Cloning and characterization of a new type of fimbria (S/F1C-related fimbria) expressed by an Escherichia coli O75:K1:H7 blood culture isolate.

abstract：:The symptoms of Lyme disease are caused by inflammation induced by species of the Borrelia burgdorferisensu lato complex. The various presentations of Lyme disease in the population suggest that differences exist in the intensity and regulation of the host response to the spirochete. Previous work has described correl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Siebers EM,Liedhegner ES,Lawlor MW,Schell RF,Nardelli DT

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, a tick-borne bacterial pathogen, causes a disseminated infection involving multiple organs known as Lyme disease. Surface proteins can directly participate in microbial virulence by facilitating pathogen dissemination via interaction with host factors. We show here that a fraction of the B. burgd...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nogueira SV,Smith AA,Qin JH,Pal U

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) frequently occurs in patients with respiratory disease and is particularly prevalent in patients with cystic fibrosis. GER is a condition in which the duodenogastric contents of the stomach leak into the esophagus, in many cases resulting in aspiration into the respiratory tract. As such,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Legendre C,Reen FJ,Woods DF,Mooij MJ,Adams C,O'Gara F

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is a gram-negative facultative intracellular parasite of macrophages. Although L. pneumophila is the causative agent of a severe pneumonia known as Legionnaires' disease, it is likely that most infections caused by this organism are cleared by the host innate immune system. It is predicted that ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Archer KA,Roy CR

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin-binding proteins mediate Staphylococcus aureus internalization into nonphagocytic cells in vitro. We have investigated whether fibronectin-binding proteins are virulence factors in the pathogenesis of pneumonia by using S. aureus strain 8325-4 and isogenic mutants in which fibronectin-binding proteins were...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McElroy MC,Cain DJ,Tyrrell C,Foster TJ,Haslett C

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of crude Campylobacter jejuni enterotoxin present in culture products was quantitated by comparing the response of these preparations with that of pure Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin (LT) in the Chinese hamster ovary assay and in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays that used GM ganglioside or antisera to...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klipstein FA,Engert RF

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ethanol-insoluble product formed from sucrose by purified enzyme encoded by the gtfA gene from Streptococcus mutans, expressed in recombinant Escherichia coli, was analyzed by 13C and 31P nuclear magnetic resonance. The product was identified as alpha-D-glucose-1-phosphate, and it was concluded that the GTF-A enzy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Russell RR,Mukasa H,Shimamura A,Ferretti JJ

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports have demonstrated that Bordetella pertussis has invasive behavior in vivo and in vitro. In this study, we investigated the ability of a virulent strain, avirulent mutants, and mutants deficient in specific virulence factors to enter and survive intracellularly in human macrophages in vitro. Uptake of vi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Friedman RL,Nordensson K,Wilson L,Akporiaye ET,Yocum DE

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a prominent human pathogen and a leading cause of community- and hospital-acquired bacterial infections worldwide. Herein, we describe the identification and characterization of the S. aureus 67.6-kDa hypothetical protein, named for the surface factor promoting resistance to oxidative killing ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Malachowa N,Kohler PL,Schlievert PM,Chuang ON,Dunny GM,Kobayashi SD,Miedzobrodzki J,Bohach GA,Seo KS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe a protocol for purifying Borrelia burgdorferi from feeding ticks by velocity centrifugation and Percoll density gradient centrifugation. The purified spirochetes were motile and 10- to 20-fold purer than the bacteria in crude tick homogenates. The purified bacteria were present in sufficient quantity ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rathinavelu S,de Silva AM

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A murine model system was established to study immune responses to the Pnu-Imune vaccine, which is made up of 23 different pneumococcal capsular polysaccharides. In this animal model, antibody-forming cell responses to 21 of 23 individual polysaccharides in the vaccine were detected. The Pnu-Imune vaccine elicited goo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Garg M,Subbarao B

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III secretion system (TTSS) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is induced in vivo upon contact with eukaryotic cells and in vitro by calcium depletion in culture medium. We have observed a previously identified protein, PsrA, necessary for full activation of TTSS gene expression in P. aeruginosa. Electrophoretic mobil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shen DK,Filopon D,Kuhn L,Polack B,Toussaint B

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue macrophages are the obligatory host cells for Leishmania donovani, the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis. In this study we sought to determine whether activated macrophages, as defined by the functional criterion of tumor cell cytotoxicity, were also able to exert a microbicidal effect on ingested L. do...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Haidaris CG,Bonventre PF

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia cenocepacia, a member of the B. cepacia complex, is an opportunistic pathogen that causes serious infections in patients with cystic fibrosis. We identified a six-gene cluster in chromosome 1 encoding a two-component regulatory system (BCAL2831 and BCAL2830) and an HtrA protease (BCAL2829) hypothesized to...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Flannagan RS,Aubert D,Kooi C,Sokol PA,Valvano MA

