Identification of the gene encoding the FhbB protein of Treponema denticola, a highly unique factor H-like protein 1 binding protein.

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is an important human pathogen that causes gastritis and is strongly associated with gastric ulcers, gastric adenocarcinomas, and mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphomas. In response to H. pylori, interleukin-8 (IL-8) is secreted from host cells to attract components of the innate and adaptive ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Torok AM,Bouton AH,Goldberg JB

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of glycosylinositol phospholipid 1 (GIPL-1) of Leishmania (Leishmania) major in the interaction of promastigotes and amastigotes with macrophages was analyzed. Monoclonal antibody MEST-1, which recognizes glycolipids containing terminal galactofuranose (Galf) residues (E. Suzuki, M. S. Toledo, H. K. Takahashi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suzuki E,Tanaka AK,Toledo MS,Takahashi HK,Straus AH

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin caused a 26 to 41% reduction in the rate of oxygen consumption by rat liver mitochondria when various tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediates were used as substrate. However, P/O ratios were unaltered. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McDonel JL,Duncan CL

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonococci do not readily cause disseminated infection in mice. To simulate some of the conditions leading to disseminated gonococcal infection in women, we suspended gonococci in mucin plus hemoglobin and studied the development of gonococcal bacteremia. The mucin-hemoglobin mixture was used because the menstruum appe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Corbeil LB,Wunderlich AC,Corbeil RR,McCutchan JA,Ito JI Jr,Braude AI

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin A (IgA) was prepared from samples of parotid saliva collected from two individuals over a 150-day period. Standardized solutions of the IgA were tested for agglutinating antibody activity against strains of streptococcus salivarius, S. sanguis, S. mitis, and S. mutans that had been isolated from a homol...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bratthall D,Gibbons RJ

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo expression of pili by Escherichia coli in the urine of 41 adults with lower urinary tract infections was analyzed by immunostaining with polyclonal antiserum to type 1 and P pili. Type 1 pili were detected in 31 of 41 urine specimens, while P pili were detected in 6 of 18 specimens. The piliation status of bac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kisielius PV,Schwan WR,Amundsen SK,Duncan JL,Schaeffer AJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage is a risk factor for infection in humans, particularly in the hospital environment. Attenuation of carriage has proven effective in reducing the prevalence of infection in some high-risk groups. To study staphylococcal factors that influence nasal colonization, a mouse model of S. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kiser KB,Cantey-Kiser JM,Lee JC

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium piliforme induces enterohepatic disease in many domestic and laboratory animal species. Susceptibility to infection is known to vary with the immune status and strain of the host, but little is known about specific immune mechanisms that regulate this disease. To evaluate host control of C. piliforme infec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Van Andel RA,Hook RR Jr,Franklin CL,Besch-Williford CL,Riley LK

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：:Mice immunized intravenously 10 days earlier (but not those immunized 2 months earlier) with an attenuated Salmonella typhimurium SL3261 aroA live vaccine and tested for delayed-type hypersensitivity by injection of crude Salmonella extracts in the footpad can die within 24 to 48 h of an unexplained allergic reaction....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mastroeni P,Villarreal-Ramos B,Harrison JA,Demarco de Hormaeche R,Hormaeche CE

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies to Trichomonas vaginalis were prepared by immunizing mice with a cloned isolate of T. vaginalis. Eight antibodies reacted with the same four isolates or strains but did not react with the other T. vaginalis strains or isolates tested. All eight antibodies reacted uniformly with both the body and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Torian BE,Connelly RJ,Stephens RS,Stibbs HH

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using microarray technology, we studied the early differential expression of 3,528 genes in human meningothelial cells in response to meningococcal challenge. Thirty-two genes were up-regulated, and four were down-regulated. Those up-regulated included the tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin-6 (IL-6), and IL-8 (b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wells DB,Tighe PJ,Wooldridge KG,Robinson K,Ala' Aldeen DA

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Menstrually associated toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is attributed primarily to the effects of staphylococcal exotoxin toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1). A region of the 194-amino-acid toxin spanning residues 115 through 144 constitutes a biologically active site. Several point mutations in the TSST-1 gene in that re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bonventre PF,Heeg H,Cullen C,Lian CJ

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of the intracellular pathogen Rhodococcus equi to H(2)O(2) treatment, a situation potentially encountered after the oxidative burst of alveolar macrophages, was analyzed. Compared to other bacteria, including Deinococcus radiodurans, R. equi showed exceptionally high resistance to this stress. A proteomic...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Benoit S,Benachour A,Taouji S,Auffray Y,Hartke A

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treponema denticola is a cultivable oral spirochete which perturbs the cytoskeleton in cultured cells of oral origin, but intracellular signalling pathways by which it affects actin assembly are largely unknown. As the outer membrane (OM) of Treponema denticola disrupts actin-dependent processes that normally require ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ko KS,Glogauer M,McCulloch CA,Ellen RP

