Purification and characterization of an enterotoxin from Bacteroides fragilis.

abstract：:Ehrlichia risticii incubated with mouse peritoneal macrophages elicited with thioglycolate broth survived and replicated, thereby allowing examination of the effects of several immunopotentiating agents. Treatment of the macrophages with recombinant murine gamma interferon (rMuIFN-gamma) in vitro at 1 day before or 3 ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Park J,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection against colibacillosis in neonatal piglets was obtained by immunization of pregnant dams with procholeragenoid. Procholeragenoid is a stable high-molecular-weight aggregate of cholera toxin formed during the heating of cholera toxin. Procholeragenoid retained approximately 1% of the toxicity of native toxin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fürer E,Cryz SJ Jr,Dorner F,Nicolet J,Wanner M,Germanier R

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is an important element for the growth of microorganisms as well as in the defense of the host by serving as a catalyst for the generation of free radicals via the Fenton/Haber-Weiss reactions. The iron transporter natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 1 (Nramp1) confers resistance to the growth of a v...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhong W,Lafuse WP,Zwilling BS

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4) expression on T cells responding to Cryptococcus neoformans and its role in regulating the T-cell response were examined. Using peripheral blood mononuclear cells stimulated with encapsulated or acapsular C. neoformans we showed that (i) the encapsulated strain...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pietrella D,Perito S,Bistoni F,Vecchiarelli A

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is one of the pathogens most frequently isolated in device-related infections. S. aureus is equipped with surface-associated proteins promoting specific binding to matrix molecules. Clumping factor A (ClfA, encoded by clfA) mediates adhesion to fibrinogen. Whereas the contribution of ClfA to path...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wolz C,Goerke C,Landmann R,Zimmerli W,Fluckiger U

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent pulmonary infections with Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are a major problem in cystic fibrosis (CF), leading to severe and progressive deterioration of the respiratory tract. Fibronectin (FN) has a binding site(s) for S. aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes. This bacterial bindings site(s) wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stanislawski L,Sorin M

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination with recombinant outer surface protein A (OspA) has been shown to protect mice from infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease agent. To determine whether antibodies to B. burgdorferi proteins other than OspA are involved in protective immunity, antibodies to OspA were removed from protective an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fikrig E,Barthold SW,Marcantonio N,Deponte K,Kantor FS,Flavell RA

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of the growth medium on the ability of strains of Streptococcus mutans, Actinomyces viscosus and A. naeslundii to attach to saliva-treated hydroxyapatite (S-HA) surfaces was studied. Preliminary experiments indicated that cells of each species harvested in lag, log, and early stationary phases of growth ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peros WJ,Gibbons RJ

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune response of humans and mice to temperature-specific, plasmid- or chromosome-encoded proteins of yersinia pestis and Yersinia enterocolitica was investigated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western blotting. Extracts from Y. pestis and Y. enterocolitica strains with and witho...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mazza G,Karu AE,Kingsbury DT

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes replicates mainly in resting macrophages and hepatocytes residing in infected tissues. Both innate and acquired resistance strongly depend on activation of listericidal capacities of macrophages by gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) produced by natural killer cells and T lym...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Szalay G,Hess J,Kaufmann SH

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of neutrophils causes the release of a cytoplasmic protein which can inhibit the growth of Candida albicans without killing the organisms. The present study was undertaken with a combined system in which candidacidal and candidastatic activities of human neutrophils could be compared. In this system it was ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sohnle PG,Collins-Lech C

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were performed to study the effect of antibody to Streptococcus mutans glucosyltransferase (GTF) on the implantation of these organisms in hamsters. Salivary (immunoglobulin A) and serum (immunoglobulin G) antibodies to GTF and GTF-inhibiting activity were elicited by injection of GTF in Freund complete ad...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Smith DJ,Taubman MA,Ebersole JL

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-toxin, the major cytolysin of Staphylococcus aureus, preferentially attacks human platelets and cultured monocytes, thereby promoting coagulation and the release of interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor. Titers of naturally occurring antibodies in human blood are not high enough to substantially inhibit these ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bhakdi S,Mannhardt U,Muhly M,Hugo F,Ronneberger H,Hungerer KD

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila organisms are able to infect and multiply within the ciliated protozoan Tetrahymena pyriformis. This ability may be associated with virulence, because an attenuated strain of L. pneumophila fails to multiply within this protozoan, whereas a virulent strain increases 10,000-fold in number when co...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fields BS,Barbaree JM,Shotts EB Jr,Feeley JC,Morrill WE,Sanden GN,Dykstra MJ

