Cutaneous cryptococcosis in athymic and beige-athymic mice.

abstract：:Dialyzable Lawrence-type transfer factor was prepared from the spleen cells of CF1 mice inoculated with Coccidioides immitis- and Candida albicans-killed vaccines and with live Mycobacterium tuberculosis vaccine (BCG). These preparations were shown to transfer antigen-specific cell-mediated immunity to naive mice, as ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rifkind D,Frey JA,Petersen EA,Dinowitz M

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common concern with many autoimmune diseases of unknown etiology is the extent to which tissue T-lymphocyte infiltrates, versus a nonspecific infiltrate, reflect a response to the causative agent. Lyme arthritis can histologically resemble rheumatoid synovitis, particularly the prominent infiltration by T lymphocyte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Roessner K,Trivedi H,Gaur L,Howard D,Aversa J,Cooper SM,Sigal LH,Budd RC

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During acute infection with bacteria, viruses or parasites, a fraction of macrophages engulf large numbers of red and white blood cells, a process called hemophagocytosis. Hemophagocytes persist into the chronic stage of infection and have an anti-inflammatory phenotype. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infecti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McDonald EM,Pilonieta MC,Nick HJ,Detweiler CS

更新日期：2015-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies directed against Pfs25, a protein present on the surface of zygotes and ookinetes of Plasmodium falciparum, completely block pathogen transmission. We evaluated the immunomodulatory effect of CpG oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN) on the immunogenicity of recombinant Pfs25 (rPfs25) formulated in alum (Al). Immuniz...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coban C,Ishii KJ,Stowers AW,Keister DB,Klinman DM,Kumar N

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute pyelonephritis, a complication of Escherichia coli bacteriuria, must represent a bacterial invasion through the kidney epithelium. To study this process, we overlaid bacterial suspensions onto monolayers of cultured human kidney proximal tubular epithelial cells and measured cytotoxicity by release of lactate de...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mobley HL,Green DM,Trifillis AL,Johnson DE,Chippendale GR,Lockatell CV,Jones BD,Warren JW

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of dissociation techniques, involving gel filtration in the presence of guanidine, to a semipurified preparation of Campylobacter jejuni heat-labile enterotoxin yielded a material whose functional and immunological properties resemble those of the B subunits of cholera toxin and Escherichia coli heat-l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klipstein FA,Engert RF

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which hamsters acquire resistance to yaws or frambesia is poorly understood. This investigation has shown that immune lymphoid cells (spleen and lymph node) could confer on hamsters resistance to infection with Treponema pertenue. Treatment of these immune cells with a specific antithymocyte serum (AT...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chan JK,Schell RF,LeFrock JL

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This longitudinal prospective study shows that antibodies to the N-terminal block 2 region of the Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP-1) are associated with protection against clinical malaria in an area of stable but seasonal malaria transmission of Ghana. Antibodies to the block 2 region of MSP-1 ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cavanagh DR,Dodoo D,Hviid L,Kurtzhals JA,Theander TG,Akanmori BD,Polley S,Conway DJ,Koram K,McBride JS

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three dominant proteins (41, 48, and 49 kDa) were detected by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) in purified preparations of the extracellular aspartyl proteinase (AP) of Candida albicans. All three proteins bound to the specific carboxyl proteinase ligand, pepstatin A, and were assoc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Morrison CJ,Hurst SF,Bragg SL,Kuykendall RJ,Diaz H,Pohl J,Reiss E

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 51 patients with herpes simplex labialis, 50 had detectable interferon (IFN) in samples of lesion vesicle fluid. The median titer of vesicle fluid IFN was 8,200 U. and the range of values was 400 to 63,600 U. The amount of vesicle fluid IFN was correlated with lesion age (r = 0.32, P = 0.024) and vesicle fluid viru...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Spruance SL,Green JA,Chiu G,Yeh TJ,Wenerstrom G,Overall JC Jr

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Menstrually associated toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is attributed primarily to the effects of staphylococcal exotoxin toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1). A region of the 194-amino-acid toxin spanning residues 115 through 144 constitutes a biologically active site. Several point mutations in the TSST-1 gene in that re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bonventre PF,Heeg H,Cullen C,Lian CJ

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of chemical composition in whole cells of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi were performed and compared with those of the other rickettsiae and gram-negative bacteria. The results indicated that R. tsutsugamushi does not contain detectable amounts of 3-deoxy-D-mannooctulosonic acid, heptose, muramic acid, or glucosami...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Amano K,Tamura A,Ohashi N,Urakami H,Kaya S,Fukushi K

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative immunogenicities of three forms of the Escherichia coli heatlabile enterotoxin (LT), the holotoxin, its B subunit, and the polymyxin-release form (PM LT) were compared by immunizing rats with various dosages of each given exclusively by the parenteral (IP/IP) or peroral (PO/PO) routes or by a combination ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klipstein FA,Engert RF

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell wall lytic enzyme (Kyowa lytic no. 2 enzyme) liberated arthritogenic hydrosoluble peptidoglycans from both arthritogenic and non-arthritogenic bacterial cell walls. From these cell walls, mutanolysin (peptidoglycan-degrading enzyme) also liberated hydrosoluble peptidoglycans which, however, lacked arthritogenicit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kohashi O,Pearson CM,Watanabe Y,Kotani S

