A newly identified leptospiral adhesin mediates attachment to laminin.

abstract：:The antiinflammatory cytokine response during urosepsis was determined by measurement of concentrations of soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor (sTNFR) types I and II, interleukin 1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra), soluble IL-1 receptor type II (sIL-1RII), and interleukin 10 in sera and urine of 30 patients with cultur...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Olszyna DP,Prins JM,Buis B,van Deventer SJ,Speelman P,van der Poll T

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After interaction with tracheal epithelial cells, Bordetella pertussis induces the secretion of interleukin-6. This secretion is dependent on the expression of adenylate cyclase-hemolysin by the bacterium but not on the expression of other characterized bacterial toxins or adhesins. This finding confirms the important...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bassinet L,Fitting C,Housset B,Cavaillon JM,Guiso N

更新日期：2004-09-01 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

abstract：:This study investigates the role of CD4+ T cells in host defense against cholera enterotoxin-induced diarrhea. Antitoxin immunoglobulin A formation and gut protection against cholera toxin (CT) following oral immunizations with CT were evaluated in normal mice and mice that had been depleted of CD4+ T cells by in vivo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hörnqvist E,Goldschmidt TJ,Holmdahl R,Lycke N

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After intranasal inoculation, Brucella melitensis chronically infects the mononuclear phagocyte system in BALB/c mice, but it causes no apparent illness. Adaptive immunity, which can be transferred by either T cells or antibody from immune to naive animals, confers resistance to challenge infection. The role of innate...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Izadjoo MJ,Polotsky Y,Mense MG,Bhattacharjee AK,Paranavitana CM,Hadfield TL,Hoover DL

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon storage regulator A (CsrA) is an RNA binding protein that has been characterized in many bacterial species to play a central regulatory role by modulating several metabolic processes. We recently showed that a homolog of CsrA in Borrelia burgdorferi (CsrA(Bb), BB0184) was upregulated in response to propagation ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karna SL,Sanjuan E,Esteve-Gassent MD,Miller CL,Maruskova M,Seshu J

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) infection of beige (bg/bg) mice induced levels of natural killer cytolytic activity comparable to that of uninfected normal bg/+ controls, but considerably less than natural killer activity in VSV-infected bg/+ mice. In contrast, VSV-infected bg/bg and bg/+ mice had essentially equival...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McKinnon KP,Hale AH,Ruebush MJ

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme from Treponema denticola that hydrolyzes a synthetic trypsin substrate, N-alpha-benzoyl-L-arginine-p-nitroanilide (BAPNA), was purified to near homogeneity, as judged by gel electrophoresis. The molecular weight of the enzyme was estimated to be ca. 69,000 by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ohta K,Makinen KK,Loesche WJ

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus is the leading cause of bacterial seafood-borne gastroenteritis worldwide, yet little is known about how this pathogen colonizes the human intestine. The alternative sigma factor RpoN/sigma-54 is a global regulator that controls flagellar synthesis, as well as a wide range of nonflagellar genes...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whitaker WB,Richards GP,Boyd EF

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus species are saprophytic molds causing life-threatening invasive fungal infections in the immunocompromised host. Innate immune recognition, in particular, the mechanisms of opsonization and complement activation, has been reported to be an integral part of the defense against fungi. We have shown that the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bidula S,Kenawy H,Ali YM,Sexton D,Schwaeble WJ,Schelenz S

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of T cell differentiation markers is known to increase during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, and yet the biological role of such markers remains unclear. We examined the requirement of the T cell differentiation marker killer cell lectin-like receptor G1 (KLRG1) during M. tuberculosis infection u...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cyktor JC,Carruthers B,Stromberg P,Flaño E,Pircher H,Turner J

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified and concentrated Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus derived from tissue cultures, rendered noninfectious by ionizing radiation with retention of in vitro serological activity, also retained a high level of immunogenicity. In mice, fluid vaccines afforded excellent protection against lethal challenge w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gruber J

更新日期：1971-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A secreted nuclease, SsnA, was identified in the virulent Streptococcus suis isolate SX332 and subsequently in each of the type strains of capsular serotypes 1 through 9. Screening of 258 porcine clinical isolates from surface (nasal mucosa or palatine tonsil) or internal (joint, brain or other internal organ) locatio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fontaine MC,Perez-Casal J,Willson PJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae remains a major causative agent of serious human diseases. The worldwide increase of antibiotic resistant strains revealed the importance of horizontal gene transfer in this pathogen, a scenario that results in the modulation of the species-specific gene pool. We investigated genomic variation...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hakenbeck R,Balmelle N,Weber B,Gardès C,Keck W,de Saizieu A

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that soluble products of Schistosoma mansoni eggs might participate in the pathogenesis of hepatic fibrosis in schistosomiasis was investigated. Both crude saline extracts of eggs (soluble egg antigen [SEA]) and a partially purified SEA fraction contained activity which stimulated guinea pig and human ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wyler DJ,Tracy JW

