Antigenic cross-reactivity and functional inhibition by antibodies to Clostridium difficile toxin A, Streptococcus mutans glucan-binding protein, and a synthetic peptide.

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of nosocomial bacterial diarrhea. Glutamine and its stable and highly soluble derivative alanyl-glutamine, have been beneficial in models of intestinal injury. In this study, we extend our work on the mechanisms of Clostridium difficile toxin A (TxA)-induced apoptosis in huma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carneiro BA,Fujii J,Brito GA,Alcantara C,Oriá RB,Lima AA,Obrig T,Guerrant RL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligately intracellular bacterial parasite of eucaryotic cells that undergoes a biphasic life cycle within a parasitophorous vacuole (PV) called an inclusion. The parasitophorous vacuolar membrane (PVM) constitutes a barrier between the replicating bacteria and the nutrient-rich environmen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heinzen RA,Hackstadt T

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The leukotrienes and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) play an important role in the pathophysiology of septic shock, in which hypotension, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, and hemoconcentration are observed. This study was performed to examine the effects of a 5-lipoxygenase inhibitor (AA-861), a selective leukotriene recepto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ogata M,Matsumoto T,Kamochi M,Yoshida SI,Mizuguchi Y,Shigematsu A

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytotoxin was found in culture filtrates of a number of Escherichia coli strains that differed from the known heat-stable and heat-labile enterotoxins of E. coli. It was cytotoxic for Vero but not for Y-1 or CHO cells, and its effect on Vero was distinctly different from that of heat-labile enterotoxin. It was labil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Konowalchuk J,Speirs JI,Stavric S

更新日期：1977-12-01 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：:White-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus), the primary reservoir for Borrelia burgdorferi in the northern midwest and northeastern United States, were experimentally inoculated with an infectious strain or a noninfectious strain of the Lyme disease spirochete and examined for their specific antibody response with the en...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schwan TG,Kime KK,Schrumpf ME,Coe JE,Simpson WJ

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The skin microenvironment at the site of infection plays a role in the early events that determine protective T helper 1/type 1 immune responses during cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) infection. During CL in nonhealing BALB/c mice, early interleukin-4 (IL-4) can instruct dendritic cells for protective Th1 immunity. Addit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Govender M,Hurdayal R,Martinez-Salazar B,Gqada K,Pillay S,Gcanga L,Passelli K,Nieuwenhuizen NE,Tacchini-Cottier F,Guler R,Brombacher F

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pig and mouse peritoneal macrophages in culture transport glucose by a specific, saturable system with characteristics compatible with facilitated diffusion. Phagocytosis of killed staphylococci or polystyrene latex spheres results in a significant increase in uptake of 2-deoxy-d-glucose. Reciprocal plot analys...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bonventre PF,Mukkada AJ

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Bacteroides fragilis associated with diarrhea in children (termed enterotoxigenic B. fragilis, or ETBF) produce a heat-labile ca. 20-kDa protein toxin (BFT). The purpose of this study was to examine the activity of BFT on polarized monolayers of human intestinal epithelial cells (T84 cells). In Ussing chamb...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chambers FG,Koshy SS,Saidi RF,Clark DP,Moore RD,Sears CL

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotics suppressed development of aster yellows (AY) disease symptoms in plants of china aster [Callistephus chinensis (L.) Nees.] and annual chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum carinatum, Schousb.). When inoculated chrysanthemum plants were treated by any of several techniques with tetracycline antibiotics or chloramphe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Davis RE,Whitcomb RF

更新日期：1970-08-01 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：:The complement system plays an important role in the host defense against infection, and the formation of the terminal complement complex on the bacterial surface has been shown to be particularly important in killing of gram-negative bacteria. The gram-negative periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis is resista...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Slaney JM,Gallagher A,Aduse-Opoku J,Pell K,Curtis MA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enteric pathogen Shigella is one of the leading causes of moderate-to-severe diarrhea and death in young children in developing countries. Transformed cell lines and animal models have been widely used to study Shigella pathogenesis. In addition to altered physiology, transformed cell lines are composed of a singl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ranganathan S,Doucet M,Grassel CL,Delaine-Elias B,Zachos NC,Barry EM

更新日期：2019-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Collectins play important roles in host defense against infectious microorganisms. We now demonstrate that the serum collectins mannose-binding lectin (MBL) and conglutinin have less ability to bind to, aggregate, and enhance neutrophil uptake of several strains of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria than pulmona...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hartshorn KL,White MR,Crouch EC

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was demonstrated that complement-coated sheep erythrocytes bind to Candida albicans cells grown in serum-free RPMI 1640 medium. Testing of purified complement components proved that iC3b and C3d were responsible for the reaction, whereas C3b and C3b-H reacted only slightly if at all. Binding occurred only to C. alb...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heidenreich F,Dierich MP

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells are considered to be key players in the early innate responses to protozoan infections, primarily indirectly by producing gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in response to cytokines, like interleukin 12 (IL-12). We demonstrate that live, as well as heat-inactivated, tachyzoites of Neospora caninum,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boysen P,Klevar S,Olsen I,Storset AK

