Inhibition of proteolytic activity of a chlamydial proteasome/protease-like activity factor by antibodies from humans infected with Chlamydia trachomatis.

abstract：:Cells infected by Rickettsia rickettsii, the causative agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, display unusual intracellular morphological changes characterized by dilatation of the membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum and outer nuclear envelope. These changes are consistent with those that might be expected to occur...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Silverman DJ,Santucci LA

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various pathogenic bacteria with the capacity to live within eukaryotic cells activate an apoptotic program in infected host cells. Induction of apoptosis by Listeria monocytogenes in murine dendritic cells and hepatocytes has been described. Here we address the questions of whether and how the pathogen kills macropha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barsig J,Kaufmann SH

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of a plasmid in the virulence activity of an enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strain belonging to serotype 0111:NM was examined. EPEC strain B171, which is resistant to chloramphenicol, streptomycin, sulfathiazole, and tetracycline, harbors a 54-megadalton plasmid, pYR111, and exhibits localized adher...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Riley LW,Junio LN,Libaek LB,Schoolnik GK

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Syrian golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) is uniquely susceptible to a variety of intracellular pathogens and is an excellent model for a number of human infectious diseases. The molecular basis for this high level of susceptibility is unknown, and immunological studies related to this model have been limited b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Melby PC,Tryon VV,Chandrasekar B,Freeman GL

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimally manipulated nasal secretions, an accessible form of airway surface fluid, were tested against indigenous and added bacteria by using CFU assays. Antimicrobial activity was found to vary between donors and with different target bacteria and was markedly diminished by dilution of the airway secretions. Donor-t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cole AM,Dewan P,Ganz T

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used inhibitors of receptor-mediated endocytosis to study the mechanisms of infectivity, especially the uptake mechanism, of Chlamydia trachomatis for cultured cells. The effect of methylamine and monodansylcadaverine on the different stages of the chlamydial growth cycle in McCoy cells was examined. There was a do...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Söderlund G,Kihlström E

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AMA-1 of Plasmodium falciparum is a promising candidate antigen in malaria vaccine development. In this study, we have mapped the immunodominant T-cell determinants in this antigen by using synthetic peptides. From the amphipathic scores, 17 putative T-cell determinants were identified. Nine of the 17 peptides complem...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lal AA,Hughes MA,Oliveira DA,Nelson C,Bloland PB,Oloo AJ,Hawley WE,Hightower AW,Nahlen BL,Udhayakumar V

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence of several strains of Escherichia coli to human buccal epithelial cells was studied, using cells obtained from five groups: healthy adults, healthy children, children with acute diarrhea, children with persistent diarrhea associated with cryptosporidial parasites, and children with noncryptosporidial per...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Walser BL,Newman RD,Lima AA,Guerrant RL

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated immunity is pivotal in host resistance to Blastomyces dermatitidis infection. Immunization of mice with the WI-1 adhesin enhances resistance against experimental pulmonary infection but elicits features of a mixed T-helper-cell immune response. Immune mice acquire delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) but ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wüthrich M,Finkel-Jiminez BE,Klein BS

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae neuraminidase (NANase) is hypothesized to act synergistically with cholera toxin (CT) and increase the severity of a secretory response by increasing the binding and penetration of CT to enterocytes. To test this hypothesis, the NANase gene (nanH) from V. cholerae Ogawa 395 was first cloned and sequenc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galen JE,Ketley JM,Fasano A,Richardson SH,Wasserman SS,Kaper JB

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attenuated Yersinia pestis pgm strains, such as KIM5, lack the siderophore yersiniabactin. Strain KIM5 does not induce significant pneumonia when delivered intranasally. In this study, mice were found to develop pneumonia after intranasal challenge with strain KIM5 when they were injected intraperitoneally with iron d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galván EM,Nair MK,Chen H,Del Piero F,Schifferli DM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In pathogenic bacteria, iron acquisition is important for colonization and proliferation in the host under iron-limited conditions. The ability of Vibrio spp. to acquire iron is often critical to their virulence, causing gastroenteritis or excessive watery diarrhea in humans. In the study described here, we cloned the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ahn SH,Han JH,Lee JH,Park KJ,Kong IS

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response to reinfection with Ethiopian Leishmania donovani was evaluated in genetically determined noncure (H-2d) B10.D2 mice that are able to resolve infection due to sublethal irradiation pretreatment after inoculation with a low parasite dose and in C57BL/10 mice that demonstrate the genetically determined cure...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ulczak OM,Ghadirian E,Skamene E,Blackwell JM,Kongshavn PA

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to approximate and adhere to mucosal epithelial cells, Candida must traverse the overlying mucus layer. Interactions of Candida species with mucin and human buccal epithelial cells (BECs) were thus investigated in vitro. Binding of the Candida species to purified small intestinal mucin showed a close correlat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de Repentigny L,Aumont F,Bernard K,Belhumeur P

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (CMC) are selectively unable to clear the yeast Candida, which results in persistent debilitating infections affecting the skin, nails, and mucous membranes. The underlying defect is unknown. Recent animal studies highlighted the importance of type 1 cytokines in protect...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lilic D,Gravenor I,Robson N,Lammas DA,Drysdale P,Calvert JE,Cant AJ,Abinun M

