Characterization of an iroBCDEN gene cluster on a transmissible plasmid of uropathogenic Escherichia coli: evidence for horizontal transfer of a chromosomal virulence factor.

abstract：:Three monoclonal antibodies (MAbs), all of the immunoglobulin G1 subclass, were raised against Cryptococcus neoformans by using the technique of cyclophosphamide ablation of B-cell responses against shared epitopes of the cross-reactive fungus Trichosporon beigelii. MAb 3C2 was reactive against the encapsulated and no...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hamilton AJ,Jeavons L,Hobby P,Hay RJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell wall complex has been isolated by gentle methods from both the medium supernatant fluid and whole organisms of Neissieria meningitidis cultures. The two types of preparations have been shown to be essentially identical on the basis of chemical composition, electron microscopy, and polyacrylamide gel electrophor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zollinger WD,Kasper DL,Veltri BJ,Artenstein MS

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, native cells of Streptococcus mutans VA-29R and Streptococcus rattus FA-1 displayed significantly higher aminopeptidase activity than did cells of Streptococcus cricetus AHT or Streptococcus sobrinus 6715 toward the nitroanilide derivatives of leucine, alanine, methionine, arginine, and lysine. These di...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cowman RA,Baron SS

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characteristics of four transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE) virus field strains (Miller, Purdue, Bl, and V203) and four cell culture-attenuated strains (Purdue, SH, CKp, and Bl) were studied to find methods of differentiation between the two groups of viruses. TGE field virus strains did not replicate as well as atten...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hess RG,Bachmann PA

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(DBA/N[female] X CBA/2[male])F1 males have been reported to be deficient in producing antibodies against a number of antigens, including carbohydrates (I. Scher, Adv. Immunol. 35:1-71, 1982). We show that F1 male mice, in contrast to females, made less lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-specific antibodies after immunization wi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zweerink HJ,Gammon MC,Hutchison CF,Jackson JJ,Pier GB,Puckett JM,Sewell TJ,Sigal NH

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here invasin-dependent and invasin-independent mechanisms in which the enteropathogen Yersinia enterocolitica is able to disseminate from the lumen of the small intestine to the spleen. The invasin-dependent route is clearly discernible in mice devoid of intestinal Peyer's patches and mesenteric lymph nodes....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Handley SA,Newberry RD,Miller VL

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attaching and effacing adhesion to epithelial cells is a pathognomonic feature of infection by both enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and certain strains of verocytotoxin-producing E. coli (VTEC). EPEC adhesion to tissue culture epithelial cells results in activation of the phosphatidylinositol pathway, with el...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ismaili A,Philpott DJ,Dytoc MT,Sherman PM

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strain TG is a plasmidless exfoliative toxin (ET) producer. Strain ER201 contains a plasmid, whose loss had no apparent effect on ET production. The plasmid of ER201 was almost identical in size to the plasmid from strain UT0007, which carries an ET determinant. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosenblum ED,Tyrone S

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of the actin filament capping protein CapG has no apparent effect on the phenotype of mice maintained under sterile conditions; however, bone marrow-derived macrophages from CapG(-/-) mice exhibited distinct motility defects. We examined the ability of CapG(-/-) mice to clear two intracellular bacteria, Listeria ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Parikh SS,Litherland SA,Clare-Salzler MJ,Li W,Gulig PA,Southwick FS

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene bank of group A Streptococcus strain Manfredo (M protein serotype 5) was constructed with a bacteriophage lambda vector-Escherichia coli K-12 host system and screened by immunoblotting hybrid phage plaques with antisera raised to purified pep M5 (serotype 5 M protein fragment released from the streptococcal cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kehoe MA,Poirier TP,Beachey EH,Timmis KN

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of route of administration, dosage, and number of boosts employed during immunization with the polymyxin-release form of Escherichia coli heat-labile (LT) enterotoxin on the degree and duration of protection afforded was evaluated in rats which were challenged by the ligated loop technique. Increasing the b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klipstein FA,Engert RF

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In malarial infections of primates, the spleen has been shown to modulate parasite antigen expression on the surfaces of infected erythrocytes. The processes affected include cytoadherence, which is central to the pathophysiology of severe falciparum malaria, and the related phenomenon of rosette formation. In this st...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ho M,Bannister LH,Looareesuwan S,Suntharasamai P

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier work had shown that a collection of anaerobic bacteria, in conjunction with facultative anaerobes, may be implanted into germfree mice, thereby rendering the animals "normal" with respect to a variety of parameters tested. The present experiments indicate that a different collection of anaerobic bacteria, isol...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Freter R,Abrams GD

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiple antigen peptide (MAP) approach is an effective method to chemically synthesize and deliver multiple T-cell and B-cell epitopes as the constituents of a single immunogen. Here we report on the design, chemical synthesis, and immunogenicity of three Plasmodium falciparum MAP vaccines that incorporated antig...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mahajan B,Berzofsky JA,Boykins RA,Majam V,Zheng H,Chattopadhyay R,de la Vega P,Moch JK,Haynes JD,Belyakov IM,Nakhasi HL,Kumar S

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), a tryptophan-degrading enzyme, is inducible by various interferons (IFNs). IDO-mediated tryptophan degradation, but not the formation of IDO-catalyzed tryptophan metabolites, has been suggested as a mechanism for the antiparasitic action of IFN-gamma. To determine whether the IFN-gam...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Habara-Ohkubo A,Shirahata T,Takikawa O,Yoshida R

