Clostridium difficile toxins A and B directly stimulate human mast cells.

abstract：:This study was carried out to determine the role of nitric oxide (NO) in Staphylococcus aureus infection in mice. NO production in spleen cell cultures was induced by heat-killed S. aureus. Expression of mRNA of the inducible isoform of NO synthase (iNOS) was induced in the spleens and kidneys of S. aureus-infected mi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sasaki S,Miura T,Nishikawa S,Yamada K,Hirasue M,Nakane A

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moraxella (Branhamella) catarrhalis is an important bacterial cause of otitis media in children and lower respiratory tract infections in adults. In this study, we describe the presence of a novel high-molecular-weight outer membrane protein (HMW-OMP). This protein varies from 350 to 720 kDa in apparent molecular mass...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klingman KL,Murphy TF

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the specificity of bactericidal antibodies in normal, convalescent, and postvaccination human sera is important in understanding human immunity to meningococcal infections and can aid in the design of an effective group B vaccine. A collection of human sera, including group C and group B convalescent-phase...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schmiel DH,Moran EE,Keiser PB,Brandt BL,Zollinger WD

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterial growth inhibitory factor (MycoIF), found in supernatant fluids of mouse spleen cell cultures that have been stimulated in vitro with homologous antigen, inhibited the intracellular multiplication of virulent tubercle bacilli within normal mouse peritoneal macrophages in vitro. Antigenically stimulated H...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cahall DL,Youmans GP

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies against Ureaplasma urealyticum serotype 4 were produced by immunizing BALB/c mice with whole-cell antigens of the U. urealyticum serotype 4 reference strain. Ten monoclonal antibodies differentiated into two groups were found: one group included five monoclonal antibodies recognizing a band in im...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cheng X,Naessens A,Lauwers S

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis is reportedly capable of stimulating the expression of host cell matrix metalloproteinases (MMP), contributing to tissue destruction. However, the impact of this bacterium on specific molecules remains to be determined. In this study, we evaluate the effect of P. gingivalis on regulation of MM...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fravalo P,Ménard C,Bonnaure-Mallet M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia cepacia is an opportunistic pathogen that causes severe systemic infections in patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) or with cystic fibrosis (CF), but its mechanisms of virulence are poorly understood. We developed a murine model of systemic infection in wild-type (WT) and gamma interferon kno...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Speert DP,Steen B,Halsey K,Kwan E

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies against feline leukemia virus (FeLV) and the feline oncornavirus-associated cell membrane antigen (FOCMA) were transferred from pregnant cats to their suckling kittens. All of these kittens were protected against infection and oncogenesis by virulent FeLV when challenged at 2 weeks of age. Suckling kittens ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hoover EA,Schaller JP,Mathes LE,Olsen RG

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is considered an extracellular pathogen. Using assays to determine intracellular survival in the presence of gentamicin, we have demonstrated that some strains of P. aeruginosa are able to invade corneal cells during experimental bacterial keratitis in mice. Although intracellular bacteria were ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fleiszig SM,Zaidi TS,Fletcher EL,Preston MJ,Pier GB

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yield of infectious Chlamydia trachomatis was analyzed in human (HeLa) and mouse (McCoy) cell lines treated with the human interferon (IFN) subtypes IFN-alpha A and IFN-alpha D, with their hybrids [IFN-alpha AD (BglII), IFN-alpha AD (PvuII), and IFN-alpha DA (BglII)] constructed in vitro from their expression plas...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de la Maza LM,Peterson EM,Goebel JM,Fennie CW,Czarniecki CW

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcriptase PCR analyses have demonstrated that open reading frames (ORFs) PM0298, PM0299, and PM0300 of the animal pathogen Pasteurella multocida constitute a single transcriptional unit. By cloning and overexpression studies in Escherichia coli cells, the product of ORF PM0300 was shown to bind hemoglobin ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bosch M,Garrido ME,Llagostera M,Pérez De Rozas AM,Badiola I,Barbé J

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae is a monoflagellated gram-negative bacterium that causes the severe diarrheal disease cholera. In contrast to Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infection, which is accompanied by both acute diarrhea and high-level inflammation, V. cholerae infection is largely noninflammatory in human hosts. Bact...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yoon SS,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive fungal infections represent an increasing problem associated with high mortality. The present study was undertaken to identify leukocyte subsets that are activated by hyphal fragments in a whole-human-blood model, as well as to examine the involvement of CD14 and Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in activation of mo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang JE,Warris A,Ellingsen EA,Jørgensen PF,Flo TH,Espevik T,Solberg R,Verweij PE,Aasen AO

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli containing the K1 capsule is the leading cause of gram-negative meningitis, but the pathogenesis of this disease is not completely understood. Recent microarray experiments in which we compared the gene expression profile of E. coli K1 associated with human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMEC...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Parthasarathy G,Yao Y,Kim KS

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stress-induced extracytoplasmic sigma factor E (SigE) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis shows increased expression after heat shock, sodium dodecyl sulfate treatment, and oxidative stress, as well as after phagocytosis in macrophages. We report that deletion of sigE results in delayed lethality in mice without a signi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ando M,Yoshimatsu T,Ko C,Converse PJ,Bishai WR

