Contribution of Streptococcus mutans Strains with Collagen-Binding Proteins in the Presence of Serum to the Pathogenesis of Infective Endocarditis.

abstract：:Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) is an emerging febrile systemic disease caused by the HGE agent, an obligatory intracellular bacterium of granulocytes. The pathogenicity- and immunity-related mechanisms of HGE are unknown. In this study, several cytokines generated in human peripheral blood leukocytes (PBLs) inc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kim HY,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated Bacteroides gingivalis 2561 vesicles aggregated suspensions of Actinomyces viscosus and Actinomyces naeslundii of all taxonomy clusters. Vesicles bound near A. viscosus cell walls and among its surface fibrils. Tritiated vesicles bound slightly better to saliva-coated hydroxyapatite (SHA) than to SHA coated w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ellen RP,Grove DA

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid compositions of 40 patient isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis derived from Madras, Burma, Rangoon, and East Africa were studied, and two major populations of tubercle bacilli were distinguished. Nearly all of the strains previously designated as attenuated for the guinea pig (D. A. Mitchison) are characteriz...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goren MB,Brokl O,Schaefer WB

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia cenocepacia is an opportunistic pathogen that primarily infects cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Previously, we reported that ShvR, a LysR regulator, influences colony morphology, virulence, and biofilm formation and regulates the expression of an adjacent 24-kb genomic region encoding 24 genes. In this stu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Subramoni S,Nguyen DT,Sokol PA

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a frequent colonizer of the upper respiratory tract and a leading cause of bacterial pneumonia. The innate immune system senses pneumococcal cell wall components, toxin, and nucleic acids, which leads to production of inflammatory mediators to initiate and control antibacterial defense. Her...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ruiz-Moreno JS,Hamann L,Jin L,Sander LE,Puzianowska-Kuznicka M,Cambier J,Witzenrath M,Schumann RR,Suttorp N,Opitz B

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A water-soluble acylpolygalactosyl (APG) of 34 kDa was obtained from the Klebsiella pneumoniae membrane by alkaline hydrolysis and delipidation. APG comprises a poly(1,3)galactose chain, a core, and a lipid moiety made of a glucosamine disaccharide with two N-linked beta OH-myristates. The monocyte binding sites for A...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hmama Z,Mey A,Normier G,Binz H,Revillard JP

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an Escherichia coli strain of human origin, ampicillin resistance and heat-stable enterotoxin activity were shown by EcoRI restriction endonuclease and genetic analysis to be in an 80-megadalton plasmid. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stieglitz H,Fonseca R,Olarte J,Kupersztoch-Portnoy YM

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-Amino acid oxidase (DAO) is a hydrogen peroxide-generating enzyme that uses a D-amino acid as a substrate. We hypothesized that DAO may protect against bacterial infection, because hydrogen peroxide is one of the most important molecules in the antibacterial defense systems in mammals. We show here that DAO suppress...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nakamura H,Fang J,Maeda H

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilus ducreyi, the etiologic agent of the sexually transmitted disease chancroid, has been shown to inhibit phagocytosis of both itself and secondary targets in vitro. Immunodepletion of LspA proteins from H. ducreyi culture supernatant fluid abolished this inhibitory effect, indicating that the LspA proteins ar...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mock JR,Vakevainen M,Deng K,Latimer JL,Young JA,van Oers NS,Greenberg S,Hansen EJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis is surrounded by a polypeptide capsule composed of poly-gamma-d-glutamic acid (gammaDPGA). In a previous study, we reported that a monoclonal antibody (MAb F26G3) reactive with the capsular polypeptide is protective in a murine model of pulmonary anthrax. The present study examined a library of six ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR,Thorkildson P,Brandt S,Welch WH,Lovchik JA,AuCoin DP,Vilai J,Lyons CR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus produces conidia that are highly dispersable and resistant to degradation. We have sought to analyze these properties by studying the rodlets which form the outer spore coat protein. Degenerate primers based on hydrophobins in other fungi were applied to genomic DNA from A. fumigatus in PCR. A pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Parta M,Chang Y,Rulong S,Pinto-DaSilva P,Kwon-Chung KJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enterotoxin produced by Bacteroides fragilis was purified to homogeneity and characterized as to its biological activity and basic molecular properties. Toxin preparations were prepared by growing B. fragilis VPI 13784 in brain heart infusion broth to early stationary phase, immediately precipitating the culture su...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Van Tassell RL,Lyerly DM,Wilkins TD

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal mucus is postulated to play a role in preventing colonization of the gastrointestinal tract by microbial pathogens. To evaluate the ability of both crude mucus and purified mucin, a glycoprotein of goblet cell origin, to inhibit mucosal adherence of enteric pathogens, we examined whether mucus and mucin der...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Drumm B,Roberton AM,Sherman PM

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mucosal humoral immune response elicited following Shigella flexneri infection in patients living in Antananarivo districts (Madagascar Island) was evaluated by measuring the gut-derived, circulating immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibody-secreting cells (ASC) specific for the major bacterial antigen lipopolysaccharide (...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rasolofo-Razanamparany V,Cassel-Beraud AM,Roux J,Sansonetti PJ,Phalipon A

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) trigger the systemic release of both cytokines and catecholamines. Cytokines are known to be capable of eliciting a stress hormone response in vivo. The present study sought insight into the effect of noradrenaline on LPS-induced release of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) and inte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van der Poll T,Jansen J,Endert E,Sauerwein HP,van Deventer SJ

