Escherichia coli strain RDEC-1 AF/R1 endogenous fimbrial glycoconjugate receptor molecules in rabbit small intestine.

abstract：:Legionnaires' disease is clinically manifested as severe pneumonia caused by Legionella pneumophila. However, the dendritic cell (DC)-centered immunological framework of the host defense against L. pneumophila has not been fully delineated. For this study, we focused on a potent chemoattractant for lymphocytes, fracta...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kikuchi T,Andarini S,Xin H,Gomi K,Tokue Y,Saijo Y,Honjo T,Watanabe A,Nukiwa T

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although certain helminth infections preferentially induce type 2 T-cell responses, the immunological mechanisms responsible for type 2 T-cell polarization remain unclear. In the present study, we investigated the effects of excretory-secretory (ES) antigen from the nematode Nippostrongylus brasiliensis on cytokine pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Uchikawa R,Matsuda S,Arizono N

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-reactive humoral immune responses between antigens of different developmental stages of the worm Schistosoma mansoni have previously been demonstrated. In contrast, information on antigenic cross-reactivity at the T-cell level is still very sparse. The present study examined the cross-reactive T-cell responses t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lukacs NW,Boros DL

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In experimental Leishmania donovani infection in BALB/c mice, initial susceptibility gives way to T-cell-dependent acquired resistance and eventual control over visceral infection. Since various cytokines appear to underlie the host response to Leishmania infection, we examined infected liver tissue for gene expressio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miralles GD,Stoeckle MY,McDermott DF,Finkelman FD,Murray HW

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fliA gene of Legionella pneumophila encoding the alternative sigma(28) factor was inactivated by introducing a kanamycin resistance cassette. Electron microscopy and Western blot analysis revealed that the fliA mutant strain is aflagellate and expresses no flagellin. Reporter gene assays indicated that the flaA pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heuner K,Dietrich C,Skriwan C,Steinert M,Hacker J

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:Germination of Bacillus anthracis Sterne and plasmidless Delta-Sterne endospores was dramatically enhanced in RAW264.7 macrophage-like cells, while germination of nonpathogenic Bacillus endospores was not. Elimination of gerS, a germinant receptor locus, caused a complete loss of cell-enhanced germination, implicating...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ireland JA,Hanna PC

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is a primary pathogen of swine and turkeys and sporadic cause of disease in a variety of other hosts, including humans. A genomic library of the highly virulent strain of E. rhusiopathiae E1-6P was constructed in the expression-cloning vector lambda gt11 and screened with serum from a pig ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galán JE,Timoney JF

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcal alpha-toxin was purified from Staphylococcus aureus growth medium using adsorption chromatography on controlled pore glass beads. Elution of alpha-toxin from the unmodified glass surface of the beads with various anions generally followed the chaotropic series. Alpha-toxin, purified by glass bead chroma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cassidy P,Harshman S

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major goal of current vaccine development is the induction of strong immune responses against protective antigens delivered by mucosal routes. One of the most promising approaches in that respect relies on the use of live recombinant vaccine carriers. In this study, Mycobacterium bovis BCG was engineered to produce ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kremer L,Dupré L,Riveau G,Capron A,Locht C

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an important opportunistic pathogen of humans, exploits epithelial damage to establish infection. We have rigorously explored the role of N-glycoproteins and heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) in P. aeruginosa-mediated attachment and subsequent downstream events at the apical (AP) and basola...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bucior I,Mostov K,Engel JN

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization with the B oligomer of pertussis toxin protected neonatal mice from a lethal respiratory challenge with Bordetella pertussis. All mice immunized with 8 micrograms of B oligomer survived aerosol challenge and had peripheral leukocyte counts and weight gains similar to those of mice immunized with pertussis...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shahin RD,Witvliet MH,Manclark CR

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FMS-like tyrosine kinase-3 ligand (Flt3L) is a dendritic cell (DC) growth and differentiation factor with potential in antitumor therapies and antibacterial immunization strategies. However, the effect of systemic Flt3L treatment on lung-protective immunity against bacterial infection is incompletely defined. Here, we...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brumshagen C,Maus R,Bischof A,Ueberberg B,Bohling J,Osterholzer JJ,Ogunniyi AD,Paton JC,Welte T,Maus UA

更新日期：2012-12-01 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 developed an animal model for studying mycobacterial pathogenesis using Mycobacterium marinum and the goldfish, Carassius auratus. Goldfish are injected intraperitoneally with doses between 10(2) and 10(9) CFU of M. marinum organisms. Depending on the dose of M. marinum organisms administered, an acute or chro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Talaat AM,Reimschuessel R,Wasserman SS,Trucksis M

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia species pathogenic to humans have been extensively characterized with respect to type III secretion and its essential role in virulence. This study concerns the twin arginine translocation (Tat) pathway utilized by gram-negative bacteria to secrete folded proteins across the bacterial inner membrane into the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lavander M,Ericsson SK,Bröms JE,Forsberg A

