Functional and structural mapping of Chlamydia trachomatis species-specific major outer membrane protein epitopes by use of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies.

abstract：:Strains of Bacteroides fragilis that produce a ca. 20-kDa heat-labile protein toxin (termed B. fragilis toxin [BFT]) have been associated with diarrheal disease of animals and humans. BFT alters the morphology of intestinal epithelial cells both in vitro and in vivo and stimulates secretion in ligated intestinal segme...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Franco AA,Mundy LM,Trucksis M,Wu S,Kaper JB,Sears CL

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease that is caused by the gram-negative bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The low efficacy of currently available killed-whole-cell vaccines and the reactinogenicity coupled with potential reversion of live vaccines have thus far precluded widespread vaccination for the control of cholera. R...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wu JY,Wade WF,Taylor RK

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-NMDA receptor (NMDAR) autoantibodies have been postulated to play a role in the pathogenesis of NMDAR hypofunction, which contributes to the etiology of psychotic symptoms. Toxoplasma gondii is a pathogen implicated in psychiatric disorders and associated with elevation of NMDAR autoantibodies. However, it remain...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li Y,Viscidi RP,Kannan G,McFarland R,Pletnikov MV,Severance EG,Yolken RH,Xiao J

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism(s) of interaction between Mycoplasma pulmonis and eucaryotic cells was studied by adherence to and hemagglutination of erythrocytes. Simple and complex carbohydrates and glycoproteins were unable to inhibit either adherence or hemagglutination, indicating that neither was a lectin activity. Both interact...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Minion FC,Cassell GH,Pnini S,Kahane I

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In its canonical role the reverse transcriptase telomerase recovers the telomeric repeats that are lost during DNA replication. Other locations and activities have been recently described for the telomerase protein subunit TERT in mammalian cells. In the present work, using biochemistry, molecular biology, and electro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Campelo R,Díaz Lozano I,Figarella K,Osuna A,Ramírez JL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia cenocepacia strain K56-2 typically has rough colony morphology on agar medium; however, shiny colony variants (shv) can appear spontaneously. These shv all had a minimum of 50% reduction in biomass formation and were generally avirulent in an alfalfa seedling infection model. Three shv-K56-2 S15, K56-2 S7...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bernier SP,Nguyen DT,Sokol PA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous lesions of the human sexually transmitted genital ulcer disease chancroid are characterized by the presence of intraepidermal pustules, keratinocyte cytopathology, and epidermal and dermal erosion. These lesions are replete with neutrophils, macrophages, and CD4(+) T cells and contain very low numbers of cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： San Mateo LR,Toffer KL,Orndorff PE,Kawula TH

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inner ear dysfunction secondary to chronic otitis media (OM), including high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss or vertigo, is not uncommon. Although chronic middle ear inflammation is believed to cause inner ear dysfunction by entry of OM pathogen components or cytokines from the middle ear into the inner ear, the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moon SK,Woo JI,Lee HY,Park R,Shimada J,Pan H,Gellibolian R,Lim DJ

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB) protect from ameba infection, and protection is transferable with bone marrow dendritic cells (BMDCs). SFB cause an increase in serum amyloid A (SAA), suggesting that SAA might mediate SFB's effects on BMDCs. Here we further explored the role of bone marrow in SFB-mediat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Burgess SL,Saleh M,Cowardin CA,Buonomo E,Noor Z,Watanabe K,Abhyankar M,Lajoie S,Wills-Karp M,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：2016-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae is a leading cause of both community-acquired and nosocomial gram-negative-bacterial pneumonia. A further clinical complication of pulmonary K. pneumoniae infection is dissemination of bacteria from the lung into the peripheral blood, resulting in bacteremia concurrent with the localized pulmonar...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moore TA,Perry ML,Getsoian AG,Newstead MW,Standiford TJ

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in regulating the growth of Mycobacterium avium in Mycobacterium bovis BCG-resistant and -susceptible congenic mice was evaluated. Restraint was used to activate the HPA axis, which resulted in an increase in the level of corticosterone in the plasma. Activatio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brown DH,Sheridan J,Pearl D,Zwilling BS

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is a food-borne pathogen with a low infectious dose that colonizes the colon in humans and can cause severe clinical manifestations such as hemolytic-uremic syndrome. The urease enzyme, encoded in the STEC chromosome, has been demonstrated to act as a virulence factor in o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Steyert SR,Kaper JB

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis of unopsonized Salmonella typhimurium 395, MR-10, opsonized Salmonella typhimurium 395 MS, and Staphylococcus epidermidis by rabbit polymorphonuclear leukocytes was inhibited by heparin at concentrations as low as 0.5 U/ml. Inhibition was dose dependent and nearly complete at 20 U/ml. Provided that hepari...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Victor M,Weiss J,Elsbach P

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified beta-toxin from Clostridium perfringens type C was found to be a single polypeptide chain protein with a molecular weight of approximately 30,000. The toxin was heat labile, with 75% of its activity being inactivated by incubation at 50 degrees C for 5 min. Biological activity of the purified toxin was comple...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sakurai J,Duncan CL

