Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium periplasmic superoxide dismutases SodCI and SodCII are required for protection against the phagocyte oxidative burst.

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus is an oyster-associated bacterial pathogen that causes life-threatening fulminating septicemia and necrotizing wound infections in humans. The capsular polysaccharide of V. vulnificus (VvPS) is critical for virulence. Previously we showed that active immunization of mice with a VvPS-tetanus toxoid (V...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Devi SJ,Hayat U,Powell JL,Morris JG Jr

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CC chemokine receptor 4 (CCR4) and its two ligands, CCL17 and CCL22, are critically involved in different immune processes. In models of lipopolysaccharide-induced shock, CCR4-deficient (CCR4(-/-)) mice showed improved survival rates associated with attenuated proinflammatory cytokine release. Using CCR4(-/-) mice wit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Traeger T,Kessler W,Assfalg V,Cziupka K,Koerner P,Dassow C,Breitbach K,Mikulcak M,Steinmetz I,Pfeffer K,Heidecke CD,Maier S

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli strain RDEC-1 causes a diarrheagenic infection in rabbits with AF/R1 fimbriae, which have been identified as an important colonization factor in RDEC-1 adherence leading to disease. The AF/R1-mediated RDEC-1 adherence model has been used as a model systems for E. coli diarrheal diseases. In this study...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ryu H,Kim YS,Grange PA,Cassels FJ

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative roles of serum factors required for opsonization of type XIV Streptococcus pneumoniae were investigated by means of luminol-enhanced chemiluminescence (CL), bactericidal, and immunofluorescence assays employing adult sera containing high (>1,000 ng of antibody nitrogen per ml) or low (<200 ng of antibody ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gardner SE,Anderson DC,Webb BJ,Stitzel AE,Edwards MS,Spitzer RE,Baker CJ

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid X, a precursor in the biosynthesis of lipid A, has been claimed to possess most of the immunostimulatory activity but none of the toxicity of endotoxin. However, recent work shows that synthetic lipid X can be contaminated with small amounts of N,O-acylated disaccharide-1-phosphate (H. Aschauer, A. Grob, J. Hild...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lam C,Hildebrandt J,Schütze E,Rosenwirth B,Proctor RA,Liehl E,Stütz P

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis L2 is an obligate intracellular microorganism with a unique biphasic life cycle. The extracellular form, the elementary body (EB), is infectious but metabolically inactive. Attachment of EBs to host cells is medicated by a heparan sulfate-like glycosaminoglycan. Following attachment, the EB is in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Birkelund S,Johnsen H,Christiansen G

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a leading cause of hospital-acquired pneumonia and chronic lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. Iron is essential for bacterial growth, and P. aeruginosa expresses multiple iron uptake systems, whose role in lung infection deserves further investigation. P. aeruginosa Fe(3+) uptake sy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Minandri F,Imperi F,Frangipani E,Bonchi C,Visaggio D,Facchini M,Pasquali P,Bragonzi A,Visca P

更新日期：2016-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease that is caused by the gram-negative bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The low efficacy of currently available killed-whole-cell vaccines and the reactinogenicity coupled with potential reversion of live vaccines have thus far precluded widespread vaccination for the control of cholera. R...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wu JY,Wade WF,Taylor RK

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological response to endotoxin mediated through the Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-MD-2 receptor complex is directly related to lipid A structure or configuration. Endotoxin structure may also influence activation of the MyD88-dependent and -independent signaling pathways of TLR4. To address this possibility, human...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zughaier SM,Zimmer SM,Datta A,Carlson RW,Stephens DS

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) after infection by Shigella dysenteriae 1 or enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli has been associated with the production of Shiga toxins (verotoxins). The putative target of Shiga toxins in HUS is the renal microvascular endothelium. This report shows that preincubation of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kaye SA,Louise CB,Boyd B,Lingwood CA,Obrig TG

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TB10.4 is a newly identified antigen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis recognized by human and murine T cells upon mycobacterial infection. Here, we show that immunization with Mycobacterium bovis BCG induces a strong, genetically controlled, Th1 immune response against TB10.4 in mice. BALB/c and C57BL/6 strains behave as...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hervas-Stubbs S,Majlessi L,Simsova M,Morova J,Rojas MJ,Nouzé C,Brodin P,Sebo P,Leclerc C

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) plays an important role in experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infections, presumably by controlling the early replication of parasites in host macrophages. In this work, we show that NK cells represent an important cell type responsible for the production of most of the IFN-gamma in the early ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cardillo F,Voltarelli JC,Reed SG,Silva JS

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the biological properties of a novel staphylococcal enterotoxin (SE)-like toxin type P (SElP). SElP induced a substantial proliferative response and the production of cytokines interleukin-2, gamma interferon, tumor necrosis factor alpha, and interleukin-4 from human T cells when administered at a conc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Omoe K,Imanishi K,Hu DL,Kato H,Fugane Y,Abe Y,Hamaoka S,Watanabe Y,Nakane A,Uchiyama T,Shinagawa K

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of peripheral blood mononuclear cells expanded with irrelevant control and mycobacterial antigens on the intracellular growth of Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) in human macrophages. More than 90% of the cells present after 1 week of in vitro expansion were CD3(+). T cell...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Worku S,Hoft DF

