuce of carrier cattle. Quantitative binding activity covered a w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Widders PR,Dorrance LA,Yarnall M,Corbeil LB

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of hamster tracheal rings in organ culture to virulent Mycoplasma pneumoniae organisms leads to alterations in macromolecular biosynthesis and metabolic activity of the respiratory epithelial cells. Avirulent organisms derived from the same parent strain do not produce these effects. During the course of infe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hu PC,Collier AM,Baseman JB

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the development of vaccines capable of providing immunity against brucellosis, Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD) has been demonstrated to be one of the protective immunogens of Brucella abortus. In an earlier study, we provided strong evidence that intramuscular injection with a plasmid DNA carrying the SOD gene (pc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Muñoz-Montesino C,Andrews E,Rivers R,González-Smith A,Moraga-Cid G,Folch H,Céspedes S,Oñate AA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbred BALB/c mice were either immunized with Triton X-100-extracted antigens of blood-stage Plasmodium yoelii or infected with P. yoelii and cured in three successive schedules. Whereas the immunized BALB/c became only partially protected from subsequent challenge infection with blood-stage P. yoelii, the convalescen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kironde FA,Kumar A,Nayak AR,Kraikov JL

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus mirabilis, a common agent of nosocomially acquired and catheter-associated urinary tract infection, is the most frequent cause of infection-induced bladder and kidney stones. Urease-catalyzed urea hydrolysis initiates stone formation in urine and can be inhibited by acetohydroxamic acid and other structural an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nicholson EB,Concaugh EA,Mobley HL

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium can undergo phase variation to alternately express two different types of flagellin subunit proteins, FljB or FliC, no biological function for this phenomenon has been described. In this investigation, we constructed phase-locked derivatives of S. enterica serovar Typhi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ikeda JS,Schmitt CK,Darnell SC,Watson PR,Bispham J,Wallis TS,Weinstein DL,Metcalf ES,Adams P,O'Connor CD,O'Brien AD

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus is the causative organism of river blindness. Our previous studies demonstrated an essential role for endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria in corneal disease, which is characterized by neutrophil infiltration into the corneal stroma and the development of corneal haze. To determin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gillette-Ferguson I,Daehnel K,Hise AG,Sun Y,Carlson E,Diaconu E,McGarry HF,Taylor MJ,Pearlman E

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obligate vacuolar pathogens produce proteins that localize to the host cell-derived membranes of the vacuoles in which they reside, yielding unique organelles that are optimally suited for pathogen survival. Anaplasma phagocytophilum is an obligate vacuolar bacterium that infects neutrophils and causes the emerging an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huang B,Troese MJ,Ye S,Sims JT,Galloway NL,Borjesson DL,Carlyon JA

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) is a significant pathogen for young children, and three Hib vaccines (named PRP-OMPC, HbOC, and PRP-T) are currently available for young children. Extensive studies of anti-Hib polysaccharide (PS) antibodies (Abs) have shown that the V regions of Abs against the Hib PS comprise a VH...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chung GH,Kim KH,Daum RS,Insel RA,Siber GR,Sood S,Gupta RK,Marchant C,Nahm MH

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GNA33 is a membrane-bound lipoprotein with murein hydrolase activity that is present in all Neisseria species and well conserved in different meningococcal isolates. The protein shows 33% identity to a lytic transglycolase (MltA) from Escherichia coli and has been shown to be involved in the degradation of both insolu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Adu-Bobie J,Lupetti P,Brunelli B,Granoff D,Norais N,Ferrari G,Grandi G,Rappuoli R,Pizza M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An anti-glucosyltransferase serum was prepared against a pure enzyme preparation from Streptococcus sanguis OMZ 9, which synthesized both soluble and insoluble dextran. Sera, crude gamma globulins, and antibody fractions obtained after gel filtration on a Bio-Gel P200 column were used to study enzyme-antibody interact...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klein JP,Schöller M,Frank RM

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Salmonella typhimurium gene for Mn-cofactored superoxide dismutase (sodA) was cloned by complementation of an Escherichia coli sodA sodB mutant for growth on minimal medium. Sequence analysis revealed an open reading frame of 618 bp encoding a polypeptide with 97% identity to E. coli SodA. A S. typhimurium sodA mu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tsolis RM,Bäumler AJ,Heffron F

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting an antigen to Fc receptors (FcR) can enhance the immune response to the antigen in the absence of adjuvant. Furthermore, we recently demonstrated that intranasal immunization with an FcγR-targeted antigen enhances protection against a category A intracellular mucosal pathogen, Francisella tularensis. To dete...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bitsaktsis C,Iglesias BV,Li Y,Colino J,Snapper CM,Hollingshead SK,Pham G,Gosselin DR,Gosselin EJ

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility to Coccidioides spp. varies widely in humans and other mammals and also among individuals within a species. Among strains of mice with various susceptibilities, immunohistopathology revealed that C57BL/6 mice were highly susceptible to the disease following intranasal infection, DBA/2n mice were interme...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shubitz LF,Dial SM,Perrill R,Casement R,Galgiani JN

