Susceptibility to Plasmodium yoelii preerythrocytic infection in BALB/c substrains is determined at the point of hepatocyte invasion.

abstract：:Enterococcus faecalis strains are resident intestinal bacteria associated with invasive infections, inflammatory bowel diseases, and colon cancer. Although factors promoting E. faecalis colonization of intestines are not fully known, one implicated pathway is a phosphotransferase system (PTS) in E. faecalis strain OG1...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fan TJ,Goeser L,Naziripour A,Redinbo MR,Hansen JJ

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of enhanced resistance of Mycobacterium bovis BCG-treated mice to ectromelia virus infection was investigated by determining the effect of splenectomy, antithymocyte serum, and antimacrophage serum on resistance. It was greatly reduced by these treatments, not only in normal mice, but also in mice treate...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sakuma T,Suenaga T,Yoshida I,Azuma M

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface layer proteins (SLPs) are essential for induction of abortion by Campylobacter fetus subsp. fetus in experimentally challenged ewes. These proteins are encoded by multiple sap genes and vary in size and antigenicity. The role of SLP antigenic variation during experimental ovine infection was investigated. Foll...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grogono-Thomas R,Blaser MJ,Ahmadi M,Newell DG

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) occurs after a long-term Helicobacter pylori infection. However, the disease can develop earlier, and rare cases have been observed in children, suggesting that these H. pylori strains may be more virulent. We used suppressive subtractive hybridization for comparative genomics between H. pyl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Oleastro M,Monteiro L,Lehours P,Mégraud F,Ménard A

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-rabbit alveolar macrophage goat serum (AMS), adsorbed of hemolysins and hemagglutinins, exhibited complement-dependent cytotoxicity for the following rabbit target cells: alveolar macrophages, thymocytes, and kidney (RK-13) cells. The intravenous injection of AMS, sufficient to reduce markedly the dermal tubercul...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moore VL,Myrvik QN

更新日期：1970-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous attempts to induce mucosal antibodies in rhesus monkeys by enteric immunization have resulted in only modest and short-lived responses, dominated by immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies in the plasma. In this study, two groups of rhesus monkeys were immunized intranasally three times at 2-week intervals with a b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Russell MW,Moldoveanu Z,White PL,Sibert GJ,Mestecky J,Michalek S M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual strains of Staphylococcus aureus have different capacities to become internalized by osteoblasts. Here we report that the levels of sigma(B) expressed by S. aureus correlate with the capacity of this bacterium to be internalized by osteoblasts. However, sigma(B) is not essential for internalization and does...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nair SP,Bischoff M,Senn MM,Berger-Bächi B

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reexamined the binding specificity of the Shiga-like toxin variant associated with porcine edema disease, SLT2e, which is reported to be more cytotoxic for Vero cells than for HeLa cells, by using receptor-deficient cells and a liposomal insertion system for purified glycolipids. We found that SLT2e preferentially ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Keusch GT,Jacewicz M,Acheson DW,Donohue-Rolfe A,Kane AV,McCluer RH

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis is a human-specific pathogen and leading cause of meningitis and septicemia. Factor H binding protein (fHbp), a virulence factor which protects N. meningitidis from innate immunity by binding the human complement regulator factor H (fH) with high affinity, is also a key antigen in vaccines being...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van der Veen S,Johnson S,Jongerius I,Malik T,Genovese A,Santini L,Staunton D,Ufret-Vincenty RL,Pickering MC,Lea SM,Tang CM

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (CMC) are selectively unable to clear the yeast Candida, which results in persistent debilitating infections affecting the skin, nails, and mucous membranes. The underlying defect is unknown. Recent animal studies highlighted the importance of type 1 cytokines in protect...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lilic D,Gravenor I,Robson N,Lammas DA,Drysdale P,Calvert JE,Cant AJ,Abinun M

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between bacteria and fibronectin is believed to play an important role in the pathogenicity of clinically important Gram-positive cocci. In the present study, we identified a gene encoding a predicted fibronectin-binding protein of Enterococcus faecium (fnm), a homologue of Streptococcus pneumoniae pav...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Somarajan SR,La Rosa SL,Singh KV,Roh JH,Höök M,Murray BE

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recombinant protective antigen (rPA) of Bacillus anthracis is a promising anthrax vaccine. We compared serum immunoglobulin G levels and toxin-neutralizing antibody titers in rabbits following delivery of various doses of vaccine by microneedle-based intradermal (i.d.) delivery or intramuscular (i.m.) injection us...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mikszta JA,Dekker JP 3rd,Harvey NG,Dean CH,Brittingham JM,Huang J,Sullivan VJ,Dyas B,Roy CJ,Ulrich RG

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous work (Jones, Infect, Immun. 30:78-89, 1980) a major cytoplasmic antigen of Candida albicans was identified. In both humans and experimental animals, this antigen is released from C. albicans during the course of an invasive C. albicans infection and elicits a specific antibody response. In this study, we u...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Greenfield RA,Jones JM