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dialyzable Lawrence-type transfer factor was prepared from the spleen cells of CF1 mice inoculated with Coccidioides immitis- and Candida albicans-killed vaccines and with live Mycobacterium tuberculosis vaccine (BCG). These preparations were shown to transfer antigen-specific cell-mediated immunity to naive mice, as ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rifkind D,Frey JA,Petersen EA,Dinowitz M

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hot phenol-water extraction of smooth Brucella abortus and B. melitensis cells yielded a toxic fraction which was recovered from the phenol phase (fraction 5). Chemically, fractions 5 from both Brucella species were lipid-carbohydrate-protein-2 keto-3-deoxyoctulosonic acid complexes which were stable to heat and resis...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leong D,Diaz R,Milner K,Rudbach J,Wilson JB

更新日期：1970-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucellosis is a costly disease of water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis). Latent infections and prolonged incubation of the pathogen limit the efficacy of programs based on the eradication of infected animals. We exploited genetic selection for disease resistance as an approach to the control of water buffalo brucellosis....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Borriello G,Capparelli R,Bianco M,Fenizia D,Alfano F,Capuano F,Ercolini D,Parisi A,Roperto S,Iannelli D

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Brucella abortus, a gene encoding a major cell envelope protein, omp2, is duplicated within a short segment of the large chromosomal DNA. Although both genes contain open reading frames, encoding proteins of high identity, expression from only one, omp2b, has been detected in laboratory-grown B. abortus. In the pre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marquis H,Ficht TA

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used an in vitro opsonophagocytic killing assay to measure the functional activity of antibody directed at the mucoid exopolysaccharide (MEP) antigen expressed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from cystic fibrosis patients. Rabbit antibodies raised to purified MEP were able to mediate phagocytic killing i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ames P,DesJardins D,Pier GB

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies have substantiated the pivotal role of innate defense mechanisms in protection against invasive aspergillosis. However, experiments demonstrating increased resistance to lethal intravenous (i.v.) infection with Aspergillus fumigatus conidia in cortisone-treated or untreated mice preinfected with a ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de Repentigny L,Petitbois S,Boushira M,Michaliszyn E,Sénéchal S,Gendron N,Montplaisir S

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma arthritidis induces an acute to chronic arthritis in rodents. Arthritis induced in mice histologically resembles human rheumatoid arthritis and can be associated with lethal toxicity following systemic injection. The M. arthritidis mitogen (MAM) superantigen has long been implicated as having a role in path...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Luo W,Yu H,Cao Z,Schoeb TR,Marron M,Dybvig K

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial adherence to mucosal surfaces is an important virulence trait of pathogenic bacteria. Adhesion of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) to the intestine is mediated by a number of antigenically distinct colonization factors (CFs). One of the most common CFs is CFA/I. This has a fimbrial structure composed ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jansson L,Tobias J,Lebens M,Svennerholm AM,Teneberg S

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous examination of thin sections of L929 cells heavily infected with the Q fever Priscilla isolate by conventional transmission electron microscopy indicated that the rickettsiae resided within multiple vacuoles. The present study using high-voltage electron microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction reveale...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hechemy KE,McKee M,Marko M,Samsonoff WA,Roman M,Baca O

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：:Many of the proinflammatory effects of gram-negative bacteria are elicited by the interaction of bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) with Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) expressed on host cells. TLR4 signaling leads to activation of NF-kappa B and transcription of many genes involved in the inflammatory response. In this s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li X,Tupper JC,Bannerman DD,Winn RK,Rhodes CJ,Harlan JM

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that plasmid-deficient Chlamydia muridarum retains the ability to infect the murine genital tract but does not elicit oviduct pathology because it fails to activate Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2). We derived a plasmid-cured derivative of the human genital isolate Chlamydia trachomatis D/UW-3/Cx...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： O'Connell CM,AbdelRahman YM,Green E,Darville HK,Saira K,Smith B,Darville T,Scurlock AM,Meyer CR,Belland RJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructural organization of Mycoplasma pneumoniae membranes and spatial relationships of this pathogen to epithelial cells in tracheal organ cultures were examined ultrastructurally by freeze-fracture techniques. Areas of morphologically distinct cell membrane variability characterized by membrane blebs and al...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carson JL,Collier AM,Hu SC

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Leishmania pifanoi amastigote antigen P-8 has been previously shown to induce protective immunity in a murine model of cutaneous leishmaniasis (L. Soong, S. M. Duboise, P. Kima, and D. McMahon-Pratt, Infect. Immun. 63:3559-3566, 1995). As this antigen is of interest for further vaccine studies, the biochemical cha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Colmenares M,Tiemeyer M,Kima P,McMahon-Pratt D

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to understand the mechanism of serum resistance in Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, in the present study we examined various interactions among the bacterial surface constituents, serum antibodies, and complement. Analysis of swine sera revealed the presence of anticapsular antibodies in convalescent-pha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Udeze FA,Kadis S

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines and their signaling pathways play key roles in protection from and pathogenesis of mycobacterial infection, and their balance and dynamic changes may control or predict clinical outcome. Peripheral blood cells' capacity to produce proinflammatory (tumor necrosis factor alpha [TNF-a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sahiratmadja E,Alisjahbana B,de Boer T,Adnan I,Maya A,Danusantoso H,Nelwan RH,Marzuki S,van der Meer JW,van Crevel R,van de Vosse E,Ottenhoff TH

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00