Capsular reactions of Cryptococcus neoformans with polyspecific and oligospecific polyclonal anticapsular antibodies.

abstract：:It has been reported that Neisseria gonorrhoeae possesses a very high level of catalase activity, but the regulation of catalase expression has not been investigated extensively. In Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, it has been demonstrated that OxyR is a positive regulator of hydrogen pero...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tseng HJ,McEwan AG,Apicella MA,Jennings MP

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the innate immune response against microbial infections in Drosophila melanogaster involve mutant strains and their reference strains that act as experimental controls. We used five standard D. melanogaster laboratory reference strains (Oregon R, w1118, Canton-S, Cinnabar Brown, and Yellow White [YW]) and i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eleftherianos I,More K,Spivack S,Paulin E,Khojandi A,Shukla S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is a spore-forming bacterium that can reside in animals and humans. C. difficile infection causes a variety of clinical symptoms, ranging from diarrhea to fulminant colitis. Disease is mediated by TcdA and TcdB, two large enterotoxins released by C. difficile during colonization of the gut. In th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leuzzi R,Spencer J,Buckley A,Brettoni C,Martinelli M,Tulli L,Marchi S,Luzzi E,Irvine J,Candlish D,Veggi D,Pansegrau W,Fiaschi L,Savino S,Swennen E,Cakici O,Oviedo-Orta E,Giraldi M,Baudner B,D'Urzo N,Maione D,Sor

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies were raised against a bactericidal protein fraction that was purified from an extract of bovine neutrophil granules and that was previously shown (A. Savoini, R. Marzari, L. Dolzani, D. Serranò, G. Graziosi, R. Gennaro, and D. Romeo, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 26:405-407, 1984) to inhibit bact...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marzari R,Scaggiante B,Skerlavaj B,Bittolo M,Gennaro R,Romeo D

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile causes pseudomembranous colitis through the action of Rho-modifying proteins, toxins A and B. Antibodies directed against C. difficile toxin A prevent or limit C. difficile-induced colitis. We engineered plasmid pETR14, containing the hlyB and hlyD genes of the Escherichia coli hemolysin operon, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ryan ET,Butterton JR,Smith RN,Carroll PA,Crean TI,Calderwood SB

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae causes human infection through ingestion of contaminated food and water, leading to the devastating diarrheal disease cholera. V. cholerae forms matrix-encased aggregates, known as biofilms, in the native aquatic environment. While the formation of V. cholerae biofilms has been well studied, little is ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hay AJ,Zhu J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishment and maintenance of chronic lung infections with mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) require that the bacteria avoid host defenses. Elaboration of the extracellular, O-acetylated mucoid exopolysaccharide, or alginate, is a major microbial factor in resistance to immune effe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pier GB,Coleman F,Grout M,Franklin M,Ohman DE

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding a nitric oxide reductase has been identified in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The norB gene product shares significant identity with the nitric oxide reductases in Ralstonia eutropha and Synechocystis sp. and, like those organisms, the gonococcus lacks a norC homolog. The gonococcal norB gene was found to b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Householder TC,Fozo EM,Cardinale JA,Clark VL

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A murine model system was established to study immune responses to the Pnu-Imune vaccine, which is made up of 23 different pneumococcal capsular polysaccharides. In this animal model, antibody-forming cell responses to 21 of 23 individual polysaccharides in the vaccine were detected. The Pnu-Imune vaccine elicited goo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Garg M,Subbarao B

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus iniae causes systemic infection characterized by meningitis and sepsis. Here, we report a larval zebrafish model of S. iniae infection. Injection of wild-type S. iniae into the otic vesicle induced a lethal infection by 24 h postinfection. In contrast, an S. iniae mutant deficient in polysaccharide capsu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harvie EA,Green JM,Neely MN,Huttenlocher A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Yersinia enterocolitica gsrA gene is a stress protein gene which was originally identified as essential for protecting cells under both extracellular environmental stress and intracellular stress in macrophages due to phagocytosis. The gsrA gene was shown to be a member of the htrA class of genes and to possess a ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yamamoto T,Hanawa T,Ogata S,Kamiya S

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secreted and surface-exposed antigens of intracellular pathogens are thought to provide target structures for detection by the host immune system. The major secreted product of intracellular Leishmania mexicana amastigotes, a proteophosphoglycan (aPPG), is known to contribute to the establishment of the parasitophorou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Aebischer T,Harbecke D,Ilg T

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human serum at low concentrations inhibits the growth of Cryptococcus neoformans in vitro. Fractionation of serum yielded a purified inhibitory protein with a molecular mass of approximately 81.8 kDa, a pI of approximately 6.2, and an amino acid sequence that matched that of human transferrin. The inhibitory activity ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sridhar S,Ahluwalia M,Brummer E,Stevens DA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells infected by Rickettsia rickettsii, the causative agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, display unusual intracellular morphological changes characterized by dilatation of the membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum and outer nuclear envelope. These changes are consistent with those that might be expected to occur...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Silverman DJ,Santucci LA

