Fibronectin attachment protein is necessary for efficient attachment and invasion of epithelial cells by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis.

abstract：:Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) constitute the majority of nosocomial UTIs and pose significant clinical challenges. Enterococcal species are among the predominant causative agents of CAUTIs. However, very little is known about the pathophysiology of Enterococcus-mediated UTIs. We optimized a mur...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guiton PS,Hung CS,Hancock LE,Caparon MG,Hultgren SJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous studies demonstrated that Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) can directly interact with human NK cells and induce the proliferation, gamma interferon production, and cytotoxic activity of such cells without the need for accessory cells. Thus, the aim of the present study was to identify th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Esin S,Batoni G,Counoupas C,Stringaro A,Brancatisano FL,Colone M,Maisetta G,Florio W,Arancia G,Campa M

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of enhanced resistance of Mycobacterium bovis BCG-treated mice to ectromelia virus infection was investigated by determining the effect of splenectomy, antithymocyte serum, and antimacrophage serum on resistance. It was greatly reduced by these treatments, not only in normal mice, but also in mice treate...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sakuma T,Suenaga T,Yoshida I,Azuma M

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis remains the leading cause of death among infectious diseases, accounting for more than two million deaths annually. The incidence of the disease is increasing globally, partially because of the resurgence of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Calixarenes are macrocyclic oligomers, some ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Colston MJ,Hailes HC,Stavropoulos E,Hervé AC,Hervé G,Goodworth KJ,Hill AM,Jenner P,Hart PD,Tascon RE

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new strategy for rapidly selecting and testing genetic vaccines has been developed, in which a whole genome library is cloned into a bacteriophage lambda ZAP Express vector which contains both prokaryotic (P(lac)) and eukaryotic (P(CMV)) promoters upstream of the insertion site. The phage library is plated on Escher...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： March JB,Jepson CD,Clark JR,Totsika M,Calcutt MJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：: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：:The intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes replicates mainly in resting macrophages and hepatocytes residing in infected tissues. Both innate and acquired resistance strongly depend on activation of listericidal capacities of macrophages by gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) produced by natural killer cells and T lym...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Szalay G,Hess J,Kaufmann SH

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collectins play important roles in host defense against infectious microorganisms. We now demonstrate that the serum collectins mannose-binding lectin (MBL) and conglutinin have less ability to bind to, aggregate, and enhance neutrophil uptake of several strains of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria than pulmona...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hartshorn KL,White MR,Crouch EC

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyinosinate-polycytidylate [poly(I).poly(C)]-induced interferon production in cultures of human foreskin fibroblast strains was increased by ultraviolet irradiation of cells at the time of exposure to inducer or at 2 h after induction. Incubation of cells with interferon prior to induction (priming) and ultraviolet ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mozes LW,Havell EA,Gradoville ML,Vilcek J

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acute and persistent eosinophil infiltration is observed during Mycobacterium bovis BCG pleural infection in mice. Eosinophil accumulation, lipid body formation, and eotaxin production were significantly reduced in BCG-infected Toll-like receptor-2 (TLR2)-deficient mice compared to wild-type mice. Neutralization of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： D'Avila H,Almeida PE,Roque NR,Castro-Faria-Neto HC,Bozza PT

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) frequently occurs in patients with respiratory disease and is particularly prevalent in patients with cystic fibrosis. GER is a condition in which the duodenogastric contents of the stomach leak into the esophagus, in many cases resulting in aspiration into the respiratory tract. As such,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Legendre C,Reen FJ,Woods DF,Mooij MJ,Adams C,O'Gara F

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III secretion system (T3SS) plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of many Gram-negative bacteria, including Edwardsiella tarda, an important fish pathogen. Within the E. tarda T3SS, there are three proteins (EsaB/EsaL/EsaM) that are homologous to proteins present in many other bacteria, including SpiC/SsaL...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liu LY,Nie P,Yu HB,Xie HX

更新日期：2017-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a PCR-based strategy and degenerate oligonucleotides, we isolated a Legionella pneumophila gene that showed high sequence similarity to members of the fliI gene family. An insertion mutation that disrupted the fliI open reading frame was recombined onto the L. pneumophila chromosome and analyzed for its effects ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Merriam JJ,Mathur R,Maxfield-Boumil R,Isberg RR

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridomas secreting monoclonal antibodies against an apparent strain-specific cell surface antigen of Neisseria gonorrhoeae were produced. Spleen cells from BALB/c mice immunized with whole gonococci were fused with mouse myeloma cell line Sp2/0, and hybrid cells were selected in culture. One hybridoma that secreted ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nachamkin I,Cannon JG,Mittler RS

