Characterization of the Mode of Action of Aurodox, a Type III Secretion System Inhibitor from Streptomyces goldiniensis.

abstract：:Sonicated preparations of capsulated Haemophilus influenzae type b, two of its spontaneous mutants, one containing patches of capsules (class I variant) and the other noncapsulated (class II variant), and a noncapsulated strain of H. influenzae type d were analyzed by crossed-immunoelectrophoresis using unadsorbed ant...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Buckmire FL

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the influence of staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 and streptococcal erythrogenic (pyrogenic) toxin A (ETA) on intact and digitonin-permeabilized human polymorphonuclear granulocytes (PMNs). As was shown by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography analysis, toxic shock syndrome toxin ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hensler T,Köller M,Geoffroy C,Alouf JE,König W

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PcP) is a clinically important infection of immunocompromised patients. Although the interaction of Pneumocystis with the alveolar epithelium has been well documented, very little information regarding the epithelial response to Pneumocystis is currently available. In order to study Pne...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang J,Gigliotti F,Maggirwar S,Johnston C,Finkelstein JN,Wright TW

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amebic erythrophagocytosis is characteristic of invasive amebiasis, and mutants deficient in erythrocyte ingestion are avirulent. We sought to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying erythrocyte phagocytosis by Entamoeba histolytica. Following adherence to amebae, erythrocytes became round and crenulated, and p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boettner DR,Huston CD,Sullivan JA,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although periodontal treatment by scaling and root planing (SCRP) is known to induce bacteremia, the effect of this procedure on the host immune response is not known. We have determined pre- and post-SCRP immunoglobulin G antibody titers to antigens of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans in the sera of 22 patients w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sjöström K,Ou J,Whitney C,Johnson B,Darveau R,Engel D,Page RC

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent epidemiological observations suggest that clinical evolution of Plasmodium falciparum infections might be influenced by the concurrent presence of another Plasmodium species, and such mixed-species infections are now known to occur frequently in residents of most areas of endemicity. We used mice infected with ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Voza T,Vigário AM,Belnoue E,Grüner AC,Deschemin JC,Kayibanda M,Delmas F,Janse CJ,Franke-Fayard B,Waters AP,Landau I,Snounou G,Rénia L

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：:The amino acid sequence of heat-stable enterotoxin produced by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli 18D has been revised. Amino acids originally assigned to positions 11 and 18, i.e., Tyr and Asn, respectively, were found to occupy positions 18 and 11, respectively. Thus all heat-stable enterotoxins composed of 18 amino a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thompson MR,Giannella RA

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of the first component of complement with two serum-sensitive strains of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae was studied. It could be demonstrated that highly purified C1, free of immunoglobulin G and immunoglobulin M, binds to E. coli or K. pneumoniae. C1 binding was also found with specificall...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Loos M,Wellek B,Thesen R,Opferkuch W

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the intraleukocytic survival of isogenic strains of Salmonella typhimurium, whose outer membrane lipopolysaccharide differed in O antigen and lipid A composition and whose susceptibility to nonoxidative antimicrobial granule proteins of human polymorphonuclear neutrophilis (PMN) could be established. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stinavage P,Martin LE,Spitznagel JK

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cryptococcosis is characterized as a chronic central nervous system disease, it is generally accepted that the lungs are the primary portal of entry for the etiological agent. Despite this, there is a distinct lack of evidence that viable airborne particles of Cryptococcus neoformans are small enough to reach...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Neilson JB,Fromtling RA,Bulmer GS

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal bacteria can translocate (migrate) across an intact intestinal mucosa, but the anatomical site of bacterial translocation has not been defined. Gastrointestinal (GI) cross-sections were obtained from mice monoassociated with high cecal concentrations of Escherichia coli, Proteus mirabilis, or Enterococcus faeca...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wells CL,Erlandsen SL

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytotoxigenic Clostridium difficile strain that fails to produce toxin A but causes hemorrhage and bloody fluid accumulation in ligated ileal loops of rabbits and hemorrhage and diarrhea in hamsters is described. The lack of reaction of DNA from this strain in hybridization studies with a toxin A gene-specific 4.5-k...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Borriello SP,Wren BW,Hyde S,Seddon SV,Sibbons P,Krishna MM,Tabaqchali S,Manek S,Price AB

