Attenuated Mutants of Ehrlichia chaffeensis Induce Protection against Wild-Type Infection Challenge in the Reservoir Host and in an Incidental Host.

abstract：:In vitro experimentation indicates that periodontitis-associated bacteria contain potent polyclonal B-cell activators (PBA). We reasoned that if PBA were operative in vivo, plasma cells specific for nonoral antigens should be present in the inflamed gingival tissues, which are characterized by a plasma cell infiltrate...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mallison SM 3rd,Szakal AK,Ranney RR,Tew JG

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to ascertain if Cryptococcus neoformans components can induce interleukin-6 (IL-6) production, we stimulated human whole blood with purified capsular products. Their potencies in stimulating IL-6 release were mannoproteins > galactoxylomannan = glucuronoxylomannan > alpha(1-3)glucan. IL-6 production was tumor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Delfino D,Cianci L,Lupis E,Celeste A,Petrelli ML,Curró F,Cusumano V,Teti G

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of the intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes to activate the alternative pathway of human complement was examined. Incubation of L. monocytogenes with human serum in optimal conditions (20% Mg2+EGTA [ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid]-chelated serum) consumed (3...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Croize J,Arvieux J,Berche P,Colomb MG

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of (125)I-labeled S component to rabbit polymorphonuclear leukocytes was found to be concentration dependent and saturable at 37 degrees C. Scatchard analysis of the binding curve gave a straight line, indicating that S component binds to a single population of sites. The dissociation constant, K(D), deriv...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Noda M,Kato I,Matsuda F,Hirayama T

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sublethal infection of mice with recombinant Listeria monocytogenes expressing a model epitope in either secreted or nonsecreted form results in similar CD8(+) T-cell priming. Since nonsecreted bacterial proteins have no obvious access to the endogenous major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I presentation pathw...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tvinnereim AR,Harty JT

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibody WM-25 inhibited the in vitro growth of 13 F38 isolates from goats with contagious caprine pleuropneumonia but not 7 heterologous mycoplasma isolates representing four different species. In contrast to results with polyclonal antisera, growth inhibition by monoclonal antibody WM-25 was specific for ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rurangirwa FR,McGuire TC,Musoke AJ,Kibor A

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi produces a mitogen for murine B lymphocytes which can be measured in vitro by polyclonal stimulation of proliferation and immunoglobulin production (R. Schoenfeld, B. Araneo, Y. Ma, L. Yang, and J. J. Weis, Infect. Immun. 60:455-464, 1992). Sonicated B. burgdorferi cells also stimulated IL-6 produ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yang L,Ma Y,Schoenfeld R,Griffiths M,Eichwald E,Araneo B,Weis JJ

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis, the agent of plague, has arisen from a less virulent pathogen, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, by a rapid evolutionary process. Although Y. pestis displays a large number of virulence phenotypes, it is not yet clear which of these phenotypes descended from Y. pseudotuberculosis and which were acquired in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pujol C,Bliska JB

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common concern with many autoimmune diseases of unknown etiology is the extent to which tissue T-lymphocyte infiltrates, versus a nonspecific infiltrate, reflect a response to the causative agent. Lyme arthritis can histologically resemble rheumatoid synovitis, particularly the prominent infiltration by T lymphocyte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Roessner K,Trivedi H,Gaur L,Howard D,Aversa J,Cooper SM,Sigal LH,Budd RC

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system plays a key role in resistance to cryptococcosis. In the present study, we examined several factors that influence the binding of C3 cleavage fragments to Cryptococcus neoformans. Binding of C3 was determined by using normal human serum supplemented with 125I-labeled C3. Incubation of encapsulate...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR,Pfrommer GS

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae is the causative bacteria of the diarrheal disease cholera, but it also persists in aquatic environments, where it displays an expression profile that is distinct from that during infection. Upon entry into the host, a tightly regulated circuit coordinates the induction of two major virulence factors: ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hay AJ,Yang M,Xia X,Liu Z,Hammons J,Fenical W,Zhu J

更新日期：2016-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Tox-+ staphylococcal strains, as opposed to Tox-minus strains, produce epidermal exfoliation within 18 h after direct subcutaneous or intraperitoneal injection into newborn mice. The extracellular product responsible for exfoliation is termed exfoliative toxin (ET). When culture supernatant fluid from the plasmid-cure...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Keyhani M,Rogolsky M,Wiley BB,Glasgow LA

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yields of exotoxin A in Pseudomonas aeruginosa cultures were influenced by the concentration of iron in the culture media. When the iron concentration of the culture media was increased from 0.05 to 1.5 microgram/ml, there was at least a 90% decrease in exotoxin A (measured both by enzymatic activity and by mouse ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bjorn MJ,Iglewski BH,Ives SK,Sadoff JC,Vasil ML

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-lapse cinematography was used to study the growth cycle of Chlamydia trachomatis in primary cell cultures of human amnion. Twelve preterm and twelve term placentas were obtained within 8 h of delivery, and epithelial cells were dissociated from the amniotic membranes by trypsinization and grown in Rose chambers. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Neeper ID,Patton DL,Kuo CC

