Intraspecies and temperature-dependent variations in susceptibility of Yersinia pestis to the bactericidal action of serum and to polymyxin B.

abstract：:Purified cell walls representing a wide variety in teichoic acid and peptidoglycan structure prepared from eight different gram-positive bacterial species induced the production of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and interleukin-6 from human monocytes in the presence of 10% plasma or serum. Significant amounts...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heumann D,Barras C,Severin A,Glauser MP,Tomasz A

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A soluble hemagglutinin/protease produced by Vibrio cholerae, which has previously been shown to hydrolyze fibronectin and ovomucin and to cleave lactoferrin and the A subunit of the heat-labile enterotoxin of Escherichia coli, appears to be a zinc metalloendopeptidase. Both its hemagglutinative and protease functions...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Booth BA,Boesman-Finkelstein M,Finkelstein RA

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a by-product of glycerol metabolism in mycoplasmas and has been shown to cause cytotoxicity for cocultured eukaryotic cells. There appears to be selective pressure for mycoplasmas to retain the genes needed for glycerol metabolism. This has generated interest and speculation as to their fun...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Szczepanek SM,Boccaccio M,Pflaum K,Liao X,Geary SJ

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of tryptophan-101 in Clostridium difficile toxin A, a 308-kDa glucosyltransferase, resulted in a 50-fold-reduced cytopathic activity in cell culture experiments. The mutant toxin A was characterized and applied to distinguish between glucosyltransferase-dependent and -independent effects with respect to RhoB ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Teichert M,Tatge H,Schoentaube J,Just I,Gerhard R

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) are the most toxic proteins for humans. The current clostridial-derived vaccines against BoNT intoxication have limitations including production and accessibility. Conditions were established to express the soluble receptor binding domain (heavy-chain receptor [HCR]) of BoNT s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baldwin MR,Tepp WH,Pier CL,Bradshaw M,Ho M,Wilson BA,Fritz RB,Johnson EA,Barbieri JT

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Random-bred mice were immunized with a nonliving antigen prepared from mixed-blood forms of Plasmodium berghei, strain NYU-2, in combination with Corynebacterium parvum and/or living BCG. A high proportion of intravenously immunized mice survived virulent challenge, but subcutaneous vaccination was less effective. Vac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murphy JR,Lefford MJ

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis is the causative agent of whooping cough, a potentially lethal respiratory disease in children. In immunocompetent individuals, B. pertussis infection elicits an effective adaptive immune response driven by activated CD4(+) T cells. However, live B. pertussis persists in the host for 3 to 4 weeks ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shumilla JA,Lacaille V,Hornell TM,Huang J,Narasimhan S,Relman DA,Mellins ED

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) plays a pathophysiologic role in sepsis induced in rat pups by group B streptococci (GBS). In this model, TNF-alpha is also partially responsible for the induction of interleukin-6 (IL-6). The present study was undertaken to investigate the role ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mancuso G,Tomasello F,Migliardo M,Delfino D,Cochran J,Cook JA,Teti G

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehrlichia chaffeensis, a tick-transmitted obligate intracellular rickettsial agent, causes human monocytic ehrlichiosis. In recent reports, we described substantial advances in developing random and targeted gene disruption methods to investigate the functions of E. chaffeensis genes. We reported earlier that the Hima...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang Y,Nair ADS,Alhassan A,Jaworski DC,Liu H,Trinkl K,Hove P,Ganta CK,Burkhardt N,Munderloh UG,Ganta RR

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cure of amebic liver abscess is associated with resistance to recurrent invasive amebiasis and the development of a humoral and cell-mediated immune response. We determined whether human immune sera contain blocking antibody for the 170-kilodalton (kDa) galactose or N-acetylgalactosamine (Gal/GalNAc)-binding lectin of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Petri WA Jr,Joyce MP,Broman J,Smith RD,Murphy CF,Ravdin JI

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of group A streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxins (SPE) type A and C was transferred from toxigenic streptococcal strains to nontoxigenic strains by lysogeny. Lysogens were tested for SPE with Ouchterlony immunodiffusion on Todd-Hewitt agar plates; toxin diffusing from isolated colonies reacted with specific hyp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Johnson LP,Schlievert PM,Watson DW

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia cenocepacia, a member of the B. cepacia complex, is an opportunistic pathogen that causes serious infections in patients with cystic fibrosis. We identified a six-gene cluster in chromosome 1 encoding a two-component regulatory system (BCAL2831 and BCAL2830) and an HtrA protease (BCAL2829) hypothesized to...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Flannagan RS,Aubert D,Kooi C,Sokol PA,Valvano MA

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Streptococcus salivarius strain TOVE-R to inhibit the ecological emergence of virulent representatives of the most prevalent human mutans streptococci on the teeth of specific pathogen-free Osborne-Mendel rats was studied. Rats which were infected by TOVE-R, or either S. mutans 10449S or S. sobrinus 671...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tanzer JM,Kurasz AB,Clive J

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with nontoxic monophosphoryl lipid A (MPL), which was derived from a polysaccharide-deficient, heptoseless Re mutant of Salmonella typhimurium, was found to inactivate suppressor T-cell activity, as evidenced by a decrease in the degree of low-dose immunological paralysis expressed and an increase in the mag...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker PJ,Hiernaux JR,Fauntleroy MB,Prescott B,Cantrell JL,Rudbach JA

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals living in areas where malaria is endemic are repeatedly exposed to many different malaria parasite antigens. Studies on naturally acquired antibody-mediated immunity to clinical malaria have largely focused on the presence of responses to individual antigens and their associations with decreased morbidity....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Osier FH,Fegan G,Polley SD,Murungi L,Verra F,Tetteh KK,Lowe B,Mwangi T,Bull PC,Thomas AW,Cavanagh DR,McBride JS,Lanar DE,Mackinnon MJ,Conway DJ,Marsh K

