Antigenic polypeptide complex from the Melvin strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae: isolation and properties.

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) is a major etiologic agent of nontyphoid salmonellosis in the United States. S. Enteritidis persistently and silently colonizes the intestinal and reproductive tract of laying hens, resulting in contaminated poultry products. The consumption of contaminated poul...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McKelvey JA,Yang M,Jiang Y,Zhang S

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal ICR mice were infected intravenously, intraperitoneally, or aerogenically with Pasteurella multocida strains isolated from a turkey (S68), calf (V90), or rabbit (J20) lung. Both the turkey and calf isolates were highly virulent for mice and multiplied logarithmically in the lungs, liver, and spleen, resulting i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Collins FM,Niederbuhl CJ,Campbell SG

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunological assay utilizing double-diffusion principles was developed for identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutants deficient in toxin A. Mutations were chemically induced, and mutants were isolated from P. aeruginosa strain PA103. Quantitative assays, both enzymatic and immunological, indicated that five ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ohman DE,Sadoff JC,Iglewski BH

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amastigotes obtained from spleens of mice infected with different strains of Trypanosoma cruzi were examined for their ability to invade macrophages and L929 cells and to initiate infection in mice. Both types of cells were readily invaded by organisms of the strains Y, MR, and Tulahuen. Organisms of the CL strain wer...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McCabe RE,Remington JS,Araujo FG

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium bovis BCG is widely used as a vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), despite its variable protective efficacy. Relatively little is known about the immune response profiles following BCG vaccination in relation to protection against TB. Here we tested whether BCG vaccination results in immune responses to Do...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lin MY,Geluk A,Smith SG,Stewart AL,Friggen AH,Franken KL,Verduyn MJ,van Meijgaarden KE,Voskuil MI,Dockrell HM,Huygen K,Ottenhoff TH,Klein MR

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five mutagens were used to induce mutants of Candida albicans. Ultraviolet light, N-nitroso-N'-methyl-N-nitrosoguanidine, and N-nitroso-N-methylurethane were effective mutagens which induced stable auxotrophs. N-nitroso-N-methylurethane produced the largest number and variety of mutants. Nitrous acid and hydroxylamine...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Savage N,Balish E

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis has a unique family of PE-PGRS proteins with conserved N-terminal domains (PE) containing site-specific proline-glutamine residues and polymorphic GC-rich repetitive sequences (PGRS). Tuberculosis (TB) patients produce antibodies against some such proteins, but it is not clear whether these ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Koh KW,Soh SE,Seah GT

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a standard regimen of cimetidine on the gastric flora of 20 male volunteers was studied in a double-blind manner and compared with the effects of a standard antacid regimen. Postprandial microbial titers in gastric aspirates were significantly higher at 4, 8, and 16 weeks of therapy in subjects taking an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Snepar R,Poporad GA,Romano JM,Kobasa WD,Kaye D

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein we characterized various genetic markers and the biological behavior of a natural recombinant strain of Toxoplasma gondii (P-Br). From nine genetic markers analyzed, three (B1, ROP1, and SAG1) and three (cS10-A6, GRA6, and SAG3) markers belong to parasites from the type I and type III lineages, respectively. Th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fux B,Rodrigues CV,Portela RW,Silva NM,Su C,Sibley D,Vitor RW,Gazzinelli RT

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligosaccharide (OS)-protein conjugates are promising candidate vaccines against encapsulated bacteria, such as Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. Although the effects of several variables such as OS chain length and protein carrier have been studied, little is known about th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lefeber DJ,Benaissa-Trouw B,Vliegenthart JF,Kamerling JP,Jansen WT,Kraaijeveld K,Snippe H

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Leishmania pifanoi amastigote antigen P-8 has been previously shown to induce protective immunity in a murine model of cutaneous leishmaniasis (L. Soong, S. M. Duboise, P. Kima, and D. McMahon-Pratt, Infect. Immun. 63:3559-3566, 1995). As this antigen is of interest for further vaccine studies, the biochemical cha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Colmenares M,Tiemeyer M,Kima P,McMahon-Pratt D

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsular types 5 and 8, which account for about 70% of Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from the blood of patients, resisted in vitro phagocytosis by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN). Antisera and monoclonal antibody to type 5 and 8 capsular polysaccharides (CPS) induced type-specific in vitro phagocytos...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karakawa WW,Sutton A,Schneerson R,Karpas A,Vann WF

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila and Coxiella burnetii are phylogenetically related intracellular bacteria that cause aerosol-transmitted lung infections. In host cells both pathogens proliferate in vacuoles whose biogenesis displays some common features. To test the functional similarity of their respective intracellular niche...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sauer JD,Shannon JG,Howe D,Hayes SF,Swanson MS,Heinzen RA

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori infection of the stomach causes an active immune response that includes stimulation of inducible nitric oxide (NO) synthase (iNOS) expression. Although NO can kill H. pylori, the bacterium persists indefinitely, suggesting that NO production is inadequate. We determined if the NO derived from iNOS ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chaturvedi R,Asim M,Lewis ND,Algood HM,Cover TL,Kim PY,Wilson KT

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence of Treponema denticola GM-1, TD-4, and MS25 to human gingival fibroblasts (HGFs) was studied to serve as an introduction to investigations into the interactions of these oral bacteria with human host cells. Under both aerobic (5% CO2) and anaerobic (85% N2 plus 10% H2 plus 5% CO2) environments, the inter...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weinberg A,Holt SC

