R plasmid in Escherichia coli O103 coding for colonization of the rabbit intestinal tract.

abstract：:White-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus), the primary reservoir for Borrelia burgdorferi in the northern midwest and northeastern United States, were experimentally inoculated with an infectious strain or a noninfectious strain of the Lyme disease spirochete and examined for their specific antibody response with the en...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schwan TG,Kime KK,Schrumpf ME,Coe JE,Simpson WJ

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of heat and chemical inactivation on the antigenicity and immunogenicity of Vibrio cholerae 1418 in rabbits were studied. V. cholerae 1418 was inactivated with heat and chemical inactivants (phenol or Formalin) alone or in combination. Enzyme-linked immunoassay systems employing whole cells of V. cholerae ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cryz SJ Jr,Fürer E,Germanier R

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) has recently been shown to facilitate macrophage foam cell formation and has been suggested to be a proatherogenic factor. The mechanism of LPS induced cholesterol accumulation, however, is unclear. In this report, using the macrophage-like RAW 264.7 cell line, we provide experimental evidence...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baranova I,Vishnyakova T,Bocharov A,Chen Z,Remaley AT,Stonik J,Eggerman TL,Patterson AP

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection against colibacillosis in neonatal piglets was obtained by immunization of pregnant dams with procholeragenoid. Procholeragenoid is a stable high-molecular-weight aggregate of cholera toxin formed during the heating of cholera toxin. Procholeragenoid retained approximately 1% of the toxicity of native toxin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fürer E,Cryz SJ Jr,Dorner F,Nicolet J,Wanner M,Germanier R

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-one Burkholderia cepacia isolates from patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and four plant isolates were screened for production of the siderophores salicylic acid (SA), pyochelin, cepabactin, and ornibactins and fingerprinted by a PCR-based randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) method. Of the 24 RAPD types de...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Darling P,Chan M,Cox AD,Sokol PA

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity against tuberculosis is considered to be essentially cell mediated, and an important role for CD8(+) T lymphocytes has been suggested by several studies of murine and human infections. The present work, using an experimental model of infection with Mycobacterium bovis in cattle, showed that live M....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liébana E,Girvin RM,Welsh M,Neill SD,Pollock JM

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is a prominent, food-borne cause of diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, and the hemolytic uremic syndrome in industrialized countries. Most strains of EHEC carry the locus for enterocyte effacement (LEE) pathogenicity island, but a proportion of isolates from patients with severe disea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leyton DL,Sloan J,Hill RE,Doughty S,Hartland EL

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemin induced germination of Candida albicans blastoconidia when cells grown up to the early exponential phase were shifted from 28 to 37 degrees C (70 to 75% of cells exhibited germ tubes). N-Acetyl-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc), another inducer of myceliation in this fungus, caused a similar effect. The combination of hemi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Casanova M,Cervera AM,Gozalbo D,Martínez JP

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protective efficacy of antibodies to the Staphylococcus aureus type 5 capsular polysaccharide (CP5) was examined in a modified model of catheter-induced endocarditis. Rats were catheterized by surgically passing a polyethylene catheter through the right carotid artery and aortic valve into the left ventricle. The ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee JC,Park JS,Shepherd SE,Carey V,Fattom A

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that immune-mediated gastric epithelial cell apoptosis through Fas-Fas ligand interactions participates in Helicobacter pylori disease pathogenesis. To define the role of Fas signaling in vivo, H. pylori strain SS1 infection in C57BL/6 mice was compared to that in mice deficient in the Fas lig...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jones NL,Day AS,Jennings H,Shannon PT,Galindo-Mata E,Sherman PM

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：:Actinomyces viscosus ATCC 15987 was examined for the presence of cell-associated levan by absorption of myeloma proteins with antilevan activity and direct immunofluorescence. Levan was not detectable on the surface of glucose-grown A. viscosus, but after a brief incubation of these cells with 5% sucrose, they were en...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Warner TN,Miller CH

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria in pregnancy is associated with placental accumulation of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes (IE) that adhere to chondroitin sulfate A (CSA). Adhesion is mediated by P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1), a variant parasite protein expressed on the surface of IE and encoded by var gene...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Elliott SR,Duffy MF,Byrne TJ,Beeson JG,Mann EJ,Wilson DW,Rogerson SJ,Brown GV

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：: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：: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：:Vaccine adjuvants exert critical and unique influences on the quality of immune responses induced during active immunizations. We investigated the mechanisms of action of immunological adjuvants in terms of their requirements for cytokine-mediated pathways for adjuvanticity. Antibody responses potentiated by several a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hui GS,Hashimoto CN

