Cardiac myosin autoimmunity in acute Chagas' heart disease.

abstract：:Diarrhea and amebic liver abscesses due to invasive Entamoeba histolytica infections are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the developing world. Entamoeba histolytica adherence and cell migration, two phenotypes linked to virulence, are both aberrant in trophozoites deficient in the metallosurface prote...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Roncolato EC,Teixeira JE,Barbosa JE,Zambelli Ramalho LN,Huston CD

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two distinct and complementary pathways, one mediated by perforin and the other dependent upon CD95 (Fas), effect cell-mediated cytotoxicity. We examined the relative roles of these pathways in host defenses against the intracellular bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes by using murine listeriosis as a model syst...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jensen ER,Glass AA,Clark WR,Wing EJ,Miller JF,Gregory SH

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro effects of pneumolysin, a sulfhydryl-activated toxin produced by Streptococcus pneumoniae, on various functions of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNLs) was investigated. Treatment of PMNLs with highly purified toxin significantly inhibited respiratory burst (in response to stimulation), ability to k...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Paton JC,Ferrante A

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, has a number of outer membrane proteins that are differentially regulated during its life cycle. In addition to their physiological functions in the organism, these proteins also likely serve different functions in invasiveness and immune evasion. In borreliae, as well ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Toledo A,Coleman JL,Kuhlow CJ,Crowley JT,Benach JL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia pneumoniae is a causative agent for many respiratory infections and has been associated with cardiovascular diseases in humans. The pathogenicity of C. pneumoniae is thought to depend on its ability to cause persistent infection and to evade host defense. Genome sequence analysis indicates that C. pneumoniae...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fan P,Dong F,Huang Y,Zhong G

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:(DBA/N[female] X CBA/2[male])F1 males have been reported to be deficient in producing antibodies against a number of antigens, including carbohydrates (I. Scher, Adv. Immunol. 35:1-71, 1982). We show that F1 male mice, in contrast to females, made less lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-specific antibodies after immunization wi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zweerink HJ,Gammon MC,Hutchison CF,Jackson JJ,Pier GB,Puckett JM,Sewell TJ,Sigal NH

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ApxIIA protein secreted from Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is both hemolytic and cytotoxic. However, when the cloned apxII operon is expressed in Escherichia coli, two forms of the ApxIIA protein can be recovered. Toxin which remains intracellular has hemolytic and cytotoxic activities, while toxin that is secre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tu AH,Hausler C,Young R,Struck DK

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many pathogenic microbes have multiple virulence factors that can cause damage to the host and thus contribute to an overall virulence phenotype for that organism. Although current techniques are suitable for demonstrating that a particular microbial characteristic contributes to virulence, no formal approach for defi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McClelland EE,Bernhardt P,Casadevall A

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigens extracted from cells of Streptococcus pyogenes T6 and Streptococcus mutans strains AHT, BHT, 10449, OMZ175, and K1R adsorbed to the sarcolemmal sheath of cardiac muscle cells in vitro. Similar preparations from S. salivarius, S. sanguis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Lactobacillus casei had weak or negligible ti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stinson MW,Nisengard RJ,Bergey EJ

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa elastase rapidly inactivates alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor by splitting its Pro-357-Met-358 peptide bond. The present study was aimed at testing whether this reaction takes place in the presence of leukocyte elastase. To this end was added alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor to a mixture of the two elas...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Padrines M,Bieth JG

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treponema hyodysenteriae was shown to attach to mouse peritoneal cells in the absence of serum opsonins in vitro. If serotype-specific antiserum from pigs was added to the media and treponemes of that corresponding serotype were employed in the assay, the amount of attachment increased an average of 3.7 times that of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nuessen ME,Joens LA

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis KIM5 was found to be cytotoxic for the IC21 and P388D1 mouse macrophage cell lines, as well as for resident peritoneal macrophages from C57BL/6 mice. Affected cells phagocytosed KIM5 inefficiently, became spherical, detached readily from culture dishes, and retained 51Cr poorly. The cytotoxic effect wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goguen JD,Walker WS,Hatch TP,Yother J

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of PAM cells, a spontaneously transformed mouse cell line, to brain homogenates from mice infected with scrapie caused a relative decrease in total cell yield, which persisted from passage 2 or 3 to passage 18 after treatment. The effect was elicited by each of the eight independent scrapie isolates tested. L...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carp RI,Merz GS,Licursi PC

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of a streptomycin-resistant strain of Escherichia coli (VL-2) in the presence of 30 microgram of streptomycin per ml resulted in the production by these bacteria of structurally altered, nonfunctional type 1 fimbriae. This strain, when grown in this subinhibitory concentration of streptomycin, became incapable ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eisenstein BI,Ofek I,Beachey EH

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied interleukin-1 (IL-1) secretion by rat peritoneal exudate macrophages stimulated with purified toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1). TSST-1 was observed to be a more potent inducer of IL-1 than was endotoxin. The induction of IL-1 secretion by TSST-1 was not blocked by polymyxin B but could be blocked by mo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Beezhold DH,Best GK,Bonventre PF,Thompson M

