Complement receptor 1 expression on mouse erythrocytes mediates clearance of Streptococcus pneumoniae by immune adherence.

abstract：:Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans SUNY 465, the invasion prototype strain, enters epithelial cells by an actin-dependent mechanism, escapes from the host cell vacuole, and spreads intracellularly and to adjacent epithelial cells via intercellular protrusions. Internalized organisms also egress from host cells into ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Meyer DH,Rose JE,Lippmann JE,Fives-Taylor PM

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral administration of polymyxin to specific-pathogen-free C3H/Law mice which with previously contaminated with gram-negative bacteria resulted in complete suppression of cecal gram-negative bacteria. Suppression of cecal gram-negative bacteria was accompanied by reduction of the cecal endotoxin concentration from 10 ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goris H,de Boer F,van der Waaij D

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ureaplasma urealyticum has previously been isolated from the cultured cerebrospinal fluid of 13 of 418 newborn infants; additional bloodstream isolates were obtained from the same population. Ten of the 13 cerebrospinal fluid and 3 bloodstream isolates were available for serotyping in the present study. By the use of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zheng X,Watson HL,Waites KB,Cassell GH

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strain superinfection occurs when a second pathogen strain infects a host already carrying a primary strain. Anaplasma marginale superinfection occurs when the second strain carries a variant repertoire different from that of the primary strain, and the epidemiologic consequences depend on the relative efficiencies of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galletti MF,Ueti MW,Knowles DP Jr,Brayton KA,Palmer GH

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Encapsulated cells of Cryptococcus neoformans are potent activators of the alternative complement pathway. Previous studies found that monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) specific for the major capsular polysaccharide, termed glucuronoxylomannan (GXM), can markedly suppress the ability of the capsule to accumulate C3 from no...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR,MacGill RS,Wall KK

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella flexneri is a gram-negative bacterium that causes bacillary dysentery in humans that is characterized by an acute inflammatory response of the colon. The fate of phagocytes that are infected in vitro with virulent Shigella has been the subject of some investigation and debate. In this study we found that viru...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Koterski JF,Nahvi M,Venkatesan MM,Haimovich B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enterotoxin of Shigella dysenteriae I produces fluid and electrolyte secretion in the rabbit ileum. These present studies were designed to evaluate nonelectrolyte transport in rabbit ileal mucosa exposed to Shigella enterotoxin. Both 10 mM galactose and 5 mM L-alanine absorptions were significantly impaired in ent...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Binder HJ,Whiting DS

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immune response to Pneumocystis infection is not well understood. In this study, normal C57BL/6 mouse alveolar macrophages were found to respond to Pneumocystis murina organisms through Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2), leading to the nuclear translocation of NF-kappaB and the production of proinflammatory cytok...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang C,Wang SH,Lasbury ME,Tschang D,Liao CP,Durant PJ,Lee CH

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence of Treponema denticola GM-1, TD-4, and MS25 to human gingival fibroblasts (HGFs) was studied to serve as an introduction to investigations into the interactions of these oral bacteria with human host cells. Under both aerobic (5% CO2) and anaerobic (85% N2 plus 10% H2 plus 5% CO2) environments, the inter...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weinberg A,Holt SC

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that transposon-mediated mutagenesis can be used to construct mutations in the pathogen Brucella abortus. We have used both a plasmid and a bacteriophage to introduce either Tn5 or Tn5 lac into the Brucella chromosome. B. abortus is naturally sensitive to kanamycin. We have selected 22 independent kanam...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Smith LD,Heffron F

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood mononuclear cells (lymphocytes and monocytes) were isolated from infected calves during in vivo control of acute anaplasmosis and cultured with Anaplasma marginale organisms. Supernatants from the cultures reduced the proportion of erythrocytes containing viable A. marginale in vitro, indicating that an antibody...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wyatt CR,Davis WC,Knowles DP,Goff WL,Palmer GH,McGuire TC

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane glycolipids contain the lactose sequence (galactose linked to glucose), and the oligosaccharide is variously extended such that there is a cell-type-specific repertoire. In this study, binding of Pseudomonas aeruginosa M35 to lipid-linked lactose (Gal beta 1-4Glc [structure 1]), lacto-N-neotetraose (Gal beta ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosenstein IJ,Yuen CT,Stoll MS,Feizi T

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7, a major Shiga toxin-producing pathogen, has a low infectious dose and causes serious illness in humans. The gastrointestinal tract of cattle is the primary reservoir of E. coli O157:H7, and thus, it is critical to eliminate or reduce E. coli O157:H7 gut colonization. Given that E. coli O157:H...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Xue Y,Zhang H,Wang H,Hu J,Du M,Zhu MJ

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified, by two-dimensional electrophoretic analysis and microsequencing, a protein of Chlamydia trachomatis elementary bodies which corresponds to the polypeptide (pgp3) encoded by open reading frame 3 (ORF3). Amino acid analysis showed that the first residue (Gly) found in the native protein is the one encoded...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Comanducci M,Manetti R,Bini L,Santucci A,Pallini V,Cevenini R,Sueur JM,Orfila J,Ratti G

