Human leukocytes kill Aspergillus nidulans by reactive oxygen species-independent mechanisms.

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：:Fourteen strains of Escherichia coli were tested for ability to cause infective endocarditis in rabbits prepared by prior placement of an intracardiac catheter. Strains that were resistant to the bactericidal action of serum caused E. coli endocarditis in 91.4% of rabbits, whereas serum-sensitive strains usually faile...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Durack DT,Beeson PB

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An LT-B-ST (LT-B/ST) fusion peptide was constructed by genetically joining the 5' terminus of a synthetic gene coding for the heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) of Escherichia coli to the 3' terminus of the gene coding for the binding subunit of the heat-labile enterotoxin (LT-B) of E. coli. An eight-amino-acid, proline-con...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cárdenas L,Clements JD

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When Streptococcus pyogenes group A type 3 strain C203 (M+) and its M-protein-lacking derivative, strain C203S (M-), were treated with normal human serum in the presence of magnesium-EGTA [ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid], virulent M+ bacteria bound only 10 to 30% as much C3 and f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hong K,Kinoshita T,Takeda J,Kozono H,Pramoonjago P,Kim YU,Inoue K

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of our group reported recently that neisseria infection of human epithelial cells results in accelerated degradation of the major lysosomal integral membrane protein LAMP1 and that this is due to hydrolysis of this glycoprotein at its immunoglobulin A1 (IgA1)-like hinge by the neisseria type 2 IgA1 protease (L...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ayala P,Lin L,Hopper S,Fukuda M,So M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of intracellular pathogens to sense and adapt to the hostile environment of the host is an important factor governing virulence. We have sequenced the operon encoding the major heat shock proteins GroES and GroEL in the gram-positive food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. The operon has a conserved or...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gahan CG,O'Mahony J,Hill C

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified and characterized a gene encoding a homologue of the B subunits of cholera toxin (CTB) and heat-labile enterotoxin (LTB) of Escherichia coli from a clinical isolate of Citrobacter freundii that was found to produce a factor in the culture supernatant that cross-reacted with antibodies to CTB and LTB when...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karasawa T,Ito H,Tsukamoto T,Yamasaki S,Kurazono H,Faruque SM,Nair GB,Nishibuchi M,Takeda Y

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group A streptococcal cell walls inhibited phagocytosis of polystyrene latex particles by rat peritoneal macrophages in vitro. This inhibition was not accompanied by a measurable loss of cell viability. Group D streptococcal cell walls were relatively ineffective in altering phagocytosis. The effectiveness of group A ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Smialowicz RJ,Schwab JH

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from patients with endocarditis and bacteremia were capable of secreting high-molecular-weight soluble peptidoglycans when grown in a minimal cell wall medium containing penicillin G. Vancomycin was not able to substitute for penicillin G in triggering this secretion. Secretion r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zeiger AR,Wong W,Chatterjee AN,Young FE,Tuazon CU

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BCG vaccines are a family of closely related daughter strains of an attenuated isolate of Mycobacterium bovis derived by in vitro passage from 1908 to 1921. During subsequent laboratory propagation of the vaccine strain until its lyophilization in 1961, BCG Pasteur underwent at least seven further genomic mutations. T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Belley A,Alexander D,Di Pietrantonio T,Girard M,Jones J,Schurr E,Liu J,Sherman DR,Behr MA

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the development of vaccines capable of providing immunity against brucellosis, Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD) has been demonstrated to be one of the protective immunogens of Brucella abortus. In an earlier study, we provided strong evidence that intramuscular injection with a plasmid DNA carrying the SOD gene (pc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Muñoz-Montesino C,Andrews E,Rivers R,González-Smith A,Moraga-Cid G,Folch H,Céspedes S,Oñate AA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene, dmcA, expressing a methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein (MCP) from the oral spirochete Treponema denticola has been characterized. The gene was initially identified as an open reading frame immediately upstream from the previously characterized prtB protease gene of strain ATCC 35405. Nucleotide sequencing of t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kataoka M,Li H,Arakawa S,Kuramitsu H

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenicity of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae T28 (serotype 2) was investigated. Antigens were solubilized from the cell surface with detergents. By means of sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting it was shown that the molecular weight of the main antigenic component--a nonprot...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lachmann PG,Deicher H

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) genome sequence, we found that EPEC E2348/69 has an lpfABCDE gene cluster homologous (about 60% identical at the protein level) to the Salmonella long polar fimbria (LPF) operon. To determine whether this operon is essential for adherence, the lpfABCD(E2)(3) genes wer...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tatsuno I,Mundy R,Frankel G,Chong Y,Phillips AD,Torres AG,Kaper JB

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly-N-acetyl-glucosamine (PNAG) is a staphylococcal surface polysaccharide influencing biofilm formation that is also under investigation for its vaccine potential. Antibodies that bind to PNAG with either low (<15%) or high (>90%) levels of acetate are superior at opsonic and protective activity compared with antibo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cerca N,Jefferson KK,Maira-Litrán T,Pier DB,Kelly-Quintos C,Goldmann DA,Azeredo J,Pier GB

