Streptococcus pneumoniae autolysis prevents phagocytosis and production of phagocyte-activating cytokines.

abstract：:Recent studies have established the importance of neutrophils in innate resistance to Listeria monocytogenes infection in mice. The purpose of this study was to determine the importance of neutrophils in acquired resistance to L. monocytogenes infection. Previously immunized mice that were depleted of neutrophils by a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Czuprynski CJ,Brown JF,Wagner RD,Steinberg H

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitinases of pathogens have been proposed as potential targets of vaccines or specific inhibitors. We studied the genomic organization, transcript levels, developmental expression, and biological function of chitinases in the rodent filarial nematode Acanthocheilonema viteae, a model organism for human-pathogenic fil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tachu B,Pillai S,Lucius R,Pogonka T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, a causative agent of Lyme borreliosis, is a zoonotic pathogen that survives in nutrient-limited environments within a tick, prior to transmission to its mammalian host. Survival under these prolonged nutrient-limited conditions is thought to be similar to survival during stationary phase, which i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fazzino L,Tilly K,Dulebohn DP,Rosa PA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protamines (salmine prepared from sperm DNA of salmon and clupeine from herring sperm), which are basic peptides rich in arginine, were found to inhibit the proteolytic activity of arginine-specific cysteine protease (RC-protease) from Porphyromonas gingivalis. Lineweaver-Burk plot analysis revealed that the protamine...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kontani M,Amano A,Nakamura T,Nakagawa I,Kawabata S,Hamada S

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a mouse model of thermal injury, an increase in burn size produced a decrease in the ratio of Candida albicans cells adherent to the marginal zone to those adherent to the white pulp of the spleen, an increase in the number of Candida cells in the circulation and in the kidneys, and an increase in mortality. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Neely AN,Orloff MM,Holder IA,Healy DP

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonvertebrate model hosts represent valuable tools for the study of host-pathogen interactions because they facilitate the identification of bacterial virulence factors and allow the discovery of novel components involved in host innate immune responses. In this report, we determined that the greater wax moth caterpil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miyata S,Casey M,Frank DW,Ausubel FM,Drenkard E

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a vaccine is essential for the elimination of malaria. However, despite many years of effort, a successful vaccine has not been achieved. Most subunit vaccine candidates tested in clinical trials have provided limited efficacy, and thus attenuated whole-parasite vaccines are now receiving close scru...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Raja AI,Cai Y,Reiman JM,Groves P,Chakravarty S,McPhun V,Doolan DL,Cockburn I,Hoffman SL,Stanisic DI,Good MF

更新日期：2016-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterile sonic-treated materials of pneumococci grown in media containing N-acetylmannosamine as the carbohydrate source were lethal for mice. Purification of the toxic factor led to its identification as the enzyme neuraminidase. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kelly R,Greiff D

更新日期：1970-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bartonella henselae is a recently recognized pathogenic bacterium associated with cat scratch disease, bacillary angiomatosis, and bacillary peliosis. This study describes the cloning, sequencing, and characterization of an antigenic autotransporter gene from B. henselae. A cloned 6.0-kb BclI-EcoRI DNA fragment expres...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Litwin CM,Rawlins ML,Swenson EM

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 14 is one of the common types isolated from patients of all ages with infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Its capsular polysaccharide (Pn14) is composed of a neutrally charged tetrasaccharide repeat unit. Pn14 does not elicit protective levels of antibodies in infants and children and is a less than op...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schneerson R,Levi L,Robbins JB,Bryla DM,Schiffman G,Lagergard T

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minicells are small, anucleate cells resulting from aberrant cell divisions at the polar ends of bacilli. We have isolated minicell-producing mutant strains of Shigella flexneri 2a (MC-I) and Shigella dysenteriae 1 (MC-V) after mutagenesis with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine. Microscopically, broth cultures of M...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gemski P,Griffin DE

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural heterogeneity in the structure of the lipid A portion of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) produces differential effects on the innate immune response. Gram-negative bacterial species produce LPS structures that differ from the classic endotoxic LPS structures. These differences include hypoacylation and hypophosphoryl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chilton PM,Hadel DM,To TT,Mitchell TC,Darveau RP

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of HeLa cells to Mycoplasma pneumoniae-induced injury was examined. Infections were initiated with relatively low mycoplasma doses, carried out in a culture medium incapable of supporting M. pneumoniae replication in the absence of host cells, and monitored for up to 10 days. Under these conditions,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krause DC,Chen YY

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella abortus is a class III zoonotic bacterial pathogen able to survive and replicate inside host cells, including macrophages. Here we report a multidimensional transposon sequencing analysis to identify genes essential for Brucella abortus growth in rich medium and replication in RAW 264.7 macrophages. The const...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sternon JF,Godessart P,Gonçalves de Freitas R,Van der Henst M,Poncin K,Francis N,Willemart K,Christen M,Christen B,Letesson JJ,De Bolle X

更新日期：2018-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we found that serum inhibitory activity against Blastomyces dermatitidis was principally mediated by albumin. This was confirmed in experiments using albumin from several mammalian species. Analbuminemic rat serum did not inhibit B. dermatitidis growth in vivo; however, the addition of albumin restored i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giles S,Czuprynski C