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxin preparations were obtained by growing Clostridium difficile VPI strain 10463 in 2-liter brain heart infusion dialysis flasks at 37 degrees C for 3 days. The initial step of the purification scheme involved ultrafiltration through an XM-100 membrane filter. Two toxic activities, designated toxins A and B, were se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sullivan NM,Pellett S,Wilkins TD

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented to indicate that Plasmodium berghei merozoites, but not trophozotites, have an antiphagocytic capsule. The capsule appears to form around the developing merozoties of the schizont in the parasitophorous vacuole. Serum from animals immune to P. berghei reacts with this capsule. After reaction with...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brooks C,Kreier JP

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swine were infected orally with pure cultures of Treponema hyodysenteriae, and the humoral antibody response was measured by a passive hemolysis test (passive hemagglutination test with the use of complement). Antibody to T. hyodysenteriae was detected as early as 1 week and later on at 4 months after exposure. Howeve...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jenkins EM,Sinha PP,Vance RT,Reese GL

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ureaplasma urealyticum is a common commensal of the female lower urogenital tract, yet it has been shown to be an important cause of chorioamnion infection, respiratory and central nervous system disease, and death in premature infants. It has been suggested that only certain serovars are capable of producing invasive...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zheng X,Teng LJ,Watson HL,Glass JI,Blanchard A,Cassell GH

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumolysin is a 471-amino-acid toxin produced by Streptococcus pneumoniae which has both cytolytic and complement activation properties. We have constructed a derivative of the type 2 S. pneumoniae strain D39 in which the portion of the pneumolysin gene encoding amino acids 55 to 437 has been deleted in-frame. The vi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Berry AM,Ogunniyi AD,Miller DC,Paton JC

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma interferon (IFN-γ) drives antiparasite responses and immunopathology during infection with Plasmodium species. Immunity-related GTPases (IRGs) are a class of IFN-γ-dependent proteins that are essential for cell autonomous immunity to numerous intracellular pathogens. However, it is currently unknown whether IRGs...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guo J,McQuillan JA,Yau B,Tullo GS,Long CA,Bertolino P,Roediger B,Weninger W,Taylor GA,Hunt NH,Ball HJ,Mitchell AJ

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains H37Ra and H37Rv, attenuated and virulent variants, respectively, of the original human strain H37 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, were used to infect cultures of mouse peritoneal macrophages. Bacterial viability of each strain was assessed over a 2-week period, and the cellular response to H37Ra during the firs...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hart PD,Armstrong JA

更新日期：1974-10-01 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：: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：:Henle 407 and HeLa cells were compared as hosts for Shigella dysenteriae at a low multiplicity of infection. Efficiency of attachment and invasion without centrifugation, as well as selectivity for pathogenic over nonpathogenic S. dysenteriae without Congo red, were much greater for Henle 407 cells than for HeLa cells...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sen A,Leon MA,Palchaudhuri S

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four classes of mutants of type III group B streptococcus were isolated by serial subculture of the wild-type strain in the presence of type III-specific rabbit antiserum. Class I mutants no longer synthesized sialic acid but still elaborated the core antigen. Class II mutants maintained the ability to synthesize sial...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yeung MK,Mattingly SJ

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-six Aeromonas hydrophila isolates were tested for cytotoxin and hemolysin production. Sixty-six (69%) of the isolates were both cytotoxic and hemolytic, whereas the rest produced neither cytotoxin nor hemolysin. No evidence of a separate cytotonic activity could be found in any of the isolates. Cytotoxin activi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cumberbatch N,Gurwith MJ,Langston C,Sack RB,Brunton JL

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitration of protein A with tetranitromethane incompletely blocks its Fc-binding ability for immunoglobulin G when measured by more sensitive methods of immunoprecipitation and when tested in the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. In addition, binding of protein A and blockage by nitration is heterogeneous and depends...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sloan GJ,Butler JE

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular toxoplasmosis is a potentially blinding intraocular inflammation. The intent of this study was to investigate the role of Fas-FasL interaction in a murine model of acquired ocular toxoplasmosis induced by intracameral inoculation of Toxoplasma gondii. Intraocular inflammation, Fas and FasL expression on lymphoc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hu MS,Schwartzman JD,Yeaman GR,Collins J,Seguin R,Khan IA,Kasper LH

更新日期：1999-02-01 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：:An apparent inhibition of induction of mouse hepatic tryptophan oxygenase by endotoxin has been reported previously, as evidenced by low catalytic activity. This could be due either to decreased tryptophan oxygenase levels or to inactivation of existing enzyme molecules. To resolve this question, the enzyme was quanti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rippe DF,Berry LJ

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00