Inactivation or elimination of potentially trypanolytic, complement-activating immune complexes by pathogenic trypanosomes.

abstract：:Scrub typhus is a potentially lethal infection that is caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi The roles of Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) and TLR4 in innate recognition of O. tsutsugamushi have not been elucidated. By overexpression of TLR2 or TLR4 in HEK293 cells, we demonstrated that TLR2...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gharaibeh M,Hagedorn M,Lilla S,Hauptmann M,Heine H,Fleischer B,Keller C

更新日期：2016-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here on the isolation of isogenic strains of Aeromonas hydrophila AB3 deleted for a segment of the aerolysin gene. All aer mutants obtained lacked the 49-kilodalton aerolysin gene product and were neither hemolytic for blood erythrocytes nor cytotoxic for Chinese hamster ovary tissue culture cells. One such ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chakraborty T,Huhle B,Hof H,Bergbauer H,Goebel W

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomallei group Burkholderia species are facultative intracellular parasites that spread efficiently from cell to cell by a mechanism involving the fusion of adjacent cell membranes. Intercellular fusion requires the function of the cluster 5 type VI secretion system (T6SS-5) and its associated valine-glycine repea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Toesca IJ,French CT,Miller JF

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosoma mansoni eggs produced by adult worms in the mesenteric vasculature become trapped in the liver, where they induce granulomatous lesions and strong immune responses. Infected individuals suffer from intestinal schistosomiasis (INT) in 90% of cases, whereas the remaining 10% present with severe hepatosplenic...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Manivannan B,Rawson P,Jordan TW,Secor WE,La Flamme AC

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) strains are a diverse group of organisms capable of causing severe gastrointestinal disease in humans. Within the STEC family, eae-positive STEC strains, particularly those belonging to serogroups O157 and O111, appear to have greater virulence for humans. However, in spite of b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Paton AW,Paton JC

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local gingival immunization was attempted in an effort to confine the immune response to the oral cavity and bypass the systemic immune response. A low-molecular-weight (3.8K) streptococcal antigen (SA) I/II was applied 10 times over a period of 1 year to the gingival crevices of rhesus monkeys. The antigen was mainta...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lehner T,Mehlert A,Caldwell J

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune complexes have been partially purified from the serum of Plasmodium berghei-infected mice by ultracentrifugation on 10 to 40% linear sucrose gradients, by precipitation with polyethylene glycol, and by gel filtration through Sephacryl S-300. The complexes contain gamma 1, gamma 2a, gamma 2b, and gamma 3 subclas...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shear HL

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adenylate cyclase-hemolysin of Bordetella pertussis consists of a cell-invasive N-terminal adenylate cyclase domain linked to a C-terminal RTX hemolysin containing extensive glycine-rich repeats. The toxin is an essential virulence factor required in the initial stages of infection. Adenylate cyclase-hemolysin was...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Betsou F,Sebo P,Guiso N

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody responses against proteins located on the surface or in the apical organelles of merozoites are presumed to be important components of naturally acquired protective immune responses against the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. However, many merozoite antigens are highly polymorphic, and antibodies indu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cortés A,Mellombo M,Masciantonio R,Murphy VJ,Reeder JC,Anders RF

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas infections of macrophages by promastigote forms of Leishmania mexicana pifanoi induce the production of superoxide, infections by amastigotes barely induce superoxide production. Several approaches were employed to gain insight into the mechanism by which amastigotes avoid eliciting superoxide production. Firs...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pham NK,Mouriz J,Kima PE

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus causes rapidly progressing septicemia with an extremely high mortality rate (≥50%), even with aggressive antibiotic treatment. The bacteria secrete multifunctional autoprocessing repeats-in-toxin (MARTX) toxins, which are involved in the pathogenesis of Gram-negative Vibrio species. Recently, we repo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee TH,Cha SS,Lee CS,Rhee JH,Chung KM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisera against isolated cell surface preparations (PCSP-As) of Leishmania donovani promastigotes were used to detect extracellular antigens produced during the growth of these organisms in four different growth media. The PCSP-As precipitated two major antigenically identical but electrophoretically distinct compone...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kaneshiro ES,Gottlieb M,Dwyer DM

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiprotein monoclonal antibodies derived from mice inoculated with Rickettsia rickettsii heated at 56 degrees C for 15 min are of two types: one is type specific for epitopes denatured by moderate temperatures, and the other is specific for epitopes resistant to 100 degrees C for 5 min. The heat-resistant epitopes ar...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anacker RL,McDonald GA,List RH,Mann RE

