Relapsing fever spirochetes Borrelia recurrentis and B. duttonii acquire complement regulators C4b-binding protein and factor H.

abstract：:Initiation of a gonococcal infection involves attachment of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to the plasma membrane of an epithelial cell in the mucosal epithelium and its internalization, transepithelial trafficking, and exocytosis from the basal membrane. Piliation and expression of certain Opa proteins and the immunoglobulin ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hopper S,Wilbur JS,Vasquez BL,Larson J,Clary S,Mehr IJ,Seifert HS,So M

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the 56-kDa protein of Orientia tsutsugamushi Shanxi was amplified by a nested PCR and cloned into the expression vector pQE30. The 56-kDa protein of O. tsutsugamushi Shanxi (Sxh56) was expressed as a fusion protein with the His(6)-binding protein of Escherichia coli by deleting the signal peptide-enc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chen WJ,Niu DS,Zhang XY,Chen ML,Cui H,Wei WJ,Wen BH,Chen XR

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite that resides in the cytoplasm of its host in a unique membrane-bound vacuole known as the parasitophorous vacuole (PV). The membrane surrounding the parasite is remodeled by the dense granules, secretory organelles that release an array of proteins into the vacuo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rome ME,Beck JR,Turetzky JM,Webster P,Bradley PJ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae enters cultured human mucosal cells following binding of a distinct gonococcal opacity (Opa) outer membrane protein to cell surface proteoglycan receptors. We examined the route of internalization that is activated by Opa-expressing gonococci (strain VP1). Microscopy of infected Chang epithelial ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grassmé HU,Ireland RM,van Putten JP

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxiella burnetii, the agent of Q fever, enters human monocytes through alpha(v)beta(3) integrin and survives inside host cells. In addition, C. burnetii stimulates the synthesis of inflammatory cytokines including tumor necrosis factor (TNF) by monocytes. We studied the role of the interaction of C. burnetii with THP...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dellacasagrande J,Ghigo E,Hammami SM,Toman R,Raoult D,Capo C,Mege JL

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most Campylobacter jejuni strains are sensitive and most Campylobacter fetus strains are resistant to the bactericidal activity in normal human serum. We purified lipopolysaccharides from Campylobacter strains to determine whether their composition and structure relate to serum susceptibility. The lipopolysaccharide o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Perez Perez GI,Blaser MJ

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two glucosyltransferase genes from Streptococcus mutans GS-5, gtfB and gtfC, have been previously isolated and sequenced in this laboratory. In the present communication a third gtf gene, gtfD, was isolated and characterized. Isolation of the gene involved a novel procedure utilizing the integration plasmid pVA891. A ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hanada N,Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculous pleurisy allows the study of human cells at the site of active Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. In this study, we found that among pleural fluid (PF) lymphocytes, natural killer (NK) cells are a major source of early gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) upon M. tuberculosis stimulation, leading us to investig...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schierloh P,Yokobori N,Alemán M,Landoni V,Geffner L,Musella RM,Castagnino J,Baldini M,Abbate E,de la Barrera SS,Sasiain MC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured L929 cells infected with Rickettsia prowazekii had a greatly increased rate of hydrolysis of fatty acid from the oleic acid-radiolabeled phospholipids of the host cell membranes. The incorporation of fatty acid into phospholipid in an infected cell was only moderately inhibited relative to a mock-infected cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Winkler HH,Daugherty RM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only 20 to 40% of human blood monocytes were capable of responding to chemotaxins in vitro. This limit is not due to restrictions of the in vitro system, but is due to the existence of a migrating subpopulation. Over a wide range, the number of cells migrating toward a given concentration of chemotaxin was directly pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Falk W,Leonard EJ

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of iron concentration during growth on the physicochemical surface properties of the colonial variants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae has been assessed by aqueous two-phase partitioning in a dextran-polyethyleneglycol system containing positively charged trimethylamino-polyethyleneglycol or hydrophobic polyethyle...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Magnusson KE,Kihlstrom E,Norqvist A,Davies J,Normark S

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human colostrum, parotid saliva, and serum were assayed for the presence of naturally occurring antibodies to five serotypes of Streptococcus mutans. Appreciable levels of agglutinins to strains AHT, BHT, 10449, 6715, and LM-7 (groups a leads to e, respectively) were detected in normal colostrum and saliva, whereas re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Arnold RR,Mestecky J,McGhee JR

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli 83972 is a clinical asymptomatia bacteriuric isolate that is able to colonize the human urinary bladder without inducing an immune response. Here we demonstrate that one of the mechanisms by which this strain has become attenuated is through the mutation of its genes encoding type 1 and P fimbriae. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klemm P,Roos V,Ulett GC,Svanborg C,Schembri MA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae is generally considered to be an obligate aerobe; it can, however, grow in the absence of oxygen by anaerobic respiration by using nitrite as a terminal electron acceptor. The outer membrane protein compositions of aerobically and anaerobically grown N. gonorrhoeae strains were compared by one- a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clark VL,Campbell LA,Palermo DA,Evans TM,Klimpel KW

