A new vaccine against tuberculosis affords greater survival after challenge than the current vaccine in the guinea pig model of pulmonary tuberculosis.

abstract：:Outer membrane protein F (porin) was purified by extraction from polyacrylamide gels of cell envelope proteins of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 strain. Rats were immunized intramuscularly with 25 micrograms of protein F on days 1 and 14 and then challenged on day 28 via intratracheal inoculation of bacterium-contain...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gilleland HE Jr,Gilleland LB,Matthews-Greer JM

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori mutants devoid of urease activity fail to colonize the gastric mucosa of mice; however, the effect of decreased levels of urease on colonization has not been examined. The nixA gene, required for full urease activity, encodes a cytoplasmic membrane nickel transporter that imports nickel ions and le...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nolan KJ,McGee DJ,Mitchell HM,Kolesnikow T,Harro JM,O'Rourke J,Wilson JE,Danon SJ,Moss ND,Mobley HL,Lee A

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At pH 7.4 and in the presence of NaHCO3, human milk and bovine colostrum inhibited the growth of Escherichia coli O111. Adding sufficient iron to saturate the iron-binding capacity of the lactoferrin present in the milk or colostrum prevented bacteriostasis. At pH 6.8 neither molk nor colostrum inhibited E. coli 0111....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Griffiths E,Humphreys J

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A live, attenuated, recombinant influenza vaccine (Alice strain) administered intranasally was evaluated in high school students and compared with intranasal placebo and subcutaneous, inactivated, bivalent influenza vaccine. The Alice strain was antigenic, increasing the geometric mean titer (GMT) from a prestudy leve...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schiff GM,Linnemann CC Jr,shea L,Lange B,Rotte T

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pigs sensitized by repeated skin testing with potent, merthiolated coccidioidin, equal to Smith standard, exhibited erythema, edema, and an induration-like reaction to intradermal injection of the preparation. No statistically significant migration inhibition of peritoneal exudate macrophages from these animals...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sinski JT,Reed GL,Kelley LM,LeFebvre R

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) plays a pathophysiologic role in sepsis induced in rat pups by group B streptococci (GBS). In this model, TNF-alpha is also partially responsible for the induction of interleukin-6 (IL-6). The present study was undertaken to investigate the role ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mancuso G,Tomasello F,Migliardo M,Delfino D,Cochran J,Cook JA,Teti G

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) specific for the heat-stable enterotoxin (STh) of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli was produced. All four MAbs (8G7, 53-4, 11C, and SH1) bound to native STh in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to various degrees, with clone SH1 showing the best affinity. The MAbs were screen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takeda T,Nair GB,Suzuki K,Zhe HX,Yokoo Y,De Mol P,Hemelhof W,Butzler JP,Takeda Y,Shimonishi Y

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence of 58 nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae isolates obtained from patients with otitis media or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and obtained from the throats of healthy individuals to Chang and NCI-H292 epithelial cells was compared. Otitis media isolates, but not COPD isolates, adhered signif...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van Schilfgaarde M,van Ulsen P,Eijk P,Brand M,Stam M,Kouame J,van Alphen L,Dankert J

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the microbicidal peptides MCP-1 and MCP-2 in rabbit alveolar macrophages (AM), comparing rabbits pretreated with complete Freund adjuvant with untreated control animals. Levels of MCP-1 increased from 4.7 +/- 0.6 microgram/10(7) resident AM to 13.2 +/- 0.1 microgram/10(7) complete Freund adjuvant-elicited ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lehrer RI,Szklarek D,Selsted ME,Fleischmann J

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus nitric oxide synthase (saNOS) is a major contributor to virulence, stress resistance, and physiology, yet the specific mechanism(s) by which saNOS intersects with other known regulatory circuits is largely unknown. The SrrAB two-component system, which modulates gene expression in response to the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： James KL,Mogen AB,Brandwein JN,Orsini SS,Ridder MJ,Markiewicz MA,Bose JL,Rice KC

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we demonstrate the capability of Chlamydia trachomatis to infect cultured human mesothelial cell (MC) monolayers and to induce the production of the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin 1beta (IL-1beta) and IL-8. Seventy-two hours after initial infection, both the procoagulant activity of MC and the act...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van Westreenen M,Pronk A,Diepersloot RJ,de Groot PG,Leguit P

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that splenocytes from mice acutely infected with Trypanosoma cruzi exhibit high levels of nitric oxide (NO)-mediated apoptosis. In the present study, we used the gamma interferon (IFN-gamma)-knockout (IFN-gamma(-/-)) mice to investigate the role of IFN-gamma in modulating apoptosis induction a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Martins GA,Vieira LQ,Cunha FQ,Silva JS

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major outer membrane protein (P2) of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) with an apparent molecular weight of 37,000 to 40,000 has been previously shown to function as a porin and also as a target for antibodies protective against experimental Hib disease. The gene encoding the Hib P2 protein was cloned by using a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hansen EJ,Gonzales FR,Chamberlain NR,Norgard MV,Miller EE,Cope LD,Pelzel SE,Gaddy B,Clausell A

