Extracellular antigens from Salmonella enteritidis induce effective immune response in mice after oral vaccination.

abstract：:Glucose has previously been shown to increase the in vitro phagocytosis of unopsonized Pseudomonas aeruginosa by freshly explanted murine peritoneal macrophages (PM) and cultivated alveolar macrophages (AM). This study examined the effect of glucose on the same phagocytosis process in human AM in order to determine wh...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wong SY,Guerdoud LM,Cantin A,Speert DP

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus species are saprophytic molds causing life-threatening invasive fungal infections in the immunocompromised host. Innate immune recognition, in particular, the mechanisms of opsonization and complement activation, has been reported to be an integral part of the defense against fungi. We have shown that the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bidula S,Kenawy H,Ali YM,Sexton D,Schwaeble WJ,Schelenz S

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter fetus surface layer proteins (SLPs), encoded by sapA homologues, are important in virulence. In wild-type C. fetus strain 23D, all eight sapA homologues are located in the 54-kb sap island, and SLP expression reflects the position of a unique sapA promoter in relation to the sapA homologues. The extensiv...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tu ZC,Hui J,Blaser MJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron starvation conditions limited the growth of Salmonella typhi, as evidenced by an increase in the lag phase of a culture and a decrease in the number of bacteria reached in the stationary phase. The analysis of the outer membrane of bacteria grown under these conditions identified new protein components with appar...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernandez-Beros ME,Gonzalez C,McIntosh MA,Cabello FC

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of innate immune responses to pathogens occurs through the interaction of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) with pathogen-associated molecular patterns and the activation of several signaling pathways whose contribution to the overall innate immune response to pathogens is poorly understood. We demonstrate a m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Izadi H,Motameni AT,Bates TC,Olivera ER,Villar-Suarez V,Joshi I,Garg R,Osborne BA,Davis RJ,Rincón M,Anguita J

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of specific T-cell help in immune responses to thymus-independent antigens results in weak, predominantly immunoglobulin M-mediated immunity with little or no memory. In the work presented here we show how the exogenous stimulation of CD40 by monoclonal antibodies can mimic T-cell help, resulting in enhanced ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barr TA,Heath AW

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For pathogens to survive in the human oral cavity, they must identify a suitable niche in the complex multispecies biofilm that exists on oral tissues. The periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis adheres to Streptococcus gordonii by interacting with a specific region of the streptococcal SspB polypeptide, design...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Demuth DR,Irvine DC,Costerton JW,Cook GS,Lamont RJ

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subpopulations of spleen cells from scrapie virus-infected mice were used to determine the average virus content of infected cells in vivo at a time when virus was rapidly increasing in titer in lymphoreticular tissues. Comparison of the mean lethal doses of lysed to intact cells indicated averages of 2 to 6 infectiou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lavelle GC

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown previously that Klebsiella pneumoniae receptors for coliphages T3 and T7 also mediate mannose-inhibitable adherence to human epithelial cells and protect bacteria from phagocytosis and intracellular killing by human polymorphonuclear cells. In this paper we analyze the possible role of such mannose-inhib...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pruzzo C,Valisena S,Satta G

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amebic erythrophagocytosis is characteristic of invasive amebiasis, and mutants deficient in erythrocyte ingestion are avirulent. We sought to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying erythrocyte phagocytosis by Entamoeba histolytica. Following adherence to amebae, erythrocytes became round and crenulated, and p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boettner DR,Huston CD,Sullivan JA,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring antibodies against [Gal alpha-1,3-Gal] structures (anti-Gal antibodies) are the primary effectors of human hyperacute rejection (HAR) of nonhuman tissue. Unlike most mammals, humans lack a functional alpha-1,3-galactosyltransferase (GalT) gene and produce abundant anti-Gal antibodies, putatively in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Posekany KJ,Pittman HK,Bradfield JF,Haisch CE,Verbanac KM

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protective immunity conferred by T-cell subsets against infection with Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue was studied. We demonstrated that hamster T cells can be separated into two subsets by monoclonal antibody (MAb) GK 1.5 (anti-L3T4) and MAb 38. Eighty-five percent of hamster thymocytes were L3T4+ and 87% were...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liu H,Alder JD,Steiner BM,Stein-Streilein J,Lim L,Schell RF

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polysaccharide antigen preparations from serotype a and serotype d strains of Streptococcus mutans contained both a serotype-specific antigenic determinant and a common a-d antigenic determinant, as demonstrated by agar gel diffusion studies and a quantitative cross-precipitin assay. The chromatographically purifi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Linzer R,Mukasa H,Slade HD

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-two trachoma strains were simultaneously titrated in the yolk sac of embryonated chicken eggs and in HeLa 229 cells pretreated with diethylaminoethyl-dextran to determine the relative sensitivity of the two culture systems for detection of the infection. The strains tested were both yolk sac- and HeLa cell-esta...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kuo CC,Wang SP,Grayston JT

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccine adjuvants exert critical and unique influences on the quality of immune responses induced during active immunizations. We investigated the mechanisms of action of immunological adjuvants in terms of their requirements for cytokine-mediated pathways for adjuvanticity. Antibody responses potentiated by several a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hui GS,Hashimoto CN

