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abstract：:To study the specific role of transmembrane tumor necrosis factor (tmTNF) in protective and pathological responses against the gastrointestinal helminth Trichinella spiralis, we compared the immune responses of TNF-alpha/lymphotoxin alpha (LTalpha)(-/-) mice expressing noncleavable transgenic tmTNF to those of TNF-alp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ierna MX,Scales HE,Mueller C,Lawrence CE

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multigene family of 58- to 60-kDa proteins, which are designated rhoptry-associated protein 1 (RAP-1) and which come from the parasites Babesia bigemina and Babesia bovis, is a target for vaccine development. The presence of multiple gene copies and conserved sequences and epitopes of RAP-1 implies that these protei...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rodríguez SD,Palmer GH,McElwain TF,McGuire TC,Ruef BJ,Chitko-McKown MG,Brown WC

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes for outer membrane protein P2 of four nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae strains were cloned and sequenced. The derived amino acid sequences were compared with the outer membrane protein P2 sequence from H. influenzae type b MinnA and the sequences of P2 from three additional nontypeable H. influenzae strain...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bell J,Grass S,Jeanteur D,Munson RS Jr

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and course of normally lethal parasitemias in mice inoculated intraperitoneally with erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium yoelii or Plasmodium berghei were markedly affected by treatment with the antilymphoid drug cyclosporin A (CS-A). When the first of four daily subcutaneous 25-mg/kg doses of CS-A was g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nickell SP,Scheibel LW,Cole GA

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The C-terminal 19-kDa domain of merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP1₁₉) is the target of protective antibodies but alone is poorly immunogenic. Previously, using the Plasmodium yoelii murine model, we fused P. yoelii MSP1₁₉ (PyMSP1₁₉) with full-length P. yoelii merozoite surface protein 8 (MSP8). Upon immunization, the M...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alaro JR,Angov E,Lopez AM,Zhou H,Long CA,Burns JM Jr

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that when group A streptococci are cocultured with human pharyngeal cells, they upregulate and secrete a 25-kDa toxin, determined to be the bacteriophage-encoded streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin C (SpeC). This prompted us to determine if the bacteriophage themselves are induced during coculture conditions. We...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Broudy TB,Pancholi V,Fischetti VA

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenic relationship of six different strains of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis was investigated by the agar-gel immunodiffusion test. Soluble antigens prepared from the two morphological phases of the fungus were diffused against human sera obtained from eight patients with paracoccidioidomycosis (South American...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Restrepo-Moreno A

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The P2 porin protein is the major outer membrane protein of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae and is a potential target of a protective immune response. Nine monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to P2 were developed by immunizing mice with nontypeable H. influenzae whole organisms. Each MAb reacted exclusively with the homol...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Haase EM,Yi K,Morse GD,Murphy TF

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arg-gingipain (Rgp) and Lys-gingipain (Kgp) are Porphyromonas gingivalis cysteine proteinases implicated as major virulence factors in pathologies of periodontitis. We purified a 660-kDa cell-associated gingipain complex existing as a homodimer of two catalytically active monomers which comprises their catalytic and a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takii R,Kadowaki T,Baba A,Tsukuba T,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subchronic exposure to pharmacological levels of estrogenic compounds, including 17 beta-estradiol, diethylstilbestrol, and alpha-dienestrol, significantly increased the mortality of B6C3F1 female mice after Listeria infection. Compounds with little estrogenic activity, including 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone, progester...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pung OJ,Luster MI,Hayes HT,Rader J

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial survival in a host is usually dependent on the ability of a pathogen to undergo changes that promote escape from host defense mechanisms. The human-pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans undergoes phenotypic switching in vivo that promotes persistence in tissue. By microarray and real-time PCR analyses, t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jain N,Li L,Hsueh YP,Guerrero A,Heitman J,Goldman DL,Fries BC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin modification triggered by bacteria is a newly described mechanism by which pathogens impact host transcription. Listeria monocytogenes dephosphorylates histone H3 through the action of listeriolysin O (LLO); however, the underlying mechanism is unknown. Here we show that an unrelated pore-forming toxin, Aero...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hamon MA,Cossart P

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular bacterial infections affect all vertebrates. Cultured fish are particularly vulnerable because no effective protection measures have been established since such infections emerged approximately 50 years ago. As in other vertebrates, the induction of cell-mediated immunity (CMI) plays an important role in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Matsumoto M,Kubota T,Fujita S,Shiozaki K,Kishida S,Yamamoto A

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of chronic and recurrent Staphylococcus aureus infections is associated with the emergence of slow-growing mutants known as small-colony variants (SCVs), which are highly tolerant of antibiotics and can survive inside host cells. However, the host and bacterial factors which underpin SCV emergence duri...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Painter KL,Strange E,Parkhill J,Bamford KB,Armstrong-James D,Edwards AM

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important role for immunoglobulin M (IgM) during early acute virulent Toxoplasma gondii infection was identified using IgM-/- mice that lack surface and secretory IgM but maintain normal B-cell functionality and isotype class switching. Following intraperitoneal inoculation with the virulent RH strain, IgM-/- mice ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Couper KN,Roberts CW,Brombacher F,Alexander J,Johnson LL

