Fungus-specific translation elongation factor 3 gene present in Pneumocystis carinii.

abstract：:Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, the causative agent of swine pleuropneumonia, secretes a hemolytic activity which is thought to be a factor involved in the pathogenesis of the disease. The biosynthesis of hemolysin by serotype 1 strain 4074 was strongly dependent on the activity of free Ca2+ in the growth medium. At ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Frey J,Nicolet J

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CmeABC functions as a multidrug efflux pump contributing to the resistance of Campylobacter to a broad range of antimicrobials. In this study, we examined the role of CmeABC in bile resistance and its contribution to the adaptation of Campylobacter jejuni in the intestinal tract of the chicken, a natural host and a ma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lin J,Sahin O,Michel LO,Zhang Q

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic diversity and relationships among 109 isolates of Neisseria meningitidis obtained from throat cultures of healthy individuals in Norway in 1984 were assessed by analyzing electrophoretically demonstrable allelic variation at 15 enzyme-encoding chromosomal genes. Seventy-eight distinctive electrophoretic types ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Caugant DA,Kristiansen BE,Frøholm LO,Bøvre K,Selander RK

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular inflammation is one of the consequences of infection with the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Even if lesions are self-healing in immunocompetent persons, they pose a lifetime risk of reactivation and are a serious threat to vision. As there are virtually no immunological data on reactivating ocular toxop...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rochet É,Brunet J,Sabou M,Marcellin L,Bourcier T,Candolfi E,Pfaff AW

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of splenectomy on animals infected with Trypanosoma lewisi is unclear, and previous reports are inconclusive or conflictive. We splenectomized rats of different ages after they had been infected with T. lewisi. Female Sprague-Dawley rats, Hemobartonella-free, were assigned to four groups according to weight...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Llende M,Santiago-Delpín EA,Lavergne JA

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate arthritis-inducing properties of Eubacterium species, which are major residents of the human intestinal flora, cell wall fragments (CWF) of several Eubacterium strains were prepared and tested in an animal model. After a single intraperitoneal injection in the rat, CWF of E. aerofaciens, E. contortum, a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Severijnen AJ,van Kleef R,Hazenberg MP,van de Merwe JP

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assembly of adherent biofilms is the key mechanism involved in Staphylococcus epidermidis virulence during device-associated infections. Aside from polysaccharide intercellular adhesin (PIA), the accumulation-associated protein Aap and the extracellular matrix binding protein Embp act as intercellular adhesins, mediat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schommer NN,Christner M,Hentschke M,Ruckdeschel K,Aepfelbacher M,Rohde H

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa can invade corneal epithelial cells and translocates multilayered corneal epithelia in vitro, but it does not penetrate the intact corneal epithelium in vivo. In healthy corneas, the epithelium is separated from the underlying stroma by a basement membrane containing extracellular matrix protein...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alarcon I,Kwan L,Yu C,Evans DJ,Fleiszig SM

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2)/TLR1 receptor complex responds to amyloid fibrils, a common component of biofilm material produced by members of the phyla Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, and Proteobacteria. To determine whether this TLR2/TLR1 ligand stimulates inflammatory responses when bacteria enter intestinal tissue, w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nishimori JH,Newman TN,Oppong GO,Rapsinski GJ,Yen JH,Biesecker SG,Wilson RP,Butler BP,Winter MG,Tsolis RM,Ganea D,Tükel Ç

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania-infected macrophages are potential antigen-presenting cells for CD4+ T lymphocytes, which recognize parasite antigens bound to major histocompatibility complex class II molecules (Ia). However, the intracellular sites where Ia and antigens may interact are far from clear, since parasites grow within the mod...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Antoine JC,Jouanne C,Lang T,Prina E,de Chastellier C,Frehel C

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation has been observed in the structural polypeptides of swine vesicular disease viruses isolated from the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Despite the limited number of isolates examined, several distinct polypeptide patterns were obtained when the virus structural proteins were examined by polyacrylamide gel elect...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harris TJ,Underwood BO,Knowles NJ,Crowther JR,Brown F

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pulmonary immune response protects healthy individuals against Pneumocystis pneumonia (PcP). However, the immune response also drives immunopathogenesis in patients who develop severe PcP, and it is generally accepted that optimal treatment requires combination strategies that promote fungal killing and also provi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hoy Z,Wright TW,Elliott M,Malone J,Bhagwat S,Wang J,Gigliotti F

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The group R streptococcal group antigen has been shown to be a polysaccharide located at the surface of the cell wall of the organism. The antigen was extracted from cell walls in 0.05 n HCl or 5% trichloracetic acid at 100 C, from whole cells at room temperature in 0.85% NaCl or 0.1 m acetate (pH 5.0), and by sonic o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Soprey P,Slade HD

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Akabane virus (a Bunyavirus) has been associated with epizootics of congenital deformities in cattle, sheep, and goats. Experimental studies using mouse-adapted virus inoculated intravenously into pregnant sheep gave an inapparent infection. Neutralizing antibodies were detected on day 5, and peaks in the titer were s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Parsonson IM,Della-Porta AJ,Snowdon WA

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillary angiomatosis (BA), one of the many clinical manifestations resulting from infection with the facultative intracellular bacterium Bartonella henselae, is characterized by angiogenic lesions. Macrophages have been identified as important effector cells contributing to the angiogenic process during B. henselae ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McCord AM,Burgess AW,Whaley MJ,Anderson BE