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens type A food poisoning is the second most commonly identified bacterial food-borne illness. Sporulation contributes to this disease in two ways: (i) most food-poisoning strains form exceptionally resistant spores to facilitate their survival of food-associated stresses, and (ii) the enterotoxin ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li J,McClane BA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scrub typhus immunogens were prepared by exposing infected yolk sac suspensions of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi to various doses of gamma radiation. Mouse lethality was abolished at doses greater than 200 krads, whereas immunogenicity of the suspensions, as shown by mouse protection tests, was diminished relatively little...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eisenberg GH Jr,Osterman JV

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits immunized with group B type III, group C, and Streptococcus pneumoniae type XIV streptococcal vaccines developed autoantibodies reactive with autologous and isologous erythrocytes and human O-positive erythrocytes at reduced temperatures. The cold agglutinin antibodies were present in both the immunoglobulin M...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Colling RG,Pearson TC,Brown JC

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunochemically identical components were isolated from water-soluble phases of five Staphylococcus aureus strains by affinity chromatography on fibrinogen-linked Sepharose 4B. The elution was performed with 1 M MgCl2. The component could be isolated from sonicated preparations of whole cells, cell walls, and extrace...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Espersen F,Clemmensen I,Barkholt V

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of CFW mice with Trichinella spiralis induced a state of relative unresponsiveness to passive cutaneous anaphylaxis (PCA) induced with hen egg albumin and its corresponding antibodies. The unresponsiveness was to PCA produced either with immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) or IgE type of antibodies, but was more pronou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Munoz JJ,Cole RL

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A canine distemper virus (CDV), DESIGNATED R252, originally recovered from a dog with demyelinating encephalomyelitis was shown to reproduce this disease in gnotobiotic dogs with a high incidence as compared to other CDV strains, which produced an acute fatal infection. In this investigation, R252 was propagated for t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Confer AW,Kahn DE,Koestner A,Krakowka S

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulent Treponema pallidum organisms, extracted from infected rabbit testes, were subjected to velocity sedimentation in discontinuous gradients of Hypaque, a high density, low viscosity material. After centrifugation of extracts at 20 C for 45 min at 100,000 x g, treponemes separated into two distinct bands based up...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baseman JB,Nichols JC,Rumpp JW,Hayes NS

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hemolysin that appears to be responsible for the zones of beta-hemolysis surrounding colonies of group B streptococci (Streptococcus agalactiae) on blood agar plates has been isolated and partially purified. No soluble hemolysin was detectable in the supernatants of streptococcal cultures grown in several types of m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marchlewicz BA,Duncan JL

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral inoculation of 5-day-old gnotobiotic pigs with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strain F98 resulted in severe enteritis and invasive disease. Preinoculation 24 h earlier with an avirulent mutant of Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis (1326/28) completely prevented disease for up to 14 days (when the exper...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Foster N,Lovell MA,Marston KL,Hulme SD,Frost AJ,Bland P,Barrow PA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces boulardii is a nonpathogenic yeast that protects against antibiotic-associated diarrhea and recurrent Clostridium difficile colitis. The administration of C. difficile toxoid A by gavage to S. boulardii-fed BALB/c mice caused a 1.8-fold increase in total small intestinal immunoglobulin A levels (P = 0.00...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Qamar A,Aboudola S,Warny M,Michetti P,Pothoulakis C,LaMont JT,Kelly CP

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bundle-forming pilus (BFP) of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is an important virulence factor. We examined the role of divergent alleles of bfpA encoding bundlin, the BFP pilin protein, in pilus biogenesis, pilus interactions, and immune responses. We found that the BFP biogenesis machine from an EPEC st...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernandes PJ,Guo Q,Donnenberg MS

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant resistance against influenza virus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections was induced when trehalose dimycolate from M. tuberculosis or M. bovis but not M. avium was combined with muramyl dipeptide. Trehalose dimycolate from M. tuberculosis, in contrast to that from M. avium, could confer resistance aga...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Masihi KN,Brehmer W,Lange W,Werner H,Ribi E

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of whether Mycobacterium tuberculosis resides within a relatively impermeable membrane-bound vacuole or is free within the cytoplasm within its host cell is central to an understanding of the immunobiology of this intracellular parasite but is a matter of controversy. To explore this issue, we assessed the a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clemens DL,Lee BY,Horwitz MA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diarrheagenic pathogen enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is responsible for significant infant mortality and morbidity, particularly in developing countries. EPEC pathogenesis relies on a type III secretion system-mediated transfer of virulence effectors into host cells. EPEC modulates host cell survival an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Roxas JL,Koutsouris A,Viswanathan VK

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured mammalian cells extend the time of survival of Treponema pallidum (Nichols strain). Various parameters that have been previously shown to enhance treponemal survival in vitro were examined for influences on the interaction of T. pallidum with cultured cells. With cells derived from normal rabbit testes, the t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fitzgerald TJ,Johnson RC,Sykes JA,Miller JN

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenic relationship of six different strains of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis was investigated by the agar-gel immunodiffusion test. Soluble antigens prepared from the two morphological phases of the fungus were diffused against human sera obtained from eight patients with paracoccidioidomycosis (South American...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Restrepo-Moreno A

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00