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have performed microarray hybridization studies on 40 clinical isolates from 12 common serovars within Salmonella enterica subspecies I to identify the conserved chromosomal gene pool. We were able to separate the core invariant portion of the genome by a novel mathematical approach using a decision tree based on g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anjum MF,Marooney C,Fookes M,Baker S,Dougan G,Ivens A,Woodward MJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa can invade corneal epithelial cells and translocates multilayered corneal epithelia in vitro, but it does not penetrate the intact corneal epithelium in vivo. In healthy corneas, the epithelium is separated from the underlying stroma by a basement membrane containing extracellular matrix protein...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alarcon I,Kwan L,Yu C,Evans DJ,Fleiszig SM

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that hbhA is differentially regulated during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Upregulation was observed in epithelial cell infection but not in macrophage infection and in the lungs but not in the spleens of infected mice, and it was greater during the early steps of infection, when bacilli disseminate ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Delogu G,Sanguinetti M,Posteraro B,Rocca S,Zanetti S,Fadda G

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-10 (IL-10)-producing B cells (B10 cells) play a critical role in the immune system balance by negatively regulating inflammatory responses. This study was conducted to determine the effect of local B10 cell induction on periodontal inflammation and bone loss in ligature-induced experimental periodontitis i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yu P,Hu Y,Liu Z,Kawai T,Taubman MA,Li W,Han X

更新日期：2016-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular resistance to facultative intracellular parasites has been studied by determining the antimycobacterial activity and the amount of fatty acids in sera and in heptane extracts of freshly collected and 24-h-cultured normal and activated guinea pig alveolar macrophages and liver cells. The quantity and the antim...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hemsworth GR,Kochan I

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attachment of radioisotope-labeled Mycoplasma pneumoniae to hamster tracheal rings in organ culture was examined by radioautography and liquid scintillation counting. Radioautographs of individual rings exposed for 8 h to (3H) thymidine-labeled virulent M. pneumoniae revealed a dense extracellular collection of em...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Powell DA,Hu PC,Wilson M,Collier AM,Baseman JB

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hot phenol-water extraction of smooth Brucella abortus and B. melitensis cells yielded a toxic fraction which was recovered from the phenol phase (fraction 5). Chemically, fractions 5 from both Brucella species were lipid-carbohydrate-protein-2 keto-3-deoxyoctulosonic acid complexes which were stable to heat and resis...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leong D,Diaz R,Milner K,Rudbach J,Wilson JB

更新日期：1970-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) were raised against native and denatured alpha-hemolysin (HlyA) of Escherichia coli. Binding of the MAbs to native, denatured, and erythrocyte-complexed active wild-type hemolysin and mutant derivatives was tested. All 15 MAbs analyzed bound to native hemolysin, even when the toxin was com...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Oropeza-Wekerle RL,Kern P,Sun D,Muller S,Briand JP,Goebel W

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with gram-negative monocytotropic Ehrlichia strains results in a fatal toxic shock-like syndrome characterized by a decreased number of Ehrlichia-specific CD4(+) Th1 cells, the expansion of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha)-producing CD8(+) T cells, and the systemic overproduction of interleukin-10 (IL...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ismail N,Crossley EC,Stevenson HL,Walker DH

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin-binding proteins mediate Staphylococcus aureus internalization into nonphagocytic cells in vitro. We have investigated whether fibronectin-binding proteins are virulence factors in the pathogenesis of pneumonia by using S. aureus strain 8325-4 and isogenic mutants in which fibronectin-binding proteins were...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McElroy MC,Cain DJ,Tyrrell C,Foster TJ,Haslett C

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study we showed that the involvement of EP4 subtype of the prostaglandin E (PGE) receptor is crucial for lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced osteoclast formation in vitro. The present study was undertaken to test whether EP4 is actually associated with LPS-induced bone resorption in vivo. In wild-type (WT) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sakuma Y,Tanaka K,Suda M,Komatsu Y,Yasoda A,Miura M,Ozasa A,Narumiya S,Sugimoto Y,Ichikawa A,Ushikubi F,Nakao K

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a Plasmodium chabaudi infection in interleukin-10 (IL-10) knockout mice, there is greater parasite sequestration, more severe cerebral edema, and a high frequency of cerebral hemorrhage compared with infection of C57BL/6 mice. Anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha treatment ameliorated both cerebral edema and hemorr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sanni LA,Jarra W,Li C,Langhorne J

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A virus-specific cell surface antigen(s) was detected on mouse adenovirus-infected cells by the immunofluorescent antibody technique. It was demonstrated in infected cells regardless of the mouse strain or animal species used. It became detectable on the cell surface about 6 h postinfection and was demonstrated in 90%...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Inada T,Uetake H

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis is associated with high levels of morbidity, decreased production, and early culling in dairy cattle. Clinical symptoms of Johne's disease include persistent diarrhea, inappetence, and resultant weight loss due to chronic inflammation of the small intestine. A...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Aho AD,McNulty AM,Coussens PM

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemoattraction of Propionibacterium acnes lipase for neutrophils and the effect of lipase inhibitor and two antibiotic agents on the chemotaxis were evaluated. Of the various fractions tested, partially purified lipase (fraction 2c) was the most active cytotaxin produced by P. acnes. Serum mediators were not requ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee WL,Shalita AR,Suntharalingam K,Fikrig SM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00