Campylobacter jejuni glycosylation island important in cell charge, legionaminic acid biosynthesis, and colonization of chickens.

abstract：:Many pathogenic Escherichia coli produce the toxin alpha-hemolysin (Hly), and lipopolysaccharide (LPS), interleukin-1 (IL-1), and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) have all been recognized as important effector molecules during infections by gram-negative organisms. Despite the characterization of many in vitro effects of h...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gleason TG,Houlgrave CW,May AK,Crabtree TD,Sawyer RG,Denham W,Norman JG,Pruett TL

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillary angiomatosis (BA), one of the many clinical manifestations resulting from infection with the facultative intracellular bacterium Bartonella henselae, is characterized by angiogenic lesions. Macrophages have been identified as important effector cells contributing to the angiogenic process during B. henselae ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McCord AM,Burgess AW,Whaley MJ,Anderson BE

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:Four glycoproteins of Treponema pallidum were identified by intrinsic [14C]glucosamine labeling. Only two glycoproteins were demonstrated in T. phagedenis biotype Reiter with the same technique. Glycoproteins of both treponemes were characterized as antigens and shown to be localized within the outer membranes of the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moskophidis M,Müller F

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a gram-negative bacillus that is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in immunosuppressed patients, burn patients, and patients with cystic fibrosis. Although immunity to these bacteria has been associated with serum antibody, more recent evidence suggests that T-cell-mediated immunity ma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Porwoll JM,Gebel HM,Rodey GE,Markham RB

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American Heart Association supports an association between periodontal diseases and atherosclerosis but not a causal association. This study explores the use of the integrin β6(-/-) mouse model to study the causality. We investigated the ability of a polymicrobial consortium of Porphyromonas gingivalis, Treponema ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Velsko IM,Chukkapalli SS,Rivera-Kweh MF,Zheng D,Aukhil I,Lucas AR,Larjava H,Kesavalu L

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that activating-type Fc receptors for immunoglobulin G (FcgammaR), such as FcgammaRI and FcgammaRIII, are essential for inducing inflammatory responses. On the other hand, a unique inhibitory FcgammaR, FcgammaRIIB, inhibits intracellular signaling upon engagement of immunoglobulin G-immune compl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Henriques-Pons A,Olivieri BP,Oliveira GM,Daëron M,de Araújo-Jorge TC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual strains of Staphylococcus aureus have different capacities to become internalized by osteoblasts. Here we report that the levels of sigma(B) expressed by S. aureus correlate with the capacity of this bacterium to be internalized by osteoblasts. However, sigma(B) is not essential for internalization and does...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nair SP,Bischoff M,Senn MM,Berger-Bächi B

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GNA33 is a membrane-bound lipoprotein with murein hydrolase activity that is present in all Neisseria species and well conserved in different meningococcal isolates. The protein shows 33% identity to a lytic transglycolase (MltA) from Escherichia coli and has been shown to be involved in the degradation of both insolu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Adu-Bobie J,Lupetti P,Brunelli B,Granoff D,Norais N,Ferrari G,Grandi G,Rappuoli R,Pizza M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Onchocerca volvulus, a human parasitic nematode, is the third leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. This study describes the molecular cloning of a novel superoxide dismutase (SOD) from the parasite. This putative O. volvulus extracellular SOD (OvEcSOD) is 628 nucleotides (nt) long, including a 22-nt 5' sp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： James ER,McLean DC Jr,Perler F

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the ability of outer membrane vesicle (OMV) vaccines from Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B to induce vaccine-specific antibody and spleen cell proliferative responses in mice after being administered intranasally (i.n.) and/or subcutaneously (s.c.). A series of four weekly i.n. doses (25 microg) with...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bakke H,Lie K,Haugen IL,Korsvold GE,Høiby EA,Naess LM,Holst J,Aaberge IS,Oftung F,Haneberg B

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonhuman primate model for malaria vaccine development allowing reliable, stringent sporozoite challenge and evaluation of both cellular and antibody responses is needed. We therefore constructed a multicomponent, multistage DNA vaccine for the simian malaria species Plasmodium knowlesi including two preerythrocytic...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogers WO,Baird JK,Kumar A,Tine JA,Weiss W,Aguiar JC,Gowda K,Gwadz R,Kumar S,Gold M,Hoffman SL

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is a major cause of human inflammatory enteritis. During the course of human disease numerous proinflammatory cytokines are produced. Little is known, however, about the cytokine responses produced during the interaction of this bacterium with the avian host. Campylobacter has been considered a co...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Smith CK,Kaiser P,Rothwell L,Humphrey T,Barrow PA,Jones MA

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody rises to various virus subcomponents were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in the paired sera of volunteers experimentally infected with human coronavirus 229E group viruses. Most of the antibody made during infection was directed against the virus surface projections, with only small amounts of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Macnaughton MR,Hasony HJ,Madge MH,Reed SE

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructural organization of Mycoplasma pneumoniae membranes and spatial relationships of this pathogen to epithelial cells in tracheal organ cultures were examined ultrastructurally by freeze-fracture techniques. Areas of morphologically distinct cell membrane variability characterized by membrane blebs and al...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carson JL,Collier AM,Hu SC

