Role of anti-pilus antibodies in host defense against gonococcal infection studied with monoclonal anti-pilus antibodies.

abstract：:The interaction of plasma fibronectin with C1q of the complement system has been demonstrated in the past several years. In addition, the antibody-independent binding of C1q to bacteria, as well as the binding of plasma fibronectin to bacteria, is well documented. This study examines whether the binding of C1q to bact...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sorvillo JM,Pearlstein E

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resurgence is a major concern after malaria elimination. After the initiation of the elimination program on Aneityum Island in 1991, microscopy showed that Plasmodium falciparum disappeared immediately, whereas P. vivax disappeared from 1996 onward, until P. vivax cases were reported in January 2002. By conducting mal...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kaneko A,Chaves LF,Taleo G,Kalkoa M,Isozumi R,Wickremasinghe R,Perlmann H,Takeo S,Tsuboi T,Tachibana S,Kimura M,Björkman A,Troye-Blomberg M,Tanabe K,Drakeley C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key function of monocytes/macrophages (Mphi) is to present antigens to T cells. However, upon interaction with bacteria, Mphi lose their ability to effectively present soluble antigens. This functional loss was associated with alterations in the expression of adhesion molecules and CD14 and a reduction in the uptake...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wyant TL,Tanner MK,Sztein MB

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used inhibitors of receptor-mediated endocytosis to study the mechanisms of infectivity, especially the uptake mechanism, of Chlamydia trachomatis for cultured cells. The effect of methylamine and monodansylcadaverine on the different stages of the chlamydial growth cycle in McCoy cells was examined. There was a do...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Söderlund G,Kihlström E

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gram-negative intracellular pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, an important cause of sepsis in Southeast Asia. Recognition of pathogen-associated molecular patterns by Toll-like receptors (TLRs) is essential for an appropriate immune response during pathogen invasion. In pati...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Birnie E,Weehuizen TAF,Lankelma JM,de Jong HK,Koh GCKW,van Lieshout MHP,Roelofs JJTH,Budding AE,de Vos AF,van der Poll T,Wiersinga WJ

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon regulatory factor 1-deficient (IRF-1(-/-)) mice infected with virulent Brucella abortus 2308 at 5 x 10(5) CFU developed acute hepatitis similar to many natural hosts but, unlike natural hosts, IRF-1(-/-) mice were unable to resolve infection and died. In contrast, IRF-1(-/-) mice survived when infected at 5...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ko J,Gendron-Fitzpatrick A,Ficht TA,Splitter GA

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the role of CD4+ T cells in host defense against cholera enterotoxin-induced diarrhea. Antitoxin immunoglobulin A formation and gut protection against cholera toxin (CT) following oral immunizations with CT were evaluated in normal mice and mice that had been depleted of CD4+ T cells by in vivo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hörnqvist E,Goldschmidt TJ,Holmdahl R,Lycke N

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ApxIIA protein secreted from Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is both hemolytic and cytotoxic. However, when the cloned apxII operon is expressed in Escherichia coli, two forms of the ApxIIA protein can be recovered. Toxin which remains intracellular has hemolytic and cytotoxic activities, while toxin that is secre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tu AH,Hausler C,Young R,Struck DK

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics and homing characteristics of T-cell responses in humans after mucosal immunizations have not been well characterized. Therefore, we have investigated the magnitude and duration of such responses as well as the homing receptor expression of antigen-specific peripheral blood T cells by using an oral model ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lundin BS,Johansson C,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay technique was used to quantitate, in milligrams per milliliter, anti-colonization factor antigen/I (CFA/I) immunoglobulin G (IgG) in acute- and convalescent-phase sera of individuals who experienced diarrhea associated with CFA/I-positive enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. Purified...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clegg S,Evans DG,Evans DJ Jr

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity against pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is characterized by the formation in the lungs of granulomas consisting of macrophages and activated T cells producing tumor necrosis factor alpha and gamma interferon, both required for the activation of the phagocytes. In 90% of immunocompetent humans, this res...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kaplan G,Post FA,Moreira AL,Wainwright H,Kreiswirth BN,Tanverdi M,Mathema B,Ramaswamy SV,Walther G,Steyn LM,Barry CE 3rd,Bekker LG

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastatic infection after hematogenous dissemination of Candida species is presumably dependent on the fungus traversing the vascular endothelium. An in vitro model of the earliest events of metastatic Candida infection was developed with whole vascular strips. Freshly obtained porcine blood vessels were secured in a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klotz SA,Drutz DJ,Harrison JL,Huppert M

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of cytosolic (intracellular) Ca(2+) concentration (Ca(i)) may be an important host response when airway epithelial cells are exposed to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We measured Ca(i) in Calu-3 cells exposed from the apical or basolateral surface to cytotoxic and noncytotoxic strains of P. aeruginosa. Apical addi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jacob T,Lee RJ,Engel JN,Machen TE

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very little is known about the host response to chlamydial genital infection in the male, particularly about the nature of the local response in the urethra. In this study, the pathological and immunologic responses to urethral infection of the male guinea pig with Chlamydia caviae (Chlamydophila caviae) were characte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang Y,Nagarajan U,Hennings L,Bowlin AK,Rank RG

