Adjuvant activity of naturally occurring monophosphoryl lipopolysaccharide preparations from mucosa-associated bacteria.

abstract：:Mice orally immunized with Salmonella dublin EL23, a nonreverting, aromatic-dependent, histidine-requiring mutant transformed with a plasmid which carries a gene that codes for production of the B subunit of the heat-labile toxin (LT-B) of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, or with purified LT-B alone were compared for...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bost KL,Clements JD

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal piglets have been used as models to study human campylobacteriosis and helicobacteriosis. The purpose of this study was to determine the relative pathogenicities, on the basis of the duration of fecal shedding and colonization of tissues, of three Arcobacter species in 1-day-old cesarean-derived colostrum-dep...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wesley IV,Baetz AL,Larson DJ

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which capsular polysaccharides inhibit phagocytosis is not clearly understood. We investigated the association between a negative surface charge and inhibition of phagocytosis by the capsular polysaccharide of Cryptococcus neoformans. A two-polymer aqueous-phase system containing phosphate ions was us...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR,Reiss E,Cherniak R

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed an improved scheme for the classification of environmental and clinical isolates of Histoplasma capsulatum that is based on analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and ribosomal DNA (rDNA). Strains were initially divided into mtDNA groups according to restriction digests of whole-cell DNA and Southern ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Spitzer ED,Lasker BA,Travis SJ,Kobayashi GS,Medoff G

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon storage regulator A (CsrA) is an RNA binding protein that has been characterized in many bacterial species to play a central regulatory role by modulating several metabolic processes. We recently showed that a homolog of CsrA in Borrelia burgdorferi (CsrA(Bb), BB0184) was upregulated in response to propagation ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karna SL,Sanjuan E,Esteve-Gassent MD,Miller CL,Maruskova M,Seshu J

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae is generally considered to be an obligate aerobe; it can, however, grow in the absence of oxygen by anaerobic respiration by using nitrite as a terminal electron acceptor. The outer membrane protein compositions of aerobically and anaerobically grown N. gonorrhoeae strains were compared by one- a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clark VL,Campbell LA,Palermo DA,Evans TM,Klimpel KW

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections are common in renal transplant recipients. We studied 23 recipients prospectively to determine whether infections by other herpes-group and non-herpes-group viruses were also present. Sera, obtained at the time of surgery and periodically thereafter, were tested for antibody to CMV, he...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Armstrong JA,Evans AS,Rao N,Ho M

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes encoding alpha-hemolysin and mannose-resistant hemagglutination were shown to be closely linked in cloned DNA from two Escherichia coli urinary tract isolates of serotypes O4 (J96) and O6 (C1212). DNA hybridization experiments demonstrated that the hly and mrh gene clusters of other E. coli O6 serotypes were...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Low D,David V,Lark D,Schoolnik G,Falkow S

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella infection can cause gastroenteritis in healthy individuals or a serious, systemic infection in immunocompromised patients and has a global impact. CD4 Th1 cells represent the main lymphocyte population that participates in bacterial clearance during both primary and secondary infections in mice of the H-2b ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Labuda JC,Depew CE,Pham OH,Benoun JM,Ramirez NA,McSorley SJ

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli F-18, isolated from the feces of a healthy human in 1977, is an excellent colonizer of the streptomycin-treated mouse large intestine and displays normal motility and chemotaxis ability. A chemotaxis-defective derivative of E. coli F-18, E, coli F-18 CheA-, and a nonflagellated derivative, E. coli F-1...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McCormick BA,Laux DC,Cohen PS

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An Escherichia coli oligonucleotide microarray based on three sequenced genomes was validated for comparative genomic microarray hybridization and used to study the diversity of E. coli O157 isolates from human infections and food and animal sources. Among 26 test strains, 24 (including both Shiga toxin [Stx]-positive...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wu G,Carter B,Mafura M,Liebana E,Woodward MJ,Anjum MF

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dispersed gene family 1 (DGF-1) is the fifth largest gene family in the Trypanosoma cruzi genome, with over 500 members (11). Many of the predicted DGF-1 protein products have several transmembrane domains and N-glycosylation and phosphorylation sites and were thought to localize in the plasma membrane. Here, we r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lander N,Bernal C,Diez N,Añez N,Docampo R,Ramírez JL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody rises to various virus subcomponents were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in the paired sera of volunteers experimentally infected with human coronavirus 229E group viruses. Most of the antibody made during infection was directed against the virus surface projections, with only small amounts of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Macnaughton MR,Hasony HJ,Madge MH,Reed SE

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of passive administration of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (MAB) to respiratory syncytial virus glycoproteins (GP90 and VP70) was evaluated in cotton rats challenged with respiratory syncytial virus. Animals injected with MAB to VP70 had lower mean viral titers in lung tissues than did controls (log10...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Walsh EE,Schlesinger JJ,Brandriss MW