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of CD19(+) CD5(+) and CD19(+) CD5(-) B cell subpopulations in the antibody response to pneumococcal capsular polysaccharides (caps-PSs) is controversial. In the present study, we evaluated the role of human CD19(+) CD5(+) and CD19(+) CD5(-) cell populations in the serotype-specific antibody response to caps-P...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moens L,Verbinnen B,Covens K,Wuyts G,Johnson M,Roalfe L,Goldblatt D,Meyts I,Bossuyt X

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were rendered deficient in B-cell activity by treatment with anti-mu antibody from birth. These animals were then infected intranasally with murine Chlamydia trachomatis (murine pneumonitis agent [MoPn]). They produced neither local nor systemic antibody to MoPn but had intact delayed-type hypersensitivity to MoP...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Williams DM,Grubbs B,Schachter J

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, the natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 1 gene, Nramp1, plays a major role in resistance to mycobacterial infections. Chesapeake Bay striped bass (Morone saxatilis) is currently experiencing an epizootic of mycobacteriosis that threatens the health of this ecologically and economically importa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Burge EJ,Gauthier DT,Ottinger CA,Van Veld PA

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcal group A, B, and C carbohydrates were analyzed by counterimmunoelectrophoresis, immunoelectrophoresis, and inhibition of immunoprecipitation. Extracts of streptococci group A or C were shown by counterimmunoelectrophoresis to contain both anodic and cathodic migrating components. In immunoelectrophoresis,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fung JC,Wicher K,McCarty M

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Killing of Salmonella minnesota and Salmonella typhimurium S and R strains in serum of nonimmune humans and guinea pigs was drastically reduced in the selective absence of C1q, C1r, Ca2+, C4, or C2, the components of the classical complement pathway. Binding of C1 and C1q to the S form and six different core-deficient...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clas F,Loos M

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the role of the hepatobiliary system in the early pathogenesis of Salmonella enteritidis infection was investigated in a rat model. Intravenous (i.v.) challenge with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) has previously been shown to enhance the translocation of normal gut flora. We first confirmed that LPS can simil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Islam AF,Moss ND,Dai Y,Smith MS,Collins AM,Jackson GD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the murine model of urinary tract infections (UTI), cystitis by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) occurs through an intimate relationship with the bladder superficial umbrella cell entailing cycles of adherence, invasion, intracellular bacterial community (IBC) formation, and dispersal (fluxing) from the intrac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wright KJ,Seed PC,Hultgren SJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 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 ultrastructural appearance of the "halozone" formed at the interface between the spotted fever agent Rickettsia rickettsii and the cytoplasm of persistently infected cultured vole cells (Microtus pennsylvanicus) was studied by transmission electron microscopy. In sections of epoxy-embedded specimens stained with u...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Todd WJ,Burgdorfer W,Wray GP

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum antibody response to proteins encoded by the virulence-associated plasmid of Shigella flexneri was determined in monkeys challenged with virulent S. flexneri serotype 2a. With water-extractable antigen in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, a significant increase in antibody titer against proteins from a p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Oaks EV,Hale TL,Formal SB

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus epidermidis is a leading cause of infections associated with indwelling medical devices, including prosthetic joint infection. While biofilm formation is assumed to be the main mechanism underlying the chronic infections S. epidermidis causes, we hypothesized that S. epidermidis also evades immune killi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Perez K,Patel R

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Human systemic antibody levels to oral members of the Bacteroides genus were assessed with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Antibody levels to B. gingivalis, two homology groups of B. intermedius, B. melaninogenicus, B. denticola, B. loescheii, B. corporis, B. oralis, B. buccae, and B. gracilis were determined in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ebersole JL,Taubman MA,Smith DJ,Frey DE

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 is an important pathogen of humans. Cattle are most frequently identified as the primary source of infection, and therefore, reduction in E. coli O157:H7 prevalence in cattle by vaccination represents an attractive strategy for reducing the incidence of human disease. H7 flagella have been imp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McNeilly TN,Naylor SW,Mahajan A,Mitchell MC,McAteer S,Deane D,Smith DG,Low JC,Gally DL,Huntley JF

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified a gene (atlA) encoding autolytic activity from Streptococcus mutans Xc. The AtlA protein predicted to be encoded by atlA is composed of 979 amino acids with a molecular weight of 107,279 and has a conserved beta-1,4-N-acetylmuramidase (lysozyme) domain in the C-terminal portion. Sodium dodecyl sulfate ex...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shibata Y,Kawada M,Nakano Y,Toyoshima K,Yamashita Y

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intravascular trematode Schistosoma mansoni is a causative agent of schistosomiasis, a disease that constitutes a major health problem globally. In this study we cloned and characterized the schistosome tegumental phosphodiesterase SmNPP-5 and evaluated its role in parasite virulence. SmNPP-5 is a 52.5-kDa protein...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bhardwaj R,Krautz-Peterson G,Da'dara A,Tzipori S,Skelly PJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00