Purification and characterization of the extracellular C3d-binding protein of Candida albicans.

abstract：:Synthetic oligosaccharides derived from the capsular polysaccharide (PRP) of Haemophilus influenzae type b were conjugated to carrier proteins via a thioether linkage. Conjugates were made of trimeric and tetrameric ribose-ribitol-phosphate and tetanus toxoid or diphtheria toxin. All conjugates elicited anti-PRP antib...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peeters CC,Evenberg D,Hoogerhout P,Käyhty H,Saarinen L,van Boeckel CA,van der Marel GA,van Boom JH,Poolman JT

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei, a causative agent of melioidosis, is a Gram-negative facultative intracellular bacterium that can survive and multiply in macrophages. Previously, we demonstrated that B. pseudomallei failed to activate gene expression downstream of the MyD88-independent pathway, particularly the expression ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pudla M,Limposuwan K,Utaisincharoen P

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We utilized magnetic resonance imaging to visualize lesions in the lungs of guinea pigs infected by low-dose aerosol exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Lesions were prominent in such images, and colorized three-dimensional reconstructions of images revealed a very uniform distribution in the lungs. Lesion numbers...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kraft SL,Dailey D,Kovach M,Stasiak KL,Bennett J,McFarland CT,McMurray DN,Izzo AA,Orme IM,Basaraba RJ

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized the natural immune responses to the 19-kDa domain of merozoite surface protein 1 in individuals from an area of western Kenya in which malaria is holoendemic. We used the three known natural variant forms of the yeast-expressed recombinant 19-kDa fragment that are referred to as the E-KNG, Q-KNG,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shi YP,Sayed U,Qari SH,Roberts JM,Udhayakumar V,Oloo AJ,Hawley WA,Kaslow DC,Nahlen BL,Lal AA

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence of Enterococcus faecalis strains to human T24 cells was examined by scanning electron microscopy. Five highly adhesive strains were identified from 30 strains isolated from the urine of patients with urinary tract infections. No efficiently adhesive strains were found among the 30 strains isolated from t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shiono A,Ike Y

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the mechanism of the high incidence of lower respiratory tract infections in patients with diabetes mellitus, we investigated the kinetics of production of macrophage inflammatory protein 2 (MIP-2), an important mediator of lung neutrophil recruitment, using mice with streptozotocin-induced diabetes. Intr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Amano H,Yamamoto H,Senba M,Oishi K,Suzuki S,Fukushima K,Mukaida N,Matsushima K,Eguchi K,Nagatake T

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the course of infection of rabbits with vaccinia virus, macrophages obtained from the peritoneal cavity develop bactericidal activity and the replication of vaccinia virus becomes restricted in these cells. The abortive replication of vaccinia virus in the activated macrophages was characterized in the present ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Buchmeier NA,Gee SR,Murphy FA,Rawls WE

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection against cholera has been correlated with the level of serum vibriocidal antibodies. The specificity of these vibriocidal antibodies was mostly to the lipopolysaccharide (LPS). We synthesized conjugates of detoxified LPS with cholera toxin (CT) and other proteins in order to elicit serum LPS antibodies with ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gupta RK,Szu SC,Finkelstein RA,Robbins JB

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outer surface protein A (OspA) of the Lyme disease spirochete is primarily produced in the tick vector. OspA, which is a receptor for attaching spirochetes to the tick gut, is down regulated as the spirochetes leave the tick and enter the mammalian host. Although OspA is not a major antigen produced in the mammal, the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Strother KO,Hodzic E,Barthold SW,de Silva AM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole cells, morphological components, and various extracts of Candida albicans were tested for toxicity by methods involving biological activities ordinarily used to characterize bacterial endotoxin. Fungal preparations exerted several of these activities, but only at much higher dose levels than those required for b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cutler JE,Friedman L,Milner KC

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of several strains of Streptococcus gordonii attached in much higher numbers to experimental pellicles formed from samples of submandibular or parotid saliva on hydroxyapatite (HA) beads than to buffer controls. The nature of the salivary components responsible were investigated by preparing experimental pellicl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gibbons RJ,Hay DI,Schlesinger DH

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total and insoluble dextransucrase activities were measured in cell-associated and supernatant fractions of Streptococcus mutans GS-5 grown in several media. Although the amount of cell-associated and supernatant activity varied greatly as a function of medium, the total activity appeared constant. The distribution of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Montville TJ,Cooney CL,Sinskey AJ

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus), a leading cause of bacterial disease, is most commonly carried in the human nasopharynx. Colonization induces inflammation that promotes the organism's growth and transmission. This inflammatory response is dependent on intracellular sensing of bacterial components that acc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lemon JK,Miller MR,Weiser JN

