Complete DNA sequence and analysis of the large virulence plasmid of Shigella flexneri.

abstract：:The bacterium Neisseria meningitidis is the causative agent of meningitis and sepsis. A generally effective vaccine against N. meningitidis serogroup B is not yet available, but outer membrane vesicle vaccines are in development. These vaccines contain lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The inclusion of N. meningitidis wild-ty...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fransen F,Boog CJ,van Putten JP,van der Ley P

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a major component of the pattern recognition receptor repertoire that detect invading microorganisms and direct the vertebrate immune system to eliminate infection. In chickens, the differential biology of Salmonella serovars (systemic versus gut-restricted localization) correlates with ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Iqbal M,Philbin VJ,Withanage GS,Wigley P,Beal RK,Goodchild MJ,Barrow P,McConnell I,Maskell DJ,Young J,Bumstead N,Boyd Y,Smith AL

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tox-+ staphylococcal strains, as opposed to Tox-minus strains, produce epidermal exfoliation within 18 h after direct subcutaneous or intraperitoneal injection into newborn mice. The extracellular product responsible for exfoliation is termed exfoliative toxin (ET). When culture supernatant fluid from the plasmid-cure...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Keyhani M,Rogolsky M,Wiley BB,Glasgow LA

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plaque samples were obtained from tooth surfaces exhibiting typical lesions of root surface caries and were immediately cultured by a continuous anaerobic procedure. The bacterial composition of root caries flora was determined on individual samples. Representative isolates from each specimen were characterized by mor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Syed SA,Loesche WJ,Pape HL Jr,grenier E

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant analysis was used to identify Moraxella catarrhalis gene products necessary for biofilm development in a crystal violet-based assay involving 24-well tissue culture plates. The wild-type M. catarrhalis strains that formed the most extensive biofilms in this system proved to be refractory to transposon mutagenes...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pearson MM,Laurence CA,Guinn SE,Hansen EJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) interacts with intestinal epithelial cells, activating host signaling pathways leading to cytoskeletal rearrangements and ultimately diarrhea. In this study, we demonstrate that EPEC interacts with the macrophage-like cell line J774A.1 to inhibit phagocytosis by these cells. An...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goosney DL,Celli J,Kenny B,Finlay BB

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiple antigen peptide (MAP) approach is an effective method to chemically synthesize and deliver multiple T-cell and B-cell epitopes as the constituents of a single immunogen. Here we report on the design, chemical synthesis, and immunogenicity of three Plasmodium falciparum MAP vaccines that incorporated antig...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mahajan B,Berzofsky JA,Boykins RA,Majam V,Zheng H,Chattopadhyay R,de la Vega P,Moch JK,Haynes JD,Belyakov IM,Nakhasi HL,Kumar S

更新日期：2010-11-01 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

abstract：:Despite the widely held belief that gastric acid serves as a barrier to bacterial pathogens, there are almost no experimental data to support this hypothesis. We have developed a mouse model to quantify the effectiveness of gastric acid in mediating resistance to infection with ingested bacteria. Mice that were consti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tennant SM,Hartland EL,Phumoonna T,Lyras D,Rood JI,Robins-Browne RM,van Driel IR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After uptake and retrograde transport pertussis toxin acts by ADP-ribosylating alpha-Gi proteins. We show that uptake via many different receptor proteins followed by retrograde transport and intoxication is not restricted to a particular cell type. The efficiency of cellular intoxication, however, was found to be cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： el Bayâ A,Brückener K,Schmidt MA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gnotobiotic calves were inoculated with an O5:K4:H-, urease-positive strain of Escherichia coli isolated from a 2-day-old calf with diarrhea. The calves developed elevated temperatures and passed loose mucoid feces, with or without blood. The E. coli strain was negative for heat-stable and heat-labile enterotoxins but...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moxley RA,Francis DH

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Archived sera (collected in 1946) from acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and untreated scarlet fever and/or pharyngitis patients were reacted with streptococcal M protein, cardiac myosin, and cardiac tropomyosin. Except for very low levels to tropomyosin, antibodies to other antigens were not elevated in the sera of ARF pat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jones KF,Whitehead SS,Cunningham MW,Fischetti VA

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, the gram-negative agent of Legionnaires' disease, possesses type IV pili and a type II protein secretion (Lsp) system, both of which are dependent upon the PilD prepilin peptidase. By analyzing multiple pilD mutants and various types of Lsp mutants as well as performing trans-complementation of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rossier O,Starkenburg SR,Cianciotto NP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of different ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs) in bacterial pathogenesis have not been studied systematically. In this work we analyzed the importance of the different Pseudomonas aeruginosa RNRs in pathogenesis using the Drosophila melanogaster host-pathogen interaction model. P. aeruginosa codes for three d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sjöberg BM,Torrents E