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenethyl alcohol, at the maximum concentration which did not inhibit growth (0.3% [vol/vol]), inhibited the production of alpha-lysin and exoproteases but not that of delta-lysin in Staphylococcus aureus Wood 46. The inhibition of alpha-lysin was reversible, and transient accumulation of cell-associated alpha-lysin o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee KY,Birkbeck TH

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the babesial rhoptry-associated protein 1 (RAP-1) family express surface-exposed B-cell epitopes and are candidate antigens for vaccine development. The relationship between rap-1 genomic polymorphism and surface-exposed B-cell epitope expression was analyzed by comparison of biological clones of Mexico str...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suarez CE,McElwain TF,Echaide I,Torioni de Echaide S,Palmer GH

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene bank of group A Streptococcus strain Manfredo (M protein serotype 5) was constructed with a bacteriophage lambda vector-Escherichia coli K-12 host system and screened by immunoblotting hybrid phage plaques with antisera raised to purified pep M5 (serotype 5 M protein fragment released from the streptococcal cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kehoe MA,Poirier TP,Beachey EH,Timmis KN

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiple antigen peptide (MAP) approach is an effective method to chemically synthesize and deliver multiple T-cell and B-cell epitopes as the constituents of a single immunogen. Here we report on the design, chemical synthesis, and immunogenicity of three Plasmodium falciparum MAP vaccines that incorporated antig...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mahajan B,Berzofsky JA,Boykins RA,Majam V,Zheng H,Chattopadhyay R,de la Vega P,Moch JK,Haynes JD,Belyakov IM,Nakhasi HL,Kumar S

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-one Kanagawa-positive and -negative Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates from patient stools and seafood were examined for plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid content, culture characteristics, and indices of pathogenicity. No significant correlation was found between plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid contents and indices of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Twedt RM,Brown DF,Zink DL

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bordetella pertussis BrkA protein protects against the bactericidal activity of complement and antibody; however, some individuals mount an immune response that overcomes this bacterial defense. To further characterize this process, the bactericidal activities of sera from 13 adults with different modes of exposur...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weiss AA,Mobberley PS,Fernandez RC,Mink CM

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiprotein monoclonal antibodies derived from mice inoculated with Rickettsia rickettsii heated at 56 degrees C for 15 min are of two types: one is type specific for epitopes denatured by moderate temperatures, and the other is specific for epitopes resistant to 100 degrees C for 5 min. The heat-resistant epitopes ar...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anacker RL,McDonald GA,List RH,Mann RE

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten micrograms of trehalose-6,6' -dimycolate (cord factor) injected into the footpads of mice increased the antibody response to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) subsequently injected into the same sites. There is a relationship between the antibody response and the cellular reaction induced locally and in the draining ly...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bekierkunst A,Yarkoni E,Flechner I,Morecki S,Vilkas E,Lederer E

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella infections continue to cause substantial morbidity and mortality throughout the world. However, recent discoveries and new paradigms promise to lead to novel strategies to diagnose, treat, and prevent Salmonella infections. This review provides an update of the Salmonella field based on oral presentations g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Andrews-Polymenis HL,Bäumler AJ,McCormick BA,Fang FC

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) is a major metabolic end product detected in deep periodontal pockets that is produced by resident periodontopathic microbiota associated with the progression of periodontitis. Treponema denticola, a member of the subgingival biofilm at disease sites, produces cystalysin, an enzyme that catabo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chu L,Dong Z,Xu X,Cochran DL,Ebersole JL

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the regulation of human immune responses is critical for vaccine development and treating infectious diseases. We have previously shown that simultaneous engagement of the T cell receptor (TCR) and complement regulator CD46 on human CD4(+) T cells in the presence of interleukin-2 (IL-2) induces potent se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Truscott SM,Abate G,Price JD,Kemper C,Atkinson JP,Hoft DF

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehrlichia risticii incubated with mouse peritoneal macrophages elicited with thioglycolate broth survived and replicated, thereby allowing examination of the effects of several immunopotentiating agents. Treatment of the macrophages with recombinant murine gamma interferon (rMuIFN-gamma) in vitro at 1 day before or 3 ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Park J,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) occurs after a long-term Helicobacter pylori infection. However, the disease can develop earlier, and rare cases have been observed in children, suggesting that these H. pylori strains may be more virulent. We used suppressive subtractive hybridization for comparative genomics between H. pyl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Oleastro M,Monteiro L,Lehours P,Mégraud F,Ménard A

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosoma mansoni-infected wild-type (WT) mice develop a Th2 response and chronic disease. In contrast, infected interleukin-4 double-deficient (IL-4(-/-)) mice develop a Th1-like response and an acute, lethal syndrome. Disease severity in these animals correlates with excessive and prolonged production of nitric ox...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Patton EA,La Flamme AC,Pedras-Vasoncelos JA,Pearce EJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With large amounts of parasite gene sequence available, additional bioinformatic tools to screen these sequences for identifying genes encoding antigens are needed. Proteins containing tandem repeat (TR) domains are often B-cell antigens, and antibody responses toward TR domains of the proteins are dominant in human i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goto Y,Coler RN,Reed SG

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00