Plasmid-encoded Pgp3 is a major virulence factor for Chlamydia muridarum to induce hydrosalpinx in mice.

abstract：:A dextranase preparation (AD17) partially purified from a culture liquor of Spicaria violacea strain IFO 6120 significantly inhibited the formation of artifcial dental plaque on a steel wire or on an extracted tooth surface. Changes in the surface morphology of Streptococcus mutans cells due to AD17 action were studie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hamada S,Mizuno J,Murayama Y,Ooshima Y,Masuda N

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitory effects of cortisol on cellular immunity were studied in vitro by using hamster peritoneal exudate cells. Two obligate, intracellular protozoa--Toxoplasma gondii and Besnoitia jellisoni-- were used to control for specificity of effects. Results indicate that immune lymphocytes specifically confer immuni...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lindberg RE,Frenkel JK

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human systemic antibody levels to oral members of the Bacteroides genus were assessed with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Antibody levels to B. gingivalis, two homology groups of B. intermedius, B. melaninogenicus, B. denticola, B. loescheii, B. corporis, B. oralis, B. buccae, and B. gracilis were determined in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ebersole JL,Taubman MA,Smith DJ,Frey DE

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus can produce a wide variety of exotoxins, including toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1), staphylococcal enterotoxins, and staphylococcal enterotoxin-like toxins. These toxins share superantigenic activity. To investigate the beta chain (Vbeta) specificities of each of these toxins, TSST-1 and al...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thomas D,Dauwalder O,Brun V,Badiou C,Ferry T,Etienne J,Vandenesch F,Lina G

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell walls from Streptococcus mutans were prepared by conventional technique and subjected to a series of extraction procedures involving classical protein solvents. The extracted walls contained several non-peptidoglycan amino acids and were also amenable to radiolabeling with [125I]sodium iodide and chloramine T. Th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nesbitt WE,Staat RH,Rosan B,Taylor KG,Doyle RJ

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is a microaerobic bacterium that produces an acute, self-limiting, watery or bloody diarrhea in humans. Little is known about how C. jejuni causes disease or even what specific capabilities it requires for survival in vivo. The enzyme, superoxide dismutase (SOD), which catalyzes the breakdown of s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pesci EC,Cottle DL,Pickett CL

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilus ducreyi expresses 2 OmpA homologs, designated MOMP and OmpA2, whose genes are arranged in tandem on the chromosome. Northern blot analysis indicated that momp and ompA2 are transcribed independently. Sequences of the momp open reading frame (ORF) lacking the transcriptional start site were amplified by PCR...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Throm RE,Al-Tawfiq JA,Fortney KR,Katz BP,Hood AF,Slaughter CA,Hansen EJ,Spinola SM

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The M1inv+ subclone of M1 group A streptococci that spread globally in the late 1980s and early 1990s was previously identified by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), M protein, and SpeA exotoxin sequence analyses. Strains representing this subclone were characterized with regard to carriage of bacterioph...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cleary PP,LaPenta D,Vessela R,Lam H,Cue D

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attachment of isogenic fimbriated and nonfimbriated Haemophilus influenzae type b variants to human cells was studied by using a radioactive assay and an indirect immunofluorescent assay. As described previously, fimbriated H. influenzae variants adhered to a greater extent than nonfimbriated variants to human buc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sable NS,Connor EM,Hall CB,Loeb MR

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium marinum grows at an optimal temperature of 33 degrees C, far lower than that for M. tuberculosis. Consequently, M. marinum infection of mammals is restricted largely to the cooler surfaces of the body, such as the extremities, but it causes a systemic infection in a large number of poikilothermic animals...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ramakrishnan L,Valdivia RH,McKerrow JH,Falkow S

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collectins play important roles in host defense against infectious microorganisms. We now demonstrate that the serum collectins mannose-binding lectin (MBL) and conglutinin have less ability to bind to, aggregate, and enhance neutrophil uptake of several strains of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria than pulmona...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hartshorn KL,White MR,Crouch EC

更新日期：2002-11-01 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：:The production of type 1 fimbriae in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is controlled, in part, by three proteins, FimZ, FimY, and FimW. Amino acid sequence analysis indicates that FimZ belongs to the family of bacterial response regulators of two-component systems. In these studies, we have demonstrated that int...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zeiner SA,Dwyer BE,Clegg S

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human multidrug efflux transporters are known for their ability to extrude antibiotics and toxic compounds out of cells, yet accumulating data indicate they have additional functions in diverse physiological processes not related to drug efflux. Here, we show that the human multidrug transporter P-glycoprotein (P-gp) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sigal N,Kaplan Zeevi M,Weinstein S,Peer D,Herskovits AA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbicidal myeloperoxidase (MPO)-H2O2-chloride system strongly inhibits Escherichia coli DNA synthesis. Also, cell envelopes from MPO-treated E. coli cells lose their ability to interact with hemimethylated DNA sequences of oriC, the chromosomal origin of replication, raising the prospect that suppression of DNA...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosen H,Michel BR,vanDevanter DR,Hughes JP

