Rabbit intestinal fluid stimulation by an enterotoxigenic factor of Staphylococcus aureus.

abstract：:The inactivation of Coxiella burnetii in suspension or in cultures of guinea pig peritoneal macrophages by ultraviolet (UV) light was studied. The effect of UV treatment on the activity of macrophage organelle marker enzymes and their subsequent equilibration in linear sucrose gradients was also determined. It was sho...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Little JS,Kishimoto RA,Canonico PG

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody (MAb) was raised against Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2) of Escherichia coli O157:H7. MAb VTm1.1 belonged to the immunoglobulin G1 subclass and had a kappa light chain, and it could neutralize the cytotoxic activity of Stx2 and variants derived from patient strains but not that of variants derived from anim...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nakao H,Kiyokawa N,Fujimoto J,Yamasaki S,Takeda T

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of complement-mediated killing of seven serum-sensitive Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains was examined. All seven strains were sensitive to the bactericidal activity of 20% pooled normal human serum (PNHS) containing magnesium EGTA, which blocks the classical complement pathway (CCP), or 20% PNHS preheated ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schiller NL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice pretreated intraperitoneally with trehalose-6,6'-dimycolate (cord factor) were protected against an intraperitoneal challenge with Salmonella typhi strain Ty2 or Salmonella typhimurium strain SR 11. The nonspecific resistance to S. typhi and S. typhimurium was still detectable 7 and 14 days, respectively, after a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yarkoni E,Bekierkunst A

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A persistent Staphylococcus epidermidis infection in mice around a subcutaneous polyvinylpyrrolidone-grafted silicon elastomer catheter (SEpvp) but not around a conventional silicon elastomer catheter was observed. With SEpvp pericatheter tissue, protracted and exaggerated interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) production was f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boelens JJ,Zaat SA,Murk JL,Weening JJ,van Der Poll T,Dankert J

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar bone resorption can be induced in specific-pathogen-free mice by oral infection with Porphyromonas gingivalis (P. J. Baker, R. T. Evans, and D. C. Roopenian, Arch. Oral Biol. 39:1035-1040, 1994). Here we used a mouse strain, C57BL/6J, which is relatively resistant to P. gingivalis-induced bone loss to examine...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker PJ,DuFour L,Dixon M,Roopenian DC

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteroides fragilis with enterotoxin-like activity (BFEL) was isolated from the feces of 24- to 48-h-old lambs with acute diarrheal disease on three different sheep ranches in the Northern Rocky Mountain region of the United States. The lamb intestinal loop test was used to enrich for the bacterium before its initial...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Myers LL,Firehammer BD,Shoop DS,Border MM

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated the existence of Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates deficient in the lipopolysaccharide O side chain, the major factor for resistance to complement-mediated killing in this bacterial species. These isolates are complement resistant, and their mechanisms to resist complement were in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alvarez D,Merino S,Tomás JM,Benedí VJ,Albertí S

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrakingdom cell-to-cell communication and interkingdom cell-to-cell communication play essential roles in the virulence of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC). Four signals, autoinducer 2 (AI-2), AI-3, and the human hormones epinephrine and norepinephrine, are important in this communication. The effect of the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kendall MM,Rasko DA,Sperandio V

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytes from uninfected, nonimmune mice can be stimulated to proliferate and produce antibody to diverse antigens in culture when exposed to the purified protein derivative of tuberculin or unheated tuberculin culture filtrate. Lymphocytes from numerous inbred strains of mice respond to tuberculin, but no true low...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sultzer BM,Nilsson BS,Kirschenbaum D

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid A portion has been identified as the active center responsible for lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced macrophage activation. However, we found that Salmonella (Salmonella enterica serovars Abortusequi, Minnesota, and Typhimurium) lipid A is inactive in human macrophages, despite its LPS being highly active. Th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Muroi M,Tanamoto K

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells infected by Rickettsia rickettsii, the causative agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, display unusual intracellular morphological changes characterized by dilatation of the membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum and outer nuclear envelope. These changes are consistent with those that might be expected to occur...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Silverman DJ,Santucci LA

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum antibody response to proteins encoded by the virulence-associated plasmid of Shigella flexneri was determined in monkeys challenged with virulent S. flexneri serotype 2a. With water-extractable antigen in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, a significant increase in antibody titer against proteins from a p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Oaks EV,Hale TL,Formal SB

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we isolated a high-molecular-weight immunogenic polysaccharide (designated PS) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa immunotype 1 (IT-1). The method which we used was modified to permit the isolation of a similar PS from P. aeruginosa IT-2. This antigen was composed primarily of carbohydrate, had a complex monosacch...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pier GB,Sidberry HF,Sadoff JC

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When type I Candida stellatoidea is plated onto sucrose agar at levels in excess of 10(8) cells, some isolates spontaneously form sucrose-positive colonies. These isolates do not display typical type I phenotypes but instead exhibit phenotypes intermediate between type I C. stellatoidea and C. albicans. Also, this phe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wickes BL,Golin JE,Kwon-Chung KJ

