Effect of estrogen (17 beta-estradiol) on the susceptibility of mice to disseminated gonococcal infection.

abstract：:Platelets aggregate in response to an adhesin and the platelet aggregation-associated protein (PAAP) expressed on the cell surfaces of certain strains of Streptococcus sanguis. We sought to identify the corresponding PAAP receptor and accessory adhesin binding sites on platelets. Since the adhesion(s) of S. sanguis fo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gong K,Wen DY,Ouyang T,Rao AT,Herzberg MC

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil serine proteases cathepsin G (CG), neutrophil elastase (NE), and proteinase 3 (PR3) have recently been shown to contribute to killing of Streptococcus pneumoniae in vitro. However, their relevance in lung-protective immunity against different serotypes of S. pneumoniae in vivo has not been determined so far...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hahn I,Klaus A,Janze AK,Steinwede K,Ding N,Bohling J,Brumshagen C,Serrano H,Gauthier F,Paton JC,Welte T,Maus UA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified cell walls representing a wide variety in teichoic acid and peptidoglycan structure prepared from eight different gram-positive bacterial species induced the production of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and interleukin-6 from human monocytes in the presence of 10% plasma or serum. Significant amounts...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heumann D,Barras C,Severin A,Glauser MP,Tomasz A

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pigs were treated with anti-CD18 antibody (M8), and subsequently middle ears (ME) were infected with nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. Forty-eight hours after infection, the ME washes of these animals had significantly lower polymorphonuclear leukocyte numbers but higher bacterial counts compared with washes ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Patel J,Chonmaitree T,Schmalstieg F

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hamster respiratory epithelial cells were cultured in a monolayer format, and 20% of the cells were ciliated. Mycoplasma pneumoniae attached to the epithelial cells in a neuraminidase-specific fashion and induced ciliostasis and cytonecrosis. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gabridge MG,Gunderson H,Schaeffer SL,Barden-Stahl YD

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mycobacterium tuberculosis exported repetitive protein (Erp) is a virulence determinant required for growth in cultured macrophages and in vivo. To better understand the role of Erp in Mycobacterium pathogenesis, we generated a mutation in the erp homologue of Mycobacterium marinum, a close genetic relative of M. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cosma CL,Klein K,Kim R,Beery D,Ramakrishnan L

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune and pathologic responses were measured for 20 weeks after infection of mice with Brucella abortus 19, RB51, or 2308. Live bacteria and bacterial antigens of 19 and RB51 persisted in spleens for 10 and 4 weeks after infection, respectively, whereas 2308 bacteria and bacterial antigens persisted for at least 20 w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stevens MG,Olsen SC,Pugh GW Jr,Palmer MV

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In pathogenic bacteria, iron acquisition is important for colonization and proliferation in the host under iron-limited conditions. The ability of Vibrio spp. to acquire iron is often critical to their virulence, causing gastroenteritis or excessive watery diarrhea in humans. In the study described here, we cloned the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ahn SH,Han JH,Lee JH,Park KJ,Kong IS

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans biofilms are formed through three distinct developmental phases and are associated with high fluconazole (FLU) resistance. In the present study, we used a set of isogenic Candida strains lacking one or more of the drug efflux pumps Cdr1p, Cdr2p, and Mdr1p to determine their role in FLU resistance of b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mukherjee PK,Chandra J,Kuhn DM,Ghannoum MA

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of earlier investigations have indicated that the saprobic phase of Coccidioides immitis produces a heat-stable, 19-kDa antigen with serine proteinase activity which has been suggested to be specific for this pathogenic fungus. In the present study we have determined the N-terminal and partial internal amino a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pan S,Cole GT

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six strains of Rickettsia rickettsii from Montana and North Carolina were examined in an effort to identify rickettsial constituents associated with virulence. Fever responses, scrotal reactions, and mortalities of male guinea pigs inoculated intraperitoneally with 1,000 PFU of rickettsial strains revealed that the tw...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anacker RL,Philip RN,Williams JC,List RH,Mann RE

更新日期：1984-06-01 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：:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) is thought to play a major role in the pathogenesis of septic shock. Anti-TNF antibody was preadministered in low-dose endotoxin lethality models in which BALB/c mice were challenged with small amounts of lipopolysaccharide following their sensitization with either carrageenan (CAR) o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Franks AK,Kujawa KI,Yaffe LJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) are the most toxic proteins for humans. The current clostridial-derived vaccines against BoNT intoxication have limitations including production and accessibility. Conditions were established to express the soluble receptor binding domain (heavy-chain receptor [HCR]) of BoNT s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baldwin MR,Tepp WH,Pier CL,Bradshaw M,Ho M,Wilson BA,Fritz RB,Johnson EA,Barbieri JT

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antihistoplasma activity of recombinant murine gamma interferon (rMuIFN-gamma)-treated macrophages of the RAW 264.7 cell line depends on the generation of nitric oxide (NO.) from L-arginine. Macrophages of the P388D1 cell line treated with rMuIFN-gamma do not produce NO. or inhibit the intracellular growth of Hist...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lane TE,Otero GC,Wu-Hsieh BA,Howard DH