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, controls protein expression patterns during its tick-mammal infection cycle. Earlier studies demonstrated that B. burgdorferi synthesizes 4,5-dihydroxy-2,3-pentanedione (autoinducer-2 [AI-2]) and responds to AI-2 by measurably changing production of several infection-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Arnold WK,Savage CR,Antonicello AD,Stevenson B

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the intracellular growth of 20 strains within six species of Legionella in thioglycolate-elicited peritoneal macrophages from A/J and C57BL/6 mice and a congenic strain derived from them (A.B Lgn1). With the exception of Legionella pneumophila Togus-1 and Bloomington-2, the intracellular growth of the 15 L...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miyamoto H,Maruta K,Ogawa M,Beckers MC,Gros P,Yoshida S

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii is transmitted to humans from infected animals by tissue cysts and oocysts excreted by cats. Immunization with inactivated parasites or recombinant proteins has at best shown partial protection. We constructed a plasmid expressing the SAG1 surface antigen of T. g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nielsen HV,Lauemøller SL,Christiansen L,Buus S,Fomsgaard A,Petersen E

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The short-term kinetics of fluoride uptake by cells from 20- to 22-h cultures of Streptococcus mutans strain 6715 were studied using rapid filtration and centrifugation techniques. Saline-suspended organisms were diluted with fluoride-containing solutions buffered at four different pH values (2.0, 4.0, 5.5, and 8.2). ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whitford GM,Schuster GS,Pashley DH,Venkateswarlu P

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P.69 pertactin (P.69 Prn), an adhesion molecule from the causative agent of pertussis, Bordetella pertussis, is present in cellular and most acellular vaccines that are currently used worldwide. Although both humoral immunity and cellular immunity directed against P.69 Prn have been implicated in protective immune mec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stenger RM,Poelen MC,Moret EE,Kuipers B,Bruijns SC,Hoogerhout P,Hijnen M,King AJ,Mooi FR,Boog CJ,van Els CA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from three human and four monkey isolates of Campylobacter jejuni was extracted in high yields that revealed ladder-like structures in polyacrylamide gels by direct silver staining. These observations demonstrate that C. jejuni possesses LPS with O-chain repeating units typical of the family E...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Blake DC Jr,Russell RG

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) has four loci, lic-1 to lic-3 and lgtC, that generate phase-variable lipooligosaccharide (LOS) structures. lic-1, which is required for the expression of phosphorylcholine (ChoP), is the best characterized and is associated with an enhanced ability of H. influenzae to persist ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tong HH,Blue LE,James MA,Chen YP,DeMaria TF

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy-associated malaria is a severe clinical syndrome associated with the sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes in the placenta. Placental binding is mediated by VAR2CSA, a member of the large and diverse P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane 1 (PfEMP1) protein family. To better understand if ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Avril M,Cartwright MM,Hathaway MJ,Hommel M,Elliott SR,Williamson K,Narum DL,Duffy PE,Fried M,Beeson JG,Smith JD

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum-sensing systems, las and rhl, control the production of numerous virulence factors. In this study, we have used the burned-mouse model to examine the contribution of quorum-sensing systems to the pathogenesis of P. aeruginosa infections in burn wounds. Different quorum-sensing mutants...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rumbaugh KP,Griswold JA,Iglewski BH,Hamood AN

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most vaccines are still given parenterally. Mucosal vaccination would offer different advantages over parenteral immunization, including blocking of the pathogens at the portal of entry. In this paper, nontoxic Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) mutants and Supramolecular Biovector systems (SMBV) were evalu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baudner BC,Balland O,Giuliani MM,Von Hoegen P,Rappuoli R,Betbeder D,Del Giudice G

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of heat and chemical inactivation on the antigenicity and immunogenicity of Vibrio cholerae 1418 in rabbits were studied. V. cholerae 1418 was inactivated with heat and chemical inactivants (phenol or Formalin) alone or in combination. Enzyme-linked immunoassay systems employing whole cells of V. cholerae ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cryz SJ Jr,Fürer E,Germanier R

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), interleukin 8 (IL-8), IL-6, IL-1 alpha, and IL-1 beta produced during the immune and inflammatory responses to bacterial stimuli have been reported to interact with polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Elbim C,Bailly S,Chollet-Martin S,Hakim J,Gougerot-Pocidalo MA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia species pathogenic to humans have been extensively characterized with respect to type III secretion and its essential role in virulence. This study concerns the twin arginine translocation (Tat) pathway utilized by gram-negative bacteria to secrete folded proteins across the bacterial inner membrane into the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lavander M,Ericsson SK,Bröms JE,Forsberg A

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several group B streptococcal products have been previously found to stimulate human monocytes to produce tumor necrosis factor alpha. In order to identify the receptors involved in these responses, monocytes were stimulated with purified group- or type-specific carbohydrates or lipoteichoic acid in the presence of an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cuzzola M,Mancuso G,Beninati C,Biondo C,von Hunolstein C,Orefici G,Espevik T,Flo TH,Teti G

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific proteolytic destruction of the human chemotaxin, C5a, is a property of group A and B streptococcal pathogens. Here we show that virulent group G streptococci from human sources also express C5a peptidase activity. The enzyme responsible for this activity is approximately the same size as and is antigenically ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cleary PP,Peterson J,Chen C,Nelson C

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00