Mycobacterium-inducible Nramp in striped bass (Morone saxatilis).

abstract：:The mechanism by which capsular polysaccharides inhibit phagocytosis is not clearly understood. We investigated the association between a negative surface charge and inhibition of phagocytosis by the capsular polysaccharide of Cryptococcus neoformans. A two-polymer aqueous-phase system containing phosphate ions was us...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR,Reiss E,Cherniak R

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that infection by Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasitic protozoan, is reduced by injection of CD40 ligand (CD40L)-transfected 3T3 fibroblasts (D. Chaussabel, F. Jacobs, J. de Jonge, M. de Veerman, Y. Carlier, K. Thielemans, M. Goldman, and B. Vray, Infect. Immun. 67:1929-1934, 1999). This prompted us...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chamekh M,Vercruysse V,Habib M,Lorent M,Goldman M,Allaoui A,Vray B

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) has recently been shown to facilitate macrophage foam cell formation and has been suggested to be a proatherogenic factor. The mechanism of LPS induced cholesterol accumulation, however, is unclear. In this report, using the macrophage-like RAW 264.7 cell line, we provide experimental evidence...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baranova I,Vishnyakova T,Bocharov A,Chen Z,Remaley AT,Stonik J,Eggerman TL,Patterson AP

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubercle bacilli failed to grow in iron-void media enriched with solutions of iron-containing transferrin (Tr) or ferritin (F) because these substances do not provide the bacilli with iron, which is essential for their growth. Animal serum and macrophages possessed no iron carrier with an ability to satisfy the need o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Golden CA,Kochan I,Spriggs DR

更新日期：1974-01-01 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：:We examined the reactivities of Clostridium butyricum neurotoxin to nine monoclonal antibodies against Clostridium botulinum type E neurotoxin which recognize the light chain or the amino-terminal half (H-1 fragment) or the carboxyl-terminal half (H-2 fragment) of the heavy chain of botulinum neurotoxin. Butyricum neu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozaki S,Onimaru J,Kamata Y,Sakaguchi G

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus), a leading cause of bacterial disease, is most commonly carried in the human nasopharynx. Colonization induces inflammation that promotes the organism's growth and transmission. This inflammatory response is dependent on intracellular sensing of bacterial components that acc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lemon JK,Miller MR,Weiser JN

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections caused by organisms of the Mycobacterium avium complex occur in approximately 50 to 60% of patients with AIDS. M. avium is an intracellular pathogen that survives and multiplies within mononuclear phagocytes. In this study, we investigated the uptake of M. avium grown within macrophages (intracellular growt...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bermudez LE,Parker A,Goodman JR

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the identification and characterization of two zinc uptake systems, ZurAM and ZinABC, in the intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. Transcription of both operons was zinc responsive and regulated by the zinc-sensing repressor Zur. Deletion of either zurAM or zinA had no detectable effect on grow...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Corbett D,Wang J,Schuler S,Lopez-Castejon G,Glenn S,Brough D,Andrew PW,Cavet JS,Roberts IS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of receptor binding in the toxicity, immunogenicity, and adjuvanticity of the heat-labile enterotoxin of Escherichia coli (LT) was examined by comparing native LT and LT(G33D), a B-subunit receptor binding mutant, with respect to the ability to bind to galactose and to GM1, toxicity on mouse Y-1 adrenal tumor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guidry JJ,Cárdenas L,Cheng E,Clements JD

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that protection from allergic inflammation by Ascaris suum infection was characterized by a global increase in interleukin-10 (IL-10) and the development of protective CD4(+)/CD25(+) T cells (L. Schopf, S. Luccioli, V. Bundoc, P. Justice, C. C. Chan, B. J. Wetzel, H. H. Norris, J. F. Ur...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McConchie BW,Norris HH,Bundoc VG,Trivedi S,Boesen A,Urban JF Jr,Keane-Myers AM

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is a leading diarrheagenic bacterial pathogen among travelers and children in resource-limited regions. Adherence to host intestinal cells mediated by ETEC fimbriae is believed to be a critical first step in ETEC pathogenesis. These fimbriae are categorized into related classes ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liu Y,Shahabudin S,Farid S,Lee LH,McVeigh AL,Maciel M Jr.,,Poole ST,Broadman M,Prouty MG,Savarino SJ

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae causes human infection through ingestion of contaminated food and water, leading to the devastating diarrheal disease cholera. V. cholerae forms matrix-encased aggregates, known as biofilms, in the native aquatic environment. While the formation of V. cholerae biofilms has been well studied, little is ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hay AJ,Zhu J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria exhibit extensive genetic heterogeneity within species. In many cases, these differences account for virulence properties unique to specific strains. Several such loci have been discovered in the genome of the type b serotype of Haemophilus influenzae, a human pathogen able to cause meningitis, pneumonia, and...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bergman NH,Akerley BJ