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown previously that Klebsiella pneumoniae receptors for coliphages T3 and T7 also mediate mannose-inhibitable adherence to human epithelial cells and protect bacteria from phagocytosis and intracellular killing by human polymorphonuclear cells. In this paper we analyze the possible role of such mannose-inhib...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pruzzo C,Valisena S,Satta G

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the colonization of murine trigeminal ganglia after sequential infection of mice by herpes simplex viruses (HSVs). In preliminary studies, we have established that whereas the HSV-1(F) strain efficiently colonizes ganglia when inoculated by either the ear or eye routes, the HSV-1 X HSV-2 recombinant C7D c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Meignier B,Norrild B,Roizman B

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fonsecaea pedrosoi is a fungal pathogen that produces melanin. The functions of melanin and its possible influence in the protective immunological response during infection by F. pedrosoi are not known. In this work, treatment of F. pedrosoi mycelia with proteases and glycosidases followed by a denaturing agent and ho...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alviano DS,Franzen AJ,Travassos LR,Holandino C,Rozental S,Ejzemberg R,Alviano CS,Rodrigues ML

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three monoclonal antibodies (MAbs), all of the immunoglobulin G1 subclass, were raised against Cryptococcus neoformans by using the technique of cyclophosphamide ablation of B-cell responses against shared epitopes of the cross-reactive fungus Trichosporon beigelii. MAb 3C2 was reactive against the encapsulated and no...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hamilton AJ,Jeavons L,Hobby P,Hay RJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the ability of gut antigens to induce a protective immune response against blood-feeding nematodes, isolated gut antigens were used to immunize goats against Haemonchus contortus. Immunization-induced antibody responses recognized parasite gut antigens which were associated predominantly with the microvil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jasmer DP,McGuire TC

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to deploy virulence factors at appropriate times and locations, microbes must rapidly sense and respond to various metabolite signals. Previously, we showed a transient elevation of the methionine-derived metabolite methylthioadenosine (MTA) concentration in serum during systemic Salmonella enterica serovar T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bourgeois JS,Zhou D,Thurston TLM,Gilchrist JJ,Ko DC

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the second most common infection in humans, making it a global health priority. Nearly half of all women will experience a symptomatic UTI, with uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) being the major causative agent of the infection. Although there has been extensive research on UPEC vi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sintsova A,Smith S,Subashchandrabose S,Mobley HL

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The urease gene cluster from the virulent Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae serotype 1 strain CM5 was cloned and sequenced. The urease activity was associated with a 6.3-kbp region which contains eight long open reading frames (ORFs). The structural genes, ureABC, are separated from the accessory genes, ureEFGD, by a 61...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bossé JT,MacInnes JI

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis of unopsonized Salmonella typhimurium 395, MR-10, opsonized Salmonella typhimurium 395 MS, and Staphylococcus epidermidis by rabbit polymorphonuclear leukocytes was inhibited by heparin at concentrations as low as 0.5 U/ml. Inhibition was dose dependent and nearly complete at 20 U/ml. Provided that hepari...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Victor M,Weiss J,Elsbach P

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal cell polarity protects epithelial cells against Pseudomonas aeruginosa invasion and cytotoxicity. Using epithelial cell clones with selective defects in sorting of membrane constituents, and using hepatocyte growth factor pretreatment, we found that polarized susceptibility to P. aeruginosa can be altered witho...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fleiszig SM,Vallas V,Jun CH,Mok L,Balkovetz DF,Roth MG,Mostov KE

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine monoclonal antibodies were generated against streptolysin O. One out of 10 tested immunoglobulin clones exhibited strong neutralizing activity; in solution, the presence of approximately two to four antibody molecules per toxin monomer effected 50% neutralization of hemolytic toxin activity. An enzyme-linked im...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hugo F,Reichwein J,Arvand M,Krämer S,Bhakdi S

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attachment of Fusobacterium nucleatum to various oral surfaces is mediated by several adhesins anchored on its outer surface. Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) were prepared and used to identify the putative galactose-binding adhesin of F. nucleatum PK1594. Four unique MAbs, 8G7, 26B9, 28G11, and 29D4, were isolated on the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shaniztki B,Hurwitz D,Smorodinsky N,Ganeshkumar N,Weiss EI

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro, macrophages from normal strain BRVR mice killed Salmonella more quickly than did macrophages from normal strain BSVS mice. Salmonella injected intraperitoneally multiplied more quickly in BSVS mice than in BRVR mice. BRVR macrophages injected intraperitoneally into BSVS mice protected against Salmonella mult...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Maier T,Oels HC

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were inoculated with Legionella pneumophila via an intratracheal route to establish an experimental model of infection. Lung lavage fluid obtained from infected mice contained a cytolytic factor identified as tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Peak levels of TNF were produced at about 24 h postinfection and rapidly dec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Blanchard DK,Djeu JY,Klein TW,Friedman H,Stewart WE 2nd

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We produced anti-idiotype antibodies to antibody to lipid A from Eikenella corrodens. The ALA-1 monoclonal antibody (immunoglobulin M [IgM] isotype), which had already been produced in our laboratory (T. Kato, I. Takazoe, and K. Okuda, Infect. Immun. 57:656-659, 1989), had reacted strongly with lipid A from E. corrode...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kato T,Takazoe I,Okuda K

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00