Immunogenicity and protective immunity against bubonic plague and pneumonic plague by immunization of mice with the recombinant V10 antigen, a variant of LcrV.

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：:Vibrio cholerae is the causative bacteria of the diarrheal disease cholera, but it also persists in aquatic environments, where it displays an expression profile that is distinct from that during infection. Upon entry into the host, a tightly regulated circuit coordinates the induction of two major virulence factors: ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hay AJ,Yang M,Xia X,Liu Z,Hammons J,Fenical W,Zhu J

更新日期：2016-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of C57BL/6 mice with the third-stage larvae of Brugia pahangi results in a rapid expansion of NK1.1(+) T cells in the spleen and draining lymph nodes. NK T cells produced interleukin-4 in the spleen within 24 h of infection, and these cells were CD4(-). ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Balmer P,Devaney E

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously identified a cell wall-associated protein from Fusobacterium nucleatum, a Gram-negative bacterium of the oral cavity, that induces human beta defensin 2 (hBD-2) in primary human oral epithelial cells (HOECs) and designated it FAD-I (Fusobacterium-associated defensin inducer). Here, we report differential...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bhattacharyya S,Ghosh SK,Shokeen B,Eapan B,Lux R,Kiselar J,Nithianantham S,Young A,Pandiyan P,McCormick TS,Weinberg A

更新日期：2016-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of Eimeria vermiformis within cultured murine fibroblastlike (L-929) or rat epithelial-like (RATEC) cells was inhibited by treatment of the cells with the appropriate recombinant gamma interferon. The effect was apparent as a reduction in both the initial numbers of intracellular sporozoites and, to a much ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rose ME,Smith AL,Wakelin D

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The urease gene cluster from the virulent Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae serotype 1 strain CM5 was cloned and sequenced. The urease activity was associated with a 6.3-kbp region which contains eight long open reading frames (ORFs). The structural genes, ureABC, are separated from the accessory genes, ureEFGD, by a 61...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bossé JT,MacInnes JI

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically based natural resistance to brucellosis in cattle provides for novel strategies to control zoonotic diseases. Bovine NRAMP1, the homologue of a murine gene (Bcg), has been identified as a major candidate for controlling the in vivo resistant phenotype. We developed an in vitro model for expression of resis...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barthel R,Feng J,Piedrahita JA,McMurray DN,Templeton JW,Adams LG

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exoenzyme Y (ExoY) is a type III secretion system effector found in 90% of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates. Although it is known that ExoY is a soluble nucleotidyl cyclase that increases the cytoplasmic levels of nucleoside 3',5'-cyclic monophosphates (cNMPs) to mediate endothelial Tau phosphorylation and permeabi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： He C,Zhou Y,Liu F,Liu H,Tan H,Jin S,Wu W,Ge B

更新日期：2017-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive protection, the administration of antibodies to prevent infection, has garnered significant interest in recent years as a potential prophylactic countermeasure to decrease the prevalence of hospital-acquired infections. Pili, polymerized protein structures covalently anchored to the peptidoglycan wall of many ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pinkston KL,Singh KV,Gao P,Wilganowski N,Robinson H,Ghosh S,Azhdarinia A,Sevick-Muraca EM,Murray BE,Harvey BR

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of protein kinase C (PKC) activation on the cyclic GMP response to heat-stable enterotoxin (STa) in a colonic carcinoma intestinal epithelial cell line, T84 cells. Our results demonstrate that the active phorbol ester analog, phorbol dibutyrate, but not the inactive alpha-phorbol dibutyrate, act...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weikel CS,Spann CL,Chambers CP,Crane JK,Linden J,Hewlett EL

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic members of the Yersinia genus require the translocator protein LcrV for proper function of the type III secretion apparatus, which is crucial for virulence. LcrV has also been reported to play an independent immunosuppressive role via the induction of interleukin-10 (IL-10) through stimulation of Toll-like ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pouliot K,Pan N,Wang S,Lu S,Lien E,Goguen JD

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:Brucella abortus injected into CBA mice replicated primarily in the spleen and liver, reaching a peak bacterial count in both organs about 7 days postinfection. The organism was eliminated from the liver but declined to a chronic phase in the spleen. The infection caused hepatosplenomegaly. An influx of macrophages in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Doyle AG,Halliday WJ,Barnett CJ,Dunn TL,Hume DA

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-O-methylmannose isolated from Coccidioides immitis was characterized by gas chromatographic comparison of derivatives with those of synthetic 3-O-methylmannose. Gas chromatographic behavior of three derivatives of the natural and synthetic sugars was identical. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Porter JF,Scheer ER,Wheat RW

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of bile on the expression of cholera toxin (CT) and the major subunit of the toxin-coregulated pilus (TcpA) and on motility was examined in the Vibrio cholerae O1 classical-biotype strains 0395 and 569B. Although the motility of the cells increased significantly in the presence of bile, transcription of the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gupta S,Chowdhury R

