Novel human in vitro system for evaluating antimycobacterial vaccines.

abstract：:Streptococcal group A, B, and C carbohydrates were analyzed by counterimmunoelectrophoresis, immunoelectrophoresis, and inhibition of immunoprecipitation. Extracts of streptococci group A or C were shown by counterimmunoelectrophoresis to contain both anodic and cathodic migrating components. In immunoelectrophoresis,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fung JC,Wicher K,McCarty M

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats and mice infected with Trypanosoma lewisi and Trypanosoma musculi, respectively, showed hyperreactivity to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from gram-negative bacteria. Fatal shock could be precipitated with a dose of LPS 100 to 1,000 times less in infected compared with noninfected animals. In trypanosome-infected rats ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ferrante A,Carter RF,Ferluga J,Allison AC

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence of Candida species yeast cells to bovine and human endothelium was measured. The adherence phenomenon is a saturable event which can be altered by the release of prostaglandin I2 (PGI2 or prostacyclin) by endothelial cells. Release of PGI2 by endothelium has a protective effect, reducing Candida albicans...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klotz SA

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal protective immunity against babesial infection is postulated to require both complement-fixing and opsonizing antibodies in addition to gamma interferon (IFN-gamma)-mediated macrophage activation. The rhoptry-associated protein 1 (RAP-1) of Babesia bigemina induces partial protective immunity and is a candidat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brown WC,McElwain TF,Palmer GH,Chantler SE,Estes DM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have noted that the prevalence of certain gonococcal colony types is influenced by the physiological state of the human host. Consequently eight different gonococcal strains were passed on clear typing medium, and opaque (Op) and transparent (Tr) variants of heavily pilated (P++) bacteria were selecte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Salit IE,Gotschlich EC

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of type 1 pili in promoting bladder colonization was examined by constructing two mutant strains of a clinical Escherichia coli isolate. One mutant was isogenic to the parental strain save for a lesion in a gene required for pilus receptor binding; the other mutant was isogenic save for a lesion in the gene e...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Keith BR,Maurer L,Spears PA,Orndorff PE

更新日期：1986-09-01 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：:Brucellosis is a bacterial disease of animals and humans. Brucella abortus barely activates the innate immune system at the onset of infection, and this bacterium is resistant to the microbicidal action of complement. Since complement stands as the first line of defense during bacterial invasions, we explored the role...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： González-Espinoza G,Barquero-Calvo E,Lizano-González E,Alfaro-Alarcón A,Arias-Gómez B,Chaves-Olarte E,Lomonte B,Moreno E,Chacón-Díaz C

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides play an important role in host defense against Vibrio cholerae Generally, the V. cholerae O1 classical biotype is polymyxin B (PB) sensitive and El Tor is relatively resistant. Detection of classical biotype traits like the production of classical cholera toxin and PB sensitivity in El Tor strai...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Samanta P,Mandal RS,Saha RN,Shaw S,Ghosh P,Dutta S,Ghosh A,Imamura D,Morita M,Ohnishi M,Ramamurthy T,Mukhopadhyay AK

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To look for a possible correlation between the virulence of Rhodococcus equi and its cytokine-inducing capacity, we evaluated intracellular survival and measured cytokine induction by mouse macrophages infected with a virulent strain containing an 85-kb plasmid and expressing VapA (103+), its avirulent plasmid-cured d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giguère S,Prescott JF

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Science has always been a competitive undertaking. Despite recognition of the benefits of cooperation and team science, reduced availability of funding and jobs has made science more competitive than ever. Here we consider the benefits of competition in providing incentives to scientists and the adverse effects of com...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fang FC,Casadevall A

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is a ubiquitous potentially pathogenic organism requiring iron for growth and virulence. Although it does not produce siderophores, L. monocytogenes is able to obtain iron by using either exogenous siderophores produced by various microorganisms or natural catechol compounds widespread in the en...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coulanges V,Andre P,Ziegler O,Buchheit L,Vidon DJ

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minicells are small, anucleate cells resulting from aberrant cell divisions at the polar ends of bacilli. We have isolated minicell-producing mutant strains of Shigella flexneri 2a (MC-I) and Shigella dysenteriae 1 (MC-V) after mutagenesis with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine. Microscopically, broth cultures of M...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gemski P,Griffin DE

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrobacter rodentium is an attaching and effacing pathogen which causes transmissible colonic hyperplasia in mice. Infection with C. rodentium serves as a model for infection of humans with enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. To identify novel colonization factors of C. rodentium, we screened a s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hart E,Yang J,Tauschek M,Kelly M,Wakefield MJ,Frankel G,Hartland EL,Robins-Browne RM