更新日期：1981-05-01 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：:Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PcP) is a clinically important infection of immunocompromised patients. Although the interaction of Pneumocystis with the alveolar epithelium has been well documented, very little information regarding the epithelial response to Pneumocystis is currently available. In order to study Pne...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang J,Gigliotti F,Maggirwar S,Johnston C,Finkelstein JN,Wright TW

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL12RB1 is a human gene that is important for resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. IL12RB1 is expressed by multiple leukocyte lineages, and encodes a type I transmembrane protein (IL12Rβ1) that associates with IL12p40 and promotes the development of host-protective T(H)1 cells. Recently, we observed tha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ray AA,Fountain JJ,Miller HE,Cooper AM,Robinson RT

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis, the causal agent of anthrax, synthesizes two surface layer (S-layer) proteins, EA1 and Sap, which account for 5 to 10% of total protein and are expressed in vivo. A recombinant B. anthracis strain was constructed by integrating into the chromosome a translational fusion harboring the DNA fragments ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mesnage S,Weber-Levy M,Haustant M,Mock M,Fouet A

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the secondary infection with Toxoplasma gondii on antibody responses to unrelated antigens was examined in mice. A reinfection with 5 X 10(3) organisms did not affect either primary anti-sheep erythrocyte antibody responses, or anti-dinitrophenol antibody responses to dinitrophenylated keyhole limpet hem...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suzuki Y,Kobayashi A

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenicity islands (PAIs) are chromosomal clusters of pathogen-specific virulence genes often found at tRNA loci. In the Yersinia pseudotuberculosis 32777 chromosome, we characterized a 98-kb segment that has all of the characteristic features of a PAI, including insertion in a (phenylalanine) tRNA gene, the presen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Collyn F,Billault A,Mullet C,Simonet M,Marceau M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP and UTP have been proposed for use as therapeutic treatment of the abnormal ion transport in the airway epithelium in cystic fibrosis (CF), the most characteristic feature of which is permanent infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. As for diverse gram-negative bacteria, this pathogenic bacterium accumulates diffusi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Saleh A,Figarella C,Kammouni W,Marchand-Pinatel S,Lazdunski A,Tubul A,Brun P,Merten MD

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in gram-negative bacterial repeats-in-toxin (RTX) toxin preparations, as well as the harsh conditions required to remove it, suggests that LPS may complex with RTX toxins. Concentrated culture supernatant (CCS) preparations of the RTX toxin Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin (L...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li J,Clinkenbeard KD

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brewer thioglycolate medium, a bacterial culture medium which is widely used as a nonspecific in vivo macrophage stimulant, was tested for its effect on mouse resistance to bacterial infection. Mice which did or did not receive thioglycolate medium were challenged with Listeria monocytogenes. Injection of thioglycolat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker LA,Campbell PA

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 75-kilodalton major protein (75K protein) was purified to homogeneity from the cell lysate fraction and the envelope of Bacteroides gingivalis 381. The 75K protein was originally present in the outer membrane or the outermost part of this organism as a large, stable complex with an apparent molecular weight of about...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yoshimura F,Watanabe K,Takasawa T,Kawanami M,Kato H

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clone expressing a 58-kDa protein reactive with human convalescent-phase serum was isolated from a recombinant library of Ehrlichia chaffeensis, the etiologic agent of human ehrlichiosis. Sequencing identified two open reading frames, one encoding a 10.3-kDa polypeptide consisting of 94 amino acids and another encod...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sumner JW,Sims KG,Jones DC,Anderson BE

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine monoclonal and rabbit, murine, and human polyclonal antibodies against chlamydial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were characterized by the passive hemolysis and passive hemolysis inhibition assays and by absorption experiments with LPSs of Chlamydia psittaci, Chlamydia trachomatis, and a recombinant strain of Salmone...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brade L,Holst O,Kosma P,Zhang YX,Paulsen H,Krausse R,Brade H

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some interrelationships among age, ambient temperature, intestinal transit, and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection were studied in an infant mouse model. The transit of dye in the small intestine was accelerated during the response to heat-stable E. coli enterotoxin. Transit in the small intestine of normal mi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moon HW,Fung PY,Isaacson RE,Booth GD

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only listeriolysin O (LLO)-producing strains of Listeria monocytogenes generate protective immunity in mice. Based on the findings that endogenous gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) production was induced only by such strains and that purified LLO could induce IFN-gamma from NK cells, we have postulated that LLO may play a ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tanabe Y,Xiong H,Nomura T,Arakawa M,Mitsuyama M

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified cell walls representing a wide variety in teichoic acid and peptidoglycan structure prepared from eight different gram-positive bacterial species induced the production of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and interleukin-6 from human monocytes in the presence of 10% plasma or serum. Significant amounts...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heumann D,Barras C,Severin A,Glauser MP,Tomasz A

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00