Mycolic acids from "noncultivable" mycobacteria.

abstract：:The var gene-encoded Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) family is responsible for antigenic variation and sequestration of infected erythrocytes during malaria. We have previously grouped the 60 PfEMP1 variants of P. falciparum clone 3D7 into groups A and B/A (category A) and groups B, B/C, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Joergensen L,Turner L,Magistrado P,Dahlbäck MA,Vestergaard LS,Lusingu JP,Lemnge M,Salanti A,Theander TG,Jensen AT

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli F-18 is a human fecal isolate that makes type 1 fimbriae, encoded by the fim gene cluster, and is an excellent colonizer of the streptomycin-treated mouse intestine. E. coli F-18 fimA::tet, lacking type 1 fimbriae, was constructed by bacteriophage P1 transduction of the fim region of the E. coli K-12 ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sweeney NJ,Klemm P,McCormick BA,Moller-Nielsen E,Utley M,Schembri MA,Laux DC,Cohen PS

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactoferrin (Lf) is an iron-binding antimicrobial protein present in milk and on mucosal surfaces, with a suggested role in preimmune host defense. Certain strains of Escherichia coli (bacterial whole cells) demonstrate specific interaction with 125I-labeled Lf. A band with a mass of approximately 37 kDa, which was re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Erdei J,Forsgren A,Naidu AS

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study we showed that the involvement of EP4 subtype of the prostaglandin E (PGE) receptor is crucial for lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced osteoclast formation in vitro. The present study was undertaken to test whether EP4 is actually associated with LPS-induced bone resorption in vivo. In wild-type (WT) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sakuma Y,Tanaka K,Suda M,Komatsu Y,Yasoda A,Miura M,Ozasa A,Narumiya S,Sugimoto Y,Ichikawa A,Ushikubi F,Nakao K

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：:The combining sites of type 1 fimbrial lectins of various species of enterobacteria were studied by measuring the inhibitory activity of linear and branched oligosaccharides and several glycosides of D-mannose on the agglutination of yeast cells by the organisms. The results showed that all five strains of Escherichia...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Firon N,Ofek I,Sharon N

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a gram-negative marine bacterium. A limited population of the organisms causes acute gastroenteritis in humans. Almost all of the clinical V. parahaemolyticus isolates exhibit beta-type hemolysis on Wagatsuma agar, known as the Kanagawa phenomenon (KP). KP is induced by the thermostable dire...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Izutsu K,Kurokawa K,Tashiro K,Kuhara S,Hayashi T,Honda T,Iida T

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutual symbiotic enhancement of growth of Porphyromonas gingivalis and Treponema denticola is described in this report. Brain heart infusion broth supplemented with vitamin K did not support the individual growth of P. gingivalis or T. denticola. However, when inoculated as a mixture, both bacterial species did grow...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grenier D

更新日期：1992-12-01 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：:Patients with chronic bronchitis are colonized by and may develop acute bronchopulmonary infection due to nontypable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) despite the presence of bactericidal and opsonizing antibody to the infecting organism. To test the hypothesis that secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) interferes with host de...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Musher DM,Goree A,Baughn RE,Birdsall HH

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results from studies using mice deficient in specific complement factors and clinical data on patients with an inherited deficiency of the classical complement pathway component C2 suggest that the classical pathway is vital for immunity to Streptococcus pneumoniae. However, the consequences of defects in classical pa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yuste J,Sen A,Truedsson L,Jönsson G,Tay LS,Hyams C,Baxendale HE,Goldblatt F,Botto M,Brown JS

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is cleared from the blood mainly by the liver. The Kupffer cells are primarily responsible for this clearance; liver endothelial and parenchymal cells contribute to a lesser extent. Although several binding sites have been described, only CD14 is known to be involved in LPS signalling. Among t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van Oosten M,van de Bilt E,van Berkel TJ,Kuiper J

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DC) suffer a maturation defect following interaction with erythrocytes infected with malaria parasites and become unable to induce protective malaria liver-stage immunity. Here we show that, by contrast, maturation-arrested DC in vitro are capable of the successful induction of antigen-specific gamma ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pouniotis DS,Proudfoot O,Bogdanoska V,Apostolopoulos V,Fifis T,Plebanski M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with tissue-migrating helminths is frequently associated with intense granulocyte infiltrations. Several host-derived factors are known to mediate granulocyte recruitment to the tissues, but less attention has been paid to how parasite-derived products trigger this process. Parasite-derived chemotactic facto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Falcone FH,Rossi AG,Sharkey R,Brown AP,Pritchard DI,Maizels RM

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular response is an essential aspect of an effective immune response to periodontal disease pathogens, as new blood vessel formation contributes to wound healing and inflammation. Gaining a greater understanding of the factors that affect vascular response may then contribute to future breakthroughs in dental medi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mendes RT,Nguyen D,Stephens D,Pamuk F,Fernandes D,Van Dyke TE,Kantarci A

