Regulatory T Cells Contribute to Resistance against Lyme Arthritis.

abstract：:Groups of female C57BL/6 and C3H/St mice were inoculated intraperitoneally (i.p.) with 10(9), 10(7), and 10(5) bacilli and into the right hind footpad with 10(7) and 10(5) bacilli of Mycobacterium lepraemurium. The incidence of death from leprosy and the mean survival time of leprous mice were recorded. In addition, t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Turcotte R

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humoral immunity does not play a prominent role during experimental cryptococcosis. However, previous studies have shown that immunoglobulin G (IgG) anti-Cryptococcus neoformans antibodies can mediate cell-dependent yeast killing in vitro. Therefore, the protective effect of a previously described monoclonal IgG1 anti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dromer F,Charreire J,Contrepois A,Carbon C,Yeni P

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MtsABC is a Streptococcus pyogenes ABC transporter which was previously shown to be involved in iron and zinc accumulation. In this study, we showed that an mtsABC mutant has impaired growth, particularly in a metal-depleted medium and an aerobic environment. In metal-depleted medium, growth was restored by the additi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Janulczyk R,Ricci S,Björck L

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mononuclear phagocytes provide the major habitat of intracellular bacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis. The capacity of B-cell stimulatory factor 2 (interleukin-6 [IL-6]) to activate tuberculostatic functions was investigated by using murine bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMM phi). ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Flesch IE,Kaufmann SH

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an intracellular protozoan parasite, Toxoplasma gondii is likely to exploit proteases for host cell invasion, acquisition of nutrients, avoidance of host protective responses, escape from the parasitophorous vacuole, differentiation, and other activities. T. gondii serine protease inhibitor 1 (TgPI1) is the most ab...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pszenny V,Davis PH,Zhou XW,Hunter CA,Carruthers VB,Roos DS

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus equi is a facultative intracellular pathogen of macrophages, relying on the presence of a conjugative virulence plasmid harboring a 21-kb pathogenicity island (PAI) for growth in host macrophages. The PAI encodes a family of 6 virulence-associated proteins (Vaps) in addition to 20 other proteins. The contr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coulson GB,Miranda-CasoLuengo AA,Miranda-CasoLuengo R,Wang X,Oliver J,Willingham-Lane JM,Meijer WG,Hondalus MK

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces boulardii, a nonpathogenic yeast, is effective in treating some patients with Clostridium difficile diarrhea and colitis. We have previously reported that S. boulardii inhibits rat ileal secretion in response to C. difficile toxin A possibly by releasing a protease that digests the intestinal receptor fo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Castagliuolo I,LaMont JT,Nikulasson ST,Pothoulakis C

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive protection, the administration of antibodies to prevent infection, has garnered significant interest in recent years as a potential prophylactic countermeasure to decrease the prevalence of hospital-acquired infections. Pili, polymerized protein structures covalently anchored to the peptidoglycan wall of many ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pinkston KL,Singh KV,Gao P,Wilganowski N,Robinson H,Ghosh S,Azhdarinia A,Sevick-Muraca EM,Murray BE,Harvey BR

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A veronal buffer extract of Salmonella typhi was used as the reference antigen and its corresponding rabbit antiserum as the reference antibody in crossed immunoelectrophoresis to analyze antibodies in sera obtained from typhoid patients and carriers. Four precipitating antibodies were regularly detected. Three were a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chau PY,Wan KC,Tsang RS

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exoprotein of Staphylococcus aureus 100 that elicited a positive ileal loop response in the rabbit model was investigated in this study. The protein, as it occurred in the culture supernatant fluid, could be detected initially in the late log phase of growth under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. It was stable und...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Koupal A,Deibel RH

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four pneumococcal genes (phtA, phtB, phtD, and phtE) encoding a novel family of homologous proteins (32 to 87% identity) were identified from the Streptococcus pneumoniae genomic sequence. These open reading frames were selected as potential vaccine candidates based upon their possession of hydrophobic leader sequence...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Adamou JE,Heinrichs JH,Erwin AL,Walsh W,Gayle T,Dormitzer M,Dagan R,Brewah YA,Barren P,Lathigra R,Langermann S,Koenig S,Johnson S

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated outer membranes of Borrelia burgdorferi 297 were utilized to obtain partial amino acid sequence information for a low-molecular-weight, outer membrane-associated polypeptide. Degenerate oligonucleotide primers based upon this information were used to amplify a 100-bp probe for detection of the corresponding f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lahdenne P,Porcella SF,Hagman KE,Akins DR,Popova TG,Cox DL,Katona LI,Radolf JD,Norgard MV

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructural appearance of the "halozone" formed at the interface between the spotted fever agent Rickettsia rickettsii and the cytoplasm of persistently infected cultured vole cells (Microtus pennsylvanicus) was studied by transmission electron microscopy. In sections of epoxy-embedded specimens stained with u...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Todd WJ,Burgdorfer W,Wray GP

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae sortase A (SrtA) is a transpeptidase that is highly conserved among pneumococcal strains, whose involvement in adhesion/colonization has been reported. We found that intraperitoneal immunization with recombinant SrtA conferred to mice protection against S. pneumoniae intraperitoneal challenge ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gianfaldoni C,Maccari S,Pancotto L,Rossi G,Hilleringmann M,Pansegrau W,Sinisi A,Moschioni M,Masignani V,Rappuoli R,Del Giudice G,Ruggiero P