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies showed that Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A (PA toxin) catalyzes nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)-dependent inhibition of protein synthesis in a rabbit reticulocyte lysate and transfer of radioactivity from [14C]adenine-labeled NAD to a protein having the same molecular weight as elongation f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Iglewski BH,Liu PV,Kabat D

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis, proliferative typhlitis, and colitis were characterized in young adult and older SCID/NCr mice naturally infected with Helicobacter hepaticus. Liver lesions consisted of Kupffer, Ito, and oval cell hyperplasia along with multifocal to coalescing coagulative hepatocyte necrosis. Numerous Warthin-Starry-posit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li X,Fox JG,Whary MT,Yan L,Shames B,Zhao Z

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic Yersinia species utilize a type III secretion system (T3SS) to translocate effectors called Yersinia outer proteins (Yops) into infected host cells. Previous studies demonstrated a role for effector Yops in the inhibition of caspase-1-mediated cell death and secretion of interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) in naïv...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lilo S,Zheng Y,Bliska JB

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli strains isolated from newborn infants were injected intraperitoneally into infant rats. Strains possessing the K1 capsular polysaccharide antigen were significantly more virulent than strains lacking this antigen. When 5-day-old animals were injected with 1.2 X 10(1) colony forming units of a K1 E. co...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bortolussi R,Ferrieri P,Wannamaker LW

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody to Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin was detected in human sera by using a cytotoxicity-neutralization assay. Serum antitoxin was present in high titer in all 14 patients who recovered from serious pseudomonas infections (log2 of 50% neutralization titer, mean +/- standard deviation = 6.0 +/- 1.2). In contrast,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pollack M,Callahan LT 3rd,Taylor NS

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active immunization of mice with high doses of heat-killed and autoclaved vaccine of unencapsulated strains of Staphylococcus aureus, which was grown in brain heart infusion media, protected against challenge with the Smith diffuse strain of Staphylococcus aureus. These organisms were capable of absorbing the protecti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yoshida K,Ichiman Y,Otomo T

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen Habs-serotype strains could be classified into 11 groups depending on the characteristic patterns of 2-amino sugar composition; strains of serotypes 2, 5, and 7 had the same pattern, and each other serotype strain had its own distinctive pattern. In our classification, fucosamine and quinovosamine were of imp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suzuki N,Tsunematsu Y,Matsumoto H,Tazaki T

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of interleukin-10 (IL-10) by C57BL/6 mice following infection with Borrelia burgdorferi has been proposed as a mechanism whereby resistance to the development of experimental Lyme arthritis is maintained. In the current study, we sought to determine the role of IL-10 during infection of arthritis- and cardi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brown CR,Lai AY,Callen ST,Blaho VA,Hughes JM,Mitchell WJ

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishment and maintenance of chronic lung infections with mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) require that the bacteria avoid host defenses. Elaboration of the extracellular, O-acetylated mucoid exopolysaccharide, or alginate, is a major microbial factor in resistance to immune effe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pier GB,Coleman F,Grout M,Franklin M,Ohman DE

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter infections are present in approximately 50% of humans, causing severe illnesses such as gastritis and malignancies. Dendritic cells (DC) are critical antigen-presenting cells which link innate and adaptive immune responses. The mechanism of dendritic cell regulation in Helicobacter-induced gastritis is po...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Drakes ML,Czinn SJ,Blanchard TG

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient utilization of heme as an iron (Fe) source by Bordetella avium requires bhuR, an Fe-regulated gene which encodes an outer membrane heme receptor. Upstream of bhuR is a 507-bp open reading frame, hereby designated rhuI (for regulator of heme uptake), which codes for a 19-kDa polypeptide. Whereas the 19-kDa po...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kirby AE,Metzger DJ,Murphy ER,Connell TD

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ApxIIA protein secreted from Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is both hemolytic and cytotoxic. However, when the cloned apxII operon is expressed in Escherichia coli, two forms of the ApxIIA protein can be recovered. Toxin which remains intracellular has hemolytic and cytotoxic activities, while toxin that is secre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tu AH,Hausler C,Young R,Struck DK

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combining sites of type 1 fimbrial lectins of various species of enterobacteria were studied by measuring the inhibitory activity of linear and branched oligosaccharides and several glycosides of D-mannose on the agglutination of yeast cells by the organisms. The results showed that all five strains of Escherichia...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Firon N,Ofek I,Sharon N

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is a major cause of traveler's diarrhea as well as of endemic diarrhea and stunting in children in developing areas. However, a small-mammal model has been badly needed to better understand and assess mechanisms, vaccines, and interventions. We report a murine model of ETEC diar...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bolick DT,Medeiros PHQS,Ledwaba SE,Lima AAM,Nataro JP,Barry EM,Guerrant RL

更新日期：2018-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported that P388D1 cell line murine macrophages stimulated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans release interleukin-1 (IL-1) inhibitor. The IL-1 inhibitor was purified from conditioned media of P388D1 cells stimulated with A. actinomycetemcomitans LPS for 72 h to homogeneit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nishihara T,Ohsaki Y,Ueda N,Saito N,Mundy GR

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00