Distinct Morphological Fates of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Intracellular Bacterial Communities: Dependency on Urine Composition and pH.

abstract：:Bartonella henselae is a recently recognized pathogenic bacterium associated with cat scratch disease, bacillary angiomatosis, and bacillary peliosis. This study describes the cloning, sequencing, and characterization of an antigenic autotransporter gene from B. henselae. A cloned 6.0-kb BclI-EcoRI DNA fragment expres...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Litwin CM,Rawlins ML,Swenson EM

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent finding that high numbers of strict anaerobes are present in the respiratory tract of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients has drawn attention to the pathogenic contribution of the CF microbiome to airway disease. In this study, we investigated the specific interactions of the most dominant bacterial CF pathogen, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pustelny C,Komor U,Pawar V,Lorenz A,Bielecka A,Moter A,Gocht B,Eckweiler D,Müsken M,Grothe C,Lünsdorf H,Weiss S,Häussler S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attaching and effacing adhesion to epithelial cells is a pathognomonic feature of infection by both enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and certain strains of verocytotoxin-producing E. coli (VTEC). EPEC adhesion to tissue culture epithelial cells results in activation of the phosphatidylinositol pathway, with el...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ismaili A,Philpott DJ,Dytoc MT,Sherman PM

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A crude complex containing group C polysaccharide, outer membrane proteins, and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was isolated from the cell-free culture liquid of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C, serotype 2a. Group C polysaccharide and LPS were removed from this complex, resulting in an outer membrane complex and a purifie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Beuvery EC,Miedema F,van Delft RW,Haverkamp J,Leussink AB,te Pas BJ,Teppema KS,Tiesjema RH

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diphtheria toxin repressor (DtxR) is an iron-dependent regulator of diphtheria toxin production and iron uptake in Corynebacterium diphtheriae. It is activated in vitro by divalent metal ions including Fe2+, Cd2+, Co2+, Mn2+, Ni2+, and Zn2+. We characterized 20 different mutations in dtxR induced by bisulfite muta...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang Z,Schmitt MP,Holmes RK

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) plays an important role in experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infections, presumably by controlling the early replication of parasites in host macrophages. In this work, we show that NK cells represent an important cell type responsible for the production of most of the IFN-gamma in the early ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cardillo F,Voltarelli JC,Reed SG,Silva JS

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using polystyrene microspheres coated with heparin or heparan sulfate, it was shown that coated microspheres specifically bound eukaryotic cells and were endocytosed by nonprofessional phagocytic cells. Coated microspheres displayed properties of binding to eukaryotic cells that were similar to those of chlamydiae, an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stephens RS,Fawaz FS,Kennedy KA,Koshiyama K,Nichols B,van Ooij C,Engel JN

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ExoU, a phospholipase injected into host cells by the type III secretion system of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, leads to rapid cytolytic cell death. Although the importance of ExoU in infection is well established, the mechanism by which this toxin kills host cells is less clear. To gain insight into how ExoU causes cell d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rabin SD,Veesenmeyer JL,Bieging KT,Hauser AR

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urogenital Chlamydia serovars replicating in reproductive epithelium pose a unique challenge to host immunity and vaccine development. Previous studies have shown that CD4 T cells are necessary and sufficient to clear primary Chlamydia muridarum genital tract infections in the mouse model, making a protective CD4 T ce...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Johnson RM,Yu H,Kerr MS,Slaven JE,Karunakaran KP,Brunham RC

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three most abundant extracellular proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the 30-, 32-, and 16-kDa major extracellular proteins, are particularly promising vaccine candidates. We have mapped T-cell epitopes of these three proteins in outbred guinea pigs by immunizing the animals with each protein and assaying sple...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee BY,Horwitz MA

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free hemoglobin (Hb) is being developed as an erythrocyte substitute. We have previously demonstrated that cell-free Hb is an endotoxin-binding protein which disaggregates endotoxin and subsequently increases the biological activity of endotoxin in several in vitro assays. Because much of the morbidity and mortal...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Su D,Roth RI,Yoshida M,Levin J

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since melanin is considered a virulence factor in Cryptococcus neoformans, its suppression at 37 degrees C has been perplexing. We now show an opposite thermal regulation of superoxide dismutase (SOD), consistent with a compensatory mechanism. Moreover, we demonstrate normal SOD and catalase levels in albino, oxygen-s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jacobson ES,Jenkins ND,Todd JM

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli genome varies in size from 4.5 to 5.5 Mb. It is unclear whether this variation may be distributed finely throughout the genome or is concentrated at just a few chromosomal loci or on plasmids. Further, the functional correlates of size variation in different genome copies are largely unexplored. W...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rode CK,Melkerson-Watson LJ,Johnson AT,Bloch CA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Localized juvenile periodontitis (LJP) runs in families, and a predisposition to develop disease appears to be inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. Patients with LJP have elevated levels of serum immunoglobulin G2 (IgG2), and this is most striking in black LJP patients. We hypothesized that the markedly elevate...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang JB,Quinn SM,Rausch M,Gunsolley JC,Schenkein HA,Tew JG

