Cloning and sequencing of the immunoglobulin A1 protease gene (iga) of Haemophilus influenzae serotype b.

abstract：:Strains H37Ra and H37Rv, attenuated and virulent variants, respectively, of the original human strain H37 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, were used to infect cultures of mouse peritoneal macrophages. Bacterial viability of each strain was assessed over a 2-week period, and the cellular response to H37Ra during the firs...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hart PD,Armstrong JA

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of different ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs) in bacterial pathogenesis have not been studied systematically. In this work we analyzed the importance of the different Pseudomonas aeruginosa RNRs in pathogenesis using the Drosophila melanogaster host-pathogen interaction model. P. aeruginosa codes for three d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sjöberg BM,Torrents E

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed sensitive and specific solid-phase radioimmunoassays to quantitate the distribution and persistence of bacterial antigen in rats developing arthritis in response to a single injection of streptococcal cell wall material. Three separate assays were specific for either the A polysaccharide (N-acetyl-D-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eisenberg R,Fox A,Greenblatt JJ,Anderle SK,Cromartie WJ,Schwab JH

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors in the queous humor capable of increasing the random migration and chemotaxis of monocytes were demonstrated during experimental uveitis in the rabbit. Injection of endotoxin-free human serum albumin into the vitreous produced a severe inflammation detectable after 7 days and maximal between 12 to 21 days. Aqu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sher NA,Foon KA,Fishman ML,Brown TM

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic necrotizing factor type 1 (CNF1) and CNF2 are toxins of pathogenic Escherichia coli that share 85% identity over 1,014 amino acids. Although both of these toxins modify GTPases, CNF1 is a more potent inducer of multinucleation in HEp-2 cells, binds more efficiently to HEp-2 cells, and, despite the conservati...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grande KK,Meysick KC,Rasmussen SB,O'Brien AD

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosomal iroBCDEN gene cluster first described for Salmonella enterica is involved in the uptake of catecholate-type siderophore compounds. An orthologous gene cluster has recently been detected in Escherichia coli strains which cause extraintestinal disease. This E. coli iroBCDEN gene cluster has an impact on ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sorsa LJ,Dufke S,Heesemann J,Schubert S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C57BL/6 mice were infected intravenously with 6 X 10(3) Listeria monocytogenes organisms. As early as day 3 of infection, there was a marked reduction in the number of lymphocytes recovered from the peripheral blood, bone marrow, and thymuses of infected animals. Concomitantly, there was an increase in the number of s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Watson SR,Redington TJ,Miller TB,Bullock WE

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the intracellular growth of 20 strains within six species of Legionella in thioglycolate-elicited peritoneal macrophages from A/J and C57BL/6 mice and a congenic strain derived from them (A.B Lgn1). With the exception of Legionella pneumophila Togus-1 and Bloomington-2, the intracellular growth of the 15 L...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miyamoto H,Maruta K,Ogawa M,Beckers MC,Gros P,Yoshida S

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In general there is a poor correlation between serum lipopolysaccharide (LPS; the biologically active constituent of endotoxin) levels and mortality in septic patients. The objective of this study was to determine if chemical, structural, or biological differences among LPS from different clinical isolates of gram-neg...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Luchi M,Morrison DC

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Challenges with the production and suboptimal immunogenicity of malaria vaccine candidates have slowed the development of a Plasmodium falciparum multiantigen vaccine. Attempting to resolve these issues, we focused on the use of highly immunogenic merozoite surface protein 8 (MSP8) as a vaccine carrier protein. Previo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Parzych EM,Miura K,Ramanathan A,Long CA,Burns JM Jr

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori modifies host cholesterol via glycosylation and incorporates the glycosylated cholesterol into its membrane; however, the benefits of cholesterol to H. pylori are largely unknown. We speculated that cholesterol in the H. pylori membrane might alter the susceptibility of t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Trainor EA,Horton KE,Savage PB,Testerman TL,McGee DJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa invades various epithelial cell types in vitro and in vivo. The P. aeruginosa genome possesses a gene (flhA) which encodes a protein that is believed to be part of the export apparatus for flagellum assembly and which is homologous to invA of Salmonella spp. Because invA is required for invasion...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fleiszig SM,Arora SK,Van R,Ramphal R

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic role of staphylococcal coagulase and clumping factor was investigated in the rat model of endocarditis. The coagulase-producing and clumping factor-producing parent strain Staphylococcus aureus Newman and a series of mutants defective in either coagulase, clumping factor, or both were tested for their a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moreillon P,Entenza JM,Francioli P,McDevitt D,Foster TJ,François P,Vaudaux P

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditions for the release of streptococcal type 12 M protein from whole cells by cyanogen bromide are described; they demonstrated that methionine is not essential to the structural arrangements which account for some of its immunological and biological properties. The released M protein was separated from other prot...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vosti KL,Williams WK