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When spleen cells derived from C57BL/6 mice immunized with L cells 7 days previously were cocultured with antigenic cells, immune interferon appeared in the culture fluid. We analyzed the tissue distribution of the immune interferon-producing cells (IIPC) which appeared in various lymphoid organs after allogeneic stim...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ito Y,Aoki H,Kimura Y,Takano M,Maeno K,Shimokata K

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospira interrogans is an important mammalian pathogen. Transmission from an environmental source requires adaptations to a range of new environmental conditions in the organs and tissues of the infected host. Since many pathogenic bacteria utilize temperature to discern their environment and regulate the synthesis...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nally JE,Timoney JF,Stevenson B

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radioimmunoprecipitation method has been devised which permits the direct identification of those proteins which are both exposed on the cell surface of Haemophilus influenzae type b and accessible to antibody. Both extrinsically and intrinsically radiolabeled cells of this organism were employed as the sources of a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hansen EJ,Frisch CF,Johnston KH

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the progression of the life cycle of Plasmodium falciparum, a small proportion of asexual parasites differentiate into male or female sexual forms called gametocytes. Just like their asexual counterparts, gametocytes are contained within the infected host's erythrocytes (RBCs). However, unlike their asexual partner...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Acquah FK,Adjah J,Williamson KC,Amoah LE

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrobacter rodentium, an attaching-effacing bacterial pathogen, establishes an acute infection of the murine colonic epithelium and induces a mild colitis in immunocompetent mice. This study describes the role of T-cell subsets and B lymphocytes in immunity to C. rodentium. C57Bl/6 mice orally infected with C. rodent...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Simmons CP,Clare S,Ghaem-Maghami M,Uren TK,Rankin J,Huett A,Goldin R,Lewis DJ,MacDonald TT,Strugnell RA,Frankel G,Dougan G

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resurgence is a major concern after malaria elimination. After the initiation of the elimination program on Aneityum Island in 1991, microscopy showed that Plasmodium falciparum disappeared immediately, whereas P. vivax disappeared from 1996 onward, until P. vivax cases were reported in January 2002. By conducting mal...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kaneko A,Chaves LF,Taleo G,Kalkoa M,Isozumi R,Wickremasinghe R,Perlmann H,Takeo S,Tsuboi T,Tachibana S,Kimura M,Björkman A,Troye-Blomberg M,Tanabe K,Drakeley C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) plays a pathophysiologic role in sepsis induced in rat pups by group B streptococci (GBS). In this model, TNF-alpha is also partially responsible for the induction of interleukin-6 (IL-6). The present study was undertaken to investigate the role ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mancuso G,Tomasello F,Migliardo M,Delfino D,Cochran J,Cook JA,Teti G

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 95-kDa protein was isolated from Staphylococcus saprophyticus 7108 grown on dialysis membranes placed on the surface of brain heart infusion agar. Strain CCM883 did not produce this protein. Ultrathin sections revealed the presence of very thin, tuftlike, 50- to 75-nm-long structures on the surface of strain 7108, w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gatermann S,Kreft B,Marre R,Wanner G

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequences of three previously undescribed Pseudomonas aeruginosa pilin structural genes are presented. Comparisons of deduced pilin primary structure and flanking DNA sequence allowed placement of these and six previously published sequences into one of two groups. Epitope mapping, using overlapping imm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Castric PA,Deal CD

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung dendritic cells were identified by immunohistochemistry in lung tissue sections from C57BL/6 mice. Following isolation from the lungs using CD11c magnetic beads, the flow cytometric analysis of I-A(b+) and CD11c(+) cells indicated a mixed population of dendritic cells at different stages of maturation, with most ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gonzalez-Juarrero M,Orme IM

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified mgrA (rat) as a regulator of autolysis in Staphylococcus aureus. Besides its effect on autolytic activity, we recently found alterations in the expression of regulator and target virulence genes in the mgrA mutant. Northern analysis and transcription fusion assays showed that inactivation...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ingavale S,van Wamel W,Luong TT,Lee CY,Cheung AL

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We produced anti-idiotype antibodies to antibody to lipid A from Eikenella corrodens. The ALA-1 monoclonal antibody (immunoglobulin M [IgM] isotype), which had already been produced in our laboratory (T. Kato, I. Takazoe, and K. Okuda, Infect. Immun. 57:656-659, 1989), had reacted strongly with lipid A from E. corrode...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kato T,Takazoe I,Okuda K

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multigene family of 58- to 60-kDa proteins, which are designated rhoptry-associated protein 1 (RAP-1) and which come from the parasites Babesia bigemina and Babesia bovis, is a target for vaccine development. The presence of multiple gene copies and conserved sequences and epitopes of RAP-1 implies that these protei...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rodríguez SD,Palmer GH,McElwain TF,McGuire TC,Ruef BJ,Chitko-McKown MG,Brown WC

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hamster trachea organ cultres were shown to consume measurable amounts of oxygen when incubated in a closed micro-chamber. Several simple and complex media were evaluated, and the optimal system involved incubating 2 to 4 mg of tracheal tissue in Tyrodes balanced salt solution at 37 C for 60 min, with oxygen activity ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gabridge MG

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The leukotrienes and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) play an important role in the pathophysiology of septic shock, in which hypotension, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, and hemoconcentration are observed. This study was performed to examine the effects of a 5-lipoxygenase inhibitor (AA-861), a selective leukotriene recepto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ogata M,Matsumoto T,Kamochi M,Yoshida SI,Mizuguchi Y,Shigematsu A

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00