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abstract：:The P8 proteoglycolipid complex (P8 PGLC) is a glyconjugate expressed by Leishmania mexicana complex parasites. We previously have shown that vaccination with P8 PGLC provides protection against cutaneous leishmaniasis in susceptible BALB/c mice. However, the biological importance of this complex remains unknown. Here...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whitaker SM,Colmenares M,Pestana KG,McMahon-Pratt D

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between hypersensitivity and cellular resistance to infection with facultative intracellular parasites was studied in mice by using infection-immunity in tularemia as a model system. Delayed hypersensitivity to antigenic fractions of Francisella tularensis was first detected 6 to 7 days after immuniza...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Claflin JL,Larson CL

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicity of Chlamydia trachomatis was studied with mouse peritoneal macrophage culture. Inoculation of 30 inclusion-forming units of trachoma B/TW-5/OT organisms and 250 inclusion-forming units of lymphogranuloma venereum L2/434/Bu organisms per cell caused immediated toxicity, with the killing of 40 to 90% of the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kuo CC

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major virulence factor of group A streptococci is M protein, a surface-exposed fibrillar molecule of which there exist more than 80 distinct serological types. Antigenic variability resides largely in the amino-terminal region of M protein, whereas the carboxy-terminal half of the molecule is highly conserved among ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bessen D,Fischetti VA

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis continues to ravage humanity, killing 2 million people yearly. Most cases occur in areas of the world to which the disease is endemic, where almost everyone is vaccinated early in life with Mycobacterium bovis BCG, the currently available vaccine against tuberculosis. Thus, while more-potent vaccines are ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Horwitz MA,Harth G,Dillon BJ,Maslesa-Galic S

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various pathogenic bacteria with the capacity to live within eukaryotic cells activate an apoptotic program in infected host cells. Induction of apoptosis by Listeria monocytogenes in murine dendritic cells and hepatocytes has been described. Here we address the questions of whether and how the pathogen kills macropha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barsig J,Kaufmann SH

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated immunity is pivotal in host resistance to Blastomyces dermatitidis infection. Immunization of mice with the WI-1 adhesin enhances resistance against experimental pulmonary infection but elicits features of a mixed T-helper-cell immune response. Immune mice acquire delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) but ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wüthrich M,Finkel-Jiminez BE,Klein BS

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial passage of Cryptococcus neoformans in mice increases virulence relative to the nonpassaged line. Postpassaged lines showed no difference in the expression of most known virulence factors, with the exception that the more virulent lines had smaller capsules in vitro. These data imply that other mechanisms of vir...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McClelland EE,Perrine WT,Potts WK,Casadevall A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of bacterial phospholipases during serum-mediated killing of Escherichia coli was examined by using wild-type DR+ DS+ and an isogenic phospholipase-deficient mutant DR- DS-. No difference in serum sensitivity was observed when the parental DR+ DS+ and mutant DR- DS- strains were exposed to various conce...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kreutzer DL,Vandermaten M,Buller CS,Robertson DC,Hirata AA

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of immunity to salmonellae conferred by immunization with live vaccines were studied by adoptive transfer using the mouse-virulent strain Salmonella typhimurium C5 and innately susceptible BALB/c (ltys) mice. This organism cannot establish a sublethal infection in naive BALB/c mice. Animals immunized 2 ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mastroeni P,Villarreal-Ramos B,Hormaeche CE

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified version of the Bacteroides fragilis transposon Tn4400, designated Tn4400', enabling rapid isolation and analysis of B. fragilis mutants has been constructed. To identify potential virulence factors, Tn4400'-generated mutants were screened by a new method; this resulted in the isolation of 21 mutant strains ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tang YP,Malamy MH

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was developed to detect soluble peptidoglycans in biological fluids. It makes use of the similar affinities of vancomycin and purified rabbit antibodies to peptidoglycan precursor sequences found in soluble peptidoglycans. This assay has been used to detect as little as 500 p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Park H,Zeiger AR,Schumacher HR

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell wall lytic enzyme (Kyowa lytic no. 2 enzyme) liberated arthritogenic hydrosoluble peptidoglycans from both arthritogenic and non-arthritogenic bacterial cell walls. From these cell walls, mutanolysin (peptidoglycan-degrading enzyme) also liberated hydrosoluble peptidoglycans which, however, lacked arthritogenicit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kohashi O,Pearson CM,Watanabe Y,Kotani S

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 causes food and waterborne enteric infections that can result in hemorrhagic colitis and life-threatening hemolytic uremic syndrome. Intimate adherence of the bacteria to intestinal epithelial cells is mediated by intimin, but E. coli O157:H7 also possess several other putative adhesins, inclu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lloyd SJ,Ritchie JM,Rojas-Lopez M,Blumentritt CA,Popov VL,Greenwich JL,Waldor MK,Torres AG