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis remains the leading cause of death among infectious diseases, accounting for more than two million deaths annually. The incidence of the disease is increasing globally, partially because of the resurgence of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Calixarenes are macrocyclic oligomers, some ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Colston MJ,Hailes HC,Stavropoulos E,Hervé AC,Hervé G,Goodworth KJ,Hill AM,Jenner P,Hart PD,Tascon RE

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gram-negative gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori is equipped with an extraordinarily large set of outer membrane proteins (OMPs), whose role in the infection process is not well understood. The Hop (Helicobacter outer membrane porins) and Hor (Hop-related proteins) groups constitute a large paralogous family con...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Odenbreit S,Swoboda K,Barwig I,Ruhl S,Borén T,Koletzko S,Haas R

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritoneal exudate T lymphocytes from Listeria monocytogenes-immune mice in the presence of the homologous antigen (heat-killed L. monocytogenes) and normal macrophages showed L. monocytogenes-specific proliferative responses. Proliferation was inhibited by macrophages from L. monocytogenes- or Corynebacterium parvum-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kaufmann SH,Simon MM,Hahn H

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During persistence of nonencapsulated Haemophilus influenzae in the respiratory tracts of patients with chronic bronchitis, the major outer membrane proteins (MOMPs) P2 and P5 show antigenic drift. The hypothesis that appearance of antigenic variants is the consequence of antibody-dependent selection was tested in a r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vogel L,Duim B,Geluk F,Eijk P,Jansen H,Dankert J,vanAlphen L

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 14 is one of the common types isolated from patients of all ages with infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Its capsular polysaccharide (Pn14) is composed of a neutrally charged tetrasaccharide repeat unit. Pn14 does not elicit protective levels of antibodies in infants and children and is a less than op...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schneerson R,Levi L,Robbins JB,Bryla DM,Schiffman G,Lagergard T

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual 120-kDa alkaline peptidase contained in a trypomastigote soluble fraction (TSF) of Trypanosoma cruzi is associated with the induction of repetitive Ca2+ transients and subsequent invasion by the parasite of a number of mammalian cell lines, including tissue culture L6E2 myoblasts (B. A. Burleigh and N. W. A...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barr SC,Han W,Andrews NW,Lopez JW,Ball BA,Pannabecker TL,Gilmour RF Jr

更新日期：1996-05-01 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 generation of nitric oxide (NO) by activated macrophages is believed to control mycobacterial infection in the murine system. In this study we examined the effect of Mycobacterium bovis BCG infection on the L-arginine-dependent NO pathway in J774.1 murine macrophages. We have confirmed previous results by demonstr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peteroy-Kelly M,Venketaraman V,Connell ND

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A superoxide dismutase (SOD) gene from the obligate intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii has been cloned, and its DNA sequence has been determined and expressed in Escherichia coli. The gene was identified on pSJR50, a pHC79-derived genomic clone, by using the polymerase chain reaction with degenerate oligonucleo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heinzen RA,Frazier ME,Mallavia LP

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of a monoclonal antibody which binds the Cryptococcus neoformans capsule to suspensions of human monocytes, T lymphocytes, and cryptococcal cells (i) enhances interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), tumor necrosis factor alpha, and IL-2 production; (ii) reduces IL-10 secretion; and (iii) promotes T-cell proliferation. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vecchiarelli A,Retini C,Monari C,Casadevall A

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the cloning and expression of Ac-GST-1, a novel glutathione S-transferase from the adult hookworm Ancylostoma caninum, and its possible role in parasite blood feeding and as a vaccine target. The predicted Ac-GST-1 open reading frame contains 207 amino acids (mass, 24 kDa) and exhibited up to 65% amino acid ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhan B,Liu S,Perally S,Xue J,Fujiwara R,Brophy P,Xiao S,Liu Y,Feng J,Williamson A,Wang Y,Bueno LL,Mendez S,Goud G,Bethony JM,Hawdon JM,Loukas A,Jones K,Hotez PJ

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemolysins of Serpulina hyodysenteriae are active at 27 to 40 degrees C and pH 3 to 9 and are unaffected by enzymatic inhibitors. Pore formation was demonstrated by the inhibition of hemolysis with molecules of 2.0 to 2.3 nm in diameter and the release of 86rubidium from erythrocytes without hemoglobin release aft...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hyatt DR,Joens LA

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When type I Candida stellatoidea is plated onto sucrose agar at levels in excess of 10(8) cells, some isolates spontaneously form sucrose-positive colonies. These isolates do not display typical type I phenotypes but instead exhibit phenotypes intermediate between type I C. stellatoidea and C. albicans. Also, this phe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wickes BL,Golin JE,Kwon-Chung KJ

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A concentrated bacterial culture supernatant from the hemolytic Moraxella bovis strain UQV 148NF was used to immunize mice and generate monoclonal antibodies (MAbs). One, MAb G3/D7, neutralized the hemolytic activity of M. bovis and recognized a 94-kDa protein by Western blot analysis in hemolytic M. bovis strains rep...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Billson FM,Harbour C,Michalski WP,Tennent JM,Egerton JR,Hodgson JL

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00