Investigation of a novel DNase of Streptococcus suis serotype 2.

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is an intracellular bacterial pathogen which causes bacteremia and has a tropism for the central nervous system and a propensity to cause maternofetal infection. L. monocytogenes has been shown to be an effective prophylactic and a therapeutic vaccine vector for viral and tumor antigens in anima...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Angelakopoulos H,Loock K,Sisul DM,Jensen ER,Miller JF,Hohmann EL

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of attachment and ingestion of Chlamydia trachomatis serotype L1 by monolayers of McCoy cells were studied by using a method that discriminated between attachment and uptake. When about 1% of the McCoy cells was infected, the proteinase K-resistant chlamydial fraction, regarded as ingested chlamydiae, rea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Söderlund G,Kihlström E

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lungs of conventional rats with chronic pneumonia contained Streptobacillus moniliformis and Mycoplasma pulmonis. These organisms singly and in combination failed to produce lung disease when inoculated into specific pathogen-free rats. On the other hand, diseased lung homogenate not containing cultivable organism...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gay FW,Maguire ME,Baskerville A

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis continues to ravage humanity, killing 2 million people yearly. Most cases occur in areas of the world to which the disease is endemic, where almost everyone is vaccinated early in life with Mycobacterium bovis BCG, the currently available vaccine against tuberculosis. Thus, while more-potent vaccines are ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Horwitz MA,Harth G,Dillon BJ,Maslesa-Galic S

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine optimal strategies to induce specific-antibody-secreting cells (specific ASC) in the rectal and vaginal mucosae, we immunized monkeys with a prototype mucosal immunogen, cholera toxin (CT), given locally or via gastric or parenteral administration. Repeated rectal or vaginal CT immunizations induced stron...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eriksson K,Quiding-Järbrink M,Osek J,Möller A,Björk S,Holmgren J,Czerkinsky C

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Merozoite surface proteins of Plasmodium falciparum play a critical role in the invasion of human erythrocytes by the malaria parasite. Here we describe the identification of a novel protein with a molecular mass of 40 kDa that is found on the merozoite surface of P. falciparum. We call this protein merozoite surface ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marshall VM,Silva A,Foley M,Cranmer S,Wang L,McColl DJ,Kemp DJ,Coppel RL

更新日期：1997-11-01 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：:Tularemia is caused by the Gram-negative bacterial pathogen Francisella tularensis Infection of macrophages and their subsequent death are believed to play important roles in the progression of disease. Because complement is a particularly effective opsonin for Francisella, we asked whether complement-dependent uptake...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brock SR,Parmely MJ

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between bacteria and fibronectin is believed to play an important role in the pathogenicity of clinically important Gram-positive cocci. In the present study, we identified a gene encoding a predicted fibronectin-binding protein of Enterococcus faecium (fnm), a homologue of Streptococcus pneumoniae pav...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Somarajan SR,La Rosa SL,Singh KV,Roh JH,Höök M,Murray BE

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syphilis has been recognized as a disease since the late 1400s, yet there is no practical vaccine available. One impediment to the development of a vaccine is the lack of understanding of multiple reinfections in humans despite the development of robust immune responses during the first episode. It has been shown that...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Morgan CA,Lukehart SA,Van Voorhis WC

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis, with phagocytic cells induces the activation of NF-kappaB and the expression of proinflammatory cytokines including tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha). B. burgdorferi-induced TNF-alpha production is also dependent on the activation ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Olson CM,Hedrick MN,Izadi H,Bates TC,Olivera ER,Anguita J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of dissociation techniques, involving gel filtration in the presence of guanidine, to a semipurified preparation of Campylobacter jejuni heat-labile enterotoxin yielded a material whose functional and immunological properties resemble those of the B subunits of cholera toxin and Escherichia coli heat-l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klipstein FA,Engert RF

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus equi and Streptococcus zooepidemicus are major etiological agents of upper and lower airway disease in horses. Despite the considerable animal suffering and economic burden associated with these diseases, the factors that contribute to the virulence of these equine pathogens have not been extensively inv...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harrington DJ,Greated JS,Chanter N,Sutcliffe IC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relapsing fever is a rapidly progressive and severe septic disease caused by certain Borrelia spirochetes. The disease is divided into two forms, i.e., epidemic relapsing fever, caused by Borrelia recurrentis and transmitted by lice, and the endemic form, caused by several Borrelia species, such as B. duttonii, and tr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Meri T,Cutler SJ,Blom AM,Meri S,Jokiranta TS

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyolysin (PLO), a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin expressed by Arcanobacterium pyogenes, is an important host-protective antigen. However, this molecule is toxic and requires inactivation prior to its use as a vaccine. Three genetically toxoided, nonhemolytic PLO molecules, HIS-PLO.F(497), HIS-PLO.Delta P(499), and HI...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jost BH,Trinh HT,Songer JG,Billington SJ

