Requirement for capsule in colonization by Streptococcus pneumoniae.

abstract：:The adenylate cyclase-hemolysin of Bordetella pertussis consists of a cell-invasive N-terminal adenylate cyclase domain linked to a C-terminal RTX hemolysin containing extensive glycine-rich repeats. The toxin is an essential virulence factor required in the initial stages of infection. Adenylate cyclase-hemolysin was...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Betsou F,Sebo P,Guiso N

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis is a gram-negative pathogen that causes life-threatening infections in humans and has potential for use as a biological weapon. The genetic basis of the F. tularensis virulence is poorly understood. This study screened a total of 3,936 transposon mutants of the live vaccine strain for infection ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Su J,Yang J,Zhao D,Kawula TH,Banas JA,Zhang JR

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae sortase A (SrtA) is a transpeptidase that is highly conserved among pneumococcal strains, whose involvement in adhesion/colonization has been reported. We found that intraperitoneal immunization with recombinant SrtA conferred to mice protection against S. pneumoniae intraperitoneal challenge ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gianfaldoni C,Maccari S,Pancotto L,Rossi G,Hilleringmann M,Pansegrau W,Sinisi A,Moschioni M,Masignani V,Rappuoli R,Del Giudice G,Ruggiero P

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Representative strains of serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis were chosen from all major meningitis epidemics worldwide since 1960 and subjected to analysis for the electrophoretic variation of 15 cytoplasmic allozymes and four outer membrane proteins. The 290 strains defined 84 unique electrophoretic types which were ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang JF,Caugant DA,Li X,Hu X,Poolman JT,Crowe BA,Achtman M

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility to the lethal toxicity of endotoxin in mice pretreated with emulsified trehalose-6,6'-dimycolate was enhanced by (i) increasing the oil concentration while keeping the Tween concentration constant; and (ii) decreasing the Tween concentration, while keeping the oil concentration constant. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yarkoni E,Rapp HJ

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the second messenger cyclic-di-GMP and Gac/Rsm signaling pathways are associated with the transition from acute to chronic infection. Therefore, identification of the molecular mechanisms that govern lifestyle choice in bacteria is very important. Here, we identified a novel cyclic-di-GMP mo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jiao H,Li F,Wang T,Yam JKH,Yang L,Liang H

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse fibroblasts (L cells) infected with the 6BC strain of Chlamydia psittaci released potassium ion (K(+)) into the extracellular milieu in a way that depended on size of inoculum and time after infection. When the multiplicity of infection was 500 to 1,000 50% infectious units (ID(50)) per L cell, loss of intracell...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chang GT,Moulder JW

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood-stage development of malaria parasites is initiated by the invasion of merozoites into susceptible erythrocytes. Specific receptor-ligand interactions must occur for the merozoites to first attach to and then invade erythrocytes. Because the invasion process is essential for the parasite's survival and the m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tsuboi T,Kappe SH,al-Yaman F,Prickett MD,Alpers M,Adams JH

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While investigating the requirement for phagosomal alkalinization in the host defense against pulmonary aspergillosis, we observed high morbidity of p47(phox)(-/-) mice infected with pH-insensitive Aspergillus nidulans mutants despite a paucity of fungal growth. Fatal infection also resulted from a normally avirulent ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bignell E,Negrete-Urtasun S,Calcagno AM,Arst HN Jr,Rogers T,Haynes K

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice with disrupted beta 2-microglobulin (beta 2m-/-), I-A (class II-/-), or CD4 (CD4-/-) genes were examined for their capacity to resolve Chlamydia trachomatis genital tract infection. C57BL/6 and beta 2m-/- mice resolved infection similarly and were culture negative by 4 to 5 weeks following infection. Conversely, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Morrison RP,Feilzer K,Tumas DB

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subcutaneous infection chambers in rabbits were infected with a strain of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from a patient with toxic shock syndrome. Estrogens (mestranol and 17-beta-estradiol) protected male rabbits and prolonged survival. Neither androgens (testosterone and dihydrotestosterone) nor progesterone affecte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Best GK,Abney TO,Kling JM,Kirkland JJ,Scott DF

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans laccase expression during murine infection was investigated in lung tissue by immunohistochemistry and immunogold electron microscopy. Laccase was detected in the fungal cell cytoplasm, cell wall, and capsule in vivo. The amount of laccase found in different sites varied as a function of the ti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Garcia-Rivera J,Tucker SC,Feldmesser M,Williamson PR,Casadevall A

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pasteurella (Mannheimia) haemolytica leukotoxin (Lkt) causes cell type- and species-specific effects in ruminant leukocytes. Recent studies indicate that P. haemolytica Lkt binds to bovine CD18, the common subunit of all beta2 integrins. We designed experiments with the following objectives: to identify which member o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jeyaseelan S,Hsuan SL,Kannan MS,Walcheck B,Wang JF,Kehrli ME,Lally ET,Sieck GC,Maheswaran SK

