Chromosomal rearrangement in Candida stellatoidea results in a positive effect on phenotype.

abstract：:Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) is a significant pathogen for young children, and three Hib vaccines (named PRP-OMPC, HbOC, and PRP-T) are currently available for young children. Extensive studies of anti-Hib polysaccharide (PS) antibodies (Abs) have shown that the V regions of Abs against the Hib PS comprise a VH...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chung GH,Kim KH,Daum RS,Insel RA,Siber GR,Sood S,Gupta RK,Marchant C,Nahm MH

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterium Neisseria meningitidis is the causative agent of meningitis and sepsis. A generally effective vaccine against N. meningitidis serogroup B is not yet available, but outer membrane vesicle vaccines are in development. These vaccines contain lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The inclusion of N. meningitidis wild-ty...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fransen F,Boog CJ,van Putten JP,van der Ley P

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnant mice, guinea pigs, rats, and rabbits responded to injections of Moraxella bovis strain EPP-63(300) with abortion, death, embryo resorption, and production of small litters. The nature of response appeared to depend primarily on the number of viable cells injected and to some extent on the species of animal an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Norman JO,Elissalde MH

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between human neutrophils and wild-type Bordetella pertussis or mutants expressing altered lipopolysaccharide or lacking virulence factors-pertussis toxin, adenylate cyclase toxin, dermonecrotic toxin, filamentous hemagglutinin (FHA), pertactin, or BrkA-was examined. In the absence of antibodies, the w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weingart CL,Weiss AA

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei is a CDC tier 1 select agent that causes melioidosis, a severe disease in humans and animals. Persistent infections are common, and there is currently no vaccine available. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a potential vaccine candidate. B. pseudomallei expresses three serologically distinct LPS ty...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wikraiphat C,Saiprom N,Tandhavanant S,Heiss C,Azadi P,Wongsuvan G,Tuanyok A,Holden MT,Burtnick MN,Brett PJ,Peacock SJ,Chantratita N

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae causes human infection through ingestion of contaminated food and water, leading to the devastating diarrheal disease cholera. V. cholerae forms matrix-encased aggregates, known as biofilms, in the native aquatic environment. While the formation of V. cholerae biofilms has been well studied, little is ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hay AJ,Zhu J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies were produced against the HAR-13 strain (A) of Chlamydia trachomatis. By an indirect immunofluorescence technique, three clones (1-7, 2-8, 9F) were found to produce antibody that reacted only with serotype A strains. Clone 3-5 produced antibody that cross-reacted with serotypes A, C, H, I, and J....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clark RB,Nachamkin I,Schatzki PF,Dalton HP

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female LSH hamsters infected with Treponema pallidum subsp, endemicum before pregnancy or during early pregnancy transmit a form of syphilis to the fetus that is similar to human congenital syphilis. The offspring develops rhinitis, skin rash, failure to thrive, and hepatosplenomegaly. T. pallidum is detectable in the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kajdacsy-Balla A,Howeedy A,Bagasra O

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis is a human-specific pathogen and leading cause of meningitis and septicemia. Factor H binding protein (fHbp), a virulence factor which protects N. meningitidis from innate immunity by binding the human complement regulator factor H (fH) with high affinity, is also a key antigen in vaccines being...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van der Veen S,Johnson S,Jongerius I,Malik T,Genovese A,Santini L,Staunton D,Ufret-Vincenty RL,Pickering MC,Lea SM,Tang CM

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comparative immunogenicity of the two cross-reacting group 6 pneumococcal capsular polysaccharides, type 6A(6) and type 6B(26), was studied with hyperimmune rabbit typing antisera and with sera from adult volunteers injected with polyvalent pneumococcal vaccines containing either 50 mug of type 6A (U.S. designatio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Robbins JB,Lee CJ,Rastogi SC,Schiffman G,Henrichsen J

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A receptor specific for lipoglycans from Acholeplasma axanthum and Acholeplasma granularum was isolated from sheep erythrocyte stroma by extraction with n-pentanol and permeation chromatography. The purified receptor appeared as one band on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels and stained with Coomassie blue, pe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Al-Samarrai TH,Smith PF,Lynn RJ

更新日期：1982-12-01 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：:Francisella tularensis is the causative agent of zoonotic tularemia, a severe pneumonia in humans, and Francisella novicida causes a similarly severe tularemia in mice upon inhalation. The correlates of protective immunity, as well as the virulence mechanisms of this deadly pathogen, are not well understood. In the pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sharma J,Li Q,Mishra BB,Georges MJ,Teale JM

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three open reading frames (ORFs) were identified by a genome walking strategy in the genomes of serotype M49 group A streptococcal (GAS) strains CS101 and 591. These ORFs were located between the mga core regulon and the dipeptide permease operon. The deduced amino acid (aa) sequences contained signature sequences ind...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Elsner A,Kreikemeyer B,Braun-Kiewnick A,Spellerberg B,Buttaro BA,Podbielski A