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed cell-mediated immunity to herpes simplex virus type 1 antigen in patients suffering from recurrent cold sores and in a series of healthy controls. Paradoxically, all those subject to recurrent herpetic infections had, without exception, evidence of cell-mediated immunity to herpes antigens. This was demons...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Russell AS,Percy JS,Kovithavongs T

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipooligosaccharide (LOS) is a major surface component of Moraxella catarrhalis and a possible virulence factor in the pathogenesis of human infections caused by this organism. The presence of LOS on the bacterium is an obstacle to the development of vaccines derived from whole cells or outer membrane components of th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peng D,Hong W,Choudhury BP,Carlson RW,Gu XX

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidial infections in severe combined immune deficient (SCID) mice produce a chronic disease state which in the later stages leads to extraintestinal involvement and hepatic dysfunction. To further characterize the infection dynamics in this model and monitor the changes in the hepatic system, a dose titration...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mead JR,Ilksoy N,You X,Belenkaya Y,Arrowood MJ,Fallon MT,Schinazi RF

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zoonotic infections caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium pose a constant threat to consumer health, with the pig being a particularly major source of multidrug-resistant isolates. Vaccination, as a promising approach to reduce colonization and shedding, has been scarcely used, as it interferes with curren...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Selke M,Meens J,Springer S,Frank R,Gerlach GF

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Staphylococcus aureus repeat (STAR) element is a sequence identified in two intergenic regions in S. aureus. The element is found in 13 to 21 copies in individual S. aureus strains, and elements in the homologous intergenic location are variable in length. The element sequence consists of several small and unusual...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cramton SE,Schnell NF,Götz F,Brückner R

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mononuclear phagocytes provide the major habitat of intracellular bacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis. The capacity of B-cell stimulatory factor 2 (interleukin-6 [IL-6]) to activate tuberculostatic functions was investigated by using murine bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMM phi). ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Flesch IE,Kaufmann SH

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-seven bacterial strains representing four different group C streptococcal species were tested for binding of human and bovine immunoglobulin G (IgG) subclasses. Specific binding sites for IgG were found in all bacterial species studied. The four species included differed, however, in their capacities to interact...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Myhre EB,Kronvall G

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila was susceptible to the antimicrobial action of oxygen metabolites generated by both the myeloperoxidase-H(2)O(2)-halide and the xanthine oxidase systems. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lochner JE,Friedman RL,Bigley RH,Iglewski BH

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outer membrane porin genes of Salmonella typhimurium, including ompC, ompF, and tppB, are regulated by the products of ompB, a two-component regulatory locus encoding OmpR and EnvZ. S. typhimurium ompR mutants are attenuated in mice, but to date no one has studied the intracellular trafficking of S. typhimurium porin-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mills SD,Ruschkowski SR,Stein MA,Finlay BB

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, relies on multiple virulence factors to subvert the host immune defense. Using Caenorhabditis elegans as an infection model, we screened approximately 5,000 transposon mutants of B. anthracis Sterne for decreased virulence. One of the attenuated mutants resulted in l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Franks SE,Ebrahimi C,Hollands A,Okumura CY,Aroian RV,Nizet V,McGillivray SM

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to Yersinia pestis LcrV, the recombinant V10 (rV10) variant (lacking residues 271 to 300) does not suppress the release of proinflammatory cytokines by immune cells. Immunization with rV10 generates robust antibody responses that protect mice against bubonic plague and pneumonic plague, suggesting that rV1...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： DeBord KL,Anderson DM,Marketon MM,Overheim KA,DePaolo RW,Ciletti NA,Jabri B,Schneewind O

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aeromonas salmonicida causes furunculosis in salmonids and is a threat to Atlantic salmon aquaculture. The epithelial surfaces that the pathogen colonizes are covered by a mucus layer predominantly comprised of secreted mucins. By using mass spectrometry to identify mucin glycan structures with and without enzymatic r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Padra JT,Sundh H,Sundell K,Venkatakrishnan V,Jin C,Samuelsson T,Karlsson NG,Lindén SK

更新日期：2017-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron acquisition from the host is an important step in the pathogenic process. While Yersinia pestis has multiple iron transporters, the yersiniabactin (Ybt) siderophore-dependent system plays a major role in iron acquisition in vitro and in vivo. In this study, we determined that the Ybt system is required for the us...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fetherston JD,Kirillina O,Bobrov AG,Paulley JT,Perry RD

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One-day-old chicks were infected orally with two strains of weakly hemolytic spirochetes isolated from a human and a pig with intestinal spirochetosis. These spirochetosis both colonized birds, attached end-on to their cecal enterocytes, induced watery diarrhea, and significantly depressed growth rates. Cultures of Se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Trott DJ,McLaren AJ,Hampson DJ

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00