Characterization of virulence plasmid diversity among Clostridium perfringens type B isolates.

abstract：:An antigenically distinct serotype, type IV, has recently been added to the recognized serotypes of group B streptococci (GBS). We isolated and purified the capsular polysaccharide antigen from a prototype type IV GBS strain. The type IV capsular polysaccharide formed a precipitin line with rabbit antiserum to type IV...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wessels MR,Benedí WJ,Jennings HJ,Michon F,DiFabio JL,Kasper DL

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly-N-acetyl-glucosamine (PNAG) is a staphylococcal surface polysaccharide influencing biofilm formation that is also under investigation for its vaccine potential. Antibodies that bind to PNAG with either low (<15%) or high (>90%) levels of acetate are superior at opsonic and protective activity compared with antibo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cerca N,Jefferson KK,Maira-Litrán T,Pier DB,Kelly-Quintos C,Goldmann DA,Azeredo J,Pier GB

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied seven strains of group G streptococci isolated from clinically severe bacteremic infections in six intravenous drug abusers. These group G strains multiplied luxuriantly in fresh human blood. On electron microscopy, they exhibited surface fibrillae similar to those observed in M-protein-rich group A strepto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bisno AL,Craven DE,McCabe WR

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact tissues are relatively resistant to Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced disease, and injury predisposes tissue to infection. Intact epithelia contain polarized cells that have distinct apical and basolateral membranes with unique lipids and proteins. In this study, the role of cell polarity in epithelial cell suscep...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fleiszig SM,Evans DJ,Do N,Vallas V,Shin S,Mostov KE

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of nitric oxide (NO) by activated macrophages is believed to control mycobacterial infection in the murine system. In this study we examined the effect of Mycobacterium bovis BCG infection on the L-arginine-dependent NO pathway in J774.1 murine macrophages. We have confirmed previous results by demonstr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peteroy-Kelly M,Venketaraman V,Connell ND

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsular types 5 and 8, which account for about 70% of Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from the blood of patients, resisted in vitro phagocytosis by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN). Antisera and monoclonal antibody to type 5 and 8 capsular polysaccharides (CPS) induced type-specific in vitro phagocytos...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karakawa WW,Sutton A,Schneerson R,Karpas A,Vann WF

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absolute requirement for elemental iron and the porphyrin nucleus for growth of Haemophilus influenzae led us to investigate the role of iron and hemin in regulation of expression of the H. influenzae transferrin receptor. H. influenzae type b strain H1689 was grown in brain heart infusion broth supplemented with ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Morton DJ,Musser JM,Stull TL

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic peptides and murine monoclonal antibodies were used to map cross-reactive chlamydial epitopes. A species-specific epitope in the central region of variable sequence region 4 abuts the amino-terminal end of a B-serogroup-specific or F/G-serogroup-specific epitope, which in turn abuts known serovar-specific ep...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Batteiger BE,Lin PM,Jones RB,Van Der Pol BJ

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet microbicidal proteins (PMPs) are small, cationic peptides which possess potent microbicidal activities against common bloodstream pathogens, such as Staphylococcus aureus. We previously showed that S. aureus strains exhibiting resistance to thrombin-induced PMP (tPMP-1) in vitro have an enhanced capacity to c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bayer AS,Prasad R,Chandra J,Koul A,Smriti M,Varma A,Skurray RA,Firth N,Brown MH,Koo SP,Yeaman MR

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of bacterial pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis in children. Human immunity to pneumococcal infections has been assumed to depend on anticapsular antibodies. However, recent findings from murine models suggest that alternative mechanisms, dependent on T helper cells, are also...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Olliver M,Hiew J,Mellroth P,Henriques-Normark B,Bergman P

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of oral immunization to interfere with the establishment of infection with Helicobacter felis was examined. Groups of Swiss Webster mice were immunized orally with 250 micrograms of Helicobacter pylori recombinant urease (rUrease) and 10 micrograms of cholera toxin (CT) adjuvant, 1 mg of H. felis sonicate ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pappo J,Thomas WD Jr,Kabok Z,Taylor NS,Murphy JC,Fox JG

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive fungal infections represent an increasing problem associated with high mortality. The present study was undertaken to identify leukocyte subsets that are activated by hyphal fragments in a whole-human-blood model, as well as to examine the involvement of CD14 and Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in activation of mo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang JE,Warris A,Ellingsen EA,Jørgensen PF,Flo TH,Espevik T,Solberg R,Verweij PE,Aasen AO

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bile aspirated from chicken gall bladders was found to contain substances neutralizing Newcastle disease virus (NDV). Nonspecific factors were present in the bile, probably the bile acids, which caused a reduction in the infectivity of the virus. Specific anti-NDV activity was found in the bile of birds that had been ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee JS,Hanson RP

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 95-kDa protein was isolated from Staphylococcus saprophyticus 7108 grown on dialysis membranes placed on the surface of brain heart infusion agar. Strain CCM883 did not produce this protein. Ultrathin sections revealed the presence of very thin, tuftlike, 50- to 75-nm-long structures on the surface of strain 7108, w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gatermann S,Kreft B,Marre R,Wanner G

