Isolation and some properties of exohemagglutinin from the culture medium of Bacteroides gingivalis 381.

abstract：:The antigens of Haemophilus somnus recognized by convalescent bovine serum were studied by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western blotting with a protein A-peroxidase conjugate. The same two 76K and 40K antigens were predominant in whole-bacterium preparations and in outer-membrane-enric...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Corbeil LB,Arthur JE,Widders PR,Smith JW,Barbet AF

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fimbriae are colonization factors of the human pathogen Haemophilus influenzae in that they mediate bacterial adherence to human eukaryotic cells. The contribution of the major (HifA) and putative minor (HifD and HifE) subunits of H. influenzae fimbriae to fimbria-specific adherence was studied by using mutants that w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van Ham SM,van Alphen L,Mooi FR,van Putten JP

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous experimentation has highlighted a number of difficulties in the development of carrier-based bivalent vaccines (J.-F. Viret and D. Favre, Biologicals 22:361-372, 1994) In an attempt to obviate these carrier strains. Toward this aim, a series of defined rfbInaba deletion (delta rfbInaba) mutants of the cholera...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Favre D,Cryz SJ Jr,Viret JF

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified two K88ac adhesion receptors (210 and 240 kDa) which are present in membrane preparations from adhesive but not nonadhesive porcine intestinal brush border cells; these adhesin receptors are postulated to be important determinants of the susceptibility of pigs to K88ac+ enterotoxigenic Es...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Erickson AK,Baker DR,Bosworth BT,Casey TA,Benfield DA,Francis DH

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of clearance of Vibrio fetus var. venerealis was measured by using in vivo and in vitro methods. The rate of clearance from the circulating blood increased in immune rabbits and reached a plateau 4 days after immunization. Thereafter in vivo clearance did not increase further despite rising agglutinin titers....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carrier SP,Kramer TT

更新日期：1971-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is both a common and, despite present-day therapy, a serious disease. The pathophysiology of the septic response is a complex, multifactorial phenomenon which in part involves the activation of complement by bacterial endotoxin. A monoclonal antibody to human complement factor B, code-named 1H5, which was capab...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clardy CW

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports from our laboratory have shown that 7 days after infection of C3HeB/FeJ mice with an attenuated strain of Salmonella typhimurium, there is profound suppression of responses to B- and T-cell mitogens and suppression of the capacity of spleen cells to mount a primary, in vitro plaque-forming-cell (PFC) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huang D,Schwacha MG,Eisenstein TK

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) binding protein (LBP) is an acute-phase protein that enhances the responsiveness of immune cells to LPS by virtue of its capacity to transfer LPS to CD14. To determine the role of LBP in the innate immune response to peritonitis, LBP gene-deficient (LBP(-/-)) and normal wild-type mice were int...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Knapp S,de Vos AF,Florquin S,Golenbock DT,van der Poll T

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum's ability to invade erythrocytes is essential for its survival within the human host. Immune mechanisms that impair this ability are therefore expected to contribute to immunity against the parasite. Plasma of humans who are naturally exposed to malaria has been shown to have growth-inhibitory ac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rono J,Färnert A,Olsson D,Osier F,Rooth I,Persson KE

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:Several early nonspecific host defense mechanisms were examined in resistant (BALB/c) and susceptible (C3H/He) mice after intraperitoneal inoculation with Rickettsia tsutsugamushi strain Gilliam. Inflammatory exudates were formed in both mouse strains in response to rickettsial inoculation, but the inflammatory respon...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nacy CA,Groves MG

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have performed microarray hybridization studies on 40 clinical isolates from 12 common serovars within Salmonella enterica subspecies I to identify the conserved chromosomal gene pool. We were able to separate the core invariant portion of the genome by a novel mathematical approach using a decision tree based on g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anjum MF,Marooney C,Fookes M,Baker S,Dougan G,Ivens A,Woodward MJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine culture of endothelial cells currently includes the use of heparin, which significantly reduces cell doubling time and increases cell population size. Heparin protects cultured arterial endothelial cells from damage by toxic oxygen metabolites produced by the action of xanthine and xanthine oxidase. Because of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Silverman DJ,Santucci LA,Sekeyova Z

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brewer thioglycolate medium, a bacterial culture medium which is widely used as a nonspecific in vivo macrophage stimulant, was tested for its effect on mouse resistance to bacterial infection. Mice which did or did not receive thioglycolate medium were challenged with Listeria monocytogenes. Injection of thioglycolat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker LA,Campbell PA

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed an animal model for studying mycobacterial pathogenesis using Mycobacterium marinum and the goldfish, Carassius auratus. Goldfish are injected intraperitoneally with doses between 10(2) and 10(9) CFU of M. marinum organisms. Depending on the dose of M. marinum organisms administered, an acute or chro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Talaat AM,Reimschuessel R,Wasserman SS,Trucksis M

