Delivery of a MalE CD4(+)-T-cell epitope into the major histocompatibility complex class II antigen presentation pathway by Bordetella pertussis adenylate cyclase.

abstract：:Oral or intravenous inoculation of previously unexposed juvenile and adult ferrets with Campylobacter jejuni uniformly resulted in intestinal colonization lasting 2 to 12 days. Disease varied from mild to moderate diarrhea, which resolved in 2 to 3 days. Orally infected animals developed agglutinin titers of 8 to 256 ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bell JA,Manning DD

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pig peritoneal or alveolar macrophages were inoculated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae cells. Extracellular mycoplasms were killed by complement treatment, and the effect of macrophage action on the number of the remaining viable mycoplasmas was observed. The complement killing was to some extent inhibited by the pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Erb P,Bredt W

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi is a human-restricted Gram-negative bacterial pathogen responsible for causing an estimated 27 million cases of typhoid fever annually, leading to 217,000 deaths, and current vaccines do not offer full protection. The O-antigen side chain of the lipopolysaccharide is an immunodominant...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kintz E,Heiss C,Black I,Donohue N,Brown N,Davies MR,Azadi P,Baker S,Kaye PM,van der Woude M

更新日期：2017-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytolethal distending toxin (Cdt) of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is an atypical A-B-type toxin consisting of a heterotrimer composed of the cdtA, cdtB, and cdtC gene products. The CdtA and CdtC subunits form two heterogeneous ricin-like lectin domains which bind the holotoxin to the target cell. Point mut...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cao L,Volgina A,Korostoff J,DiRienzo JM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiinflammatory cytokine response during urosepsis was determined by measurement of concentrations of soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor (sTNFR) types I and II, interleukin 1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra), soluble IL-1 receptor type II (sIL-1RII), and interleukin 10 in sera and urine of 30 patients with cultur...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Olszyna DP,Prins JM,Buis B,van Deventer SJ,Speelman P,van der Poll T

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans serotype A (C. albicans A) possesses a specific antigen, designated antigen 6, which resides in mannans on the cell surface. To determine the role of the mannan moiety of the C. albicans cell wall in adherence to buccal epithelial cells, we used antigen 6-deficient mutants which had been isolated by s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miyakawa Y,Kuribayashi T,Kagaya K,Suzuki M,Nakase T,Fukazawa Y

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we demonstrated that recombinant murine interleukin-12 (rmIL-12) administration can promote a primary Th1 response while suppressing the Th2 response in mice primed with 2,4, 6-trinitrophenyl-keyhole limpet hemocyanin (TNP-KLH). The present studies examined the capacity of rmIL-12 to drive a Th1 response to...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schopf LR,Bliss JL,Lavigne LM,Chung CL,Wolf SF,Sypek JP

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumonic tularemia is a life-threatening disease caused by inhalation of the highly infectious intracellular bacterium Francisella tularensis. The most serious form of the disease associated with the type A strains can be prevented in experimental animals through vaccination with the attenuated live vaccine strain (L...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mara-Koosham G,Hutt JA,Lyons CR,Wu TH

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historically, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia has been the most frequent cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with AIDS. Antiprotozoan drugs are effective in the treatment and prophylaxis of P. carinii pneumonia, which lends credence to the widely held view that P. carinii is a protozoan. However, recent geneti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ypma-Wong MF,Fonzi WA,Sypherd PS

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Localized juvenile periodontosis is associated with a defect of neutrophil chemotaxis that is characterized by selective depletion of a surface protein with a molecular mass of 110 kDa (GP110). Data on partial characterization of GP110 suggest that it is a glycoprotein which is enriched in Lys, Glu, His, Leu, and Ala ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tripathi SC,Van Dyke TE

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity against tuberculosis is considered to be essentially cell mediated, and an important role for CD8(+) T lymphocytes has been suggested by several studies of murine and human infections. The present work, using an experimental model of infection with Mycobacterium bovis in cattle, showed that live M....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liébana E,Girvin RM,Welsh M,Neill SD,Pollock JM

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the role of the hepatobiliary system in the early pathogenesis of Salmonella enteritidis infection was investigated in a rat model. Intravenous (i.v.) challenge with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) has previously been shown to enhance the translocation of normal gut flora. We first confirmed that LPS can simil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Islam AF,Moss ND,Dai Y,Smith MS,Collins AM,Jackson GD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunopathology of Chagas' disease was studied in the experimental model of chronic infection in C57BL/10JT or mice. Sublethal infection with Trypanosoma cruzi, Y strain, induced specific antibodies and a delayed hypersensitivity response to parasite antigens. Mice developed chronic chagasic myocarditis but not sk...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mortatti RC,Maia LC,de Oliveira AV,Munk ME

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotypic and functional changes of glycolipid presented by CD1d(glycolipid/CD1d) specific Valpha14+ T cells in the liver of mice at early stages of bacterial infection were investigated. After Listeria monocytogenes infection or interleukin-12 (IL-12) treatment, alpha-galactosylceramide/CD1d tetramer-reactive (a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Emoto M,Yoshizawa I,Emoto Y,Miamoto M,Hurwitz R,Kaufmann SH

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coagulase-negative species Staphylococcus lugdunensis is an emerging cause of serious and potentially life-threatening infections, such as infective endocarditis. The pathogenesis of these infections is characterized by the ability of S. lugdunensis to form biofilms on either biotic or abiotic surfaces. To elucida...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rajendran NB,Eikmeier J,Becker K,Hussain M,Peters G,Heilmann C