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharides (LPSs) of Gram-negative bacteria comprise lipid A, core, and O-polysaccharide (OPS) components. Studies have demonstrated that LPSs isolated from the pathogenic species Burkholderia pseudomallei and Burkholderia mallei and from less-pathogenic species, such as Burkholderia thailandensis, are potent...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sengyee S,Yoon SH,West TE,Ernst RK,Chantratita N

更新日期：2019-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Several group B streptococcal products have been previously found to stimulate human monocytes to produce tumor necrosis factor alpha. In order to identify the receptors involved in these responses, monocytes were stimulated with purified group- or type-specific carbohydrates or lipoteichoic acid in the presence of an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cuzzola M,Mancuso G,Beninati C,Biondo C,von Hunolstein C,Orefici G,Espevik T,Flo TH,Teti G

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resequencing estA3, an allele of the methanol-soluble heat-stable enterotoxin of Escherichia coli showed that the proline triplet 19 is in fact an alanine codon; thus, estA alleles 3 and 4 were shown to be identical. Resequencing has also shown that the carboxy terminus of another allele, estA2, is not the previously ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guzman-Verduzco LM,Kupersztoch YM

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piglets suckled by dams that had been vaccinated with K88 antigen were significantly more resistant to deaths caused by neonatal diarrhea after challenge with a large dose of a K88-positive enteropathogenic strain of Escherichia coli than piglets suckled by control dams. The factors most likely to be involved in prote...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rutter JM,Jones GW,Brown GT,Burrows MR,Luther PD

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of the synthesis of Vi polysaccharide, a major virulence determinant in Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi, is under the control of two regulatory systems, ompR-envZ and rscB-rscC, which respond to changes in osmolarity. Some serotype Typhi strains exhibit overexpression of Vi polysaccharide, which masks cl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Santander J,Wanda SY,Nickerson CA,Curtiss R 3rd

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells bearing the gammadelta antigen receptor (gammadelta T cells) can constitute up to 50% of T cells in the peripheral blood and lymphoid organs of young cattle. We present data showing that gammadelta T cells are involved in immune responses against Theileria parva. gammadelta T cells isolated from peripheral blo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Daubenberger CA,Taracha EL,Gaidulis L,Davis WC,McKeever DJ

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthrax lethal toxin (LeTx), consisting of protective antigen (PA) and lethal factor (LF), rapidly kills primary mouse macrophages and macrophage-like cell lines such as RAW 264.7. LF is translocated by PA into the cytosol of target cells, where it acts as a metalloprotease to cleave mitogen-activated protein kinase k...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tang G,Leppla SH

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:Chlamydia pneumoniae is a causative agent for many respiratory infections and has been associated with cardiovascular diseases in humans. The pathogenicity of C. pneumoniae is thought to depend on its ability to cause persistent infection and to evade host defense. Genome sequence analysis indicates that C. pneumoniae...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fan P,Dong F,Huang Y,Zhong G

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae interacts with vascular endothelial cells during the course of bacteremia. In this study, we characterized the initial attachment of pneumococci to human endothelial cells (EC) and the response of the endothelium to this interaction. Pneumococci adhered to EC in a dose-dependent fashion. Attac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Geelen S,Bhattacharyya C,Tuomanen E

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of genetic resistance or "trypanotolerance" to infection with Trypanosoma congolense were investigated in two strains of mice. One strain C57BL, is outstandingly resistant to most stabilates of T. congolense and can survive for over 80 days, whereas CFLP, in common with most other strains, generally suc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whitelaw DD,Macaskill JA,Holmes PH,Jennings FW,Urquhart GM

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbred BALB/c mice were either immunized with Triton X-100-extracted antigens of blood-stage Plasmodium yoelii or infected with P. yoelii and cured in three successive schedules. Whereas the immunized BALB/c became only partially protected from subsequent challenge infection with blood-stage P. yoelii, the convalescen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kironde FA,Kumar A,Nayak AR,Kraikov JL

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was performed to determine whether Histoplasma capsulatum (yeast phase) is able to activate the alternative complement pathway. H. capsulatum yeasts were shown to consume C3 in C4-deficient guinea pig serum. Immunoelectrophoretic conversion of alternative pathway component factor B confirmed that C3 ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ratnoff WD,Pepple JM,Winkelstein JA

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Encapsulation of soluble protein antigens in liposomes was previously shown to result in processing of antigen via the major histocompatibility complex class I pathway, as evidenced by costaining of the trans-Golgi region of murine bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMs) by fluorophore-labeled liposomal antigen and by a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Richards RL,Rao M,Wassef NM,Glenn GM,Rothwell SW,Alving CR

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae is the causal organism of the diarrheal disease cholera. The rugose variant of V. cholerae is associated with the secretion of an exopolysaccharide. The rugose polysaccharide has been shown to confer increased resistance to a variety of agents, such as chlorine, bioacids, and oxidative and osmotic stre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ali A,Johnson JA,Franco AA,Metzger DJ,Connell TD,Morris JG Jr,Sozhamannan S

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00