Adherence of group B streptococci to adult and neonatal epithelial cells mediated by lipoteichoic acid.

abstract：:Visceral leishmaniasis is a severe and lethal disease caused by the protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania. In areas where leishmaniasis is endemic, most infected individuals control the infection and remain asymptomatic; chemotherapy of visceral leishmaniasis restores some immunity which protects against relapse...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mary C,Auriault V,Faugère B,Dessein AJ

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial survival in a host is usually dependent on the ability of a pathogen to undergo changes that promote escape from host defense mechanisms. The human-pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans undergoes phenotypic switching in vivo that promotes persistence in tissue. By microarray and real-time PCR analyses, t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jain N,Li L,Hsueh YP,Guerrero A,Heitman J,Goldman DL,Fries BC

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:We have shown previously that Klebsiella pneumoniae receptors for coliphages T3 and T7 also mediate mannose-inhibitable adherence to human epithelial cells and protect bacteria from phagocytosis and intracellular killing by human polymorphonuclear cells. In this paper we analyze the possible role of such mannose-inhib...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pruzzo C,Valisena S,Satta G

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertional mutagenesis studies of mrpB, a putative pilin-encoding open reading frame of the mrp gene cluster, which encodes mannose-resistant Proteus-like (MR/P) fimbriae of Proteus mirabilis, indicate that MrpB functions as the terminator for fimbrial assembly. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li X,Mobley HL

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccines for P. falciparum will need to contain both T- and B-cell epitopes. Conserved epitopes are the most desirable, but they are often poorly immunogenic. The major merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP-1) is currently a leading vaccine candidate antigen. In this study, six peptides from conserved or partly conserved r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Parra M,Hui G,Johnson AH,Berzofsky JA,Roberts T,Quakyi IA,Taylor DW

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two weeks after mice had been infected in the footpad with cells of Nocardia brasiliensis, immunoglobulin and C3 deposits were observed in tissue from the inoculation site. Both immunoglobulin and C3 were found in the actinomycotic granules that characterize the mycetoma and in the surrounding inflammatory zones, in w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Conde C,Mancilla R,Fresan M,Ortiz-Ortiz L

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae strains typically express both smooth lipopolysaccharide (LPS) with O antigen molecules and capsule polysaccharide (K antigen) on the surface. A single mutation in a gene that codes for a UDP galacturonate 4-epimerase (uge) renders a strain with the O-:K- phenotype (lack of capsule and LPS withou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Regué M,Hita B,Piqué N,Izquierdo L,Merino S,Fresno S,Benedí VJ,Tomás JM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spotted fever group rickettsiae are known to produce distinct plaque phenotypes. Strains that cause lytic infections in cell culture form clear plaques, while nonlytic strains form opaque plaques in which the cells remain intact. Clear plaques have historically been associated with more-virulent species or strains of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clark TR,Ellison DW,Kleba B,Hackstadt T

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional dendritic cells (cDCs) are critical for protection against pulmonary infection with the opportunistic fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans; however, the role of plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) is unknown. We show for the first time that murine pDCs have direct activity against C. neoformans via rea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hole CR,Leopold Wager CM,Mendiola AS,Wozniak KL,Campuzano A,Lin X,Wormley FL Jr

更新日期：2016-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart and muscle tissues appear to be specific target organs for the in vivo inhibition of protein synthesis by diphtheria toxin. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bowman CG,Imhoff JG,Bonventre PF

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The group R streptococcal group antigen has been shown to be a polysaccharide located at the surface of the cell wall of the organism. The antigen was extracted from cell walls in 0.05 n HCl or 5% trichloracetic acid at 100 C, from whole cells at room temperature in 0.85% NaCl or 0.1 m acetate (pH 5.0), and by sonic o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Soprey P,Slade HD

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attachment of isogenic fimbriated and nonfimbriated Haemophilus influenzae type b variants to human cells was studied by using a radioactive assay and an indirect immunofluorescent assay. As described previously, fimbriated H. influenzae variants adhered to a greater extent than nonfimbriated variants to human buc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sable NS,Connor EM,Hall CB,Loeb MR

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori strains frequently express Lewis X (Le(x)) and/or Le(y) on their cell surfaces as constituents of the O antigens of their lipopolysaccharide molecules. To assess the effect of Le(x) and Le(y) expression on the ability of H. pylori to colonize the mouse stomach and to adhere to epithelial cells, iso...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takata T,El-Omar E,Camorlinga M,Thompson SA,Minohara Y,Ernst PB,Blaser MJ

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obligate intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii critically relies on host cell invasion during infection. Proteins secreted from the apical micronemes are central components for host cell recognition, invasion, egress, and virulence. Although previous work established that the sporozoite protein with an altered ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huynh MH,Boulanger MJ,Carruthers VB

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonvertebrate model hosts represent valuable tools for the study of host-pathogen interactions because they facilitate the identification of bacterial virulence factors and allow the discovery of novel components involved in host innate immune responses. In this report, we determined that the greater wax moth caterpil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miyata S,Casey M,Frank DW,Ausubel FM,Drenkard E