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelets aggregate in response to an adhesin and the platelet aggregation-associated protein (PAAP) expressed on the cell surfaces of certain strains of Streptococcus sanguis. We sought to identify the corresponding PAAP receptor and accessory adhesin binding sites on platelets. Since the adhesion(s) of S. sanguis fo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gong K,Wen DY,Ouyang T,Rao AT,Herzberg MC

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mice infected with virulent blood (trypomastigote) forms of Trypanosoma cruzi, complement depletion with cobra venom factor caused a marked exacerbation of the disease evidenced by significantly increased parasitemia levels and early mortality as compared with those of untreated infected animals. The effect was gre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Budzko DB,Pizzimenti MC,Kierszenbaum F

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is rising in the developing world due to poor health care, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection, and the low protective efficacy of the Mycobacterium bovis BCG vaccine. A new vaccination strategy that could protect adults in the developing world from tuberculosis could have a huge impact on publi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Williams A,Goonetilleke NP,McShane H,Clark SO,Hatch G,Gilbert SC,Hill AV

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnant mice, guinea pigs, rats, and rabbits responded to injections of Moraxella bovis strain EPP-63(300) with abortion, death, embryo resorption, and production of small litters. The nature of response appeared to depend primarily on the number of viable cells injected and to some extent on the species of animal an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Norman JO,Elissalde MH

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 34-kilodalton (kDa) antigen of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum (T. pallidum) is a pathogen-specific integral membrane protein. DNA sequence analysis of the cloned gene revealed an open reading frame encoding a primary product of 204 residues with a molecular mass of 22,087 daltons. Sequences that correspond to ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Swancutt MA,Riley BS,Radolf JD,Norgard MV

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the role of the hepatobiliary system in the early pathogenesis of Salmonella enteritidis infection was investigated in a rat model. Intravenous (i.v.) challenge with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) has previously been shown to enhance the translocation of normal gut flora. We first confirmed that LPS can simil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Islam AF,Moss ND,Dai Y,Smith MS,Collins AM,Jackson GD

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Once Candida albicans comes in contact with endothelial cells, it induces cellular injury. This endothelial cell injury may be a mechanism by which blood-borne organisms escape from the intravascular compartment and invade the tissue parenchyma during hematogenous infection. We have been investigating the ability of c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fratti RA,Ghannoum MA,Edwards JE Jr,Filler SG

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this research was to determine whether gram-negative bacteria frequently isolated from periodontally diseased sites contained polyclonal B-cell activators. Polyclonal B-cell activation, which results in nonspecific activation of multiple B-cell clones was analyzed by a hemolysis-in-gel assay designed ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bick PH,Carpenter AB,Holdeman LV,Miller GA,Ranney RR,Palcanis KG,Tew JG

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Localized juvenile periodontosis is associated with a defect of neutrophil chemotaxis that is characterized by selective depletion of a surface protein with a molecular mass of 110 kDa (GP110). Data on partial characterization of GP110 suggest that it is a glycoprotein which is enriched in Lys, Glu, His, Leu, and Ala ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tripathi SC,Van Dyke TE

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial encounter of Leishmania cells and cells from the immune system is fundamentally important in the outcome of infection and determines disease development or resistance. We evaluated the anti-Leishmania amazonensis response of naive volunteers by using an in vitro priming (IVP) system and comparing the respo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pompeu MM,Brodskyn C,Teixeira MJ,Clarêncio J,Van Weyenberg J,Coelho IC,Cardoso SA,Barral A,Barral-Netto M

更新日期：2001-12-01 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

abstract：:The chemoattraction of Propionibacterium acnes lipase for neutrophils and the effect of lipase inhibitor and two antibiotic agents on the chemotaxis were evaluated. Of the various fractions tested, partially purified lipase (fraction 2c) was the most active cytotaxin produced by P. acnes. Serum mediators were not requ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee WL,Shalita AR,Suntharalingam K,Fikrig SM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the Treponema denticola factor H-like protein 1 (FHL-1) binding protein, FhbB, was recovered and characterized. Sequence conservation, expression, and properties of FhbB were analyzed. The identification of FhbB represents an important step in understanding the contribution of FHL-1 binding in T. den...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McDowell JV,Frederick J,Stamm L,Marconi RT

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of adsorption of the Streptococcus mutans enzymes responsible for the synthesis of insoluble dextran-levan to the S. mutans cell-wall binding sites has been studied. Certain characteristics of these binding sites are presented. The adsorption of these enzymes to the cell surface occurred rapidly without ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mukasa H,Slade HD

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many pathogenic Escherichia coli produce the toxin alpha-hemolysin (Hly), and lipopolysaccharide (LPS), interleukin-1 (IL-1), and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) have all been recognized as important effector molecules during infections by gram-negative organisms. Despite the characterization of many in vitro effects of h...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gleason TG,Houlgrave CW,May AK,Crabtree TD,Sawyer RG,Denham W,Norman JG,Pruett TL

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00