Interaction of staphylococcal exfoliative toxin with concanavalin A.

abstract：:Strains of Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis (Corynebacterium ovis) were examined for the production of diphtheria toxin. A majority of C. ulcerans strains (25 of 37) and 1 C. pseudotuberculosis strain (1 of 14) gave a positive Elek test for diphtheria toxin, and for all strains but 1, pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Groman N,Schiller J,Russell J

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Re mutant of Salmonella minnesota adheres in much greater numbers than the wild type to endothelial cells derived from the bovine pulmonary artery. Since the Re mutant is distinguished from wild-type S. minnesota by its ability to bind C1q and since endothelial cells possess receptors for C1q, we examined the role...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ryan US,Schultz DR,Goodwin JD,Vann JM,Selvaraj MP,Hart MA

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subchronic exposure to pharmacological levels of estrogenic compounds, including 17 beta-estradiol, diethylstilbestrol, and alpha-dienestrol, significantly increased the mortality of B6C3F1 female mice after Listeria infection. Compounds with little estrogenic activity, including 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone, progester...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pung OJ,Luster MI,Hayes HT,Rader J

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosomal iroBCDEN gene cluster first described for Salmonella enterica is involved in the uptake of catecholate-type siderophore compounds. An orthologous gene cluster has recently been detected in Escherichia coli strains which cause extraintestinal disease. This E. coli iroBCDEN gene cluster has an impact on ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sorsa LJ,Dufke S,Heesemann J,Schubert S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines (CK) are potent leukocyte activators and chemoattractants and aid in granuloma formation, functions critical for the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We hypothesized that infection of alveolar macrophages (AM) with different strains of M. tuberculosis elicits distinct profiles of CK, which cou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Saukkonen JJ,Bazydlo B,Thomas M,Strieter RM,Keane J,Kornfeld H

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of macrophages was assessed in strains of mice inoculated intraperitoneally with 1,000 times the 50% lethal dose of Rickettsia akari. Macrophages from mice resistant to R. akari infection (C3H/HeN, C57BL/10J, and BALB/cN) were nonspecifically tumoricidal 2 to 4 days after rickettsial inoculation. Moreover, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nacy CA,Meltzer MS

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella abortus 2308 derivatives with mini-Tn5 insertions in purE, purL, and purD display significant attenuation in the BALB/c mouse model, while isogenic mutants with mini-Tn5 insertions in pheA, trpB, and dagA display little or no attenuation in cultured murine macrophages or mice. These experimental findings conf...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alcantara RB,Read RD,Valderas MW,Brown TD,Roop RM 2nd

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative roles of serum factors required for opsonization of type XIV Streptococcus pneumoniae were investigated by means of luminol-enhanced chemiluminescence (CL), bactericidal, and immunofluorescence assays employing adult sera containing high (>1,000 ng of antibody nitrogen per ml) or low (<200 ng of antibody ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gardner SE,Anderson DC,Webb BJ,Stitzel AE,Edwards MS,Spitzer RE,Baker CJ

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae contains an inhibitor of human neutrophil elastase. The agent does not inhibit other proteases, including neutrophil cathepsin G and pancreatic elastase. It is active in the presence of insoluble elastin as well as synthetic elastase substrates. The inhibitor is present in the pneumococcal cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vered M,Simon SR,Janoff A

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immune response to Pneumocystis infection is not well understood. In this study, normal C57BL/6 mouse alveolar macrophages were found to respond to Pneumocystis murina organisms through Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2), leading to the nuclear translocation of NF-kappaB and the production of proinflammatory cytok...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang C,Wang SH,Lasbury ME,Tschang D,Liao CP,Durant PJ,Lee CH

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) is thought to play a major role in the pathogenesis of septic shock. Anti-TNF antibody was preadministered in low-dose endotoxin lethality models in which BALB/c mice were challenged with small amounts of lipopolysaccharide following their sensitization with either carrageenan (CAR) o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Franks AK,Kujawa KI,Yaffe LJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacterial infections, mononuclear and polymorphonuclear phagocytes are key components of host defenses. Recent investigations have indicated that chemokines are able to recruit and activate phagocytes. In particular, interleukin-8 (IL-8) attracts polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs), while monocyte chemoattractant p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tonetti MS,Imboden MA,Gerber L,Lang NP,Laissue J,Mueller C

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes replicates mainly in resting macrophages and hepatocytes residing in infected tissues. Both innate and acquired resistance strongly depend on activation of listericidal capacities of macrophages by gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) produced by natural killer cells and T lym...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Szalay G,Hess J,Kaufmann SH

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) is an important etiological agent of otitis media (OM) and of exacerbated chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD). Inflammation is a hallmark of both diseases. Interleukin-8 (IL-8), one of the important inflammatory mediators, is induced by NTHI and may play a significan...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang B,Cleary PP,Xu H,Li JD

