Role of capsule in adherence of Haemophilus influenzae type b to human buccal epithelial cells.

abstract：:gammaG-globulin from nonimmunized rabbits and from rabbits immunized with various bacteria reacted in the immunofluorescence technique with protein A-containing Staphylococcus aureus. Pepsin digestion of most immunoglobulin preparations eliminated the reaction, thus showing that the Fc fragment is involved and that th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Forsgren A,Forsum U

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of passive administration of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (MAB) to respiratory syncytial virus glycoproteins (GP90 and VP70) was evaluated in cotton rats challenged with respiratory syncytial virus. Animals injected with MAB to VP70 had lower mean viral titers in lung tissues than did controls (log10...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Walsh EE,Schlesinger JJ,Brandriss MW

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a model of experimental Chagas' disease induced with metacyclic forms of Trypanosoma cruzi, CD4+ but not CD8+ T cells undergo T-cell receptor (TCR)-CD3-mediated activation-induced cell death (AICD) in vitro. CD4+ T cells from T. cruzi-infected mice also developed unresponsiveness in proliferative responses to TCR-C...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lopes MF,DosReis GA

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scrub typhus 58-kilodalton (kDa) antigen (Sta58) of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi is a major protein antigen often recognized by humans infected with scrub typhus rickettsiae. A 2.9-kilobase HindIII fragment containing a complete sta58 gene was cloned in Escherichia coli and found to express the entire Sta58 antigen an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stover CK,Marana DP,Dasch GA,Oaks EV

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli containing the K1 capsule is the leading cause of gram-negative meningitis, but the pathogenesis of this disease is not completely understood. Recent microarray experiments in which we compared the gene expression profile of E. coli K1 associated with human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMEC...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Parthasarathy G,Yao Y,Kim KS

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonhuman primate model for malaria vaccine development allowing reliable, stringent sporozoite challenge and evaluation of both cellular and antibody responses is needed. We therefore constructed a multicomponent, multistage DNA vaccine for the simian malaria species Plasmodium knowlesi including two preerythrocytic...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogers WO,Baird JK,Kumar A,Tine JA,Weiss W,Aguiar JC,Gowda K,Gwadz R,Kumar S,Gold M,Hoffman SL

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces boulardii is a nonpathogenic yeast used in the treatment of Clostridium difficile diarrhea and colitis. We have reported that S. boulardii inhibits C. difficile toxin A enteritis in rats by releasing a 54-kDa protease which digests the toxin A molecule and its brush border membrane (BBM) receptor (I. Cas...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Castagliuolo I,Riegler MF,Valenick L,LaMont JT,Pothoulakis C

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human plasma was bactericidal for small numbers of Klebsiella pneumoniae, but larger numbers grew slowly over a period of 24 h. Human polymorphs in a clot of autologous plasma had a bacteriostatic effect on relatively large numbers of bacteria for up to 24 h and were much more effective than plasma alone. The bacteric...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ward CG,Hammond JS,Bullen JJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All of the Salmonella enteritidis strains isolated from diseased animals (61 strains) and from beef (2 strains) in Japan and in West Germany (1 strain), except for 2 strains isolated from ducks, harbored either a 36-megadalton (Md) plasmid alone or in combination with several other plasmids of different sizes. It is l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nakamura M,Sato S,Ohya T,Suzuki S,Ikeda S

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a systemic tick-borne illness caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii, is associated with widespread infection of the vascular endothelium. R. rickettsii infection induces a biphasic pattern of the nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) activation in cultured human...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clifton DR,Rydkina E,Freeman RS,Sahni SK

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:The morphology and pathology of cultured mouse glomeruli were examined at the cellular and subcellular levels after infection with a physiological isotonic L-form of Streptococcus pyogenes type 12 or exposure to streptococcal lipoteichoic acid. These changes, as viewed by light microscopy, were identical regardless of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tomlinson K,Leon O,Panos C

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galactomannan (GM) extracted from mycelia of Aspergillus fumigatus with cold dilute alkali reacted with antiserum specific for an antigen that circulated in invasive aspergillosis in rabbits and humans. The GM was purified by its affinity for concanavalin A and was separated from a nonantigenic glucan by gel permeatio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Reiss E,Lehmann PF

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of catalase, cystinase, and deoxyribonuclease activity to toxinogeny in Corynebacterium diphtheriae was examined. Mutants deficient in each activity were isolated after mutagenization of strain C4 with nitrosoguanidine. All mutants were converted to toxinogeny after lysogenization with beta-converting...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Groman NB,Dean CK

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme from Treponema denticola that hydrolyzes a synthetic trypsin substrate, N-alpha-benzoyl-L-arginine-p-nitroanilide (BAPNA), was purified to near homogeneity, as judged by gel electrophoresis. The molecular weight of the enzyme was estimated to be ca. 69,000 by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ohta K,Makinen KK,Loesche WJ

