The C-terminal domain of Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium OmpA is an immunodominant antigen in mice but appears to be only partially exposed on the bacterial cell surface.

abstract：:The effect of ingestion of heat-killed Histoplasma capsulatum yeast cells on the metabolism of arachidonic acid (20:4) to prostenoids and leukotrienes was examined in murine peritoneal macrophages (M phi s). H. capsulatum-containing M phi s exhibited a metabolite profile similar to that of zymosan-challenged phagocyte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wolf JE,Massof SE,Peters SP

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular bacterial infections affect all vertebrates. Cultured fish are particularly vulnerable because no effective protection measures have been established since such infections emerged approximately 50 years ago. As in other vertebrates, the induction of cell-mediated immunity (CMI) plays an important role in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Matsumoto M,Kubota T,Fujita S,Shiozaki K,Kishida S,Yamamoto A

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of D-alanine and carbohydrate substitution of lipoteichoic acids (LTAs) on the binding of antibody directed to the polyglycerol phosphate (PGP) portion was found to be at least partially dependent upon the mode of presentation of the antigen. There were greater differences in binding of anti-PGP immunogl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kessler RE,Thivierge BH

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage is a risk factor for infection in humans, particularly in the hospital environment. Attenuation of carriage has proven effective in reducing the prevalence of infection in some high-risk groups. To study staphylococcal factors that influence nasal colonization, a mouse model of S. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kiser KB,Cantey-Kiser JM,Lee JC

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for agents designed to modify immune response in the treatment of patients with viral infection, immunodeficiency, or cancer prompted the present study on the mechanisms of action of isoprinosine, a compound developed for antiviral use and whose therapeutic activity may involve the immune system. The effect o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hadden JW,Hadden EM,Coffey RG

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CXCL16 is a recently discovered multifaceted chemokine that has been shown not only to recruit activated T lymphocytes but also to play a direct role in the binding and phagocytosis of bacteria by professional antigen-presenting cells. In this study, we investigated the role of CXCL16 in vivo in the regulation of the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fahy OL,Townley SL,McColl SR

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A ruthenium red-staining capsule was observed on two pathogenic strains, but not on one nonpathogenic strain of Mycoplasma gallisepticum. The capsule appeared to mediate cytadsorption of mycoplasmas to the chicken tracheal epithelium without evidence of membrane fusion. No relationship was seen between the presence of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tajima M,Yagihashi T,Miki Y

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxic shock syndrome-associated staphylococcal and streptococcal exotoxins were tested for an ability to induce the production of tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Staphylococcal enterotoxins B and C1, along with streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin A, all induced TNF production in a dose-dependent manner, with production peak...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fast DJ,Schlievert PM,Nelson RD

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidial infections were established in five young foals with severe combined immunodeficiency following oral administration of 10(8) Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts. All foals shed oocysts (average of 8 x 10(6) to 2 x 10(8)/g of feces) until death. Inflammation and C. parvum organisms were observed in the commo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bjorneby JM,Leach DR,Perryman LE

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is a gram-negative facultative intracellular parasite of macrophages. Although L. pneumophila is the causative agent of a severe pneumonia known as Legionnaires' disease, it is likely that most infections caused by this organism are cleared by the host innate immune system. It is predicted that ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Archer KA,Roy CR

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently determined that passive transfer of serum directed against a synthetic peptide called LB1 or a recombinant fusion protein immunogen [LPD-LB1(f)(2,1,3)] could prevent otitis media after challenge with a homologous nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) isolate. NTHI residing in the nasopharynx was rapidl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kennedy BJ,Novotny LA,Jurcisek JA,Lobet Y,Bakaletz LO

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the possibility that nitric oxide (NO) synthesis may affect the course of a trypanosome infection via T-cell responses using mice deficient in inducible NO synthase (iNOS). Parasitemia levels increased at the same rate in both iNOS-deficient homozygous and control heterozygous mice, and peak paras...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Millar AE,Sternberg J,McSharry C,Wei XQ,Liew FY,Turner CM

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from three human and four monkey isolates of Campylobacter jejuni was extracted in high yields that revealed ladder-like structures in polyacrylamide gels by direct silver staining. These observations demonstrate that C. jejuni possesses LPS with O-chain repeating units typical of the family E...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Blake DC Jr,Russell RG

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus epidermidis is a leading cause of infections associated with indwelling medical devices, including prosthetic joint infection. While biofilm formation is assumed to be the main mechanism underlying the chronic infections S. epidermidis causes, we hypothesized that S. epidermidis also evades immune killi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Perez K,Patel R

