Vaccine-induced cellular immune responses differ from innate responses in susceptible and resistant strains of mice infected with Coccidioides posadasii.

abstract：:OKM5 antigen and thrombospondin are currently under investigation as potential receptors on the surface of human monocytes, endothelial cells, and melanomas responsible for the cytoadherence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes. We have studies the binding capacity of six human melanoma cell lines and relate...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Panton LJ,Leech JH,Miller LH,Howard RJ

更新日期：1987-11-01 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：:Clostridium difficile causes pseudomembranous colitis through the action of Rho-modifying proteins, toxins A and B. Antibodies directed against C. difficile toxin A prevent or limit C. difficile-induced colitis. We engineered plasmid pETR14, containing the hlyB and hlyD genes of the Escherichia coli hemolysin operon, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ryan ET,Butterton JR,Smith RN,Carroll PA,Crean TI,Calderwood SB

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of cryptococcal polysaccharide to a non-encapsulated strain of Cryptococcus neoformans was studied. Binding of purified polysaccharide to the yeast was determined by inhibition of phagocytosis and by indirect immunofluorescence techniques. The ability of cryptococcal polysaccharide to prevent phagocytosis ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of phagocytosis-stimulating factor (PSF) derived from polymorphonuclear neutrophils on macrophage functions were studied. PSF enhanced the initial rate of phagocytosis of serum-opsonized zymosan particles by macrophages, whereas it did not affect the phagocytosis of immunoglobulin G-sensitized and inert zy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ishibashi Y,Yamashita T

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthrax lethal toxin (LeTx), consisting of protective antigen (PA) and lethal factor (LF), rapidly kills primary mouse macrophages and macrophage-like cell lines such as RAW 264.7. LF is translocated by PA into the cytosol of target cells, where it acts as a metalloprotease to cleave mitogen-activated protein kinase k...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tang G,Leppla SH

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) remains an enormous global health problem, and a new vaccine against TB more potent than the current inadequate vaccine, Mycobacterium bovis BCG, is urgently needed. We describe a recombinant BCG vaccine (rBCG30) expressing and secreting the 30-kDa major secretory protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Horwitz MA,Harth G

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AMA-1 of Plasmodium falciparum is a promising candidate antigen in malaria vaccine development. In this study, we have mapped the immunodominant T-cell determinants in this antigen by using synthetic peptides. From the amphipathic scores, 17 putative T-cell determinants were identified. Nine of the 17 peptides complem...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lal AA,Hughes MA,Oliveira DA,Nelson C,Bloland PB,Oloo AJ,Hawley WE,Hightower AW,Nahlen BL,Udhayakumar V

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-1,2-linked mannosides (beta-Mans) are believed to contribute to Candida albicans virulence. The presence of beta-Mans has been chemically established for two molecules (phosphopeptidomannan [PPM] and phospholipomannan) that are noncovalently linked to the cell wall, where they correspond to specific epitopes. How...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fradin C,Slomianny MC,Mille C,Masset A,Robert R,Sendid B,Ernst JF,Michalski JC,Poulain D

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sephadex G-200 filtration was used for fractionating dengue type 2 (DEN-2)-infected suckling mouse brain (SMB) supernatant fluids. The high-molecular-weight fraction, which was eluted in the void volume, showed no increase in type specificity when tested against immune ascitic fluid to the four prototype dengue viruse...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cornesky RA,Hammon WM,Atchison RW,Sather GE

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female guinea pigs were immunized with viable or UV light-inactivated chlamydiae (agent of guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis), belonging to the species Chlamydia psittaci, by intravenous, subcutaneous, oral, or ocular routes. All animals were then inoculated vaginally with viable chlamydiae to determine the extent o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rank RG,Batteiger BE,Soderberg LS

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the effect of periodontal therapy on specific serum antibody concentration, expressed as titer, and antibody binding strength, expressed as relative avidity. The immune responses to Porphyromonas gingivalis and Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans were investigated. Antibody titer was assayed by en...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mooney J,Adonogianaki E,Riggio MP,Takahashi K,Haerian A,Kinane DF

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain disrupted in the AraC homologue Rv1931c was isolated. The mutant strain exhibited reduced survival both in macrophages and in a mouse infection model, with survival being restored on complementation with the Rv1931c gene. These results suggest that Rv1931c regulates genes important ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Frota CC,Papavinasasundaram KG,Davis EO,Colston MJ

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ApxIIA protein secreted from Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is both hemolytic and cytotoxic. However, when the cloned apxII operon is expressed in Escherichia coli, two forms of the ApxIIA protein can be recovered. Toxin which remains intracellular has hemolytic and cytotoxic activities, while toxin that is secre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tu AH,Hausler C,Young R,Struck DK

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine embryo fibroblasts (MEF) were found to secrete tumor necrosis factor (TNF) in response to stimulation with endotoxin. Endotoxin-induced TNF production by MEF was inhibited by cycloheximide. However, reversal of the effect of this inhibitor on protein synthesis results in TNF being secreted in amounts equivalent...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Havell EA,Rogerson BJ

