Toll-like receptor-2-mediated C-C chemokine receptor 3 and eotaxin-driven eosinophil influx induced by Mycobacterium bovis BCG pleurisy.

abstract：:Fourteen strains of Escherichia coli were tested for ability to cause infective endocarditis in rabbits prepared by prior placement of an intracardiac catheter. Strains that were resistant to the bactericidal action of serum caused E. coli endocarditis in 91.4% of rabbits, whereas serum-sensitive strains usually faile...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Durack DT,Beeson PB

更新日期：1977-04-01 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：:Fonsecaea pedrosoi is a fungal pathogen that produces melanin. The functions of melanin and its possible influence in the protective immunological response during infection by F. pedrosoi are not known. In this work, treatment of F. pedrosoi mycelia with proteases and glycosidases followed by a denaturing agent and ho...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alviano DS,Franzen AJ,Travassos LR,Holandino C,Rozental S,Ejzemberg R,Alviano CS,Rodrigues ML

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that thiols reduced the amount of cholera toxin produced by Vibrio cholerae 569B in vitro. A sulfhydryl group at least was necessary for the reduction of cholera toxin production by thiols. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shimamura T,Watanabe S,Sasaki S

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effector mechanism, which operates against challenge parasites in the lungs of C57BL/6 mice vaccinated once with irradiated cercariae of Schistosoma mansoni, is mediated by CD4+ T helper lymphocytes. However, adoptive transfer of immunity from vaccinated donors to naive recipients by using sensitized T cells has n...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coulson PS,Wilson RA

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae neuraminidase (NANase) is hypothesized to act synergistically with cholera toxin (CT) and increase the severity of a secretory response by increasing the binding and penetration of CT to enterocytes. To test this hypothesis, the NANase gene (nanH) from V. cholerae Ogawa 395 was first cloned and sequenc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galen JE,Ketley JM,Fasano A,Richardson SH,Wasserman SS,Kaper JB

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results from studies using mice deficient in specific complement factors and clinical data on patients with an inherited deficiency of the classical complement pathway component C2 suggest that the classical pathway is vital for immunity to Streptococcus pneumoniae. However, the consequences of defects in classical pa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yuste J,Sen A,Truedsson L,Jönsson G,Tay LS,Hyams C,Baxendale HE,Goldblatt F,Botto M,Brown JS

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dried and wet mouse fibroblast monolayers with labeled collagenous substrate were used to study the effects of lipoteichoic acid (LTA) on cellular prolyl hydroxylase activity. LTA is a scavenger of cations, and Fe2+ is essential for prolyl hydroxylase activity. Surprisingly, addition of LTA to dried monolayers resulte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leon O,Panos C

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conidia ingested by resident macrophages had an enhanced percentage of transformation to yeast cells compared with those in culture medium without macrophages. The yeast cells subsequently grew intracellularly by budding. Macrophages treated with cytokines from antigen-stimulated spleen cells from immunized mice signi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cano LE,Brummer E,Stevens DA,Restrepo A

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is not clear how the host initially recognizes and responds to infection by gram-negative pathogenic Brucella spp. It was previously shown (D. S. Weiss, B. Raupach, K. Takeda, S. Akira, and A. Zychlinsky, J. Immunol. 172:4463-4469, 2004) that the early macrophage response against gram-negative bacteria is mediated ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weiss DS,Takeda K,Akira S,Zychlinsky A,Moreno E

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antigenic complex has been isolated in a highly purified from from the Melvin strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The complex has a molecular weight of 9.3 x 10(6) and on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was found to consist of several subunits; the most predominant had the following molecular...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karkhanis YD,Anderson RL,Zeltner JY,Carlo DJ,Stoudt TH

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein P2 comprises a large proportion of the outer membrane of nontypable Haemophilus influenzae and functions as a porin. In view of the importance of the protein as a surface antigen, the present study was designed to purify and analyze P2 with particular emphasis on detection of antigenic determinants express...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murphy TF,Bartos LC

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of continuous exposure to 80% oxygen on newborn mice with Ureaplasma urealyticum pneumonia was determined. Mice were inoculated intranasally with either U. urealyticum or sterile broth and then housed in either 80% oxygen or room air (21% oxygen). The mice were sacrificed at either 7 or 14 days after inocul...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Crouse DT,Cassell GH,Waites KB,Foster JM,Cassady G

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Association of Salmonella typhimurium with MDCK epithelial cells in monolayers, represented primarily by intracellular bacteria after 30 min of contact, with centrifugation followed by vigorous washing, was measured during aerobic and anaerobic growth of the bacteria in brain heart infusion broth. Cell association was...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schiemann DA

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells are critically involved in the early immune response against various intracellular pathogens, including Coxiella burnetii and Chlamydia psittaciChlamydia-infected NK cells functionally mature, induce cellular immunity, and protect themselves by killing the bacteria in secreted granules. Here,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Matthiesen S,Zaeck L,Franzke K,Jahnke R,Fricke C,Mauermeir M,Finke S,Lührmann A,Knittler MR

