Model of experimental chronic osteomyelitis in rats.

abstract：:Three strains of Lactobacillus, identified as Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus gasseri, and Lactobacillus jensenii, were selected from among 70 isolates from the vaginas of healthy premenopausal women for properties relevant to mucosal colonization or antagonism. All three self-aggregated and adhered to epithe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boris S,Suárez JE,Vázquez F,Barbés C

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the widely held belief that gastric acid serves as a barrier to bacterial pathogens, there are almost no experimental data to support this hypothesis. We have developed a mouse model to quantify the effectiveness of gastric acid in mediating resistance to infection with ingested bacteria. Mice that were consti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tennant SM,Hartland EL,Phumoonna T,Lyras D,Rood JI,Robins-Browne RM,van Driel IR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the progression of the life cycle of Plasmodium falciparum, a small proportion of asexual parasites differentiate into male or female sexual forms called gametocytes. Just like their asexual counterparts, gametocytes are contained within the infected host's erythrocytes (RBCs). However, unlike their asexual partner...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Acquah FK,Adjah J,Williamson KC,Amoah LE

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) causes repeated respiratory infections in patients with chronic lung diseases. These infections are characterized by a brisk inflammatory response which results in the accumulation of polymorphonucleated cells in the lungs and is dependent on the expression and secretion of pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clemans DL,Bauer RJ,Hanson JA,Hobbs MV,St Geme JW 3rd,Marrs CF,Gilsdorf JR

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obligate intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii can actively infect any nucleated cell type, including cells from the immune system. The rapid transfer of T. gondii from infected dendritic cells to effector natural killer (NK) cells may contribute to the parasite's sequestration and shielding from immune recogni...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sultana MA,Du A,Carow B,Angbjär CM,Weidner JM,Kanatani S,Fuks JM,Muliaditan T,James J,Mansfield IO,Campbell TM,Liu L,Kadri N,Lambert H,Barragan A,Chambers BJ

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immune system recognizes pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) through pattern recognition receptors (PRR) and transduces downstream signaling to activate the host defense. Here we report that in addition to direct PAMP-PRR interactions, live Candida albicans cells can release soluble factors to ac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cheng SC,Chai LY,Joosten LA,Vecchiarelli A,Hube B,Van Der Meer JW,Kullberg BJ,Netea MG

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii induces the expression of proinflammatory cytokines, reorganizes organelles, scavenges nutrients, and inhibits apoptosis in infected host cells. We used a cDNA microarray of 420 annotated porcine expressed sequence tags to analyze the molecular basis of these changes at eight time points over a 72-ho...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Okomo-Adhiambo M,Beattie C,Rink A

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monolayer cultures of LLC-MK2 rhesus monkey kidney cells become persistently infected with simian virus 40 after infection at input multiplicities of 100, 10, or 1 plaque-forming unit per cell. After 3 weeks, all cells of the cultures infected at a multiplicity of 1 plaque-forming unit per cell produced the simian vir...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Norkin LC

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is a ubiquitous parasite that persists for the life of a healthy mammalian host. A latent, chronic infection can reactivate upon immunosuppression and cause life-threatening diseases, such as encephalitis. A key to the pathogenesis is the parasite's interconversion between the tachyzoite (in acute in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kim SK,Karasov A,Boothroyd JC

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for agents designed to modify immune response in the treatment of patients with viral infection, immunodeficiency, or cancer prompted the present study on the mechanisms of action of isoprinosine, a compound developed for antiviral use and whose therapeutic activity may involve the immune system. The effect o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hadden JW,Hadden EM,Coffey RG

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal colonization represents the initial interaction between Haemophilus influenzae and its human host. Factors that influence bacterial carriage likely affect transmission and incidence of infection. Therefore, we investigated host factors involved in limiting H. influenzae colonization in BALB/c mice, as c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zola TA,Lysenko ES,Weiser JN

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When immunocompetent mice are inoculated with Borrelia burgdorferi, they develop acute arthritis and carditis that undergo spontaneous regression despite the persistence of infection. Specific T- and/or B-cell immunity appears to be necessary for resolution of disease manifestations. Humoral immune responses to B. bur...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bockenstedt LK,Barthold S,Deponte K,Marcantonio N,Kantor FS

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis is a facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen and the causative agent of tularemia. After infection of macrophages, the organism escapes from its phagosome and replicates to high density in the cytosol, but the bacterial factors required for these aspects of virulence are incompletely define...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Long ME,Lindemann SR,Rasmussen JA,Jones BD,Allen LA

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubercle bacilli failed to grow in iron-void media enriched with solutions of iron-containing transferrin (Tr) or ferritin (F) because these substances do not provide the bacilli with iron, which is essential for their growth. Animal serum and macrophages possessed no iron carrier with an ability to satisfy the need o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Golden CA,Kochan I,Spriggs DR