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial factors were analyzed in samples of whole saliva from 31 children, aged 0.8 to 3.8 years. When compared with the adult reference group, the children displayed similar levels of lysozyme, salivary peroxidase, and hypothiocyanite (OSCN-), whereas the amounts of immunoglobulins (isotypes A, G, and M), lacto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tenovuo J,Lehtonen OP,Aaltonen AS,Vilja P,Tuohimaa P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes of the lic1 operon (lic1A to lic1D) are responsible for incorporation of phosphocholine (PCho) into the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of Haemophilus influenzae. PCho plays a multifaceted role in the commensal and pathogenic lifestyles of a range of mucosal pathogens, including H. influenzae. Structural studies of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fox KL,Li J,Schweda EK,Vitiazeva V,Makepeace K,Jennings MP,Moxon ER,Hood DW

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pac gene of the serotype c strain Streptococcus mutans MT8148 encodes a cell surface protein antigen (PAc) of approximate 190 kilodaltons. The serotype c strain S. mutans GS-5 does not produce the 190-kilodalton PAc but produces a lower-molecular-weight protein that reacts with anti-PAc serum. The SphI-BamHI fragm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Koga T,Okahashi N,Takahashi I,Kanamoto T,Asakawa H,Iwaki M

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridoma cell lines which produced monoclonal antibodies against cholera toxin were isolated. These cell lines were detected with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay screening procedure with purified cholera toxin or subunit A of cholera toxin. Seven cell lines were characterized with respect to their reactivity wit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Robb M,Nichols JC,Whoriskey SK,Murphy JR

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma arthritidis causes acute polyarthritis in rats and chronic proliferative arthritis in mice. M. arthritidis-induced arthritis serves as a model for arthritis caused by infectious agents and as a model for examining the role of the superantigen MAM (M. arthritidis T-cell mitogen) in the development of autoimm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tu AH,Clapper B,Schoeb TR,Elgavish A,Zhang J,Liu L,Yu H,Dybvig K

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We produced anti-idiotype antibodies to antibody to lipid A from Eikenella corrodens. The ALA-1 monoclonal antibody (immunoglobulin M [IgM] isotype), which had already been produced in our laboratory (T. Kato, I. Takazoe, and K. Okuda, Infect. Immun. 57:656-659, 1989), had reacted strongly with lipid A from E. corrode...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kato T,Takazoe I,Okuda K

更新日期：1990-02-01 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：: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：:In this report, we demonstrate that the variable antigens present on the surface of Plasmodium knowlesi-infected erythrocytes could not be found on the surface of merozoites. A number of technical problems had to be solved to make such a comparative study possible, including the purification of merozoites by affinity ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hommel M,David PH

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor involved in controlling several aspects of immune responses, including the activation and differentiation of specific T cell subsets and antigen-presenting cells, thought to be relevant in the context of experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barroso A,Gualdrón-López M,Esper L,Brant F,Araújo RR,Carneiro MB,Ávila TV,Souza DG,Vieira LQ,Rachid MA,Tanowitz HB,Teixeira MM,Machado FS

更新日期：2016-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:An "immunogenic" ribonucleic acid (Im-RNA) has been extracted from peritoneal exudate (PE) cells of rats that were immunized with sheep erythrocytes (SRBC). Following multiple phenol extractions and deoxyribonuclease treatment, the material obtained from PE cells was eluted from diethylaminoethyl-cellulose at 0.55 M N...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Archer SJ,Wust CJ

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens is an anaerobic, Gram-positive bacterium that causes a range of diseases in humans, including lethal gas gangrene. We have recently shown that strains of C. perfringens move across the surface of agar plates by a unique type IV pilus (TFP)-mediated social motility that had not been previously d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rodgers K,Arvidson CG,Melville S

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently determined that passive transfer of serum directed against a synthetic peptide called LB1 or a recombinant fusion protein immunogen [LPD-LB1(f)(2,1,3)] could prevent otitis media after challenge with a homologous nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) isolate. NTHI residing in the nasopharynx was rapidl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kennedy BJ,Novotny LA,Jurcisek JA,Lobet Y,Bakaletz LO

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether an ongoing response to Leishmania major would affect the response to a non-cross-reacting, non-leishmanial antigen, susceptible BALB/c mice and resistant C3H mice were infected with L. major parasites expressing Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase (beta-GAL); this parasite was designated L. major-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chakkalath HR,Siddiqui AA,Shankar AH,Dobson DE,Beverley SM,Titus RG

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats and mice infected with Trypanosoma lewisi and Trypanosoma musculi, respectively, showed hyperreactivity to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from gram-negative bacteria. Fatal shock could be precipitated with a dose of LPS 100 to 1,000 times less in infected compared with noninfected animals. In trypanosome-infected rats ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ferrante A,Carter RF,Ferluga J,Allison AC

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brewer thioglycolate medium, a bacterial culture medium which is widely used as a nonspecific in vivo macrophage stimulant, was tested for its effect on mouse resistance to bacterial infection. Mice which did or did not receive thioglycolate medium were challenged with Listeria monocytogenes. Injection of thioglycolat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker LA,Campbell PA

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00