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monolayer cultures of LLC-MK2 rhesus monkey kidney cells become persistently infected with simian virus 40 after infection at input multiplicities of 100, 10, or 1 plaque-forming unit per cell. After 3 weeks, all cells of the cultures infected at a multiplicity of 1 plaque-forming unit per cell produced the simian vir...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Norkin LC

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural bactericidal resistance to Mycobacterium bovis BCG is under the control of a single gene, designated Bcg. Lung granuloma formation in susceptible (Bcgs) and resistant (Bcgr) mice was studied in two sets of Bcg-congenic systems, namely, the BALB/c (Bcgs)-C.D2 (BALB/c.Bcgr) pair and the B10.A (Bcgs)-B10.Ar (Bcgr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sato IY,Kobayashi K,Kasama T,Kaga S,Kasahara K,Kanemitsu H,Nakatani K,Takahashi T,Nakamura RM,Skamene E

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have performed microarray hybridization studies on 40 clinical isolates from 12 common serovars within Salmonella enterica subspecies I to identify the conserved chromosomal gene pool. We were able to separate the core invariant portion of the genome by a novel mathematical approach using a decision tree based on g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anjum MF,Marooney C,Fookes M,Baker S,Dougan G,Ivens A,Woodward MJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunochemical analyses of soluble antigens derived from microaerophilous stationary phase cultures of Babesia bovis demonstrated that at least three parasite antigens were released in vitro. These antigens have molecular weights within the range of 37,000 to 40,000, fast electrophoretic mobility in the albumin and al...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： James MA,Levy MG,Ristic M

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli is a major cause of enteric/diarrheal diseases, urinary tract infections, and sepsis. E. coli K1 is the leading gram-negative organism causing neonatal meningitis, but the microbial basis of E. coli K1 meningitis is incompletely understood. Here we employed comparative genomic hybridization to investi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yao Y,Xie Y,Kim KS

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans is surrounded by an antiphagocytic polysaccharide capsule whose primary constituent is glucuronoxylomannan (GXM). Three prominent structural features of GXM are single xylosyl and glucuronosyl side chains and O acetylation of the mannose backbone. Isogenic pairs of O-acetyl-positive and O-acety...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR,Levitz SM,Dromer F,Gates MA,Thorkildson P,Janbon G

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine bone marrow-derived macrophages were infected with a panel of virulent isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis including laboratory strains Erdman and H37Rv and various clinical isolates in order to determine the sensitivity of each of these strains to the antimycobacterial activities of macrophage-generated rea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rhoades ER,Orme IM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) is thought to play a major role in the pathogenesis of septic shock. Anti-TNF antibody was preadministered in low-dose endotoxin lethality models in which BALB/c mice were challenged with small amounts of lipopolysaccharide following their sensitization with either carrageenan (CAR) o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Franks AK,Kujawa KI,Yaffe LJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fcγ receptor IIIb (FcγRIIIb) is a low-affinity receptor of IgG and is essential in neutrophil-mediated effector functions. Different allelic forms of FcγRIIIb carrying human neutrophil antigen (HNA-1a, -1b, -1c, and -1d) have been identified. Here, we have generated stable transfected HEK293 cell lines expressing ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Simtong P,Romphruk AV,Traum A,Burg-Roderfeld M,Bein G,Jakubowski K,Dominik A,Theisen M,Kana IH,Sachs UJ,Santoso S

更新日期：2018-07-23 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：:Staphylococcal alpha-toxin was purified from Staphylococcus aureus growth medium using adsorption chromatography on controlled pore glass beads. Elution of alpha-toxin from the unmodified glass surface of the beads with various anions generally followed the chaotropic series. Alpha-toxin, purified by glass bead chroma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cassidy P,Harshman S

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were vaccinated with plasmid DNA (pDNA) encoding antigen 85A (Ag85A), Ag85B, or PstS-3 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis either in saline or formulated for intramuscular injections in VC1052:DPyPE (aminopropyl-dimethyl-myristoleyloxy-propanaminium bromide-diphytanoylphosphatidyl-ethanolamine) (Vaxfectin; Vical, Inc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： D'Souza S,Rosseels V,Denis O,Tanghe A,De Smet N,Jurion F,Palfliet K,Castiglioni N,Vanonckelen A,Wheeler C,Huygen K

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulence of Candida albicans in a mouse model of invasive candidiasis is dependent on the phospholipids phosphatidylserine (PS) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE). Disruption of the PS synthase gene CHO1 (i.e., cho1Δ/Δ) eliminates PS and blocks the de novo pathway for PE biosynthesis. In addition, the cho1Δ/Δ muta...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Davis SE,Hopke A,Minkin SC Jr,Montedonico AE,Wheeler RT,Reynolds TB

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both rat alveolar macrophages and a human macrophages cell line with characteristics of human tissue (e.g., alveolar) macrophages (THP-1) were found to inhibit the germination of Rhizopus spores. However, the conditions under which fungistatic activity occurs are different for these two cell types. The inhibition of R...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jorens PG,Boelaert JR,Halloy V,Zamora R,Schneider YJ,Herman AG

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local passive immunization with monoclonal antibodies (Mc Ab) to Streptococcus mutans was attempted as an alternative approach to active systemic immunization. We prepared an immunoglobulin G class Mc Ab to the cell surface protein determinant of streptococcal antigen I/II and applied it repeatedly to the teeth of rhe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lehner T,Caldwell J,Smith R

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00