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis was grown in iron (Fe)-free defined medium to limit the growth of the organism. Doubling times of the Fe-starved organism increased by approximately 1 h, and a 40% reduction in the final extent of growth in Fe-depleted medium was observed. Under these conditions, a hydroxamate siderophore named bo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Agiato LA,Dyer DW

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice orally immunized with Salmonella dublin EL23, a nonreverting, aromatic-dependent, histidine-requiring mutant transformed with a plasmid which carries a gene that codes for production of the B subunit of the heat-labile toxin (LT-B) of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, or with purified LT-B alone were compared for...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bost KL,Clements JD

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-six Aeromonas hydrophila isolates were tested for cytotoxin and hemolysin production. Sixty-six (69%) of the isolates were both cytotoxic and hemolytic, whereas the rest produced neither cytotoxin nor hemolysin. No evidence of a separate cytotonic activity could be found in any of the isolates. Cytotoxin activi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cumberbatch N,Gurwith MJ,Langston C,Sack RB,Brunton JL

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The method of Garra and Baygorria, for localized antibody production, has been adapted for obtaining high-titered and monospecific antibodies against the murine toxin of Yersinia pestis. A hollow, perforated plastic golf ball surgically implanted under the skin of rabbits induced the formation of a granuloma. When the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hillam RP,Tengerdy RP,Brown GL

更新日期：1974-09-01 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

abstract：:Killing of Salmonella minnesota and Salmonella typhimurium S and R strains in serum of nonimmune humans and guinea pigs was drastically reduced in the selective absence of C1q, C1r, Ca2+, C4, or C2, the components of the classical complement pathway. Binding of C1 and C1q to the S form and six different core-deficient...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clas F,Loos M

更新日期：1982-09-01 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：:The plasmid-encoded structural gene cofA necessary for the production of the major pilin subunit of pilus colonization factor antigen III (CFA/III) of human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli was identified, and the nucleotide sequence of the gene was determined. cofA consists of 714 nucleotides encoding a 238-amino-aci...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Taniguchi T,Fujino Y,Yamamoto K,Miwatani T,Honda T

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology and pathology of cultured mouse glomeruli were examined at the cellular and subcellular levels after infection with a physiological isotonic L-form of Streptococcus pyogenes type 12 or exposure to streptococcal lipoteichoic acid. These changes, as viewed by light microscopy, were identical regardless of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tomlinson K,Leon O,Panos C

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi species is categorized into six discrete typing units (TcI to TcVI) of which TcI is most abundantly noted in the sylvatic transmission cycle and considered the major cause of human disease. In our study, the TcI strains Colombiana (COL), SylvioX10/4 (SYL), and a cultured clone (TCC) exhibited differe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zago MP,Hosakote YM,Koo SJ,Dhiman M,Piñeyro MD,Parodi-Talice A,Basombrio MA,Robello C,Garg NJ

更新日期：2016-05-24 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：:Genetic factors that regulate the pathogenesis of pneumonia caused by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans are poorly understood. Through a phenotypic strain survey we observed that inbred C3H/HeN mice develop a significantly greater lung fungal burden than mice of the resistant CBA/J strain 4 weeks following intratrach...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carroll SF,Lafferty EI,Flaczyk A,Fujiwara TM,Homer R,Morgan K,Loredo-Osti JC,Qureshi ST

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using pharmacologic and biochemical criteria, we evaluated whether uptake of four different Chlamydia trachomatis serovars, D, E, K, and L2, was dependent upon lipid rafts. Our data suggest that lipid raft-mediated entry is not required for C. trachomatis infection of cultured epithelial cells. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gabel BR,Elwell C,van Ijzendoorn SC,Engel JN

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus), a leading cause of bacterial disease, is most commonly carried in the human nasopharynx. Colonization induces inflammation that promotes the organism's growth and transmission. This inflammatory response is dependent on intracellular sensing of bacterial components that acc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lemon JK,Miller MR,Weiser JN

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty two anaerobic bacterial strains were screened for their in vitro inhibitory activity toward 21 Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains, including two penicillin-resistant strains. From this screening, six anaerobic bacteria belonging to the genera Bacteroides, Peptostreptococcus, and Eubacterium were selected for their l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Morin A,Saheb SA,Bisaillon JG,Beaudet R,Sylvestre M

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human pathogen enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 has two histidine sensor kinases, QseC and QseE, which respond to the mammalian adrenergic hormones epinephrine and norepinephrine by increasing their autophosphorylation. Although QseC and QseE are present in nonpathogenic strains of E. coli, EHEC e...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Njoroge J,Sperandio V

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is recognized as the major cause of antibiotic-associated colitis. C. difficile produces two toxins, A (enterotoxin) and B (cytotoxin), that are implicated in the pathogenesis of the colitis. We examined the dose responses, time course, and synergism of these two toxins in ligated rabbit intestin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lima AA,Lyerly DM,Wilkins TD,Innes DJ,Guerrant RL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00