Molecular cloning, biochemical characterization, and partial protective immunity of the heme-binding glutathione S-transferases from the human hookworm Necator americanus.

abstract：:Group A streptococci of M protein type 5 have been epidemiologically related to acute rheumatic fever in a number of reported outbreaks. Preliminary bacteriological evidence suggests that M5 may be an important "rheumatogenic" type in Santiago, Chile. To assess further the relationship of this streptococcal serotype t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bisno AL,Berrios X,Quesney F,Monroe DM Jr,Dale JB,Beachey EH

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We utilized magnetic resonance imaging to visualize lesions in the lungs of guinea pigs infected by low-dose aerosol exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Lesions were prominent in such images, and colorized three-dimensional reconstructions of images revealed a very uniform distribution in the lungs. Lesion numbers...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kraft SL,Dailey D,Kovach M,Stasiak KL,Bennett J,McFarland CT,McMurray DN,Izzo AA,Orme IM,Basaraba RJ

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans NIH 409 was cultured in a defined medium containing D-[1-13C]xylose (Xyl), D-[1-13C]mannose (Man), or D-[1-13C]mannitol as the sole carbon source. The distribution of 13C in the Man, Xyl, glucuronic acid (GlcA), and O-acetyl constituents of native and de-O-acetylated glucuronoxylomannan (GXM) w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cherniak R,O'Neill EB,Sheng S

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoteichoic acids (LTAs) belong to the immunostimulatory class of molecules of gram-positive bacteria (GPB). Previous investigations showed that the macrophage scavenger receptor (SR), a glycosylated trimeric transmembrane protein, binds directly to many GPB, possibly via LTA. SR binding to other ligands is dependent...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Greenberg JW,Fischer W,Joiner KA

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-presenting cells (APCs) are key players in the induction and regulation of immune responses. In Plasmodium falciparum malaria, determination of which cells and pathways are activated in the network of APCs remains elusive. We therefore investigated the effects of a controlled human malaria infection in healthy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Teirlinck AC,Roestenberg M,Bijker EM,Hoffman SL,Sauerwein RW,Scholzen A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinically isolated strain of polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN)-resistant Pseudomonas was found to produce an extracellular substance (PMN inhibitor) that inhibits the phagocytic and killing activities of PMN. The PMN inhibitor was purified from culture filtrates by precipitation with (NH4)2SO4 and chromatography on...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nonoyama S,Kojo H,Mine Y,Nishida M,Goto S,Kuwahara S

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, is able to persistently infect humans and animals for months or years in the presence of an active immune response. It is not known how the organisms survive immune attack in the mammalian host. vlsE, a gene localized near one end of linear plasmid lp28-1 and encoding a su...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang JR,Norris SJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) strains are a diverse group of organisms capable of causing severe gastrointestinal disease in humans. Within the STEC family, eae-positive STEC strains, particularly those belonging to serogroups O157 and O111, appear to have greater virulence for humans. However, in spite of b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Paton AW,Paton JC

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a fermentative microorganism and causes serious diseases in humans, including otitis media, bacteremia, meningitis, and pneumonia. However, the mechanisms enabling pneumococcal survival in the host and causing disease in different tissues are incompletely understood. The available evidence ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gaspar P,Al-Bayati FA,Andrew PW,Neves AR,Yesilkaya H

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The urease gene of Staphylococcus saprophyticus CCM883 was cloned and expressed in Staphylococcus carnosus TM300. In vitro translation of the cloned DNA sequences revealed six polypeptides (of 70, 47, 29, 27, 20, and 17 kilodaltons) that were associated with enzyme activity. Introduction of the cloned genes into a ure...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gatermann S,Marre R

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis is associated with high levels of morbidity, decreased production, and early culling in dairy cattle. Clinical symptoms of Johne's disease include persistent diarrhea, inappetence, and resultant weight loss due to chronic inflammation of the small intestine. A...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Aho AD,McNulty AM,Coussens PM

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the process of phagocytosis, human leukocytes emit a burst of luminescence which can be measured in a liquid scintillation spectrometer. The enzyme superoxide dismutase, which removes superoxide anions (O(2.)), inhibited this chemiluminescence by 70% at a concentration of 100 mug/ml. The enzyme did not inhibit ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Webb LS,Keele BB Jr,Johnston RB Jr

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic diversity and relationships among 109 isolates of Neisseria meningitidis obtained from throat cultures of healthy individuals in Norway in 1984 were assessed by analyzing electrophoretically demonstrable allelic variation at 15 enzyme-encoding chromosomal genes. Seventy-eight distinctive electrophoretic types ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Caugant DA,Kristiansen BE,Frøholm LO,Bøvre K,Selander RK