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some clinical strains of Vibrio cholerae non-O1 produce an extracellular factor that evokes a rapid and dramatic cytotoxic response which manifests as cell rounding of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) and HeLa cells without accompanying membrane damage. This study was performed to establish the identity of the non-membrane...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Saha PK,Koley H,Nair GB

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preexisting antivector immunity can severely compromise the ability of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium live vaccines to induce protective CD8 T-cell frequencies after type III secretion system-mediated heterologous protein translocation in orally immunized mice. To circumvent this problem, we injected CpG DNA ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Berchtold C,Panthel K,Jellbauer S,Köhn B,Roider E,Partilla M,Heesemann J,Endres S,Bourquin C,Rüssmann H

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Vaccination with native full-length merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP1) or with recombinant C-terminal peptides protects mice against lethal challenge with virulent malaria parasites. To determine whether other regions of MSP1 can also induce protection, Plasmodium yoelii MSP1 was divided into four separate regions. Ea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tian JH,Kumar S,Kaslow DC,Miller LH

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight chlamydial isolates of ovine origin were tested in a plaque reduction system using homologous and heterologous rooster antisera. The eight isolates could be separated into two separate immunotypes. Type 1 included isolates associated with ovine abortion and one agent recovered from the feces of an apparently nor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schachter J,Banks J,Sugg N,Sung M,Storz J,Meyer KF

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used the Salmonella typhi galactose epimerase (galE) mutant strain Ty21a, shown to be a safe, effective, living, attenuated oral typhoid vaccine, as a recipient for a recombinant plasmid containing the gene for production of the nontoxic B subunit of the heat-labile enterotoxin of Escherichia coli. The S. typhi der...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clements JD,El-Morshidy S

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been previously reported that although inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) gene knockout (NOS2(-/-)) mice resolve Chlamydia trachomatis genital infection, the production of reactive nitrogen species (RNS) via iNOS protects a significant proportion of mice from hydrosalpinx formation and infertility. We now r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ramsey KH,Sigar IM,Rana SV,Gupta J,Holland SM,Byrne GI

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of mice suggest that pneumococcal proteins, including PspA, pneumolysin, PsaA, and CbpA, are promising vaccine candidates. To determine whether these proteins are good mucosal immunogens in humans, adenoidal lymphocytes from 20 children who had adenoidectomies were isolated and tested by ELISpot for antigen-sp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang Q,Choo S,Finn A

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenic relationship of six different strains of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis was investigated by the agar-gel immunodiffusion test. Soluble antigens prepared from the two morphological phases of the fungus were diffused against human sera obtained from eight patients with paracoccidioidomycosis (South American...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Restrepo-Moreno A

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to approximate and adhere to mucosal epithelial cells, Candida must traverse the overlying mucus layer. Interactions of Candida species with mucin and human buccal epithelial cells (BECs) were thus investigated in vitro. Binding of the Candida species to purified small intestinal mucin showed a close correlat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de Repentigny L,Aumont F,Bernard K,Belhumeur P

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence that the bactericidal ability and the stimulated oxidative metabolism of leukocytes appear in parallel during fetal development of the Minnesota Miniature pig has been obtained by application of the techniques applied to studies of human cells. It was demonstrated that leukocytes from 87- to 90-day fetuses we...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Holmes B,Day N,Haseman J,Good RA

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of iron concentration during growth on the physicochemical surface properties of the colonial variants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae has been assessed by aqueous two-phase partitioning in a dextran-polyethyleneglycol system containing positively charged trimethylamino-polyethyleneglycol or hydrophobic polyethyle...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Magnusson KE,Kihlstrom E,Norqvist A,Davies J,Normark S

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radial immunodiffusion procedures have been developed for testing bovine sera for the presence of antibody activity against three foot-and-mouth disease virus types and a virus infection-associated antigen. Reactions with virus antigens were obtained as early as 4 days after infection, and the virus type causing the r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wagner GG,Cowan KM,McVicar JW

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydial inclusions were demonstrated by indirect immunofluorescence (IF) with antiserum to the chlamydial group antigen when McCoy cell monolayers infected with either Chlamydia trachomatis or Chlamydia psittaci were fixed in formaldehyde or paraformaldehyde, provided the monolayer was not allowed to dry. If these ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Richmond SJ,Stirling P

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although nasal vaccination has emerged as an interesting alternative to systemic or oral vaccination, knowledge is scarce about the immune responses after such immunization in humans. In the present study, we have compared the kinetics and organ distribution of the antibody responses after nasal and oral vaccination. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rudin A,Johansson EL,Bergquist C,Holmgren J

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three types of caseinolytic proteases (Pase-A, Pase-B, and Pase-C) were isolated and purified from culture supernatants of Porphyromonas gingivalis 381 by the combined procedures of acetone precipitation, gel filtration, solubilization with octylthioglucoside followed by affinity chromatography on arginine-Sepharose 4...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hinode D,Hayashi H,Nakamura R

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00