Human monocytes promote Th1 and Th17 responses to Streptococcus pneumoniae.

abstract：:Immunization with live Plasmodium sporozoites under chloroquine prophylaxis (Spz plus CQ) induces sterile immunity against sporozoite challenge in rodents and, more importantly, in humans. Full protection is obtained with substantially fewer parasites than with the classic immunization with radiation-attenuated sporoz...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mauduit M,Tewari R,Depinay N,Kayibanda M,Lallemand E,Chavatte JM,Snounou G,Rénia L,Grüner AC

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defining the pattern of lymphokine production associated with Brucella abortus is critical for advancing the development of B. abortus as a vaccine carrier. In the present study we investigated the ability of heat-inactivated B. abortus or lipopolysaccharide from B. abortus to induce lymphokine production from purifie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zaitseva MB,Golding H,Betts M,Yamauchi A,Bloom ET,Butler LE,Stevan L,Golding B

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of macrophages in protecting mice from murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) was studied in Swiss, CBA/J, and C57BL/6J mice. CBA/J mice were more resistant to virus than were C57BL/6J mice at all ages tested. Prior treatment of adult Swiss mice with 60 mg of silica, a dose selectively toxic to macrophages, increased ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Selgrade MK,Osborn JE

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis, a causative agent of whooping cough, expresses BrkA, which confers serum resistance, but the closely related human pathogen that also causes whooping cough, Bordetella parapertussis, does not. Interestingly, B. parapertussis, but not B. pertussis, produces an O antigen, a factor shown in other mo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goebel EM,Wolfe DN,Elder K,Stibitz S,Harvill ET

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three types of caseinolytic proteases (Pase-A, Pase-B, and Pase-C) were isolated and purified from culture supernatants of Porphyromonas gingivalis 381 by the combined procedures of acetone precipitation, gel filtration, solubilization with octylthioglucoside followed by affinity chromatography on arginine-Sepharose 4...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hinode D,Hayashi H,Nakamura R

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired cellular immunity to infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is believed to reside in the capacity of mononuclear phagocytes of immunized animals to inhibit intracellular multiplication of the parasite. However, in macrophage tissue culture systems, it has been customary to employ streptomycin in the medium...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Patterson RJ,Youmans GP

更新日期：1970-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo induction of colony-stimulating activity (CSA) by N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine-D-isoglutamine has been demonstrated recently. In this study we increased our understanding of this property by testing muramyl peptides of several structures and activities for their capacity to induce CSA in vivo. A comparison of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galelli A,Lefrancier P,Chedid L

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exohemagglutinin was found in the culture medium of Bacteroides gingivalis 381. Exohemagglutinin was purified 3,150-fold from culture fluid by ultracentrifugation followed by gel filtration on Sepharose CL-4B and by affinity chromatography on arginine-agarose. Examination of the final preparation of exohemagglutinin b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Inoshita E,Amano A,Hanioka T,Tamagawa H,Shizukuishi S,Tsunemitsu A

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and its possible relationship to host resistance and inflammatory response to Pneumocystis carinii infection were examined in mice with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID mice). IL-6 activity was detected in the serum and lungs of P. carinii-infected mice but not in mice free...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chen W,Havell EA,Gigliotti F,Harmsen AG

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of the actin filament capping protein CapG has no apparent effect on the phenotype of mice maintained under sterile conditions; however, bone marrow-derived macrophages from CapG(-/-) mice exhibited distinct motility defects. We examined the ability of CapG(-/-) mice to clear two intracellular bacteria, Listeria ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Parikh SS,Litherland SA,Clare-Salzler MJ,Li W,Gulig PA,Southwick FS

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptor (TLR) signal transduction is a central component of the innate immune response to pathogenic challenge. Although recent studies have begun to elucidate differences in acquired immunity in tissues of the human female reproductive tract, there is a relative paucity of work regarding innate defense mec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pioli PA,Amiel E,Schaefer TM,Connolly JE,Wira CR,Guyre PM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxiella burnetii is an intracellular pathogen that replicates in a lysosome-derived vacuole. A determinant necessary for C. burnetii virulence is the Dot/Icm type IVB secretion system (T4SS). The Dot/Icm system delivers more than 100 proteins, called type IV effectors (T4Es), across the vacuolar membrane into the hos...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Crabill E,Schofield WB,Newton HJ,Goodman AL,Roy CR

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Both idiopathic and infectious forms of colitis disrupt normal intestinal epithelial cell (IEC) proliferation and differentiation, although the mechanisms involved remain unclear. Recently, we demonstrated that infection by the attaching and effacing murine pathogen Citrobacter rodentium leads to a significant reducti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chan JM,Bhinder G,Sham HP,Ryz N,Huang T,Bergstrom KS,Vallance BA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) cause extraintestinal disease in avian species via respiratory tract infection. Virulence factors associated with APEC include type 1 and P fimbriae, curli, aerobactin, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), K1 capsular antigen, temperature-sensitive hemagglutinin (Tsh), and an uncharacteri...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mellata M,Dho-Moulin M,Dozois CM,Curtiss R 3rd,Lehoux B,Fairbrother JM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquisition of immunity to Plasmodium falciparum sexual stages is a key determinant for reducing human-mosquito transmission by preventing the fertilization and the development of the parasite in the mosquito midgut. Naturally acquired immunity against sexual stages may therefore form the basis for the development of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ouédraogo AL,Roeffen W,Luty AJ,de Vlas SJ,Nebie I,Ilboudo-Sanogo E,Cuzin-Ouattara N,Teleen K,Tiono AB,Sirima SB,Verhave JP,Bousema T,Sauerwein R