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult murine models of Cryptosporidium infection involving Cryptosporidium muris and C. parvum were used to study immunity to cryptosporidiosis in the mammalian host. Immunocompetent BALB/c or C57BL/6 mice developed a highly patent infection with the RN 66 strain of C. muris but overcame the infection and were immune ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McDonald V,Deer R,Uni S,Iseki M,Bancroft GJ

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) results from infection by Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli and is the most common cause of acute renal failure in children. We have developed a mouse model of HUS by administering endotoxin-free Stx2 in multiple doses over 7 to 8 days. At sacrifice, moribund animals demonstr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sauter KA,Melton-Celsa AR,Larkin K,Troxell ML,O'Brien AD,Magun BE

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastatic infection after hematogenous dissemination of Candida species is presumably dependent on the fungus traversing the vascular endothelium. An in vitro model of the earliest events of metastatic Candida infection was developed with whole vascular strips. Freshly obtained porcine blood vessels were secured in a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klotz SA,Drutz DJ,Harrison JL,Huppert M

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the Treponema denticola factor H-like protein 1 (FHL-1) binding protein, FhbB, was recovered and characterized. Sequence conservation, expression, and properties of FhbB were analyzed. The identification of FhbB represents an important step in understanding the contribution of FHL-1 binding in T. den...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McDowell JV,Frederick J,Stamm L,Marconi RT

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here a Sprague-Dawley rat model for chronic osteomyelitis. Staphylococcus aureus and sodium morrhuate were implanted by either microdrilling or direct needle injection into the tibiae of rats. Of 107 rats, 87 (81%) developed osteomyelitis when a high-speed drill was used for implantation, and 27 (51%) of 5...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rissing JP,Buxton TB,Weinstein RS,Shockley RK

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicity by inhalation of various gram-negative bacteria, isolated from settings associated with inhalation disease, was studied by a variety of means. These microorganisms were not equally toxic. Citrobacter freundii aerosol challenges of rabbits provoked significant (up to fivefold) increases in plasma haptoglob...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baseler MW,Fogelmark B,Burrell R

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of bile on the expression of cholera toxin (CT) and the major subunit of the toxin-coregulated pilus (TcpA) and on motility was examined in the Vibrio cholerae O1 classical-biotype strains 0395 and 569B. Although the motility of the cells increased significantly in the presence of bile, transcription of the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gupta S,Chowdhury R

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokine mRNA expression in biopsies of Mycobacterium ulcerans-infected human tissue was investigated using real-time PCR, and the findings were correlated with the clinical stages of disease and histopathologies. A broad range of cytokine mRNAs were detected in 16 early nodules and 28 late-stage ulcers, including tho...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Phillips R,Horsfield C,Mangan J,Laing K,Etuaful S,Awuah P,Nyarko K,Osei-Sarpong F,Butcher P,Lucas S,Wansbrough-Jones M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioluminescent reporter assays have been widely used to study the effect of Toxoplasma gondii on host gene expression. In the present study, we extend these studies by engineering novel reporter cell lines containing a gamma-activated sequence (GAS) element driving firefly luciferase (FLUC). In RAW264.7 macrophages, T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Olias P,Sibley LD

更新日期：2016-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The stimulation of mononuclear phagocytes by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is facilitated by the binding of complexes of LPS and LPS-binding protein to CD14. Although it is clear that CD14 is involved in LPS-induced signaling, other investigators have hypothesized the existence of additional signaling pathways in macrophag...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lynn WA,Liu Y,Golenbock DT

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A substance with potent decomplementation activity was isolated from staphylococcal culture supernatants by polyethylene glycol precipitation, DEAE-ion-exchange and Sephacryl chromatography, and preparative sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The purified substance exhibited all the characterist...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bhakdi S,Muhly M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of adsorption of the Streptococcus mutans enzymes responsible for the synthesis of insoluble dextran-levan to the S. mutans cell-wall binding sites has been studied. Certain characteristics of these binding sites are presented. The adsorption of these enzymes to the cell surface occurred rapidly without ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mukasa H,Slade HD

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy-associated malaria is a severe clinical syndrome associated with the sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes in the placenta. Placental binding is mediated by VAR2CSA, a member of the large and diverse P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane 1 (PfEMP1) protein family. To better understand if ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Avril M,Cartwright MM,Hathaway MJ,Hommel M,Elliott SR,Williamson K,Narum DL,Duffy PE,Fried M,Beeson JG,Smith JD

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridomas secreting monoclonal antibodies against an apparent strain-specific cell surface antigen of Neisseria gonorrhoeae were produced. Spleen cells from BALB/c mice immunized with whole gonococci were fused with mouse myeloma cell line Sp2/0, and hybrid cells were selected in culture. One hybridoma that secreted ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nachamkin I,Cannon JG,Mittler RS

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system plays an important role in the host defense against infection, and the formation of the terminal complement complex on the bacterial surface has been shown to be particularly important in killing of gram-negative bacteria. The gram-negative periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis is resista...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Slaney JM,Gallagher A,Aduse-Opoku J,Pell K,Curtis MA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00