更新日期：1993-05-01 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：:Mutation of tryptophan-101 in Clostridium difficile toxin A, a 308-kDa glucosyltransferase, resulted in a 50-fold-reduced cytopathic activity in cell culture experiments. The mutant toxin A was characterized and applied to distinguish between glucosyltransferase-dependent and -independent effects with respect to RhoB ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Teichert M,Tatge H,Schoentaube J,Just I,Gerhard R

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active immunization with Porphyromonas gingivalis whole-cell preparations has been shown to prevent P. gingivalis infection and oral bone loss. Employing passive antibody transfer and opsonization, we demonstrate with this study that immunization-elicited P. gingivalis-specific immunoglobulin G facilitates clearance o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gibson FC 3rd,Gonzalez DA,Wong J,Genco CA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial products from gram-positive bacteria, such as peptidoglycan, teichoic acid, and toxins, activate mononuclear cells to produce tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF). The present study evaluated the release of soluble cell wall components from Staphylococcus epidermidis capable of inducing TNF after exposure of th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mattsson E,Van Dijk H,Verhoef J,Norrby R,Rollof J

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Athymic BALB/c nude mice and euthymic BALB/c mice were infected with Rickettsia akari by the intraperitoneal route. The rickettsialpox infection was terminated in euthymic mice with only two intraperitoneal injections of the antibiotic oxytetracycline, whereas prolonged treatment was necessary to terminate the infecti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kenyon RH,Pedersen CE Jr

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of infection with low-virulence, tissue culture-propagated strains of reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV) on protective vaccinal immunity against Marek's disease (MD) lymphomas was investigated. Vaccinated chickens inoculated at hatching with greater than 10(4) focus-forming units of REV and challenged with M...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Witter RL,Lee LF,Bacon LD,Smith EJ

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferation of Bordetella pertussis in the lungs of infant mice challenged by the intranasal route was examined. The bacteria rapidly proliferated in the lungs of mice challenged with a sublethal dose of a wild-type strain (BP338) or a filamentous hemagglutinin mutant (BPM409) from 500 at day 0 to 10(7) at day 15. T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goodwin MS,Weiss AA

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of glycosylinositol phospholipid 1 (GIPL-1) of Leishmania (Leishmania) major in the interaction of promastigotes and amastigotes with macrophages was analyzed. Monoclonal antibody MEST-1, which recognizes glycolipids containing terminal galactofuranose (Galf) residues (E. Suzuki, M. S. Toledo, H. K. Takahashi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suzuki E,Tanaka AK,Toledo MS,Takahashi HK,Straus AH

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine proteases and serine protease homologs form the second largest gene family in the Drosophila melanogaster genome. Certain genes in the Jonah multigene family encoding serine proteases have been implicated in the fly antiviral immune response. Here, we report the involvement of Jonah66Ci in the Drosophila immune...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yadav S,Eleftherianos I

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells (IRBCs) in the human placenta is mediated by chondroitin-4-sulfate (C4S). Although IRBC binding to C4S has been unequivocally established, the adherence characteristics of IRBCs at different stages of parasite development and through successive parasite g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Madhunapantula SV,Achur RN,Gowda DC

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In experimental Leishmania donovani infection in BALB/c mice, initial susceptibility gives way to T-cell-dependent acquired resistance and eventual control over visceral infection. Since various cytokines appear to underlie the host response to Leishmania infection, we examined infected liver tissue for gene expressio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miralles GD,Stoeckle MY,McDermott DF,Finkelman FD,Murray HW

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcutaneous immunization (TCI) is a new method for vaccine delivery that has been shown to induce immunity relevant to enteric disease vaccines. We evaluated the clinical safety and immunogenicity of a recombinant subunit vaccine against enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) delivered by TCI. Adult volunteers rec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Güereña-Burgueño F,Hall ER,Taylor DN,Cassels FJ,Scott DA,Wolf MK,Roberts ZJ,Nesterova GV,Alving CR,Glenn GM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is rising in the developing world due to poor health care, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection, and the low protective efficacy of the Mycobacterium bovis BCG vaccine. A new vaccination strategy that could protect adults in the developing world from tuberculosis could have a huge impact on publi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Williams A,Goonetilleke NP,McShane H,Clark SO,Hatch G,Gilbert SC,Hill AV

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pigs sensitized by repeated skin testing with potent, merthiolated coccidioidin, equal to Smith standard, exhibited erythema, edema, and an induration-like reaction to intradermal injection of the preparation. No statistically significant migration inhibition of peritoneal exudate macrophages from these animals...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sinski JT,Reed GL,Kelley LM,LeFebvre R

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major antigenic determinants of the lipoglycans from Acholeplasma granularum and Acholeplasma axanthum were found to be the oligosaccharide sequences Glcp(beta 1 leads to 2)-Glcp(alpha 1 leads to 4)-Glcp and Glcp(beta 1 leads to 2)-Glcp(beta 1 leads to 2)-Glcp, respectively. The disaccharides sophorose and maltose...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Al-Samarrai TH,Smith PF,Lynn RJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00