更新日期：1988-12-01 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：:B-cell-deficient C57B1/6J mice (suppressed from birth with goat anti-mu) and controls (treated from birth with normal goat serum) were infected with Trypanosoma rhodesiense. There was a significant (P less than 0.01) decrease in duration of survival of the mu-suppressed mice compared with that of controls. Whereas bot...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Campbell GH,Esser KM,Weinbaum FI

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular origins of type I and type II interferons released into the circulation of mice with delayed hypersensitivity were investigated. We determined the effect of treatment with various immunosuppressive agents, including cyclophosphamide, cycloheximide, antithymocyte serum, and whole-body X-irradiation, on the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sonnenfeld G,Salvin SB,Youngner JS

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Live attenuated bacteria hold great promise as multivalent mucosal vaccines against a variety of pathogens. A major challenge of this approach has been the successful delivery of sufficient amounts of vaccine antigens to adequately prime the immune system without overattenuating the live vaccine. Here we used a live a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galen JE,Wang JY,Carrasco JA,Lloyd SA,Mellado-Sanchez G,Diaz-McNair J,Franco O,Buskirk AD,Nataro JP,Pasetti MF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under certain circumstances, soluble antigens, particulate antigens, and/or microorganisms have been shown to bind to primate erythrocytes via complement receptor 1 (CR1) in the presence of specific antibodies and complement. This immune adherence reaction, specific for CR1, can lead to neutralization of antigens in t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Powers JH,Buster BL,Reist CJ,Martin E,Bridges M,Sutherland WM,Taylor RP,Scheld WM

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-two clinical isolates of Shiga-like toxin (SLT)-producing Escherichia coli associated with single cases or outbreaks of bloody diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, the hemolytic uremic syndrome, or edema disease of swine were examined for multiple copies of genes belonging to the slt-I or slt-II toxin families. Five ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schmitt CK,McKee ML,O'Brien AD

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is an important human pathogen that causes gastritis and is strongly associated with gastric ulcers, gastric adenocarcinomas, and mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphomas. In response to H. pylori, interleukin-8 (IL-8) is secreted from host cells to attract components of the innate and adaptive ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Torok AM,Bouton AH,Goldberg JB

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant depression in the phagocytic capacity of elicited peritoneal macrophages, pulmonary alveolar macrophages, and elicited peritoneal polymorphonucleated neutrophils was manifested when the cells were incubated in medium containing cadmium chloride. With the exception of the neutrophils, a similar influence ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Loose LD,Silkworth JB,Simpson DW

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute phase of Chagas' disease is accompanied by immunosuppression. To explore the underlying mechanism(s), we used an in vitro culture system in which the capacities of activated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells to express interleukin-2 receptors (IL-2R) and proliferate are markedly inhibited in the prese...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Beltz LA,Kierszenbaum F,Sztein MB

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from patients with cystic fibrosis were typed by the Fisher immunotyping scheme. Only 6 strains were agglutinated by a single typing serum, whereas 15 strains were agglutinated with more than one serum and 5 were not agglutinated by any serum. Neither the polyagglutinable nor ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hancock RE,Mutharia LM,Chan L,Darveau RP,Speert DP,Pier GB

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the specificity of bactericidal antibodies in normal, convalescent, and postvaccination human sera is important in understanding human immunity to meningococcal infections and can aid in the design of an effective group B vaccine. A collection of human sera, including group C and group B convalescent-phase...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schmiel DH,Moran EE,Keiser PB,Brandt BL,Zollinger WD

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:Raising the magnesium level from 0.4 to 1.5 mM in a medium containing only amino acids (2.08%), salts, and vitamins increased enterotoxin B production by Staphylococcus aureus S-6 by about 80%. The level of phosphates in the medium was lowered to one-tenth (to 2.87 mM) the original amount without adversely affecting g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Keller GM,Hanson RS,Bergdoll MS

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The listeriolysin gene from a weakly hemolytic but virulent strain of Listeria monocytogenes serotype 1/2a was cloned in Escherichia coli K-12. Recombinants were identified on the basis of their cross-reactivities to hyperimmune antisera raised against streptolysin O and listeriolysin. Low levels of hemolytic activity...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leimeister-Wächter M,Chakraborty T

更新日期：1989-08-01 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：:Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) is an emerging febrile systemic disease caused by the HGE agent, an obligatory intracellular bacterium of granulocytes. The pathogenicity- and immunity-related mechanisms of HGE are unknown. In this study, several cytokines generated in human peripheral blood leukocytes (PBLs) inc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kim HY,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00