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human gamma delta T cells are known to respond at high frequencies to pathogenic mycobacteria. Here we show that opportunistic strains of mycobacteria share with pathogenic mycobacteria the ability to trigger at high frequencies human V gamma 9V delta 2 T-cell-receptor-positive T lymphocytes. Stimulating ligands were ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Häcker G,Kromer S,Heeg K,Ivanyi J,Wagner H,Pfeffer K

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli C25 maintained population levels of 10(9) to 10(10) per g of cecum and translocated to 100% of the middle mesenteric lymph nodes in gnotobiotic mice monoassociated with E. coli C25. Intragastric inoculation of these mice with the cecal contents from specific-pathogen-free mice reduced the population l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Berg RD

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of purR was previously shown to enhance the virulence of Staphylococcus aureus in a murine sepsis model, and this cannot be fully explained by increased expression of genes within the purine biosynthesis pathway. Rather, the increased production of specific S. aureus virulence factors, including alpha toxin a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alkam D,Jenjaroenpun P,Ramirez AM,Beenken KE,Spencer HJ,Smeltzer MS

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5) binding site has been predicted to be in the N terminus of the flagellin molecule. In order to better define the interaction between the N-terminal amino acids of Pseudomonas aeruginosa flagellin and TLR5, site-specific mutations were generated between residues 88 and 97 of P. aeruginos...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Verma A,Arora SK,Kuravi SK,Ramphal R

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface coat of Trypanosoma brucei, formed by about 10(7) molecules of the membrane-form variant surface glycoprotein (mfVSG) per cell, is generally considered to constitute a barrier against the access of antibodies directed to invariant surface proteins. The recent characterization of two invariant surface glyco...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ziegelbauer K,Overath P

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since melanin is considered a virulence factor in Cryptococcus neoformans, its suppression at 37 degrees C has been perplexing. We now show an opposite thermal regulation of superoxide dismutase (SOD), consistent with a compensatory mechanism. Moreover, we demonstrate normal SOD and catalase levels in albino, oxygen-s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jacobson ES,Jenkins ND,Todd JM

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertional inactivation of the Streptococcus mutans spaP gene was used to construct an isogenic mutant (834) of strain NG8 (serotype c) which lacked the major cell surface-associated protein referred to as P1 (15). Results of several studies suggest that P1 is involved in the adherence of S. mutans to saliva-coated a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bowen WH,Schilling K,Giertsen E,Pearson S,Lee SF,Bleiweis A,Beeman D

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III capsular polysaccharide of group B streptococci (GBS) consists of a linear backbone with short side chains ending in residues of N-acetylneuraminic acid, or sialic acid. The presence of sialic acid on the surface of the organism inhibits activation of the alternative pathway of complement and is thought t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wessels MR,Haft RF,Heggen LM,Rubens CE

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of Eimeria vermiformis within cultured murine fibroblastlike (L-929) or rat epithelial-like (RATEC) cells was inhibited by treatment of the cells with the appropriate recombinant gamma interferon. The effect was apparent as a reduction in both the initial numbers of intracellular sporozoites and, to a much ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rose ME,Smith AL,Wakelin D

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured mammalian cells extend the time of survival of Treponema pallidum (Nichols strain). Various parameters that have been previously shown to enhance treponemal survival in vitro were examined for influences on the interaction of T. pallidum with cultured cells. With cells derived from normal rabbit testes, the t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fitzgerald TJ,Johnson RC,Sykes JA,Miller JN

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results show that Listeria monocytogenes, Francisella tularensis, and Salmonella typhimurium are facultative intracellular bacteria with a capacity to invade and grow in nonphagocytic cells in vivo. In the liver, all of these pathogens were seen to invade and to multiply extensively in hepatocytes. In all three ca...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Conlan JW,North RJ

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 9.5-kilobase plasmid of Yersinia pestis determines plasminogen activator, coagulase, pesticin, and pesticin immunity activities. We have mapped and cloned the loci encoding these activities and demonstrated that both plasminogen activator and coagulase were determined by the same gene, designated pla. The primary ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sodeinde OA,Goguen JD

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of type-specific antigen (that covalently associated with the cell wall peptidoglycan and that released extracellularly) synthesized by virulent and avirulent strains of type III group B streptococci was quantitated and compared. Additionally, the effect of the physiological age of the cells and the influenc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yeung MK,Mattingly SJ

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two glucosyltransferase genes from Streptococcus mutans GS-5, gtfB and gtfC, have been previously isolated and sequenced in this laboratory. In the present communication a third gtf gene, gtfD, was isolated and characterized. Isolation of the gene involved a novel procedure utilizing the integration plasmid pVA891. A ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hanada N,Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peru-15 is a live attenuated oral vaccine derived from a Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Inaba strain by a series of deletions and modifications, including deletion of the entire CT genetic element. Peru-15 is also a stable, motility-defective strain and is unable to recombine with homologous DNA. We wished to determine whe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cohen MB,Giannella RA,Bean J,Taylor DN,Parker S,Hoeper A,Wowk S,Hawkins J,Kochi SK,Schiff G,Killeen KP

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum's ability to invade erythrocytes is essential for its survival within the human host. Immune mechanisms that impair this ability are therefore expected to contribute to immunity against the parasite. Plasma of humans who are naturally exposed to malaria has been shown to have growth-inhibitory ac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rono J,Färnert A,Olsson D,Osier F,Rooth I,Persson KE

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00