Adenoviral delivery of interleukin-10 fails to attenuate experimental Lyme disease.

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is the predominant cause of Legionnaires' disease in the United States and Europe, while Legionella longbeachae is the common cause of the disease in Western Australia. Although clinical manifestations by both intracellular pathogens are very similar, recent studies have shown that phagosome bio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Asare R,Santic M,Gobin I,Doric M,Suttles J,Graham JE,Price CD,Abu Kwaik Y

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugated polysaccharide vaccines protect against serogroup C meningococci. However, this approach cannot be applied to serogroup B, which is still a major cause of meningitis. We evaluated the immunogenicity of three surface-exposed proteins from serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis (App, NhhA, and NadA) identified du...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bowe F,Lavelle EC,McNeela EA,Hale C,Clare S,Arico B,Giuliani MM,Rae A,Huett A,Rappuoli R,Dougan G,Mills KH

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American opossum is the only experimental animal that regularly develops bacterial endocarditis spontaneously. There was no relation between the ability of opossums to clear bacteria from the bloodstream and the subsequent development of endocarditis. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Musher DM,Richie Y

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the immune defense of mice with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD mice) with that of wild-type C57BL/6 mice for their response to Sporothrix schenckii. A subcutaneous injection of 5 x 10(4) CFU S. schenckii strain IFM41598 into CGD mice resulted in systemic infection and death within 84 days. In contrast,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kajiwara H,Saito M,Ohga S,Uenotsuchi T,Yoshida S

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii is transmitted to humans from infected animals by tissue cysts and oocysts excreted by cats. Immunization with inactivated parasites or recombinant proteins has at best shown partial protection. We constructed a plasmid expressing the SAG1 surface antigen of T. g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nielsen HV,Lauemøller SL,Christiansen L,Buus S,Fomsgaard A,Petersen E

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of mice suggest that pneumococcal proteins, including PspA, pneumolysin, PsaA, and CbpA, are promising vaccine candidates. To determine whether these proteins are good mucosal immunogens in humans, adenoidal lymphocytes from 20 children who had adenoidectomies were isolated and tested by ELISpot for antigen-sp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang Q,Choo S,Finn A

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lectin with strong hemagglutinating activity toward erythrocytes of several animal species was isolated from an 18-h culture supernatant of a diarrheagenic strain, V2, of non-O1 Vibrio cholerae. The hemagglutinin (HA) was purified free of lipopolysaccharide by salt fractionation followed by gel filtration, hydrophob...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Banerjee KK,Ghosh AN,Dutta-Roy K,Pal SC,Ghose AC

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies against mumps virus have been studied by using immunoglobulin class-specific indicators labeled with (125)I in the radioimmunoassay (RIA) procedure. The immunoglobulins in paired acute and convalescent sera were allowed to react with mumps virus in a solid-phase RIA system. Class-specific immunoglobulin ind...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Daugharty H,Warfield DT,Hemingway WD,Casey HL

更新日期：1973-03-01 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：:Corynebacteriophage 782, a phage highly related to the beta family of corynebacteriophages but lacking a tox allele, was isolated from a nontoxinogenic clinical isolate of Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Phage 782 exhibits beta immunity but has a wider host range than beta, forming plaques on strains of C. ulcerans and C...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cianciotto N,Groman N

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of a pathogen to evade neutrophil phagocytic killing mechanisms is critically important for dissemination and establishment of a systemic infection. Understanding how pathogens overcome these innate defenses is essential for the development of optimal therapeutic strategies for invasive infections. CpsY is...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Allen JP,Neely MN

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice receiving a single injection of cyclophosphamide (150 mg/kg) 1 to 6 days before inoculation with viable Candida albicans showed an increased susceptibility to the challenge accompanied by a reduction in peripheral blood polymorphonuclear leukocytes and lymphocytes as well as in spleen cellularity. Several immunol...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bistoni F,Baccarini M,Blasi E,Marconi P,Puccetti P,Garaci E

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombospondin-related anonymous protein (TRAP) of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum shares two sequence motifs with other proteins which possess adhesive properties. Recently, findings indicate that TRAP is an antigen which contributes to antisporozoite immunity. We have cloned and expressed the TRAP coding ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Scarselli E,Tolle R,Koita O,Diallo M,Müller HM,Früh K,Doumbo O,Crisanti A,Bujard H

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits are not usually susceptible to intestinal Shigella infection without extensive pretreatment, including starvation and administration of antimicrobial, antimotility, and toxic agents (carbon tetrachloride). Most animals infected this way die rapidly and do not always develop colonic lesions and signs of dysente...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rabbani GH,Albert MJ,Rahman H,Islam M,Mahalanabis D,Kabir I,Alam K,Ansaruzzaman M

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacterial pathogens utilize virulence-associated secretion systems to inject, or translocate, effector proteins into host cells to manipulate cellular processes and promote bacterial replication. However, translocated bacterial products are sensed by nucleotide binding domain and leucine-rich repeat-cont...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zwack EE,Feeley EM,Burton AR,Hu B,Yamamoto M,Kanneganti TD,Bliska JB,Coers J,Brodsky IE