更新日期：2016-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We used an in vitro opsonophagocytic killing assay to measure the functional activity of antibody directed at the mucoid exopolysaccharide (MEP) antigen expressed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from cystic fibrosis patients. Rabbit antibodies raised to purified MEP were able to mediate phagocytic killing i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ames P,DesJardins D,Pier GB

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEF) grown in vitro with purified staphylococcal exfoliative toxin (ET) increased the concanavalin A (Con A) agglutinability of MEF 3.5-fold over control cells. Possible explanations for this phenomenon were investigated. ET lacked proteolytic activity on denatured casein. Con A,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogolsky M,Wiley BB,Keyhani M,Glasgow LA

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infantile gastroenteritis virus (orbi-group) recovered from stools of infants with acute nonbacterial gastroenteritis was administered per os to germfree and conventional piglets. Virus was found subsequently in stools and in the mucosal epithelial cells of the small intestine of these animals. Some animals developed ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Middleton PJ,Petric M,Szymanski MT

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) appears to cause intestinal fluid secretion by activating intestinal particulate guanylate cyclase. Recent studies suggest that chlorpromazine and quinacrine reduce the intestinal secretory response to ST and activation of guanylate cyclase by ST. We have examined the effe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Greenberg RN,Murad F,Guerrant RL

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Streptococcus mutans serotype c gtfA gene encodes a 55-kilodalton sucrose-hydrolyzing enzyme. Analysis of S. mutans gtfA mutants revealed that the mutant strains were specifically impaired in the ability to use melibiose as a sole carbon source. S. mutans gtfA mutant strains synthesized less alpha-galactosidase ac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barletta RG,Curtiss R 3rd

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cyclophosphamide (CY) treatment on acute murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) infection were studied to explore the potential usefulness of MCMV as a means of detecting immune dysfunction and to identify host defense mechanisms important for protection against MCMV. Conditions found optimal for enhancing MCMV ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Selgrade MK,Daniels MJ,Hu PC,Miller FJ,Graham JA

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunostimulation provided by the mycobacterial cell wall has been exploited for many decades, e.g., in Freund's complete adjuvant. Recently, the underlying mechanism behind this adjuvant activity, including Toll receptor signaling, has begun to be unraveled, confirming the potential of mycobacterial constituents ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosenkrands I,Agger EM,Olsen AW,Korsholm KS,Andersen CS,Jensen KT,Andersen P

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier work had shown that a collection of anaerobic bacteria, in conjunction with facultative anaerobes, may be implanted into germfree mice, thereby rendering the animals "normal" with respect to a variety of parameters tested. The present experiments indicate that a different collection of anaerobic bacteria, isol...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Freter R,Abrams GD

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-potentiating effect of serum is due to LPS-binding protein (LBP), which facilitates the binding of LPS to CD14 receptors. We observed a remarkable heat sensitivity of recombinant LBP and various sera with respect to both immunoreactivity (measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mészáros K,Aberle S,White M,Parent JB

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of type-specific antigen (that covalently associated with the cell wall peptidoglycan and that released extracellularly) synthesized by virulent and avirulent strains of type III group B streptococci was quantitated and compared. Additionally, the effect of the physiological age of the cells and the influenc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yeung MK,Mattingly SJ

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice immunized subcutaneously with heat-killed Escherichia coli were protected from pyelonephritis produced by the intravenous route, but there was little or no protection from ascending infection. No significant protection from ascending or hematogenous pyelonephritis was demonstrated when immunization was accomplish...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Montgomerie JZ,Kalmanson GM,Hubert EG,Guze LB

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ExoU is a potent effector protein that causes rapid host cell death upon injection by the type III secretion system of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The N-terminal half of ExoU contains a patatin-like phospholipase A(2) (PLA(2)) domain that requires the host cell cofactor superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) for activation, while ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Veesenmeyer JL,Howell H,Halavaty AS,Ahrens S,Anderson WF,Hauser AR

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto is the major causative agent of Lyme disease in the United States, while B. garinii and B. afzelii are more prevalent in Europe. The highly complex genome of B. burgdorferi is comprised of a linear chromosome and a large number of variably sized linear and circular plasmids. Many pla...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chan K,Casjens S,Parveen N

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates constitute a great clinical challenge. One important resistance mechanism in K. pneumoniae is the metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs), which require zinc for their function. Thus, zinc chelation could be a strategy to resensitize K. pneumoniae to β-lactams. However, the pote...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karadottir H,Coorens M,Liu Z,Wang Y,Agerberth B,Giske CG,Bergman P

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole cells, morphological components, and various extracts of Candida albicans were tested for toxicity by methods involving biological activities ordinarily used to characterize bacterial endotoxin. Fungal preparations exerted several of these activities, but only at much higher dose levels than those required for b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cutler JE,Friedman L,Milner KC

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00