Proteus mirabilis urease: use of a ureA-lacZ fusion demonstrates that induction is highly specific for urea.

abstract：:The Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2)/TLR1 receptor complex responds to amyloid fibrils, a common component of biofilm material produced by members of the phyla Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, and Proteobacteria. To determine whether this TLR2/TLR1 ligand stimulates inflammatory responses when bacteria enter intestinal tissue, w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nishimori JH,Newman TN,Oppong GO,Rapsinski GJ,Yen JH,Biesecker SG,Wilson RP,Butler BP,Winter MG,Tsolis RM,Ganea D,Tükel Ç

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an earlier report, we had described the isolation and characterization of autolysis-defective mutants of Staphylococcus aureus (N. Mani, P. Tobin, and R.K. Jayaswal, J. Bacteriol. 175:1493-1499, 1993). In the study reported here, an autolysis-defective mutant showed attenuated virulence in a rat model of experiment...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mani N,Baddour LM,Offutt DQ,Vijaranakul U,Nadakavukaren MJ,Jayaswal RK

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the recent bioterrorism-related outbreaks, inhalational anthrax had a 45% mortality in spite of appropriate antimicrobial therapy, underscoring the need for better adjuvant therapies. The variable latency between exposure and development of disease suggests an important role for the host's innate immune respons...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gold JA,Hoshino Y,Hoshino S,Jones MB,Nolan A,Weiden MD

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of human monocytes, macrophages, and polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) on the fungal pathogen Blastomyces dermatitidis in vitro. Peripheral blood monocyte monolayers significantly inhibited the replication of a virulent strain (V) and an avirulent strain (AV) of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brummer E,Stevens DA

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response to reinfection with Ethiopian Leishmania donovani was evaluated in genetically determined noncure (H-2d) B10.D2 mice that are able to resolve infection due to sublethal irradiation pretreatment after inoculation with a low parasite dose and in C57BL/10 mice that demonstrate the genetically determined cure...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ulczak OM,Ghadirian E,Skamene E,Blackwell JM,Kongshavn PA

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attachment of Staphylococcus aureus (Cowan I) and two strains of group A and G streptococci on glass cover slips coated with fibronectin, fibronectin fragments, or fibrinogen was studied. The attachment was quantitated by counting the attached bacteria on glass surfaces coated with a similar molarity of the protei...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kuusela P,Vartio T,Vuento M,Myhre EB

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian host response to infection includes the production and secretion of antimicrobial peptides from phagocytes and epithelial cells. Protegrins, a group of broadly microbicidal peptides isolated originally from porcine neutrophil lysates, were found to be stored as inactive proforms in porcine neutrophil gra...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shi J,Ganz T

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purification of the envelope antigen of Yersinia pestis EV with passive hemagglutination activity is described. The purification procedure consisted of pancreatin digestion, chromatography on human erythrocyte stroma set on Celite, and rechromatography on Sephadex G-200. Chemical, physical, and biological properties o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Głosnicka R,Gruszkiewicz E

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenic cross-reactivity between Treponema pallidum and several pathogenic members of the family Spirochaetaceae was examined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western blotting techniques. Blots of T. pallidum antigens were incubated with antiserum from rabbits infected or immunize...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker-Zander SA,Lukehart SA

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli strain RDEC-1 causes a diarrheagenic infection in rabbits with AF/R1 fimbriae, which have been identified as an important colonization factor in RDEC-1 adherence leading to disease. The AF/R1-mediated RDEC-1 adherence model has been used as a model systems for E. coli diarrheal diseases. In this study...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ryu H,Kim YS,Grange PA,Cassels FJ

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (TpM 3, TpM 6, and TpM 19) against Toxoplasma gondii insoluble antigens were produced by the hybridization of NS-1, a mouse myeloma cell line, with spleen cells from mice immunized with T. gondii insoluble antigens. TpM 3, TpM 6, and TpM 19 were characterized by the dye test, the latex agglutinat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ogata K,Kasahara T,Shioiri-Nakano K,Igarashi I,Suzuki M

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis has received increasing attention for its involvement in severe human infections worldwide as well as in multidrug resistance. Two-component signaling systems (TCSSs) play important roles in bacterial adaptation to various environmental stimuli. In this study, we identified a novel TCSS located in S...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhong X,Zhang Y,Zhu Y,Dong W,Ma J,Pan Z,Roy S,Lu C,Yao H

更新日期：2018-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with tissue-migrating helminths is frequently associated with intense granulocyte infiltrations. Several host-derived factors are known to mediate granulocyte recruitment to the tissues, but less attention has been paid to how parasite-derived products trigger this process. Parasite-derived chemotactic facto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Falcone FH,Rossi AG,Sharkey R,Brown AP,Pritchard DI,Maizels RM

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the autotransporter (AT) moniker, AT secretion appears to involve the function of periplasmic chaperones. We identified four periplasmic proteins that specifically bound to plasmid-encoded toxin (Pet), an AT produced by enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC). These proteins include the 17-kDa Skp chaperone ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tapia-Pastrana G,Chavez-Dueñas L,Lanz-Mendoza H,Teter K,Navarro-García F

