The tick salivary protein Salp15 inhibits the killing of serum-sensitive Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato isolates.

abstract：:Encapsulated Staphylococcus aureus strains are more virulent than unencapsulated staphylococci, and this phenomenon has been associated with decreased opsonization of encapsulated bacteria by normal human serum. Peptidoglycan, a major cell wall component of S. aureus, has been shown to promote opsonization of this bac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wilkinson BJ,Sisson SP,Kim Y,Peterson PK

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subunits of a proline-rich coccidioidal antigen (Ag2/PRA) of Coccidioides immitis were analyzed by comparison as vaccines in mice. The optimal dose of plasmid vaccine encoding full-length Ag2/PRA was determined to be between 10 and 100 microg. Mice vaccinated with plasmids encoding amino acids (aa) 1 to 106 were as pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peng T,Shubitz L,Simons J,Perrill R,Orsborn KI,Galgiani JN

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fliA gene of Legionella pneumophila encoding the alternative sigma(28) factor was inactivated by introducing a kanamycin resistance cassette. Electron microscopy and Western blot analysis revealed that the fliA mutant strain is aflagellate and expresses no flagellin. Reporter gene assays indicated that the flaA pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heuner K,Dietrich C,Skriwan C,Steinert M,Hacker J

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine cytomegalovirus pools from various in vitro and in vivo sources were compared for virulence in suckling mice in an effort to identify the conditions which were necessary for the production of virulent and attenuated viruses. Virus passaged in tracheal ring and salivary gland organ cultures, where virus is produ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Selgrade MK,Nedrud JG,Collier AM,Gardner DE

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium parvum is a significant cause of diarrheal disease worldwide. Attachment to and invasion of host intestinal epithelial cells by C. parvum sporozoites are crucial steps in the pathogenesis of cryptosporidiosis. The molecular basis of these initial interactions is unknown. In order...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cevallos AM,Bhat N,Verdon R,Hamer DH,Stein B,Tzipori S,Pereira ME,Keusch GT,Ward HD

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spirochetes have been implicated as potential etiologic agents of periodontitis in humans. Murine monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) specific for a serogroup of Treponema denticola, an oral spirochete, were developed and characterized in this study. Antibodies secreted by clone IAA11 were judged to be the most useful, since...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Simonson LG,Rouse RF,Bockowski SW

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diarrhea and amebic liver abscesses due to invasive Entamoeba histolytica infections are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the developing world. Entamoeba histolytica adherence and cell migration, two phenotypes linked to virulence, are both aberrant in trophozoites deficient in the metallosurface prote...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Roncolato EC,Teixeira JE,Barbosa JE,Zambelli Ramalho LN,Huston CD

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D(3) (1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol) induced the phagocyte oxidative burst and intracellular killing of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium in a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-dependent manner. The antimicrobial effect was more pronounced for Salmonella SodCI and SodCII mutants, confirming the role of the p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sly LM,Guiney DG,Reiner NE

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis, the etiological agent of whooping cough, has the ability to modulate its phenotype in response to environmental conditions by using the BvgAS sensory transduction system which is encoded by the vir locus (now known as bvg). The BvgAS system is part of a large family of two-component sensory trans...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stenson TH,Peppler MS

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The symptoms of Lyme disease are caused by inflammation induced by species of the Borrelia burgdorferisensu lato complex. The various presentations of Lyme disease in the population suggest that differences exist in the intensity and regulation of the host response to the spirochete. Previous work has described correl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Siebers EM,Liedhegner ES,Lawlor MW,Schell RF,Nardelli DT

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection by Shigella flexneri is characterized by infiltration of neutrophils in the intestinal mucosa and by a strong inflammatory reaction. Although neutrophils are constitutively programmed to die by apoptosis, we show that isolated human neutrophils undergo necrosis 2 h after infection with virulent S. flexneri s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： François M,Le Cabec V,Dupont MA,Sansonetti PJ,Maridonneau-Parini I

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is a major cause of human inflammatory enteritis. During the course of human disease numerous proinflammatory cytokines are produced. Little is known, however, about the cytokine responses produced during the interaction of this bacterium with the avian host. Campylobacter has been considered a co...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Smith CK,Kaiser P,Rothwell L,Humphrey T,Barrow PA,Jones MA

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium botulinum serotype A produces a neurotoxin composed of a 100-kDa heavy chain and a 50-kDa light chain linked by a disulfide bond. This neurotoxin is part of a ca. 900-kDa complex, formed by noncovalent association with a single nontoxin, nonhemagglutinin subunit and a family of hemagglutinating proteins. P...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Maksymowych AB,Reinhard M,Malizio CJ,Goodnough MC,Johnson EA,Simpson LL

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The essential role of T cells in the resolution of primary murine Chlamydia trachomatis genital tract infection is inarguable; however, much less is known about the mechanisms that confer resistance to reinfection. We previously established that CD4+ T cells and B cells contribute importantly to resistance to reinfect...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Morrison SG,Morrison RP

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the selective abilities of bacteria to adhere and their predilections for colonizing different mammalian hosts was investigated by using bacteria indigenous to the tongue dorsum of humans and rats as models. Streptococcus salivarius and S. sanguis averaged 22.6 and 2.8%, respectively, of the c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gibbons RJ,Spinell DM,Skobe Z

