Enhancement of protective efficacy following intranasal immunization with vaccine plus a nontoxic LTK63 mutant delivered with nanoparticles.

abstract：:Representative isolates of nonmucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa were studied to investigate the hypothesis that mucinophilic and chemotactic properties in this species act as potential factors in the initial stages of pulmonary colonization in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Transmission electron microscopy with a sur...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nelson JW,Tredgett MW,Sheehan JK,Thornton DJ,Notman D,Govan JR

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preexisting antivector immunity can severely compromise the ability of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium live vaccines to induce protective CD8 T-cell frequencies after type III secretion system-mediated heterologous protein translocation in orally immunized mice. To circumvent this problem, we injected CpG DNA ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Berchtold C,Panthel K,Jellbauer S,Köhn B,Roider E,Partilla M,Heesemann J,Endres S,Bourquin C,Rüssmann H

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total and insoluble dextransucrase activities were measured in cell-associated and supernatant fractions of Streptococcus mutans GS-5 grown in several media. Although the amount of cell-associated and supernatant activity varied greatly as a function of medium, the total activity appeared constant. The distribution of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Montville TJ,Cooney CL,Sinskey AJ

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody (MAb) to Candida albicans (MAb B6.1) that protects against candidiasis and the nonprotective MAb B6 were compared for ability to support neutrophil (polymorphonuclear leukocyte [PMN]) candidacidal activity. Both MAbs are immunoglobulin M, and each recognizes distinct C. albicans mannan cell wall ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Caesar-TonThat TC,Cutler JE

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of the growth medium on the ability of strains of Streptococcus mutans, Actinomyces viscosus and A. naeslundii to attach to saliva-treated hydroxyapatite (S-HA) surfaces was studied. Preliminary experiments indicated that cells of each species harvested in lag, log, and early stationary phases of growth ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peros WJ,Gibbons RJ

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells are considered to be key players in the early innate responses to protozoan infections, primarily indirectly by producing gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in response to cytokines, like interleukin 12 (IL-12). We demonstrate that live, as well as heat-inactivated, tachyzoites of Neospora caninum,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boysen P,Klevar S,Olsen I,Storset AK

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that immune-mediated gastric epithelial cell apoptosis through Fas-Fas ligand interactions participates in Helicobacter pylori disease pathogenesis. To define the role of Fas signaling in vivo, H. pylori strain SS1 infection in C57BL/6 mice was compared to that in mice deficient in the Fas lig...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jones NL,Day AS,Jennings H,Shannon PT,Galindo-Mata E,Sherman PM

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cord factor (trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate[TDM] ), a mixture of 6,6'-diesters of alpha, alpha-D-trehalose with natural mycolic acids, has been described as having immunoregulatory and antitumor activities in vivo, although the relevant mechanisms of action remain unelucidated. In this work, we measured the effects of TDM ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kierszenbaum F,Zenian A,Wirth JJ

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies against 12 of the 17 IATS serotype strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were produced. Eighty-seven hybridoma clones were isolated, and the antibodies secreted were found to be reactive with both Formalin-fixed whole cells and purified lipopolysaccharide of homologous strains in enzyme-linked immuno...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lam JS,MacDonald LA,Lam MY,Duchesne LG,Southam GG

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytolethal distending toxins (CDT) constitute an emerging heterogeneous family of bacterial toxins whose common biological property is to inhibit the proliferation of cells in culture by blocking their cycle at G2/M phase. In this study, we investigated the molecular mechanisms underlying the block caused by CDT from ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Comayras C,Tasca C,Pérès SY,Ducommun B,Oswald E,De Rycke J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated immunity to varicella-zoster (V-Z) virus in persons immune to varicella has been demonstrated, using a tissue culture technique. Cell-mediated immunity was reflected by the ability of peripheral leukocytes (lymphocytes and monocytes) from human donors to inactivate V-Z virus. Leukocytes were stimulated b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gershon AA,Steinberg S,Smith M

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar bone resorption can be induced in specific-pathogen-free mice by oral infection with Porphyromonas gingivalis (P. J. Baker, R. T. Evans, and D. C. Roopenian, Arch. Oral Biol. 39:1035-1040, 1994). Here we used a mouse strain, C57BL/6J, which is relatively resistant to P. gingivalis-induced bone loss to examine...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker PJ,DuFour L,Dixon M,Roopenian DC

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The T-cell-stimulating activity of staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) is an important factor in the pathogenesis of certain staphylococcal diseases. To investigate the immunologically active domains of the SEB molecule, we have produced truncated fragments of recombinant SEB by C-terminal and N-terminal deletions. The...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Metzroth B,Marx T,Linnig M,Fleischer B

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichinella spiralis creates a unique intracellular habitat in striated muscle. We report that a proteoglycan, syndecan-1, is induced early in infection yet is not essential for habitat development and exerts a modest influence on the immune response. This report is the first to address the requirement for a specific ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Beiting DP,Park PW,Appleton JA

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2001, a bioterrorism attack involving Bacillus anthracis spore-laced letters resulted in 22 cases of inhalation anthrax, with five fatalities. This incident identified gaps in our health care system and precipitated a renewed interest in identifying both therapeutics and rapid diagnostic assays. To address those ga...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rossi CA,Ulrich M,Norris S,Reed DS,Pitt LM,Leffel EK