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein 1 (tPMP-1) is a small, cationic peptide generated from rabbit platelets when they are exposed to thrombin in vitro. It has potent microbicidal activity against a broad spectrum of bacterial and fungal pathogens, including Staphylococcus aureus. Previous in vitro studies i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Koo SP,Bayer AS,Kagan BL,Yeaman MR

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relapsing fever (RF) is a spirochetal infection characterized by periods of sickness with fever at time of high bacteremia that alternate with afebrile periods of relative well being during low bacteremia. Patients with epidemic RF who are doing relatively well have extraordinarily high levels of interleukin-10 (IL-10...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Londoño D,Marques A,Hornung RL,Cadavid D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics and homing characteristics of T-cell responses in humans after mucosal immunizations have not been well characterized. Therefore, we have investigated the magnitude and duration of such responses as well as the homing receptor expression of antigen-specific peripheral blood T cells by using an oral model ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lundin BS,Johansson C,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium piliforme induces enterohepatic disease in many domestic and laboratory animal species. Susceptibility to infection is known to vary with the immune status and strain of the host, but little is known about specific immune mechanisms that regulate this disease. To evaluate host control of C. piliforme infec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Van Andel RA,Hook RR Jr,Franklin CL,Besch-Williford CL,Riley LK

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Association of Salmonella typhimurium with MDCK epithelial cells in monolayers, represented primarily by intracellular bacteria after 30 min of contact, with centrifugation followed by vigorous washing, was measured during aerobic and anaerobic growth of the bacteria in brain heart infusion broth. Cell association was...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schiemann DA

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture filtrate proteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis induce protective immunity in various animal models of tuberculosis. Two molecular mass regions (6 to 10 kDa and 24 to 36 kDa) of short-term culture filtrate are preferentially recognized by Th1 cells in animal models as well as by patients with minimal disease...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosenkrands I,Rasmussen PB,Carnio M,Jacobsen S,Theisen M,Andersen P

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dermotropism of Cryptococcus neoformans SLHA in congenitally athymic (nu/nu) and doubly immunodeficient beige-athymic (bg/bg-nu/nu) mice is described. Both bg/bg-nu/nu and nu/nu mice developed cutaneous cryptococcosis within 7 to 12 days following intravenous challenge with 10(4) encapsulated yeast cells. Macrosco...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Salkowski CA,Balish E

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are currently studying the soluble egg antigens of Schistosoma japonicum in an attempt to determine which antigens are potent immunogens. Previously, we demonstrated by Ouchterlony immunodiffusion and inhibition of the circumoval precipitin test that the glycoprotein fraction of soluble egg antigens contains the an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Long GW,Lewert RM,Pelley RP

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive fungal infections represent an increasing problem associated with high mortality. The present study was undertaken to identify leukocyte subsets that are activated by hyphal fragments in a whole-human-blood model, as well as to examine the involvement of CD14 and Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in activation of mo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang JE,Warris A,Ellingsen EA,Jørgensen PF,Flo TH,Espevik T,Solberg R,Verweij PE,Aasen AO

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scrub typhus immunogens were prepared by exposing infected yolk sac suspensions of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi to various doses of gamma radiation. Mouse lethality was abolished at doses greater than 200 krads, whereas immunogenicity of the suspensions, as shown by mouse protection tests, was diminished relatively little...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eisenberg GH Jr,Osterman JV

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD) protein 1 (NOD1) and NOD2 are pathogen recognition receptors that sense breakdown products of peptidoglycan (PGN) (muropeptides). It is shown that a number of these muropeptides can induce tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) gene expression without significant TNF-al...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wolfert MA,Roychowdhury A,Boons GJ

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal protective immunity against babesial infection is postulated to require both complement-fixing and opsonizing antibodies in addition to gamma interferon (IFN-gamma)-mediated macrophage activation. The rhoptry-associated protein 1 (RAP-1) of Babesia bigemina induces partial protective immunity and is a candidat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brown WC,McElwain TF,Palmer GH,Chantler SE,Estes DM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several strains of gram-negative bacteria (seven genera, eight species) isolated from patients with urinary tract infections were found to hydrolyze myeloma immunoglobulin A (IgA) protein. Human IgG and IgM and colostrum IgA were not degraded by these organisms. Examination of cleavage digests showed two fragments of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Milazzo FH,Delisle GJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eperythrozoon coccoides is a common blood parasite of rodents and the etiological agent of a chronic infection present in many mouse colonies. After primary infection, mice develop a parasitemia and anemia followed by a chronic, latent infection. During the acute phase of infection, mice manifest a striking suppressio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Glasgow LA,Odugbemi T,Dwyer P,Ritterson AL

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antiserum, C16, was raised in cattle against freeze-thawed extracts of sporozoites of Theileria parva (Muguga). This antiserum, which neutralizes sporozoite infectivity in vitro, identified theileria-specific antigens having approximate molecular masses of 105, 90, 85, 69, 67, 52, 47, and 43 kilodaltons (kDa) on We...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Iams KP,Hall R,Webster P,Musoke AJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00