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies conducted with F1 and F2 progeny of crosses between strains of inbred mice that differ greatly in their capacity to make an antibody response to type III pneumococcal polysaccharide, dextran B-1355, and lipopolysaccharide from Escherichia coli 0113 have shown that multiple genes influence the magnitude of the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker PJ,Rudbach JA,Prescott B,Caldes G,Evans C,Stashak PW

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms by which Mycobacterium tuberculosis elicits disease are complex, involving a large repertoire of bacterial genes that are required for in vivo growth and survival. To identify such genes, we utilized a high-throughput microarray detection method to rapidly screen hundreds of unique, genotypically define...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lamichhane G,Tyagi S,Bishai WR

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One aspect in a broad spectrum of possible mechanisms of cariostatic reactions of fluoride is its interaction with the metabolism of oral bacteria. Information on the mechanisms and kinetics of fluoride inhibition of essential enzymes of the glycolytic pathway of the relevant bacteria is lacking. In this work, the iso...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hüther FJ,Psarros N,Duschner H

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine septicemic Escherichia coli 31A agglutinates bovine, rabbit, and human erythrocytes and adheres in vitro to the brush border of bovine or ovine intestinal epithelial cells and to the human colon carcinoma Caco-2 cell line. The adhesion and hemagglutination of E. coli 31A are mediated by a chromosome-encoded fim...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bertin Y,Girardeau JP,Darfeuille-Michaud A,Contrepois M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo accumulation of D-serine by Escherichia coli CFT073 leads to elevated expression of PAP fimbriae and hemolysin by an unknown mechanism. Loss of D-serine catabolism by CFT073 leads to a competitive advantage during murine urinary tract infection (UTI), but loss of both D- and L-serine catabolism results in atte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anfora AT,Halladin DK,Haugen BJ,Welch RA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans is one of the best-known biofilm-forming organisms associated with humans. We investigated the role of the sortase gene (srtA) in monospecies biofilm formation and observed that inactivation of srtA caused a decrease in biofilm formation. Genes encoding three putative sortase-dependent proteins we...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lévesque CM,Voronejskaia E,Huang YC,Mair RW,Ellen RP,Cvitkovitch DG

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that a mutant (designated C4) of Streptococcus mutans 6715 wild type (WT) is defective in glucosyltransferase (GTF)-synthesized insoluble glucan and is avirulent in gnotobiotic rats. This study investigated the factors which would render this mutant virulent in gnotobiotic rats. Microbial a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hirasawa M,Kiyono H,Shiota T,Hull RA,Curtiss R 3rd,Michalek SM,McGhee JR

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of adsorption of the Streptococcus mutans enzymes responsible for the synthesis of insoluble dextran-levan to the S. mutans cell-wall binding sites has been studied. Certain characteristics of these binding sites are presented. The adsorption of these enzymes to the cell surface occurred rapidly without ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mukasa H,Slade HD

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron microscopic examination of virulence plasmid-bearing cells of Yersinia enterocolitica revealed the formation of a fibril structure when grown at 37 degrees C but not at 22 degrees C. Plasmidless cells did not exhibit any surface matrix. The formation of this surface component was associated with increased cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lachica RV,Zink DL,Ferris WR

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obligate vacuolar pathogens produce proteins that localize to the host cell-derived membranes of the vacuoles in which they reside, yielding unique organelles that are optimally suited for pathogen survival. Anaplasma phagocytophilum is an obligate vacuolar bacterium that infects neutrophils and causes the emerging an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huang B,Troese MJ,Ye S,Sims JT,Galloway NL,Borjesson DL,Carlyon JA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent efforts to develop a vaccine against the diarrheal disease cholera have focused on the use of live attenuated strains of the causative organism, Vibrio cholerae. The Ogawa lipopolysaccharide phenotype is expressed by many epidemic strains, and motility defects reduce the risk of reactive diarrhea in vaccine rec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chiang SL,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major goal of current vaccine development is the induction of strong immune responses against protective antigens delivered by mucosal routes. One of the most promising approaches in that respect relies on the use of live recombinant vaccine carriers. In this study, Mycobacterium bovis BCG was engineered to produce ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kremer L,Dupré L,Riveau G,Capron A,Locht C

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exohemagglutinin was found in the culture medium of Bacteroides gingivalis 381. Exohemagglutinin was purified 3,150-fold from culture fluid by ultracentrifugation followed by gel filtration on Sepharose CL-4B and by affinity chromatography on arginine-agarose. Examination of the final preparation of exohemagglutinin b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Inoshita E,Amano A,Hanioka T,Tamagawa H,Shizukuishi S,Tsunemitsu A

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunocompromised patients are more susceptible to recurrent nontyphoidal Salmonella (NTS) bacteremia. A key manifestation of HIV infection is the loss of CD4 T cells, which are crucial for immunity to Salmonella infection. We characterized the consequences of CD4 T cell depletion in mice where virulent Salmonella est...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Loomis WP,Delaney MA,Johnson ML,Cookson BT

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Three parameters of rotavirus infection, i.e., clinical disease, viral antigen in infected intestines, and infectious virus in feces, were assessed in infant mice nursed by mothers with or without preexisting rotavirus antibody. Diarrhea was the only consistent sign of clinical disease, and its course followed that of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Little LM,Shadduck JA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00