Secretion of antimycobacterial fatty acids by normal and activated macrophages.

abstract：:Length and restriction site polymorphism within a 2.8-kb threonine-rich open reading frame from Cryptosporidium parvum was identified and used to determine the genotypes of isolates from calves and humans. In agreement with observations of other genetic loci, all calf isolates were identical at this locus. In contrast...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carraway M,Tzipori S,Widmer G

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two inbred mouse strains, derived from feral founders, are susceptible to experimental leishmaniasis due to Leishmania major and support a disease of a severity intermediate between those observed in strains C57BL/6 and BALB/c. Mice of the MAI strain develop a severe, nonhealing, but nonfatal disease with no resistanc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Babay BE,Louzir H,Kebaïer C,Boubaker S,Dellagi K,Cazenave PA

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA-1) is an invasion-related Plasmodium antigen that is expressed during both intracellular and extracellular asexual stages of the parasite's life cycle, making it an ideal target for induction of humoral and cellular immune responses that can protect against malaria. We show here that whe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bouillet LÉ,Dias MO,Dorigo NA,Moura AD,Russell B,Nosten F,Renia L,Braga EM,Gazzinelli RT,Rodrigues MM,Soares IS,Bruna-Romero O

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrate is a ubiquitous compound and can be utilized by many bacterial species, including enteric pathogens, as a carbon and energy source. Genes involved in citrate utilization have been extensively studied in some enteric bacteria, such as Klebsiella pneumoniae; however, their role in pathogenesis is still not clear...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liu M,Hao G,Li Z,Zhou Y,Garcia-Sillas R,Li J,Wang H,Kan B,Zhu J

更新日期：2019-02-21 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 method of hemagglutination inhibition was used to investigate the antigenic diversity of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Neisseria meningitidis and to develop a serotyping systems based on this antigen. The system uses outer membrane complex prepared by a simple extraction procedure to inhibit homologous hemagglutin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mandrell RE,Zollinger WD

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and reproducible method of bacteriocin typing is described based on leakage of ultraviolet light-absorbing material (UVAM), detectable in supernatants of bacteriocin-sensitive cultures, by means of a spectrophotometer. The prerequisites for reproducible results, with nonsignificant fluctuations in standard err...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Farkas-Himsley H,Pagel A

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the second messenger cyclic-di-GMP and Gac/Rsm signaling pathways are associated with the transition from acute to chronic infection. Therefore, identification of the molecular mechanisms that govern lifestyle choice in bacteria is very important. Here, we identified a novel cyclic-di-GMP mo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jiao H,Li F,Wang T,Yam JKH,Yang L,Liang H

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella species utilize type III secretion systems (T3SSs) to translocate effectors into the cytosol of mammalian host cells, subverting cell signaling and facilitating the onset of gastroenteritis. In this study, we compared a draft genome assembly of Salmonella enterica subsp. salamae strain 3588/07 against the g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pollard DJ,Young JC,Covarelli V,Herrera-León S,Connor TR,Fookes M,Walker D,Echeita A,Thomson NR,Berger CN,Frankel G

更新日期：2016-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:On incubation of rabbit polymorphonuclear leukocytes with the S component of staphylococcal leukocidin at 37 degrees C, the 3H-labeled methyl group of S-adenosyl[methyl-3H]methionine was rapidly incorporated into phospholipid. Subsequently, the methylated phosphatidylcholine was degraded by activated phospholipase A2....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Noda M,Hirayama T,Matsuda F,Kato I

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the rise and fall in circulating tetanus antitoxin in a group of 15 adults after basic and booster immunization indicates that although individuals vary greatly in their responsiveness to toxoid, the falloff in antitoxin appears to be fractionally constant for each individual, and over periods of 5 to 6 yea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Trinca JC

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naegleria fowleri produces fatal meningoencephalitis in humans and in experimentally infected laboratory animals. The course of the disease in mice is dependent upon the infecting dose of amoebae, route of inoculation, and prior exposure to Naegleria antigens. DUB/ICR mice were immunized by various routes and antigen ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： John DT,Weik RR,Adams AC

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrobacter rodentium, an attaching-effacing bacterial pathogen, establishes an acute infection of the murine colonic epithelium and induces a mild colitis in immunocompetent mice. This study describes the role of T-cell subsets and B lymphocytes in immunity to C. rodentium. C57Bl/6 mice orally infected with C. rodent...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Simmons CP,Clare S,Ghaem-Maghami M,Uren TK,Rankin J,Huett A,Goldin R,Lewis DJ,MacDonald TT,Strugnell RA,Frankel G,Dougan G

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：:Previous studies have reported that human vascular endothelial cells lack the membrane-bound lipopolysaccharide (LPS) receptor, CD14 (mCD14). By optimizing assay conditions, including the selection of anti-CD14 monoclonal antibody, we now demonstrate that human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) express CD14 on ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jersmann HP,Hii CS,Hodge GL,Ferrante A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the development of vaccines capable of providing immunity against brucellosis, Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD) has been demonstrated to be one of the protective immunogens of Brucella abortus. In an earlier study, we provided strong evidence that intramuscular injection with a plasmid DNA carrying the SOD gene (pc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Muñoz-Montesino C,Andrews E,Rivers R,González-Smith A,Moraga-Cid G,Folch H,Céspedes S,Oñate AA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter infections are present in approximately 50% of humans, causing severe illnesses such as gastritis and malignancies. Dendritic cells (DC) are critical antigen-presenting cells which link innate and adaptive immune responses. The mechanism of dendritic cell regulation in Helicobacter-induced gastritis is po...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Drakes ML,Czinn SJ,Blanchard TG