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of Serpulina pilosicoli 95/1000, isolated from a pig with porcine intestinal spirochetosis (PIS), and S. pilosicoli WesB, isolated from an Aboriginal child with diarrhea, were used to infect 5-week-old newly weaned pigs. Four of 12 pigs infected with strain 95/1000 and 2 of 12 pigs infected with strain WesB b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Trott DJ,Huxtable CR,Hampson DJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive transfer of antibody may be useful for preexposure prophylaxis against biological agents used as weapons of terror, such as Bacillus anthracis. Studies were performed to evaluate the ability of anthrax antiprotective antigen (anti-PA) and antilethal factor (anti-LF) neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Staats HF,Alam SM,Scearce RM,Kirwan SM,Zhang JX,Gwinn WM,Haynes BF

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：:Specific proteolytic destruction of the human chemotaxin, C5a, is a property of group A and B streptococcal pathogens. Here we show that virulent group G streptococci from human sources also express C5a peptidase activity. The enzyme responsible for this activity is approximately the same size as and is antigenically ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cleary PP,Peterson J,Chen C,Nelson C

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-adapted Gram-negative bacterial pathogens from the Pasteurellaceae, Neisseriaceae, and Moraxellaceae families normally reside in the upper respiratory or genitourinary tracts of their hosts and rely on utilizing iron from host transferrin (Tf) for growth and survival. The surface receptor proteins that mediate th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Frandoloso R,Martínez-Martínez S,Calmettes C,Fegan J,Costa E,Curran D,Yu RH,Gutiérrez-Martín CB,Rodríguez-Ferri EF,Moraes TF,Schryvers AB

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:Reverse transcriptase PCR analyses have demonstrated that open reading frames (ORFs) PM0298, PM0299, and PM0300 of the animal pathogen Pasteurella multocida constitute a single transcriptional unit. By cloning and overexpression studies in Escherichia coli cells, the product of ORF PM0300 was shown to bind hemoglobin ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bosch M,Garrido ME,Llagostera M,Pérez De Rozas AM,Badiola I,Barbé J

更新日期：2002-11-01 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：:In Vibrio cholerae, the transmembrane DNA binding proteins, ToxR and TcpP, activate expression of the regulatory gene toxT in response to specific environmental signals. The resulting enhanced level of ToxT leads to a coordinated increase in the production of a subset of virulence factors, including cholera toxin (CT)...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krishnan HH,Ghosh A,Paul K,Chowdhury R

更新日期：2004-07-01 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

authors： Anisimov AP,Dentovskaya SV,Titareva GM,Bakhteeva IV,Shaikhutdinova RZ,Balakhonov SV,Lindner B,Kocharova NA,Senchenkova SN,Holst O,Pier GB,Knirel YA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alkali-soluble water-soluble extract of Blastomyces dermatitidis yeast-phase cell walls was tested for its ability to elicit a response in lymphocytes isolated from the peripheral blood of Blastomyces-infected guinea pigs. Sequential preparations of the antigen were reproducible and specific in the in vitro lymphoc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hall NK,Deighton F,Larsh HW

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show in this study that toxin production in Clostridium difficile is altered in cells which can no longer form flagellar filaments. The impact of inactivation of fliC, CD0240, fliF, fliG, fliM, and flhB-fliR flagellar genes upon toxin levels in culture supernatants was assessed using cell-based cytotoxicity assay, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Aubry A,Hussack G,Chen W,KuoLee R,Twine SM,Fulton KM,Foote S,Carrillo CD,Tanha J,Logan SM

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strain TG is a plasmidless exfoliative toxin (ET) producer. Strain ER201 contains a plasmid, whose loss had no apparent effect on ET production. The plasmid of ER201 was almost identical in size to the plasmid from strain UT0007, which carries an ET determinant. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosenblum ED,Tyrone S

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the pathological events evoked by infection are commonly described, effective host responses to bacteria and their products should primarily be protective. Heat shock protein (Hsp) expression is upregulated by many stimuli and serves to maintain intracellular protein integrity. The ability of the prototypic supe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Musch MW,Petrof EO,Kojima K,Ren H,McKay DM,Chang EB

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the ability of outer membrane vesicle (OMV) vaccines from Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B to induce vaccine-specific antibody and spleen cell proliferative responses in mice after being administered intranasally (i.n.) and/or subcutaneously (s.c.). A series of four weekly i.n. doses (25 microg) with...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bakke H,Lie K,Haugen IL,Korsvold GE,Høiby EA,Naess LM,Holst J,Aaberge IS,Oftung F,Haneberg B

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis patterns of proteins and externally exposed labeled surface constituents were analyzed in promastigotes of three etiological agents of kala azar (Leishmania donovani, HS70 strain from India; L. chagasi, Imperatriz strain from Brazil; L. infantum, ITMPA K263 str...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lemesre JL,Rizvi FS,Afchain D,Sadigursky M,Capron A,Santoro F

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each of the four epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like domains of the Plasmodium falciparum sexual-stage antigen Pfs25 has been individually expressed as a yeast-secreted recombinant protein (yEGF1 through yEGF4). All four are recognized by the immune sera of animals and humans vaccinated with TBV25H (the corresponding y...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stowers AW,Keister DB,Muratova O,Kaslow DC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00