Disease-associated Neisseria meningitidis isolates inhibit wound repair in respiratory epithelial cells in a type IV pilus-independent manner.

abstract：:The immunoprotective activity of Klebsiella pneumoniae K2 cell surface preparations and purified capsular polysaccharide was tested in mice. The 50% protective dose (PD50), expressed as capsular polysaccharide content, was 2 ng for cell surface preparations and 50 ng for purified capsular polysaccharide. Both preparat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Robert A,Jouin H,Fournier JM

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactoferrin (LF) is a multifunctional immunoregulatory protein that has been associated with host defense at mucosal surfaces through its antibacterial properties. The antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties of LF were further explored with an animal model of experimental urinary tract infection. Bovine LF (bLF...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Håversen LA,Engberg I,Baltzer L,Dolphin G,Hanson LA,Mattsby-Baltzer I

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneic autoantibodies against axonal neurofilament proteins of mature mouse neurons grown in vitro were detected by the indirect immunofluorescence technique in 12.7% (9 of 71) of the sera from nonhuman primates infected with kuru, in 14.5% (17 of 117) and 4% (1 of 25), respectively, of the sera from nonhuman pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Aoki T,Gibbs CJ Jr,Sotelo J,Gajdusek DC

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically based natural resistance to brucellosis in cattle provides for novel strategies to control zoonotic diseases. Bovine NRAMP1, the homologue of a murine gene (Bcg), has been identified as a major candidate for controlling the in vivo resistant phenotype. We developed an in vitro model for expression of resis...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barthel R,Feng J,Piedrahita JA,McMurray DN,Templeton JW,Adams LG

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group A streptococci isolated from skin adhere in greater numbers to human skin epithelial cells than to cells obtained from buccal mucosa whereas streptococci isolated from a throat tend to adhere in greater numbers to buccal epithelial cells than to skin epithelial cells in vitro. M protein-producing strains of grou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alkan M,Ofek I,Beachey EH

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm formation by the periodontal pathogen Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is dependent upon autoinducer-2 (AI-2)-mediated quorum sensing. However, the components that link the detection of the AI-2 signal to downstream gene expression have not been determined. One potential regulator is the QseBC two-compone...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Novak EA,Shao H,Daep CA,Demuth DR

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice immunized subcutaneously with heat-killed Escherichia coli were protected from pyelonephritis produced by the intravenous route, but there was little or no protection from ascending infection. No significant protection from ascending or hematogenous pyelonephritis was demonstrated when immunization was accomplish...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Montgomerie JZ,Kalmanson GM,Hubert EG,Guze LB

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils play a major role in defending the periodontium against infection by oral, gram-negative, facultative bacteria, such as Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, Eikenella corrodens, and Capnocytophaga spp. We examined the sensitivity of these bacteria to a mixture of low-molecular-weight peptides and highly p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miyasaki KT,Bodeau AL,Ganz T,Selsted ME,Lehrer RI

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock protein (HSP) expression was examined in murine bone marrow-derived macrophages infected with stationary-phase promastigotes of Leishmania donovani. Immunoblotting performed with a rabbit polyclonal antiserum raised against HSP60 from Heliothis virescens (moth) revealed the de novo appearance of 65- and 67-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rey-Ladino JA,Reiner NE

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene library of Chlamydia trachomatis (serovar L1) DNA has been prepared in the phage vector lambda 1059. From this bank, 20 recombinant phage-expressing components which reacted with serum from a patient with a C. trachomatis (L1) infection were chosen. Selective expression and radiolabeling of phage polypeptides i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Allan I,Cunningham TM,Lovett MA

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used the Salmonella typhi galactose epimerase (galE) mutant strain Ty21a, shown to be a safe, effective, living, attenuated oral typhoid vaccine, as a recipient for a recombinant plasmid containing the gene for production of the nontoxic B subunit of the heat-labile enterotoxin of Escherichia coli. The S. typhi der...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clements JD,El-Morshidy S

更新日期：1984-11-01 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：: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：:Proteolysis is a common microbial virulence mechanism that enables the destruction of host tissue and evasion from host defense mechanisms. Antimicrobial peptides, also known as host defense peptides, are effector molecules of the innate immunity that demonstrate a broad range of antimicrobial and immunoregulatory act...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gutner M,Chaushu S,Balter D,Bachrach G

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Encapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae of serotypes 2, 9N, 14, 21, and 23F and an unencapsulated variant of type 2 pneumococci were efficiently phagocytosed by both aerobically and anaerobically incubated human leukocytes. In the presence of O2, the pneumococci rapidly lost their viability, whereas during anaerobiosis,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thore M,Löfgren S,Tärnvik A,Monsen T,Selstam E,Burman LG

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of murine Toll-like receptors 2 and 4 (TLR2 and -4, respectively) to cytokine induction by heat-killed bacteria was analyzed in vitro and in vivo. Gram-negative bacteria induced cytokines primarily via TLR4; the contribution of TLR2 was only minor. Neither TLR4 nor, surprisingly, TLR2 was required in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lembo A,Kalis C,Kirschning CJ,Mitolo V,Jirillo E,Wagner H,Galanos C,Freudenberg MA