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid hydrolysates of the type-specific main (TM) antigen isolated from Leptospira kremastos strain Kyoto showed a considerable inhibition of complement fixation reaction between TM antigen and anti-strain Kyoto serum. A fraction of 2 N HCl hydrolysate containing exclusively a large amount of neutral sugars showed no i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Adachi Y,Yanagawa R

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis, a bacterium associated with active chronic periodontitis lesions, produces several proteolytic enzymes that are thought to be involved in host colonization, perturbation of the immune system, and tissue destruction. The aim of the present study was to investigate the contribution of Arg- and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grenier D,Imbeault S,Plamondon P,Grenier G,Nakayama K,Mayrand D

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a genetic disorder of NADPH oxidase in which phagocytes are defective in generating reactive oxidants. CGD patients suffer from recurrent infections and exuberant and persistent tissue granuloma formation. We hypothesized that abnormal granulomata in CGD may result from aberrant ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Segal BH,Doherty TM,Wynn TA,Cheever AW,Sher A,Holland SM

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae is the causative bacteria of the diarrheal disease cholera, but it also persists in aquatic environments, where it displays an expression profile that is distinct from that during infection. Upon entry into the host, a tightly regulated circuit coordinates the induction of two major virulence factors: ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hay AJ,Yang M,Xia X,Liu Z,Hammons J,Fenical W,Zhu J

更新日期：2016-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A persistent Staphylococcus epidermidis infection in mice around a subcutaneous polyvinylpyrrolidone-grafted silicon elastomer catheter (SEpvp) but not around a conventional silicon elastomer catheter was observed. With SEpvp pericatheter tissue, protracted and exaggerated interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) production was f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boelens JJ,Zaat SA,Murk JL,Weening JJ,van Der Poll T,Dankert J

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human systemic antibody levels to oral members of the Bacteroides genus were assessed with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Antibody levels to B. gingivalis, two homology groups of B. intermedius, B. melaninogenicus, B. denticola, B. loescheii, B. corporis, B. oralis, B. buccae, and B. gracilis were determined in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ebersole JL,Taubman MA,Smith DJ,Frey DE

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments outlined here investigate the role of nitric oxide (NO) in the pathogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum-induced malarial anemia (MA). The results show that ex vivo and in vitro NO synthase (NOS) activity in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) is significantly elevated in children with MA and inversely ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Keller CC,Kremsner PG,Hittner JB,Misukonis MA,Weinberg JB,Perkins DJ

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of intracellular pathogens to sense and adapt to the hostile environment of the host is an important factor governing virulence. We have sequenced the operon encoding the major heat shock proteins GroES and GroEL in the gram-positive food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. The operon has a conserved or...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gahan CG,O'Mahony J,Hill C

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, exists in a zoonotic cycle involving an arthropod tick and mammalian host. Dissemination of the organism within and between these hosts depends upon the spirochete's ability to traverse through complex tissues. Additionally, the spirochete outruns the host immune cell...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sultan SZ,Manne A,Stewart PE,Bestor A,Rosa PA,Charon NW,Motaleb MA

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the role of endogenous gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in the formation of granulomas in mice which had been given a single intravenous injection of glycolipid-containing mycolic acid (trehalose 2,3,6'-trimycolate) purified from cell walls of Rhodococcus aurantiacus (Gordona aurantiaca) (GaGM) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Asano M,Nakane A,Minagawa T

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were conducted in which rhesus monkeys were infected with mumps virus by inoculation into the parotid gland. Virus was isolated from buccal swab specimens from animals up to 6 days after inoculation. Immunofluorescence staining for mumps antigen was positive, and infectious virus was recovered from tissue ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Flanagan TD,Andrada JA,Barron AL,Witebsky E

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children are more resistant to gingivitis than are adults. To determine possible differences in their periodontal floras, an experimental gingivitis study, identical in design to one reported earlier with young adults, was conducted with four 4- to 6-year-old children. The incidence of sites that developed gingival in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moore WE,Holdeman LV,Smibert RM,Cato EP,Burmeister JA,Palcanis KG,Ranney RR

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable evidence supports the concept that CD4(+) T cells are important in sarcoidosis pathogenesis, but the antigens responsible for the observed Th1 immunophenotype remain elusive. The epidemiologic association with bioaerosols and the presence of granulomatous inflammation support consideration of mycobacteria...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Oswald-Richter KA,Culver DA,Hawkins C,Hajizadeh R,Abraham S,Shepherd BE,Jenkins CA,Judson MA,Drake WP

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initiation of a gonococcal infection involves attachment of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to the plasma membrane of an epithelial cell in the mucosal epithelium and its internalization, transepithelial trafficking, and exocytosis from the basal membrane. Piliation and expression of certain Opa proteins and the immunoglobulin ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hopper S,Wilbur JS,Vasquez BL,Larson J,Clary S,Mehr IJ,Seifert HS,So M

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary antibody response of BALB/c splenocytes to sheep erythrocytes in vitro was suppressed by infection with Friend leukemia virus (FLV), with the response capacity decreasing with increasing duration of infection. The acquisition of normal antibody responses was amplified by macrophage-produced antibody respon...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Butler RC,Frier JM,Chapekar MS,Graham MO,Friedman H

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00