Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin damages the human intestine in vitro.

abstract：:FMS-like tyrosine kinase-3 ligand (Flt3L) is a dendritic cell (DC) growth and differentiation factor with potential in antitumor therapies and antibacterial immunization strategies. However, the effect of systemic Flt3L treatment on lung-protective immunity against bacterial infection is incompletely defined. Here, we...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brumshagen C,Maus R,Bischof A,Ueberberg B,Bohling J,Osterholzer JJ,Ogunniyi AD,Paton JC,Welte T,Maus UA

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of the gene encoding the antiphagocytic M protein (emm) of the group A streptococci has been shown to be regulated by CO2 (M. G. Caparon, R. T. Geist, J. Perez-Casal, and J. R. Scott, J. Bacteriol. 174:5693-5701, 1992). We tested the influence of additional environmental growth conditions on emm expressi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McIver KS,Heath AS,Scott JR

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 carries a chromosomal msbB1 and a plasmid-encoded msbB2 gene. We characterized msbB2 function as a homologue of msbB1 by examination of wild-type organisms and mutant strains that lacked functional msbB1, msbB2, and both msbB1 and msbB2. The msbB double-mutant strain generated pentaacyl lipid ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kim SH,Jia W,Bishop RE,Gyles C

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of strains of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans isolated from patients with periodontal diseases secrete a leukotoxin that destroys human myeloid cells within minutes but has no effect on viability of peripheral blood lymphocytes in culture for 1.5 h. However, since this organism persists in the gingiv...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mangan DF,Taichman NS,Lally ET,Wahl SM

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis remains a leading killer worldwide, and new approaches for its treatment and prevention are urgently needed. This effort will benefit greatly from a better understanding of gene regulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, particularly with respect to this pathogen's response to its host environment. We exam...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Purkayastha A,McCue LA,McDonough KA

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to develop a new system for the analysis of capsular biosynthetic pathways we have explored the possibility of expressing type 3 capsular polysaccharide (CPS) from the pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae in Lactococcus lactis, an unencapsulated lactic acid bacterium being developed as a vaccine delivery vehicle...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gilbert C,Robinson K,Le Page RW,Wells JM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal administration of 16 mg of cyclophosphamide in inbred chickens resulted in a transient, but profound, deficiency in the in vitro proliferative response of spleen cells. Functional T-cell deficiency was accompanied by a marked morphological degeneration in the thymus and thymus-dependent areas in the spleen. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sharma JM,Lee LF

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acute and persistent eosinophil infiltration is observed during Mycobacterium bovis BCG pleural infection in mice. Eosinophil accumulation, lipid body formation, and eotaxin production were significantly reduced in BCG-infected Toll-like receptor-2 (TLR2)-deficient mice compared to wild-type mice. Neutralization of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： D'Avila H,Almeida PE,Roque NR,Castro-Faria-Neto HC,Bozza PT

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiple antigen peptide (MAP) approach is an effective method to chemically synthesize and deliver multiple T-cell and B-cell epitopes as the constituents of a single immunogen. Here we report on the design, chemical synthesis, and immunogenicity of three Plasmodium falciparum MAP vaccines that incorporated antig...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mahajan B,Berzofsky JA,Boykins RA,Majam V,Zheng H,Chattopadhyay R,de la Vega P,Moch JK,Haynes JD,Belyakov IM,Nakhasi HL,Kumar S

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop targeted gene integration in the periodontal pathogen Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, a ColE1-based, spectinomycin-resistant plasmid containing a segment of the leukotoxin gene was electroporated into strain JP2. In all of the stable spectinomycin-resistant transformants that arose, the plasmid had re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kolodrubetz D,Phillips LH,Ezzo PJ,Kraig E

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritoneal exudate T lymphocytes from Listeria monocytogenes-immune mice in the presence of the homologous antigen (heat-killed L. monocytogenes) and normal macrophages showed L. monocytogenes-specific proliferative responses. Proliferation was inhibited by macrophages from L. monocytogenes- or Corynebacterium parvum-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kaufmann SH,Simon MM,Hahn H

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mig gene of Streptococcus dysgalactiae, a major bovine mastitis pathogen, encodes two plasma protein-binding receptors, alpha2-macroglobulin (alpha2-M) and immunoglobulin G (IgG). In this study, the mig gene from one S. dysgalactiae isolate was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The IgG receptor region enco...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Song XM,Perez-Casal J,Bolton A,Potter AA

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently determined that passive transfer of serum directed against a synthetic peptide called LB1 or a recombinant fusion protein immunogen [LPD-LB1(f)(2,1,3)] could prevent otitis media after challenge with a homologous nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) isolate. NTHI residing in the nasopharynx was rapidl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kennedy BJ,Novotny LA,Jurcisek JA,Lobet Y,Bakaletz LO