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were carried out to determine whether treatment of mice with the synthetic adjuvant muramyl dipeptide afforded any resistance to infection with the obligate intracellular protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. Marked resistance to lethal challenge infection was observed in CBA but not C57BL/6 mice pretreated with muramy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krahenbuhl JL,Sharma SD,Ferraresi RW,Remington JS

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conidia ingested by resident macrophages had an enhanced percentage of transformation to yeast cells compared with those in culture medium without macrophages. The yeast cells subsequently grew intracellularly by budding. Macrophages treated with cytokines from antigen-stimulated spleen cells from immunized mice signi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cano LE,Brummer E,Stevens DA,Restrepo A

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During bacterial infection of the bovine mammary gland, large numbers of leukocytes migrate into the udder, resulting in the establishment of a host response against the pathogen. Currently, the specific leukocyte populations mediating this immune response are not well defined. In the studies described here, we analyz...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Soltys J,Quinn MT

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma penetrans adhered to cultured human cells, forming clusters that localized to specific areas of the host cell surface. Adherence and cluster formation were inhibited by anti-M. penetrans antibodies, suggesting the involvement of specific adhesin-receptor interactions. Ultrastructural studies showed that aft...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Girón JA,Lange M,Baseman JB

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broth culture supernatants from Tox+ Helicobacter pylori strains induce vacuolation of HeLa cells in vitro and contain VacA in concentrations that are higher than those found in supernatants from Tox- H. pylori strains. To investigate the basis for this phenomenon, we analyzed the transcription of the vacuolating cyto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Forsyth MH,Atherton JC,Blaser MJ,Cover TL

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large-scale DNA vaccination trial was performed with sheep to investigate whether an antigen targeted by CTLA-4 enhanced and accelerated the humoral immune response. Vaccination with genetically detoxified phospholipase D (DeltaPLD) has been shown to be effective, at least partially, against Corynebacterium pseudotu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chaplin PJ,De Rose R,Boyle JS,McWaters P,Kelly J,Tennent JM,Lew AM,Scheerlinck JP

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligopeptides play important roles in bacterial nutrition and signaling. Using sequences from the available genome database for Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv, the oligopeptide permease operon (oppBCDA) of Mycobacterium bovis BCG was cloned from a cosmid library. An opp mutant strain was constructed by homologous re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Green RM,Seth A,Connell ND

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat-labile enterotoxins from Escherichia coli strains of porcine and human origin polymerize on heating to form high-molecular-weight aggregates, "procoligenoids," analogous to procholeragenoid derived from the cholera enterotoxin. This aggregation is accompanied by loss of biological activity (toxicity). Further hea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Finkelstein RA,Sciortino CV,Rieke LC,Burks MF,Boesman-Finkelstein M

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sendai virus hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) and fusion (F) glycoproteins, F and HN, were separated from Triton X-100- or Nonidet P-40-solubilized envelopes as unadsorbed and eluted fractions, respectively, by using glutaralde-hyde-treated chicken erythrocytes. These separated glycoproteins were biologically active. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hosaka Y

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the rise and fall in circulating tetanus antitoxin in a group of 15 adults after basic and booster immunization indicates that although individuals vary greatly in their responsiveness to toxoid, the falloff in antitoxin appears to be fractionally constant for each individual, and over periods of 5 to 6 yea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Trinca JC

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen of 22 female mice (CF1 strain) inoculated intragastrically with Treponema hyodysenteriae developed cecal and colonic lesions consisting of catarrhal inflammation, edema, and occasional hemorrhage. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Joens LA,Glock RD

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unique permissiveness of A/J mouse macrophages for replication of Legionella pneumophila is caused by a deficiency in the Nod-like receptor (NLR) protein and intracellular sensor for L. pneumophila flagellin (Naip5). The signaling pathways and proteins activated by Naip5 sensing in macrophages were investigated. T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fortier A,Doiron K,Saleh M,Grinstein S,Gros P

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter mustelae is a urease-rich bacterium associated with gastritis in ferrets. The ureases of H. mustelae and Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium implicated in human gastritis, share many characteristics. Helicobacter sp. ureases appear to be unique among bacterial enzymes in exhibiting submillimolar Km values an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dunn BE,Sung CC,Taylor NS,Fox JG

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is described for isolating a high-molecular-weight polysaccharide (PS) from the slime of Pseudomonas aeruginosa immunotype 1. The resultant material, obtained from the void volume of a Sephadex G-100 column, was composed of carbohydrate and water. No lipopolysaccharide (LPS), 2-keto-3-deoxyoctonoate, hepto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pier GB,Sidberry HF,Zolyomi S,Sadoff JC

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rubella virus was capable of replicating in both unstimulated and phytohemagglutinin-stimulated cultures of human mononuclear blood cells. Monocyte-derived macrophages were the main cell type responsible for viral replication. The susceptibility of macrophages increased during cultivation. Phytohemagglutinin-stimulate...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van der Logt JT,van Loon AM,van der Veen J

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00