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elicited macrophages from 129sv mice with a functional deletion of the natural-resistance-associated macrophage protein 1 gene (Nramp1) were shown to be as susceptible as wild-type mice to infection with the Chlamydia trachomatis mouse pneumonitis and L3 serovars and to Chlamydia pneumoniae. Furthermore, the two group...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pal S,Peterson EM,de La Maza LM

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits immunized with group B type III, group C, and Streptococcus pneumoniae type XIV streptococcal vaccines developed autoantibodies reactive with autologous and isologous erythrocytes and human O-positive erythrocytes at reduced temperatures. The cold agglutinin antibodies were present in both the immunoglobulin M...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Colling RG,Pearson TC,Brown JC

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with the intracellular protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii causes serious public health problems and is of great economic importance worldwide. The micronemal protein MIC3, which is a potent adhesin of T. gondii, could be a significant candidate vaccine against toxoplasmosis. In this study, all CBA/J mice i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ismael AB,Sekkai D,Collin C,Bout D,Mévélec MN

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response to reinfection with Ethiopian Leishmania donovani was evaluated in genetically determined noncure (H-2d) B10.D2 mice that are able to resolve infection due to sublethal irradiation pretreatment after inoculation with a low parasite dose and in C57BL/10 mice that demonstrate the genetically determined cure...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ulczak OM,Ghadirian E,Skamene E,Blackwell JM,Kongshavn PA

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma brucei subsp. brucei and T. congolense incubated in homologous antibody at 0 degrees C for 30 min were lysed by subsequent addition of guinea pig complement. Trypanosomes incubated in antibody at 37 degrees C before complement treatment remained intact. Parasites bearing adsorbed antibody also remained int...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Balber AE,Bangs JD,Jones SM,Proia RL

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An effective vaccine for Vibrio cholerae is not yet available for use in the developing world, where the burden of cholera disease is highest. Characterizing the proteins that are expressed by V. cholerae in the human host environment may provide insight into the pathogenesis of cholera and assist with the development...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： LaRocque RC,Krastins B,Harris JB,Lebrun LM,Parker KC,Chase M,Ryan ET,Qadri F,Sarracino D,Calderwood SB

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gastric spirillum Helicobacter felis, originally isolated from the cat stomach, colonizes the stomachs of germfree rats. Studies were designed to examine the pathological and serological responses of germfree rats inoculated orally with H. felis. At 2 weeks postinoculation, the gastric mucosa of germfree rats had ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fox JG,Lee A,Otto G,Taylor NS,Murphy JC

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four mouse monoclonal antibodies have been developed which react with Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen 5. Each of these monoclonal antibodies has been used to prepare immunoabsorbents, and antigen has been isolated from unheated M. tuberculosis H37Ra culture filtrate by affinity chromatography with these absorbents....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Daniel TM,Gonchoroff NJ,Katzmann JA,Olds GR

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotype b-specific polysaccharide antigen (SPA) was extracted from whole cells of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans Y4 by autoclaving and purified by chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex A-25 and Sephacryl S-300. SPA induced the release of monocyte and leukocyte chemotactic factors by human monocytes. Polymyxin B had a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yamaguchi N,Yamashita Y,Ikeda D,Koga T

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were performed to investigate the usefulness of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay utilizing avidin-biotin interaction as a diagnostic tool for detection of Toxoplasma antigen in blood. The lower limit of sensitivity of the assay by this method was ca. 4 ng/ml, and standard assays provided a linear plot ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ise Y,Iida T,Sato K,Suzuki T,Shimada K,Nishioka K

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain disrupted in the AraC homologue Rv1931c was isolated. The mutant strain exhibited reduced survival both in macrophages and in a mouse infection model, with survival being restored on complementation with the Rv1931c gene. These results suggest that Rv1931c regulates genes important ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Frota CC,Papavinasasundaram KG,Davis EO,Colston MJ

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Length and restriction site polymorphism within a 2.8-kb threonine-rich open reading frame from Cryptosporidium parvum was identified and used to determine the genotypes of isolates from calves and humans. In agreement with observations of other genetic loci, all calf isolates were identical at this locus. In contrast...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carraway M,Tzipori S,Widmer G

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purification of the envelope antigen of Yersinia pestis EV with passive hemagglutination activity is described. The purification procedure consisted of pancreatin digestion, chromatography on human erythrocyte stroma set on Celite, and rechromatography on Sephadex G-200. Chemical, physical, and biological properties o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Głosnicka R,Gruszkiewicz E

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human defensins play a fundamental role in the initiation of innate immune responses to some microbial pathogens. Here we show that colonic epithelial model HCT116 cells respond to Trypanosoma cruzi infection by secreting defensin α-1, which reduces infection. We also report the early effects of defensin α-1 on invasi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Johnson CA,Rachakonda G,Kleshchenko YY,Nde PN,Madison MN,Pratap S,Cardenas TC,Taylor C,Lima MF,Villalta F

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned chromosomal genes mediating the aerobactin iron transport system from the enteroinvasive strain Escherichia coli 978-77. The physical map of the region spanning the siderophore biosynthesis genes and the upstream portion of the receptor gene in strain 978-77-derived clones was identical to the correspon...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marolda CL,Valvano MA,Crosa JH

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00