Association and dissociation of Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin from rat brush border membrane receptors.

abstract：:Humoral immune responses in experimental African trypanosomiasis were assessed in rabbits infected with Trypanosoma rhodesiense. Immune complexes as measured by a Clq binding assay or a Clq solid-phase assay were detected by day 10 and increased progressively through day 28. Immune complexes analyzed by double diffusi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lindsley HB,Janecek LL,Gilman-Sachs AM,Hassanein KM

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coagulase-negative species Staphylococcus lugdunensis is an emerging cause of serious and potentially life-threatening infections, such as infective endocarditis. The pathogenesis of these infections is characterized by the ability of S. lugdunensis to form biofilms on either biotic or abiotic surfaces. To elucida...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rajendran NB,Eikmeier J,Becker K,Hussain M,Peters G,Heilmann C

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody rises to various virus subcomponents were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in the paired sera of volunteers experimentally infected with human coronavirus 229E group viruses. Most of the antibody made during infection was directed against the virus surface projections, with only small amounts of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Macnaughton MR,Hasony HJ,Madge MH,Reed SE

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exohemagglutinin was found in the culture medium of Bacteroides gingivalis 381. Exohemagglutinin was purified 3,150-fold from culture fluid by ultracentrifugation followed by gel filtration on Sepharose CL-4B and by affinity chromatography on arginine-agarose. Examination of the final preparation of exohemagglutinin b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Inoshita E,Amano A,Hanioka T,Tamagawa H,Shizukuishi S,Tsunemitsu A

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which bacterial heat-stable enterotoxins (ST I STA) cause diarrhea in humans and animals has been linked to the activation of an intestinal membrane-bound guanylate cyclase. Guanylin, a recently discovered rat intestinal peptide, is homologous in structure to ST I and can activate guanylate cyclase pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carpick BW,Gariépy J

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common infectious diseases of humans, with Escherichia coli responsible for >80% of all cases. One extreme of UTI is asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU), which occurs as an asymptomatic carrier state that resembles commensalism. To understand the evolution and molecular me...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Beatson SA,Ben Zakour NL,Totsika M,Forde BM,Watts RE,Mabbett AN,Szubert JM,Sarkar S,Phan MD,Peters KM,Petty NK,Alikhan NF,Sullivan MJ,Gawthorne JA,Stanton-Cook M,Nhu NT,Chong TM,Yin WF,Chan KG,Hancock V,Ussery DW

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of dengue-2 antigens was studied in infected monkey kidney cells (LLC MK2) using an indirect, horseradish peroxidase-conjugated immunoglobulin technique. This procedure allowed both light and electron microscopic examination of serial-step sections of individual cells cut in a plane perpendicular to t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cardiff RD,Lund JK

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo induction of colony-stimulating activity (CSA) by N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine-D-isoglutamine has been demonstrated recently. In this study we increased our understanding of this property by testing muramyl peptides of several structures and activities for their capacity to induce CSA in vivo. A comparison of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galelli A,Lefrancier P,Chedid L

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron starvation conditions limited the growth of Salmonella typhi, as evidenced by an increase in the lag phase of a culture and a decrease in the number of bacteria reached in the stationary phase. The analysis of the outer membrane of bacteria grown under these conditions identified new protein components with appar...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernandez-Beros ME,Gonzalez C,McIntosh MA,Cabello FC

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trefoil family factor 2 (TFF2), also known as spasmolytic peptide, is a low-molecular-weight protein that is upregulated in gastric tissues infected with Helicobacter or having other inflammatory conditions, but a precise function is yet to be elucidated. The role of TFF2 in the development of gastritis, colitis, and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kurt-Jones EA,Cao L,Sandor F,Rogers AB,Whary MT,Nambiar PR,Cerny A,Bowen G,Yan J,Takaishi S,Chi AL,Reed G,Houghton J,Fox JG,Wang TC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is limiting in the human host, and bacterial pathogens respond to this environment by regulating gene expression through the ferric uptake regulator protein (Fur). In vitro studies have demonstrated that Neisseria gonorrhoeae controls the expression of several critical genes through an iron- and Fur-mediated mech...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Agarwal S,King CA,Klein EK,Soper DE,Rice PA,Wetzler LM,Genco CA

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetics of resistance to a naturally occurring respiratory infection caused by Sendai virus was examined in F1, F2, and backcross progeny of resistant C57BL/6J and susceptible DBA/2J mice and in 25 recombinant inbred strains. An intranasal inoculum of 0.1 50% tissue culture infective dose (low dose) of Sendai vir...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brownstein DG

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilus ducreyi previously has been shown to inhibit the phagocytosis of both secondary targets and itself by certain cells in vitro. Wild-type H. ducreyi strain 35000HP contains two genes, lspA1 and lspA2, whose encoded protein products are predicted to be 456 and 543 kDa, respectively. An isogenic mutant of H. d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vakevainen M,Greenberg S,Hansen EJ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whooping cough results from infection of the respiratory tract with Bordetella pertussis, and the secreted adenylate cyclase toxin (ACT) is essential for the bacterium to establish infection. Despite extensive study of the mechanism of ACT cytotoxicity and its effects over a range of concentrations in vitro, ACT has n...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eby JC,Gray MC,Warfel JM,Paddock CD,Jones TF,Day SR,Bowden J,Poulter MD,Donato GM,Merkel TJ,Hewlett EL