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of a pH 4-treated human immunoglobulin preparation for intravenous use (pH4-G) on the production of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) in vivo. The level of TNF-alpha in the sera of rabbits receiving pH4-G before lipopolysaccharide (LPS) injection was lower than that in rabbits receivin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shimozato T,Iwata M,Tamura N

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron microscopic examination of virulence plasmid-bearing cells of Yersinia enterocolitica revealed the formation of a fibril structure when grown at 37 degrees C but not at 22 degrees C. Plasmidless cells did not exhibit any surface matrix. The formation of this surface component was associated with increased cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lachica RV,Zink DL,Ferris WR

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in cell viability and in factors affecting metabolic integrity were examined after exposure of Escherichia coli LP1092 to human serum. Antibody-dependent classical pathway activity accounted for the rapid killing of strain LP1092 by complement. Removal of serum lysozyme by bentonite absorption or by neutraliza...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Taylor PW,Kroll HP

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colony variants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae differ in their interactions with eucaryotic cells. When gonococci were cultivated with HeLa cell monolayers, the opacity phenotype (Op) became increasingly dominant in the subpopulation of organisms which adhered to the HeLa cells. Once bound, Op organisms displayed very low l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bessen D,Gotschlich EC

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoprecipitation of radiolabeled antigens with bovine antisera indicated that many Babesia bigemina and Babesia bovis merozoite proteins contain isolate-common epitopes, while at least 16 B. bigemina and 8 B. bovis proteins contain species-cross-reactive epitopes. One immunogenic, isolate-common, and species-specif...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McElwain TF,Palmer GH,Goff WL,McGuire TC

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pulmonary infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a feature of cystic fibrosis (CF) and other chronic lung diseases. Cytokines of the interleukin-17 (IL-17) family have been proposed as important in the host response to P. aeruginosa infection through their role in augmenting antibacterial immune responses, a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bayes HK,Ritchie ND,Evans TJ

更新日期：2016-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum-sensing systems, las and rhl, control the production of numerous virulence factors. In this study, we have used the burned-mouse model to examine the contribution of quorum-sensing systems to the pathogenesis of P. aeruginosa infections in burn wounds. Different quorum-sensing mutants...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rumbaugh KP,Griswold JA,Iglewski BH,Hamood AN

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoclaving cell wall of Streptococcus mutans Ingbritt for 15 min under the Rantz and Randall conditions released one-tenth of the total cell wall carbohydrate, whereas two-thirds was extracted after autoclaving for 180 min. The extract contained the serotype c-specific antigen but lacked the lipoteichoic acid compone...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Campbell LK,Knox KW,Wicken AJ

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis pneumonia (PcP) is a life-threatening infection that affects immunocompromised individuals. Nearly half of all PcP cases occur in those prescribed effective chemoprophylaxis, suggesting that additional preventive methods are needed. To this end, we have identified a unique mouse Pneumocystis surface prote...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tesini BL,Wright TW,Malone JE,Haidaris CG,Harber M,Sant AJ,Nayak JL,Gigliotti F

更新日期：2017-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of dissociation techniques, involving gel filtration in the presence of guanidine, to a semipurified preparation of Campylobacter jejuni heat-labile enterotoxin yielded a material whose functional and immunological properties resemble those of the B subunits of cholera toxin and Escherichia coli heat-l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klipstein FA,Engert RF

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clone expressing a 58-kDa protein reactive with human convalescent-phase serum was isolated from a recombinant library of Ehrlichia chaffeensis, the etiologic agent of human ehrlichiosis. Sequencing identified two open reading frames, one encoding a 10.3-kDa polypeptide consisting of 94 amino acids and another encod...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sumner JW,Sims KG,Jones DC,Anderson BE

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines (CK) are potent leukocyte activators and chemoattractants and aid in granuloma formation, functions critical for the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We hypothesized that infection of alveolar macrophages (AM) with different strains of M. tuberculosis elicits distinct profiles of CK, which cou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Saukkonen JJ,Bazydlo B,Thomas M,Strieter RM,Keane J,Kornfeld H

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymes responsible for reducing H2O2 were surveyed in 49 strains of Leptospira by using semiquantitative assays for catalase and peroxidase. The survey revealed a differential distribution of catalase and peroxidase activities between the two leptospiral complexes. The pathogenic Leptospira interrogans strains ga...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Corin RE,Boggs E,Cox CD

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) after infection by Shigella dysenteriae 1 or enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli has been associated with the production of Shiga toxins (verotoxins). The putative target of Shiga toxins in HUS is the renal microvascular endothelium. This report shows that preincubation of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kaye SA,Louise CB,Boyd B,Lingwood CA,Obrig TG

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00