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that transposon-mediated mutagenesis can be used to construct mutations in the pathogen Brucella abortus. We have used both a plasmid and a bacteriophage to introduce either Tn5 or Tn5 lac into the Brucella chromosome. B. abortus is naturally sensitive to kanamycin. We have selected 22 independent kanam...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Smith LD,Heffron F

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was performed to determine whether Histoplasma capsulatum (yeast phase) is able to activate the alternative complement pathway. H. capsulatum yeasts were shown to consume C3 in C4-deficient guinea pig serum. Immunoelectrophoretic conversion of alternative pathway component factor B confirmed that C3 ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ratnoff WD,Pepple JM,Winkelstein JA

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salivary gland lysates of the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis markedly enhance the course of infection with Leishmania major in mice. Here we examine various parameters of this phenomenon. The exacerbative effect of L. longipalpis salivary gland lysates occurred in five different mouse strains; however, the character o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Theodos CM,Ribeiro JM,Titus RG

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumolysin is an important virulence factor of Streptococcus pneumoniae, interacting with the membranes of host cells to elicit a multitude of inflammatory responses. We used cDNA microarrays to identify genes which are responsive to S. pneumoniae in a pneumolysin-dependent and -independent fashion. The THP-1 human m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogers PD,Thornton J,Barker KS,McDaniel DO,Sacks GS,Swiatlo E,McDaniel LS

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various features of salmonellosis were examined in a burned-mouse model. In this model, which uses an outbred mouse strain, a challenge dose of ca. 100 CFU with any of several strains of Salmonella typhimurium caused a fatal infection. A variety of mutated strains attenuated for virulence in Salmonella-susceptible par...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carsiotis M,Stocker BA,Holder IA

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hagfish, Eptatretus stoutii, has been shown to synthesize bactericidal antibodies after injections of gram-negative organisms. These bactericidins could be detected as early as 2 days after the primary injection. Secondary responses were accelerated, although titers were not significantly higher than those reached...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Acton RT,Weinheimer PF,Hildemann WH,Evans EE

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amebic erythrophagocytosis is characteristic of invasive amebiasis, and mutants deficient in erythrocyte ingestion are avirulent. We sought to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying erythrocyte phagocytosis by Entamoeba histolytica. Following adherence to amebae, erythrocytes became round and crenulated, and p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boettner DR,Huston CD,Sullivan JA,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two extremely oxygen-sensitive strains of Clostridium sp., designated Clostridium E and P, were obtained from digestive microflora of conventional mice and found to constitute a barrier against Shigella flexneri SF-2 when associated in vivo with Escherichia coli K-12. These and other simplified fractions of the conven...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ducluzeau R,Ladire M,Callut C,Raibaud P,Abrams GD

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit-specific enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (REPEC) is an attaching and effacing pathogen of young rabbits. Using signature-tagged mutagenesis, we identified several known colonization factors of REPEC as well as a gene predicted to encode a novel autotransporter protein. This novel gene was termed rpeA for REPE...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leyton DL,Adams LM,Kelly M,Sloan J,Tauschek M,Robins-Browne RM,Hartland EL

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody (MAb) was raised against Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2) of Escherichia coli O157:H7. MAb VTm1.1 belonged to the immunoglobulin G1 subclass and had a kappa light chain, and it could neutralize the cytotoxic activity of Stx2 and variants derived from patient strains but not that of variants derived from anim...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nakao H,Kiyokawa N,Fujimoto J,Yamasaki S,Takeda T

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida-associated denture stomatitis (DS) is a persistent and chronic oral infection of the denture-bearing palatal mucosa. DS stems from the ability of the fungal opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans to adhere to denture material and invade palatal tissue. Although DS is the most prevalent form of oral candidiasi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sultan AS,Rizk AM,Vila T,Ji Y,Masri R,Jabra-Rizk MA

更新日期：2019-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice (BALB/cJ, C3H/HeN, and C3H/HeJ) primed with actinomycin D became highly susceptible to lethal intoxication with staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB). The mice underwent toxicosis and toxic shock and died. Actinomycin D-primed C3H/HeN and C3H/HeJ mice showed equal sensitivity to SEB, suggesting that bacterial lipopo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chen JY,Qiao Y,Komisar JL,Baze WB,Hsu IC,Tseng J

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides, such as defensins or cathelicidins, are effector substances of the innate immune system and are thought to have antimicrobial properties that contribute to host defense. The evidence that vertebrate antimicrobial peptides contribute to innate immunity in vivo is based on their expression patter...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bals R,Weiner DJ,Moscioni AD,Meegalla RL,Wilson JM

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this research was to determine whether gram-negative bacteria frequently isolated from periodontally diseased sites contained polyclonal B-cell activators. Polyclonal B-cell activation, which results in nonspecific activation of multiple B-cell clones was analyzed by a hemolysis-in-gel assay designed ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bick PH,Carpenter AB,Holdeman LV,Miller GA,Ranney RR,Palcanis KG,Tew JG

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin is the major virulence factor involved in the pathogenesis of C. perfringens type A food poisoning and several non-food-borne human gastrointestinal illnesses. The enterotoxin gene, cpe, is located on the chromosome of food-poisoning isolates but is found on a large plasmid in non-f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brynestad S,Sarker MR,McClane BA,Granum PE,Rood JI

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00