Human monoclonal antibodies against anthrax lethal factor and protective antigen act independently to protect against Bacillus anthracis infection and enhance endogenous immunity to anthrax.

abstract：:An LT-B-ST (LT-B/ST) fusion peptide was constructed by genetically joining the 5' terminus of a synthetic gene coding for the heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) of Escherichia coli to the 3' terminus of the gene coding for the binding subunit of the heat-labile enterotoxin (LT-B) of E. coli. An eight-amino-acid, proline-con...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cárdenas L,Clements JD

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penetration of the intestinal mucosa at areas of Peyer's patches is an important first step for Salmonella typhimurium to produce lethal systemic disease in mice. However, mutations in genes that are important for intestinal invasion result in only moderately decreased virulence of S. typhimurium for mice. Here we rep...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bäumler AJ,Tsolis RM,Valentine PJ,Ficht TA,Heffron F

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are the sole reservoir of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, an organism which undergoes a marked increase in metabolic rate after exposure to a low-molecular-weight, heat-stable component(s) of human serum. Further studies on the effect of serum on gonococcal metabolism were undertaken. Gonococcal broth (GCB) is commonly ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Britigan BE,Chai Y,Cohen MS

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart and muscle tissues appear to be specific target organs for the in vivo inhibition of protein synthesis by diphtheria toxin. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bowman CG,Imhoff JG,Bonventre PF

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that children with blood group A have increased susceptibility to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) diarrhea and that Lewis blood group "a" antigen (Le(a)) may be a candidate receptor for ETEC colonization factor (CF) antigen I (CFA/I) fimbriae. Based on these findings, we have attempte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ahmed T,Lundgren A,Arifuzzaman M,Qadri F,Teneberg S,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis is dependent upon the generation of a protective gamma interferon (IFN-gamma)-producing T-cell response. Recent studies have suggested that interleukin-6 (IL-6) is required for the induction of a protective T-cell response and that IL-4 may suppress the induction of IFN-gamma. To...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Saunders BM,Frank AA,Orme IM,Cooper AM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic Escherichia coli lipid A and synthetic S-[2,3-bis-(palmitoyloxy)propyl]-N-palmitoylpentapeptide (tripalmitoyl pentapeptide [TPP]), representing the mitogenically active principles of bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and lipoprotein, respectively, were compared for their mitogenic activities on splenocytes ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brade L,Bessler WG,Brade H

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 and gamma interferon on the phenotypic changes associated with monocyte maturation in vitro were investigated. Human monocytes separated from peripheral blood mononuclear cell populations by adherence to plastic were cultured for 7 days on glass. Immunocytological analysis was ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Poulter LW,Rook GA,Steele J,Condez A

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolysis is a common microbial virulence mechanism that enables the destruction of host tissue and evasion from host defense mechanisms. Antimicrobial peptides, also known as host defense peptides, are effector molecules of the innate immunity that demonstrate a broad range of antimicrobial and immunoregulatory act...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gutner M,Chaushu S,Balter D,Bachrach G

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Engerotoxins isolated from Vibrio cholerae and toxigenic Escherichia coli cause permeability alterations in rabbit skin. Firm induration and erythema are observed within 18 to 24 h, and visualization of the reaction may be enhanced by intravenous injection of Pontamine sky blue dye. Two skin permeability factors (PF) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sandefur PD,Peterson JW

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) specific for the heat-stable enterotoxin (STh) of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli was produced. All four MAbs (8G7, 53-4, 11C, and SH1) bound to native STh in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to various degrees, with clone SH1 showing the best affinity. The MAbs were screen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takeda T,Nair GB,Suzuki K,Zhe HX,Yokoo Y,De Mol P,Hemelhof W,Butzler JP,Takeda Y,Shimonishi Y

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar bone destruction is a characteristic feature of periodontitis. Treponema denticola is known to be involved in periodontitis. To elucidate the role of T. denticola in alveolar bone destruction in periodontitis, the effects of lipooligosaccharide (LOS) from T. denticola on osteoclast formation and on expression...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Choi BK,Lee HJ,Kang JH,Jeong GJ,Min CK,Yoo YJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute phase of Chagas' disease is accompanied by immunosuppression. To explore the underlying mechanism(s), we used an in vitro culture system in which the capacities of activated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells to express interleukin-2 receptors (IL-2R) and proliferate are markedly inhibited in the prese...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Beltz LA,Kierszenbaum F,Sztein MB

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we identified five genes (Cj1321 to Cj1326, of which Cj1325 and Cj1326 are a single gene) in the O-linked flagellin glycosylation island that are highly prevalent in Campylobacter jejuni isolates from chickens. We report mutagenesis, functional, and structural data to confirm that this locus, and Cj1324 in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Howard SL,Jagannathan A,Soo EC,Hui JP,Aubry AJ,Ahmed I,Karlyshev A,Kelly JF,Jones MA,Stevens MP,Logan SM,Wren BW

