Identification of an Autorepressing Two-Component Signaling System That Modulates Virulence in Streptococcus suis Serotype 2.

abstract：:Ehrlichia chaffeensis, a tick-borne rickettsial organism, causes the disease human monocytic ehrlichiosis. The pathogen also causes disease in several other vertebrates, including dogs and deer. In this study, we assessed two clonally purified E. chaffeensis mutants with insertions within the genes Ech_0379 and Ech_06...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nair AD,Cheng C,Jaworski DC,Ganta S,Sanderson MW,Ganta RR

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic determinants of the 120-kDa cytotoxin of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae serotype 2 were isolated from a lambda DNA library by a plaque immunoblot technique. Expression of the 120-kDa polypeptide was confirmed by Western immunoblot analysis of infected Escherichia coli cell lysates, which were shown to be ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： MacDonald J,Rycroft AN

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice injected intravenously with a commercially available extract of Coxiella burnetii prepared for use as the antigen in the complement fixation diagnostic test for Q fever were subsequently resistant to infection with Babesia microti, Babesia rodhaini, and Plasmodium vinckei petteri. The parasites appeared to die in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clark IA

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacterial infections, mononuclear and polymorphonuclear phagocytes are key components of host defenses. Recent investigations have indicated that chemokines are able to recruit and activate phagocytes. In particular, interleukin-8 (IL-8) attracts polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs), while monocyte chemoattractant p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tonetti MS,Imboden MA,Gerber L,Lang NP,Laissue J,Mueller C

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pulmonary infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa is common in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. P. aeruginosa lipopolysaccharide (LPS), phosholipase C (PLC), and exotoxin A (ETA) were evaluated for their ability to induce pulmonary inflammation in mice following intranasal inoculation. Both LPS and PLC induced hig...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wieland CW,Siegmund B,Senaldi G,Vasil ML,Dinarello CA,Fantuzzi G

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:Pathogenicities of 10 temperature-sensitive mutants of Venezuelan encephalitis virus were studied using the hamster model of human virulence. The parental strain and nine of the temperature-sensitive mutants produced lethal infections in hamsters. Strain ts 126 showed reduced hamster virulence. Deaths with the lethal ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krieger JN,Scherer WF,Wiebe ME,Pancake BA,Harsanyi ZP

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis capsular type 2 is an important etiological agent of swine meningitis, and it is also a zoonotic agent. Since one hypothesis of the pathogenesis of S. suis infection is that bacteria enter the bloodstream and invade the meninges and other tissues in close association with mononuclear phagocytes, the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Segura M,Gottschalk M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epitope mapping of outer surface protein C (OspC) by using sera from patients with neuroborreliosis led to the identification of one single major immunodominant epitope within the C-terminal 10 amino acid residues. Peptide binding studies and alanine replacement scanning of the C-terminal decapeptide, PVVAESPKKP, reve...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mathiesen MJ,Holm A,Christiansen M,Blom J,Hansen K,Ostergaard S,Theisen M

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen Habs-serotype strains could be classified into 11 groups depending on the characteristic patterns of 2-amino sugar composition; strains of serotypes 2, 5, and 7 had the same pattern, and each other serotype strain had its own distinctive pattern. In our classification, fucosamine and quinovosamine were of imp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suzuki N,Tsunematsu Y,Matsumoto H,Tazaki T

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yield of infectious Chlamydia trachomatis was analyzed in human (HeLa) and mouse (McCoy) cell lines treated with the human interferon (IFN) subtypes IFN-alpha A and IFN-alpha D, with their hybrids [IFN-alpha AD (BglII), IFN-alpha AD (PvuII), and IFN-alpha DA (BglII)] constructed in vitro from their expression plas...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de la Maza LM,Peterson EM,Goebel JM,Fennie CW,Czarniecki CW

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rinderpest virus infection was shown to induce marked suppression of both humoral antibody response and cell-mediated immunity in rabbits. The virus exhibited a suppressive effect on primary antibody response as indicated by a decrease in numbers of plaque-forming cells (immunoglobulin [Ig]M) and hemagglutinating anti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yamanouchi K,Fukuda A,Kobune F,Yoshikawa Y,Chino F

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that primarily causes disease in immunocompromised individuals. Dendritic cells (DCs) can phagocytose C. neoformans, present cryptococcal antigen, and kill C. neoformans. However, early events following C. neoformans phagocytosis by DCs are not well defined. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wozniak KL,Levitz SM

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulent strains of Yersinia enterocolitica and their plasmidless, avirulent derivatives were examined for their cell surface properties. Increased surface charge and hydrophobicity of Y. enterocolitica were found to be associated with the possession of a 40- to 48-megadalton plasmid. These surface properties were exp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lachica RV,Zink DL

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter rectus is a putative periodontopathogen which expresses a proteinaceous surface layer (S-layer) external to the outer membrane. S-layers are considered to play a protective role for the microorganism in hostile environments. The S-layer proteins from six different C. rectus strains (five human isolates a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nitta H,Holt SC,Ebersole JL