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is not clear how the host initially recognizes and responds to infection by gram-negative pathogenic Brucella spp. It was previously shown (D. S. Weiss, B. Raupach, K. Takeda, S. Akira, and A. Zychlinsky, J. Immunol. 172:4463-4469, 2004) that the early macrophage response against gram-negative bacteria is mediated ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weiss DS,Takeda K,Akira S,Zychlinsky A,Moreno E

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing bacteria and the subsequent release of Stxs and endotoxins into the bloodstream may damage blood vessels in the colon, kidneys, and central nervous system, leading to bloody diarrhea, acute renal failure, and neurological complications. The proinflammatory cytokines tumor nec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harrison LM,van Haaften WC,Tesh VL

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies have been generated to the unique distal sugar epitopes on the oligosaccharide haptens of the glycopeptidolipid antigens of clinically prominent members of the Mycobacterium avium serocomplex. Thus, antibodies are described that recognize the distal O-acetyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl residue of the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rivoire B,Ranchoff BJ,Chatterjee D,Gaylord H,Tsang AY,Kolk AH,Aspinall GO,Brennan PJ

更新日期：1989-10-01 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：:Endogenous interleukin-12 (IL-12) mediates protection against Yersinia enterocolitica in C57BL/6 mice by triggering gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) production in NK and CD4+ T cells. Administration of exogenous IL-12 confers protection against yersiniae in Yersinia-susceptible BALB/c mice but exacerbates yersiniosis in r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bohn E,Schmitt E,Bielfeldt C,Noll A,Schulte R,Autenrieth IB

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonococci do not readily cause disseminated infection in mice. To simulate some of the conditions leading to disseminated gonococcal infection in women, we suspended gonococci in mucin plus hemoglobin and studied the development of gonococcal bacteremia. The mucin-hemoglobin mixture was used because the menstruum appe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Corbeil LB,Wunderlich AC,Corbeil RR,McCutchan JA,Ito JI Jr,Braude AI

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have mapped a group of virulence genes of Porphyromonas gingivalis to a single large fragment of the genome. These genes (rgpA, kgp, and hagA) all contain a consensus repeat sequence (HArep). rgpA and kgp encode cysteine proteases with Arg-X and Lys-X specificity, respectively, and hagA encodes a hemagglutinin. Gen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lewis JP,Macrina FL

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis of Borrelia burgdorferi by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes triggers oxygen-dependent and -independent mechanisms of potentially cidal outcome. Nevertheless, no factor or process has yet been singled out as being borreliacidal. We have studied the B. burgdorferi-killing ability of the myeloperoxidase-H2...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Garcia R,Gusmani L,Murgia R,Guarnaccia C,Cinco M,Rottini G

更新日期：1998-04-01 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：:Subpopulations of spleen cells from scrapie virus-infected mice were used to determine the average virus content of infected cells in vivo at a time when virus was rapidly increasing in titer in lymphoreticular tissues. Comparison of the mean lethal doses of lysed to intact cells indicated averages of 2 to 6 infectiou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lavelle GC

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop targeted gene integration in the periodontal pathogen Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, a ColE1-based, spectinomycin-resistant plasmid containing a segment of the leukotoxin gene was electroporated into strain JP2. In all of the stable spectinomycin-resistant transformants that arose, the plasmid had re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kolodrubetz D,Phillips LH,Ezzo PJ,Kraig E

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gonococcal pilus is a primary virulence factor, providing the initial attachment of the bacterial cell to human mucosal tissues. Pilin, the major subunit of the pilus, can carry a wide spectrum of primary amino acid sequences which are generated by the action of a complex antigenic variation system. Changes in the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Long CD,Madraswala RN,Seifert HS

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella spp. are intracellular bacteria that cause the most frequent zoonosis in the world. Although recent work has advanced the field of Brucella vaccine development, there remains no safe human vaccine. In order to produce a safe and effective human vaccine, the immune response to Brucella spp. requires greater un...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Durward MA,Harms J,Magnani DM,Eskra L,Splitter GA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several group B streptococcal products have been previously found to stimulate human monocytes to produce tumor necrosis factor alpha. In order to identify the receptors involved in these responses, monocytes were stimulated with purified group- or type-specific carbohydrates or lipoteichoic acid in the presence of an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cuzzola M,Mancuso G,Beninati C,Biondo C,von Hunolstein C,Orefici G,Espevik T,Flo TH,Teti G

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunocompromised patients are more susceptible to recurrent nontyphoidal Salmonella (NTS) bacteremia. A key manifestation of HIV infection is the loss of CD4 T cells, which are crucial for immunity to Salmonella infection. We characterized the consequences of CD4 T cell depletion in mice where virulent Salmonella est...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Loomis WP,Delaney MA,Johnson ML,Cookson BT

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:El Tor and non-O1 strains of Vibrio cholerae were analyzed to determine whether synthesis of secreted hemolysin was influenced by the concentration of iron in the medium. Synthesis of hemolysin was found to be iron regulated in both El Tor and non-O1 isolates. Increased levels of hemolytic activity were detected in su...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stoebner JA,Payne SM

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00