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility of Syrian hamsters of the inbred LSH and MHA strains to injection of as few as 10 plaque-forming units of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) was shown to occur only after intraperitoneal and intrapleural injection and not after injection of VSV intravenously, intranasally, or in the footpads. Despite the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fultz PN,Shadduck JA,Kang CY,Streilein JW

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C57BL/6J mice infected with Plasmodium berghei ANKA develop neurological dysfunction and die within 7 days of infection. We show that treatment of infected mice with a kynurenine-3-hydroxylase inhibitor prevents them from developing neurological symptoms and extends their life span threefold until severe anemia develo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clark CJ,Mackay GM,Smythe GA,Bustamante S,Stone TW,Phillips RS

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular bacterial infections affect all vertebrates. Cultured fish are particularly vulnerable because no effective protection measures have been established since such infections emerged approximately 50 years ago. As in other vertebrates, the induction of cell-mediated immunity (CMI) plays an important role in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Matsumoto M,Kubota T,Fujita S,Shiozaki K,Kishida S,Yamamoto A

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocarditis isolates of Enterococcus faecalis produced biofilm significantly more often than nonendocarditis isolates, and 39% of 79 versus 6% of 84 isolates produced strong biofilm (P < 0.0001). esp was not required, but its presence was associated with higher amounts of biofilm (P < 0.001). Mutants disrupted in dlt...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mohamed JA,Huang W,Nallapareddy SR,Teng F,Murray BE

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune and pathologic responses were measured for 20 weeks after infection of mice with Brucella abortus 19, RB51, or 2308. Live bacteria and bacterial antigens of 19 and RB51 persisted in spleens for 10 and 4 weeks after infection, respectively, whereas 2308 bacteria and bacterial antigens persisted for at least 20 w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stevens MG,Olsen SC,Pugh GW Jr,Palmer MV

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here invasin-dependent and invasin-independent mechanisms in which the enteropathogen Yersinia enterocolitica is able to disseminate from the lumen of the small intestine to the spleen. The invasin-dependent route is clearly discernible in mice devoid of intestinal Peyer's patches and mesenteric lymph nodes....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Handley SA,Newberry RD,Miller VL

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In meningococcal septic shock, the dominant inducer of inflammation is lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the outer membrane of Neisseria meningitidis, while interleukin-10 (IL-10) is the principal anti-inflammatory cytokine. We have used microarrays and Ingenuity Pathway Analysis to study the global effects of IL-10 on gene...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gopinathan U,Ovstebø R,Olstad OK,Brusletto B,Dalsbotten Aass HC,Kierulf P,Brandtzaeg P,Berg JP

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemiluminescence of human alveolar macrophages (AM) was evaluated in vitro. Unstimulated AM generated chemiluminescence that remained constant during incubation. Addition of heat-killed Staphylococcus aureus 502A (HKB) or a chemical agent, phorbol myristate acetate, produced high rates of chemiluminescence that were ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Beall GD,Repine JE,Hoidal JR,Rasp FL

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequences of three previously undescribed Pseudomonas aeruginosa pilin structural genes are presented. Comparisons of deduced pilin primary structure and flanking DNA sequence allowed placement of these and six previously published sequences into one of two groups. Epitope mapping, using overlapping imm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Castric PA,Deal CD

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptor (TLR) signal transduction is a central component of the innate immune response to pathogenic challenge. Although recent studies have begun to elucidate differences in acquired immunity in tissues of the human female reproductive tract, there is a relative paucity of work regarding innate defense mec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pioli PA,Amiel E,Schaefer TM,Connolly JE,Wira CR,Guyre PM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonspecific interactions related to physicochemical properties of bacterial cell surfaces, such as hydrophobicity and electrostatic charge, are known to have important roles in bacterium-host cell encounters. Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) expresses multiple, surface-exposed, choline-binding proteins (CBPs) w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Swiatlo E,Champlin FR,Holman SC,Wilson WW,Watt JM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improvement of antibody responses to polysaccharides through their linkage to proteins is thought to be mediated by protein-specific T helper (Th) cells. To investigate whether the carrier protein of a conjugate could be substituted by a Th epitope, Streptococcus pneumoniae type 17F polysaccharide (PS) was bromoacetyl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de Velasco EA,Merkus D,Anderton S,Verheul AF,Lizzio EF,Van der Zee R,Van Eden W,Hoffman T,Verhoef J,Snippe H

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filarial infection is initiated by mosquito-derived third-stage larvae (L3) deposited on the skin that transit through the epidermis, which contains Langerhans cells (LC) and keratinocytes (KC), among other cells. This earliest interaction between L3 and the LC likely conditions the priming of the immune system to the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boyd A,Bennuru S,Wang Y,Sanprasert V,Law M,Chaussabel D,Nutman TB,Semnani RT

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of various strains of rats to produce interferon in response to polyriboinosinic-polyribocytodilic acid was investigated. ACI and DA (RT-1a), BN (RT-1n), Buffalo (RT-1b), August (RT-1c), and GH (RT-1l) strains produced low levels of interferon in response to intraperitoneal administration of polyriboinosin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Davis CT,Blankenhorn EP,Murasko DM

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified mgrA (rat) as a regulator of autolysis in Staphylococcus aureus. Besides its effect on autolytic activity, we recently found alterations in the expression of regulator and target virulence genes in the mgrA mutant. Northern analysis and transcription fusion assays showed that inactivation...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ingavale S,van Wamel W,Luong TT,Lee CY,Cheung AL

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00