Serological Comparison of the Two Morphological Phases of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis.

abstract：:Cholera toxin (CT) and related Escherichia coli enterotoxins LTI and LTIIb have a conserved hydrophobic region at the AB(5) interface postulated to be important for toxin assembly. Hydrophobic residue F223 in the A subunit of CT (CTA) as well as residues 174, L77, and T78 in the B subunit of CT (CTB) were replaced ind...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tinker JK,Erbe JL,Hol WG,Holmes RK

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The M1inv+ subclone of M1 group A streptococci that spread globally in the late 1980s and early 1990s was previously identified by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), M protein, and SpeA exotoxin sequence analyses. Strains representing this subclone were characterized with regard to carriage of bacterioph...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cleary PP,LaPenta D,Vessela R,Lam H,Cue D

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multigene family of 58- to 60-kDa proteins, which are designated rhoptry-associated protein 1 (RAP-1) and which come from the parasites Babesia bigemina and Babesia bovis, is a target for vaccine development. The presence of multiple gene copies and conserved sequences and epitopes of RAP-1 implies that these protei...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rodríguez SD,Palmer GH,McElwain TF,McGuire TC,Ruef BJ,Chitko-McKown MG,Brown WC

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete sequence analysis of the 210-kb Shigella flexneri 5a virulence plasmid was determined. Shigella spp. cause dysentery and diarrhea by invasion and spread through the colonic mucosa. Most of the known Shigella virulence determinants are encoded on a large plasmid that is unique to virulent strains of Shigel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Venkatesan MM,Goldberg MB,Rose DJ,Grotbeck EJ,Burland V,Blattner FR

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of the synthesis of Vi polysaccharide, a major virulence determinant in Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi, is under the control of two regulatory systems, ompR-envZ and rscB-rscC, which respond to changes in osmolarity. Some serotype Typhi strains exhibit overexpression of Vi polysaccharide, which masks cl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Santander J,Wanda SY,Nickerson CA,Curtiss R 3rd

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Splenic lymphocytes from cytomegalovirus-infected mice lost their in vitro proliferative responses to cytomegalovirus antigen within 3 h after in vivo treatment with antilymphocyte globulin and prednisolone. The response was inhibited when the agents were administered separately or together, and inhibition persisted t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mattsson DM,Howard RJ,Balfour HH Jr

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis evolved from Y. pseudotuberculosis to become the causative agent of bubonic and pneumonic plague. We identified a homolog of the Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium lipoprotein (lpp) gene in Yersinia species and prepared lpp gene deletion mutants of Y. pseudotuberculosis YPIII, Y. pestis KIM/D27 (p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sha J,Agar SL,Baze WB,Olano JP,Fadl AA,Erova TE,Wang S,Foltz SM,Suarez G,Motin VL,Chauhan S,Klimpel GR,Peterson JW,Chopra AK

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiphagocytic effect of the Staphylococcus aureus capsule is known to be related to its ability to interfere with opsonization by normal human serum. In this study, evidence is presented with isolated cell surface components which indicates that the capsule hinders opsonization by masking cell wall peptidoglycan....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wilkinson BJ,Peterson PK,Quie PG

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella flexneri 2a is an invasive enteric pathogen that may produce diarrhea when ingested by human beings and subhuman primates. We have previously shown that shigella diarrhea correlates with water and electrolyte transport abnormalities in the jejunum and colon. Dysentery alone is associated only with colonic tra...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kinsey MD,Formal SB,Dammin GJ,Giannella RA

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stress-induced extracytoplasmic sigma factor E (SigE) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis shows increased expression after heat shock, sodium dodecyl sulfate treatment, and oxidative stress, as well as after phagocytosis in macrophages. We report that deletion of sigE results in delayed lethality in mice without a signi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ando M,Yoshimatsu T,Ko C,Converse PJ,Bishai WR

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the marine fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum 775 harboring a plasmid associated with virulence can grow unaffected in the presence of iron-binding compounds such as transferrin. In contrast, the growth of isogenic plasmidless derivatives is inhibited by the presence of iron chelators. Radioactive from (55Fe3+)...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Crosa JH,Hodges LL

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of our study was to characterize the properties of the interaction of pertussis toxin with human polymorphonuclear leukocytes for the modulation of leukotriene generation and metabolism. The cells were stimulated with either the Ca ionophore A23187, opsonized zymosan, or the bacterial peptide formyl-methio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hensler T,Raulf M,Megret F,Alouf JE,König W

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated antigenic differences among the pili expressed by various strains of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). In order to understand the molecular basis for these differences, the structural gene for pilin was cloned from Hib strain Eagan (p+) and the nucleotide sequence was compared to ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Forney LJ,Marrs CF,Bektesh SL,Gilsdorf JR

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4) expression on T cells responding to Cryptococcus neoformans and its role in regulating the T-cell response were examined. Using peripheral blood mononuclear cells stimulated with encapsulated or acapsular C. neoformans we showed that (i) the encapsulated strain...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pietrella D,Perito S,Bistoni F,Vecchiarelli A

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovars Typhimurium and Dublin lysed primary bovine alveolar macrophages and immortalized J774.2 macrophage-like cells in the absence of either the morphological changes or DNA fragmentation characteristic of apoptosis. Macrophage lysis was dependent on a subset of caspases and an intact sipB gene...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Watson PR,Gautier AV,Paulin SM,Bland AP,Jones PW,Wallis TS