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene from Haemophilus influenzae encoding an outer membrane lipoprotein of about 15,000 daltons and which comigrates with the peptidoglycan-associated lipoprotein (PAL) of H. influenzae on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis has been previously reported and designated pcp gene, and its product ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Deich RA,Anilionis A,Fulginiti J,Metcalf BJ,Quataert S,Quinn-Dey T,Zlotnick GW,Green BA

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yields of exotoxin A in Pseudomonas aeruginosa cultures were influenced by the concentration of iron in the culture media. When the iron concentration of the culture media was increased from 0.05 to 1.5 microgram/ml, there was at least a 90% decrease in exotoxin A (measured both by enzymatic activity and by mouse ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bjorn MJ,Iglewski BH,Ives SK,Sadoff JC,Vasil ML

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A murine immunoglobulin G monoclonal antibody (MAb) raised against outer membrane vesicles of Moraxella catarrhalis 035E was shown to bind to a surface-exposed epitope of a major outer membrane protein of this organism. This outer membrane protein, which had an apparent molecular weight of approximately 80,000 in sodi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Helminen ME,Maciver I,Latimer JL,Cope LD,McCracken GH Jr,Hansen EJ

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swine were infected orally with pure cultures of Treponema hyodysenteriae, and the humoral antibody response was measured by a passive hemolysis test (passive hemagglutination test with the use of complement). Antibody to T. hyodysenteriae was detected as early as 1 week and later on at 4 months after exposure. Howeve...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jenkins EM,Sinha PP,Vance RT,Reese GL

更新日期：1976-10-01 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：:Increased resistance to infection with Brucella abortus 2308 resulted when recombinant murine gamma interferon (rMuIFN-gamma) was given to mice both before and during infection but not when given only before infection. Mice given rMuIFN-gamma had enhanced peritoneal and splenic macrophage bactericidal activity against...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stevens MG,Pugh GW Jr,Tabatabai LB

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relapsing fever (RF) is a spirochetal infection characterized by relapses of a febrile illness and spirochetemia due to the sequential appearance and disappearance of isogenic serotypes in the blood. The only difference between isogenic serotypes is the variable major outer membrane lipoprotein. In the absence of spec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sethi N,Sondey M,Bai Y,Kim KS,Cadavid D

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits were immunized with the synthetic peptide EENVEHDA or (EENV)2, corresponding to a tandemly repeated sequence in the C-terminal part of the Plasmodium falciparum antigen Pf155/RESA, or with Escherichia coli-derived fusion proteins containing the corresponding repeats. For all sera, the capacity of the total imm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wåhlin B,Berzins K,Perlmann H,Anders RF,Perlmann P

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus iniae causes meningoencephalitis and death in commercial fish species and has recently been identified as an emerging human pathogen producing fulminant soft tissue infection. As identified by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), strains causing disease in either fish or humans belong to a single clo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fuller JD,Bast DJ,Nizet V,Low DE,de Azavedo JC

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine monoclonal and rabbit, murine, and human polyclonal antibodies against chlamydial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were characterized by the passive hemolysis and passive hemolysis inhibition assays and by absorption experiments with LPSs of Chlamydia psittaci, Chlamydia trachomatis, and a recombinant strain of Salmone...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brade L,Holst O,Kosma P,Zhang YX,Paulsen H,Krausse R,Brade H

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By crossed immunoelectrophoresis and Western blotting (immunoblotting), it was shown that Borrelia burgdorferi expresses the 60-kilodalton Common Antigen (CA) that is cross-reactive with an equivalent antigen in a wide range of remotely related bacteria. B. burgdorferi CA is strongly immunogenic. A B. burgdorferi geno...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hansen K,Bangsborg JM,Fjordvang H,Pedersen NS,Hindersson P

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Shigella flexneri a 220-kilobase plasmid encodes the ability to invade nonprofessional phagocytes by a mechanism similar to phagocytosis. In this report, the continuous macrophage cell line J774 was used to study the intracellular fate of both invasive and noninvasive strains. pWR100, the virulence plasmid of S. fl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clerc PL,Ryter A,Mounier J,Sansonetti PJ

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have focused on regions of staphylococcal enterotoxin C1 (SEC1) causing immunomodulation. N-terminal deletion mutants lacking residues 6 through 13 induced T-cell proliferation similar to that induced by native toxin. However, mutants with residues deleted between positions 19 and 33, although nonmitogenic themselv...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hoffmann ML,Jablonski LM,Crum KK,Hackett SP,Chi YI,Stauffacher CV,Stevens DL,Bohach GA

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin A1 (IgA1) proteases are produced by a number of different species of bacteria which cause infection at human mucosal surfaces. The sole substrate of these proteases is human IgA1. Cleavage is within the hinge region of IgA1, although there is variability in the exact peptide bond within the hinge region...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grundy FJ,Plaut AG,Wright A

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bordetella pertussis BrkA protein protects against the bactericidal activity of complement and antibody; however, some individuals mount an immune response that overcomes this bacterial defense. To further characterize this process, the bactericidal activities of sera from 13 adults with different modes of exposur...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weiss AA,Mobberley PS,Fernandez RC,Mink CM

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00