Innate immune gene polymorphisms in tuberculosis.

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae infections of the lung are associated with significant damage to the alveolar epithelium. Host phagocytes and pneumolysin, a cytolytic toxin of S. pneumoniae, are believed to contribute to this cellular damage, yet experiments in which these elements are absent demonstrate the presence of an a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Duane PG,Rubins JB,Weisel HR,Janoff EN

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of various strains of rats to produce interferon in response to polyriboinosinic-polyribocytodilic acid was investigated. ACI and DA (RT-1a), BN (RT-1n), Buffalo (RT-1b), August (RT-1c), and GH (RT-1l) strains produced low levels of interferon in response to intraperitoneal administration of polyriboinosin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Davis CT,Blankenhorn EP,Murasko DM

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei is a facultative intracellular gram-negative bacterium that can survive and multiply inside macrophages. One of the mechanisms by which B. pseudomallei escapes macrophage killing is by interfering with the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS). However, the bacterial components...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Arjcharoen S,Wikraiphat C,Pudla M,Limposuwan K,Woods DE,Sirisinha S,Utaisincharoen P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed an in vitro culture method to characterize the expression of bacterial genes under conditions mimicking the colonic environment. Our culture system (the intestinal simulator) comprised a continuous-flow anaerobic culture which was inoculated with fecal samples from healthy volunteers. As a test organism, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ruiz-Perez F,Sheikh J,Davis S,Boedeker EC,Nataro JP

更新日期：2004-07-01 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：:Chronic Helicobacter pylori infection is associated with mucosal inflammation. The aim of the present study was to assess human neutrophil and monocyte activation by H. pylori strains obtained from patients with different clinical presentations. Bacterial sonicates from 12 strains were used to stimulate phagocyte upre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hansen PS,Go MF,Varming K,Andersen LP,Genta RM,Graham DY,Nielsen H

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system plays a key role in resistance to cryptococcosis. In the present study, we examined several factors that influence the binding of C3 cleavage fragments to Cryptococcus neoformans. Binding of C3 was determined by using normal human serum supplemented with 125I-labeled C3. Incubation of encapsulate...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR,Pfrommer GS

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin binding proteins are one of several pathogenicity factors which have been associated with invasive disease caused by group A streptococci. The surface-bound M and M-like proteins of Streptococcus pyogenes are the most characterized of these immunoglobulin binding proteins, and in most cases they bind on...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fagan PK,Reinscheid D,Gottschalk B,Chhatwal GS

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoke exposure increases the risk of pulmonary and invasive infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, the most commonly isolated organism from patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Despite this association, the mechanisms by which cigarette smoke exposure diminishes host defense against S. pneumon...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Phipps JC,Aronoff DM,Curtis JL,Goel D,O'Brien E,Mancuso P

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus Newman with an insertion mutation in clfB, the gene encoding clumping factor B, only marginally decreased infection rate (P>0.05) in rats with experimental endocarditis. In contrast, clfB complementation on a multicopy plasmid significantly increased infectivity (P<0.05) over the deleted mutants....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Entenza JM,Foster TJ,Ni Eidhin D,Vaudaux P,Francioli P,Moreillon P

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) is produced in response to circulating lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and contributes to the lethality of endotoxic shock. To address the cellular source of IFN-gamma production in vivo, T cells and B cells were magnetically purified from C57BL/6 mouse spleens 5 h following endotoxin injection. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heinzel FP,Rerko RM,Ling P,Hakimi J,Schoenhaut DS

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenicity islands (PAIs) are chromosomal clusters of pathogen-specific virulence genes often found at tRNA loci. In the Yersinia pseudotuberculosis 32777 chromosome, we characterized a 98-kb segment that has all of the characteristic features of a PAI, including insertion in a (phenylalanine) tRNA gene, the presen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Collyn F,Billault A,Mullet C,Simonet M,Marceau M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms for acquisition of iron by Haemophilus influenzae and their role in pathogenesis are not known. Heme and nonheme sources of iron were evaluated for their effect on growth of type b and nontypable strains of H. influenzae in an iron-restricted, defined medium. All 13 strains acquired iron from heme, hemo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pidcock KA,Wooten JA,Daley BA,Stull TL

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms linking the immune response to cutaneous and mucosal leishmaniasis (CL and ML, respectively) lesions and the response to treatment are incompletely understood. Our aims were to prospectively assess, by quantitative reverse transcription-PCR, the levels of mRNA for gamma interferon, tumor necrosis factor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Maurer-Cecchini A,Decuypere S,Chappuis F,Alexandrenne C,De Doncker S,Boelaert M,Dujardin JC,Loutan L,Dayer JM,Tulliano G,Arevalo J,Llanos-Cuentas A,Chizzolini C

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The suppression of T-cell deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis by serum from mice acutely with murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) was investigated. Spleen cells from uninfected mice were exposed to concanavalin A in the presence of serum taken from mice at various times after infection with MCMV. The capacity of the serum...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Booss J,Wheelock EF

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is a pathogen of increasing medical importance with a propensity to be multidrug resistant, thereby making treatment challenging. Little is known of virulence traits in A. baumannii. To identify virulence factors and potential drug targets, random transposon (Tn) mutants derived from the A. bau...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Russo TA,Luke NR,Beanan JM,Olson R,Sauberan SL,MacDonald U,Schultz LW,Umland TC,Campagnari AA

