FimY does not interfere with FimZ-FimW interaction during type 1 fimbria production by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium.

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：:The American Heart Association supports an association between periodontal diseases and atherosclerosis but not a causal association. This study explores the use of the integrin β6(-/-) mouse model to study the causality. We investigated the ability of a polymicrobial consortium of Porphyromonas gingivalis, Treponema ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Velsko IM,Chukkapalli SS,Rivera-Kweh MF,Zheng D,Aukhil I,Lucas AR,Larjava H,Kesavalu L

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:Children are more resistant to gingivitis than are adults. To determine possible differences in their periodontal floras, an experimental gingivitis study, identical in design to one reported earlier with young adults, was conducted with four 4- to 6-year-old children. The incidence of sites that developed gingival in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moore WE,Holdeman LV,Smibert RM,Cato EP,Burmeister JA,Palcanis KG,Ranney RR

更新日期：1984-10-01 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：:A recombinant plasmid containing a 6.5-kb fragment of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) chromosomal DNA was shown to confer a hemoglobin-haptoglobin-binding phenotype on Escherichia coli. Use of a mini-Tn10kan transposon for random insertion mutagenesis of this recombinant plasmid allowed localization of the N...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Maciver I,Latimer JL,Liem HH,Muller-Eberhard U,Hrkal Z,Hansen EJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exoprotein of Staphylococcus aureus 100 that elicited a positive ileal loop response in the rabbit model was investigated in this study. The protein, as it occurred in the culture supernatant fluid, could be detected initially in the late log phase of growth under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. It was stable und...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Koupal A,Deibel RH

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a novel ileal loop model for use in calves to analyze the contribution of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium type III secretion systems to disease processes in vivo. Our model involves constructing ileal loops with end-to-end anastamoses to restore the patency of the small intestine, thereby all...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coombes BK,Coburn BA,Potter AA,Gomis S,Mirakhur K,Li Y,Finlay BB

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fibronectin-binding protein (FnBP) adhesin of Staphylococcus aureus possesses three 37- or 38-amino-acid motifs (D1, D2, and D3) that can each bind fibronectin (Fn) with low affinity and that in tandem comprise D1-3, a high-affinity Fn-binding domain. To identify epitopes for the generation of adhesion-blocking anti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sun Q,Smith GM,Zahradka C,McGavin MJ

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium causes self-limiting gastroenteritis in humans and a typhoid-like disease in mice that serves as a model for typhoid infections in humans. A critical step in Salmonella pathogenesis is the invasion of enterocytes and M cells of the small intestine via expression of a type III se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boddicker JD,Jones BD

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae sortase A (SrtA) is a transpeptidase that is highly conserved among pneumococcal strains, whose involvement in adhesion/colonization has been reported. We found that intraperitoneal immunization with recombinant SrtA conferred to mice protection against S. pneumoniae intraperitoneal challenge ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gianfaldoni C,Maccari S,Pancotto L,Rossi G,Hilleringmann M,Pansegrau W,Sinisi A,Moschioni M,Masignani V,Rappuoli R,Del Giudice G,Ruggiero P

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of human monocytes, macrophages, and polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) on the fungal pathogen Blastomyces dermatitidis in vitro. Peripheral blood monocyte monolayers significantly inhibited the replication of a virulent strain (V) and an avirulent strain (AV) of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brummer E,Stevens DA

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the association of Herpesvirus saimiri with lymphocyte subsets and the functional integrity and distribution of these populations in owl monkeys with chronic, disease-free infections, in uninoculated, control animals, and in one monkey with H. saimiri-induced lymphoma. The lymphocyte subpopulations examine...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Neubauer RH,Dunn FE,Rabin H

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed hha derivatives from both a clinical uropathogenic Escherichia coli isolate (strain FVL4) and a wild E. coli strain causing bovine diarrhea (strain CCB21) and analyzed the effect of the hha allele on the expression of the different virulence factors exhibited by these strains. Expression of hemolysin an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mouriño M,Madrid C,Balsalobre C,Prenafeta A,Muñoa F,Blanco J,Blanco M,Blanco JE,Juarez A

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica virulence is related to a number of amebic components (lectins, cysteine proteinases, and amebapore) and host factors, such as intestinal bacterial flora. Trophozoites are selective in their interactions with bacteria, and the parasite recognition of glycoconjugates plays an important role in ame...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Padilla-Vaca F,Ankri S,Bracha R,Koole LA,Mirelman D

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relapsing fever (RF) is a spirochetal infection characterized by relapses of a febrile illness and spirochetemia due to the sequential appearance and disappearance of isogenic serotypes in the blood. The only difference between isogenic serotypes is the variable major outer membrane lipoprotein. In the absence of spec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sethi N,Sondey M,Bai Y,Kim KS,Cadavid D

