Abstract:
:Rickettsia rickettsii and R. australis formed infectious antibody complexes when reacted with homologous convalescent serum. The addition of antiglobulin to these complexes showed neutralization of plaques proportional to the concentration of rickettsial immune serum.
journal_name
Infect Immunjournal_title
Infection and immunityauthors
Kenyon RH,McManus ATdoi
10.1128/IAI.9.5.966-968.1974subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1974-05-01 00:00:00pages
966-8issue
5eissn
0019-9567issn
1098-5522journal_volume
9pub_type
杂志文章abstract::Serotype b-specific polysaccharide antigen (SPA) of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans Y4 consists of D-fucose and L-rhamnose. To clarify the role of SPA in phagocytosis of the organism by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs), monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against SPA and SPA-defective mutants, which were constr...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.63.12.4589-4594.1995
更新日期:1995-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Clostridium difficile causes pseudomembranous colitis through the action of Rho-modifying proteins, toxins A and B. Antibodies directed against C. difficile toxin A prevent or limit C. difficile-induced colitis. We engineered plasmid pETR14, containing the hlyB and hlyD genes of the Escherichia coli hemolysin operon, ...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.65.7.2941-2949.1997
更新日期:1997-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::A canine distemper virus (CDV), DESIGNATED R252, originally recovered from a dog with demyelinating encephalomyelitis was shown to reproduce this disease in gnotobiotic dogs with a high incidence as compared to other CDV strains, which produced an acute fatal infection. In this investigation, R252 was propagated for t...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.11.4.835-844.1975
更新日期:1975-04-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.00032-13
更新日期:2013-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Free lipid A of Bordetella pertussis, Neisseria meningitidis, and Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was prepared by hydrolysis in acetate buffer (pH 4.5); in addition, lipid A from B. pertussis and E. coli was prepared by hydrolysis in mineral acid (HCl). The precipitates obtained were purified by extraction m...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.54.2.465-471.1986
更新日期:1986-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Vibrio cholerae O1 bacteria harvested directly from ligated or nonligated intestines of rabbits with experimental cholera expressed at least 7 to 8 novel, in vivo-specific cell envelope (env) proteins that were not found on vibrios after in vitro culture in various ordinary liquid media. At the same time, several of t...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.57.6.1809-1815.1989
更新日期:1989-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) is an emerging febrile systemic disease caused by the HGE agent, an obligatory intracellular bacterium of granulocytes. The pathogenicity- and immunity-related mechanisms of HGE are unknown. In this study, several cytokines generated in human peripheral blood leukocytes (PBLs) inc...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/iai.68.6.3394-3402.2000
更新日期:2000-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::An improved enterocyte adhesion assay has been used to examine a collection of 44 strains of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) for their ability to adhere to the brush border of isolated human duodenal enterocytes. Fourteen strains showed good adhesion; in each case the ability to adhere correlated with the prod...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.48.3.824-831.1985
更新日期:1985-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::OKM5 antigen and thrombospondin are currently under investigation as potential receptors on the surface of human monocytes, endothelial cells, and melanomas responsible for the cytoadherence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes. We have studies the binding capacity of six human melanoma cell lines and relate...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.55.11.2754-2758.1987
更新日期:1987-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Most Escherichia coli isolates can express type 1 fimbriae with mannose-specific adhesins. These adhesins bind to the oligosaccharide chains of secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA). Thus, in addition to specific antibody activity, secretory IgA possesses a broad reactivity with bacteria expressing type 1 fimbriae. The abs...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.64.7.2794-2798.1996
更新日期:1996-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Reinfection of immune mice with Leishmania major elicits a secondary gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) response to which specific CD8+ T cells are essential. We have shown previously that specific CD8+ T cells from reinfected immune mice release substantially higher levels of IFN-gamma, a cytokine essential for the efficie...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.62.6.2575-2581.1994
更新日期:1994-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The membrane fluidity of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) has a significant bearing on T-cell-stimulating ability and is dependent on the cholesterol content of the membrane. The relationship, if any, between membrane fluidity and defective cell-mediated immunity in visceral leishmaniasis has been investigated. Systemi...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.00057-09
更新日期:2009-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Toll-like receptor (TLR) signal transduction is a central component of the innate immune response to pathogenic challenge. Although recent studies have begun to elucidate differences in acquired immunity in tissues of the human female reproductive tract, there is a relative paucity of work regarding innate defense mec...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.72.10.5799-5806.2004
更新日期:2004-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Oligosaccharides (OSs) related to the pneumococcal type 14 capsular polysaccharide (Pn14PS) were studied for their ability to inhibit the binding between anti-PS14 antisera and native PS14. A synthetic tetrasaccharide corresponding to the repeating unit of the Pn14PS, a hexasaccharide mimic, and an octasaccharide frag...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/iai.70.9.5107-5114.2002
更新日期:2002-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Filifactor alocis is a recently recognized periodontal pathogen; however, little is known regarding its interactions with the immune system. As the first-responder phagocytic cells, neutrophils are recruited in large numbers to the periodontal pocket, where they play a crucial role in the innate defense of the periodo...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.00496-16