更新日期：1978-08-01 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：:Mapping vectors containing antibiotic resistance markers inserted adjacent to or within different cloned genes from Streptococcus mutans were used to determine the relative positions of these genes on the chromosome. The gtfA, ftf, and scrB genes were inserted into streptococcal mapping vector pVA891 adjacent to an Em...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Perry D,Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pertussis is a severe respiratory disease caused by Bordetella pertussis The classic symptoms of pertussis include paroxysmal coughing with an inspiratory whoop, posttussive vomiting, cyanosis, and persistent coryzal symptoms. Infants under 2 months of age experience more severe disease, with most deaths occurring in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zimmerman LI,Papin JF,Warfel J,Wolf RF,Kosanke SD,Merkel TJ

更新日期：2018-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of a few strains of mice to a subcutaneous injection of Leishmania tropica major, the causative agent of cutaneous leishmaniasis in humans, was studied. The infection in six strains (CBA, AKR/J, AKR/cu, C57BL/6, A/J, and C3H) remained cutaneous, and the animals recovered within 3 to 4 months. In con...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nasseri M,Modabber FZ

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-density oligonucleotide microarrays are widely used to study gene expression in cells exposed to a variety of pathogens. This study addressed the global genome-wide transcriptional activation of genes in hosts infected in vivo, which result in radically different clinical outcomes. We present an analysis of the g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schaecher K,Kumar S,Yadava A,Vahey M,Ockenhouse CF

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eib genes of Escherichia coli encode surface-exposed proteins which bind immunoglobulins (Ig) such as the Fc fragment of human IgG (IgG Fc) in a nonimmune manner. The Eib proteins belong to a family which includes YadA of Yersinia, UspA2 of Moraxella, and DsrA of Haemophilus ducreyi. This family of surface-exposed...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sandt CH,Hill CW

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferation of Bordetella pertussis in the lungs of infant mice challenged by the intranasal route was examined. The bacteria rapidly proliferated in the lungs of mice challenged with a sublethal dose of a wild-type strain (BP338) or a filamentous hemagglutinin mutant (BPM409) from 500 at day 0 to 10(7) at day 15. T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goodwin MS,Weiss AA

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydial inclusions were demonstrated by indirect immunofluorescence (IF) with antiserum to the chlamydial group antigen when McCoy cell monolayers infected with either Chlamydia trachomatis or Chlamydia psittaci were fixed in formaldehyde or paraformaldehyde, provided the monolayer was not allowed to dry. If these ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Richmond SJ,Stirling P

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fliA gene of Legionella pneumophila encoding the alternative sigma(28) factor was inactivated by introducing a kanamycin resistance cassette. Electron microscopy and Western blot analysis revealed that the fliA mutant strain is aflagellate and expresses no flagellin. Reporter gene assays indicated that the flaA pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heuner K,Dietrich C,Skriwan C,Steinert M,Hacker J

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A GroEL-like protein from Bordetella pertussis was purified. This protein was found to have the tetradecameric subunit structure typical of the GroEL family of proteins and to contain epitopes similar to those of other members of this family, including a human GroEL-like protein. Active immunization of neonatal mice w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Burns DL,Gould-Kostka JL,Kessel M,Arciniega JL

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Otitis media developed in 67% of chinchillas inoculated intranasally with type 7 Streptococcus pneumoniae and influenza A virus. Only 4% of chinchillas inoculated with influenza alone and 21% of chinchillas inoculated with S. pneumoniae alone developed otitis media. Among the chinchillas that developed otitis media af...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giebink GS,Berzins IK,Marker SC,Schiffman G

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein antigen called TR-o was isolated from supernatant of a sonically treated Reiter treponeme. The isolation procedure included anion-exchange chromatography on Whatman DE-52, hydrophobic interaction chromatography on decyl agarose, and finally gel filtration on Ac-A-22 Ultrogel. The fractionations were monitore...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Petersen CS,Pedersen NS,Axelsen NH

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which Helicobacter pylori, which has little or no invasive activity, induces gastric-tissue inflammation and injury has not been well characterized. We have previously demonstrated that water-extracted proteins of H. pylori are capable of activating human monocytes by a lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-indepe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pérez-Pérez GI,Shepherd VL,Morrow JD,Blaser MJ

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protozoan parasite Giardia duodenalis (Giardia lamblia) is one of the most commonly found intestinal pathogens in mammals, including humans. In the current study, a Giardia muris-mouse model was used to analyze cytokine transcription patterns and histological changes in intestinal tissue at different time points d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dreesen L,De Bosscher K,Grit G,Staels B,Lubberts E,Bauge E,Geldhof P

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium ookinetes secrete chitinases to penetrate the acellular, chitin-containing peritrophic matrix of the mosquito midgut en route to invasion of the epithelium. Chitinases are potentially targets that can be used to block malaria transmission. We demonstrate here that chitinases of Plasmodium falciparum and P. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Langer RC,Hayward RE,Tsuboi T,Tachibana M,Torii M,Vinetz JM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterile sonic-treated materials of pneumococci grown in media containing N-acetylmannosamine as the carbohydrate source were lethal for mice. Purification of the toxic factor led to its identification as the enzyme neuraminidase. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kelly R,Greiff D

更新日期：1970-07-01 00:00:00