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus equi is an intracellular pathogen which causes pneumonia in young horses and in immunocompromised humans. R. equi arrests phagosome maturation in macrophages at a prephagolysosome stage and grows inside a privileged compartment. Here, we show that, in murine macrophages activated with gamma interferon and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： von Bargen K,Wohlmann J,Taylor GA,Utermöhlen O,Haas A

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic infections play a significant role in the morbidity and mortality of patients with chronic airflow limitation. By stimulating airway inflammation, persistent infection has the potential to cause airway fibrosis. However, in patient this condition is most typically found in lungs damaged by other factors, such ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McIntosh JC,Simecka JW,Ross SE,Davis JK,Miller EJ,Cassell GH

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Archival gastric tissues from 10 of 39 gnotobiotic piglets colonized with Helicobacter pylori 26695 contained stromal leukocytic inflammation along with ulcers and erosions. In contrast, gastric tissues from 54 archival control piglets were devoid of both inflammation and ulcers. These data confirm the hypothesis that...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krakowka S,Eaton KA,Rings DM

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：:The nonacylated form of protein D (PDm) of Haemophilus influenzae has been shown to induce the production of antibodies that are bactericidal to homologous and heterologous nontypeable H. influenzae (NTHi) strains. In this study, immunization of rats with lipoprotein D (LPD) induced higher levels of anti-protein D imm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Akkoyunlu M,Melhus A,Capiau C,van Opstal O,Forsgren A

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of protection found in vaccine studies of murine visceral leishmaniasis are significantly lower than for cutaneous leishmaniasis; whether this is due to the high-challenge murine model employed and/or is a consequence of differences required in tissue-specific local immune responses is not understood. Conse...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ahmed S,Colmenares M,Soong L,Goldsmith-Pestana K,Munstermann L,Molina R,McMahon-Pratt D

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to analyze Chlamydia pneumoniae-induced, antigen-specific, cell-mediated immunity. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells of four persons infected with C. pneumoniae Kajaani 6 and 17 healthy volunteers were stimulated with antigen composed of whole elementary bodies of C. pneumoniae Ka...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Surcel HM,Syrjälä H,Leinonen M,Saikku P,Herva E

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A veronal buffer extract of Salmonella typhi was used as the reference antigen and its corresponding rabbit antiserum as the reference antibody in crossed immunoelectrophoresis to analyze antibodies in sera obtained from typhoid patients and carriers. Four precipitating antibodies were regularly detected. Three were a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chau PY,Wan KC,Tsang RS

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lung infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms are associated with refractory and fatal pneumonia in cystic fibrosis (CF). In this study, a group of genomically diverse P. aeruginosa isolates were compared with the reference strain PAO1 to assess the roles of motility, twitching, growth rate, and overpro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Head NE,Yu H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with gram-negative monocytotropic Ehrlichia strains results in a fatal toxic shock-like syndrome characterized by a decreased number of Ehrlichia-specific CD4(+) Th1 cells, the expansion of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha)-producing CD8(+) T cells, and the systemic overproduction of interleukin-10 (IL...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ismail N,Crossley EC,Stevenson HL,Walker DH

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the association of the group A streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxins (SPEs) with erythrogenic toxin used in the classical Dick test, the involvement of the SPEs in production of erythematous skin reactions was assessed. Unless they had been presensitized, young adult rabbits failed to show skin reactions after ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schlievert PM,Bettin KM,Watson DW

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell-mediated immunity is an important determinant in protection against primary infection with Coccidioides immitis, a dimorphic fungal pathogen that causes the disease coccidioidomycosis. To determine if interleukin-12 (IL-12) gene therapy could potentiate host response against C. immitis, we constructed a single-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jiang C,Magee DM,Cox RA

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The salivary and serum immune responses to orally administered glucosyltransferase antigen complex from Streptococcus mutants strain 6715 were investigated in hamsters. All enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to measure the antibody quantity and isotype, and a [14C]glucosyl-labeled sucrose incorporation assay w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Smith DJ,Taubman MA,Ebersole JL

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus pneumoniae are widely thought to rapidly die outside the human host, losing infectivity following desiccation in the environment. However, to date, all literature investigating the infectivity of desiccated streptococci has used broth-grown, planktonic populations. In this...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marks LR,Reddinger RM,Hakansson AP

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histoplasma capsulatum induces a cell-mediated immune response in the lungs and lymphoid organs of mammals. In this study, we analyzed the progression of the cytokine and inflammatory reactions in the lungs of mice infected intranasally with H. capsulatum. We measured cytokine mRNA levels and determined the inflammato...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cain JA,Deepe GS Jr

更新日期：1998-04-01 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