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus equi and Streptococcus zooepidemicus are major etiological agents of upper and lower airway disease in horses. Despite the considerable animal suffering and economic burden associated with these diseases, the factors that contribute to the virulence of these equine pathogens have not been extensively inv...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harrington DJ,Greated JS,Chanter N,Sutcliffe IC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene products from an 8-kb region adjacent to the 3' end of the ptx operon are required by Bordetella pertussis for the export of pertussis holotoxin. At least one of these gene products (PtlC) is specifically required for the export of assembled holotoxin from the periplasmic space. ptlC mutants exhibit a 20-fold...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker SM,Masi A,Liu DF,Novitsky BK,Deich RA

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Giardia duodenalis is one of the most common causes of diarrheal disease in the world. While numerous studies have identified important contributions of adaptive immune responses to parasite control, much less work has examined innate immunity and its connections to the adaptive response during this inf...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li E,Tako EA,Singer SM

更新日期：2016-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies against the Plasmodium falciparum P0 ribosomal phosphoprotein (PfP0) have been detected exclusively but extensively in malaria-immune persons. Polyclonal rabbit and mice sera were raised against two recombinant polypeptides of P. falciparum P0 protein, PfP0N and PfP0C, covering amino acids 17 to 61 and the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chatterjee S,Singh S,Sohoni R,Singh NJ,Vaidya A,Long C,Sharma S

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro studies have shown that enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains are capable of invading cultured epithelial cells derived from the human ileum and colon. Two separate invasion loci (tia and tib) have previously been isolated from the classical ETEC strain H10407. The tia locus has been shown to direct...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mammarappallil JG,Elsinghorst EA

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa utilizes a number of distinct pathways to secrete proteins that play various roles during infection. These include the type II secretion system, which is responsible for the secretion of the majority of exoproducts into the surrounding environment, including toxins and degradative enzymes. In co...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee VT,Smith RS,Tümmler B,Lory S

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gram-negative intracellular pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, an important cause of sepsis in Southeast Asia. Recognition of pathogen-associated molecular patterns by Toll-like receptors (TLRs) is essential for an appropriate immune response during pathogen invasion. In pati...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Birnie E,Weehuizen TAF,Lankelma JM,de Jong HK,Koh GCKW,van Lieshout MHP,Roelofs JJTH,Budding AE,de Vos AF,van der Poll T,Wiersinga WJ

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial passage of Cryptococcus neoformans in mice increases virulence relative to the nonpassaged line. Postpassaged lines showed no difference in the expression of most known virulence factors, with the exception that the more virulent lines had smaller capsules in vitro. These data imply that other mechanisms of vir...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McClelland EE,Perrine WT,Potts WK,Casadevall A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feline leukemia-sarcoma group-specific antigens were located in human embryo cells infected with feline leukemia and feline sarcoma viruses. This was done by using the fluorescent-antibody and enzyme-labeled antibody techniques at both light and electron microscopic levels. The antigens were found to be exclusively in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ubertini TR

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe pediatric malaria is an important risk factor for developing disseminated infections with nontyphoidal Salmonella serotypes (NTS). While recent animal studies on this subject are lacking, early work suggests that an increased risk for developing systemic NTS infection during malaria is caused by hemolytic anemi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Roux CM,Butler BP,Chau JY,Paixao TA,Cheung KW,Santos RL,Luckhart S,Tsolis RM

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:Rabbits immunized with group B type III, group C, and Streptococcus pneumoniae type XIV streptococcal vaccines developed autoantibodies reactive with autologous and isologous erythrocytes and human O-positive erythrocytes at reduced temperatures. The cold agglutinin antibodies were present in both the immunoglobulin M...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Colling RG,Pearson TC,Brown JC

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phorbol myristate acetate stimulated oxidative metabolism in alveolar macrophages and blood neutrophils. This compound also stimulated lysozyme release from neutrophils but not from alveolar macrophages. These findings suggest that the regulation of lysozyme release from alveolar macrophages is different than for poly...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Biggar WD

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence obtained from gene knockout studies supports the role of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) in intestinal inflammation and microbiota recognition. Increased epithelial TLR4 expression is observed in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. However, little is known of the effect of increased TLR4 signaling on intest...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dheer R,Santaolalla R,Davies JM,Lang JK,Phillips MC,Pastorini C,Vazquez-Pertejo MT,Abreu MT

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo- and in vitro-grown Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae organisms were inoculated onto newborn piglet tracheal organ cultures to provide a model for interaction of this organism with ciliated respiratory epithelium. Ciliostasis and loss of cilia in tracheal rings were induced by M. hyopneumoniae grown in vivo and with lo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： DeBey MC,Ross RF

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an emerging paradigm shift from coronary heart disease having a purely hereditary and nutritional causation to possibly having an infectious etiology. Recent epidemiological studies have shown a correlation between periodontal disease and coronary heart disease. However, to date, there is minimal information ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dorn BR,Dunn WA Jr,Progulske-Fox A

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00