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saliva-binding molecules of Streptococcus sanguis and their receptors were investigated. Streptococcal cell surfaces were extracted with a barbital buffer and examined immunochemically. Strains G9B and Blackburn, which adhere specifically to saliva-coated hydroxyapatite via immunologically related adhesins, possess 80...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lamont RJ,Rosan B,Murphy GM,Baker CT

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the development of vaccines capable of providing immunity against brucellosis, Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD) has been demonstrated to be one of the protective immunogens of Brucella abortus. In an earlier study, we provided strong evidence that intramuscular injection with a plasmid DNA carrying the SOD gene (pc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Muñoz-Montesino C,Andrews E,Rivers R,González-Smith A,Moraga-Cid G,Folch H,Céspedes S,Oñate AA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis pneumonia (PcP) is a life-threatening infection that affects immunocompromised individuals. Nearly half of all PcP cases occur in those prescribed effective chemoprophylaxis, suggesting that additional preventive methods are needed. To this end, we have identified a unique mouse Pneumocystis surface prote...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tesini BL,Wright TW,Malone JE,Haidaris CG,Harber M,Sant AJ,Nayak JL,Gigliotti F

更新日期：2017-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:An apparent inhibition of induction of mouse hepatic tryptophan oxygenase by endotoxin has been reported previously, as evidenced by low catalytic activity. This could be due either to decreased tryptophan oxygenase levels or to inactivation of existing enzyme molecules. To resolve this question, the enzyme was quanti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rippe DF,Berry LJ

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of interferon in adult bovine serum and in fetal bovine serum and tissues were examined during the course of transplacental bovine viral diarrhea virus infection. The cows produced circulating interferon between 2 and 9 days after viral inoculation, with mean peak levels in the serum on day 4. Interferon could ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rinaldo CR Jr,Isackson DW,Overall JC Jr,Glasgow LA,Brown TT,Bistner SI,Gillespie JH,Scott FW

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that when group A streptococci are cocultured with human pharyngeal cells, they upregulate and secrete a 25-kDa toxin, determined to be the bacteriophage-encoded streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin C (SpeC). This prompted us to determine if the bacteriophage themselves are induced during coculture conditions. We...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Broudy TB,Pancholi V,Fischetti VA

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a study of virulence gene regulation in Streptococcus pneumoniae, we have identified a gene encoding a homologue of the staphylococcal catabolite control protein CcpA in the pneumococcal genome sequence. The pneumococcal protein, designated RegM, has significant similarity to members of the LacI/GalR family...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giammarinaro P,Paton JC

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial heat shock proteins (HSP) are dominant antigens for the host immune response. Because of the high sequence homology between mammalian and microbial HSP, their value as component of a subunit vaccine has been the subject of controversy. Previous work from this laboratory, however, demonstrated for the first t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Noll A,AutenriethIB

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were vaccinated with 300 micrograms of BCG cell walls (BCG-CW) in oil-in-water emulsion intravenously or with a high or low dose of living BCG by inhalation (BCG-HD or BCG-LD, respectively). The consequences of vaccination were evaluated in terms of the growth of BCG in the lungs and spleen, lung and spleen weigh...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lefford MJ

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epitope specificities of 13 hybridomas secreting monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) specific for pertussis toxin (PT) is described. Hybridoma lines were derived by the fusion of spleen cells from mice immunized with native PT, Formalin-detoxified PT, or isolated PT subunits (S1 to S5) with the myeloma line X63-Ag8.653. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lang AB,Ganss MT,Cryz SJ Jr

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this research was to determine whether gram-negative bacteria frequently isolated from periodontally diseased sites contained polyclonal B-cell activators. Polyclonal B-cell activation, which results in nonspecific activation of multiple B-cell clones was analyzed by a hemolysis-in-gel assay designed ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bick PH,Carpenter AB,Holdeman LV,Miller GA,Ranney RR,Palcanis KG,Tew JG

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outer membrane porin genes of Salmonella typhimurium, including ompC, ompF, and tppB, are regulated by the products of ompB, a two-component regulatory locus encoding OmpR and EnvZ. S. typhimurium ompR mutants are attenuated in mice, but to date no one has studied the intracellular trafficking of S. typhimurium porin-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mills SD,Ruschkowski SR,Stein MA,Finlay BB

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum antibody response and four different cellular immune responses (cytotoxic T cells, delayed-type hypersensitivity T cells, natural killer cells, and cytotoxic macrophage levels) induced in CBA/H mice were measured at different times after intranasal inoculation of a cold-adapted (ca) variant of influenza A vi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mak NK,Zhang YH,Ada GL,Tannock GA

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the enteropathogenicity of Aeromonas hydrophila and Plesiomonas shigelloides, the rate of isolation of these organisms was compared among individuals with and without diarrhea in Thailand. In two groups of American travelers, A. hydrophila, but not P. shigelloides, was associated with episodes of travelers...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pitarangsi C,Echeverria P,Whitmire R,Tirapat C,Formal S,Dammin GJ,Tingtalapong M

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00