Pyelonephritis. XIV. Effect of immunization on experimental Escherichia coli pyelonephritis.

abstract：:The salivary and serum immune responses to orally administered glucosyltransferase antigen complex from Streptococcus mutants strain 6715 were investigated in hamsters. All enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to measure the antibody quantity and isotype, and a [14C]glucosyl-labeled sucrose incorporation assay w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Smith DJ,Taubman MA,Ebersole JL

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study responses to Mycobacterium leprae antigens, we developed an in vitro model system in which latex particles coated with M. leprae sonic extract (MLSON) antigen were presented to monocytes. Uptake and oxidative response as measured by superoxide production to these antigens were investigated. Phagocytosis of ML...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hasan RS,Dockrell HM,Jamil S,Chiang TJ,Hussain R

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten micrograms of trehalose-6,6' -dimycolate (cord factor) injected into the footpads of mice increased the antibody response to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) subsequently injected into the same sites. There is a relationship between the antibody response and the cellular reaction induced locally and in the draining ly...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bekierkunst A,Yarkoni E,Flechner I,Morecki S,Vilkas E,Lederer E

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American opossum is the only experimental animal that regularly develops bacterial endocarditis spontaneously. There was no relation between the ability of opossums to clear bacteria from the bloodstream and the subsequent development of endocarditis. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Musher DM,Richie Y

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 25-kb linear plasmid lp25 and one of the 28-kb linear plasmids (lp28-1) are required for experimental infection in Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiologic agent of Lyme disease. The loss of these plasmids either eliminates infectivity (lp25) or significantly increases the 50% infective dose during a 2-week infection p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Labandeira-Rey M,Seshu J,Skare JT

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied apoptosis in a human ileocecal adenocarcinoma tumor cell line (HCT-8) infected with Cryptosporidium parvum, from 2 to 72 h postinfection (h.p.i.). At 2 h.p.i., the percentage of annexin V-positive cells in the cell culture had increased to 10% compared to 2.5% in noninfected control culture; sorted infected...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mele R,Gomez Morales MA,Tosini F,Pozio E

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:γ9δ2 T cells provide a natural bridge between innate and adaptive immunity, rapidly and potently respond to pathogen infection in mucosal tissues, and are prominently induced by both tuberculosis (TB) infection and bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG) vaccination. Mycobacterium-expanded γ9δ2 T cells represent only a subset ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Xia M,Hesser DC,De P,Sakala IG,Spencer CT,Kirkwood JS,Abate G,Chatterjee D,Dobos KM,Hoft DF

更新日期：2016-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytoplasmic 75-kDa immunogen from Chlamydia trachomatis serovar L2 has previously been characterized as being similar to the Escherichia coli heat shock protein DnaK. We have localized a linear epitope for one monoclonal antibody specific for C. trachomatis DnaK. By use of a recombinant DNA technique, the epitope wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Birkelund S,Larsen B,Holm A,Lundemose AG,Christiansen G

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various invasive pathogens attach to host tissues via the extracellular matrix component laminin, the major glycoprotein found within basement membranes. Previous investigations identified the laminin-binding adhesin Tp0751 within the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum. In the current study, Tp0751 was shown to a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cameron CE,Brouwer NL,Tisch LM,Kuroiwa JM

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella spp. and Shigella spp. are responsible for millions of cases of enteric disease each year worldwide. While these pathogens have evolved distinct strategies for interacting with the human intestinal epithelium, they both induce significant proinflammatory responses that result in massive transepithelial migr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mumy KL,Bien JD,Pazos MA,Gronert K,Hurley BP,McCormick BA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulent and avirulent clones of Leishmania donovani promastigotes were examined for their acid phosphatase activity. The acid phosphatase activity of whole-cell lysates of virulent clones was 1.5 to 2.0 times higher than that of avirulent clones. Pellet fractions (260,000 x g, 30 min) from sonicated promastigotes of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Katakura K,Kobayashi A

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercial fluid used for peritoneal lavage in peritonitis and in peritoneal dialysis suppressed the activity of peripheral blood leukocytes as measured by chemiluminescence, phagocytosis, and bacterial killing. Suppression was found to be due to the low pH and high osmolality of the fluid. The pH was adjusted to noni...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Duwe AK,Vas SI,Weatherhead JW

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) is a major metabolic end product detected in deep periodontal pockets that is produced by resident periodontopathic microbiota associated with the progression of periodontitis. Treponema denticola, a member of the subgingival biofilm at disease sites, produces cystalysin, an enzyme that catabo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chu L,Dong Z,Xu X,Cochran DL,Ebersole JL

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma hyorhinis organisms were fractionated into lipid, carbohydrate, and protein fractions by chemical and physiochemical procedures. When all fractions were tested for complement fixation and inhibition of growth inhibition activity, only the protein fractions possessed activity. Thus, it appears that the major...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barden JA,Prescott B

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin G (IgG)- and IgM-specific antibody titers against Salmonella typhi Ty2 porins have been measured in 30 paired typhoid sera by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. These studies have found that IgG serum titers of acute and convalescent sera were 625 and 5,000 times higher, respectively than the control se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Calderón I,Lobos SR,Rojas HA,Palomino C,Rodríguez LH,Mora GC

