Enterotoxin plasmid from Clostridium perfringens is conjugative.

abstract：:Vaccination against Brucella infections in animals is usually performed by administration of live attenuated smooth B. abortus strain S19 and B. melitensis strain Rev1. They are proven effective vaccines against B. abortus in cattle and against B. melitensis and B. ovis in sheep and goats, respectively. However, both ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Adone R,Ciuchini F,Marianelli C,Tarantino M,Pistoia C,Marcon G,Petrucci P,Francia M,Riccardi G,Pasquali P

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The humoral and cell-mediated immune responses of murine lymphocytes exposed to lead in vivo and in vitro were investigated. In vivo Pb was administered via the drinking water (0 to 10 mM) for 1 to 10 weeks. In vivo exposure of the mice to Pb did not alter significantly their plaque-forming cell response to sheep eryt...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lawrence DA

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human colostrum, parotid saliva, and serum were assayed for the presence of naturally occurring antibodies to five serotypes of Streptococcus mutans. Appreciable levels of agglutinins to strains AHT, BHT, 10449, 6715, and LM-7 (groups a leads to e, respectively) were detected in normal colostrum and saliva, whereas re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Arnold RR,Mestecky J,McGhee JR

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria is an asymmetric lipid bilayer that consists of inner leaflet phospholipids and outer leaflet lipopolysaccharides (LPS). The asymmetric character and unique biochemistry of LPS molecules contribute to the OM's ability to function as a molecular permeability barrier tha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giordano NP,Cian MB,Dalebroux ZD

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that preexisting specific serum antibody could suppress a defined mucosal immune response to a topically applied antigen was studied in rats. Hyperimmune serum antibody induced by parenteral immunization of rats with cholera toxoid markedly suppressed the mucosal immune response to enterically applied ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pierce NF

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, cytokine patterns produced by CD4(+) T cells isolated from antrum or corpus gastral biopsy specimens of 10 patients with Helicobacter pylori-positive gastritis were compared. To this end, expression of intracellular cytokines (interleukin-4 [IL-4] and gamma interferon) and of CD4 was assessed by flow cy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sommer F,Faller G,Konturek P,Kirchner T,Hahn EG,Zeus J,Röllinghoff M,Lohoff M

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus is the leading cause of bacterial seafood-borne gastroenteritis worldwide, yet little is known about how this pathogen colonizes the human intestine. The alternative sigma factor RpoN/sigma-54 is a global regulator that controls flagellar synthesis, as well as a wide range of nonflagellar genes...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whitaker WB,Richards GP,Boyd EF

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysogenic conversion of Shigella flexneri type antigens was studied with the aid of wild-type and thermosensitive mutant phages. With all wild-type phages, the appearance of glycosylated antigen was accompanied by the appearance of polyprenyl phosphate glucose synthetase activity. With some of the mutant phages, the a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Financsek I,Ketyi I,Sasak W,Jankowski W,Janczura E,Chojnacki T

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in gram-negative bacterial repeats-in-toxin (RTX) toxin preparations, as well as the harsh conditions required to remove it, suggests that LPS may complex with RTX toxins. Concentrated culture supernatant (CCS) preparations of the RTX toxin Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin (L...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li J,Clinkenbeard KD

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An "immunogenic" ribonucleic acid (Im-RNA) has been extracted from peritoneal exudate (PE) cells of rats that were immunized with sheep erythrocytes (SRBC). Following multiple phenol extractions and deoxyribonuclease treatment, the material obtained from PE cells was eluted from diethylaminoethyl-cellulose at 0.55 M N...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Archer SJ,Wust CJ

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of antibody in protection against infection with Cryptococcus neoformans is undefined. In this paper we describe the development of opsonic activity in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of rabbits in response to cryptococcal meningitis. The opsonin appeared to be immunoglobulin G (IgG); the activity was heat stab...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hobbs MM,Perfect JR,Granger DL,Durack DT

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eikenella corrodens normally inhabits the human respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts but is frequently the cause of abscesses at various sites. Using the N-terminal portion of the Moraxella nonliquefaciens pilin gene as a hybridization probe, we cloned two tandemly located pilin genes of E. corrodens 31745, ecpC an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tønjum T,Weir S,Bøvre K,Progulske-Fox A,Marrs CF

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Clostridium difficile isolate was found to produce an actin-specific ADP-ribosyltransferase (CDT) homologous to the enzymatic components of Clostridium perfringens iota toxin and Clostridium spiroforme toxin (M. R. Popoff, E. J. Rubin, D. M. Gill, and P. Boquet, Infect. Immun. 56:2299-2306, 1988). The CDT locus from...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Perelle S,Gibert M,Bourlioux P,Corthier G,Popoff MR

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 14 is one of the common types isolated from patients of all ages with infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Its capsular polysaccharide (Pn14) is composed of a neutrally charged tetrasaccharide repeat unit. Pn14 does not elicit protective levels of antibodies in infants and children and is a less than op...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schneerson R,Levi L,Robbins JB,Bryla DM,Schiffman G,Lagergard T