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the roles of the infectious agent and the host in the pathogensis of Salmonella-associated arthritis (SAA), 1O(3) to 10(6) heat-killed Salmonella enteritidis were injected directly into involved carpal joints in normal and actively immunized rats and in hosts adoptively immunized by the intravenous transfe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Volkman A,Collins FM

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strategies to limit complement deposition on Streptococcus pneumoniae are established as virulence features for invasive disease, but their role in respiratory tract infection requires further analysis. We evaluated complement C3 protein deposition on discordant S. pneumoniae isolates of the same serotype (6A) and the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sabharwal V,Ram S,Figueira M,Park IH,Pelton SI

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selection of influenza B virus recombinants from plaques in bovine kidney cell monolayers is described. Two sets of recombinants were each derived from parents of high and low virulence for humans, respectively. Recombination frequency was apparently high, and reassortment of genes made it possible to obtain atten...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Beare AS,Sherwood JE,Callow KA,Craig JW

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological activity of C-ASWS, an alkali-soluble, water-soluble cell wall antigen isolated from mycelial-phase cells of Coccidioides immitis, was compared with that of a commercial coccidioidin (CDN; Cutter Laboratories); CDN-TS, a toluene-induced lysate of mycelial-phase cells; and spherulin, a spherule-derived e...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cox RA,Brummer E,Lecara G

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current vaccination against Streptococcus pneumoniae uses vaccines based on capsular polysaccharides from selected serotypes and has led to nonvaccine serotype replacement disease. We have investigated an alternative serotype-independent approach, using multiple-antigen vaccines (MAV) prepared from S. pneumoniae TIGR4...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chan WY,Entwisle C,Ercoli G,Ramos-Sevillano E,McIlgorm A,Cecchini P,Bailey C,Lam O,Whiting G,Green N,Goldblatt D,Wheeler JX,Brown JS

更新日期：2019-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular cysteine protease from Streptococcus pyogenes is a virulence factor that plays a significant role in host-pathogen interaction. Streptococcal protease is expressed as an inactive 40-kDa precursor that is autocatalytically converted into a 28-kDa mature (active) enzyme. Replacement of the single cyste...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Matsuka YV,Pillai S,Gubba S,Musser JM,Olmsted SB

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent development of acellular pertussis vaccines has been a significant improvement in the conventional whole-cell diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus toxoid vaccines, but high production costs will limit its widespread use in developing countries. Since Mycobacterium bovis BCG vaccination against tuberculosis is used ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nascimento IP,Dias WO,Mazzantini RP,Miyaji EN,Gamberini M,Quintilio W,Gebara VC,Cardoso DF,Ho PL,Raw I,Winter N,Gicquel B,Rappuoli R,Leite LC

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the ability of two overlapping fragments of staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB), which encompass the whole toxin, to induce protection and also examined if passive transfer of chicken anti-SEB antibodies raised against the holotoxin could protect rhesus monkeys against aerosolized SEB. Although both fra...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： LeClaire RD,Hunt RE,Bavari S

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cell interactions with pathogenic microbes initiate and direct the development of subsequent adaptive responses. The protozoan pathogen Giardia lamblia infects the mammalian small intestine, leading to nutrient malabsorption and diarrhea but rarely causing inflammation. In order to begin to understand how th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kamda JD,Singer SM

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:Edema disease (ED) of weanling pigs is caused by an infection with Escherichia coli that produces Shiga-like toxin II variant (SLT-IIv). Pathology identical to that caused by ED can be duplicated in pigs that are injected with less than 10 ng of purified SLT-IIv per kg of body weight. Therefore, SLT-IIv was mutated to...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gordon VM,Whipp SC,Moon HW,O'Brien AD,Samuel JE

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A solid-phase radioimmunoassay, applying whole Mycobacterium leprae as antigen and radiolabeled protein A from Staphylococcus aureus as antibody-detecting reagent, was used for the determination of specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM antibody responses in leprosy patients. High IgG anti-M. leprae antibody levels w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Touw J,Langendijk EM,Stoner GL,Belehu A

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis (Corynebacterium ovis) were examined for the production of diphtheria toxin. A majority of C. ulcerans strains (25 of 37) and 1 C. pseudotuberculosis strain (1 of 14) gave a positive Elek test for diphtheria toxin, and for all strains but 1, pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Groman N,Schiller J,Russell J

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant clinical complication of pulmonary infections with Klebsiella pneumoniae is peripheral blood dissemination, resulting in a systemic infection concurrent with the localized pulmonary infection. In this context, little is known about the role of tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 (TNFR1)-mediated innate immu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moore TA,Perry ML,Getsoian AG,Monteleon CL,Cogen AL,Standiford TJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is associated with inhibition of cell-mediated immunity and downregulation of the expression of costimulatory molecules required for T-cell activation. When IL-10-deficient (IL-10KO) mice are infected with Toxoplasma gondii, they succumb to a T-cell-mediated shock-like reaction characterized by ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Villegas EN,Wille U,Craig L,Linsley PS,Rennick DM,Peach R,Hunter CA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumonia due to Gram-negative bacteria is associated with high mortality. Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative bacterium that is associated with hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia. Bacteria have been described to release outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) that are capable of mediating systemic in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marion CR,Lee J,Sharma L,Park KS,Lee C,Liu W,Liu P,Feng J,Gho YS,Dela Cruz CS

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00