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tetrasaccharide 3-deoxy-alpha-D-manno-2-octulosonic acid (alpha-KDO) (2----8)-alpha-KDO(2----4)-alpha-KDO(2----6)-beta GlcNAc, a partial structure of chlamydial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) representing a genus-specific epitope, was synthesized and covalently linked to bovine serum albumin, resulting in an artificial ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fu Y,Baumann M,Kosma P,Brade L,Brade H

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo administration of Porphyromonas gingivalis lipopolysaccharide (Pg-LPS) to mice induced apoptosis before a specific immune response. Apoptosis was associated with the expression of immunoglobulin and Ia on B cells and of CD5 and several markers on T cells. Apoptosis peaked in the spleen and lymph nodes on day 2...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Isogai E,Isogal H,Kimura K,Fujii N,Takagi S,Hirose K,Hayashi M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) is caused by a tick-borne obligate intracellular pathogen of the order Rickettsiales. HME disease can range from mild to a fatal, toxic shock-like syndrome, yet the mechanisms regulating pathogenesis are not well understood. We define a central role for type I interferons (alpha inte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang Y,Thai V,McCabe A,Jones M,MacNamara KC

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fibronectin-binding protein (FnBP) adhesin of Staphylococcus aureus possesses three 37- or 38-amino-acid motifs (D1, D2, and D3) that can each bind fibronectin (Fn) with low affinity and that in tandem comprise D1-3, a high-affinity Fn-binding domain. To identify epitopes for the generation of adhesion-blocking anti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sun Q,Smith GM,Zahradka C,McGavin MJ

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of vaccines for prevention of diseases caused by pathogenic species can encounter major obstacles if high sequence diversity is observed between individual strains. Therefore, development might be restricted either to conserved antigens, which are often rare, or to multivalent vaccines, which renders t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nayak A,Schüler W,Seidel S,Gomez I,Meinke A,Comstedt P,Lundberg U

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Detoxified mutants of the Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin (LT) act as mucosal adjuvants to intranasally presented coadministered antigens. Here, we compare the adjuvant activity of a panel of detoxified derivatives of LT, using both intranasal (i.n.) and oral (p.o.) routes of administration. The mutants used as adj...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Douce G,Giannelli V,Pizza M,Lewis D,Everest P,Rappuoli R,Dougan G

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilization of heme-hemopexin as a source of heme by Haemophilus influenzae type b is dependent on expression by this bacterium of the 100-kDa HxuA protein, which is both present on the bacterial cell surface and released into the culture supernatant (L. D. Cope, R. Yogev, U. Muller-Eberhard, and E. J. Hansen, J. Bact...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cope LD,Thomas SE,Hrkal Z,Hansen EJ

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a potent stimulus of cells, yet a target protein for LPS has not been defined. We used two approaches to define LPS-binding sites on cell surfaces: one assay measured binding of LPS-coated erythrocytes (ELPS) to cultured human cells, and a second measured binding of a radiolabeled...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Golenbock DT,Hampton RY,Raetz CR,Wright SD

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Cryptococcus neoformans vary in resistance to phagocytosis in vitro. The binding of isolated capsular polysaccharide (CPS) to a capsule-free mutant of C. neoformans confers resistance to phagocytosis. The importance of capsule composition to differences among strains in susceptibility to phagocytosis was ev...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Small JM,Mitchell TG

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Black melanin-like pigments are produced by several neurotropic fungi, including Cryptococcus neoformans. Pigment production is associated with virulence. In media containing phenolic substrates such as L-dopa, C. neoformans cells become black as a result of pigment accumulation. Pigmented and nonpigmented C. neoforma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang Y,Aisen P,Casadevall A

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiserum to a synthetic peptide, CTP3, consisting of residues 50 to 64 of the B subunit of cholera enterotoxin (CT), a sequence which is conserved in heat-labile enterotoxins from Escherichia coli strains of human (H-LT) or porcine (P-LT) origin, cross-reacted with and neutralized all three enterotoxins. It also cros...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jacob CO,Arnon R,Finkelstein RA

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic infections play a significant role in the morbidity and mortality of patients with chronic airflow limitation. By stimulating airway inflammation, persistent infection has the potential to cause airway fibrosis. However, in patient this condition is most typically found in lungs damaged by other factors, such ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McIntosh JC,Simecka JW,Ross SE,Davis JK,Miller EJ,Cassell GH

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosomal iroBCDEN gene cluster first described for Salmonella enterica is involved in the uptake of catecholate-type siderophore compounds. An orthologous gene cluster has recently been detected in Escherichia coli strains which cause extraintestinal disease. This E. coli iroBCDEN gene cluster has an impact on ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sorsa LJ,Dufke S,Heesemann J,Schubert S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of type-specific antigen (that covalently associated with the cell wall peptidoglycan and that released extracellularly) synthesized by virulent and avirulent strains of type III group B streptococci was quantitated and compared. Additionally, the effect of the physiological age of the cells and the influenc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yeung MK,Mattingly SJ

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pigs were treated with anti-CD18 antibody (M8), and subsequently middle ears (ME) were infected with nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. Forty-eight hours after infection, the ME washes of these animals had significantly lower polymorphonuclear leukocyte numbers but higher bacterial counts compared with washes ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Patel J,Chonmaitree T,Schmalstieg F

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00