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, is able to persistently infect humans and animals for months or years in the presence of an active immune response. It is not known how the organisms survive immune attack in the mammalian host. vlsE, a gene localized near one end of linear plasmid lp28-1 and encoding a su...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang JR,Norris SJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) is caused by a tick-borne obligate intracellular pathogen of the order Rickettsiales. HME disease can range from mild to a fatal, toxic shock-like syndrome, yet the mechanisms regulating pathogenesis are not well understood. We define a central role for type I interferons (alpha inte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang Y,Thai V,McCabe A,Jones M,MacNamara KC

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to bind Congo red (Crb+) is associated with virulence of Shigella flexneri and is encoded by a large, 220-kilobase plasmid. We cloned fragments of this plasmid to isolate the sequences encoding Congo red binding, to determine the degree of conservation of these sequences among S. flexneri strains, and to s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Daskaleros PA,Payne SM

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual strains of Staphylococcus aureus have different capacities to become internalized by osteoblasts. Here we report that the levels of sigma(B) expressed by S. aureus correlate with the capacity of this bacterium to be internalized by osteoblasts. However, sigma(B) is not essential for internalization and does...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nair SP,Bischoff M,Senn MM,Berger-Bächi B

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pretreatment with multiple doses of polymyxin B and colistimethate was evaluated as to its ability to sequester sufficient antibiotic in tissues to neutralize the effects of endotoxin in three animal models. Animals were challenged with endotoxin 24, 48, or 72 h after the last dose of antibiotic when there was minimal...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Craig WA,Turner JH,Kunin CM

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:H(2)O(2) levels accumulated by Mycoplasma pneumoniae can be influenced by carbon source, different horse sera, yeast extract, thallium acetate, or growth in a simplified, dialyzed medium. Thus, increased levels of H(2)O(2) were detected by growth in glycerol, by omission of thallium acetate, and by the use of dialyzed...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Low IE

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic strains of Yersinia spp. inject a set of Yop effector proteins into eukaryotic cells by using a plasmid-encoded type III secretion system. In this study, we analyzed the inflammatory response of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) after infection with different Yersinia enterocolitica strains. W...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Denecker G,Tötemeyer S,Mota LJ,Troisfontaines P,Lambermont I,Youta C,Stainier I,Ackermann M,Cornelis GR

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with tissue-migrating helminths is frequently associated with intense granulocyte infiltrations. Several host-derived factors are known to mediate granulocyte recruitment to the tissues, but less attention has been paid to how parasite-derived products trigger this process. Parasite-derived chemotactic facto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Falcone FH,Rossi AG,Sharkey R,Brown AP,Pritchard DI,Maizels RM

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the lungs of mice vaccinated with Mycobacterium bovis BCG, there was an accumulation of CD4 cells expressing the activated effector phenotype CD44hi CD62 ligandlo) (CD62Llo) which were capable of secreting gamma interferon. Upon cell transfer, however, cells expressing a resting/naïve phenotype (CD44lo CD62Lhi) wer...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kipnis A,Irwin S,Izzo AA,Basaraba RJ,Orme IM

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody to Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin was detected in human sera by using a cytotoxicity-neutralization assay. Serum antitoxin was present in high titer in all 14 patients who recovered from serious pseudomonas infections (log2 of 50% neutralization titer, mean +/- standard deviation = 6.0 +/- 1.2). In contrast,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pollack M,Callahan LT 3rd,Taylor NS

更新日期：1976-10-01 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：:Candida albicans is a major opportunistic pathogen in immunocompromised patients. Production of proinflammatory cytokines by host cells in response to C. albicans plays a critical role in the activation of immune cells and final clearance of the organism. Invasion of host cells and tissues is considered one of the vir...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Villar CC,Kashleva H,Mitchell AP,Dongari-Bagtzoglou A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enhanced memory response, as shown by increased titers of specific immunoglobulin A (IgA), was seen in intestinal secretions from isolated Thiry-Vella loops in rabbits primed orally with live, locally invasive Shigella sp. X16 and challenged 60 days later with a single oral dose of the same antigen. Heat-killed shi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Keren DF,McDonald RA,Scott PJ,Rosner AM,Strubel E

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of our group reported recently that neisseria infection of human epithelial cells results in accelerated degradation of the major lysosomal integral membrane protein LAMP1 and that this is due to hydrolysis of this glycoprotein at its immunoglobulin A1 (IgA1)-like hinge by the neisseria type 2 IgA1 protease (L...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ayala P,Lin L,Hopper S,Fukuda M,So M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When spleen cells derived from C57BL/6 mice immunized with L cells 7 days previously were cocultured with antigenic cells, immune interferon appeared in the culture fluid. We analyzed the tissue distribution of the immune interferon-producing cells (IIPC) which appeared in various lymphoid organs after allogeneic stim...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ito Y,Aoki H,Kimura Y,Takano M,Maeno K,Shimokata K

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously determined that complement receptors on human mononuclear phagocytes and complement component C3 in nonimmune serum mediate phagocytosis of the intracellular bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium leprae, the agent of leprosy. We have also determined that C3 fixes selectively to the major surface glycolip...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schlesinger LS,Horwitz MA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00