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) structure impacts the bactericidal action of cationic peptides, such as polymyxin B (PMB), and sensitivity to killing by normal human serum (NHS). Cultivation of different subspecies strains of Yersinia pestis isolated from unrelated geographic origins at various temperatures (mammals, 37 degr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anisimov AP,Dentovskaya SV,Titareva GM,Bakhteeva IV,Shaikhutdinova RZ,Balakhonov SV,Lindner B,Kocharova NA,Senchenkova SN,Holst O,Pier GB,Knirel YA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic members of the Yersinia genus require the translocator protein LcrV for proper function of the type III secretion apparatus, which is crucial for virulence. LcrV has also been reported to play an independent immunosuppressive role via the induction of interleukin-10 (IL-10) through stimulation of Toll-like ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pouliot K,Pan N,Wang S,Lu S,Lien E,Goguen JD

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant plasmid containing a 6.5-kb fragment of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) chromosomal DNA was shown to confer a hemoglobin-haptoglobin-binding phenotype on Escherichia coli. Use of a mini-Tn10kan transposon for random insertion mutagenesis of this recombinant plasmid allowed localization of the N...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Maciver I,Latimer JL,Liem HH,Muller-Eberhard U,Hrkal Z,Hansen EJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) is the leading cause of urinary tract infections. These bacteria undertake a multistage infection cycle involving invasion of and proliferation within urinary tract epithelial cells, leading to the rupture of the host cell and dispersal of the bacteria, some of which have a highly...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Iosifidis G,Duggin IG

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-associated hemagglutinin-negative mutants were derived from cholera enterotoxin-negative Vibrio cholerae JBK70 by Tn5 mutagenesis. One of the mutants identified, SB001, was characterized in greater detail. Its ability to colonize ilea of adult rabbits was determined by feeding approximately 10(8) V. cholerae to e...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Finn TM,Reiser J,Germanier R,Cryz SJ Jr

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group A streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin (SPE) type C, produced by strain T18P grown in the presence of 32P, was separated from culture supernatant fluids by using alcohol precipitation. The resulting toxin (EtOH-1) contained 3 X 10(6) to 5 X 10(6) cpm of 32P per milligram of protein. The radiolabel migrated with SPE ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schlievert PM,Bettin KM,Watson DW

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue macrophages are the obligatory host cells for Leishmania donovani, the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis. In this study we sought to determine whether activated macrophages, as defined by the functional criterion of tumor cell cytotoxicity, were also able to exert a microbicidal effect on ingested L. do...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Haidaris CG,Bonventre PF

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Mycoplasma pneumoniae cytadhesin P1 gene with novel nucleotide sequence variation has been identified. Four clinical strains of M. pneumoniae were found to carry this type of P1 gene. This new P1 gene is similar to the known group II P1 genes but possesses novel sequence variation of approximately 300 bp in the RepM...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kenri T,Taniguchi R,Sasaki Y,Okazaki N,Narita M,Izumikawa K,Umetsu M,Sasaki T

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniae are protozoans which, depending upon both the host and parasite species, can cause either a healing or nonhealing infection. While C57BL/10 mice are able to heal following infection with Leishmania major, they fail to heal following infection with Leishmania amazonensis. In order to address the role of Th1...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Afonso LC,Scott P

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groups of female C57BL/6 and C3H/St mice were inoculated intraperitoneally (i.p.) with 10(9), 10(7), and 10(5) bacilli and into the right hind footpad with 10(7) and 10(5) bacilli of Mycobacterium lepraemurium. The incidence of death from leprosy and the mean survival time of leprous mice were recorded. In addition, t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Turcotte R

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane protein OmpU of Vibrio cholerae O1 strain 86B3 was characterized with reference to colonization of the intestine by the organism. The purified OmpU exhibited a pI of 3.6. Upon sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, it migrated to 38, 32, and 110 kDa when the sample was heated at ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nakasone N,Iwanaga M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine goats were injected transthoracically with Pasteurella haemolytica A1 to determine if an extracellular bacterial enzyme, neuraminidase, was produced in vivo during infection with this organism. The principal group of goats (n = 9) each received 1 ml of 7.25 x 10(5) live P. haemolytica A1 cells in polyacrylate bea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Straus DC,Purdy CW

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine monoclonal antibodies were generated against streptolysin O. One out of 10 tested immunoglobulin clones exhibited strong neutralizing activity; in solution, the presence of approximately two to four antibody molecules per toxin monomer effected 50% neutralization of hemolytic toxin activity. An enzyme-linked im...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hugo F,Reichwein J,Arvand M,Krämer S,Bhakdi S

更新日期：1986-12-01 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：:Expression of ace (adhesin to collagen of Enterococcus faecalis), encoding a virulence factor in endocarditis and urinary tract infection models, has been shown to increase under certain conditions, such as in the presence of serum, bile salts, urine, and collagen and at 46 °C. However, the mechanism of ace/Ace regula...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Roh JH,Singh KV,La Rosa SL,Cohen AL,Murray BE

更新日期：2015-01-01 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