Uptake of Aspergillus fumigatus Conidia by phagocytic and nonphagocytic cells in vitro: quantitation using strains expressing green fluorescent protein.

abstract：:Because of the unavailability of a suitable antigen, specific in vitro lymphocyte reactivity has not been investigated in persons who have had systemic blastomycosis. Twelve persons who had recovered from blastomycosis were evaluated, and all were found to exhibit strongly positive and apparently specific in vitro cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bradsher RW,Alford RH

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane glycolipids contain the lactose sequence (galactose linked to glucose), and the oligosaccharide is variously extended such that there is a cell-type-specific repertoire. In this study, binding of Pseudomonas aeruginosa M35 to lipid-linked lactose (Gal beta 1-4Glc [structure 1]), lacto-N-neotetraose (Gal beta ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosenstein IJ,Yuen CT,Stoll MS,Feizi T

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa can invade corneal epithelial cells and translocates multilayered corneal epithelia in vitro, but it does not penetrate the intact corneal epithelium in vivo. In healthy corneas, the epithelium is separated from the underlying stroma by a basement membrane containing extracellular matrix protein...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alarcon I,Kwan L,Yu C,Evans DJ,Fleiszig SM

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of host age and health status on the adherence of mannose-sensitive piliated Escherichia coli K1 to human oral epithelial cells. Mannose-sensitive piliated bacteria adhered in comparable numbers to newborn, older infant, and adult cells (125 +/- 61, 198 +/- 54, and 139 +/- 69 bacteria per cell, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clegg H,Guerina N,Langermann S,Kessler TW,Guerina V,Goldmann D

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of a nutritionally deficient streptococcus was shown to undergo morphological aberrations according to pyridoxal concentrations in the growth medium. Filamentous rod-shaped cells, observed by electron microscopy, predominated in the presence of decreasing concentrations. Multiple invaginations in the outer ce...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clark RB,Gordon RE,Bottone EJ,Reitano M

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum antibody response and four different cellular immune responses (cytotoxic T cells, delayed-type hypersensitivity T cells, natural killer cells, and cytotoxic macrophage levels) induced in CBA/H mice were measured at different times after intranasal inoculation of a cold-adapted (ca) variant of influenza A vi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mak NK,Zhang YH,Ada GL,Tannock GA

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free lipid A of Bordetella pertussis, Neisseria meningitidis, and Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was prepared by hydrolysis in acetate buffer (pH 4.5); in addition, lipid A from B. pertussis and E. coli was prepared by hydrolysis in mineral acid (HCl). The precipitates obtained were purified by extraction m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Caroff M,Cavaillon JM,Fitting C,Haeffner-Cavaillon N

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lectin with strong hemagglutinating activity toward erythrocytes of several animal species was isolated from an 18-h culture supernatant of a diarrheagenic strain, V2, of non-O1 Vibrio cholerae. The hemagglutinin (HA) was purified free of lipopolysaccharide by salt fractionation followed by gel filtration, hydrophob...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Banerjee KK,Ghosh AN,Dutta-Roy K,Pal SC,Ghose AC

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunogenicity of the two major group 19 pneumococcal polysaccharides, types 19F and 19A, was studied in human volunteers. Antibody responses after vaccination with either 50 micrograms of type 19F polysaccharide, 50 micrograms of type 19A polysaccharide, or 25 micrograms of both polysaccharides premixed in a sing...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Penn RL,Lewin EB,Douglas RG Jr,Schiffman G,Lee CJ,Robbins JB

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyme disease (LD), the most prevalent tick-borne illness in North America, is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi The long-term survival of B. burgdorferi spirochetes in the mammalian host is achieved though VlsE-mediated antigenic variation. It is mathematically predicted that a highly variable surface antigen prolongs ba...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogovskyy AS,Gillis DC,Ionov Y,Gerasimov E,Zelikovsky A

更新日期：2016-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunity to reinfection in the genital tract of female guinea pigs with the agent of guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis was found to be dependent upon an intact humoral immune response. Cell-mediated immunity in the absence of humoral immunity had no apparent role in resistance to challenge infection. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rank RG,Barron AL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella abortus endotoxin preparations, containing approximately 5 to 6% protein, induce strong immune and adjuvant immunoglobulin G (IgG) responses as compared with Escherichia coli endotoxin preparations, with equivalent amounts of protein, which induce responses in which IgM antibody predominates. Using an enzyme-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kurtz RS,Berman DT

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli strains produce at least two heat-stable enterotoxins, STa and STb. STa is well known to be important in the pathogenesis of human diarrheal disease; the role of STb has not been defined. Fifty-two E. coli strains recovered from human diarrheal illness in northeast Brazil or Bangladesh were examined i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weikel CS,Tiemens KM,Moseley SL,Huq IM,Guerrant RL

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate diagnosis and early treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB infection (LTBI) are vital to prevent and control TB. The lack of specific biomarkers hinders these efforts. This study's purpose was to screen immunological markers that discriminate Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection outcomes in a setting wh...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Teklu T,Kwon K,Wondale B,HaileMariam M,Zewude A,Medhin G,Legesse M,Pieper R,Ameni G