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A receptor specific for lipoglycans from Acholeplasma axanthum and Acholeplasma granularum was isolated from sheep erythrocyte stroma by extraction with n-pentanol and permeation chromatography. The purified receptor appeared as one band on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels and stained with Coomassie blue, pe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Al-Samarrai TH,Smith PF,Lynn RJ

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three MudJ prototrophs demonstrated that intracellular replication is a Salmonella virulence trait (K. Y. Leung and B. B. Finlay, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 88:11470-11474, 1991). mutS and mutH are disrupted in mutants 3-11 and 12-23, and ssaQ is disrupted in mutant 17-21. Further analysis revealed that loss of Salmo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suvarnapunya AE,Zurawski DV,Guy RL,Stein MA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While several diseases associated with Chlamydia psittaci infection have been reported in Phascolarctos cinereus (koala), it is still unclear whether one or more chlamydial strains are responsible. In this study, we provide evidence, obtained by restriction enzyme and gene probe analysis, that two quite distinct strai...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Girjes AA,Hugall AF,Timms P,Lavin MF

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in cell viability and in factors affecting metabolic integrity were examined after exposure of Escherichia coli LP1092 to human serum. Antibody-dependent classical pathway activity accounted for the rapid killing of strain LP1092 by complement. Removal of serum lysozyme by bentonite absorption or by neutraliza...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Taylor PW,Kroll HP

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria is an asymmetric lipid bilayer that consists of inner leaflet phospholipids and outer leaflet lipopolysaccharides (LPS). The asymmetric character and unique biochemistry of LPS molecules contribute to the OM's ability to function as a molecular permeability barrier tha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giordano NP,Cian MB,Dalebroux ZD

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella bronchiseptica is closely related to Bordetella pertussis, which produces respiratory disease primarily in mammals other than humans. However, its importance as a human pathogen is being increasingly recognized. Although a large amount of research on Bordetella has been generated regarding protein virulence...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sisti F,Fernández J,Rodríguez ME,Lagares A,Guiso N,Hozbor DF

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms by which Mycobacterium tuberculosis elicits disease are complex, involving a large repertoire of bacterial genes that are required for in vivo growth and survival. To identify such genes, we utilized a high-throughput microarray detection method to rapidly screen hundreds of unique, genotypically define...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lamichhane G,Tyagi S,Bishai WR

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that oral immunization with flagellum-defective mutant strains of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium with the ClpXP-deficient background protected mice against oral challenge with the virulent strain. These data indicate that Salmonella flagellin is not a dominant protective antigen in oral immunization ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kodama C,Matsui H

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groups of specific pathogen-free Hartley strain guinea pigs were vaccinated with viable Mycobacterium bovis BCG and maintained on isocaloric purified diets containing either 30 or 10% protein (ovalbumin) combined with either 50 ppm (microgram/g) or no added zinc. Seven weeks later the guinea pigs were skin tested with...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McMurray DN,Yetley EA

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of activation of intestinal guanylate cyclase by Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin (STa) has been studied by using isolated rat intestinal epithelial cells and purified brush border membrane (BBM) preparations. Inhibitors of prostaglandin biosynthesis, quinacrine and 5,8,11,14-eicosatetraynoic aci...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dreyfus LA,Jaso-Friedmann L,Robertson DC

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production and role of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) in pneumococcal pneumonia were investigated in a mouse pneumonia model. When approximately 10(6) CFU of Streptococcus pneumoniae TUM19 were used to inoculate CBA/J mice intranasally, TNF-alpha levels in the lungs and serum began to increase from 1 and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takashima K,Tateda K,Matsumoto T,Iizawa Y,Nakao M,Yamaguchi K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia enterocolitica serotype 9 contained an antigenic component giving a reaction of total identity with Brucella native hapten and polysaccharide B. This component was present in a phenol-water extract (fraction 5; M. Redfearn, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1960) along with the smooth lipopolysa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernandez-Lago L,Moriyon I,Toyos J,Diaz R

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of infection and the pathogenic effects on the reproductive function of laboratory mice infected with Bartonella birtlesii recovered from an Apodemus species are described. B. birtlesii infection, as determined by bacteremia, occurred in BALB/c mice inoculated intravenously. Inoculation with a low-dose in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boulouis HJ,Barrat F,Bermond D,Bernex F,Thibault D,Heller R,Fontaine JJ,Piémont Y,Chomel BB

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent epidemiological observations suggest that clinical evolution of Plasmodium falciparum infections might be influenced by the concurrent presence of another Plasmodium species, and such mixed-species infections are now known to occur frequently in residents of most areas of endemicity. We used mice infected with ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Voza T,Vigário AM,Belnoue E,Grüner AC,Deschemin JC,Kayibanda M,Delmas F,Janse CJ,Franke-Fayard B,Waters AP,Landau I,Snounou G,Rénia L

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface layer proteins (SLPs) are essential for induction of abortion by Campylobacter fetus subsp. fetus in experimentally challenged ewes. These proteins are encoded by multiple sap genes and vary in size and antigenicity. The role of SLP antigenic variation during experimental ovine infection was investigated. Foll...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grogono-Thomas R,Blaser MJ,Ahmadi M,Newell DG

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00