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aroC gene of the facultative intracellular pathogen Brucella suis was cloned and sequenced. The cloned aroC gene complements Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium aroC mutants. A B. suis aroC mutant was found to be unable to grow in a defined medium without aromatic compounds. The mutant was...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Foulongne V,Walravens K,Bourg G,Boschiroli ML,Godfroid J,Ramuz M,O'Callaghan D

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:V beta 10(+) and V beta 14(+) T cells were selectively increased 7 to 14 days following infection in the lungs of naive mice infected with Histoplasma capsulatum. Following secondary challenge of immune mice, V beta 1(+) and V beta 8.1(+) cells were sporadically increased. Elimination of V beta 10(+) and V beta 14(+) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Deepe GS Jr,Gibbons RS,Ward SR

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effector mechanisms resulting from alternative complement pathway (ACP) activation cannot act efficiently against Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O3, as indicated by poor C3 to C9 consumption and by survival in EGTA (ethyleneglycoldiaminetetraacetic acid) Mg-serum. These results were not influenced by the lack or pre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wachter E,Brade V

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While several diseases associated with Chlamydia psittaci infection have been reported in Phascolarctos cinereus (koala), it is still unclear whether one or more chlamydial strains are responsible. In this study, we provide evidence, obtained by restriction enzyme and gene probe analysis, that two quite distinct strai...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Girjes AA,Hugall AF,Timms P,Lavin MF

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were carried out to determine whether the in vitro capacity of adherent peritoneal cells to replicate herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) might correlate with the in vivo susceptibility of mice genetically resistant, moderately susceptible, or very susceptible to HSV-1 infection. Unstimulated and proteose pept...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lopez C,Dudas G

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved enterocyte adhesion assay has been used to examine a collection of 44 strains of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) for their ability to adhere to the brush border of isolated human duodenal enterocytes. Fourteen strains showed good adhesion; in each case the ability to adhere correlated with the prod...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Knutton S,Lloyd DR,Candy DC,McNeish AS

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoprophylactic effect of chemically inactivated Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A in experimental pseudomonas infections was studied. Exotoxin A toxoids were prepared by Formalin (f-TXD) or glutaraldehyde (g-TXD) treatment. Immunization of mice with three or four doses (10 micrograms each) of f-TXD and the syn...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pavlovskis OR,Edman DC,Leppla SH,Wretlind B,Lewis LR,Martin KE

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C57BL/6 mice infected with Leishmania mexicana showed depression of the in vitro immunoglobulin M-plaque-forming cell response to sheep erythrocytes. Immunodepression was present 3 weeks after inoculation and was maximal at 11 weeks. Thereafter, there was a gradual return to normal immunoresponsiveness correlated with...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pérez H,Pocino M,Malavé I

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The P2 porin protein is the most abundant protein in the outer membrane of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). Biochemical and immunochemical techniques were used to characterize the P2 proteins from a number of different Hib strains. P2 proteins from Hib outer membrane vesicles were resolved by sodium dodecyl sulfat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hansen EJ,Pelzel SE,Orth K,Moomaw CR,Radolf JD,Slaughter CA

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier work had shown that a collection of anaerobic bacteria, in conjunction with facultative anaerobes, may be implanted into germfree mice, thereby rendering the animals "normal" with respect to a variety of parameters tested. The present experiments indicate that a different collection of anaerobic bacteria, isol...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Freter R,Abrams GD

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomaterial-associated infections (BAI), which are predominantly caused by Staphylococcus epidermidis, are a significant problem in modern medicine. Biofilm formation is considered the pivotal element in the pathogenesis, but in previous mouse studies we retrieved S. epidermidis from peri-implant tissue. To assess the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Broekhuizen CA,de Boer L,Schipper K,Jones CD,Quadir S,Feldman RG,Dankert J,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Weening JJ,Zaat SA

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonviable Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain Jamaica suspended in oil-droplet emulsions was used to enhance resistance of mice against encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV). The mycobacteria-injected mice were significantly resistant to 50,000 50% lethal doses of EMCV. Similar concentrations of virus in plasma of normal an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lodmell DL,Ewalt LC

更新日期：1978-12-01 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：:Immunization with Plasmodium sporozoites can elicit high levels of sterile immunity, and neutralizing antibodies from protected hosts are known to target the repeat region of the circumsporozoite (CS) protein on the parasite surface. CS-based subunit vaccines have been hampered by suboptimal immunogenicity and the req...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carapau D,Mitchell R,Nacer A,Shaw A,Othoro C,Frevert U,Nardin E

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxic protein(s) neutralized with anti-C2 toxic serum was extracted from Clostridium botulinum type C spores treated with an alkaline mercaptoethanol solution. C2 toxicity in the spores was located in the spore coat fraction and was more heat stable than that found in culture fluid. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yamakawa K,Nishida S,Nakamura S

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00