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of an extract from a helminth (Ascaris suum) in zymosan-induced arthritis (ZYA) or collagen-induced arthritis (CIA). Rats and mice, respectively, received 1 mg and 0.1 mg zymosan intra-articularly (i.a.). Test groups received an A. suum extract either per os (p.o.) or intraperitoneally (i.p....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rocha FA,Leite AK,Pompeu MM,Cunha TM,Verri WA Jr,Soares FM,Castro RR,Cunha FQ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strain superinfection occurs when a second pathogen strain infects a host already carrying a primary strain. Anaplasma marginale superinfection occurs when the second strain carries a variant repertoire different from that of the primary strain, and the epidemiologic consequences depend on the relative efficiencies of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galletti MF,Ueti MW,Knowles DP Jr,Brayton KA,Palmer GH

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA microarray containing fragments of 137 Borrelia burgdorferi B31 putative lipoprotein genes was used to examine Lyme disease spirochetes. DNA from B. burgdorferi sensu stricto B31, 297, and N40; Borrelia garinii IP90; and Borrelia afzelii P/Gau was fluorescently labeled and hybridized to the microarray, demonstra...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liang FT,Nelson FK,Fikrig E

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of a plasmid in the virulence activity of an enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strain belonging to serotype 0111:NM was examined. EPEC strain B171, which is resistant to chloramphenicol, streptomycin, sulfathiazole, and tetracycline, harbors a 54-megadalton plasmid, pYR111, and exhibits localized adher...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Riley LW,Junio LN,Libaek LB,Schoolnik GK

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenic relationship of glucosyltransferases (GTF) produced by different serotypes of Streptococcus mutans was studied by using a functional inhibition assay. Rat, rabbit, or hamster immune fluids, directed to cell-associated or supernatant-derived GTF, were tested against ammonium sulfate-precipitated culture s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Smith DJ,Taubman MA

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesocricetus auratus (golden hamsters) infected with leishmania developed characteristic B cell immune responses that depended on the infecting species of leishmania. Thus, hamsters infected with viscerotropic leishmania (Leishmania donovani) developed antileishmania antibodies and hypergammaglobulinemia due to polycl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Campos-Neto A,Bunn-Moreno MM

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive aspergillosis is a major threat for patients suffering from chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). Although Aspergillus fumigatus is the most commonly encountered Aspergillus species, the presence of A. nidulans appears to be disproportionately high in CGD patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Henriet SS,Hermans PW,Verweij PE,Simonetti E,Holland SM,Sugui JA,Kwon-Chung KJ,Warris A

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two enteropathogenic strains of Escherichia coli (EEC) differed from a nonenteropathogenic strain of E. coli (NEEC) in their association with porcine small intestinal epithelium. The EEC characteristically were found along villi from tip to base and contiguous to the brush border. They were not in crypts. In contrast,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bertschinger HU,Moon HW,Whipp SC

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female LSH hamsters infected with Treponema pallidum subsp, endemicum before pregnancy or during early pregnancy transmit a form of syphilis to the fetus that is similar to human congenital syphilis. The offspring develops rhinitis, skin rash, failure to thrive, and hepatosplenomegaly. T. pallidum is detectable in the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kajdacsy-Balla A,Howeedy A,Bagasra O

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy-associated malaria is a severe clinical syndrome associated with the sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes in the placenta. Placental binding is mediated by VAR2CSA, a member of the large and diverse P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane 1 (PfEMP1) protein family. To better understand if ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Avril M,Cartwright MM,Hathaway MJ,Hommel M,Elliott SR,Williamson K,Narum DL,Duffy PE,Fried M,Beeson JG,Smith JD

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal bacteria can translocate (migrate) across an intact intestinal mucosa, but the anatomical site of bacterial translocation has not been defined. Gastrointestinal (GI) cross-sections were obtained from mice monoassociated with high cecal concentrations of Escherichia coli, Proteus mirabilis, or Enterococcus faeca...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wells CL,Erlandsen SL

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we have characterized the association of a polysaccharide-deficient, lipid-rich lipopolysaccharide (LPS) with rabbit erythrocytes (RaRBC). With polymyxin B sulfate-mediated hemolysis as a probe, we have shown that Salmonella minnesota R595 LPS interacts with RaRBC in two distinguishable steps. The first ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carr C Jr,Morrison DC

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of the extracellular protease of Serratia marcescens on human serum constituents such as immunoglobulins, fibronectin, alpha 1-protease inhibitor, alpha 2-macroglobulin, lysozyme, and transferrin. At a very low concentration of Serratia 56-kilodalton protease (56K protease), purified human p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Molla A,Matsumoto K,Oyamada I,Katsuki T,Maeda H

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F1651 and the pyelonephritis-associated pili (Pap) are two members of the type P family of adhesive factors. They play a key role in establishing disease caused by extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) strains in animals and humans. Both F1651 and Pap are under the control of an epigenetic and reversible...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Graveline R,Lavoie R,Garneau P,Daigle F,Sénéchal S,Martin C,Harel J

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus Newman with an insertion mutation in clfB, the gene encoding clumping factor B, only marginally decreased infection rate (P>0.05) in rats with experimental endocarditis. In contrast, clfB complementation on a multicopy plasmid significantly increased infectivity (P<0.05) over the deleted mutants....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Entenza JM,Foster TJ,Ni Eidhin D,Vaudaux P,Francioli P,Moreillon P

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00