Role of energy sensor TlpD of Helicobacter pylori in gerbil colonization and genome analyses after adaptation in the gerbil.

abstract：:Recent preclinical and epidemiologic studies have suggested that certain Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes (in particular, Beijing lineage strains) may be resistant to Mycobacterium bovis BCG vaccine-induced antituberculosis protective immunity. To investigate the strain specificity of BCG-induced protective respon...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jeon BY,Derrick SC,Lim J,Kolibab K,Dheenadhayalan V,Yang AL,Kreiswirth B,Morris SL

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis carinii is an ascomycete phylogenetically related to Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Little is known about gene regulation in P. carinii. The removal of introns from pre-mRNA requires spliceosomal recognition of the intron-exon boundary. In S. pombe and higher eukaryotes, this boundary and a branch site within...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thomas CF Jr,Leof EB,Limper AH

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural immunoperoxidase studies were done in spinal cords of mice infected with wild type vesicular stomatitis virus or its temperature-sensitive (ts) mutant G31. Infected neurons showed subplasmalemmal staining of viral antigen and staining of viral particles budding from the neuronal membrane in wild-type v...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dal Canto MC,Rabinowitz SG,Johnson TC,Hughes JV

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although certain helminth infections preferentially induce type 2 T-cell responses, the immunological mechanisms responsible for type 2 T-cell polarization remain unclear. In the present study, we investigated the effects of excretory-secretory (ES) antigen from the nematode Nippostrongylus brasiliensis on cytokine pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Uchikawa R,Matsuda S,Arizono N

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis can activate inflammatory responses through Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and may cause renal tubulointerstitial fibrosis characterized by the accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM). We have previously demonstrated that Leptospira santorosai serovar Shermani detergent extract stimulates ECM accumulation...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tian YC,Hung CC,Li YJ,Chen YC,Chang MY,Yen TH,Hsu HH,Wu MS,Phillips A,Yang CW

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major goal of current vaccine development is the induction of strong immune responses against protective antigens delivered by mucosal routes. One of the most promising approaches in that respect relies on the use of live recombinant vaccine carriers. In this study, Mycobacterium bovis BCG was engineered to produce ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kremer L,Dupré L,Riveau G,Capron A,Locht C

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsular glucuronoxylomannans (GXM) of Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans isolates from patients with recurrent cryptococcal meningitis were analyzed by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and for reactivity with factor sera (Iatron, Tokyo, Japan). For each patient the initial and relapse isolates had prev...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cherniak R,Morris LC,Belay T,Spitzer ED,Casadevall A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C57BL/6 mice infected with Leishmania mexicana showed depression of the in vitro immunoglobulin M-plaque-forming cell response to sheep erythrocytes. Immunodepression was present 3 weeks after inoculation and was maximal at 11 weeks. Thereafter, there was a gradual return to normal immunoresponsiveness correlated with...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pérez H,Pocino M,Malavé I

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altogether 171 serum specimens from 58 patients with heterophil antibody-positive infectious monomucleosis were studied for antibody response to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). The sera were tested for fluorescent immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM gel-precipitating (GP) and complement-fixing (CF) antibodies to EBV. All 58 pati...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nikoskelainen J,Hänninen P

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus, an important agent of seafood-borne gastroenteritis, expresses several putative virulence factors that could account for the disease symptoms of infected humans, namely, diarrhea, nausea, and abdominal cramps. The pathogenicity of V. parahaemolyticus correlates well with the Kanagawa phenomeno...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huntley JS,Hall AC,Sathyamoorthy V,Hall RH

更新日期：1993-10-01 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 bactericidal and opsonizing effects of normal human serum on six strains of Salmonella typhimurium LT-2 having different lipopolysaccharide (LPS) composition were demonstrated through five indices. Complement activity in the presence of antibody was important for the opsonization of all six strains and for the bac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shaio MF,Rowland H

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pig and mouse peritoneal macrophages in culture transport glucose by a specific, saturable system with characteristics compatible with facilitated diffusion. Phagocytosis of killed staphylococci or polystyrene latex spheres results in a significant increase in uptake of 2-deoxy-d-glucose. Reciprocal plot analys...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bonventre PF,Mukkada AJ

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of continuous exposure to 80% oxygen on newborn mice with Ureaplasma urealyticum pneumonia was determined. Mice were inoculated intranasally with either U. urealyticum or sterile broth and then housed in either 80% oxygen or room air (21% oxygen). The mice were sacrificed at either 7 or 14 days after inocul...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Crouse DT,Cassell GH,Waites KB,Foster JM,Cassady G

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonization of the mucosa of the stomach and the duodenum by Helicobacter pylori is the major cause of acute and chronic gastroduodenal pathologies in humans. Duodenal ulcer formation strongly correlates with the expression of an antigen (CagA) that is usually coeexpressed with the vacuolating cytotoxin (VacA), a pro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Xiang Z,Censini S,Bayeli PF,Telford JL,Figura N,Rappuoli R,Covacci A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron acquisition from the host is an important step in the pathogenic process. While Yersinia pestis has multiple iron transporters, the yersiniabactin (Ybt) siderophore-dependent system plays a major role in iron acquisition in vitro and in vivo. In this study, we determined that the Ybt system is required for the us...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fetherston JD,Kirillina O,Bobrov AG,Paulley JT,Perry RD