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant enterotoxin gene, referred to as sezA+, has been identified. Staphylococcus aureus FRI1106, a staphylococcal enterotoxin type D producer (Sed+), contained HindIII fragments of 3.8 and 9.4 kilobase pairs (kbp) that hybridized in Southern blot analysis to a probe containing only staphylococcal enterotoxin type...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Soltis MT,Mekalanos JJ,Betley MJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the chromosomal segments associated with the virulence of Shigella flexneri and transferred to Escherichia coli K-12 by conjugation has been shown to code for the production of aerobactin and for the synthesis of an iron-regulated 76,000-dalton (76K) outer membrane protein. Analysis of various E. coli K-12-S. f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Griffiths E,Stevenson P,Hale TL,Formal SB

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus equi is a facultative intracellular pathogen of macrophages, relying on the presence of a conjugative virulence plasmid harboring a 21-kb pathogenicity island (PAI) for growth in host macrophages. The PAI encodes a family of 6 virulence-associated proteins (Vaps) in addition to 20 other proteins. The contr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coulson GB,Miranda-CasoLuengo AA,Miranda-CasoLuengo R,Wang X,Oliver J,Willingham-Lane JM,Meijer WG,Hondalus MK

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although often considered a strict human pathogen, Streptococcus pneumoniae has been reported to infect and cause pneumonia in horses, although the pathology appears restricted compared to that of human infections. Here we report on the molecular characterization of a group of S. pneumoniae isolates obtained from hors...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whatmore AM,King SJ,Doherty NC,Sturgeon D,Chanter N,Dowson CG

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strain differences have been postulated to explain the observation that group B Streptococcus type III (GBS III) late-onset disease occurs in only a fraction of colonized infants. To determine the distribution of type-specific polysaccharide antigen (Ag) in GBS III, Ag was measured by rocket immunoelectrophoresis in b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klegerman ME,Boyer KM,Papierniak CK,Levine L,Gotoff SP

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female mice infected at birth with 10(7) 50% tissue culture infective doses of polyoma virus were mated when at least 6 weeks old. Polyoma was not detected in any tissues of 27 female mice before mating except for trace amounts in the kidneys of 2 mice, but late in gestation polyoma virus could be found in the kidneys...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McCance DJ,Mims CA

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole cells, morphological components, and various extracts of Candida albicans were tested for toxicity by methods involving biological activities ordinarily used to characterize bacterial endotoxin. Fungal preparations exerted several of these activities, but only at much higher dose levels than those required for b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cutler JE,Friedman L,Milner KC

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept that relates low virulence of certain alphaviruses to low viremia and efficient vascular clearance of virus was tested in guinea pigs. Previously published studies with hamsters suggested that virulent strains maintain high viremias primarily because they are cleared inefficiently from the blood. In the pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jahrling PB,Heisey GB,Hesse RA

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi is a human-restricted Gram-negative bacterial pathogen responsible for causing an estimated 27 million cases of typhoid fever annually, leading to 217,000 deaths, and current vaccines do not offer full protection. The O-antigen side chain of the lipopolysaccharide is an immunodominant...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kintz E,Heiss C,Black I,Donohue N,Brown N,Davies MR,Azadi P,Baker S,Kaye PM,van der Woude M

更新日期：2017-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored the role of urokinase and tissue-type plasminogen activators (uPA and tPA), as well as the uPA receptor (uPAR; CD87) in mouse severe malaria (SM), using genetically deficient (-/-) mice. The mortality resulting from Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection was delayed in uPA(-/-) and uPAR(-/-) mice but was simila...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Piguet PF,Da Laperrousaz C,Vesin C,Tacchini-Cottier F,Senaldi G,Grau GE

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host control of Coxiella burnetii infections is believed to be mediated primarily by activated monocytes/macrophages. The activation of macrophages by cytokines leads to the production of reactive oxygen intermediates (ROI) and reactive nitrogen intermediates (RNI) that have potent antimicrobial activities. The contri...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brennan RE,Russell K,Zhang G,Samuel JE

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile causes pseudomembranous colitis through the action of Rho-modifying proteins, toxins A and B. Antibodies directed against C. difficile toxin A prevent or limit C. difficile-induced colitis. We engineered plasmid pETR14, containing the hlyB and hlyD genes of the Escherichia coli hemolysin operon, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ryan ET,Butterton JR,Smith RN,Carroll PA,Crean TI,Calderwood SB

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an intracellular protozoan parasite, Toxoplasma gondii is likely to exploit proteases for host cell invasion, acquisition of nutrients, avoidance of host protective responses, escape from the parasitophorous vacuole, differentiation, and other activities. T. gondii serine protease inhibitor 1 (TgPI1) is the most ab...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pszenny V,Davis PH,Zhou XW,Hunter CA,Carruthers VB,Roos DS

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasite antigens which bind to host cell molecules of approximately 32 and 34 kilodaltons (kDa) were identified in supernatant fluids obtained from axenic cultures of Trypanosoma cruzi. These parasite components were first detected in culture supernatants obtained after 2 weeks in culture. Immunoblot analysis of cult...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Davis CD,Kuhn RE

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome sequencing analysis of ∼800 strains of group A Streptococcus (GAS) found that the gene encoding the multiple virulence gene regulator of GAS (mga) is highly polymorphic in serotype M59 strains but not in strains of other serotypes. To help understand the molecular mechanism of gene regulation by Mga and i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sanson M,Makthal N,Gavagan M,Cantu C,Olsen RJ,Musser JM,Kumaraswami M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00