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of different ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs) in bacterial pathogenesis have not been studied systematically. In this work we analyzed the importance of the different Pseudomonas aeruginosa RNRs in pathogenesis using the Drosophila melanogaster host-pathogen interaction model. P. aeruginosa codes for three d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sjöberg BM,Torrents E

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interferon-inducing capabilities of the three molecular segments of bacteriophage phi6 double-stranded ribonucleic acid increased with increasing molecular weight. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kleinschmidt WJ,Van Etten JL,Vidaver AK

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigens extracted from cells of Streptococcus pyogenes T6 and Streptococcus mutans strains AHT, BHT, 10449, OMZ175, and K1R adsorbed to the sarcolemmal sheath of cardiac muscle cells in vitro. Similar preparations from S. salivarius, S. sanguis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Lactobacillus casei had weak or negligible ti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stinson MW,Nisengard RJ,Bergey EJ

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphonuclear leukocytes from 46 adults (age 18 to 35), 19 adults (age 70 to 91), 10 children (age 1 to 3), and 22 neonates (cord blood samples) were tested for their chemiluminescence response to opsonized zymosan. Results indicated that both cord blood leukocytes and those from individuals over 70 were significa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Van Epps DE,Goodwin JS,Murphy S

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacterial pathogens utilize virulence-associated secretion systems to inject, or translocate, effector proteins into host cells to manipulate cellular processes and promote bacterial replication. However, translocated bacterial products are sensed by nucleotide binding domain and leucine-rich repeat-cont...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zwack EE,Feeley EM,Burton AR,Hu B,Yamamoto M,Kanneganti TD,Bliska JB,Coers J,Brodsky IE

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Naegleria fowleri produces fatal meningoencephalitis in humans and in experimentally infected laboratory animals. The course of the disease in mice is dependent upon the infecting dose of amoebae, route of inoculation, and prior exposure to Naegleria antigens. DUB/ICR mice were immunized by various routes and antigen ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： John DT,Weik RR,Adams AC

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulence of Candida albicans in a mouse model of invasive candidiasis is dependent on the phospholipids phosphatidylserine (PS) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE). Disruption of the PS synthase gene CHO1 (i.e., cho1Δ/Δ) eliminates PS and blocks the de novo pathway for PE biosynthesis. In addition, the cho1Δ/Δ muta...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Davis SE,Hopke A,Minkin SC Jr,Montedonico AE,Wheeler RT,Reynolds TB

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A battery of lymphoid and nonlymphoid cells was examined for susceptibility to lysis by natural killer cells of chickens. Several susceptible targets were recognized, and most susceptible among these were cells of line LSCC-RP9, derived from a lymphoid tumor induced by Rous-associated virus 2. The natural killer react...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sharma JM,Okazaki W

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia enterocolitica is a human pathogen that is ubiquitous in livestock, especially pigs. The bacteria are able to colonize the intestinal tract of a variety of mammalian hosts, but the severity of induced gut-associated diseases (yersiniosis) differs significantly between hosts. To gain more information about the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schaake J,Kronshage M,Uliczka F,Rohde M,Knuuti T,Strauch E,Fruth A,Wos-Oxley M,Dersch P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated a monoclonal antibody directed against the ferric complex of aerobactin purified from Escherichia coli KH576. This antibody, which we designated MAb AERO1, was identified as an immunoglobulin G, subtype 2. A competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with MAb AERO1 had a limit of 10 nM for the detection...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： le Roy D,Expert D,Razafindratsita A,Deroussent A,Cosme J,Bohuon C,Andremont A

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an Escherichia coli strain of human origin, ampicillin resistance and heat-stable enterotoxin activity were shown by EcoRI restriction endonuclease and genetic analysis to be in an 80-megadalton plasmid. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stieglitz H,Fonseca R,Olarte J,Kupersztoch-Portnoy YM

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme from Treponema denticola that hydrolyzes a synthetic trypsin substrate, N-alpha-benzoyl-L-arginine-p-nitroanilide (BAPNA), was purified to near homogeneity, as judged by gel electrophoresis. The molecular weight of the enzyme was estimated to be ca. 69,000 by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ohta K,Makinen KK,Loesche WJ

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis forms communities with antecedent oral biofilm constituent streptococci. P. gingivalis major fimbriae bind to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) present on the streptococcal surface, and this interaction plays an important role in P. gingivalis colonization. This study identified...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nagata H,Iwasaki M,Maeda K,Kuboniwa M,Hashino E,Toe M,Minamino N,Kuwahara H,Shizukuishi S

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring antibodies for Vibrio fetus with whole-cell and O antigen specificities were detected in sera of mature cattle by means of the agglutination and indirect immunofluorescence reactions. O antibodies occurred in each of 21 sera examined, and whole-cell antibodies, in lower concentrations, occurred in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Duncan JR,Wilkie BN,Winter AJ

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytotoxin was found in culture filtrates of a number of Escherichia coli strains that differed from the known heat-stable and heat-labile enterotoxins of E. coli. It was cytotoxic for Vero but not for Y-1 or CHO cells, and its effect on Vero was distinctly different from that of heat-labile enterotoxin. It was labil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Konowalchuk J,Speirs JI,Stavric S

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00