The oligomerization domain of C4-binding protein (C4bp) acts as an adjuvant, and the fusion protein comprised of the 19-kilodalton merozoite surface protein 1 fused with the murine C4bp domain protects mice against malaria.

abstract：:Pathogenic leptospires have the ability to survive and disseminate to multiple organs after penetrating the host. Several pathogens, including spirochetes, have been shown to express surface proteins that interact with the extracellular matrix (ECM). This adhesin-mediated binding process seems to be a crucial step in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barbosa AS,Abreu PA,Neves FO,Atzingen MV,Watanabe MM,Vieira ML,Morais ZM,Vasconcellos SA,Nascimento AL

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ureaplasma urealyticum has previously been isolated from the cultured cerebrospinal fluid of 13 of 418 newborn infants; additional bloodstream isolates were obtained from the same population. Ten of the 13 cerebrospinal fluid and 3 bloodstream isolates were available for serotyping in the present study. By the use of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zheng X,Watson HL,Waites KB,Cassell GH

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnant mice, guinea pigs, rats, and rabbits responded to injections of Moraxella bovis strain EPP-63(300) with abortion, death, embryo resorption, and production of small litters. The nature of response appeared to depend primarily on the number of viable cells injected and to some extent on the species of animal an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Norman JO,Elissalde MH

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus fibronectin-binding proteins (FnBPs) play a critical role in S. aureus pathogenesis. FnBPs mediate adhesion to fibronectin and invasion of mammalian cells, including epithelial, endothelial, and fibroblastic cells, by fibronectin bridging to the host cell fibronectin receptor integrin (alpha(5))b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grundmeier M,Hussain M,Becker P,Heilmann C,Peters G,Sinha B

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergic-type immune responses, particularly immunoglobulin E (IgE), correlate with protective immunity in human schistosomiasis. To better understand the mechanisms of parasite elimination we examined the immune correlates of protection in baboons (Papio cynocephalus anubis), which are natural hosts for Schistosoma m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nyindo M,Kariuki TM,Mola PW,Farah IO,Elson L,Blanton RE,King CL

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal growth conditions have been established for production of heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) by both porcine and human strains of enterotoxigenic (ENT(+)) Escherichia coli. There were no unusual growth factor requirements, and some strains produced fairly high levels of LT in a basal salts medium containing 0.5% glu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gilligan PH,Robertson DC

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligately intracellular bacterial parasite of eucaryotic cells that undergoes a biphasic life cycle within a parasitophorous vacuole (PV) called an inclusion. The parasitophorous vacuolar membrane (PVM) constitutes a barrier between the replicating bacteria and the nutrient-rich environmen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heinzen RA,Hackstadt T

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only 20 to 40% of human blood monocytes were capable of responding to chemotaxins in vitro. This limit is not due to restrictions of the in vitro system, but is due to the existence of a migrating subpopulation. Over a wide range, the number of cells migrating toward a given concentration of chemotaxin was directly pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Falk W,Leonard EJ

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae contains an inhibitor of human neutrophil elastase. The agent does not inhibit other proteases, including neutrophil cathepsin G and pancreatic elastase. It is active in the presence of insoluble elastin as well as synthetic elastase substrates. The inhibitor is present in the pneumococcal cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vered M,Simon SR,Janoff A

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas infections of macrophages by promastigote forms of Leishmania mexicana pifanoi induce the production of superoxide, infections by amastigotes barely induce superoxide production. Several approaches were employed to gain insight into the mechanism by which amastigotes avoid eliciting superoxide production. Firs...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pham NK,Mouriz J,Kima PE

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial recognition of host sialic acid-containing receptors plays an important role in microbial colonization of the human oral cavity. The sialic acid-binding adhesin of Streptococcus gordonii DL1 was previously associated with the hsa gene encoding a 203-kDa protein. The predicted protein sequence consists of an ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takahashi Y,Yajima A,Cisar JO,Konishi K

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that a mutant (designated C4) of Streptococcus mutans 6715 wild type (WT) is defective in glucosyltransferase (GTF)-synthesized insoluble glucan and is avirulent in gnotobiotic rats. This study investigated the factors which would render this mutant virulent in gnotobiotic rats. Microbial a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hirasawa M,Kiyono H,Shiota T,Hull RA,Curtiss R 3rd,Michalek SM,McGhee JR

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zoonotic infections caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium pose a constant threat to consumer health, with the pig being a particularly major source of multidrug-resistant isolates. Vaccination, as a promising approach to reduce colonization and shedding, has been scarcely used, as it interferes with curren...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Selke M,Meens J,Springer S,Frank R,Gerlach GF

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fonsecaea pedrosoi is a fungal pathogen that produces melanin. The functions of melanin and its possible influence in the protective immunological response during infection by F. pedrosoi are not known. In this work, treatment of F. pedrosoi mycelia with proteases and glycosidases followed by a denaturing agent and ho...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alviano DS,Franzen AJ,Travassos LR,Holandino C,Rozental S,Ejzemberg R,Alviano CS,Rodrigues ML