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed ex vivo experiments with Plasmodium falciparum-infected human placentas from primi- and multigravida women from Cameroon. All women, independent of their gravida status, had anti-chondroitin sulfate A (CSA) adhesion antibodies which cross-reacted with heterologous strains, such as FCR3 and Palo-Alto(FUP)1...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gysin J,Pouvelle B,Fievet N,Scherf A,Lépolard C

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene from Haemophilus influenzae encoding an outer membrane lipoprotein of about 15,000 daltons and which comigrates with the peptidoglycan-associated lipoprotein (PAL) of H. influenzae on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis has been previously reported and designated pcp gene, and its product ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Deich RA,Anilionis A,Fulginiti J,Metcalf BJ,Quataert S,Quinn-Dey T,Zlotnick GW,Green BA

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Yersinia enterocolitica gsrA gene is a stress protein gene which was originally identified as essential for protecting cells under both extracellular environmental stress and intracellular stress in macrophages due to phagocytosis. The gsrA gene was shown to be a member of the htrA class of genes and to possess a ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yamamoto T,Hanawa T,Ogata S,Kamiya S

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi produces potent cell-activating molecules capable of stimulating polyclonal proliferation and immunoglobulin production by murine B lymphocytes and cytokine production by a variety of cell types. These stimulatory molecules function in infected mice, resulting in elevated levels of circulating imm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tai KF,Ma Y,Weis JJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria have evolved strategies to resist killing by antimicrobial peptides (APs), important effectors of innate immunity. The sap (sensitivity to antimicrobial peptides) operon confers resistance to AP-mediated killing of Salmonella. We have recently shown that sapA gene expression is upregulated in the middle ear i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mason KM,Munson RS Jr,Bakaletz LO

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding a heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) from an Escherichia coli strain isolated from a human with diarrhea was cloned and characterized by nucleotide sequence analysis. The gene was found to be partially homologous to a previously characterized ST gene from an E. coli strain of bovine origin. Hybridization stu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moseley SL,Hardy JW,Hug MI,Echeverria P,Falkow S

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi is a protozoan parasite that can initiate mucosal infection after conjunctival exposure. The anatomical route of T. cruzi invasion and spread after conjunctival parasite contamination remains poorly characterized. In the present work we have identified the sites of initial invasion and replication af...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giddings OK,Eickhoff CS,Smith TJ,Bryant LA,Hoft DF

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is currently accepted that malaria-parasitized red blood cells (pRBC) are eliminated, like senescent erythrocytes, phagocytically by macrophages in the red pulp of the spleen. Here, however, we show that self-healing Plasmodium chabaudi malaria activates spleen closure in C57BL/6 mice. Confocal laser scanning micro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krücken J,Mehnert LI,Dkhil MA,El-Khadragy M,Benten WP,Mossmann H,Wunderlich F

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies against hepatitis B surface antigen were found to be restricted to subclasses IgG1 and IgG3 in serum samples of 17 individuals. Quantitative determinations showed that in 10 samples the minor serum subclass IgG3 contained more antibodies than the predominant subclass IgG1. Ranges of c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Morell A,Roth-Wicky B,Skvaril F

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for stimulating sensitized lymphocytes by inactivated herpes simplex virus was established by using cultures of washed whole blood cells. The development of the immune response of herpes simplex virus-infected guinea pigs was examined at different times in the 4-month period after infection. Humoral and cellu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Scriba M

更新日期：1974-09-01 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：:Archived sera (collected in 1946) from acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and untreated scarlet fever and/or pharyngitis patients were reacted with streptococcal M protein, cardiac myosin, and cardiac tropomyosin. Except for very low levels to tropomyosin, antibodies to other antigens were not elevated in the sera of ARF pat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jones KF,Whitehead SS,Cunningham MW,Fischetti VA

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty two anaerobic bacterial strains were screened for their in vitro inhibitory activity toward 21 Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains, including two penicillin-resistant strains. From this screening, six anaerobic bacteria belonging to the genera Bacteroides, Peptostreptococcus, and Eubacterium were selected for their l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Morin A,Saheb SA,Bisaillon JG,Beaudet R,Sylvestre M

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenically conserved proteins of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum and four nonpathogenic cultivatable treponemes were investigated by phase partitioning with the nonionic detergent Triton X-114 and immunoblot analysis. None of the T. pallidum integral membrane proteins identified by phase partitioning (deterg...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Radolf JD,Norgard MV

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, is transmitted by ticks. During transmission from the tick to the host, spirochetes are delivered with tick saliva, which contains the salivary protein Salp15. Salp15 has been shown to protect spirochetes against B. burgdorferi-specific antibodies. We now show that Salp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schuijt TJ,Hovius JW,van Burgel ND,Ramamoorthi N,Fikrig E,van Dam AP

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data suggest that fibronectin may favor Staphylococcus aureus infection by promoting attachment to either injured tissues or implanted foreign bodies. We studied the quantitative adsorption of fibronectin onto polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) cover slips by using a 125I-labeled preparation of the purified plasma g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vaudaux PE,Waldvogel FA,Morgenthaler JJ,Nydegger UE

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00