The UDP N-acetylgalactosamine 4-epimerase gene is essential for mesophilic Aeromonas hydrophila serotype O34 virulence.

abstract：:Oophorectomized, estrogen-treated rats were immunized by the intravaginal or intranasal route with a mannoprotein extract (MP) or secreted aspartyl proteinases (Sap) of Candida albicans, with or without cholera toxin as a mucosal adjuvant. Both routes of immunization were equally effective in (i) inducing anti-MP and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： De Bernardis F,Boccanera M,Adriani D,Girolamo A,Cassone A

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that activating-type Fc receptors for immunoglobulin G (FcgammaR), such as FcgammaRI and FcgammaRIII, are essential for inducing inflammatory responses. On the other hand, a unique inhibitory FcgammaR, FcgammaRIIB, inhibits intracellular signaling upon engagement of immunoglobulin G-immune compl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Henriques-Pons A,Olivieri BP,Oliveira GM,Daëron M,de Araújo-Jorge TC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inoculation of herpes simplex virus on the forehead and/or snout of hairless mice resulted in a significantly lower mortality rate than inoculation of the skin in the lumbosacral area. Latent herpes simplex virus infections were detected in all forehead-inoculated and in 90% of snout-inoculated mice. Phosphonoacetic a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klein RJ,Friedman-Kien AE,Yellin PB

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TB10.4 is a newly identified antigen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis recognized by human and murine T cells upon mycobacterial infection. Here, we show that immunization with Mycobacterium bovis BCG induces a strong, genetically controlled, Th1 immune response against TB10.4 in mice. BALB/c and C57BL/6 strains behave as...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hervas-Stubbs S,Majlessi L,Simsova M,Morova J,Rojas MJ,Nouzé C,Brodin P,Sebo P,Leclerc C

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enteric pathogens enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli employ a type 3 secretion system (T3SS) to manipulate the host inflammatory response during infection. Previously, it has been reported that EPEC, in a T3SS-dependent manner, induces an early proinflammatory response through a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pallett MA,Berger CN,Pearson JS,Hartland EL,Frankel G

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments outlined here investigate the role of nitric oxide (NO) in the pathogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum-induced malarial anemia (MA). The results show that ex vivo and in vitro NO synthase (NOS) activity in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) is significantly elevated in children with MA and inversely ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Keller CC,Kremsner PG,Hittner JB,Misukonis MA,Weinberg JB,Perkins DJ

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial fatty acids (AFAs) protect the human epidermis against invasion by pathogenic bacteria. In this study, we questioned whether human skin fatty acids (FAs) can be incorporated into the lipid moiety of lipoproteins and whether such incorporation would have an impact on innate immune stimulation in the model...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nguyen MT,Hanzelmann D,Härtner T,Peschel A,Götz F

更新日期：2015-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a systemic tick-borne illness caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii, is associated with widespread infection of the vascular endothelium. R. rickettsii infection induces a biphasic pattern of the nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) activation in cultured human...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clifton DR,Rydkina E,Freeman RS,Sahni SK

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigens of Haemophilus somnus recognized by convalescent bovine serum were studied by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western blotting with a protein A-peroxidase conjugate. The same two 76K and 40K antigens were predominant in whole-bacterium preparations and in outer-membrane-enric...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Corbeil LB,Arthur JE,Widders PR,Smith JW,Barbet AF

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two enteropathogens Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia enterocolitica penetrate eukaryotic cells in vitro through invasin, a surface-exposed protein. In contrast, Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, is unable to enter mammalian cell lines, although the inv gene is present on its chromosome. Altho...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Simonet M,Riot B,Fortineau N,Berche P

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture supernatants from antigen-pulsed spleen cells of mice infected previously with either BCG or Plasmodium chabaudi were used to study macrophage activation as judged by phagocytosis of immunoglobulin G-sensitized erythrocytes and Plasmodium berghei- and P. chabaudi-infected erythrocytes. Resident peritoneal macr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ockenhouse CF,Shear HL

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannheimia haemolytica, a commensal organism of the upper respiratory tract in cattle, is the principal bacterial pathogen associated with the bovine respiratory disease complex. Adherence to the respiratory mucosa is a crucial event in its pathogenesis. However, the bacterial components that contribute to this proces...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kisiela DI,Czuprynski CJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania-infected macrophages are potential antigen-presenting cells for CD4+ T lymphocytes, which recognize parasite antigens bound to major histocompatibility complex class II molecules (Ia). However, the intracellular sites where Ia and antigens may interact are far from clear, since parasites grow within the mod...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Antoine JC,Jouanne C,Lang T,Prina E,de Chastellier C,Frehel C

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal ICR mice were infected intravenously, intraperitoneally, or aerogenically with Pasteurella multocida strains isolated from a turkey (S68), calf (V90), or rabbit (J20) lung. Both the turkey and calf isolates were highly virulent for mice and multiplied logarithmically in the lungs, liver, and spleen, resulting i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Collins FM,Niederbuhl CJ,Campbell SG

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in periodontal status are associated with shifts in the composition of the bacterial community in the periodontal pocket. The relative abundances of several newly recognized microbial species, including Filifactor alocis, as-yet-unculturable organisms, and other fastidious organisms have raised questions on th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Aruni AW,Zhang K,Dou Y,Fletcher H

