Identification of a novel virulence determinant with serum opacification activity in Streptococcus suis.

abstract：:A major virulence factor of group A streptococci is M protein, a surface-exposed fibrillar molecule of which there exist more than 80 distinct serological types. Antigenic variability resides largely in the amino-terminal region of M protein, whereas the carboxy-terminal half of the molecule is highly conserved among ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bessen D,Fischetti VA

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strategies to limit complement deposition on Streptococcus pneumoniae are established as virulence features for invasive disease, but their role in respiratory tract infection requires further analysis. We evaluated complement C3 protein deposition on discordant S. pneumoniae isolates of the same serotype (6A) and the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sabharwal V,Ram S,Figueira M,Park IH,Pelton SI

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetoplastid membrane protein 11 (KMP-11) from Leishmania donovani is an abundant 11-kDa surface membrane glycoprotein. Lymph node cells from mice of six different H-2 haplotypes immunized with KMP-11 or with L. donovani promastigotes were stimulated to proliferate in vitro KMP-11. Primed purified T cells required an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tolson DL,Jardim A,Schnur LF,Stebeck C,Tuckey C,Beecroft RP,Teh HS,Olafson RW,Pearson TW

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomyces naeslundii and Streptococcus gordonii, oral bacteria that possess Gal/GalNAc- and sialic acid-reactive lectins, respectively, were adherent to immobilized secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) and two IgA1 myeloma proteins but not to two IgA2 myeloma proteins. Apparently, O-linked oligosaccharides at the hinge ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ruhl S,Sandberg AL,Cole MF,Cisar JO

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood-stage development of malaria parasites is initiated by the invasion of merozoites into susceptible erythrocytes. Specific receptor-ligand interactions must occur for the merozoites to first attach to and then invade erythrocytes. Because the invasion process is essential for the parasite's survival and the m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tsuboi T,Kappe SH,al-Yaman F,Prickett MD,Alpers M,Adams JH

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis, H2O2 production, Mac-1 expression, and in vivo elimination of Listeria monocytogenes were enhanced in granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)-treated mice. Transfer of polymorphonuclear leukocytes prolonged survival of mice infected with a lethal dose of L. monocytogenes. G-CSF augments the functio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shinomiya N,Tsuru S,Katsura Y,Kayashima S,Nomoto K

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After aerosol deposition of Serratia marcescens in mice, initial delayed pulmonary clearance was followed between 4 and 24 hr later by progressive elimination. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Southern PM,Pierce AK,Sanford JP

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have discovered two distinctly different fimbriae expressed by the same Porphyromonas gingivalis strain. The construction of a fimA mutant of P. gingivalis ATCC 33277 has previously been reported by N. Hamada et al. (Infect. Immun. 62:1696-1704, 1994). Expression of fimbriae on the surface of the fimA mutant and th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hamada N,Sojar HT,Cho MI,Genco RJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is a ubiquitous mucosal commensal that is normally prevented from causing acute or chronic invasive disease. Neutrophils contribute to protection in oral infection but exacerbate vulvovaginal candidiasis. To dissect the role of neutrophils during mucosal candidiasis, we took advantage of a new, transp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gratacap RL,Scherer AK,Seman BG,Wheeler RT

更新日期：2017-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-one patients with a variety of different illnesses were studied with respect to skin test anergy and the presence of serum chemotactic inhibitors. In initial testing, 55% of the patient tests demonstrated negative skin test responses to all six test antigens. Sera from 65% of these anergic patients were capable ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Van Epps DE,Frierson JA,Williams RC

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial products from gram-positive bacteria, such as peptidoglycan, teichoic acid, and toxins, activate mononuclear cells to produce tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF). The present study evaluated the release of soluble cell wall components from Staphylococcus epidermidis capable of inducing TNF after exposure of th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mattsson E,Van Dijk H,Verhoef J,Norrby R,Rollof J

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three monoclonal antibodies (MAbs), E4, L1-4, and L1-24, to the major outer membrane protein (MOMP) of Chlamydia trachomatis were identified that neutralized in vitro the infectivity of members of the B- and C-related complex as well as the mouse pneumonitis strain. MAbs L1-4, L1-24, and E4 gave a strong signal in an ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peterson EM,Cheng X,Markoff BA,Fielder TJ,de la Maza LM

更新日期：1991-11-01 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：:Earlier work had shown that a collection of anaerobic bacteria, in conjunction with facultative anaerobes, may be implanted into germfree mice, thereby rendering the animals "normal" with respect to a variety of parameters tested. The present experiments indicate that a different collection of anaerobic bacteria, isol...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Freter R,Abrams GD