更新日期:2016-11-18 00:00:00
abstract::Human defensins play a fundamental role in the initiation of innate immune responses to some microbial pathogens. Here we show that colonic epithelial model HCT116 cells respond to Trypanosoma cruzi infection by secreting defensin α-1, which reduces infection. We also report the early effects of defensin α-1 on invasi...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.01459-12
更新日期:2013-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::A nasal vaccine, consisting of outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) from group B Neisseria meningitidis, was given to 12 volunteers in the form of nose drops or nasal spray four times at weekly intervals, with a fifth dose 5 months later. Each nasal dose consisted of 250 microg of protein, equivalent to 10 times the intramu...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.66.4.1334-1341.1998
更新日期:1998-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Transcutaneous immunization (TCI) is a new method for vaccine delivery that has been shown to induce immunity relevant to enteric disease vaccines. We evaluated the clinical safety and immunogenicity of a recombinant subunit vaccine against enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) delivered by TCI. Adult volunteers rec...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/iai.70.4.1874-1880.2002
更新日期:2002-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is a commensal microorganism of the human nasopharynx, and yet is also an opportunistic pathogen of the upper and lower respiratory tracts. Host microenvironments influence gene expression patterns, likely critical for NTHi persistence. The host sequesters iron as a mechanism ...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.01227-12
更新日期:2013-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::In 2001, a bioterrorism attack involving Bacillus anthracis spore-laced letters resulted in 22 cases of inhalation anthrax, with five fatalities. This incident identified gaps in our health care system and precipitated a renewed interest in identifying both therapeutics and rapid diagnostic assays. To address those ga...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.00520-08
更新日期:2008-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Moraxella catarrhalis is a causative agent of otitis media in children and lower respiratory tract infections in adults suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This strict human pathogen continues to be a significant cause of disease in this broad spectrum of patients because there is no available...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.00294-09
更新日期:2009-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Naegleria fowleri produces fatal meningoencephalitis in humans and in experimentally infected laboratory animals. The course of the disease in mice is dependent upon the infecting dose of amoebae, route of inoculation, and prior exposure to Naegleria antigens. DUB/ICR mice were immunized by various routes and antigen ...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.16.3.817-820.1977
更新日期:1977-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) of Escherichia coli is localized in the periplasm of the bacterial cell. Growth of an LT-producing strain of E. coli in the presence of bile salts, in concentrations within the range found in the human small intestine, caused leakage of LT into the culture medium. This leakage could be...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.59.1.168-171.1991
更新日期:1991-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) structure impacts the bactericidal action of cationic peptides, such as polymyxin B (PMB), and sensitivity to killing by normal human serum (NHS). Cultivation of different subspecies strains of Yersinia pestis isolated from unrelated geographic origins at various temperatures (mammals, 37 degr...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.73.11.7324-7331.2005
更新日期:2005-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Burkholderia cenocepacia is an opportunistic pathogen that primarily infects cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Previously, we reported that ShvR, a LysR regulator, influences colony morphology, virulence, and biofilm formation and regulates the expression of an adjacent 24-kb genomic region encoding 24 genes. In this stu...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.00170-11
更新日期:2011-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Campylobacter fetus surface layer proteins (SLPs), encoded by sapA homologues, are important in virulence. In wild-type C. fetus strain 23D, all eight sapA homologues are located in the 54-kb sap island, and SLP expression reflects the position of a unique sapA promoter in relation to the sapA homologues. The extensiv...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/iai.72.3.1715-1724.2004
更新日期:2004-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Forty-seven bacterial strains representing four different group C streptococcal species were tested for binding of human and bovine immunoglobulin G (IgG) subclasses. Specific binding sites for IgG were found in all bacterial species studied. The four species included differed, however, in their capacities to interact...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.27.3.808-816.1980
更新日期:1980-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The epitope specificities of 13 hybridomas secreting monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) specific for pertussis toxin (PT) is described. Hybridoma lines were derived by the fusion of spleen cells from mice immunized with native PT, Formalin-detoxified PT, or isolated PT subunits (S1 to S5) with the myeloma line X63-Ag8.653. ...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.57.9.2660-2665.1989
更新日期:1989-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The major outer membrane protein (P2) of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) with an apparent molecular weight of 37,000 to 40,000 has been previously shown to function as a porin and also as a target for antibodies protective against experimental Hib disease. The gene encoding the Hib P2 protein was cloned by using a...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.56.10.2709-2716.1988
更新日期:1988-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The amount of crude Campylobacter jejuni enterotoxin present in culture products was quantitated by comparing the response of these preparations with that of pure Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin (LT) in the Chinese hamster ovary assay and in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays that used GM ganglioside or antisera to...
journal_title:Infection and immunity
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/IAI.45.2.314-319.1984
更新日期:1984-08-01 00:00:00