Adhesion of glucosyltransferase phase variants to Streptococcus gordonii bacterium-glucan substrata may involve lipoteichoic acid.

abstract：:It was shown that a strain of Serratia liquefaciens harbors a conjugative R-plasmid responsible for reistance to the following 14 antibiotics: ampicillin, carbenicillin, cephalothin, butirosin, neomycin, paramomycin, kanamycin, lividomycin, gentamicin, tobramycin, streptomycin, tetracycline, sulfonamide, and chloramph...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Duval-Iflah Y,Raibaud P,Tancrede C,Rousseau M

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages are among the most sensitive targets of bacterial endotoxin (LPS), responding to minute amounts of LPS by releasing a battery of inflammatory mediators. Transfection of macrophages with secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor (SLPI) renders these cells refractory to LPS stimulation. Here we show that uptake...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ding A,Thieblemont N,Zhu J,Jin F,Zhang J,Wright S

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight chlamydial isolates of ovine origin were tested in a plaque reduction system using homologous and heterologous rooster antisera. The eight isolates could be separated into two separate immunotypes. Type 1 included isolates associated with ovine abortion and one agent recovered from the feces of an apparently nor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schachter J,Banks J,Sugg N,Sung M,Storz J,Meyer KF

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opacity (Opa) proteins mediate a variety of interactions between the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis and its human host. These interactions are thought to be of central importance in both the asymptomatic colonization of the nasopharynx and the sporadic occurrence of meningococcal disease. The receptor specificit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Callaghan MJ,Jolley KA,Maiden MC

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enteric pathogens enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli employ a type 3 secretion system (T3SS) to manipulate the host inflammatory response during infection. Previously, it has been reported that EPEC, in a T3SS-dependent manner, induces an early proinflammatory response through a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pallett MA,Berger CN,Pearson JS,Hartland EL,Frankel G

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although recent evidence suggests that fibronectin may be involved in the attachment of treponemes to mammalian cells, its possible role in promoting phagocytosis of Treponema pallidum has not been investigated. In the present study, we examined the antibody-independent interactions of fibronectin, C1q, and human poly...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baughn RE

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans biofilms are formed through three distinct developmental phases and are associated with high fluconazole (FLU) resistance. In the present study, we used a set of isogenic Candida strains lacking one or more of the drug efflux pumps Cdr1p, Cdr2p, and Mdr1p to determine their role in FLU resistance of b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mukherjee PK,Chandra J,Kuhn DM,Ghannoum MA

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B cell activating factor of the tumor necrosis factor family (BAFF) is an essential survival factor for B cells and has been shown to regulate T cell-independent (TI) IgM production. During Ehrlichia muris infection, TI IgM secretion in the spleen was BAFF dependent, and antibody-mediated BAFF neutralization led to an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jones DD,Jones M,DeIulio GA,Racine R,MacNamara KC,Winslow GM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria infection caused by Plasmodium parasites continues to cause enormous morbidity and mortality in areas where it is endemic, and there is no licensed vaccine capable of inducing sterile protection. Hyperimmunization with attenuated whole sporozoites can induce sterile protective immune responses targeting preery...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Billman ZP,Seilie AM,Murphy SC

更新日期：2016-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a frequent colonizer of the upper respiratory tract and a leading cause of bacterial pneumonia. The innate immune system senses pneumococcal cell wall components, toxin, and nucleic acids, which leads to production of inflammatory mediators to initiate and control antibacterial defense. Her...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ruiz-Moreno JS,Hamann L,Jin L,Sander LE,Puzianowska-Kuznicka M,Cambier J,Witzenrath M,Schumann RR,Suttorp N,Opitz B

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies conducted with F1 and F2 progeny of crosses between strains of inbred mice that differ greatly in their capacity to make an antibody response to type III pneumococcal polysaccharide, dextran B-1355, and lipopolysaccharide from Escherichia coli 0113 have shown that multiple genes influence the magnitude of the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker PJ,Rudbach JA,Prescott B,Caldes G,Evans C,Stashak PW

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the diphtheria toxin phenotype of specially selected isolates of Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis (C. ovis). All produced proteins similar in size and immunological structure to diphtheria toxin. As with diphtheria toxin, they exhibited ADP-ribosylating activity, and their ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wong TP,Groman N

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell wall lytic enzyme (Kyowa lytic no. 2 enzyme) liberated arthritogenic hydrosoluble peptidoglycans from both arthritogenic and non-arthritogenic bacterial cell walls. From these cell walls, mutanolysin (peptidoglycan-degrading enzyme) also liberated hydrosoluble peptidoglycans which, however, lacked arthritogenicit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kohashi O,Pearson CM,Watanabe Y,Kotani S

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The T-cell-stimulating activity of staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) is an important factor in the pathogenesis of certain staphylococcal diseases. To investigate the immunologically active domains of the SEB molecule, we have produced truncated fragments of recombinant SEB by C-terminal and N-terminal deletions. The...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Metzroth B,Marx T,Linnig M,Fleischer B