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent finding that high numbers of strict anaerobes are present in the respiratory tract of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients has drawn attention to the pathogenic contribution of the CF microbiome to airway disease. In this study, we investigated the specific interactions of the most dominant bacterial CF pathogen, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pustelny C,Komor U,Pawar V,Lorenz A,Bielecka A,Moter A,Gocht B,Eckweiler D,Müsken M,Grothe C,Lünsdorf H,Weiss S,Häussler S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus is an oyster-associated bacterial pathogen that causes life-threatening fulminating septicemia and necrotizing wound infections in humans. The capsular polysaccharide of V. vulnificus (VvPS) is critical for virulence. Previously we showed that active immunization of mice with a VvPS-tetanus toxoid (V...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Devi SJ,Hayat U,Powell JL,Morris JG Jr

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major obstacle to studying the functions of particular gene products in the mouse-tick infectious cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi has been an inability to knock out genes in pathogenic strains. Here, we investigated conditions for site-directed mutagenesis in B31 MI, the low-passage-number, infectious B. burgdorferi s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Elias AF,Stewart PE,Grimm D,Caimano MJ,Eggers CH,Tilly K,Bono JL,Akins DR,Radolf JD,Schwan TG,Rosa P

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A differential-display PCR procedure identified the capsular assembly gene kpsD after Escherichia coli type 1 fimbrial binding to mannose-coated Sepharose beads. Limiting-dilution reverse-transcribed PCRs confirmed down-regulation of the kpsD gene, and Northern blot and lacZ fusion analyses showed down-regulation of t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schwan WR,Beck MT,Hultgren SJ,Pinkner J,Woolever NL,Larson T

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase A2 and lysophospholipase activities were detected in the culture supernatant fluids of a virulent strain of Vibrio vulnificus. The phospholipase A2 was inactivated by heating at 56 degrees C for 30 min, had an apparent molecular weight of greater than or equal to 80,000 (estimated by gel filtration with ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Testa J,Daniel LW,Kreger AS

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell surface of Chlamydia psittaci seems important for establishing infection since (i) UV-treated elementary bodies (EB) attach to and are ingested by L cells and (ii) heat or antibody treatment decreases attachment to L cells and promotes the fusion of chlamydiae-containing phagosomes with lysosomes in macrophag...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eissenberg LG,Wyrick PB,Davis CH,Rumpp JW

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell walls from Streptococcus mutans were prepared by conventional technique and subjected to a series of extraction procedures involving classical protein solvents. The extracted walls contained several non-peptidoglycan amino acids and were also amenable to radiolabeling with [125I]sodium iodide and chloramine T. Th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nesbitt WE,Staat RH,Rosan B,Taylor KG,Doyle RJ

更新日期：1980-04-01 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：:The interaction between human neutrophils and wild-type Bordetella pertussis or mutants expressing altered lipopolysaccharide or lacking virulence factors-pertussis toxin, adenylate cyclase toxin, dermonecrotic toxin, filamentous hemagglutinin (FHA), pertactin, or BrkA-was examined. In the absence of antibodies, the w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weingart CL,Weiss AA

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the effect of periodontal therapy on specific serum antibody concentration, expressed as titer, and antibody binding strength, expressed as relative avidity. The immune responses to Porphyromonas gingivalis and Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans were investigated. Antibody titer was assayed by en...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mooney J,Adonogianaki E,Riggio MP,Takahashi K,Haerian A,Kinane DF

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies with animal models have demonstrated that viral respiratory tract infections suppress bacterial clearance processes in the lung and that this alteration in host defenses appears to explain the excessive mortality from bacterial pneumonia during influenza epidemics. However, since the pathogenesis of postinflue...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nugent KM,Pesanti EL

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defensins are antibiotic peptides expressed in human and animal myeloid and epithelial cells. Due to the limited availability of natural peptides, the properties of human epithelial defensins have not been studied. We assayed the microbicidal activity of recombinant human intestinal defensin 5 (rHD-5) in the presence ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Porter EM,van Dam E,Valore EV,Ganz T

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：:The effect of splenectomy on animals infected with Trypanosoma lewisi is unclear, and previous reports are inconclusive or conflictive. We splenectomized rats of different ages after they had been infected with T. lewisi. Female Sprague-Dawley rats, Hemobartonella-free, were assigned to four groups according to weight...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Llende M,Santiago-Delpín EA,Lavergne JA

更新日期：1983-06-01 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：:Groups of specific pathogen-free Hartley strain guinea pigs were vaccinated with viable Mycobacterium bovis BCG and maintained on isocaloric purified diets containing either 30 or 10% protein (ovalbumin) combined with either 50 ppm (microgram/g) or no added zinc. Seven weeks later the guinea pigs were skin tested with...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McMurray DN,Yetley EA

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since secondary Streptococcus pneumoniae infections greatly increase the mortality of influenza infections, we determined the relative roles of neutrophil-dependent and -independent mechanisms in increased susceptibility to S. pneumoniae during influenza infection. Mice infected with influenza for 6 days, but not 3 da...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McNamee LA,Harmsen AG

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00