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human plasma was bactericidal for small numbers of Klebsiella pneumoniae, but larger numbers grew slowly over a period of 24 h. Human polymorphs in a clot of autologous plasma had a bacteriostatic effect on relatively large numbers of bacteria for up to 24 h and were much more effective than plasma alone. The bacteric...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ward CG,Hammond JS,Bullen JJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 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 EUO gene (for early upstream open reading frame) of Chlamydia psittaci was previously found to be transcribed better at 1 than at 24 h postinfection. We found that the EUO gene encodes a minor protein that is expressed within 1 h of infection of host cells with C. psittaci 6BC but that protein quantity peaks durin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang L,Douglas AL,Hatch TP

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of sepsis and meningitis but is also a common commensal, present in the nasopharynx of between 8 and 20% of healthy individuals. During carriage, the bacterium is found on the surface of the nasopharyngeal epithelium and in deeper tissues, while to develop disease the meningococ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sutherland TC,Quattroni P,Exley RM,Tang CM

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) neutrophil granules contain at least four microbicidal peptides belonging to the defensin family. These compounds were purified from granule acid extracts by reverse-phase chromatography and termed HaNP-1 to -4 (hamster neutrophil peptide). HaNP-1 and HaNP-3 revealed the most bactericida...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mak P,Wójcik K,Thogersen IB,Dubin A

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ureaplasma urealyticum is a common commensal of the female lower urogenital tract, yet it has been shown to be an important cause of chorioamnion infection, respiratory and central nervous system disease, and death in premature infants. It has been suggested that only certain serovars are capable of producing invasive...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zheng X,Teng LJ,Watson HL,Glass JI,Blanchard A,Cassell GH

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) glycoprotein gC was purified by affinity chromatography with an immunosorbent column containing monoclonal antibody to HSV-1 gC, and its reactivity with rabbit antisera was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zweig M,Heilman CJ Jr,Bladen SV,Showalter SD,Hampar B

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventionally raised suckling mice were injected intragastrically with 10(5) spores of a Clostridium botulinum type A culture. Botulism was not observed, but 80% or more of mice challenged when 8 to 11 days old had botulinum toxin in the large intestine 3 days later. Mice younger than 7 days or older than 15 days wer...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sugiyama H,Mills DC

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stimulation of mononuclear phagocytes by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is facilitated by the binding of complexes of LPS and LPS-binding protein to CD14. Although it is clear that CD14 is involved in LPS-induced signaling, other investigators have hypothesized the existence of additional signaling pathways in macrophag...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lynn WA,Liu Y,Golenbock DT

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus is the causative organism of river blindness. Our previous studies demonstrated an essential role for endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria in corneal disease, which is characterized by neutrophil infiltration into the corneal stroma and the development of corneal haze. To determin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gillette-Ferguson I,Daehnel K,Hise AG,Sun Y,Carlson E,Diaconu E,McGarry HF,Taylor MJ,Pearlman E

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonization of the large bowel of healthy infants by Clostridium difficile was studied. Feces were collected from five breast-fed aand five formula-fed infants throughout the first year of life, and levels of C. difficile were quantitated. Three breast-fed and five formula-fed infants were colonized for periods of be...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stark PL,Lee A,Parsonage BD

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little data are available regarding L-form phagocyte interactions. Due to difficulty with more conventional methods, a serum-free technique of surface phagocytosis employing cellulose ester micropore filters, fluorochrome staining, and reflecting fluorescence microscopy was developed. Intracellular localization of L-f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harwick HJ,Barajas L,Montgomerie JZ,Kalmanson GM,Guze LB

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cysteine-containing peptide motif, EWSPCSVTCG, is found highly conserved in the circumsporozoite protein (CSP) and the thrombospondin-related anonymous protein (TRAP) of all the Plasmodium species analyzed so far and has been shown to be crucially involved in the sporozoite invasion of hepatocytes. We have recently ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bharadwaj A,Sharma P,Joshi SK,Singh B,Chauhan VS

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a gram-negative marine bacterium. A limited population of the organisms causes acute gastroenteritis in humans. Almost all of the clinical V. parahaemolyticus isolates exhibit beta-type hemolysis on Wagatsuma agar, known as the Kanagawa phenomenon (KP). KP is induced by the thermostable dire...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Izutsu K,Kurokawa K,Tashiro K,Kuhara S,Hayashi T,Honda T,Iida T

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis serovar L2 is an obligate intracellular bacterium which is internalized in target epithelial cells by endocytosis and resides within a membrane-bound vesicle. Over the next several hours following entry, individual serovar L2-containing vesicles fuse with one another to form a single membrane-bou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schramm N,Bagnell CR,Wyrick PB

更新日期：1996-04-01 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