Effects of low concentrations of zinc on the growth and dimorphism of Candida albicans: evidence for zinc-resistant and -sensitive pathways for mycelium formation.

abstract：:We have developed an in vitro assay to study the intramacrophage replication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Mycobacterium bovis BCG. In this assay, extracellular mycobacterial replication was avoided by using a small infecting inoculum and a new method for efficiently removing nonphagocytocytized bacilli. The abilit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zlotnik A,Crowle AJ

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent study demonstrated that polyclonal antibodies to Rickettsia conorii and monoclonal antibodies to outer membrane proteins A (OmpA) and B (OmpB) provided effective, Fc-dependent, passive immunity, even in severe combined immunodeficient mice with an established infection. In order to determine the mechanism of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Feng HM,Whitworth T,Popov V,Walker DH

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contributions of the alternative sigma factor sigmaB to Listeria monocytogenes infection were investigated using strains bearing null mutations in sigB, prfA, or inlA or in selected inlA or prfA promoter regions. The DeltaP4inlA strain, which has a deletion in the sigmaB-dependent P4inlA promoter, and the DeltasigB st...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Garner MR,Njaa BL,Wiedmann M,Boor KJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

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：:Cells of the laboratory strain 3153A of Candida albicans can be stimulated to undergo high-frequency phenotypic switching by a low dose of UV. We have compared the adhesive properties of cells exhibiting the basic original smooth (o-smooth) phenotype and three switch phenotypes (star, irregular wrinkle, and revertant ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vargas K,Wertz PW,Drake D,Morrow B,Soll DR

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningococcal sodC encodes periplasmic copper- and zinc-cofactored superoxide dismutase (Cu,Zn SOD) which catalyzes the conversion of the superoxide radical anion to hydrogen peroxide, preventing a sequence of reactions leading to production of toxic hydroxyl free radicals. From its periplasmic location, Cu,Zn SOD was...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wilks KE,Dunn KL,Farrant JL,Reddin KM,Gorringe AR,Langford PR,Kroll JS

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites to differentiate into latent bradyzoite forms is essential for pathogenesis of clinical disease. We examined the effects of cyclic nucleotides on T. gondii bradyzoite differentiation in vitro. Differentiation of tachyzoites to bradyzoites was measured in an immunofluorescen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kirkman LA,Weiss LM,Kim K

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：: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：:To determine whether lipopolysaccharide (LPS) structures of Campylobacter species are immunologically related to those of 11 other gram-negative organisms, we immunoblotted from polyacrylamide gels the LPS of these strains with immune rabbit serum raised against six Campylobacter jejuni strains and two Campylobacter f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Perez-Perez GI,Hopkins JA,Blaser MJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human gingival fibroblasts were exposed in culture to cell extracts of different black-pigmented Bacteroides species, and their growth was monitored by determining thymidine uptake and counting cells. Of the Bacteroides species tested (B. gingivalis, B. asaccharolyticus, and B. intermedius), B. gingivalis gave the ext...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Larjava H,Uitto VJ,Eerola E,Haapasalo M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this research was to determine whether gram-negative bacteria frequently isolated from periodontally diseased sites contained polyclonal B-cell activators. Polyclonal B-cell activation, which results in nonspecific activation of multiple B-cell clones was analyzed by a hemolysis-in-gel assay designed ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bick PH,Carpenter AB,Holdeman LV,Miller GA,Ranney RR,Palcanis KG,Tew JG

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of a pathogen to evade neutrophil phagocytic killing mechanisms is critically important for dissemination and establishment of a systemic infection. Understanding how pathogens overcome these innate defenses is essential for the development of optimal therapeutic strategies for invasive infections. CpsY is...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Allen JP,Neely MN

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group A streptococci isolated from skin adhere in greater numbers to human skin epithelial cells than to cells obtained from buccal mucosa whereas streptococci isolated from a throat tend to adhere in greater numbers to buccal epithelial cells than to skin epithelial cells in vitro. M protein-producing strains of grou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alkan M,Ofek I,Beachey EH

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of delta-toxin is supposed to be responsible for various pathophysiological effects during infection with Staphylococcus aureus. We compared the effects of delta-toxin with the structurally related bee venom toxin melittin on granulocyte functions and inflammatory mediator release. Delta-toxin and melit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kasimir S,Schönfeld W,Alouf JE,König W

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the diphtheria toxin phenotype of specially selected isolates of Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis (C. ovis). All produced proteins similar in size and immunological structure to diphtheria toxin. As with diphtheria toxin, they exhibited ADP-ribosylating activity, and their ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wong TP,Groman N