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As reported elsewhere, an enterotoxigenic strain of Escherichia coli serotype O25:K98:NM was epidemiologically incriminated as the etiological agent in a shipboard outbreak of diarrheal illness. This enterotoxigenic E. coli strain and possibly other enteric isolates were found to produce heat-labile toxin and not heat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wachsmuth K,Wells J,Shipley P,Ryder R

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis KIM5 was found to be cytotoxic for the IC21 and P388D1 mouse macrophage cell lines, as well as for resident peritoneal macrophages from C57BL/6 mice. Affected cells phagocytosed KIM5 inefficiently, became spherical, detached readily from culture dishes, and retained 51Cr poorly. The cytotoxic effect wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goguen JD,Walker WS,Hatch TP,Yother J

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal piglets have been used as models to study human campylobacteriosis and helicobacteriosis. The purpose of this study was to determine the relative pathogenicities, on the basis of the duration of fecal shedding and colonization of tissues, of three Arcobacter species in 1-day-old cesarean-derived colostrum-dep...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wesley IV,Baetz AL,Larson DJ

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In nature, mixed Borrelia burgdorferi infections are common and possibly can be acquired by either superinfection or coinfection. Superinfection by heterologous B. burgdorferi strains has been established experimentally, although the ability of homologous B. burgdorferi clones to superinfect a host has not been studie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogovskyy AS,Bankhead T

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that infection by Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasitic protozoan, is reduced by injection of CD40 ligand (CD40L)-transfected 3T3 fibroblasts (D. Chaussabel, F. Jacobs, J. de Jonge, M. de Veerman, Y. Carlier, K. Thielemans, M. Goldman, and B. Vray, Infect. Immun. 67:1929-1934, 1999). This prompted us...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chamekh M,Vercruysse V,Habib M,Lorent M,Goldman M,Allaoui A,Vray B

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum antibody response and four different cellular immune responses (cytotoxic T cells, delayed-type hypersensitivity T cells, natural killer cells, and cytotoxic macrophage levels) induced in CBA/H mice were measured at different times after intranasal inoculation of a cold-adapted (ca) variant of influenza A vi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mak NK,Zhang YH,Ada GL,Tannock GA

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilization of the technique of immune electron microscopy has enabled the detection of a coronavirus in organ culture harvests derived from a washing from an adult with an acute upper respiratory tract illness; convalescent serum was the source of specific antibody. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kapikian AZ,James HD,Kelly SJ,Vaughn AL

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent pulmonary infections with Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are a major problem in cystic fibrosis (CF), leading to severe and progressive deterioration of the respiratory tract. Fibronectin (FN) has a binding site(s) for S. aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes. This bacterial bindings site(s) wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stanislawski L,Sorin M

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tick saliva has potent immunomodulatory properties. In arthropod-borne diseases, this effect is largely used by microorganisms to increase their pathogenicity and to evade host immune responses. We show that in Lyme borreliosis, tick salivary gland extract and a tick saliva protein, Salp15, inhibit in vitro keratinocy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marchal C,Schramm F,Kern A,Luft BJ,Yang X,Schuijt TJ,Hovius JW,Jaulhac B,Boulanger N

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there appears to be little if any role for specific antibodies in protection against intracellular bacteria, such as the model pathogen F. tularensis live vaccine strain (LVS), the role of B cells themselves in primary and secondary infection with such bacteria has not been examined directly. We show here tha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Elkins KL,Bosio CM,Rhinehart-Jones TR

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of four monoclonal antibodies was produced against a highly purified pepsin extract of type 5 streptococcal M protein. Three of the four antibodies cross-reacted with purified M proteins from heterologous serotypes and opsonized the respective heterologous organisms. Our studies suggest that monoclonal antibodie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dale JB,Beachey EH

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bartonella bacilliformis is the etiologic agent of Oroya fever in humans. Flagellum-mediated motility has been postulated as a major virulence factor for invasion of host cells. To address this hypothesis, we purified and characterized flagella from strain KC584 and then assessed their role in human erythrocyte associ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Scherer DC,DeBuron-Connors I,Minnick MF

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose has previously been shown to increase the in vitro phagocytosis of unopsonized Pseudomonas aeruginosa by freshly explanted murine peritoneal macrophages (PM) and cultivated alveolar macrophages (AM). This study examined the effect of glucose on the same phagocytosis process in human AM in order to determine wh...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wong SY,Guerdoud LM,Cantin A,Speert DP

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody was used to characterize a 135-kDa surface-located membrane protein (Lmp1) generally present in Mycoplasma hominis strains. The monoclonal antibody, 552, was applied to identify the corresponding gene in an expression library of M. hominis PG21 DNA. The M. hominis PG21 lmp1 gene was sequenced, an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ladefoged SA,Birkelund S,Hauge S,Brock B,Jensen LT,Christiansen G

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that individuals infected with Chlamydia trachomatis can develop a robust antibody response to a chlamydia-secreted protein (designated chlamydial proteasome/protease-like activity factor [CPAF]). We now report that sera collected from these infected individuals neutralized the proteolytic act...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sharma J,Dong F,Pirbhai M,Zhong G

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the babesial rhoptry-associated protein 1 (RAP-1) family express surface-exposed B-cell epitopes and are candidate antigens for vaccine development. The relationship between rap-1 genomic polymorphism and surface-exposed B-cell epitope expression was analyzed by comparison of biological clones of Mexico str...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suarez CE,McElwain TF,Echaide I,Torioni de Echaide S,Palmer GH

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00