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis, a periodontopathic bacterium, is known to invade oral epithelial cells in periodontal lesions, although the mechanism is unclear. In the present study, goat polyclonal anti-intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (anti-ICAM-1) antibody inhibited the invasion of P. gingivalis into KB cells (human or...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tamai R,Asai Y,Ogawa T

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The disruption of a specific gene in Candida albicans is commonly used to determine the function of the gene product. We disrupted AAF1, a gene of C. albicans that causes Saccharomyces cerevisiae to flocculate and adhere to endothelial cells. We then characterized multiple heterozygous and homozygous mutants. These nu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rieg G,Fu Y,Ibrahim AS,Zhou X,Filler SG,Edwards JE Jr

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenicity of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae T28 (serotype 2) was investigated. Antigens were solubilized from the cell surface with detergents. By means of sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting it was shown that the molecular weight of the main antigenic component--a nonprot...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lachmann PG,Deicher H

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposon Tn916 was used to insertionally inactivate a coaggregation-relevant locus of Streptococcus gordonii DL1 (Challis). One mutant (F11) was isolated that lost the ability to coaggregate with the streptococcal partners of DL1 but retained the ability to coaggregate with partners belonging to other genera. A prob...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whittaker CJ,Clemans DL,Kolenbrander PE

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages encode several Toll-like receptors (TLRs) that recognize bacterial components, such as lipoproteins (TLR2) or lipopolysaccharides (TLR4), and activate multiple signaling pathways. Activation of transcription factor NF-kappaB by TLR2 or TLR4 signaling promotes proinflammatory and cell survival responses. Al...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang Y,Bliska JB

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of protein kinase C (PKC) activation on the cyclic GMP response to heat-stable enterotoxin (STa) in a colonic carcinoma intestinal epithelial cell line, T84 cells. Our results demonstrate that the active phorbol ester analog, phorbol dibutyrate, but not the inactive alpha-phorbol dibutyrate, act...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weikel CS,Spann CL,Chambers CP,Crane JK,Linden J,Hewlett EL

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filarial infection is initiated by mosquito-derived third-stage larvae (L3) deposited on the skin that transit through the epidermis, which contains Langerhans cells (LC) and keratinocytes (KC), among other cells. This earliest interaction between L3 and the LC likely conditions the priming of the immune system to the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boyd A,Bennuru S,Wang Y,Sanprasert V,Law M,Chaussabel D,Nutman TB,Semnani RT

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Counts of acid-fast bacilli were made on homogenates of whole liver, whole spleen, and two femurs of CBA mice killed at various time intervals after intravenous infection with Mycobacterium lepraemurium. The growth curves so obtained showed that the bacillus multiplied faster in bone marrow than in liver or spleen. No...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brown IN,Krenzien HN

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of attachment and ingestion of Chlamydia trachomatis serotype L1 by monolayers of McCoy cells were studied by using a method that discriminated between attachment and uptake. When about 1% of the McCoy cells was infected, the proteinase K-resistant chlamydial fraction, regarded as ingested chlamydiae, rea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Söderlund G,Kihlström E

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salivary proline-rich proteins (PRPs), which were purified from parotid saliva, were adsorbed onto 15-nm-diameter gold particles to visualize specific binding of the salivary molecules to Actinomyces viscosus type 1 fimbriae. Negatively stained preparations incubated with PRP-gold conjugates but not bovine serum album...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leung KP,Nesbitt WE,Fischlschweiger W,Hay DI,Clark WB

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attachment and invasion of chicken ovarian granulosa cells by Salmonella enteritidis was examined in vitro. The attachment was inhibited by preincubation of granulosa cells with anti-chicken fibronectin antibody (approximately 70% reduction in attachment) or preincubation with a 14-kDa fimbrial protein isolated fr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thiagarajan D,Saeed M,Turek J,Asem E

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three monoclonal antibodies (MAbs), all of the immunoglobulin G1 subclass, were raised against Cryptococcus neoformans by using the technique of cyclophosphamide ablation of B-cell responses against shared epitopes of the cross-reactive fungus Trichosporon beigelii. MAb 3C2 was reactive against the encapsulated and no...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hamilton AJ,Jeavons L,Hobby P,Hay RJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin A (IgA) was prepared from samples of parotid saliva collected from two individuals over a 150-day period. Standardized solutions of the IgA were tested for agglutinating antibody activity against strains of streptococcus salivarius, S. sanguis, S. mitis, and S. mutans that had been isolated from a homol...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bratthall D,Gibbons RJ

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performing patch-clamp experiments on human macrophages, we show that the K(+) channel MaxiK is activated by lipopolysaccharide, peptidoglycan, and interleukin-1. Cytokine production initiated by several Toll-like receptor (TLR) ligands and by interleukin-1 is inhibited by MaxiK blockade. This provides evidence for fu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Scheel O,Papavlassopoulos M,Blunck R,Gebert A,Hartung T,Zähringer U,Seydel U,Schromm AB

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four pneumococcal genes (phtA, phtB, phtD, and phtE) encoding a novel family of homologous proteins (32 to 87% identity) were identified from the Streptococcus pneumoniae genomic sequence. These open reading frames were selected as potential vaccine candidates based upon their possession of hydrophobic leader sequence...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Adamou JE,Heinrichs JH,Erwin AL,Walsh W,Gayle T,Dormitzer M,Dagan R,Brewah YA,Barren P,Lathigra R,Langermann S,Koenig S,Johnson S

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00