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The viaB locus coding for the Vi antigen of Salmonella typhi Ty2 was cloned on a 40.6-kilobase fragment into the cosmid vector pHC79. The live, oral, attenuated Vi-negative S. typhi Ty21a vaccine strain was transformed with the recombinant cosmid encoding the viaB locus. Homologous recombination of the viaB locus into...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cryz SJ Jr,Fürer E,Baron LS,Noon KF,Rubin FA,Kopecko DJ

更新日期：1989-12-01 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：:Plasmodium falciparum's ability to invade erythrocytes is essential for its survival within the human host. Immune mechanisms that impair this ability are therefore expected to contribute to immunity against the parasite. Plasma of humans who are naturally exposed to malaria has been shown to have growth-inhibitory ac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rono J,Färnert A,Olsson D,Osier F,Rooth I,Persson KE

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival of Staphylococcus aureus in the lungs of mice was studied under various conditions. Doses of 10(7) to 10(9) washed staphylococci were quantitatively introduced into the lungs after intratracheal inoculation in mice under either ether or sodium pentobarbital anesthesia. Mice were sacrificed at intervals, t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： DeMaria TF,Kapral FA

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternate modalities for the treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are needed due to the rise in numbers of immunosuppressed individuals at risk for serious disease and the increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant isolates. Interleukin-12 (IL-12) has been shown to improve immune responses against M. tuberculosis...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nolt D,Flynn JL

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusobacterium nucleatum is closely associated with human periodontal diseases and may also be a causative agent in other infections, such as pericarditis, septic arthritis, and abscesses of tonsils and liver. Initiation and outcome of infective diseases depend critically on the host cell signaling system altered by th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Uitto VJ,Baillie D,Wu Q,Gendron R,Grenier D,Putnins EE,Kanervo A,Firth JD

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral inoculation of 5-day-old gnotobiotic pigs with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strain F98 resulted in severe enteritis and invasive disease. Preinoculation 24 h earlier with an avirulent mutant of Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis (1326/28) completely prevented disease for up to 14 days (when the exper...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Foster N,Lovell MA,Marston KL,Hulme SD,Frost AJ,Bland P,Barrow PA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosoma mansoni-infected wild-type (WT) mice develop a Th2 response and chronic disease. In contrast, infected interleukin-4 double-deficient (IL-4(-/-)) mice develop a Th1-like response and an acute, lethal syndrome. Disease severity in these animals correlates with excessive and prolonged production of nitric ox...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Patton EA,La Flamme AC,Pedras-Vasoncelos JA,Pearce EJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunodominant proteins and glycoproteins of Borrelia burgdorferi were analyzed by one-dimensional (1D) and 2D gel electrophoresis. More than 100 polypeptide species could be detected on silver-stained 2D gels. Separation of sonic extracts of the organism by differential centrifugation (100,000 X g) revealed sever...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Luft BJ,Jiang W,Munoz P,Dattwyler RJ,Gorevic PD

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of the innate immune system depends on its ability to mount an appropriate response to diverse infections and damaging agents. Key components of this system are pattern recognition receptors that detect pathogen-associated and damage-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs and DAMPs). Nlrp1b is a pattern rec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liao KC,Mogridge J

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between bacteria and fibronectin is believed to play an important role in the pathogenicity of clinically important Gram-positive cocci. In the present study, we identified a gene encoding a predicted fibronectin-binding protein of Enterococcus faecium (fnm), a homologue of Streptococcus pneumoniae pav...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Somarajan SR,La Rosa SL,Singh KV,Roh JH,Höök M,Murray BE

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the progression of the life cycle of Plasmodium falciparum, a small proportion of asexual parasites differentiate into male or female sexual forms called gametocytes. Just like their asexual counterparts, gametocytes are contained within the infected host's erythrocytes (RBCs). However, unlike their asexual partner...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Acquah FK,Adjah J,Williamson KC,Amoah LE

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A plaque assay system for pathogenic rickettsiae, which utilizes primary chick embryo tissue cultures, is described. It proved to be a highly reproducible measure of infectiousness for Rickettsia rickettsi and R. typhi, which were employed in most studies; as well as for R. canada, R. prowazeki, R. sibirica, R. akari,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wike DA,Tallent G,Peacock MG,Ormsbee RA

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli is the most common cause of urinary tract infection. Elevated blood and urine interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels have been shown in inflammatory urinary tract diseases. The role of IL-6 in mediating the urodynamic dysfunction in response to E. coli-induced urinary tract infection has not yet been fully eluci...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weng TI,Wu HY,Lin PY,Liu SH

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidial infections were established in five young foals with severe combined immunodeficiency following oral administration of 10(8) Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts. All foals shed oocysts (average of 8 x 10(6) to 2 x 10(8)/g of feces) until death. Inflammation and C. parvum organisms were observed in the commo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bjorneby JM,Leach DR,Perryman LE

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00