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:The ultrastructural organization of Mycoplasma pneumoniae membranes and spatial relationships of this pathogen to epithelial cells in tracheal organ cultures were examined ultrastructurally by freeze-fracture techniques. Areas of morphologically distinct cell membrane variability characterized by membrane blebs and al...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carson JL,Collier AM,Hu SC

更新日期：1980-09-01 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：:Monoclonal antibodies against 12 of the 17 IATS serotype strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were produced. Eighty-seven hybridoma clones were isolated, and the antibodies secreted were found to be reactive with both Formalin-fixed whole cells and purified lipopolysaccharide of homologous strains in enzyme-linked immuno...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lam JS,MacDonald LA,Lam MY,Duchesne LG,Southam GG

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, apolipoprotein A-I (ApoA-I) was purified from pig sera. The responses of this protein after sterile inflammation and in animals infected with Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae or Streptococcus suis were investigated. Decreases in the concentrations of ApoA-I, two to five times lower than the initial values...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carpintero R,Piñeiro M,Andrés M,Iturralde M,Alava MA,Heegaard PM,Jobert JL,Madec F,Lampreave F

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeated immunizations of CF1 mice with irradiated noninfectious Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes resulted in partial protection against infection with live parasites. It also induced a limited number of antibody species that were reactive in Western blots with trypomastigote but not with epimastigote or amastigote p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zweerink HJ,Weston HD,Andersen OF,Garber SS,Hayes EC

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A zone of extracellular digestion of the mucin layer around Candida albicans blastoconidia was observed by transmission electron microscopy in the jejunum of mice inoculated intragastrically (G. T. Cole, K. R. Seshan, L. M. Pope, and R. J. Yancey, J. Med. Vet. Mycol. 26:173-185, 1988). This observation prompted the hy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Colina AR,Aumont F,Deslauriers N,Belhumeur P,de Repentigny L

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphoneutrophils (PMNs) are important effector cells in host defense against pneumonia. However, PMNs can also induce inflammation and tissue damage. To investigate the contribution of PMNs to host defense against pneumococcal pneumonia, we determined the effect of the PMN-depleting rat monoclonal antibody RB6-8C...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marks M,Burns T,Abadi M,Seyoum B,Thornton J,Tuomanen E,Pirofski LA

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice immunized with infections of 500, 5,000, or 20,000 oocysts of E. falciformis var. pragensis were reinfected with 20,000 and 100,000 oocysts at 20 and 38 days, respectively, after the initial infection. After the first challenge infection, none of the immunized mice showed clinical signs of coccidiosis; a few mice...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mesfin GM,Bellamy JE

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:Mapping vectors containing antibiotic resistance markers inserted adjacent to or within different cloned genes from Streptococcus mutans were used to determine the relative positions of these genes on the chromosome. The gtfA, ftf, and scrB genes were inserted into streptococcal mapping vector pVA891 adjacent to an Em...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Perry D,Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine optimal strategies to induce specific-antibody-secreting cells (specific ASC) in the rectal and vaginal mucosae, we immunized monkeys with a prototype mucosal immunogen, cholera toxin (CT), given locally or via gastric or parenteral administration. Repeated rectal or vaginal CT immunizations induced stron...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eriksson K,Quiding-Järbrink M,Osek J,Möller A,Björk S,Holmgren J,Czerkinsky C

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an attenuated Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium vaccine strain expressing the saliva-binding region (SBR) of the Streptococcus mutans antigen I/II adhesin, either alone or linked with the mucosal adjuvant cholera toxin A2 and B subunits (CTA2/...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huang Y,Hajishengallis G,Michalek SM

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II secretion (T2S) is one means by which Gram-negative pathogens secrete proteins into the extracellular milieu and/or host organisms. Based upon recent genome sequencing, it is clear that T2S is largely restricted to the Proteobacteria, occurring in many, but not all, genera in the Alphaproteobacteria, Betaprote...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cianciotto NP,White RC

更新日期：2017-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the role of complement in pneumococcal and staphylococcal pneumonia, we decomplemented rats with cobra venom factor and inoculated them intratracheally with Staphylococcus aureus or type 25 pneumococci. S. aureus produced a patchy bronchopneumonia in normal Sprague-Dawley or Lewis rats, and decomplementati...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coonrod JD,Yoneda K

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inactivation of Coxiella burnetii in suspension or in cultures of guinea pig peritoneal macrophages by ultraviolet (UV) light was studied. The effect of UV treatment on the activity of macrophage organelle marker enzymes and their subsequent equilibration in linear sucrose gradients was also determined. It was sho...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Little JS,Kishimoto RA,Canonico PG

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endothelium is a specific target for Bartonella henselae, and endothelial cell infection represents an important step in the pathogenesis of cat scratch disease and bacillary angiomatosis. Mechanisms of Bartonella-endothelial cell interaction as well as signaling pathways involved in target cell activation were an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fuhrmann O,Arvand M,Göhler A,Schmid M,Krüll M,Hippenstiel S,Seybold J,Dehio C,Suttorp N

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00