Listeria monocytogenes strain-specific impairment of the TetR regulator underlies the drastic increase in cyclic di-AMP secretion and beta interferon-inducing ability.

abstract：:Zoonotic infections caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium pose a constant threat to consumer health, with the pig being a particularly major source of multidrug-resistant isolates. Vaccination, as a promising approach to reduce colonization and shedding, has been scarcely used, as it interferes with curren...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Selke M,Meens J,Springer S,Frank R,Gerlach GF

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local passive immunization with monoclonal antibodies (Mc Ab) to Streptococcus mutans was attempted as an alternative approach to active systemic immunization. We prepared an immunoglobulin G class Mc Ab to the cell surface protein determinant of streptococcal antigen I/II and applied it repeatedly to the teeth of rhe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lehner T,Caldwell J,Smith R

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spleen cell cultures from guinea pigs given legionella pneumophila vaccine in complete Freund adjuvant or as a sublethal infection were inhibited in their migration activity in vitro when incubated with specific antigen. Both direct and indirect migration inhibition assays revealed sensitization of the guinea pigs to ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Friedman H,Widen R,Lee I,Klein T

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A murine respiratory infection model was used to study the mechanism of protective immunity to Bordetella pertussis. We found that nude mice, which are deficient in T cells, developed a persistent infection and failed to clear the bacteria after aerosol inoculation. In contrast, normal adult nonimmune mice cleared a r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mills KH,Barnard A,Watkins J,Redhead K

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two enteropathogenic strains of Escherichia coli (EEC) differed from a nonenteropathogenic strain of E. coli (NEEC) in their association with porcine small intestinal epithelium. The EEC characteristically were found along villi from tip to base and contiguous to the brush border. They were not in crypts. In contrast,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bertschinger HU,Moon HW,Whipp SC

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reinfection of immune mice with Leishmania major elicits a secondary gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) response to which specific CD8+ T cells are essential. We have shown previously that specific CD8+ T cells from reinfected immune mice release substantially higher levels of IFN-gamma, a cytokine essential for the efficie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Müller I,Kropf P,Louis JA,Milon G

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary antibody response of BALB/c splenocytes to sheep erythrocytes in vitro was suppressed by infection with Friend leukemia virus (FLV), with the response capacity decreasing with increasing duration of infection. The acquisition of normal antibody responses was amplified by macrophage-produced antibody respon...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Butler RC,Frier JM,Chapekar MS,Graham MO,Friedman H

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the 35-kDa immunogenic Treponema pallidium subsp. pallidum (T. pallidum) membrane protein C, TmpC, was cloned, sequenced, and expressed in Escherichia coli. The deduced amino acid sequence carries on N-terminal signal sequence with a four-amino-acid motif, which is characteristic for bacterial lipopr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schouls LM,van der Heide HG,van Embden JD

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD8+ T cells are essential for protection against mycobacteria, as is clearly demonstrated by the fatal outcome of experimental infection of beta-2 microglobulin knockout mice. However, the mechanisms and antigens (Ags) leading to CD8+ T-cell activation and regulation have been poorly characterized. Here we show that,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Denis O,Lozes E,Huygen K

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and course of normally lethal parasitemias in mice inoculated intraperitoneally with erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium yoelii or Plasmodium berghei were markedly affected by treatment with the antilymphoid drug cyclosporin A (CS-A). When the first of four daily subcutaneous 25-mg/kg doses of CS-A was g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nickell SP,Scheibel LW,Cole GA

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current efforts to develop plague vaccines focus on LcrV, a polypeptide that resides at the tip of type III secretion needles. LcrV-specific antibodies block Yersinia pestis type III injection of Yop effectors into host immune cells, thereby enabling phagocytes to kill the invading pathogen. Earlier work reported that...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miller NC,Quenee LE,Elli D,Ciletti NA,Schneewind O

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the in vivo physiology and metabolism of Streptococcus pneumoniae is limited, even though pneumococci rely on efficient acquisition and metabolism of the host nutrients for growth and survival. Because the nutrient-limited, hypoxic host tissues favor mixed-acid fermentation, we studied the role of the pne...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yesilkaya H,Spissu F,Carvalho SM,Terra VS,Homer KA,Benisty R,Porat N,Neves AR,Andrew PW

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae neuraminidase (NANase) is hypothesized to act synergistically with cholera toxin (CT) and increase the severity of a secretory response by increasing the binding and penetration of CT to enterocytes. To test this hypothesis, the NANase gene (nanH) from V. cholerae Ogawa 395 was first cloned and sequenc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galen JE,Ketley JM,Fasano A,Richardson SH,Wasserman SS,Kaper JB

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin G (IgG)- and IgM-specific antibody titers against Salmonella typhi Ty2 porins have been measured in 30 paired typhoid sera by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. These studies have found that IgG serum titers of acute and convalescent sera were 625 and 5,000 times higher, respectively than the control se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Calderón I,Lobos SR,Rojas HA,Palomino C,Rodríguez LH,Mora GC