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of heat and chemical inactivation on the antigenicity and immunogenicity of Vibrio cholerae 1418 in rabbits were studied. V. cholerae 1418 was inactivated with heat and chemical inactivants (phenol or Formalin) alone or in combination. Enzyme-linked immunoassay systems employing whole cells of V. cholerae ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cryz SJ Jr,Fürer E,Germanier R

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of Candida albicans strain WO-1 and related strains switch frequently and reversibly between a white-colony-forming unit (white phase) and a gray-colony-forming unit (opaque phase). Cells in the budding white phase exhibit the usual smooth round phenotype observed in other C. albicans strains, but cells in the b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anderson J,Cundiff L,Schnars B,Gao MX,Mackenzie I,Soll DR

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-2,3-sialyltransferase (Lst) is expressed on the outer membrane of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis and sialylates surface lipooligosaccharide (LOS), facilitating resistance to complement-mediated killing. The enzyme is constitutively expressed from a single gene (lst) and does not undergo antigen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Packiam M,Shell DM,Liu SV,Liu YB,McGee DJ,Srivastava R,Seal S,Rest RF

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella bronchiseptica is closely related to Bordetella pertussis, which produces respiratory disease primarily in mammals other than humans. However, its importance as a human pathogen is being increasingly recognized. Although a large amount of research on Bordetella has been generated regarding protein virulence...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sisti F,Fernández J,Rodríguez ME,Lagares A,Guiso N,Hozbor DF

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrobacter rodentium is an attaching and effacing pathogen which causes transmissible colonic hyperplasia in mice. Infection with C. rodentium serves as a model for infection of humans with enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. To identify novel colonization factors of C. rodentium, we screened a s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hart E,Yang J,Tauschek M,Kelly M,Wakefield MJ,Frankel G,Hartland EL,Robins-Browne RM

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three types of caseinolytic proteases (Pase-A, Pase-B, and Pase-C) were isolated and purified from culture supernatants of Porphyromonas gingivalis 381 by the combined procedures of acetone precipitation, gel filtration, solubilization with octylthioglucoside followed by affinity chromatography on arginine-Sepharose 4...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hinode D,Hayashi H,Nakamura R

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxiella burnetii, the agent of Q fever, enters human monocytes through alpha(v)beta(3) integrin and survives inside host cells. In addition, C. burnetii stimulates the synthesis of inflammatory cytokines including tumor necrosis factor (TNF) by monocytes. We studied the role of the interaction of C. burnetii with THP...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dellacasagrande J,Ghigo E,Hammami SM,Toman R,Raoult D,Capo C,Mege JL

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the roles of gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) and interleukin-4 (IL-4) in host defense against Brugia malayi. Our data suggest that the lack of either IFN-gamma or IL-4 prolongs the time required to achieve sterile immunity, suggesting that both canonical type 1 and type 2 responses are involved in th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Babu S,Ganley LM,Klei TR,Shultz LD,Rajan TV

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recruitment of neutrophils to lung tissue and airspaces is a hallmark of inflammatory events following inhalation of endotoxins. We studied the role of different lymphocyte subsets in this inflammation, which is assumed to primarily involve the innate immune system. Inhalation of aerosolized Escherichia coli lipopolys...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Larsson R,Rocksén D,Lilliehöök B,Jonsson A,Bucht A

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenic cross-reactivity between Treponema pallidum and several pathogenic members of the family Spirochaetaceae was examined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western blotting techniques. Blots of T. pallidum antigens were incubated with antiserum from rabbits infected or immunize...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker-Zander SA,Lukehart SA

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent study found that group A Streptococcus (GAS) expresses a cell surface protein with similarity to human collagen (S. Lukomski, K. Nakashima, I. Abdi, V. J. Cipriano, R. M. Ireland, S. R. Reid, G. G. Adams, and J. M. Musser, Infect. Immun. 68:6542-6553, 2000). This streptococcal collagen-like protein (Scl) cont...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lukomski S,Nakashima K,Abdi I,Cipriano VJ,Shelvin BJ,Graviss EA,Musser JM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable evidence supports the concept that CD4(+) T cells are important in sarcoidosis pathogenesis, but the antigens responsible for the observed Th1 immunophenotype remain elusive. The epidemiologic association with bioaerosols and the presence of granulomatous inflammation support consideration of mycobacteria...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Oswald-Richter KA,Culver DA,Hawkins C,Hajizadeh R,Abraham S,Shepherd BE,Jenkins CA,Judson MA,Drake WP

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MAEBL is a type 1 membrane protein that is implicated in the merozoite invasion of erythrocytes and sporozoite invasion of mosquito salivary glands. This apical organelle protein is structurally similar to the ebl erythrocyte binding proteins, such as EBA-175, except that the tandem ligand domains of MAEBL are similar...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Preiser P,Rénia L,Singh N,Balu B,Jarra W,Voza T,Kaneko O,Blair P,Torii M,Landau I,Adams JH

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinically isolated strain of polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN)-resistant Pseudomonas was found to produce an extracellular substance (PMN inhibitor) that inhibits the phagocytic and killing activities of PMN. The PMN inhibitor was purified from culture filtrates by precipitation with (NH4)2SO4 and chromatography on...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nonoyama S,Kojo H,Mine Y,Nishida M,Goto S,Kuwahara S

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00