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant 23-kDa protein (rBPI23) derived from human bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) possesses potent endotoxin-neutralizing abilities in vitro and in vivo. Binding of rBPI23 to those endotoxins (lipopolysaccharides [LPSs]) encountered clinically would be a prerequisite for efficacy in decreasin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Appelmelk BJ,An YQ,Thijs BG,MacLaren DM,de Graaff J

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional adult mice were pretreated with metronidazole to make their intestinal tracts receptive to colonization by Clostridium botulinum. These mice, in groups of 10, were fed 0 (controls), 10(2), 10(3), 10(4), or 10(5) C. botulinum type B spores and were placed for observation in filter-lid cages whose screen fl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang Y,Sugiyama H

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current evidence indicates that Mycobacterium avium infection in patients with AIDS is acquired mostly through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and that M. avium binds to and invades GI mucosal cells in vitro. Since M. avium is exposed to specific environmental conditions in the GI tract such as changes in pH, low oxyg...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bermudez LE,Petrofsky M,Goodman J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the ability of two species of streptococci isolated from the human oral cavity (Streptococcus mutans NCTC 10449 and Streptococcus sobrinus SL-1) to metabolize N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc), a naturally occurring amino sugar present in saliva and human glycoproteins, when provided as the sole fermen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Homer KA,Patel R,Beighton D

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An asd-stabilized plasmid carrying enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli cfaABCE genes was constructed and called pJGX15C-asd+. Expression of colonization factor antigen I (CFA/I) by this plasmid occurs independently of the cfaABCE positive regulator cfaR in attenuated Salmonella delta aro delta asd strain H683 and nonpath...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wu S,Pascual DW,VanCott JL,McGhee JR,Maneval DR Jr,Levine MM,Hone DM

更新日期：1995-12-01 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：:A Pasteurella haemolytica mutant incapable of producing leukotoxin was created by allelic replacement. Concentrated culture supernatants from wild-type P. haemolytica, but not from the mutant, contained the 102-kDa leukotoxin protein and lysed bovine lymphoma cells and sheep erythrocytes. Wild-type P. haemolytica demo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murphy GL,Whitworth LC,Clinkenbeard KD,Clinkenbeard PA

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this communication, we examine the specificity of anti-herpes simplex virus (HSV) cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). Serological studies of the two related HSV serotypes (HSV-1 and HSV-2) have revealed both type-specific and cross-reactive antigenic determinants in the viral envelope and on the surface of infected cell...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eberle R,Russell RG,Rouse BT

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the alternative sigma factor sigma(B) in Staphylococcus epidermidis was investigated by the construction, complementation, and characterization of a sigB deletion mutant. Electrophoretic analyses confirmed a profound influence of sigma(B) on the expression of exoproteins and cytoplasmic proteins. Detailed ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kies S,Otto M,Vuong C,Götz F

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of various strains of rats to produce interferon in response to polyriboinosinic-polyribocytodilic acid was investigated. ACI and DA (RT-1a), BN (RT-1n), Buffalo (RT-1b), August (RT-1c), and GH (RT-1l) strains produced low levels of interferon in response to intraperitoneal administration of polyriboinosin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Davis CT,Blankenhorn EP,Murasko DM

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in periodontal status are associated with shifts in the composition of the bacterial community in the periodontal pocket. The relative abundances of several newly recognized microbial species, including Filifactor alocis, as-yet-unculturable organisms, and other fastidious organisms have raised questions on th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Aruni AW,Zhang K,Dou Y,Fletcher H

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacteria have been shown to activate human natural killer (NK) cells. In this report, we show that the gram-positive bacterium Listeria monocytogenes can also activate human NK cells with regard to non-major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-restricted killing and the production of cytokines. Overnight in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guo Y,Niesel DW,Ziegler HK,Klimpel GR

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, similar to various facultative intracellular pathogens, has been shown to respond to the hostile conditions inside macrophages of the host organism by inducing stress proteins, such as DnaK. DnaK forms a chaperone machinery with the cochaperones DnaJ and GrpE. To elucidate the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takaya A,Tomoyasu T,Matsui H,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole blood and plasma from animals in the acute stage of leptospirosis contained a toxic factor which produced a cytopathic effect on fibroblastic L cell monolayers. Firm adsorption of cytotoxic factor (CTF) to L cells occurred within 1 h. The highest titer of CTF in plasma was reached at 24 h and declined after 48 h...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Knight LL,Miller NG,White RJ

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolates of Thermoplasma acidophilum were divided into serological groups based on immunodiffusion studies of solubilized-membrane preparations. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bohlool BB,Brock TD

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gram-negative bacterium nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) is the predominant pathogen in chronic otitis media with effusion and, with Streptococcus pneumoniae and Moraxella catarrhalis, is a causative agent of acute otitis media. To identify potential virulence determinants, bacterial gene expression was m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mason KM,Munson RS Jr,Bakaletz LO

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00