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice with a null deletion mutation in the gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) receptor gene were used to study the role of IFN-gamma responsiveness during experimental pulmonary cryptococcosis. Cryptococcus neoformans was inoculated intratracheally into mice lacking the IFN-gamma receptor gene (IFN-gammaR-/-) and into contro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chen GH,McDonald RA,Wells JC,Huffnagle GB,Lukacs NW,Toews GB

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suppression of the host defense is one of the hallmarks of Yersinia enterocolitica infection. This enteric pathogen resists phagocytosis and interferes with macrophage functions from an extracellular localization (oxidative-burst generation and tumor necrosis factor alpha production). In this study, we investigated th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ruckdeschel K,Roggenkamp A,Lafont V,Mangeat P,Heesemann J,Rouot B

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunofluorescence microscopy demonstrated that laminin bound to the surface of Penicillium marneffei conidia. Attachment of P. marneffei conidia in an adherence assay was inhibited by soluble laminin and anti-laminin antibody. N-Acetylneuraminic acid abolished adherence, indicating an interaction mediated by a sialic...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hamilton AJ,Jeavons L,Youngchim S,Vanittanakom N,Hay RJ

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suitability of the rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) as an experimental host for evaluation of vaccines against airborne infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37Rv was investigated. Nonvaccinated monkeys were exposed to estimated doses of 12, 25, or 49 units of H37Rv in a modified Henderson apparatus, and the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barclay WR,Anacker RL,Brehmer W,Leif W,Ribi E

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that preexisting specific serum antibody could suppress a defined mucosal immune response to a topically applied antigen was studied in rats. Hyperimmune serum antibody induced by parenteral immunization of rats with cholera toxoid markedly suppressed the mucosal immune response to enterically applied ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pierce NF

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the immunizing capacity of Salmonella enteritidis AL1192, a strain that has been cured of a 36-megadalton plasmid, to protect ddY mice against subsequent challenge with virulent salmonellas. This strain, which was given subcutaneously at a dose of 10(6) organisms, provided significant protection against oral...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nakamura M,Sato S,Ohya T,Suzuki S,Ikeda S,Koeda T

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB) protect from ameba infection, and protection is transferable with bone marrow dendritic cells (BMDCs). SFB cause an increase in serum amyloid A (SAA), suggesting that SAA might mediate SFB's effects on BMDCs. Here we further explored the role of bone marrow in SFB-mediat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Burgess SL,Saleh M,Cowardin CA,Buonomo E,Noor Z,Watanabe K,Abhyankar M,Lajoie S,Wills-Karp M,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：2016-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternate modalities for the treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are needed due to the rise in numbers of immunosuppressed individuals at risk for serious disease and the increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant isolates. Interleukin-12 (IL-12) has been shown to improve immune responses against M. tuberculosis...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nolt D,Flynn JL

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of INT407 cells with various clinical isolates of Campylobacter jejuni resulted in secretion of interleukin-8 (IL-8) at levels ranging from 96 to 554 pg/ml at 24 h. The strains which produced the highest levels of IL-8 secretion were 81-176 and BT44. Induction of IL-8 secretion required live cells of 81-176...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hickey TE,Baqar S,Bourgeois AL,Ewing CP,Guerry P

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify potential vaccine candidates for the prevention of infection with the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus, we screened an O. volvulus L3 stage cDNA library with sera from putatively immune (PI) subjects, and a prominent immunogenic clone of 1,184 nucleotides was identified. It contained an open reading f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McCarthy JS,Wieseman M,Tropea J,Kaslow D,Abraham D,Lustigman S,Tuan R,Guderian RH,Nutman TB

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：:Guinea pigs were treated with anti-CD18 antibody (M8), and subsequently middle ears (ME) were infected with nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. Forty-eight hours after infection, the ME washes of these animals had significantly lower polymorphonuclear leukocyte numbers but higher bacterial counts compared with washes ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Patel J,Chonmaitree T,Schmalstieg F

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response to reinfection with Ethiopian Leishmania donovani was evaluated in genetically determined noncure (H-2d) B10.D2 mice that are able to resolve infection due to sublethal irradiation pretreatment after inoculation with a low parasite dose and in C57BL/10 mice that demonstrate the genetically determined cure...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ulczak OM,Ghadirian E,Skamene E,Blackwell JM,Kongshavn PA

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythrocytic malaria parasites degrade hemoglobin as a principal source of amino acids for parasite protein synthesis. We have previously shown that a Plasmodium falciparum trophozoite cysteine proteinase, now termed falcipain, is required for hemoglobin degradation, and we have hypothesized that this proteinase is re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Salas F,Fichmann J,Lee GK,Scott MD,Rosenthal PJ

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the unavailability of a suitable antigen, specific in vitro lymphocyte reactivity has not been investigated in persons who have had systemic blastomycosis. Twelve persons who had recovered from blastomycosis were evaluated, and all were found to exhibit strongly positive and apparently specific in vitro cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bradsher RW,Alford RH

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonclonal population of Borrelia burgdorferi N40 (passage 3) that survived protective immunity following challenge inoculation of outer surface protein (Osp) A- or B-hyperimmunized mice were characterized for the molecular basis of evasion of immunity. Two of six B. burgdorferi isolates, cultured from OspA-immunized...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fikrig E,Tao H,Barthold SW,Flavell RA

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00