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined 205 enterotoxigenic strains of Escherichia coli for colonization factor antigens (CFA) I and II, using an immunodiffusion technique with specific antisera. A total of 36 strains of serogroups O63, O78, O114, O128, and O153 and 1 rough strain possessed CFA/I and gave a single precipitin line; 47 strains of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cravioto A,Scotland SM,Rowe B

更新日期：1982-04-01 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：:Actinomyces naeslundii and Streptococcus gordonii, oral bacteria that possess Gal/GalNAc- and sialic acid-reactive lectins, respectively, were adherent to immobilized secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) and two IgA1 myeloma proteins but not to two IgA2 myeloma proteins. Apparently, O-linked oligosaccharides at the hinge ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ruhl S,Sandberg AL,Cole MF,Cisar JO

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present investigation we studied the nature of a Shigella flexneri O antigen, the type III antigen. No structural entity has yet been attributed to this antigen. Phenol-water-extracted lipopolysaccharides (LPSs) from all S. flexneri serotypes possessing either group 6 antigen or both type III antigen and group ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carlin NI,Wehler T,Lindberg AA

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) is defined as the triad of anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute kidney injury. Enterohemorrhagic Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (EHEC), which causes a prodromal hemorrhagic enteritis, remains the most common etiology of the typical or epidemic form of HUS. Because no licens...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mejias MP,Cabrera G,Fernández-Brando RJ,Baschkier A,Ghersi G,Abrey-Recalde MJ,Miliwebsky E,Meiss R,Goldbaum F,Zylberman V,Rivas M,Palermo MS

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli F-18 is a human fecal isolate that makes type 1 fimbriae, encoded by the fim gene cluster, and is an excellent colonizer of the streptomycin-treated mouse intestine. E. coli F-18 fimA::tet, lacking type 1 fimbriae, was constructed by bacteriophage P1 transduction of the fim region of the E. coli K-12 ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sweeney NJ,Klemm P,McCormick BA,Moller-Nielsen E,Utley M,Schembri MA,Laux DC,Cohen PS

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic necrotizing factor type 1 (CNF1) and CNF2 are toxins of pathogenic Escherichia coli that share 85% identity over 1,014 amino acids. Although both of these toxins modify GTPases, CNF1 is a more potent inducer of multinucleation in HEp-2 cells, binds more efficiently to HEp-2 cells, and, despite the conservati...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grande KK,Meysick KC,Rasmussen SB,O'Brien AD

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-NMDA receptor (NMDAR) autoantibodies have been postulated to play a role in the pathogenesis of NMDAR hypofunction, which contributes to the etiology of psychotic symptoms. Toxoplasma gondii is a pathogen implicated in psychiatric disorders and associated with elevation of NMDAR autoantibodies. However, it remain...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li Y,Viscidi RP,Kannan G,McFarland R,Pletnikov MV,Severance EG,Yolken RH,Xiao J

更新日期：2018-09-21 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：:We characterized outer membrane proteins (OMPs) from selected Campylobacter jejuni, C. coli, and C. fetus strains by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2DGE), using isoelectric focusing and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), and by immunoblotting with immune rabbit serum. The flage...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dunn BE,Blaser MJ,Snyder EL

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium botulinum serotype A produces a neurotoxin composed of a 100-kDa heavy chain and a 50-kDa light chain linked by a disulfide bond. This neurotoxin is part of a ca. 900-kDa complex, formed by noncovalent association with a single nontoxin, nonhemagglutinin subunit and a family of hemagglutinating proteins. P...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Maksymowych AB,Reinhard M,Malizio CJ,Goodnough MC,Johnson EA,Simpson LL

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of ace (adhesin to collagen of Enterococcus faecalis), encoding a virulence factor in endocarditis and urinary tract infection models, has been shown to increase under certain conditions, such as in the presence of serum, bile salts, urine, and collagen and at 46 °C. However, the mechanism of ace/Ace regula...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Roh JH,Singh KV,La Rosa SL,Cohen AL,Murray BE

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the correlation between the incA I47T mutation in Chlamydia trachomatis and the nonfusogenic phenotype, the incA genes of 25 isolates were sequenced. Four major sequence types were identified. Seven isolates (28%) had the I47T mutation. Isolates representing the four sequence types expressed IncA in the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pannekoek Y,van der Ende A,Eijk PP,van Marle J,de Witte MA,Ossewaarde JM,van den Brule AJ,Morré SA,Dankert J

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00