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-specific T-cell responses and histopathological changes were studied in mice experimentally inoculated with Borrelia burgdorferi B31. Inbred mice with different H-2 haplotypes and/or different genetic backgrounds were inoculated with B. burgdorferi organisms and tested for antigen-specific T-cell responses in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schaible UE,Kramer MD,Justus CW,Museteanu C,Simon MM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) specific for Plasmodium falciparum rhoptry-associated protein 1 (RAP-1) were generated and tested for inhibition of parasite growth in vitro. The majority of indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA)-positive MAbs raised against recombinant RAP-1 positions 23 to 711 (rRAP-1(23-711)) recogniz...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moreno R,Pöltl-Frank F,Stüber D,Matile H,Mutz M,Weiss NA,Pluschke G

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa can invade corneal epithelial cells and translocates multilayered corneal epithelia in vitro, but it does not penetrate the intact corneal epithelium in vivo. In healthy corneas, the epithelium is separated from the underlying stroma by a basement membrane containing extracellular matrix protein...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alarcon I,Kwan L,Yu C,Evans DJ,Fleiszig SM

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ZnCl2 over a very narrow concentration range was found to be mitogenic for hamster lymph node cells but not for thymocytes or splenocytes. Maximal leucine, [3H]uridine, and [3H]thymidine incorporation. Addition of 10 micron ZnCl2 was found to greatly enhance the stimulation observed with the B-lymphocyte mitogen lipop...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hart DA

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulent Treponema pallidum organisms, extracted from infected rabbit testes, were subjected to velocity sedimentation in discontinuous gradients of Hypaque, a high density, low viscosity material. After centrifugation of extracts at 20 C for 45 min at 100,000 x g, treponemes separated into two distinct bands based up...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baseman JB,Nichols JC,Rumpp JW,Hayes NS

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FMS-like tyrosine kinase-3 ligand (Flt3L) is a dendritic cell (DC) growth and differentiation factor with potential in antitumor therapies and antibacterial immunization strategies. However, the effect of systemic Flt3L treatment on lung-protective immunity against bacterial infection is incompletely defined. Here, we...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brumshagen C,Maus R,Bischof A,Ueberberg B,Bohling J,Osterholzer JJ,Ogunniyi AD,Paton JC,Welte T,Maus UA

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of four monoclonal antibodies was produced against a highly purified pepsin extract of type 5 streptococcal M protein. Three of the four antibodies cross-reacted with purified M proteins from heterologous serotypes and opsonized the respective heterologous organisms. Our studies suggest that monoclonal antibodie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dale JB,Beachey EH

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clone expressing a 58-kDa protein reactive with human convalescent-phase serum was isolated from a recombinant library of Ehrlichia chaffeensis, the etiologic agent of human ehrlichiosis. Sequencing identified two open reading frames, one encoding a 10.3-kDa polypeptide consisting of 94 amino acids and another encod...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sumner JW,Sims KG,Jones DC,Anderson BE

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 202 captive hares studied, many of which had lesions on their external genital organs or testicular atrophy or both, 27% had positive serological tests for syphilis although dark-field examination of extracts of atrophic testes was negative. A total of 12 hares that were nonreactive for the serological test for syp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Horvath I,Kemenes F,Molnar L,Szeky A,Racz I

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, has a number of outer membrane proteins that are differentially regulated during its life cycle. In addition to their physiological functions in the organism, these proteins also likely serve different functions in invasiveness and immune evasion. In borreliae, as well ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Toledo A,Coleman JL,Kuhlow CJ,Crowley JT,Benach JL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis remains the leading cause of death among infectious diseases, accounting for more than two million deaths annually. The incidence of the disease is increasing globally, partially because of the resurgence of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Calixarenes are macrocyclic oligomers, some ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Colston MJ,Hailes HC,Stavropoulos E,Hervé AC,Hervé G,Goodworth KJ,Hill AM,Jenner P,Hart PD,Tascon RE

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth in colonies with type 1 morphology and the presence of pili are characteristics that have been associated with virulence of gonococci for humans. To determine whether the presence of pili per se might be responsible for colony type 1 morphology, the relationship of pili to colony type was examined in various sp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McGee ZA,Dourmashkin RR,Gross JG,Clark JB,Taylor-Robinson D

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dialyzable Lawrence-type transfer factor was prepared from the spleen cells of CF1 mice inoculated with Coccidioides immitis- and Candida albicans-killed vaccines and with live Mycobacterium tuberculosis vaccine (BCG). These preparations were shown to transfer antigen-specific cell-mediated immunity to naive mice, as ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rifkind D,Frey JA,Petersen EA,Dinowitz M

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal dysfunction can occur in the course of sepsis without meningitis. Sepsis-associated neuronal damage (SAND) was observed in the hippocampus within hours in experimental pneumococcal bacteremia. Intravascular challenge with purified bacterial cell wall recapitulated SAND. SAND persisted in PAFr(-/-) mice but wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Orihuela CJ,Fillon S,Smith-Sielicki SH,El Kasmi KC,Gao G,Soulis K,Patil A,Murray PJ,Tuomanen EI

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-one Burkholderia cepacia isolates from patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and four plant isolates were screened for production of the siderophores salicylic acid (SA), pyochelin, cepabactin, and ornibactins and fingerprinted by a PCR-based randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) method. Of the 24 RAPD types de...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Darling P,Chan M,Cox AD,Sokol PA

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00