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After oral feeding of mice with avirulent Salmonella, Escherichia coli, or hybrid strains, only certain bacterial strains were able to multiply and persist within the small intestinal Peyer's patches. After oral vaccination alone, or oral priming and subsequent parenteral boosting, antibody class and titers were detec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hohmann A,Schmidt G,Rowley D

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a rabbit model of Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis, we studied the effects of aspirin on the natural progression of this infection. Compared with untreated animals, the aspirin-treated animals showed a 30% (P = 0.11) reduction in the weight of the vegetations and an 84% (P = 0.03) reduction in the bacterial ti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nicolau DP,Freeman CD,Nightingale CH,Quintiliani R,Coe CJ,Maderazo EG,Cooper BW

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the second messenger cyclic-di-GMP and Gac/Rsm signaling pathways are associated with the transition from acute to chronic infection. Therefore, identification of the molecular mechanisms that govern lifestyle choice in bacteria is very important. Here, we identified a novel cyclic-di-GMP mo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jiao H,Li F,Wang T,Yam JKH,Yang L,Liang H

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in molecular composition of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) between serum-sensitive (S) clinical isolates of Escherichia coli and serum-resistant (R) clones derived by serial passage in serum were demonstrated to determine sensitivity or resistance to killing by normal human serum (NHS). LPS from R clones had a ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Porat R,Johns MA,McCabe WR

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various factors affecting the aggregation of Actinomyces naeslundii strain 12104 were studied. When the pH of glucose-supplemented growth medium fell below 5.5, the cells aggregated and formed microbial masses which tenaciously adhered to the culture vessels. When the organism was cultured in the same medium in the ab...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miller CH,Palenik CJ,Stamper KE

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute phase of Chagas' disease is accompanied by immunosuppression. To explore the underlying mechanism(s), we used an in vitro culture system in which the capacities of activated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells to express interleukin-2 receptors (IL-2R) and proliferate are markedly inhibited in the prese...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Beltz LA,Kierszenbaum F,Sztein MB

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of the healthy intestinal microbiome and homeostasis of the intestinal immune system, which are closely interactive, are two key factors for ulcerative colitis. Here, we show that MI-2, a selective inhibitor of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma translocation-1 (MALT1), alleviated excessive inflamma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee KW,Kim M,Lee CH

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Controversy persists over the role that the capsular polysaccharide plays in the pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus infections. To address this issue, we compared the mouse virulence of S. aureus Reynolds and capsule-defective mutant strains cultivated under conditions of high or low capsule expression. Strain Reyn...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thakker M,Park JS,Carey V,Lee JC

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) trigger the systemic release of both cytokines and catecholamines. Cytokines are known to be capable of eliciting a stress hormone response in vivo. The present study sought insight into the effect of noradrenaline on LPS-induced release of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) and inte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van der Poll T,Jansen J,Endert E,Sauerwein HP,van Deventer SJ

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma interferon (IFN-γ) induces expression of the tryptophan-catabolizing enzyme indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO1) in human epithelial cells, the permissive cells for the obligate intracellular bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. IDO1 depletes tryptophan by catabolizing it to kynurenine with consequences for C. trachom...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ibana JA,Belland RJ,Zea AH,Schust DJ,Nagamatsu T,AbdelRahman YM,Tate DJ,Beatty WL,Aiyar AA,Quayle AJ

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that both Ixodes scapularis saliva and Borrelia burgdorferi antigens modulated lymphokines and monokines in vitro. The studies presented here were designed to delineate the role of I. scapularis and B. burgdorferi in modulation of the host immune response in vivo. Infestation of C3H/...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zeidner N,Mbow ML,Dolan M,Massung R,Baca E,Piesman J

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin A (IgA) was prepared from samples of parotid saliva collected from two individuals over a 150-day period. Standardized solutions of the IgA were tested for agglutinating antibody activity against strains of streptococcus salivarius, S. sanguis, S. mitis, and S. mutans that had been isolated from a homol...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bratthall D,Gibbons RJ

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement-fixing (CF) activity of antigens from cultured Burkitt lymphoma cells was determined by using normal American sera as the source of antibody. Approximately 75% of the sera fixed complement with the positive cell lines. These lines contained the herpes-like virus detectable by electron microscopy. The co...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McCormick KJ,Stenback WA,Mumford DM,Trentin JJ

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine sera for tissue culture use were shown to contain heterophil antigen of the Paul-Bunnell-Davidsohn type by immune adherence hemagglutination tests with sera from patients with infectious mononucleosis. The antibody titers observed were comparable to those determined by two other methods; i.e., the immune adhere...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lennette ET,Henle G,Henle W,Horwitz CA

更新日期：1978-03-01 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

abstract：:We have determined the amounts of specific anti-class 1 outer membrane protein antibodies in sera from 25 patients during the course of systemic meningococcal disease, using purified class 1 protein as the sensitizing antigen in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The class 1 protein was obtained from a variant of s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guttormsen HK,Wetzler LM,Solberg CO

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00