Anthrax protective antigen delivered by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi Ty21a protects mice from a lethal anthrax spore challenge.

abstract：:Local passive immunization with monoclonal antibodies (Mc Ab) to Streptococcus mutans was attempted as an alternative approach to active systemic immunization. We prepared an immunoglobulin G class Mc Ab to the cell surface protein determinant of streptococcal antigen I/II and applied it repeatedly to the teeth of rhe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lehner T,Caldwell J,Smith R

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three parameters of rotavirus infection, i.e., clinical disease, viral antigen in infected intestines, and infectious virus in feces, were assessed in infant mice nursed by mothers with or without preexisting rotavirus antibody. Diarrhea was the only consistent sign of clinical disease, and its course followed that of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Little LM,Shadduck JA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxin A (TcdA) and toxin B (TcdB) are major virulence factors of Clostridium difficile. These two toxins intoxicate cultured cells by similar mechanisms, and TcdB generally is more potent than TcdA in cultured cells. The exact reason for this difference is unclear. Here, we report that the cellular effects of TcdA can...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： He X,Sun X,Wang J,Wang X,Zhang Q,Tzipori S,Feng H

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii induces the expression of proinflammatory cytokines, reorganizes organelles, scavenges nutrients, and inhibits apoptosis in infected host cells. We used a cDNA microarray of 420 annotated porcine expressed sequence tags to analyze the molecular basis of these changes at eight time points over a 72-ho...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Okomo-Adhiambo M,Beattie C,Rink A

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lower genital tract infection with Chlamydia trachomatis and C. muridarum can induce long-lasting hydrosalpinx in the upper genital tract of women and female mice, respectively. However, A/J mice were highly resistant to induction of long-lasting hydrosalpinx by C. muridarum. We further compared host inflammatory resp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang H,Zhou Z,Chen J,Wu G,Yang Z,Zhou Z,Baseman J,Zhang J,Reddick RL,Zhong G

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridoma cell lines which produced monoclonal antibodies against cholera toxin were isolated. These cell lines were detected with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay screening procedure with purified cholera toxin or subunit A of cholera toxin. Seven cell lines were characterized with respect to their reactivity wit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Robb M,Nichols JC,Whoriskey SK,Murphy JR

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of the healthy intestinal microbiome and homeostasis of the intestinal immune system, which are closely interactive, are two key factors for ulcerative colitis. Here, we show that MI-2, a selective inhibitor of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma translocation-1 (MALT1), alleviated excessive inflamma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee KW,Kim M,Lee CH

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:UV-inactivated Sendai virus is mitogenic for murine splenocytes, whereas infectious Sendai virus kills spleen cells in vitro. The isolated hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) and fusion (F) glycoproteins of Sendai virus are also mitogenic for cultured mouse spleen cells. A mixture of these glycoproteins (1 microgram/well...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kizaka S,Goodman-Snitkoff G,McSharry JJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence of Trichomonas vaginalis NYH 286 to host cells was evaluated by using monolayer cultures of HeLa and HEp-2 epithelial cells and human fibroblast cell lines. Saturation of sites on HeLa cells was achieved, yielding a maximal T. vaginalis NYH 286-to-cell ratio of two. The ability of radiolabeled NYH 286 to...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alderete JF,Garza GE

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work (P. Castric, F. J. Cassels, and R. W. Carlson, J. Biol. Chem. 276:26479-26485, 2001) has shown the Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1244 pilin glycan to be covalently bound to a serine residue. N-terminal sequencing of pilin fragments produced from endopeptidase treatment and identified by reaction with a glycan-s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Comer JE,Marshall MA,Blanch VJ,Deal CD,Castric P

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured mammalian cells extend the time of survival of Treponema pallidum (Nichols strain). Various parameters that have been previously shown to enhance treponemal survival in vitro were examined for influences on the interaction of T. pallidum with cultured cells. With cells derived from normal rabbit testes, the t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fitzgerald TJ,Johnson RC,Sykes JA,Miller JN

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty Borellia burgdorferi strains isolated from humans and ticks in Europe and the United States were analyzed by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis. Eleven genetic loci were characterized on the basis of the electrophoretic mobilities of their products. Ten loci were polymorphic. The average number of alleles per loc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boerlin P,Peter O,Bretz AG,Postic D,Baranton G,Piffaretti JC

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral treponemes are considered to be important in the development and progression of periodontal diseases. We investigated the mechanisms of recognition and activation of human gingival epithelial cells (HGEC) with the oral treponemes Treponema denticola, Treponema vincentii, and Treponema medium and their outer membr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Asai Y,Jinno T,Ogawa T

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plaque assay system for pathogenic rickettsiae, which utilizes primary chick embryo tissue cultures, is described. It proved to be a highly reproducible measure of infectiousness for Rickettsia rickettsi and R. typhi, which were employed in most studies; as well as for R. canada, R. prowazeki, R. sibirica, R. akari,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wike DA,Tallent G,Peacock MG,Ormsbee RA

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two virulence factors of Listeria monocytogenes, listeriolysin O (LLO) and phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC), mediate escape of this pathogen from the phagocytic vacuole of macrophages, thereby allowing the bacterium access to the host cell cytosol for growth and spread to neighboring cells. We ch...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wei Z,Schnupf P,Poussin MA,Zenewicz LA,Shen H,Goldfine H