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis is surrounded by a polypeptide capsule composed of poly-gamma-d-glutamic acid (gammaDPGA). In a previous study, we reported that a monoclonal antibody (MAb F26G3) reactive with the capsular polypeptide is protective in a murine model of pulmonary anthrax. The present study examined a library of six ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR,Thorkildson P,Brandt S,Welch WH,Lovchik JA,AuCoin DP,Vilai J,Lyons CR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of a pH 4-treated human immunoglobulin preparation for intravenous use (pH4-G) on the production of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) in vivo. The level of TNF-alpha in the sera of rabbits receiving pH4-G before lipopolysaccharide (LPS) injection was lower than that in rabbits receivin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shimozato T,Iwata M,Tamura N

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligately intracellular bacterial parasite of eucaryotic cells that undergoes a biphasic life cycle within a parasitophorous vacuole (PV) called an inclusion. The parasitophorous vacuolar membrane (PVM) constitutes a barrier between the replicating bacteria and the nutrient-rich environmen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heinzen RA,Hackstadt T

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antigenic complex has been isolated in a highly purified from from the Melvin strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The complex has a molecular weight of 9.3 x 10(6) and on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was found to consist of several subunits; the most predominant had the following molecular...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karkhanis YD,Anderson RL,Zeltner JY,Carlo DJ,Stoudt TH

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were vaccinated with 300 micrograms of BCG cell walls (BCG-CW) in oil-in-water emulsion intravenously or with a high or low dose of living BCG by inhalation (BCG-HD or BCG-LD, respectively). The consequences of vaccination were evaluated in terms of the growth of BCG in the lungs and spleen, lung and spleen weigh...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lefford MJ

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymes responsible for reducing H2O2 were surveyed in 49 strains of Leptospira by using semiquantitative assays for catalase and peroxidase. The survey revealed a differential distribution of catalase and peroxidase activities between the two leptospiral complexes. The pathogenic Leptospira interrogans strains ga...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Corin RE,Boggs E,Cox CD

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis has a unique family of PE-PGRS proteins with conserved N-terminal domains (PE) containing site-specific proline-glutamine residues and polymorphic GC-rich repetitive sequences (PGRS). Tuberculosis (TB) patients produce antibodies against some such proteins, but it is not clear whether these ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Koh KW,Soh SE,Seah GT

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the amounts of specific anti-class 1 outer membrane protein antibodies in sera from 25 patients during the course of systemic meningococcal disease, using purified class 1 protein as the sensitizing antigen in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The class 1 protein was obtained from a variant of s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guttormsen HK,Wetzler LM,Solberg CO

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated the existence of Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates deficient in the lipopolysaccharide O side chain, the major factor for resistance to complement-mediated killing in this bacterial species. These isolates are complement resistant, and their mechanisms to resist complement were in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alvarez D,Merino S,Tomás JM,Benedí VJ,Albertí S

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesophilic Aeromonas hydrophila strains of serotype O34 typically express smooth lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on their surface. A single mutation in the gene that codes for UDP N-acetylgalactosamine 4-epimerase (gne) confers the O(-) phenotype (LPS without O-antigen molecules) on a strain in serotypes O18 and O34, but not...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Canals R,Jiménez N,Vilches S,Regué M,Merino S,Tomás JM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dried and wet mouse fibroblast monolayers with labeled collagenous substrate were used to study the effects of lipoteichoic acid (LTA) on cellular prolyl hydroxylase activity. LTA is a scavenger of cations, and Fe2+ is essential for prolyl hydroxylase activity. Surprisingly, addition of LTA to dried monolayers resulte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leon O,Panos C

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium parvum is a coccidian parasite that causes diarrheal disease in many vertebrate species, including young (less than or equal to 1 month old) calves. Older calves and adult cattle are resistant to infection. In this study, newborn calves were raised in isolation from C. parvum for 1 week to 3 months bef...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harp JA,Woodmansee DB,Moon HW

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bactericidal activity and binding of a 57,000-dalton cationic antimicrobial neutrophil granule protein (CAP57) are determined by the presence on bacteria of O-antigen polysaccharide chains and the availability of negatively charged groups in the lipid A region, the inner core region, or both regions of lipopolysacchar...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Farley MM,Shafer WM,Spitznagel JK

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies induced in sera and saliva of rats and rabbits immunized with ribosomal preparations from Streptococcus mutans 6715 inhibited transport of glucose by the phosphotransferase system by greater than 60%, acid production from sucrose by greater than 95%, and growth of the homologous S. mutans by greater than 59...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gregory RL,Michalek SM,Shechmeister IL,McGhee JR

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosome-activated mouse peritoneal macrophages phagocytized and digested Trypanosoma brucei in vitro and in vivo, but in the absence of specific antiserum and complement the degree of phagocytosis was minimal. Ultrastructurally, the parasites attached to the macrophage by their flagella, and ingestion proceeded fl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stevens DR,Moulton JE

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The invasion of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, Gilliam strain, into guinea pig polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) and the localization and distribution of tracers were followed during the process by electron microscopy. The seven tracers used were: cationized ferritin, ferritin, thorium dioxide (ThO2), carbon particles, l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rikihisa Y,Ito S

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00