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tetraspanins are a superfamily of transmembrane proteins with diverse functions and can form extended microdomains within the plasma membrane in conjunction with partner proteins, which probably includes receptors for bacterial adhesins. Neisseria meningitidis, the causative agent of meningococcal disease, attache...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Green LR,Monk PN,Partridge LJ,Morris P,Gorringe AR,Read RC

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ethanol-insoluble product formed from sucrose by purified enzyme encoded by the gtfA gene from Streptococcus mutans, expressed in recombinant Escherichia coli, was analyzed by 13C and 31P nuclear magnetic resonance. The product was identified as alpha-D-glucose-1-phosphate, and it was concluded that the GTF-A enzy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Russell RR,Mukasa H,Shimamura A,Ferretti JJ

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UV-inactivated Sendai virus is mitogenic for murine splenocytes, whereas infectious Sendai virus kills spleen cells in vitro. The isolated hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) and fusion (F) glycoproteins of Sendai virus are also mitogenic for cultured mouse spleen cells. A mixture of these glycoproteins (1 microgram/well...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kizaka S,Goodman-Snitkoff G,McSharry JJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatographic analysis, coupled to mass spectrometry with a high-resolution mass spectrometer, of materials isolated from skin lesions of patients with lepromatous leprosy allows the recognition of characteristic mycobacterial products, mycolic acids. This finding indicates that the "noncultivable" bacteria responsi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Etemadi AH,Convit J

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the development of vaccines capable of providing immunity against brucellosis, Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD) has been demonstrated to be one of the protective immunogens of Brucella abortus. In an earlier study, we provided strong evidence that intramuscular injection with a plasmid DNA carrying the SOD gene (pc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Muñoz-Montesino C,Andrews E,Rivers R,González-Smith A,Moraga-Cid G,Folch H,Céspedes S,Oñate AA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyinosinate-polycytidylate [poly(I).poly(C)]-induced interferon production in cultures of human foreskin fibroblast strains was increased by ultraviolet irradiation of cells at the time of exposure to inducer or at 2 h after induction. Incubation of cells with interferon prior to induction (priming) and ultraviolet ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mozes LW,Havell EA,Gradoville ML,Vilcek J

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the association of Herpesvirus saimiri with lymphocyte subsets and the functional integrity and distribution of these populations in owl monkeys with chronic, disease-free infections, in uninoculated, control animals, and in one monkey with H. saimiri-induced lymphoma. The lymphocyte subpopulations examine...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Neubauer RH,Dunn FE,Rabin H

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans NIH 409 was cultured in a defined medium containing D-[1-13C]xylose (Xyl), D-[1-13C]mannose (Man), or D-[1-13C]mannitol as the sole carbon source. The distribution of 13C in the Man, Xyl, glucuronic acid (GlcA), and O-acetyl constituents of native and de-O-acetylated glucuronoxylomannan (GXM) w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cherniak R,O'Neill EB,Sheng S

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the progression of the life cycle of Plasmodium falciparum, a small proportion of asexual parasites differentiate into male or female sexual forms called gametocytes. Just like their asexual counterparts, gametocytes are contained within the infected host's erythrocytes (RBCs). However, unlike their asexual partner...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Acquah FK,Adjah J,Williamson KC,Amoah LE

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of type III group B streptococci isolated from patients with neonatal sepsis are generally resistant to complement-mediated phagocytic killing in the absence of specific antibody. It has been suggested that the resistance of type III group B streptococci to phagocytosis results from inhibition of alternative-c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marques MB,Kasper DL,Pangburn MK,Wessels MR

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis extract that contained adenylate cyclase toxin produced large increases in human neutrophil cyclic AMP levels and inhibited their oxidative burst, as reflected by luminol-enhanced chemiluminescence and superoxide release. The adenylate cyclase toxin-containing extract blocked neutrophil-mediated i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galgiani JN,Hewlett EL,Friedman RL

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 120-kDa rickettsial outer membrane protein (rOmpB) is encoded by a gene with the capacity to encode a protein of approximately 168 kDa. The carboxy-terminal end of the molecule is apparently cleaved to yield 120- and 32-kDa products. Both polypeptides are surface exposed and remain associated with the outer membra...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hackstadt T,Messer R,Cieplak W,Peacock MG

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae contains an inhibitor of human neutrophil elastase. The agent does not inhibit other proteases, including neutrophil cathepsin G and pancreatic elastase. It is active in the presence of insoluble elastin as well as synthetic elastase substrates. The inhibitor is present in the pneumococcal cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vered M,Simon SR,Janoff A

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus nitric oxide synthase (saNOS) is a major contributor to virulence, stress resistance, and physiology, yet the specific mechanism(s) by which saNOS intersects with other known regulatory circuits is largely unknown. The SrrAB two-component system, which modulates gene expression in response to the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： James KL,Mogen AB,Brandwein JN,Orsini SS,Ridder MJ,Markiewicz MA,Bose JL,Rice KC

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies indicated that inorganic pyrophosphatase of Ascaris suum (AsPPase) plays an important role in larval survival in the host. Here we describe a precise role for AsPPase in larval molting and development and also describe the potential role of recombinant AsPPase (rAsPPase) in protective immunity to A. s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Islam MK,Miyoshi T,Yamada M,Tsuji N

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00