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two distinct monoclonal antibodies, one to pertussis toxin subunit S2, called 9G8, and another to subunits S2 and S3, called 11E6, were generated from the hybridomas of myeloma SP2/0 and spleen cells of BALB/c mice immunized mainly with the subunit S234 complex. Binding ability of 9G8 and 11E6 to the subunits was conf...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sato H,Sato Y,Ito A,Ohishi I

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) are produced by neutrophils as an innate immune defense mechanism to trap and kill microbial pathogens. NETs are comprised of ejected chromatin that forms a lattice structure enmeshed with numerous antimicrobial proteins. In addition to forming the structural backbone of NETs, ext...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wilton M,Halverson TWR,Charron-Mazenod L,Parkins MD,Lewenza S

更新日期：2018-08-22 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：: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：:Porphyromonas gingivalis is a periodontal pathogen capable of invading primary cultures of normal human gingival epithelial cells (NHGEC). Involvement of P. gingivalis fimbriae in the invasion process was examined. Purified P. gingivalis 33277 fimbriae blocked invasion of this organism into NHGEC in a dose-dependent m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weinberg A,Belton CM,Park Y,Lamont RJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven antigens of Borrelia hermsii, B. parkeri, and B. turicatae with isoelectric points in the range of 4.4 to 5.0 and molecular masses of 40 to 43 kilodaltons played a role in the relapse phenomenon of relapsing fever. Based upon location of the antigens in the outer envelope, the molecular weight, and Western blot ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kehl KS,Farmer SG,Komorowski RA,Knox KK

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell wall lytic enzyme (Kyowa lytic no. 2 enzyme) liberated arthritogenic hydrosoluble peptidoglycans from both arthritogenic and non-arthritogenic bacterial cell walls. From these cell walls, mutanolysin (peptidoglycan-degrading enzyme) also liberated hydrosoluble peptidoglycans which, however, lacked arthritogenicit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kohashi O,Pearson CM,Watanabe Y,Kotani S

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins from human polymorphonuclear leukocyte granules were extracted with 0.2 M acetate, pH 4.0, and fractionated by Sephadex G-100 column chromatography. The fractions demonstrated selective bactericidal action against a deep rough cell wall mutant of Escherichia coli O111:B4 with rough lipopolysacharide and cell ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Modrzakowski MC,Cooney MH,Martin LE,Spitznagel JK

更新日期：1979-03-01 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 human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori modifies host cholesterol via glycosylation and incorporates the glycosylated cholesterol into its membrane; however, the benefits of cholesterol to H. pylori are largely unknown. We speculated that cholesterol in the H. pylori membrane might alter the susceptibility of t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Trainor EA,Horton KE,Savage PB,Testerman TL,McGee DJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella flexneri 2a is an invasive enteric pathogen that may produce diarrhea when ingested by human beings and subhuman primates. We have previously shown that shigella diarrhea correlates with water and electrolyte transport abnormalities in the jejunum and colon. Dysentery alone is associated only with colonic tra...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kinsey MD,Formal SB,Dammin GJ,Giannella RA

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptolysin O (SLO) and streptolysin S (SLS) are potent cytolytic toxins produced by almost all clinical isolates of group A streptococci (GAS). Allele-replacement mutagenesis was used to construct nonpolar (in-frame) deletion mutations in the slo and sagB genes of the serotype M5 GAS strain Manfredo, producing isoge...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fontaine MC,Lee JJ,Kehoe MA

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inner ear dysfunction secondary to chronic otitis media (OM), including high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss or vertigo, is not uncommon. Although chronic middle ear inflammation is believed to cause inner ear dysfunction by entry of OM pathogen components or cytokines from the middle ear into the inner ear, the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moon SK,Woo JI,Lee HY,Park R,Shimada J,Pan H,Gellibolian R,Lim DJ

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active immunization of mice with high doses of heat-killed and autoclaved vaccine of unencapsulated strains of Staphylococcus aureus, which was grown in brain heart infusion media, protected against challenge with the Smith diffuse strain of Staphylococcus aureus. These organisms were capable of absorbing the protecti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yoshida K,Ichiman Y,Otomo T

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult volunteers received a booster dose (4 x 10(8) CFU) of attenuated Vibrio cholerae CVD 103-HgR oral vaccine 15 or 24 months after primary immunization. The immune response was modest, presumably due to rapid clearance of the vaccine strain by a primed immune system. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cryz SJ Jr,Levine MM,Losonsky G,Kaper JB,Althaus B

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Counts of acid-fast bacilli were made on homogenates of whole liver, whole spleen, and two femurs of CBA mice killed at various time intervals after intravenous infection with Mycobacterium lepraemurium. The growth curves so obtained showed that the bacillus multiplied faster in bone marrow than in liver or spleen. No...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brown IN,Krenzien HN

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00