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface coat of Trypanosoma brucei, formed by about 10(7) molecules of the membrane-form variant surface glycoprotein (mfVSG) per cell, is generally considered to constitute a barrier against the access of antibodies directed to invariant surface proteins. The recent characterization of two invariant surface glyco...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ziegelbauer K,Overath P

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depressed Th1 responses are a prominent feature of human tuberculosis, but an enhanced Th2 response has not been detected in peripheral blood T cells stimulated in vitro with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In disease due to Mycobacterium leprae, Th2 cells predominate in tissue lesions of patients with extensive disease b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lin Y,Zhang M,Hofman FM,Gong J,Barnes PF

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Chagas' disease parasite Trypanosoma cruzi commonly infects humans through skin abrasions or mucosa from reduviid bug excreta. Yet most studies on animal models start with subcutaneous or intraperitoneal injections, a distant approximation of the skin abrasion route. We show here that atraumatic placement of T. cr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Caradonna K,Pereiraperrin M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Once in the cytoplasm of mammalian cells, Shigella flexneri expresses a motile phenotype caused by polar directional assembly of actin. This process depends on accumulation of IcsA (VirG), a 120-kDa protein with ATPase activity, at the pole of the bacterium opposite to that at which ongoing septation occurs. IcsA is a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： d'Hauteville H,Dufourcq Lagelouse R,Nato F,Sansonetti PJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative organisms incorporate hydroxy fatty acids into the lipid A moiety of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and in the case of some members of the family Enterobacteriaceae, hydroxy fatty acids are incorporated exclusively into lipid A. However, a limited number of Bacteroides species have been shown to incorporate s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nichols FC

更新日期：1994-09-01 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：:Since 1984, it has been known that spotted fever group rickettsiosis exists in Japan. We isolated three strains of the causative rickettsiae, designated Katayama, Misaka, and Abe, from patients with the disease and studied the characteristics of the isolates. Nude mice and cyclophosphamide-treated mice died after infe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Okada T,Tange Y,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquitoes are infected with Plasmodium falciparum by taking a blood meal from a gametocyte carrier. Since a mosquito takes a volume of 1 to 2 microl, a blood meal may contain 1 x 10(4) to 3 x 10(4) leukocytes (WBC). The majority of WBC are composed of neutrophils which may phagocytose and kill developing gametes insi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lensen AH,Bolmer-Van de Vegte M,van Gemert GJ,Eling WM,Sauerwein RW

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemin induced germination of Candida albicans blastoconidia when cells grown up to the early exponential phase were shifted from 28 to 37 degrees C (70 to 75% of cells exhibited germ tubes). N-Acetyl-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc), another inducer of myceliation in this fungus, caused a similar effect. The combination of hemi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Casanova M,Cervera AM,Gozalbo D,Martínez JP

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the immunobiological responses to Histoplasma capsulatum in lungs of gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) knockout mice (GKO mice). Naive GKO mice succumbed by day 9 to intranasal challenge with 2.5 x 10(6) yeasts, whereas all wild-type (WT) mice survived for 45 days. Compared to lungs of WT mice, the lungs of acu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Allendoerfer R,Deepe GS Jr

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial recognition of host sialic acid-containing receptors plays an important role in microbial colonization of the human oral cavity. The sialic acid-binding adhesin of Streptococcus gordonii DL1 was previously associated with the hsa gene encoding a 203-kDa protein. The predicted protein sequence consists of an ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takahashi Y,Yajima A,Cisar JO,Konishi K

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitinases of pathogens have been proposed as potential targets of vaccines or specific inhibitors. We studied the genomic organization, transcript levels, developmental expression, and biological function of chitinases in the rodent filarial nematode Acanthocheilonema viteae, a model organism for human-pathogenic fil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tachu B,Pillai S,Lucius R,Pogonka T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rinderpest virus infection was shown to induce marked suppression of both humoral antibody response and cell-mediated immunity in rabbits. The virus exhibited a suppressive effect on primary antibody response as indicated by a decrease in numbers of plaque-forming cells (immunoglobulin [Ig]M) and hemagglutinating anti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yamanouchi K,Fukuda A,Kobune F,Yoshikawa Y,Chino F

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal administration of 16 mg of cyclophosphamide in inbred chickens resulted in a transient, but profound, deficiency in the in vitro proliferative response of spleen cells. Functional T-cell deficiency was accompanied by a marked morphological degeneration in the thymus and thymus-dependent areas in the spleen. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sharma JM,Lee LF

更新日期：1977-07-01 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

abstract：:Ring-necked pheasant virus, an avian leukosis virus, when injected into 10-day old chick embryos, caused angiosarcomas in the lungs of infected chickens within a short time. Angiosarcomas appeared as localized foci of proliferating cells in the lungs as early as 2 weeks posthatch, and by 6 weeks, the lungs of the infe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carter JK,Proctor SJ,Smith RE

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00