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) is defined as the triad of anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute kidney injury. Enterohemorrhagic Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (EHEC), which causes a prodromal hemorrhagic enteritis, remains the most common etiology of the typical or epidemic form of HUS. Because no licens...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mejias MP,Cabrera G,Fernández-Brando RJ,Baschkier A,Ghersi G,Abrey-Recalde MJ,Miliwebsky E,Meiss R,Goldbaum F,Zylberman V,Rivas M,Palermo MS

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence mechanism of Aeromonas caviae Sch3N to HEp-2 cells was initially investigated through four mini-Tn5 mutants that showed a 10-fold decrease in adherence. These mutants lost motility, flagella, and their lipopolysaccharide (LPS) O antigen (O-Ag). Three genes, flmB-neuA-flmD, were found to be interrupted by...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gryllos I,Shaw JG,Gavín R,Merino S,Tomás JM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxic protein(s) neutralized with anti-C2 toxic serum was extracted from Clostridium botulinum type C spores treated with an alkaline mercaptoethanol solution. C2 toxicity in the spores was located in the spore coat fraction and was more heat stable than that found in culture fluid. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yamakawa K,Nishida S,Nakamura S

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C57BL/6 mice were infected intravenously with 6 X 10(3) Listeria monocytogenes organisms. As early as day 3 of infection, there was a marked reduction in the number of lymphocytes recovered from the peripheral blood, bone marrow, and thymuses of infected animals. Concomitantly, there was an increase in the number of s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Watson SR,Redington TJ,Miller TB,Bullock WE

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Placenta-sequestering Plasmodium falciparum involved in the pathogenesis of pregnancy-associated malaria (PAM) in otherwise clinically immune women expresses particular variant surface antigens (VSA(PAM)) on the surface of infected erythrocytes that differ from VSA found in parasitized nonpregnant individuals (non-PAM...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Megnekou R,Staalsoe T,Taylor DW,Leke R,Hviid L

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver-stage antigen 1 (LSA-1) is a potential vaccine candidate against preerythrocytic stages of malaria. We report here the immunogenicity of linear synthetic constructs delineated as T(H)-cell determinants from the nonrepeat regions of Plasmodium falciparum LSA-1 in murine models and human subjects from areas where ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Joshi SK,Bharadwaj A,Chatterjee S,Chauhan VS

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus iniae causes systemic infection characterized by meningitis and sepsis. Here, we report a larval zebrafish model of S. iniae infection. Injection of wild-type S. iniae into the otic vesicle induced a lethal infection by 24 h postinfection. In contrast, an S. iniae mutant deficient in polysaccharide capsu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harvie EA,Green JM,Neely MN,Huttenlocher A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serologic parameters of kala-azar were evaluated by Western blot analysis. Sera from kala-azar patients with confirmed diagnoses were screened for immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgG subclass-specific reactivity against Leishmania donovani membrane antigen (LAg). Heterogeneous LAg-specific IgG reactivity with numerous prot...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ravindran R,Anam K,Bairagi BC,Saha B,Pramanik N,Guha SK,Goswami RP,Banerjee D,Ali N

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae causes infections and fatal disease in marine animals and in humans. Highly hemolytic strains produce damselysin (Dly) and plasmid-encoded HlyA (HlyA(pl)). These hemolysins are encoded by plasmid pPHDD1 and contribute to hemolysis and virulence for fish and mice. In this study, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rivas AJ,Balado M,Lemos ML,Osorio CR

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syphilis has been recognized as a disease since the late 1400s, yet there is no practical vaccine available. One impediment to the development of a vaccine is the lack of understanding of multiple reinfections in humans despite the development of robust immune responses during the first episode. It has been shown that...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Morgan CA,Lukehart SA,Van Voorhis WC

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies suggested that nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) can form biofilms during human and chinchilla middle ear infections. Microscopic analysis of a 5-day biofilm of NTHI strain 2019 grown in a continuous-flow chamber revealed that the biofilm had a diffuse matrix interlaced with multiple water cha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Greiner LL,Watanabe H,Phillips NJ,Shao J,Morgan A,Zaleski A,Gibson BW,Apicella MA

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli F-18, isolated from the feces of a healthy human in 1977, is an excellent colonizer of the streptomycin-treated mouse large intestine and displays normal motility and chemotaxis ability. A chemotaxis-defective derivative of E. coli F-18, E, coli F-18 CheA-, and a nonflagellated derivative, E. coli F-1...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McCormick BA,Laux DC,Cohen PS

更新日期：1990-09-01 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：:A major virulence factor of group A streptococci is M protein, a surface-exposed fibrillar molecule of which there exist more than 80 distinct serological types. Antigenic variability resides largely in the amino-terminal region of M protein, whereas the carboxy-terminal half of the molecule is highly conserved among ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bessen D,Fischetti VA

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00