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, one of Mycobacterium kansasii (nonsignificant), and one of Mycobacterium phlei were submitted to starvation. As a result they lost first their acid fastness and then all other staining affinities but, in this chromophobic state, they survived for at least 2 years and, after ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nyka W

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, is able to persistently infect humans and animals for months or years in the presence of an active immune response. It is not known how the organisms survive immune attack in the mammalian host. vlsE, a gene localized near one end of linear plasmid lp28-1 and encoding a su...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang JR,Norris SJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of infection with Rowson-Parr virus (RPV), an associated virus present in Friend virus (FV) preparations, on the splenic plaque-forming cell response to sheep red cells in adult mice and on the plaque-forming cell response of peritoneal cells in vitro have been investigated. The results support the hypothe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bendinelli M,Nardini L

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid A portion has been identified as the active center responsible for lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced macrophage activation. However, we found that Salmonella (Salmonella enterica serovars Abortusequi, Minnesota, and Typhimurium) lipid A is inactive in human macrophages, despite its LPS being highly active. Th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Muroi M,Tanamoto K

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diarrheagenic pathogen enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is responsible for significant infant mortality and morbidity, particularly in developing countries. EPEC pathogenesis relies on a type III secretion system-mediated transfer of virulence effectors into host cells. EPEC modulates host cell survival an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Roxas JL,Koutsouris A,Viswanathan VK

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:Although Streptococcus intermedius and Streptococcus mutans are regarded as members of the commensal microflora of the body, S. intermedius is often associated with deep-seated purulent infections, whereas S. mutans is frequently associated with dental caries. In this study, we investigated the roles of the S. mutans ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Petersen FC,Assev S,van der Mei HC,Busscher HJ,Scheie AA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In experimentally infected human volunteers, the cutaneous immune response to Haemophilus ducreyi is orchestrated by serum, polymorphonuclear leukocytes, macrophages, T cells, and myeloid dendritic cells (DC). This response either leads to spontaneous resolution of infection or progresses to pustule formation, which i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Humphreys TL,Li L,Li X,Janowicz DM,Fortney KR,Zhao Q,Li W,McClintick J,Katz BP,Wilkes DS,Edenberg HJ,Spinola SM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is a leading cause of infectious diarrhea throughout the world. In addition, there is growing evidence that Guillain-Barré syndrome, an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the peripheral nervous system, is frequently preceded by C. jejuni infection. In the present study, the hrcA-grpE-dnaK gene ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thies FL,Karch H,Hartung HP,Giegerich G

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is an intracellular bacterial pathogen which causes bacteremia and has a tropism for the central nervous system and a propensity to cause maternofetal infection. L. monocytogenes has been shown to be an effective prophylactic and a therapeutic vaccine vector for viral and tumor antigens in anima...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Angelakopoulos H,Loock K,Sisul DM,Jensen ER,Miller JF,Hohmann EL

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using polystyrene microspheres coated with heparin or heparan sulfate, it was shown that coated microspheres specifically bound eukaryotic cells and were endocytosed by nonprofessional phagocytic cells. Coated microspheres displayed properties of binding to eukaryotic cells that were similar to those of chlamydiae, an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stephens RS,Fawaz FS,Kennedy KA,Koshiyama K,Nichols B,van Ooij C,Engel JN

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental model of "chronic" diphtheria intoxication in the guinea pig was developed. Adult guinea pigs, subjected to a regimen of multiple sublethal doses of purified diphtheria toxin (total of 1.4 minimum lethal doses divided equally in four daily doses), developed a toxemia which terminated in death between 6...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bonventre PF

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific stimulation of T cells by phytohemagglutinin and Lens culinaris lectin was inhibited by a soluble factor(s) secreted by normal adherent cells stimulated with culture filtrate protein extract (CFPE) derived from bacterial cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra (avirulent) and H37Rv (virulent). The induct...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Parra C,Montaño LF,Huesca M,Rayón I,Willms K,Goodsaid F

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodontitis is the inflammatory response in periodontal tissues elicited by bacterial colonization in periodontal pockets. In this response, pocket epithelial cells are the first cells to come into contact with bacteria. To elucidate this mechanism, we determined the adherence of the periodontopathic bacterium Eiken...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yumoto H,Nakae H,Fujinaka K,Ebisu S,Matsuo T

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of receptor binding in the toxicity, immunogenicity, and adjuvanticity of the heat-labile enterotoxin of Escherichia coli (LT) was examined by comparing native LT and LT(G33D), a B-subunit receptor binding mutant, with respect to the ability to bind to galactose and to GM1, toxicity on mouse Y-1 adrenal tumor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guidry JJ,Cárdenas L,Cheng E,Clements JD

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syphilis has been recognized as a disease since the late 1400s, yet there is no practical vaccine available. One impediment to the development of a vaccine is the lack of understanding of multiple reinfections in humans despite the development of robust immune responses during the first episode. It has been shown that...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Morgan CA,Lukehart SA,Van Voorhis WC

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00