更新日期：1977-06-01 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：:Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) has been shown to be a central immunomodulator used by leishmaniae to escape effective mechanisms of protection in human and murine infections with these parasites. However, all the information is derived from studies of established infection, while little is known about TGF-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kariminia A,Bourreau E,Pascalis H,Couppié P,Sainte-Marie D,Tacchini-Cottier F,Launois P

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-adapted Gram-negative bacterial pathogens from the Pasteurellaceae, Neisseriaceae, and Moraxellaceae families normally reside in the upper respiratory or genitourinary tracts of their hosts and rely on utilizing iron from host transferrin (Tf) for growth and survival. The surface receptor proteins that mediate th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Frandoloso R,Martínez-Martínez S,Calmettes C,Fegan J,Costa E,Curran D,Yu RH,Gutiérrez-Martín CB,Rodríguez-Ferri EF,Moraes TF,Schryvers AB

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquisition of immunity to Plasmodium falciparum sexual stages is a key determinant for reducing human-mosquito transmission by preventing the fertilization and the development of the parasite in the mosquito midgut. Naturally acquired immunity against sexual stages may therefore form the basis for the development of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ouédraogo AL,Roeffen W,Luty AJ,de Vlas SJ,Nebie I,Ilboudo-Sanogo E,Cuzin-Ouattara N,Teleen K,Tiono AB,Sirima SB,Verhave JP,Bousema T,Sauerwein R

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:The adenylate cyclase-hemolysin of Bordetella pertussis consists of a cell-invasive N-terminal adenylate cyclase domain linked to a C-terminal RTX hemolysin containing extensive glycine-rich repeats. The toxin is an essential virulence factor required in the initial stages of infection. Adenylate cyclase-hemolysin was...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Betsou F,Sebo P,Guiso N

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) initiates infection by colonizing the upper respiratory tract and is a common cause of localized respiratory tract disease. Previous work has established that the NTHi HMW1 and HMW2 proteins are potent adhesins that mediate efficient in vitro adherence to cultured human respir...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rempe KA,Porsch EA,Wilson JM,St Geme JW 3rd

更新日期：2016-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Several strains of group B Streptococcus agalactiae were found to be lethal for young adult rats. When bacteria were heat killed and then injected intraperitoneally into rats, rapid death (14 to 18 h) of the rats occurred, characterized by labored breathing, hemolyzed serum, hemoglobinuria, and subungual hemorrhages. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Warejcka DJ,Goodrum KJ,Spitznagel JK

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bactericidal activity and binding of a 57,000-dalton cationic antimicrobial neutrophil granule protein (CAP57) are determined by the presence on bacteria of O-antigen polysaccharide chains and the availability of negatively charged groups in the lipid A region, the inner core region, or both regions of lipopolysacchar...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Farley MM,Shafer WM,Spitznagel JK

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins are abundantly expressed in the infective and intracellular stages of Trypanosoma cruzi and are recognized as antigenic targets by both the humoral and cellular arms of the immune system. Previously, we demonstrated the efficacy of genes encoding GPI-anchored protei...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bhatia V,Sinha M,Luxon B,Garg N

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculous pleurisy allows the study of human cells at the site of active Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. In this study, we found that among pleural fluid (PF) lymphocytes, natural killer (NK) cells are a major source of early gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) upon M. tuberculosis stimulation, leading us to investig...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schierloh P,Yokobori N,Alemán M,Landoni V,Geffner L,Musella RM,Castagnino J,Baldini M,Abbate E,de la Barrera SS,Sasiain MC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes for outer membrane protein P2 of four nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae strains were cloned and sequenced. The derived amino acid sequences were compared with the outer membrane protein P2 sequence from H. influenzae type b MinnA and the sequences of P2 from three additional nontypeable H. influenzae strain...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bell J,Grass S,Jeanteur D,Munson RS Jr

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of macrophages in protecting mice from murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) was studied in Swiss, CBA/J, and C57BL/6J mice. CBA/J mice were more resistant to virus than were C57BL/6J mice at all ages tested. Prior treatment of adult Swiss mice with 60 mg of silica, a dose selectively toxic to macrophages, increased ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Selgrade MK,Osborn JE

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our knowledge of pathogenesis has benefited from a better understanding of the roles of specific virulence factors in disease. To determine the role of the virulence factor ZapA, a 54-kDa metalloproteinase of Proteus mirabilis, in prostatitis, rats were infected with either wild-type (WT) P. mirabilis or its isogenic ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Phan V,Belas R,Gilmore BF,Ceri H

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A solid-phase radioimmunoassay method has been developed for the detection of rotavirus in the form of a purified antigen and in stool. The parameters of the radioimmunoassay were examined and optimized to give high sensitivity and same-day results. Compared with electron microscopy, the assay is up to 10 times as sen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Middleton PJ,Holdaway MD,Petric M,Szymanski MT,Tam JS

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is common after renal transplantation, and cytomegaloviruria occurs in about two-thirds of the recipients. These observations suggest that the allografts may be a site of latent infection with CMV and its reactivation may be the source of viruria. To investigate this possibility, 130 ki...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Naraqi S,Jackson GG,Jonasson O,Rubenis M

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00