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies against the class 4 outer membrane protein (OMP) from Neisseria meningitidis have been purified from sera from vaccinees immunized with the Norwegian meningococcal group B outer membrane vesicle vaccine. The human sera and purified antibodies reacted strongly with the class 4 OMP in immunoblots, whereas exp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosenqvist E,Musacchio A,Aase A,Høiby EA,Namork E,Kolberg J,Wedege E,Delvig A,Dalseg R,Michaelsen TE,Tommassen J

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic peptide whose sequence was derived from the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium knowlesi coupled to bovine gamma globulin has been shown to be immunogenic when administered with Freund complete adjuvant. The present experiments were designed to test the immunogenicity of the peptide when attached to a t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clough ER,Audibert FM,Barnwell JW,Schlesinger DH,Arnon R,Chedid LA

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligosaccharide (OS)-protein conjugates are promising candidate vaccines against encapsulated bacteria, such as Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. Although the effects of several variables such as OS chain length and protein carrier have been studied, little is known about th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lefeber DJ,Benaissa-Trouw B,Vliegenthart JF,Kamerling JP,Jansen WT,Kraaijeveld K,Snippe H

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis is a highly pathogenic Gram-negative organism and the causative agent of bubonic and pneumonic plague. Y. pestis is capable of causing major epidemics; thus, there is a need for vaccine targets and a greater understanding of the role of these targets in pathogenesis. Two prime Y. pestis vaccine candida...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weening EH,Cathelyn JS,Kaufman G,Lawrenz MB,Price P,Goldman WE,Miller VL

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most vaccines are still given parenterally. Mucosal vaccination would offer different advantages over parenteral immunization, including blocking of the pathogens at the portal of entry. In this paper, nontoxic Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) mutants and Supramolecular Biovector systems (SMBV) were evalu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baudner BC,Balland O,Giuliani MM,Von Hoegen P,Rappuoli R,Betbeder D,Del Giudice G

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trefoil family factor 2 (TFF2), also known as spasmolytic peptide, is a low-molecular-weight protein that is upregulated in gastric tissues infected with Helicobacter or having other inflammatory conditions, but a precise function is yet to be elucidated. The role of TFF2 in the development of gastritis, colitis, and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kurt-Jones EA,Cao L,Sandor F,Rogers AB,Whary MT,Nambiar PR,Cerny A,Bowen G,Yan J,Takaishi S,Chi AL,Reed G,Houghton J,Fox JG,Wang TC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of bacterial phospholipases during serum-mediated killing of Escherichia coli was examined by using wild-type DR+ DS+ and an isogenic phospholipase-deficient mutant DR- DS-. No difference in serum sensitivity was observed when the parental DR+ DS+ and mutant DR- DS- strains were exposed to various conce...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kreutzer DL,Vandermaten M,Buller CS,Robertson DC,Hirata AA

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in rats was used to compare the net in vivo and in vitro multiplication rates of this bacterium. In both the blood of rats and in vitro cultures (fresh rat blood or enriched broth) there was an exponential increase in the number of CFU per milliliter with calcu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rubin LG

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoprotective activity of Klebsiella pneumoniae K2 cell surface preparations and purified capsular polysaccharide was tested in mice. The 50% protective dose (PD50), expressed as capsular polysaccharide content, was 2 ng for cell surface preparations and 50 ng for purified capsular polysaccharide. Both preparat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Robert A,Jouin H,Fournier JM

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three strains of Lactobacillus, identified as Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus gasseri, and Lactobacillus jensenii, were selected from among 70 isolates from the vaginas of healthy premenopausal women for properties relevant to mucosal colonization or antagonism. All three self-aggregated and adhered to epithe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boris S,Suárez JE,Vázquez F,Barbés C

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a gram-negative marine bacterium. A limited population of the organisms causes acute gastroenteritis in humans. Almost all of the clinical V. parahaemolyticus isolates exhibit beta-type hemolysis on Wagatsuma agar, known as the Kanagawa phenomenon (KP). KP is induced by the thermostable dire...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Izutsu K,Kurokawa K,Tashiro K,Kuhara S,Hayashi T,Honda T,Iida T

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulent and avirulent clones of Leishmania donovani promastigotes were examined for their acid phosphatase activity. The acid phosphatase activity of whole-cell lysates of virulent clones was 1.5 to 2.0 times higher than that of avirulent clones. Pellet fractions (260,000 x g, 30 min) from sonicated promastigotes of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Katakura K,Kobayashi A

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus peptidoglycan displayed a marked dose-dependent mitogenic activity for mouse splenocytes and human peripheral blood lymphocytes in vitro, as measured by increased [3H]thymidine incorporation. Similarly it was mitogenic for athymic nude mouse spleen cells, whereas no blastogenic effect was observe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dziarski R,Dziarski A

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacterial infections, mononuclear and polymorphonuclear phagocytes are key components of host defenses. Recent investigations have indicated that chemokines are able to recruit and activate phagocytes. In particular, interleukin-8 (IL-8) attracts polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs), while monocyte chemoattractant p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tonetti MS,Imboden MA,Gerber L,Lang NP,Laissue J,Mueller C

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cell-deficient W/Wv mice and their mast cell-sufficient littermates were given infections of Trichinella spiralis. W/Wv mice were slower than their littermates to expel adult T. spiralis. Repair of the mast cell deficiency of W/Wv mice by bone marrow grafting was accompanied by accelerated expulsion of T. spirali...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ha TY,Reed ND,Crowle PK

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00