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the chromosomal segments associated with the virulence of Shigella flexneri and transferred to Escherichia coli K-12 by conjugation has been shown to code for the production of aerobactin and for the synthesis of an iron-regulated 76,000-dalton (76K) outer membrane protein. Analysis of various E. coli K-12-S. f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Griffiths E,Stevenson P,Hale TL,Formal SB

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type isolates of Shigella flexneri bind the dye Congo red from solid media, thus producing red (Crb+) colonies. Mutants which fail to bind the dye produce white colonies (Crb-) and are avirulent in a variety of systems. In S. flexneri the ability to bind Congo red correlates with the ability to bind hemin and pro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Daskaleros PA,Payne SM

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas infections of macrophages by promastigote forms of Leishmania mexicana pifanoi induce the production of superoxide, infections by amastigotes barely induce superoxide production. Several approaches were employed to gain insight into the mechanism by which amastigotes avoid eliciting superoxide production. Firs...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pham NK,Mouriz J,Kima PE

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis capsular type 2 is an important etiological agent of swine meningitis, and it is also a zoonotic agent. Since one hypothesis of the pathogenesis of S. suis infection is that bacteria enter the bloodstream and invade the meninges and other tissues in close association with mononuclear phagocytes, the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Segura M,Gottschalk M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis and mechanisms of killing of Aspergillus fumigatus conidia by murine alveolar macrophages (AM), which are the main phagocytic cells of the innate immunity of the lung, were investigated. Engulfment of conidia by murine AM lasts 2 h. Killing of A. fumigatus conidia by AM begins after 6 h of phagocytosis. S...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Philippe B,Ibrahim-Granet O,Prévost MC,Gougerot-Pocidalo MA,Sanchez Perez M,Van der Meeren A,Latgé JP

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar macrophages are the effector cells largely responsible for clearance of Pneumocystis carinii from the lungs. Binding of organisms to beta-glucan and mannose receptors has been shown to stimulate phagocytosis of the organisms. To further define the mechanisms used by alveolar macrophages for clearance of P. ca...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hollifield M,Bou Ghanem E,de Villiers WJ,Garvy BA

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our knowledge of pathogenesis has benefited from a better understanding of the roles of specific virulence factors in disease. To determine the role of the virulence factor ZapA, a 54-kDa metalloproteinase of Proteus mirabilis, in prostatitis, rats were infected with either wild-type (WT) P. mirabilis or its isogenic ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Phan V,Belas R,Gilmore BF,Ceri H

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humoral and cellular immune responses to several antigens were compared in control and hypercholesterolemic groups of monkeys. Chronic hypercholesterolemia, with concomitant hyperphospholipidemia and hypotriglyceridemia, was produced experimentally by feeding monkeys a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet. When studied pri...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fiser RH Jr,Denniston JC,McGann VG,Kaplan J,Alder WH 3rd,Kastello MD,Beisel WR

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moraxella (Branhamella) catarrhalis is an important bacterial cause of otitis media in children and lower respiratory tract infections in adults. In this study, we describe the presence of a novel high-molecular-weight outer membrane protein (HMW-OMP). This protein varies from 350 to 720 kDa in apparent molecular mass...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klingman KL,Murphy TF

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female guinea pigs were immunized with viable or UV light-inactivated chlamydiae (agent of guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis), belonging to the species Chlamydia psittaci, by intravenous, subcutaneous, oral, or ocular routes. All animals were then inoculated vaginally with viable chlamydiae to determine the extent o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rank RG,Batteiger BE,Soderberg LS

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal subunits from Mycobacterium smegmatis were analyzed by using sedimentation velocity, sedimentation equilibrium, and acrylamide gel electrophoresis experiments. These s(20.w) values for the subunits are 48.7S and 28.1S. The molecular weight of the 49S subunit is about 1.65 x 10(6), and that of the 28S subunit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Loge RV,Hill WE,Baker RE,Larson CL

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell surface protein SSP-5 in the oral bacterium Streptococcus gordonii M5 binds human salivary agglutinin in a Ca(2+)-dependent reaction (D.R. Demuth, E.E. Golub, and D. Malamud, J. Biol. Chem. 265:7120-7126, 1990). The region of the gene encoding an N-terminal segment of a related polypeptide (SspA) in S. gordonii D...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jenkinson HF,Terry SD,McNab R,Tannock GW

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyprotein allergens are a family of structurally homologous molecules from parasitic nematodes which induce specific immunoglobulin E in infected individuals. We show here that both H-2 and non-H-2 factors determine the ability of mice to generate T- and B-cell responses to the filarial polyprotein allergen (Brugia ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Allen JE,Lawrence RA,Maizels RM

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is currently accepted that malaria-parasitized red blood cells (pRBC) are eliminated, like senescent erythrocytes, phagocytically by macrophages in the red pulp of the spleen. Here, however, we show that self-healing Plasmodium chabaudi malaria activates spleen closure in C57BL/6 mice. Confocal laser scanning micro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krücken J,Mehnert LI,Dkhil MA,El-Khadragy M,Benten WP,Mossmann H,Wunderlich F

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naegleria fowleri produces fatal meningoencephalitis in humans and in experimentally infected laboratory animals. The course of the disease in mice is dependent upon the infecting dose of amoebae, route of inoculation, and prior exposure to Naegleria antigens. DUB/ICR mice were immunized by various routes and antigen ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： John DT,Weik RR,Adams AC

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00