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection of mouse liver after partial hepatectomy was studied. Partial hepatectomy resulted in the rapid onset of cellular DNA synthesis and the appearance of many mitotic figures (peak, 3 days after surgery). Similar changes were not seen in control animals. After partial hepatectomy, the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fang ZY,Tenser RB,Rapp F

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an earlier report, we had described the isolation and characterization of autolysis-defective mutants of Staphylococcus aureus (N. Mani, P. Tobin, and R.K. Jayaswal, J. Bacteriol. 175:1493-1499, 1993). In the study reported here, an autolysis-defective mutant showed attenuated virulence in a rat model of experiment...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mani N,Baddour LM,Offutt DQ,Vijaranakul U,Nadakavukaren MJ,Jayaswal RK

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Re mutant of Salmonella minnesota adheres in much greater numbers than the wild type to endothelial cells derived from the bovine pulmonary artery. Since the Re mutant is distinguished from wild-type S. minnesota by its ability to bind C1q and since endothelial cells possess receptors for C1q, we examined the role...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ryan US,Schultz DR,Goodwin JD,Vann JM,Selvaraj MP,Hart MA

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats kept under germfree conditions showed lower specific lysosomal enzyme activities in liver endothelial cells, but not in Kupffer cells. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Knook DL,Barkway C,Sleyster EC

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the cytokine/chemokine secretions and alteration of protein expression from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) cocultured with adult liver flukes (Opisthorchis viverrini) for 6 to 24 h. PBMC-derived proteins were identified by two-dimensional electrophoresis and mass spectrometry, and the cytok...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hongsrichan N,Intuyod K,Pinlaor P,Khoontawad J,Yongvanit P,Wongkham C,Roytrakul S,Pinlaor S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was shown in this work that the infectivity of metacyclic forms of Trypanosoma cruzi was affected upon interaction with the monoclonal antibody (10D8), which reacts with a carbohydrate epitope of the 35- and 50-kilodalton (kDa) surface glycoconjugates. The invasion of Vero cells by metacyclic forms of strains Tulah...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yoshida N,Mortara RA,Araguth MF,Gonzalez JC,Russo M

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), a tryptophan-degrading enzyme, is inducible by various interferons (IFNs). IDO-mediated tryptophan degradation, but not the formation of IDO-catalyzed tryptophan metabolites, has been suggested as a mechanism for the antiparasitic action of IFN-gamma. To determine whether the IFN-gam...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Habara-Ohkubo A,Shirahata T,Takikawa O,Yoshida R

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased protection against a virulent challenge with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is induced mainly by a previous immunization with living avirulent mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium bovis BCG. Only a transient and marginal protection is obtained after immunization with bacterial extracts or dead bacteria. Both livi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Romain F,Laqueyrerie A,Militzer P,Pescher P,Chavarot P,Lagranderie M,Auregan G,Gheorghiu M,Marchal G

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacteria have been shown to activate human natural killer (NK) cells. In this report, we show that the gram-positive bacterium Listeria monocytogenes can also activate human NK cells with regard to non-major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-restricted killing and the production of cytokines. Overnight in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guo Y,Niesel DW,Ziegler HK,Klimpel GR

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of Eimeria vermiformis within cultured murine fibroblastlike (L-929) or rat epithelial-like (RATEC) cells was inhibited by treatment of the cells with the appropriate recombinant gamma interferon. The effect was apparent as a reduction in both the initial numbers of intracellular sporozoites and, to a much ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rose ME,Smith AL,Wakelin D

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DC) suffer a maturation defect following interaction with erythrocytes infected with malaria parasites and become unable to induce protective malaria liver-stage immunity. Here we show that, by contrast, maturation-arrested DC in vitro are capable of the successful induction of antigen-specific gamma ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pouniotis DS,Proudfoot O,Bogdanoska V,Apostolopoulos V,Fifis T,Plebanski M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some clinical strains of Vibrio cholerae non-O1 produce an extracellular factor that evokes a rapid and dramatic cytotoxic response which manifests as cell rounding of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) and HeLa cells without accompanying membrane damage. This study was performed to establish the identity of the non-membrane...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Saha PK,Koley H,Nair GB

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anopheles gambiae is the major African vector of Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly species of human malaria parasite and the most prevalent in Africa. Several strategies are being developed to limit the global impact of malaria via reducing transmission rates, among which are transmission-blocking vaccines (TBVs)...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lavazec C,Boudin C,Lacroix R,Bonnet S,Diop A,Thiberge S,Boisson B,Tahar R,Bourgouin C

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the protective efficacy of human hyperimmune globulin to Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in an infant rat model, we compared hyperimmune globulin containing 600 mug of anti-polyribophosphate (PRP) antibody per ml to conventional immune globulin containing 66 mug of anti-PRP antibody per ml. The hype...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ambrosino D,Schreiber JR,Daum RS,Siber GR

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed hypersensitivity can be induced in C57BL/6J mice by two subcutaneous injections of Merthiolate-killed Blastomyces dermatitidis yeast cells in Freund incomplete adjuvant. Development of delayed hypersensitivity peaked at the day 18 post-primary antigen-emulsion injection, as determined by footpad sensitivity te...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cozad GC,Chang CT

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00