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of interleukin-8 (IL-8) in vitro has been suggested to correlate with the reactogenicity of Vibrio cholerae vaccine candidates. V. cholerae vaccine candidate 638, a hemagglutinin protease/hap-defective strain, was recently reported to be well tolerated in human volunteers, suggesting a role for Hap in re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhou X,Gao DQ,Michalski J,Benitez JA,Kaper JB

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group A streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxins A, B, and C (also known as scarlet fever toxins and erythrogenic toxins) were evaluated for relatedness to another streptococcus-derived lymphocyte mitogen, blastogen A. Streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin A and blastogen A were immunologically cross-reactive and shared the same ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schlievert PM,Gray ED

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified two K88ac adhesion receptors (210 and 240 kDa) which are present in membrane preparations from adhesive but not nonadhesive porcine intestinal brush border cells; these adhesin receptors are postulated to be important determinants of the susceptibility of pigs to K88ac+ enterotoxigenic Es...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Erickson AK,Baker DR,Bosworth BT,Casey TA,Benfield DA,Francis DH

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic leptospires have the ability to survive and disseminate to multiple organs after penetrating the host. Several pathogens, including spirochetes, have been shown to express surface proteins that interact with the extracellular matrix (ECM). This adhesin-mediated binding process seems to be a crucial step in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barbosa AS,Abreu PA,Neves FO,Atzingen MV,Watanabe MM,Vieira ML,Morais ZM,Vasconcellos SA,Nascimento AL

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a fermentative microorganism and causes serious diseases in humans, including otitis media, bacteremia, meningitis, and pneumonia. However, the mechanisms enabling pneumococcal survival in the host and causing disease in different tissues are incompletely understood. The available evidence ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gaspar P,Al-Bayati FA,Andrew PW,Neves AR,Yesilkaya H

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunomodulatory role of arthropod saliva has been well documented, but evidence for an effect on Plasmodium sp. infectiousness remains controversial. Mosquito saliva may orient the immune response toward a Th2 profile, thereby priming a Th2 response against subsequent antigens, including Plasmodium. Orientation to...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lawaly R,Konate L,Marrama L,Dia I,Diallo D,Diène Sarr F,Schneider BS,Casademont I,Diallo M,Brey PT,Sakuntabhai A,Mecheri S,Paul R

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of hamster tracheal rings in organ culture to virulent Mycoplasma pneumoniae organisms leads to alterations in macromolecular biosynthesis and metabolic activity of the respiratory epithelial cells. Avirulent organisms derived from the same parent strain do not produce these effects. During the course of infe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hu PC,Collier AM,Baseman JB

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement-containing immune complexes can be presented to phagocytes by human erythrocytes bearing complement receptor 1 (CR1). Although this has long been assumed to be a mechanism by which humans are able to protect themselves from "extracellular" bacteria such as pneumococci, there is little direct evidence. In th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li J,Wang JP,Ghiran I,Cerny A,Szalai AJ,Briles DE,Finberg RW

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although excystation is crucial to the initiation of infection by Giardia lamblia, little is known about the regulation of this important process. We have been able to reliably induce excystation in vitro by mimicking cyst passage through the stomach and upper small intestine by the exposure of in vitro-derived cysts ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Meng TC,Hetsko ML,Gillin FD

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonproteolytic strain of Clostridium botulinum type B produces two toxins of different molecular weight (16S and 12S) that are indistinguishable from the corresponding toxins of a proteolytic strain in molecular weight and construction but differ in potential toxicity, activation ratio, and hemagglutinability. Succe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miyazaki S,Kozaki S,Sakaguchi S,Sakaguchi G

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies were raised against a bactericidal protein fraction that was purified from an extract of bovine neutrophil granules and that was previously shown (A. Savoini, R. Marzari, L. Dolzani, D. Serranò, G. Graziosi, R. Gennaro, and D. Romeo, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 26:405-407, 1984) to inhibit bact...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marzari R,Scaggiante B,Skerlavaj B,Bittolo M,Gennaro R,Romeo D

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several Shigella flexneri mutants with defects in aromatic amino acid and/or purine biosynthesis have been evaluated as vaccines in humans or in animal models. To be suitable as a vaccine, a mutant has to show virulence attenuation, minimal reactogenicity, and a good immunogenic potential in animal models. With this a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cersini A,Martino MC,Martini I,Rossi G,Bernardini ML

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have mapped a group of virulence genes of Porphyromonas gingivalis to a single large fragment of the genome. These genes (rgpA, kgp, and hagA) all contain a consensus repeat sequence (HArep). rgpA and kgp encode cysteine proteases with Arg-X and Lys-X specificity, respectively, and hagA encodes a hemagglutinin. Gen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lewis JP,Macrina FL

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three strains of Lactobacillus, identified as Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus gasseri, and Lactobacillus jensenii, were selected from among 70 isolates from the vaginas of healthy premenopausal women for properties relevant to mucosal colonization or antagonism. All three self-aggregated and adhered to epithe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boris S,Suárez JE,Vázquez F,Barbés C

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccines for P. falciparum will need to contain both T- and B-cell epitopes. Conserved epitopes are the most desirable, but they are often poorly immunogenic. The major merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP-1) is currently a leading vaccine candidate antigen. In this study, six peptides from conserved or partly conserved r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Parra M,Hui G,Johnson AH,Berzofsky JA,Roberts T,Quakyi IA,Taylor DW

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00