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mycobacterium tuberculosis exported repetitive protein (Erp) is a virulence determinant required for growth in cultured macrophages and in vivo. To better understand the role of Erp in Mycobacterium pathogenesis, we generated a mutation in the erp homologue of Mycobacterium marinum, a close genetic relative of M. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cosma CL,Klein K,Kim R,Beery D,Ramakrishnan L

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies, we reported that fibronectin (FN) markedly enhances phagocytic uptake of antibody-coated group B streptococci (GBS) by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Furthermore, administration of FN along with a GBS type-specific monoclonal or polyclonal antibody to infected neonatal rats significantly enha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hill HR,Augustine NH,Williams PA,Brown EJ,Bohnsack JF

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effector mechanisms resulting from alternative complement pathway (ACP) activation cannot act efficiently against Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O3, as indicated by poor C3 to C9 consumption and by survival in EGTA (ethyleneglycoldiaminetetraacetic acid) Mg-serum. These results were not influenced by the lack or pre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wachter E,Brade V

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial lung macrophages from tuberculosis-susceptible I/St and tuberculosis-resistant A/Sn mice demonstrated significant constitutive differences in gene expression levels, whereas in vitro infection of these cells with Mycobacterium tuberculosis had only a modulatory impact on gene expression. We conclude that ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Orlova MO,Majorov KB,Lyadova IV,Eruslanov EB,M'lan CE,Greenwood CM,Schurr E,Apt AS

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of genetic resistance or "trypanotolerance" to infection with Trypanosoma congolense were investigated in two strains of mice. One strain C57BL, is outstandingly resistant to most stabilates of T. congolense and can survive for over 80 days, whereas CFLP, in common with most other strains, generally suc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whitelaw DD,Macaskill JA,Holmes PH,Jennings FW,Urquhart GM

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we identified five genes (Cj1321 to Cj1326, of which Cj1325 and Cj1326 are a single gene) in the O-linked flagellin glycosylation island that are highly prevalent in Campylobacter jejuni isolates from chickens. We report mutagenesis, functional, and structural data to confirm that this locus, and Cj1324 in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Howard SL,Jagannathan A,Soo EC,Hui JP,Aubry AJ,Ahmed I,Karlyshev A,Kelly JF,Jones MA,Stevens MP,Logan SM,Wren BW

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli strains that cause nonbloody diarrhea in infants are known to present three distinct patterns of adherence to epithelial cells, namely, localized (LA), diffuse (DA), and aggregative (AA) adherence. Strains with LA (typical Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli [EPEC]) are well recognized as a cause of sec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Scaletsky IC,Pedroso MZ,Oliva CA,Carvalho RL,Morais MB,Fagundes-Neto U

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results from studies using mice deficient in specific complement factors and clinical data on patients with an inherited deficiency of the classical complement pathway component C2 suggest that the classical pathway is vital for immunity to Streptococcus pneumoniae. However, the consequences of defects in classical pa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yuste J,Sen A,Truedsson L,Jönsson G,Tay LS,Hyams C,Baxendale HE,Goldblatt F,Botto M,Brown JS

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to further understand Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-lymphocyte interactions, we investigated a chain of events including: (i) EBV binding to human lymphocyte subpopulations; (ii) the earliest appearance of EBV-determined nuclear antigen (EBNA) in the lymphocytes after EBV infection; and (iii) establishment of cont...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Menezes J,Jondal M,Leibold W,Dorval G

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigenic competition between bovine gamma globulin (BGG) and endotoxin from a smooth strain (S-ET) and a rough (R-ET) heptoseless mutant strain of Salmonella minnesota was studied in mice. Both endotoxins acted as adjuvants for enhancing the antibody response to BGG. However, other work showed that the R-ET had minim...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leong DL,Rudbach JA

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonococci do not readily cause disseminated infection in mice. To simulate some of the conditions leading to disseminated gonococcal infection in women, we suspended gonococci in mucin plus hemoglobin and studied the development of gonococcal bacteremia. The mucin-hemoglobin mixture was used because the menstruum appe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Corbeil LB,Wunderlich AC,Corbeil RR,McCutchan JA,Ito JI Jr,Braude AI

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane fluidity of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) has a significant bearing on T-cell-stimulating ability and is dependent on the cholesterol content of the membrane. The relationship, if any, between membrane fluidity and defective cell-mediated immunity in visceral leishmaniasis has been investigated. Systemi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Banerjee S,Ghosh J,Sen S,Guha R,Dhar R,Ghosh M,Datta S,Raychaudhury B,Naskar K,Haldar AK,Lal CS,Pandey K,Das VN,Das P,Roy S

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori infection causes severe gastroduodenal diseases in humans. Its virulence is strongly increased by the presence of the cag pathogenicity island (cag PAI). It has been shown that CagA, a major antigen in humans, is translocated to the host cell via a secretion system encoded by the cag PAI. The roles...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Seydel A,Tasca E,Berti D,Rappuoli R,Del Giudice G,Montecucco C

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous lesions of the human sexually transmitted genital ulcer disease chancroid are characterized by the presence of intraepidermal pustules, keratinocyte cytopathology, and epidermal and dermal erosion. These lesions are replete with neutrophils, macrophages, and CD4(+) T cells and contain very low numbers of cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： San Mateo LR,Toffer KL,Orndorff PE,Kawula TH

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated immune (CMI) responses and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) have been shown to be essential in acquired protection against Cryptococcus neoformans. Induction of a protective anticryptococcal CMI response includes increases in dendritic cells (DC) and activated CD4(+) T cells in draining lymph node...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bauman SK,Huffnagle GB,Murphy JW

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00