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Science has a critical role to play in addressing humanity's most important challenges in the twenty-first century. However, the contemporary scientific enterprise has developed in ways that prevent it from reaching maximum effectiveness and detract from the appeal of a research career. To be effective, the methodolog...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fang FC,Casadevall A

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, one of Mycobacterium kansasii (nonsignificant), and one of Mycobacterium phlei were submitted to starvation. As a result they lost first their acid fastness and then all other staining affinities but, in this chromophobic state, they survived for at least 2 years and, after ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nyka W

更新日期：1974-05-01 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：:The ability of some typical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strains to adhere to, invade, and increase interleukin-8 (IL-8) production in intestinal epithelial cells in vitro has been demonstrated. However, few studies regarding these aspects have been performed with atypical EPEC (aEPEC) strains, which are e...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sampaio SC,Gomes TA,Pichon C,du Merle L,Guadagnini S,Abe CM,Sampaio JL,Le Bouguénec C

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic, microscopic, and biochemical studies show that virulent Ti (tumor inducing)-plasmid-containing strains of Agrobacterium attach to normal tobacco and carrot tissue culture cells. Kinetic studies showed that virulent strains of A. tumefaciens attach to the plant tissue culture cells in increasing numbers during...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Matthysse AG,Wyman PM,Holmes KV

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performing patch-clamp experiments on human macrophages, we show that the K(+) channel MaxiK is activated by lipopolysaccharide, peptidoglycan, and interleukin-1. Cytokine production initiated by several Toll-like receptor (TLR) ligands and by interleukin-1 is inhibited by MaxiK blockade. This provides evidence for fu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Scheel O,Papavlassopoulos M,Blunck R,Gebert A,Hartung T,Zähringer U,Seydel U,Schromm AB

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that children with blood group A have increased susceptibility to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) diarrhea and that Lewis blood group "a" antigen (Le(a)) may be a candidate receptor for ETEC colonization factor (CF) antigen I (CFA/I) fimbriae. Based on these findings, we have attempte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ahmed T,Lundgren A,Arifuzzaman M,Qadri F,Teneberg S,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:Spotted fever group rickettsiae are known to produce distinct plaque phenotypes. Strains that cause lytic infections in cell culture form clear plaques, while nonlytic strains form opaque plaques in which the cells remain intact. Clear plaques have historically been associated with more-virulent species or strains of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clark TR,Ellison DW,Kleba B,Hackstadt T

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the immunizing capacity of Salmonella enteritidis AL1192, a strain that has been cured of a 36-megadalton plasmid, to protect ddY mice against subsequent challenge with virulent salmonellas. This strain, which was given subcutaneously at a dose of 10(6) organisms, provided significant protection against oral...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nakamura M,Sato S,Ohya T,Suzuki S,Ikeda S,Koeda T

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative roles of serum factors required for opsonization of type XIV Streptococcus pneumoniae were investigated by means of luminol-enhanced chemiluminescence (CL), bactericidal, and immunofluorescence assays employing adult sera containing high (>1,000 ng of antibody nitrogen per ml) or low (<200 ng of antibody ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gardner SE,Anderson DC,Webb BJ,Stitzel AE,Edwards MS,Spitzer RE,Baker CJ

更新日期：1982-03-01 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：:Deciphering the mechanisms by which Borrelia burgdorferi controls the synthesis of proteins associated with mammalian infection will be an important step toward understanding the pathogenic properties of Lyme disease-causing bacteria. We present results of studies indicating that B. burgdorferi senses a wide variety o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Babb K,El-Hage N,Miller JC,Carroll JA,Stevenson B

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of indomethacin on the net intestinal accumulation of fluid induced by Escherichia coli heat-stable (ST) enterotoxin in the infant mouse model was examined. Indomethacin, when administered with ST enterotoxin, caused a striking decrease in net intestinal fluid accumulation. This inhibition of ST activity wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Madsen GL,Knoop FC

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis serotype 2 is an encapsulated bacterium and one of the most important bacterial pathogens in the porcine industry. Despite decades of research for an efficient vaccine, none is currently available. Based on the success achieved with other encapsulated pathogens, a glycoconjugate vaccine strategy was...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goyette-Desjardins G,Calzas C,Shiao TC,Neubauer A,Kempker J,Roy R,Gottschalk M,Segura M

更新日期：2016-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lung infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms are associated with refractory and fatal pneumonia in cystic fibrosis (CF). In this study, a group of genomically diverse P. aeruginosa isolates were compared with the reference strain PAO1 to assess the roles of motility, twitching, growth rate, and overpro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Head NE,Yu H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00