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus agalactiae (group B Streptococcus or GBS) is a common colonizer of the gastrointestinal and genital tracts and an important cause of invasive infections in newborn infants and in adults with predisposing chronic conditions or advanced age. Attachment to epithelial surfaces at mucosal sites is a critical ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Park SE,Jiang S,Wessels MR

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of Rickettsia prowazekii-infected L929 cells with gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) immediately after infection altered the lipid metabolism of the host cells as determined by measurement of phospholipid hydrolysis and oleic acid incorporation into phospholipids and neutral lipids. At 48 h postinfection, there wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Winkler HH,Day L,Daugherty R,Turco J

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to Yersinia pestis LcrV, the recombinant V10 (rV10) variant (lacking residues 271 to 300) does not suppress the release of proinflammatory cytokines by immune cells. Immunization with rV10 generates robust antibody responses that protect mice against bubonic plague and pneumonic plague, suggesting that rV1...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： DeBord KL,Anderson DM,Marketon MM,Overheim KA,DePaolo RW,Ciletti NA,Jabri B,Schneewind O

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PspC was found to bind human complement factor H (FH) by Western blot analysis of D39 (pspC(+)) and an isogenic mutant TRE108 (pspC). We confirmed that PspA does not bind FH, while purified PspC binds FH very strongly. The binding of FH to exponentially growing pneumococci varied among different isolates when analyzed...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dave S,Brooks-Walter A,Pangburn MK,McDaniel LS

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：:Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) strains are a diverse group of organisms capable of causing severe gastrointestinal disease in humans. Within the STEC family, eae-positive STEC strains, particularly those belonging to serogroups O157 and O111, appear to have greater virulence for humans. However, in spite of b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Paton AW,Paton JC

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans is surrounded by an antiphagocytic polysaccharide capsule whose primary constituent is glucuronoxylomannan (GXM). Three prominent structural features of GXM are single xylosyl and glucuronosyl side chains and O acetylation of the mannose backbone. Isogenic pairs of O-acetyl-positive and O-acety...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR,Levitz SM,Dromer F,Gates MA,Thorkildson P,Janbon G

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary antibody response of BALB/c splenocytes to sheep erythrocytes in vitro was suppressed by infection with Friend leukemia virus (FLV), with the response capacity decreasing with increasing duration of infection. The acquisition of normal antibody responses was amplified by macrophage-produced antibody respon...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Butler RC,Frier JM,Chapekar MS,Graham MO,Friedman H

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of Bacillus anthracis toxin production in culture and its lethal activity in rats, mice, and guinea pigs were investigated. Lethal toxin activity was produced in vitro throughout exponential growth at essentially identical rates in both encapsulated virulent and nonencapsulated avirulent strains. The two ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ezzell JW,Ivins BE,Leppla SH

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium renale type I (strain 115), 1.7 X 10(7) to 4.5 X 10(7) organisms, introduced intravenously into mice disappeared from the blood less than 24 h after inoculation and did not produce pyelonephritis. The same strain, 1 X 10(7) to 5 X 10(7) organisms, inoculated into the urinary bladder of mice was not rec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shimono E,Yanagawa R

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-Amino acid oxidase (DAO) is a hydrogen peroxide-generating enzyme that uses a D-amino acid as a substrate. We hypothesized that DAO may protect against bacterial infection, because hydrogen peroxide is one of the most important molecules in the antibacterial defense systems in mammals. We show here that DAO suppress...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nakamura H,Fang J,Maeda H

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parameters of a persistent-state measles virus infection in BGM/MV cells were examined. The BGM/MV cell line was established by cocultivation of measles virus-infected primary C3H mouse brain cells with a stable line of African green monkey kidney cells (BGM). Initially, a morphologically mixed population of cells...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Menna JH,Collins AR,Flanagan TD

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissues and organs provide the structural and biochemical landscapes upon which microbial pathogens and commensals function to regulate health and disease. While flat two-dimensional (2-D) monolayers composed of a single cell type have provided important insight into understanding host-pathogen interactions and infect...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barrila J,Crabbé A,Yang J,Franco K,Nydam SD,Forsyth RJ,Davis RR,Gangaraju S,Ott CM,Coyne CB,Bissell MJ,Nickerson CA

更新日期：2018-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:For the first time, hepatitis A viral antigen (HAAg) was shown in liver biopsy tissue from a patient in the acute phase of hepatitis type A by light and electron microscopy, using the peroxidase-antibody technique. Under light microscopy, the staining for HAAg appeared as a fine, granular reaction product, scattered t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shimizu YK,Shikata T,Beninger PR,Sata M,Setoyama H,Abe H,Tanikawa K

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00