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Brucella abortus, a gene encoding a major cell envelope protein, omp2, is duplicated within a short segment of the large chromosomal DNA. Although both genes contain open reading frames, encoding proteins of high identity, expression from only one, omp2b, has been detected in laboratory-grown B. abortus. In the pre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marquis H,Ficht TA

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some strains of Streptococcus mutans were found to recognize and bind collagen type I. Binding of 125I-labeled collagen type I was specific in that collagen types I and II, but not unrelated proteins, were able to inhibit binding of the labeled ligand to bacteria. Collagen binding to S. mutans was partially reversible...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Switalski LM,Butcher WG,Caufield PC,Lantz MS

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested that interleukin-4 (IL-4) has a protective effect in host defense to Borrelia burgdorferi infection, both in limiting the severity of arthritis and in controlling spirochete numbers in tissues, and a mapping study revealed suggestive linkage to a cluster of genes on mouse chromosome 11,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Potter MR,Noben-Trauth N,Weis JH,Teuscher C,Weis JJ

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：:Polyprotein allergens are a family of structurally homologous molecules from parasitic nematodes which induce specific immunoglobulin E in infected individuals. We show here that both H-2 and non-H-2 factors determine the ability of mice to generate T- and B-cell responses to the filarial polyprotein allergen (Brugia ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Allen JE,Lawrence RA,Maizels RM

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro effects of pneumolysin, a sulfhydryl-activated toxin produced by Streptococcus pneumoniae, on various functions of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNLs) was investigated. Treatment of PMNLs with highly purified toxin significantly inhibited respiratory burst (in response to stimulation), ability to k...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Paton JC,Ferrante A

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In assessing the host cell range of bovine parvoviruses, these viruses were found to replicate optimally in actively dividing bovine fetal lung and spleen cells. Other primary bovine fetal cells supported growth to a lesser extent, but bovine line cells and line cells of other animal species tested did not. Minimal in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Daugharty H,Warfield DT,Nemingway ND,Casey HL

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have mapped a group of virulence genes of Porphyromonas gingivalis to a single large fragment of the genome. These genes (rgpA, kgp, and hagA) all contain a consensus repeat sequence (HArep). rgpA and kgp encode cysteine proteases with Arg-X and Lys-X specificity, respectively, and hagA encodes a hemagglutinin. Gen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lewis JP,Macrina FL

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of middle ear inflammation caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae was explored in the chinchilla model with different pneumococcal cell wall (CW) preparations, including isolated native CW, M1 muramidase CW (M1-CW) digest, amidase CW digest, and M1 peptidoglycan (M1-PG) digest. Inflammatory cell and lysoz...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carlsen BD,Kawana M,Kawana C,Tomasz A,Giebink GS

更新日期：1992-07-01 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

abstract：:Two distinct and complementary pathways, one mediated by perforin and the other dependent upon CD95 (Fas), effect cell-mediated cytotoxicity. We examined the relative roles of these pathways in host defenses against the intracellular bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes by using murine listeriosis as a model syst...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jensen ER,Glass AA,Clark WR,Wing EJ,Miller JF,Gregory SH

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have noted that the prevalence of certain gonococcal colony types is influenced by the physiological state of the human host. Consequently eight different gonococcal strains were passed on clear typing medium, and opaque (Op) and transparent (Tr) variants of heavily pilated (P++) bacteria were selecte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Salit IE,Gotschlich EC

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular resistance to facultative intracellular parasites has been studied by determining the antimycobacterial activity and the amount of fatty acids in sera and in heptane extracts of freshly collected and 24-h-cultured normal and activated guinea pig alveolar macrophages and liver cells. The quantity and the antim...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hemsworth GR,Kochan I

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenicities of 10 temperature-sensitive mutants of Venezuelan encephalitis virus were studied using the hamster model of human virulence. The parental strain and nine of the temperature-sensitive mutants produced lethal infections in hamsters. Strain ts 126 showed reduced hamster virulence. Deaths with the lethal ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krieger JN,Scherer WF,Wiebe ME,Pancake BA,Harsanyi ZP

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal mucus is postulated to play a role in preventing colonization of the gastrointestinal tract by microbial pathogens. To evaluate the ability of both crude mucus and purified mucin, a glycoprotein of goblet cell origin, to inhibit mucosal adherence of enteric pathogens, we examined whether mucus and mucin der...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Drumm B,Roberton AM,Sherman PM

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice infected with Trypanosoma musculi developed hyperplasia of the spleen, lymph nodes, and liver; in contrast, their thymuses displayed transient involution. All organs returned to normal in a month or less. There was modest anemia, lasting until the parasites were cleared from the bloodstream, followed by a rapid i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hirokawa K,Eishi Y,Albright JW,Albright JF

更新日期：1981-12-01 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