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that hbhA is differentially regulated during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Upregulation was observed in epithelial cell infection but not in macrophage infection and in the lungs but not in the spleens of infected mice, and it was greater during the early steps of infection, when bacilli disseminate ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Delogu G,Sanguinetti M,Posteraro B,Rocca S,Zanetti S,Fadda G

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fimbrial adhesins that mediate attachment to host cells are produced by most virulent Escherichia coli isolates. These virulence factors play an important role in the initial stages of bacterial colonization and also in determination of the host and tissue specificity. Isolates belonging to serotype O78 are known to c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Babai R,Stern BE,Hacker J,Ron EZ

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral administration of polymyxin to specific-pathogen-free C3H/Law mice which with previously contaminated with gram-negative bacteria resulted in complete suppression of cecal gram-negative bacteria. Suppression of cecal gram-negative bacteria was accompanied by reduction of the cecal endotoxin concentration from 10 ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goris H,de Boer F,van der Waaij D

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulent Treponema pallidum organisms, extracted from infected rabbit testes, were subjected to velocity sedimentation in discontinuous gradients of Hypaque, a high density, low viscosity material. After centrifugation of extracts at 20 C for 45 min at 100,000 x g, treponemes separated into two distinct bands based up...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baseman JB,Nichols JC,Rumpp JW,Hayes NS

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adherence of erythrocytes infected with Plasmodium falciparum to microvascular endothelial cells (sequestration) is considered to play an important role in parasite virulence and pathogenesis. However, the real importance of sequestration for infection and disease has never been fully assessed. The absence of an appro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mota MM,Jarra W,Hirst E,Patnaik PK,Holder AA

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mannose-resistant, Proteus-like (MR/P) fimbria, responsible for mannose-resistant hemagglutination, is a virulence factor for uropathogenic Proteus mirabilis. Based on known fimbrial gene organization, we postulated that MrpG, a putative minor subunit of the MR/P fimbria, functions as an adhesin responsible for he...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li X,Zhao H,Geymonat L,Bahrani F,Johnson DE,Mobley HL

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages are among the most sensitive targets of bacterial endotoxin (LPS), responding to minute amounts of LPS by releasing a battery of inflammatory mediators. Transfection of macrophages with secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor (SLPI) renders these cells refractory to LPS stimulation. Here we show that uptake...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ding A,Thieblemont N,Zhu J,Jin F,Zhang J,Wright S

更新日期：1999-09-01 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：:Two hybrid clones producing monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) raised against the purified enterotoxic hemolysin-phospholipase C (HlyPC) bifunctional molecule of a Vibrio cholerae O139 strain were used to study its enterotoxicity in relation to its hemolytic and enzymatic activities. Fab fragments of MAbs from ascites produ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pal S,Datta A,Nair GB,Guhathakurta B

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pig peritoneal or alveolar macrophages were inoculated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae cells. Extracellular mycoplasms were killed by complement treatment, and the effect of macrophage action on the number of the remaining viable mycoplasmas was observed. The complement killing was to some extent inhibited by the pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Erb P,Bredt W

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work has demonstrated that the polyketide natural product Aurodox from Streptomyces goldiniensis is able to block the pathogenesis of the murine pathogen Citrobacter rodentium In this work, we aimed to gain a better understanding of the mechanism of action of the compound. We show that Aurodox downregulates the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McHugh RE,O'Boyle N,Connolly JPR,Hoskisson PA,Roe AJ

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits are not usually susceptible to intestinal Shigella infection without extensive pretreatment, including starvation and administration of antimicrobial, antimotility, and toxic agents (carbon tetrachloride). Most animals infected this way die rapidly and do not always develop colonic lesions and signs of dysente...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rabbani GH,Albert MJ,Rahman H,Islam M,Mahalanabis D,Kabir I,Alam K,Ansaruzzaman M

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus species are saprophytic molds causing life-threatening invasive fungal infections in the immunocompromised host. Innate immune recognition, in particular, the mechanisms of opsonization and complement activation, has been reported to be an integral part of the defense against fungi. We have shown that the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bidula S,Kenawy H,Ali YM,Sexton D,Schwaeble WJ,Schelenz S

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune cytolysis was measured by release of absorbed radioactive chromium from infected cells that were incubated with antiviral antibody and complement. The presence of virus-specific antigens detected in this manner on the surface of several types of cells infected with Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus did not corre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brandt WE,Russell PK

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that transposon-mediated mutagenesis can be used to construct mutations in the pathogen Brucella abortus. We have used both a plasmid and a bacteriophage to introduce either Tn5 or Tn5 lac into the Brucella chromosome. B. abortus is naturally sensitive to kanamycin. We have selected 22 independent kanam...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Smith LD,Heffron F

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conidia ingested by resident macrophages had an enhanced percentage of transformation to yeast cells compared with those in culture medium without macrophages. The yeast cells subsequently grew intracellularly by budding. Macrophages treated with cytokines from antigen-stimulated spleen cells from immunized mice signi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cano LE,Brummer E,Stevens DA,Restrepo A

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00