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae for chicken embryos can be modified in a predictable manner by the addition of microbial siderophores to the inoculum. "Meningobactin" and "gonobactin," siderophores isolated from iron-limited cultures of meningococci and gonococci, respectively, enhance the virulence of the rela...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Finkelstein RA,Yancey RJ

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice infected with Trypanosoma musculi developed hyperplasia of the spleen, lymph nodes, and liver; in contrast, their thymuses displayed transient involution. All organs returned to normal in a month or less. There was modest anemia, lasting until the parasites were cleared from the bloodstream, followed by a rapid i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hirokawa K,Eishi Y,Albright JW,Albright JF

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal epithelial activation of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) exerts both detrimental and beneficial functions in response to various luminal insults, including ones associated with mucosa-associated pathogens. Gastrointestinal infection with enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) causes severe injuries in epit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Choi HJ,Kim J,Do KH,Park SH,Moon Y

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory mediators orchestrate the host immune and metabolic response to acute bacterial infections and mediate the events leading to septic shock. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) has long been identified as one of the proximal mediators of endotoxin action. Recent studies have implicated peroxisome proliferator-activ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hill MR,Clarke S,Rodgers K,Thornhill B,Peters JM,Gonzalez FJ,Gimble JM

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium causes self-limiting gastroenteritis in humans and a typhoid-like disease in mice that serves as a model for typhoid infections in humans. A critical step in Salmonella pathogenesis is the invasion of enterocytes and M cells of the small intestine via expression of a type III se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boddicker JD,Jones BD

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli and other members of the family Enterobacteriaceae express surface fibrillar structures, fimbriae, that promote bacterial adhesion to host receptors. Type 1 fimbriae possess a lectinlike component, FimH, that is commonly thought to cause binding to mannose-containing oligosaccharides of host receptors...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sokurenko EV,Courtney HS,Abraham SN,Klemm P,Hasty DL

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus mirabilis, a common agent of nosocomially acquired and catheter-associated urinary tract infection, is the most frequent cause of infection-induced bladder and kidney stones. Urease-catalyzed urea hydrolysis initiates stone formation in urine and can be inhibited by acetohydroxamic acid and other structural an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nicholson EB,Concaugh EA,Mobley HL

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic leptospires have the ability to survive and disseminate to multiple organs after penetrating the host. Several pathogens, including spirochetes, have been shown to express surface proteins that interact with the extracellular matrix (ECM). This adhesin-mediated binding process seems to be a crucial step in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barbosa AS,Abreu PA,Neves FO,Atzingen MV,Watanabe MM,Vieira ML,Morais ZM,Vasconcellos SA,Nascimento AL

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolates of Thermoplasma acidophilum were divided into serological groups based on immunodiffusion studies of solubilized-membrane preparations. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bohlool BB,Brock TD

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemin induced germination of Candida albicans blastoconidia when cells grown up to the early exponential phase were shifted from 28 to 37 degrees C (70 to 75% of cells exhibited germ tubes). N-Acetyl-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc), another inducer of myceliation in this fungus, caused a similar effect. The combination of hemi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Casanova M,Cervera AM,Gozalbo D,Martínez JP

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse system provides an excellent model for studying host resistance to Naegleria fowleri, the agent of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis. Innate resistance to infection with N. fowleri was examined with respect to infecting dose and the age, sex, and strain of mice. Intravenous inoculation with 10(7) amoebae p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Haggerty RM,John DT

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-phase variants and small colony (G-phase) variants derived from penicillinase-producing Staphylococcus aureus strains were tested for penicillinase (beta lactamase) production. A refined variation of the modified Gots test for penicillinase was used to demonstrate penicillinase synthesis. Penicillinase synthesis was...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Simon HJ,Yin EJ

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endotoxin-resistant C3H/HeJ mice were used to test the hypothesis that a macrophage product, possibly interleukin-1, might mediate the depression of liver cytochrome P-450-dependent drug metabolism in endotoxin-treated mice. Depression of liver drug metabolism by endotoxin was observed in normal mice (C3H/HeN) but not...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ghezzi P,Saccardo B,Villa P,Rossi V,Bianchi M,Dinarello CA

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A main feature in the pathogenesis of bacterial endocarditis is the activation of the coagulation system via the extrinsic pathway, resulting in the formation of infected endocardial vegetations. Earlier studies gave indirect evidence that monocytes play an important role in the procoagulant response during the course...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bancsi MJ,Veltrop MH,Bertina RM,Thompson J

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four classes of mutants of type III group B streptococcus were isolated by serial subculture of the wild-type strain in the presence of type III-specific rabbit antiserum. Class I mutants no longer synthesized sialic acid but still elaborated the core antigen. Class II mutants maintained the ability to synthesize sial...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yeung MK,Mattingly SJ

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lungs of conventional rats with chronic pneumonia contained Streptobacillus moniliformis and Mycoplasma pulmonis. These organisms singly and in combination failed to produce lung disease when inoculated into specific pathogen-free rats. On the other hand, diseased lung homogenate not containing cultivable organism...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gay FW,Maguire ME,Baskerville A

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00