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have focused on regions of staphylococcal enterotoxin C1 (SEC1) causing immunomodulation. N-terminal deletion mutants lacking residues 6 through 13 induced T-cell proliferation similar to that induced by native toxin. However, mutants with residues deleted between positions 19 and 33, although nonmitogenic themselv...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hoffmann ML,Jablonski LM,Crum KK,Hackett SP,Chi YI,Stauffacher CV,Stevens DL,Bohach GA

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human multidrug efflux transporters are known for their ability to extrude antibiotics and toxic compounds out of cells, yet accumulating data indicate they have additional functions in diverse physiological processes not related to drug efflux. Here, we show that the human multidrug transporter P-glycoprotein (P-gp) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sigal N,Kaplan Zeevi M,Weinstein S,Peer D,Herskovits AA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the ability of two species of streptococci isolated from the human oral cavity (Streptococcus mutans NCTC 10449 and Streptococcus sobrinus SL-1) to metabolize N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc), a naturally occurring amino sugar present in saliva and human glycoproteins, when provided as the sole fermen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Homer KA,Patel R,Beighton D

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to localize antigenic regions on the flagellin protein of Campylobacter jejuni 81116. This strain has two flagellin genes, flaA and flaB, which are 95% identical; only flaA seems to be expressed in motile C. jejuni 81116 cells. Fragments of flaA and flaB were cloned in the bacterial expre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nuijten PJ,van der Zeijst BA,Newell DG

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an attenuated Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium vaccine strain expressing the saliva-binding region (SBR) of the Streptococcus mutans antigen I/II adhesin, either alone or linked with the mucosal adjuvant cholera toxin A2 and B subunits (CTA2/...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huang Y,Hajishengallis G,Michalek SM

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoteichoic acids (LTAs) belong to the immunostimulatory class of molecules of gram-positive bacteria (GPB). Previous investigations showed that the macrophage scavenger receptor (SR), a glycosylated trimeric transmembrane protein, binds directly to many GPB, possibly via LTA. SR binding to other ligands is dependent...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Greenberg JW,Fischer W,Joiner KA

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Klebsiella pneumoniae strains to resist the bactericidal activity of serum was quantitated. The K. pneumoniae strains tested included mutants lacking the capsular polysaccharide and mutants having a modified lipopolysaccharide structure. The last mutants were obtained as phage-resistant mutants, and the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tomás JM,Benedí VJ,Ciurana B,Jofre J

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One major outer membrane protein (P1) of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), with an apparent molecular weight of 34,000 (34K) as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), has been shown to be heat modifiable. After heating at 100 degrees C for 5 min in 2% SDS, the P1 protein...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gonzales FR,Leachman S,Norgard MV,Radolf JD,McCracken GH Jr,Evans C,Hansen EJ

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) plays a pathophysiologic role in sepsis induced in rat pups by group B streptococci (GBS). In this model, TNF-alpha is also partially responsible for the induction of interleukin-6 (IL-6). The present study was undertaken to investigate the role ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mancuso G,Tomasello F,Migliardo M,Delfino D,Cochran J,Cook JA,Teti G

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculous pleurisy allows the study of human cells at the site of active Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. In this study, we found that among pleural fluid (PF) lymphocytes, natural killer (NK) cells are a major source of early gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) upon M. tuberculosis stimulation, leading us to investig...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schierloh P,Yokobori N,Alemán M,Landoni V,Geffner L,Musella RM,Castagnino J,Baldini M,Abbate E,de la Barrera SS,Sasiain MC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 75-kilodalton major protein (75K protein) was purified to homogeneity from the cell lysate fraction and the envelope of Bacteroides gingivalis 381. The 75K protein was originally present in the outer membrane or the outermost part of this organism as a large, stable complex with an apparent molecular weight of about...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yoshimura F,Watanabe K,Takasawa T,Kawanami M,Kato H

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the alternative sigma factor sigma(B) in Staphylococcus epidermidis was investigated by the construction, complementation, and characterization of a sigB deletion mutant. Electrophoretic analyses confirmed a profound influence of sigma(B) on the expression of exoproteins and cytoplasmic proteins. Detailed ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kies S,Otto M,Vuong C,Götz F

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosome-activated mouse peritoneal macrophages phagocytized and digested Trypanosoma brucei in vitro and in vivo, but in the absence of specific antiserum and complement the degree of phagocytosis was minimal. Ultrastructurally, the parasites attached to the macrophage by their flagella, and ingestion proceeded fl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stevens DR,Moulton JE

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene bank of group A Streptococcus strain Manfredo (M protein serotype 5) was constructed with a bacteriophage lambda vector-Escherichia coli K-12 host system and screened by immunoblotting hybrid phage plaques with antisera raised to purified pep M5 (serotype 5 M protein fragment released from the streptococcal cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kehoe MA,Poirier TP,Beachey EH,Timmis KN

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the role of endogenous gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in the formation of granulomas in mice which had been given a single intravenous injection of glycolipid-containing mycolic acid (trehalose 2,3,6'-trimycolate) purified from cell walls of Rhodococcus aurantiacus (Gordona aurantiaca) (GaGM) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Asano M,Nakane A,Minagawa T

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00