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased incidence of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in the United Kingdom caused by infection with Mycobacterium bovis is a cause of considerable economic loss to farmers and the government. The Eurasian badger (Meles meles) represents a wildlife source of recurrent M. bovis infections of cattle in the United Kingdom, and...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clark S,Cross ML,Nadian A,Vipond J,Court P,Williams A,Hewinson RG,Aldwell FE,Chambers MA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is a prominent, food-borne cause of diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, and the hemolytic uremic syndrome in industrialized countries. Most strains of EHEC carry the locus for enterocyte effacement (LEE) pathogenicity island, but a proportion of isolates from patients with severe disea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leyton DL,Sloan J,Hill RE,Doughty S,Hartland EL

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsular glucuronoxylomannans (GXM) of Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans isolates from patients with recurrent cryptococcal meningitis were analyzed by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and for reactivity with factor sera (Iatron, Tokyo, Japan). For each patient the initial and relapse isolates had prev...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cherniak R,Morris LC,Belay T,Spitzer ED,Casadevall A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controversy persists over the role that the capsular polysaccharide plays in the pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus infections. To address this issue, we compared the mouse virulence of S. aureus Reynolds and capsule-defective mutant strains cultivated under conditions of high or low capsule expression. Strain Reyn...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thakker M,Park JS,Carey V,Lee JC

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the immunodepressive effects of canine distemper virus (CDV) infection of dogs on two parameters of lymphocyte function, namely phytomitogen-induced cellular proliferation and skin allograft rejection, were investigated. Infection of susceptible gnotobiotic dogs with virulent R252-CDV resulted in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krakowka S,Cockerell G,Koestner A

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses in the guinea pig model are understudied because of a lack of commercial reagents. We have developed a custom-made guinea pig oligonucleotide microarray (81 spots) and have examined the gene expression profile of splenocytes restimulated in vitro from Mycobacterium bovis BCG-vaccinated and naive anima...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tree JA,Elmore MJ,Javed S,Williams A,Marsh PD

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In attempts to reactivate latent herpes simplex virus, we instilled Diplococcus pneumoniae intratracheally into mice harboring latent infections in sacrosciatic spinal ganglia. All mice developed a severe pneumonia within 24 h and were given penicillin therapy. Representative mice that survived the penumonia were sacr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stevens JG,Cook ML,Jordan MC

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme arthritis, does not produce any exported proteases capable of degrading extracellular matrix despite the fact that it is able to disseminate from a skin insertion site to infect multiple organs. Prior studies have shown that B. burgdorferi induces the host protease, ma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heilpern AJ,Wertheim W,He J,Perides G,Bronson RT,Hu LT

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the unavailability of a suitable antigen, specific in vitro lymphocyte reactivity has not been investigated in persons who have had systemic blastomycosis. Twelve persons who had recovered from blastomycosis were evaluated, and all were found to exhibit strongly positive and apparently specific in vitro cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bradsher RW,Alford RH

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli blood culture isolate BK658 (O75:K1:H7) expresses F1A and F1B fimbriae as well as a third fimbrial type which reacts with anti-S-fimbrial antiserum but fails to show S-specific binding properties (i.e., agglutination of bovine erythrocytes). To characterize these fimbriae, we cloned the respective...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pawelzik M,Heesemann J,Hacker J,Opferkuch W

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunomodulatory role of arthropod saliva has been well documented, but evidence for an effect on Plasmodium sp. infectiousness remains controversial. Mosquito saliva may orient the immune response toward a Th2 profile, thereby priming a Th2 response against subsequent antigens, including Plasmodium. Orientation to...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lawaly R,Konate L,Marrama L,Dia I,Diallo D,Diène Sarr F,Schneider BS,Casademont I,Diallo M,Brey PT,Sakuntabhai A,Mecheri S,Paul R

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma musculi produces a chronic infection with a consistently elevated parasitemia in nude mice. Thymic reconstitution of nude mice restores immunity to the infection. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rank RG,Roberts DW,Weidanz WP

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TB10.4 is a newly identified antigen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis recognized by human and murine T cells upon mycobacterial infection. Here, we show that immunization with Mycobacterium bovis BCG induces a strong, genetically controlled, Th1 immune response against TB10.4 in mice. BALB/c and C57BL/6 strains behave as...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hervas-Stubbs S,Majlessi L,Simsova M,Morova J,Rojas MJ,Nouzé C,Brodin P,Sebo P,Leclerc C

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia cepacia is an opportunistic pathogen that causes severe systemic infections in patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) or with cystic fibrosis (CF), but its mechanisms of virulence are poorly understood. We developed a murine model of systemic infection in wild-type (WT) and gamma interferon kno...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Speert DP,Steen B,Halsey K,Kwan E

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coaggregation-defective (COG-) mutant Actinomyces viscosus T14V(PK455), which is unable to participate in lactose-sensitive adherence, and its COG+ parent were compared to structurally define the mutational loss of cell-associated lectin activity. Immunoelectrophoretic comparisons of crude extracts or isolated fim...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cisar JO,Curl SH,Kolenbrander PE,Vatter AE

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis is one of the most important pathogens affecting the swine industry and is also an emerging zoonotic agent for humans. Two-component signaling systems (TCSs) play important roles in the adaptation of pathogenic bacteria to host environments. In this study, we identified a novel TCS, named TCS09HKRR,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhong X,Zhang Y,Zhu Y,Dong W,Ma J,Pan Z,Yao H

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00