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-O-methylmannose isolated from Coccidioides immitis was characterized by gas chromatographic comparison of derivatives with those of synthetic 3-O-methylmannose. Gas chromatographic behavior of three derivatives of the natural and synthetic sugars was identical. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Porter JF,Scheer ER,Wheat RW

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplasma phagocytophilum is an obligate intracellular bacterium that infects myeloid cells in the mammalian host. Msp2 (p44) is the major immunodominant outer-membrane protein of these bacteria. We hypothesized that Msp2 acts as an adhesin for A. phagocytophilum entry into granulocytes. This potential role was invest...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Park J,Choi KS,Dumler JS

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsular glucuronoxylomannans (GXM) of Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans isolates from patients with recurrent cryptococcal meningitis were analyzed by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and for reactivity with factor sera (Iatron, Tokyo, Japan). For each patient the initial and relapse isolates had prev...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cherniak R,Morris LC,Belay T,Spitzer ED,Casadevall A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method was developed to test for the ability of Escherichia coli to adhere to isolated intestinal epithelial cells. Of the E. coli tested, those having either K88ac or K88ab antigens adhered to the cells, and those which did not have these antigens did not. Since some enteropathogenic E. coli did not have the abilit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wilson MR,Hohmann AW

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hemolysin that appears to be responsible for the zones of beta-hemolysis surrounding colonies of group B streptococci (Streptococcus agalactiae) on blood agar plates has been isolated and partially purified. No soluble hemolysin was detectable in the supernatants of streptococcal cultures grown in several types of m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marchlewicz BA,Duncan JL

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of (125)I-labeled S component to rabbit polymorphonuclear leukocytes was found to be concentration dependent and saturable at 37 degrees C. Scatchard analysis of the binding curve gave a straight line, indicating that S component binds to a single population of sites. The dissociation constant, K(D), deriv...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Noda M,Kato I,Matsuda F,Hirayama T

更新日期：1981-11-01 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：:A nonclonal population of Borrelia burgdorferi N40 (passage 3) that survived protective immunity following challenge inoculation of outer surface protein (Osp) A- or B-hyperimmunized mice were characterized for the molecular basis of evasion of immunity. Two of six B. burgdorferi isolates, cultured from OspA-immunized...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fikrig E,Tao H,Barthold SW,Flavell RA

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal epithelial cells (IECs), including secretory goblet cells, form essential physiochemical barriers that separate luminal bacteria from underlying immune cells in the intestinal mucosa. IECs are common targets for enteric bacterial pathogens, with hosts responding to these microbes through innate toll-like re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bhinder G,Stahl M,Sham HP,Crowley SM,Morampudi V,Dalwadi U,Ma C,Jacobson K,Vallance BA

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:gamma delta T cells have variously been implicated in the protection against, and the pathogenesis of, malaria, but few studies have examined the gamma delta T-cell response to malaria in African children, who suffer the large majority of malaria-associated morbidity and mortality. This is unfortunate, since available...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hviid L,Kurtzhals JA,Adabayeri V,Loizon S,Kemp K,Goka BQ,Lim A,Mercereau-Puijalon O,Akanmori BD,Behr C

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predominant gram-positive bacteria in 47 fecal specimens from 10 healthy men were studied by microscopic and cultural counts, by the characterization and tentative identification of isolates, and by the use of fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-conjugated globulins prepared using some of the isolates. Gram-positive...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gossling J,Slack JM

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the lungs of mice vaccinated with Mycobacterium bovis BCG, there was an accumulation of CD4 cells expressing the activated effector phenotype CD44hi CD62 ligandlo) (CD62Llo) which were capable of secreting gamma interferon. Upon cell transfer, however, cells expressing a resting/naïve phenotype (CD44lo CD62Lhi) wer...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kipnis A,Irwin S,Izzo AA,Basaraba RJ,Orme IM

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a rapid, continuous method for real-time monitoring of biofilms, both in vitro and in a mouse infection model, through noninvasive imaging of bioluminescent bacteria colonized on Teflon catheters. Two important biofilm-forming bacterial pathogens, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, wer...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kadurugamuwa JL,Sin L,Albert E,Yu J,Francis K,DeBoer M,Rubin M,Bellinger-Kawahara C,Parr TR Jr,Contag PR

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

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：:Legionella pneumophila, the gram-negative agent of Legionnaires' disease, possesses type IV pili and a type II protein secretion (Lsp) system, both of which are dependent upon the PilD prepilin peptidase. By analyzing multiple pilD mutants and various types of Lsp mutants as well as performing trans-complementation of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rossier O,Starkenburg SR,Cianciotto NP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune complexes have been partially purified from the serum of Plasmodium berghei-infected mice by ultracentrifugation on 10 to 40% linear sucrose gradients, by precipitation with polyethylene glycol, and by gel filtration through Sephacryl S-300. The complexes contain gamma 1, gamma 2a, gamma 2b, and gamma 3 subclas...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shear HL

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00