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of the serum opsonin mannan-binding lectin (MBL) were directly correlated with the probability of developing visceral leishmaniasis. Monocytes infected with MBL-opsonized Leishmania chagasi promastigotes secreted higher levels of tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukin-6 than cells infected with nonopsonize...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Santos IK,Costa CH,Krieger H,Feitosa MF,Zurakowski D,Fardin B,Gomes RB,Weiner DL,Harn DA,Ezekowitz RA,Epstein JE

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cimetidine is a powerful H2 receptor antagonist that eliminates histamine's effects on chemotaxis, phagocytosis, and superoxide anion production by phagocytes. The purpose of this study was to analyze the clinical and histopathological changes associated with experimental periodontitis in rabbits in response to topica...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hasturk H,Kantarci A,Ebrahimi N,Andry C,Holick M,Jones VL,Van Dyke TE

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tetraspanins are a superfamily of transmembrane proteins with diverse functions and can form extended microdomains within the plasma membrane in conjunction with partner proteins, which probably includes receptors for bacterial adhesins. Neisseria meningitidis, the causative agent of meningococcal disease, attache...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Green LR,Monk PN,Partridge LJ,Morris P,Gorringe AR,Read RC

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus equi is the causative agent of strangles, the most frequently diagnosed infectious disease of horses worldwide. The disease is characterized by abscessation and swelling of the lymph nodes of the head and neck, which can literally strangle the horse to death. S. equi produces four recently acquired phage...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Paillot R,Robinson C,Steward K,Wright N,Jourdan T,Butcher N,Heather Z,Waller AS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an Escherichia coli strain of human origin, ampicillin resistance and heat-stable enterotoxin activity were shown by EcoRI restriction endonuclease and genetic analysis to be in an 80-megadalton plasmid. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stieglitz H,Fonseca R,Olarte J,Kupersztoch-Portnoy YM

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UV-inactivated Sendai virus is mitogenic for murine splenocytes, whereas infectious Sendai virus kills spleen cells in vitro. The isolated hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) and fusion (F) glycoproteins of Sendai virus are also mitogenic for cultured mouse spleen cells. A mixture of these glycoproteins (1 microgram/well...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kizaka S,Goodman-Snitkoff G,McSharry JJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sephadex G-200 filtration was used for fractionating dengue type 2 (DEN-2)-infected suckling mouse brain (SMB) supernatant fluids. The high-molecular-weight fraction, which was eluted in the void volume, showed no increase in type specificity when tested against immune ascitic fluid to the four prototype dengue viruse...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cornesky RA,Hammon WM,Atchison RW,Sather GE

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella spp. are intracellular bacteria that cause the most frequent zoonosis in the world. Although recent work has advanced the field of Brucella vaccine development, there remains no safe human vaccine. In order to produce a safe and effective human vaccine, the immune response to Brucella spp. requires greater un...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Durward MA,Harms J,Magnani DM,Eskra L,Splitter GA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CS31A is a K88-related capsule-like surface protein that mediates Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae adhesion to the human Caco-2 and Intestine-407 cell lines. In this study, we demonstrate that ClpG, the major subunit of CS31A, contains the adhesive domain of the polymerized structure. We mapped this domain w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Di Martino P,Girardeau JP,Der Vartanian M,Joly B,Darfeuille-Michaud A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we have investigated the evolution and impact on virulence of a 350-kb genomic duplication present in the most recently evolved members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis East Asian lineage. In a mouse model of infection, comparing HN878 subclones HN878-27 (no duplication) and HN878-45 (with the 3...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Domenech P,Rog A,Moolji JU,Radomski N,Fallow A,Leon-Solis L,Bowes J,Behr MA,Reed MB

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains Inaba 569B and Ogawa B1307 of Vibrio cholerae were grown in shaken Casamino Acids-yeast extract-glucose medium at 30 and 37 C for 4 days. Time courses of production of neuraminidase (NM), mucinase (MC), proteinase (PR), lytic factor (LF), and vascular permeability factor (PF) were compared by examining culture...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kusama H,Craig JP

更新日期：1970-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans produces several enzymes which metabolize sucrose. Three glucosyltransferase genes (gtfB, gtfC, and gtfD) and a single fructosyltransferase gene (ftf) encode enzymes which are important in formation of exopolysaccharides. Mutants of S. mutans V403 carrying single and multiple mutations of the gtfB...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Munro C,Michalek SM,Macrina FL

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The group R streptococcal group antigen has been shown to be a polysaccharide located at the surface of the cell wall of the organism. The antigen was extracted from cell walls in 0.05 n HCl or 5% trichloracetic acid at 100 C, from whole cells at room temperature in 0.85% NaCl or 0.1 m acetate (pH 5.0), and by sonic o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Soprey P,Slade HD

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major ceramide monohexoside (CMH) was purified from lipidic extracts of Cryptococcus neoformans. This molecule was analyzed by high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC), gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry, and fast atom bombardment-mass spectrometry. The cryptococcal CMH is a beta-glucosylcer...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rodrigues ML,Travassos LR,Miranda KR,Franzen AJ,Rozental S,de Souza W,Alviano CS,Barreto-Bergter E

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00