Peri-implant tissue is an important niche for Staphylococcus epidermidis in experimental biomaterial-associated infection in mice.

abstract：:Serotype b-specific polysaccharide antigen (SPA) was extracted from whole cells of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans Y4 by autoclaving and purified by chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex A-25 and Sephacryl S-300. SPA induced the release of monocyte and leukocyte chemotactic factors by human monocytes. Polymyxin B had a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yamaguchi N,Yamashita Y,Ikeda D,Koga T

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enterotoxin of Shigella dysenteriae I produces fluid and electrolyte secretion in the rabbit ileum. These present studies were designed to evaluate nonelectrolyte transport in rabbit ileal mucosa exposed to Shigella enterotoxin. Both 10 mM galactose and 5 mM L-alanine absorptions were significantly impaired in ent...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Binder HJ,Whiting DS

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungus Cryptococcus neoformans has emerged as a major cause of meningoencephalitis worldwide. Host response to the fungus involves both innate and adaptive immunity, but fungal genes that modulate these processes are poorly understood. Previous studies demonstrated attenuated virulence of a mutant of a virulence-a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Qiu J,Olszewski MA,Williamson PR

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of how bacteria respond to and obtain divalent metal ions provides insight into the regulation of virulence factors in the host environment. Regulation of metal permease operons in gram-positive bacteria may involve the binding of metal-responsive repressors to palindromic domains in their control regions. T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Oetjen J,Fives-Taylor P,Froeliger EH

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous work, we identified xanthine oxidase (XO) as an important enzyme in the interaction between the host and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli(EPEC) and Shiga-toxigenic E. coli(STEC). Many of the biological effects of XO were due to the hydrogen peroxide produced by the enzyme. We wondered, however, if uric ac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Crane JK,Broome JE,Lis A

更新日期：2016-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:By using the powerful separation technique of capillary gas chromatography combined with the selectivity of mass spectrometric detection, muramic acid was not detectable in purified elementary bodies of Chlamydia psittaci Cal 10 (less than or equal to 0.006%) or C. trachomatis serovar E (less than or equal to 0.02%). ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fox A,Rogers JC,Gilbart J,Morgan S,Davis CH,Knight S,Wyrick PB

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light and electron microscopy with histochemical staining were used to estimate exopolysaccharide production by strains of viridans streptococci recovered from patients with endocarditis. Six strains were selected for study because they represented a wide range of in vitro polysaccharide production. By light microscop...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mills J,Pulliam L,Dall L,Marzouk J,Wilson W,Costerton JW

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous attempts to induce mucosal antibodies in rhesus monkeys by enteric immunization have resulted in only modest and short-lived responses, dominated by immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies in the plasma. In this study, two groups of rhesus monkeys were immunized intranasally three times at 2-week intervals with a b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Russell MW,Moldoveanu Z,White PL,Sibert GJ,Mestecky J,Michalek S M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Challenges with the production and suboptimal immunogenicity of malaria vaccine candidates have slowed the development of a Plasmodium falciparum multiantigen vaccine. Attempting to resolve these issues, we focused on the use of highly immunogenic merozoite surface protein 8 (MSP8) as a vaccine carrier protein. Previo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Parzych EM,Miura K,Ramanathan A,Long CA,Burns JM Jr

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the nucleotide sequence of the 1.4-kilobase DNA fragment containing the plasminogen activator gene (pla) of Yersinia pestis, which determines both plasminogen activator and coagulase activities of the species. The sequence revealed the presence of a 936-base-pair open reading frame that constitutes ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sodeinde OA,Goguen JD

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed hha derivatives from both a clinical uropathogenic Escherichia coli isolate (strain FVL4) and a wild E. coli strain causing bovine diarrhea (strain CCB21) and analyzed the effect of the hha allele on the expression of the different virulence factors exhibited by these strains. Expression of hemolysin an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mouriño M,Madrid C,Balsalobre C,Prenafeta A,Muñoa F,Blanco J,Blanco M,Blanco JE,Juarez A

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brazilian purpuric fever (BPF)-associated Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius strain F3031 contains two identical copies of a five gene cluster (hifA to hifE) encoding pili similar to well-characterized Hif fimbriae of H. influenzae type b. HifE, the putative pilus tip adhesin of F3031, shares only 40% amino aci...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Read TD,Satola SW,Opdyke JA,Farley MM

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that Neisseria gonorrhoeae possesses a very high level of catalase activity, but the regulation of catalase expression has not been investigated extensively. In Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, it has been demonstrated that OxyR is a positive regulator of hydrogen pero...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tseng HJ,McEwan AG,Apicella MA,Jennings MP

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the sequence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pilin and its quaternary assembly into pilus fibers was studied with a set of site-directed antibody probes and by mapping the specificities of antipilus antisera with peptides. Buried and exposed peptides in assembled pili were identified by competitive i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Forest KT,Bernstein SL,Getzoff ED,So M,Tribbick G,Geysen HM,Deal CD,Tainer JA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an attenuated Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium vaccine strain expressing the saliva-binding region (SBR) of the Streptococcus mutans antigen I/II adhesin, either alone or linked with the mucosal adjuvant cholera toxin A2 and B subunits (CTA2/...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huang Y,Hajishengallis G,Michalek SM