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial factors were analyzed in samples of whole saliva from 31 children, aged 0.8 to 3.8 years. When compared with the adult reference group, the children displayed similar levels of lysozyme, salivary peroxidase, and hypothiocyanite (OSCN-), whereas the amounts of immunoglobulins (isotypes A, G, and M), lacto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tenovuo J,Lehtonen OP,Aaltonen AS,Vilja P,Tuohimaa P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One rabbit pathogenic Escherichia coli strain, belonging to serogroup O103, harbors a self-transferable 117-kb plasmid (pREC-1) encoding resistance to several antibiotics. The role of this R plasmid in the colonization of the digestive tract in specific-pathogen-free (E. coli O103-free) rabbits was studied. Five-week-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Reynaud A,Federighi M,Licois D,Guillot JF,Joly B

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the specific role of transmembrane tumor necrosis factor (tmTNF) in protective and pathological responses against the gastrointestinal helminth Trichinella spiralis, we compared the immune responses of TNF-alpha/lymphotoxin alpha (LTalpha)(-/-) mice expressing noncleavable transgenic tmTNF to those of TNF-alp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ierna MX,Scales HE,Mueller C,Lawrence CE

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil collagenase (matrix metalloproteinase 8 [MMP-8]) is an important mediator of tissue destruction in inflammatory diseases. Studies of anaerobic periodontal infections have shown that active MMP-8 in gingival crevicular fluid is associated with the degradation of periodontal tissues in progressive periodontit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Romanelli R,Mancini S,Laschinger C,Overall CM,Sodek J,McCulloch CA

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III secretion system (T3SS) plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of many Gram-negative bacteria, including Edwardsiella tarda, an important fish pathogen. Within the E. tarda T3SS, there are three proteins (EsaB/EsaL/EsaM) that are homologous to proteins present in many other bacteria, including SpiC/SsaL...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liu LY,Nie P,Yu HB,Xie HX

更新日期：2017-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Suitability of the rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) as an experimental host for evaluation of vaccines against airborne infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37Rv was investigated. Nonvaccinated monkeys were exposed to estimated doses of 12, 25, or 49 units of H37Rv in a modified Henderson apparatus, and the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barclay WR,Anacker RL,Brehmer W,Leif W,Ribi E

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An impressive change in the epidemiology and severity of invasive group A streptococcal infections occurred in the 1980s, and the incidence of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome cases continues to rise. The reason for the resurgence of severe invasive cases remains a mystery-has there been a change in the pathogen or ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Basma H,Norrby-Teglund A,Guedez Y,McGeer A,Low DE,El-Ahmedy O,Schwartz B,Kotb M

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human systemic antibody levels to oral members of the Bacteroides genus were assessed with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Antibody levels to B. gingivalis, two homology groups of B. intermedius, B. melaninogenicus, B. denticola, B. loescheii, B. corporis, B. oralis, B. buccae, and B. gracilis were determined in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ebersole JL,Taubman MA,Smith DJ,Frey DE

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune cytolysis was measured by release of absorbed radioactive chromium from infected cells that were incubated with antiviral antibody and complement. The presence of virus-specific antigens detected in this manner on the surface of several types of cells infected with Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus did not corre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brandt WE,Russell PK

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a mouse model of thermal injury, an increase in burn size produced a decrease in the ratio of Candida albicans cells adherent to the marginal zone to those adherent to the white pulp of the spleen, an increase in the number of Candida cells in the circulation and in the kidneys, and an increase in mortality. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Neely AN,Orloff MM,Holder IA,Healy DP

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exoprotein of Staphylococcus aureus 100 that elicited a positive ileal loop response in the rabbit model was investigated in this study. The protein, as it occurred in the culture supernatant fluid, could be detected initially in the late log phase of growth under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. It was stable und...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Koupal A,Deibel RH

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate diagnosis and early treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB infection (LTBI) are vital to prevent and control TB. The lack of specific biomarkers hinders these efforts. This study's purpose was to screen immunological markers that discriminate Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection outcomes in a setting wh...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Teklu T,Kwon K,Wondale B,HaileMariam M,Zewude A,Medhin G,Legesse M,Pieper R,Ameni G

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae is an obligate human pathogen that causes the common sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea. Gonococcal infections cause significant morbidity, particularly among women, as the organism ascends to the upper reproductive tract, resulting in pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, and inf...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hollander A,Mercante AD,Shafer WM,Cornelissen CN

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two virulence factors of Listeria monocytogenes, listeriolysin O (LLO) and phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC), mediate escape of this pathogen from the phagocytic vacuole of macrophages, thereby allowing the bacterium access to the host cell cytosol for growth and spread to neighboring cells. We ch...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wei Z,Schnupf P,Poussin MA,Zenewicz LA,Shen H,Goldfine H

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, an agent of Lyme disease, establishes persistent infection in immunocompetent animals and humans. Although the infection in humans can be cleared by antibiotic therapy, persistence in reservoir animals is necessary for the maintenance of the bacterium in the natural reservoir host⇔tick vector inf...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： LaFrance ME,Pierce JV,Antonara S,Coburn J

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00