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decay-accelerating factor (DAF), a complement regulatory protein, also serves as a receptor for Dr adhesin-bearing Escherichia coli. The repeat three of DAF was shown to be important in Dr adhesin binding and complement regulation. However, Dr adhesins do not bind to red blood cells with the rare polymorphism of DAF, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hasan RJ,Pawelczyk E,Urvil PT,Venkatarajan MS,Goluszko P,Kur J,Selvarangan R,Nowicki S,Braun WA,Nowicki BJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most frequent microbe causing middle ear infection. The pathophysiology of pneumococcal otitis media has been characterized by measurement of local inflammatory mediators such as inflammatory cells, lysozyme, oxidative metabolic products, and inflammatory cytokines. The role of cytokine...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sato K,Liebeler CL,Quartey MK,Le CT,Giebink GS

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urogenital Chlamydia serovars replicating in reproductive epithelium pose a unique challenge to host immunity and vaccine development. Previous studies have shown that CD4 T cells are necessary and sufficient to clear primary Chlamydia muridarum genital tract infections in the mouse model, making a protective CD4 T ce...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Johnson RM,Yu H,Kerr MS,Slaven JE,Karunakaran KP,Brunham RC

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method was developed to study the adhesion of Streptococcus pneumoniae to human pharyngeal epithelial cells. Epithelial cells from healthy persons, pneumococcal strains from patients with otitis media, meningitis, or septicemia, and pneumococcal cells from the nasopharynx of healthy carriers were used. Adhesion was ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Andersson B,Eriksson B,Falsen E,Fogh A,Hanson LA,Nylén O,Peterson H,Svanborg Edén C

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral treponemes are considered to be important in the development and progression of periodontal diseases. We investigated the mechanisms of recognition and activation of human gingival epithelial cells (HGEC) with the oral treponemes Treponema denticola, Treponema vincentii, and Treponema medium and their outer membr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Asai Y,Jinno T,Ogawa T

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that children with blood group A have increased susceptibility to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) diarrhea and that Lewis blood group "a" antigen (Le(a)) may be a candidate receptor for ETEC colonization factor (CF) antigen I (CFA/I) fimbriae. Based on these findings, we have attempte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ahmed T,Lundgren A,Arifuzzaman M,Qadri F,Teneberg S,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunomodulatory agents potentially represent a new class of broad-spectrum antimicrobials. Here, we demonstrate that prophylaxis with immunomodulatory cytosine-phosphate-guanidine (CpG) oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN), a toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) agonist, confers protection against Yersinia pestis, the etiologic agent o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hickey AJ,Lin JS,Kummer LW,Szaba FM,Duso DK,Tighe M,Parent MA,Smiley ST

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma interferon, an immune lymphokine that protects mouse macrophages against infection by several parasites, was ineffective against Mycobacterium lepraemurium. On the contrary, it significantly stimulated multiplication of M. lepraemurium in the macrophages. Simultaneous treatment of macrophages with gamma interfer...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mor N,Goren MB,Crowle AJ

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amastigotes obtained from spleens of mice infected with different strains of Trypanosoma cruzi were examined for their ability to invade macrophages and L929 cells and to initiate infection in mice. Both types of cells were readily invaded by organisms of the strains Y, MR, and Tulahuen. Organisms of the CL strain wer...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McCabe RE,Remington JS,Araujo FG

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several monoclonal antibodies directed against gonococcal pili have been used to investigate the potential contribution of anti-pilus antibodies to host defense against gonococcal infection. Included were two antibodies (SM1 and SM2) which reacted with conserved determinants present on pili from all strains tested and...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Virji M,Heckels JE

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal mucosa forms the first line of defense against infections mediated by enteric pathogens such as salmonellae. Here we exploited intestinal "organoids" (iHOs) generated from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hIPSCs) to explore the interaction of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium with iHOs. Imagi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Forbester JL,Goulding D,Vallier L,Hannan N,Hale C,Pickard D,Mukhopadhyay S,Dougan G

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A receptor specific for lipoglycans from Acholeplasma axanthum and Acholeplasma granularum was isolated from sheep erythrocyte stroma by extraction with n-pentanol and permeation chromatography. The purified receptor appeared as one band on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels and stained with Coomassie blue, pe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Al-Samarrai TH,Smith PF,Lynn RJ

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsporidia are obligate intracellular parasites that are ubiquitous in nature and have been recognized as causing an important emerging disease among immunocompromised individuals. Limited knowledge exists about the immune response against these organisms, and virtually nothing is known about the receptors involved...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fischer J,Suire C,Hale-Donze H

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to Yersinia pestis LcrV, the recombinant V10 (rV10) variant (lacking residues 271 to 300) does not suppress the release of proinflammatory cytokines by immune cells. Immunization with rV10 generates robust antibody responses that protect mice against bubonic plague and pneumonic plague, suggesting that rV1...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： DeBord KL,Anderson DM,Marketon MM,Overheim KA,DePaolo RW,Ciletti NA,Jabri B,Schneewind O

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00