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was previously demonstrated that avirulent Mycoplasma gallisepticum strain R(high) (passage 164) is lacking three proteins that are expressed in its virulent progenitor, strain R(low) (passage 15). These proteins were identified as the cytadhesin molecule GapA, the putative cytadhesin-related molecule CrmA, and a c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Papazisi L,Frasca S Jr,Gladd M,Liao X,Yogev D,Geary SJ

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannan (MAN) extracted from Candida albicans 20A was investigated for its potential as an antigen in the detection of cell-mediated immunity (CMI) in vivo and in vitro and for its ability to modulate CMI when administered intravenously (i.v.). CBA/J mice were either immunized as adults by the cutaneous inoculation of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Domer JE,Garner RE,Befidi-Mengue RN

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenicity of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi for laboratory mice is known to be influenced by at least three factors: (i) route of inoculation, (ii) antigenic strain, and (iii) natural resistance of the host. By using Karp, Gilliam, and Kato strains of R. tsutsugamushi, we examined the effect of these three pathogenicity...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Groves MG,Kelly DJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant 23-kDa protein (rBPI23) derived from human bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) possesses potent endotoxin-neutralizing abilities in vitro and in vivo. Binding of rBPI23 to those endotoxins (lipopolysaccharides [LPSs]) encountered clinically would be a prerequisite for efficacy in decreasin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Appelmelk BJ,An YQ,Thijs BG,MacLaren DM,de Graaff J

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humoral immune responses in experimental African trypanosomiasis were assessed in rabbits infected with Trypanosoma rhodesiense. Immune complexes as measured by a Clq binding assay or a Clq solid-phase assay were detected by day 10 and increased progressively through day 28. Immune complexes analyzed by double diffusi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lindsley HB,Janecek LL,Gilman-Sachs AM,Hassanein KM

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) appears to cause intestinal fluid secretion by activating intestinal particulate guanylate cyclase. Recent studies suggest that chlorpromazine and quinacrine reduce the intestinal secretory response to ST and activation of guanylate cyclase by ST. We have examined the effe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Greenberg RN,Murad F,Guerrant RL

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility of Syrian hamsters of the inbred LSH and MHA strains to injection of as few as 10 plaque-forming units of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) was shown to occur only after intraperitoneal and intrapleural injection and not after injection of VSV intravenously, intranasally, or in the footpads. Despite the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fultz PN,Shadduck JA,Kang CY,Streilein JW

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preexisting antivector immunity can severely compromise the ability of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium live vaccines to induce protective CD8 T-cell frequencies after type III secretion system-mediated heterologous protein translocation in orally immunized mice. To circumvent this problem, we injected CpG DNA ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Berchtold C,Panthel K,Jellbauer S,Köhn B,Roider E,Partilla M,Heesemann J,Endres S,Bourquin C,Rüssmann H

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predominant gram-positive bacteria in 47 fecal specimens from 10 healthy men were studied by microscopic and cultural counts, by the characterization and tentative identification of isolates, and by the use of fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-conjugated globulins prepared using some of the isolates. Gram-positive...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gossling J,Slack JM

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have demonstrated roles for eosinophils during innate and adaptive immune responses to helminth infections. However, evidence that eosinophils are capable of initiating an immune response to parasite antigens is lacking. The goal of the present in vitro study was to investigate the potential of eosinop...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Padigel UM,Lee JJ,Nolan TJ,Schad GA,Abraham D

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae strains are lysogens of CTXPhi, a filamentous phage which encodes cholera toxin. The receptor for CTXPhi for invading V. cholerae cells is the toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP), the genes for which reside in a larger genetic element, the TCP pathogenicity island. We analyzed 146 CTX-negative stra...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Faruque SM,Asadulghani,Saha MN,Alim AR,Albert MJ,Islam KM,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated the existence of Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates deficient in the lipopolysaccharide O side chain, the major factor for resistance to complement-mediated killing in this bacterial species. These isolates are complement resistant, and their mechanisms to resist complement were in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alvarez D,Merino S,Tomás JM,Benedí VJ,Albertí S

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia cenocepacia is an opportunistic pathogen that primarily infects cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Previously, we reported that ShvR, a LysR regulator, influences colony morphology, virulence, and biofilm formation and regulates the expression of an adjacent 24-kb genomic region encoding 24 genes. In this stu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Subramoni S,Nguyen DT,Sokol PA

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania-infected macrophages are potential antigen-presenting cells for CD4+ T lymphocytes, which recognize parasite antigens bound to major histocompatibility complex class II molecules (Ia). However, the intracellular sites where Ia and antigens may interact are far from clear, since parasites grow within the mod...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Antoine JC,Jouanne C,Lang T,Prina E,de Chastellier C,Frehel C

更新日期：1991-03-01 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