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytohemagglutinin is able to trigger interferon synthesis in spleen cell cultures from nude (nu/nu) mice as effectively as in splenic cell cultures from haired, control (nu/+), thymus-bearing mice. A minor theta-bearing cell population present in the spleen of nude mice appears essential to phytohemagglutinin interfe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wietzerbin J,Stefanos S,Falcoff R,Lucero M,Catinot L,Falcoff E

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germination of Bacillus anthracis Sterne and plasmidless Delta-Sterne endospores was dramatically enhanced in RAW264.7 macrophage-like cells, while germination of nonpathogenic Bacillus endospores was not. Elimination of gerS, a germinant receptor locus, caused a complete loss of cell-enhanced germination, implicating...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ireland JA,Hanna PC

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella spp. are gram-negative intracellular pathogens that survive and multiply within phagocytic cells of their hosts. Smooth organisms present O polysaccharides (OPS) on their surface. These OPS help the bacteria avoid the bactericidal action of serum. The wboA gene, coding for the enzyme glycosyltransferase, is e...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernandez-Prada CM,Nikolich M,Vemulapalli R,Sriranganathan N,Boyle SM,Schurig GG,Hadfield TL,Hoover DL

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty percent of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates contain pilus islet 1, coding for a pilus composed of the backbone subunit RrgB and two ancillary proteins, RrgA and RrgC. RrgA is the major determinant of in vitro adhesion associated with pilus 1, is protective in vivo in mouse models, and exists in two variants (c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moschioni M,Emolo C,Biagini M,Maccari S,Pansegrau W,Donati C,Hilleringmann M,Ferlenghi I,Ruggiero P,Sinisi A,Pizza M,Norais N,Barocchi MA,Masignani V

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa invades various epithelial cell types in vitro and in vivo. The P. aeruginosa genome possesses a gene (flhA) which encodes a protein that is believed to be part of the export apparatus for flagellum assembly and which is homologous to invA of Salmonella spp. Because invA is required for invasion...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fleiszig SM,Arora SK,Van R,Ramphal R

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Menstrually associated toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is attributed primarily to the effects of staphylococcal exotoxin toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1). A region of the 194-amino-acid toxin spanning residues 115 through 144 constitutes a biologically active site. Several point mutations in the TSST-1 gene in that re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bonventre PF,Heeg H,Cullen C,Lian CJ

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditions for the release of streptococcal type 12 M protein from whole cells by cyanogen bromide are described; they demonstrated that methionine is not essential to the structural arrangements which account for some of its immunological and biological properties. The released M protein was separated from other prot...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vosti KL,Williams WK

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo administration of Porphyromonas gingivalis lipopolysaccharide (Pg-LPS) to mice induced apoptosis before a specific immune response. Apoptosis was associated with the expression of immunoglobulin and Ia on B cells and of CD5 and several markers on T cells. Apoptosis peaked in the spleen and lymph nodes on day 2...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Isogai E,Isogal H,Kimura K,Fujii N,Takagi S,Hirose K,Hayashi M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A ruthenium red-staining capsule was observed on two pathogenic strains, but not on one nonpathogenic strain of Mycoplasma gallisepticum. The capsule appeared to mediate cytadsorption of mycoplasmas to the chicken tracheal epithelium without evidence of membrane fusion. No relationship was seen between the presence of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tajima M,Yagihashi T,Miki Y

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement-containing immune complexes can be presented to phagocytes by human erythrocytes bearing complement receptor 1 (CR1). Although this has long been assumed to be a mechanism by which humans are able to protect themselves from "extracellular" bacteria such as pneumococci, there is little direct evidence. In th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li J,Wang JP,Ghiran I,Cerny A,Szalai AJ,Briles DE,Finberg RW

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics and homing characteristics of T-cell responses in humans after mucosal immunizations have not been well characterized. Therefore, we have investigated the magnitude and duration of such responses as well as the homing receptor expression of antigen-specific peripheral blood T cells by using an oral model ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lundin BS,Johansson C,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct instillation of coxsackievirus B1 into the gastrointestinal tracts of albino mice caused viremia in more than 85% of the animals within 1 day. In pregnant mice infected early in gestation (7 days), the geometric mean titer of virus in the blood was lower (P = 0.02) and the duration of viremia was shorter (P = 0...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Modlin JF,Crumpacker CS

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of Serpulina pilosicoli 95/1000, isolated from a pig with porcine intestinal spirochetosis (PIS), and S. pilosicoli WesB, isolated from an Aboriginal child with diarrhea, were used to infect 5-week-old newly weaned pigs. Four of 12 pigs infected with strain 95/1000 and 2 of 12 pigs infected with strain WesB b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Trott DJ,Huxtable CR,Hampson DJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00