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic DNA fingerprint analysis was performed on 39 Staphylococcus aureus and 28 Enterococcus faecalis endophthalmitis isolates collected from multiple clinical centers. Among 21 S. aureus genomic DNA fingerprint patterns identified, five clonotypes were recovered from multiple unrelated patients and accounted for 58...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Booth MC,Hatter KL,Miller D,Davis J,Kowalski R,Parke DW,Chodosh J,Jett BD,Callegan MC,Penland R,Gilmore MS

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A soluble hemagglutinin/protease produced by Vibrio cholerae, which has previously been shown to hydrolyze fibronectin and ovomucin and to cleave lactoferrin and the A subunit of the heat-labile enterotoxin of Escherichia coli, appears to be a zinc metalloendopeptidase. Both its hemagglutinative and protease functions...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Booth BA,Boesman-Finkelstein M,Finkelstein RA

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of D-alanine and carbohydrate substitution of lipoteichoic acids (LTAs) on the binding of antibody directed to the polyglycerol phosphate (PGP) portion was found to be at least partially dependent upon the mode of presentation of the antigen. There were greater differences in binding of anti-PGP immunogl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kessler RE,Thivierge BH

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorphenesin (3-p-chlorophenoxy-1,2-propanediol), when injected intravenously together with either of two common bacterial antigens, inhibits the antibody response of the rabbit. The antigens studied are those common to Enterobacteriaceae and to gram-positive bacteria. The immunosuppression is contingent upon incubat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whang HY,Neter E

更新日期：1970-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus equi is the causative agent of strangles, the most frequently diagnosed infectious disease of horses worldwide. The disease is characterized by abscessation and swelling of the lymph nodes of the head and neck, which can literally strangle the horse to death. S. equi produces four recently acquired phage...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Paillot R,Robinson C,Steward K,Wright N,Jourdan T,Butcher N,Heather Z,Waller AS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo administration of bacterial lipopolysaccharide to mice induced DNA fragmentation in the thymus. Fragmented DNA was confirmed by agarose gel electrophoresis and laser flow cytometry. DNA fragmentation was predominantly detected in the thymus of young mice, while it was undetectable in the spleen, bone marrow, a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang YH,Takahashi K,Jiang GZ,Kawai M,Fukada M,Yokochi T

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotype b-specific polysaccharide antigen (SPA) was extracted from whole cells of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans Y4 by autoclaving and purified by chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex A-25 and Sephacryl S-300. SPA induced the release of monocyte and leukocyte chemotactic factors by human monocytes. Polymyxin B had a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yamaguchi N,Yamashita Y,Ikeda D,Koga T

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage-dependent killing of facultative intracellular bacteria was markedly impaired by overt erythrocytic Plasmodium yoelii or Plasmodium berghei infection of mice. P. yoelii infection was capable of ablating not only the macrophage microbicidal capacity of "normal" animals but also the bactericidal capacities of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murphy JR

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urease activity has recently been shown to be an important virulence determinant for Helicobacter pylori, allowing it to survive the low pH of the stomach during colonization. Experimental murine infection with Helicobacter felis is now being used as a model for H. pylori infection to study the effects of vaccines, an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gootz TD,Perez-Perez GI,Clancy J,Martin BA,Tait-Kamradt A,Blaser MJ

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antihistoplasma activity of recombinant murine gamma interferon (rMuIFN-gamma)-treated macrophages of the RAW 264.7 cell line depends on the generation of nitric oxide (NO.) from L-arginine. Macrophages of the P388D1 cell line treated with rMuIFN-gamma do not produce NO. or inhibit the intracellular growth of Hist...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lane TE,Otero GC,Wu-Hsieh BA,Howard DH

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is an important element for the growth of microorganisms as well as in the defense of the host by serving as a catalyst for the generation of free radicals via the Fenton/Haber-Weiss reactions. The iron transporter natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 1 (Nramp1) confers resistance to the growth of a v...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhong W,Lafuse WP,Zwilling BS

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly-N-acetyl-glucosamine (PNAG) is a staphylococcal surface polysaccharide influencing biofilm formation that is also under investigation for its vaccine potential. Antibodies that bind to PNAG with either low (<15%) or high (>90%) levels of acetate are superior at opsonic and protective activity compared with antibo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cerca N,Jefferson KK,Maira-Litrán T,Pier DB,Kelly-Quintos C,Goldmann DA,Azeredo J,Pier GB

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many pathogenic microbes have multiple virulence factors that can cause damage to the host and thus contribute to an overall virulence phenotype for that organism. Although current techniques are suitable for demonstrating that a particular microbial characteristic contributes to virulence, no formal approach for defi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McClelland EE,Bernhardt P,Casadevall A

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:LT-IIa and LT-IIb, the type II heat-labile enterotoxins of Escherichia coli, are closely related in structure and function to cholera toxin and LT-I, the type I heat-labile enterotoxins of Vibrio cholerae and E. coli, respectively. Recent studies from our group demonstrated that LT-IIa and LT-IIb are potent systemic a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nawar HF,Arce S,Russell MW,Connell TD

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00