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During infection, the Legionnaires' disease bacterium, Legionella pneumophila, survives and multiplies within a specialized phagosome that is near neutral pH and does not fuse with host lysosomes. In order to understand the molecular basis of this organism's ability to control its intracellular fate, we have isolated ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wiater LA,Dunn K,Maxfield FR,Shuman HA

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa invades various epithelial cell types in vitro and in vivo. The P. aeruginosa genome possesses a gene (flhA) which encodes a protein that is believed to be part of the export apparatus for flagellum assembly and which is homologous to invA of Salmonella spp. Because invA is required for invasion...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fleiszig SM,Arora SK,Van R,Ramphal R

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a study of virulence gene regulation in Streptococcus pneumoniae, we have identified a gene encoding a homologue of the staphylococcal catabolite control protein CcpA in the pneumococcal genome sequence. The pneumococcal protein, designated RegM, has significant similarity to members of the LacI/GalR family...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giammarinaro P,Paton JC

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsia prowazeki, pretreated with typhus immune human serum, readily infects, and grows in, chicken embryo cells in culture. This finding is similar to those of previous studies which showed that typhus rickettsiae, pretreated with immune serum, grow in cells of the yolk sac of embryonated hen eggs and in the cell...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wisseman CL Jr,Waddell AD,Walsh WT

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is a primary pathogen of swine and turkeys and sporadic cause of disease in a variety of other hosts, including humans. A genomic library of the highly virulent strain of E. rhusiopathiae E1-6P was constructed in the expression-cloning vector lambda gt11 and screened with serum from a pig ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galán JE,Timoney JF

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Giardia duodenalis is one of the most common causes of diarrheal disease in the world. While numerous studies have identified important contributions of adaptive immune responses to parasite control, much less work has examined innate immunity and its connections to the adaptive response during this inf...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li E,Tako EA,Singer SM

更新日期：2016-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of a standard bacterial vaccine (SBV) affords some protection against influenza infection in mice if given 4 to 5 h before inoculation of the virus. This effect was enhanced by repeated injections of SBV 7 and 14 days earlier, as measured by the length of survival, mortality rate, development of gross p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Degré M,Dahl H

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent study demonstrated that polyclonal antibodies to Rickettsia conorii and monoclonal antibodies to outer membrane proteins A (OmpA) and B (OmpB) provided effective, Fc-dependent, passive immunity, even in severe combined immunodeficient mice with an established infection. In order to determine the mechanism of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Feng HM,Whitworth T,Popov V,Walker DH

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology and pathology of cultured mouse glomeruli were examined at the cellular and subcellular levels after infection with a physiological isotonic L-form of Streptococcus pyogenes type 12 or exposure to streptococcal lipoteichoic acid. These changes, as viewed by light microscopy, were identical regardless of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tomlinson K,Leon O,Panos C

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of sortase gene srtA in Streptococcus pneumoniae strain R6 caused the release of beta-galactosidase and neuraminidase A (NanA) from the cell wall into the surrounding medium. Both of these surface proteins contain the LPXTG motif in the C-terminal domain. Complementation with plasmid-borne srtA reversed p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kharat AS,Tomasz A

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes, isolated from outbreaks in either human or nonhuman primate populations, was administered orally at doses ranging from 10(6) to 10(10) CFU. Four of 10 treated animals delivered stillborn infants. L. monocytogenes was isolated from fetal tissue, and the pathology was consistent with L. monocytog...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Smith MA,Takeuchi K,Brackett RE,McClure HM,Raybourne RB,Williams KM,Babu US,Ware GO,Broderson JR,Doyle MP

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While several diseases associated with Chlamydia psittaci infection have been reported in Phascolarctos cinereus (koala), it is still unclear whether one or more chlamydial strains are responsible. In this study, we provide evidence, obtained by restriction enzyme and gene probe analysis, that two quite distinct strai...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Girjes AA,Hugall AF,Timms P,Lavin MF

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a human inhibition monoclonal enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (HIMELISA) to investigate the human immune response to the lipooligosaccharides (LOS) of Neisseria meningitidis. Monoclonal antibodies (MAb) were used to define seven epitopes on four LOS molecules of a meningococcal strain (126E) previously ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Estabrook MM,Mandrell RE,Apicella MA,Griffiss JM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies to the capsular polysaccharide of Cryptococcus neoformans produce distinct capsular reactions and have biological activities that are determined by serotype specificity. In the present study, polyclonal rabbit anticapsular antibodies were cross-absorbed to produce serotype specificities similar t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： MacGill TC,MacGill RS,Kozel TR

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantity of membrane-bound and extracellular exotoxin A in four strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was investigated. In strain PA-103, which is the prototype strain used for toxin production, all of the toxin was released into the growth medium and little toxin remained with the cell envelope. In a virulent strain ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernandes PB,Cundy KR

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00