Chemical and serological properties of Mycoplasma hyorhinis fractions.

abstract：:Coagulation and inflammation are interconnected, suggesting that coagulation plays a key role in the inflammatory response to pathogens. A phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) was used to identify clinical phenotypes of patients with a polymorphism in coagulation factor X. Patients with this single nucleotide polym...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Choby JE,Monteith AJ,Himmel LE,Margaritis P,Shirey-Rice JK,Pruijssers A,Jerome RN,Pulley J,Skaar EP

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi is a protozoan parasite that can initiate mucosal infection after conjunctival exposure. The anatomical route of T. cruzi invasion and spread after conjunctival parasite contamination remains poorly characterized. In the present work we have identified the sites of initial invasion and replication af...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giddings OK,Eickhoff CS,Smith TJ,Bryant LA,Hoft DF

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural bactericidal resistance to Mycobacterium bovis BCG is under the control of a single gene, designated Bcg. Lung granuloma formation in susceptible (Bcgs) and resistant (Bcgr) mice was studied in two sets of Bcg-congenic systems, namely, the BALB/c (Bcgs)-C.D2 (BALB/c.Bcgr) pair and the B10.A (Bcgs)-B10.Ar (Bcgr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sato IY,Kobayashi K,Kasama T,Kaga S,Kasahara K,Kanemitsu H,Nakatani K,Takahashi T,Nakamura RM,Skamene E

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two-component regulatory system, GraRS, appears to be involved in staphylococcal responses to cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAPs). However, the mechanism(s) by which GraRS is induced, regulated, and modulated remain undefined. In this study, we used two well-characterized MRSA strains (Mu50 and COL) and their r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yang SJ,Bayer AS,Mishra NN,Meehl M,Ledala N,Yeaman MR,Xiong YQ,Cheung AL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migration of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans across the endothelial cell layer is considered a prerequisite for the invasion of multiple organs occurring in systemic candidiasis. We developed an experimental system in which C. albicans migrates from a luminal compartment across a monolayer of bovine aortic endoth...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zink S,Nass T,Rösen P,Ernst JF

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine culture of endothelial cells currently includes the use of heparin, which significantly reduces cell doubling time and increases cell population size. Heparin protects cultured arterial endothelial cells from damage by toxic oxygen metabolites produced by the action of xanthine and xanthine oxidase. Because of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Silverman DJ,Santucci LA,Sekeyova Z

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present investigation we studied the nature of a Shigella flexneri O antigen, the type III antigen. No structural entity has yet been attributed to this antigen. Phenol-water-extracted lipopolysaccharides (LPSs) from all S. flexneri serotypes possessing either group 6 antigen or both type III antigen and group ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carlin NI,Wehler T,Lindberg AA

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to bind and utilize hemin is a trait common to many human pathogens. Nevertheless, the relationship between Legionella pneumophila, the agent of Legionnaires' disease, and hemin has received little attention. Thus, we explored the capacity of a virulent, serogroup 1 strain of L. pneumophila to bind hemin a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： O'Connell WA,Hickey EK,Cianciotto NP

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A zone of extracellular digestion of the mucin layer around Candida albicans blastoconidia was observed by transmission electron microscopy in the jejunum of mice inoculated intragastrically (G. T. Cole, K. R. Seshan, L. M. Pope, and R. J. Yancey, J. Med. Vet. Mycol. 26:173-185, 1988). This observation prompted the hy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Colina AR,Aumont F,Deslauriers N,Belhumeur P,de Repentigny L

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fibronectin-degrading ability of 116, mainly oral, strains was assayed by using plasma-derived fibronectin adsorbed to a polystyrene surface. Ability to degrade fibronectin was revealed in strains of Bacteroides gingivalis, Bacteroides intermedius, Bacteroides loeschii, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epider...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wikström M,Linde A

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen of 22 female mice (CF1 strain) inoculated intragastrically with Treponema hyodysenteriae developed cecal and colonic lesions consisting of catarrhal inflammation, edema, and occasional hemorrhage. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Joens LA,Glock RD

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae for chicken embryos can be modified in a predictable manner by the addition of microbial siderophores to the inoculum. "Meningobactin" and "gonobactin," siderophores isolated from iron-limited cultures of meningococci and gonococci, respectively, enhance the virulence of the rela...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Finkelstein RA,Yancey RJ

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two fragments with molecular weights of 111,000 (fragment I) and 59,000 (fragment II) were separated from each other by gel filtration of dithiothreitol and urea-treated, trypsinized derivative toxin (molecular weight, 170,000) of the proteolytic Okra strain of Clostridium botulinum type B on a column of Sephadex G-20...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozaki S,Miyazaki S,Sakaguchi G

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood mononuclear cells (lymphocytes and monocytes) were isolated from infected calves during in vivo control of acute anaplasmosis and cultured with Anaplasma marginale organisms. Supernatants from the cultures reduced the proportion of erythrocytes containing viable A. marginale in vitro, indicating that an antibody...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wyatt CR,Davis WC,Knowles DP,Goff WL,Palmer GH,McGuire TC

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hemagglutinin with an M(r) of 67,000 (pMGA) from Mycoplasma gallisepticum S6 was purified by using monoclonal antibody affinity chromatography. Purified pMGA was treated with a number of enzymes, the resultant peptides were purified, and their amino acid sequence was determined by using an Applied Biosystems (model ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Markham PF,Glew MD,Whithear KG,Walker ID

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of pneumonia and meningitis. Airway colonization is a necessary precursor to disease, but little is known about how the bacteria establish and maintain colonization. Carbohydrates are required as a carbon source for pneumococcal growth and, therefore, for colonization. Free ca...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marion C,Burnaugh AM,Woodiga SA,King SJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis, a bacterium associated with active chronic periodontitis lesions, produces several proteolytic enzymes that are thought to be involved in host colonization, perturbation of the immune system, and tissue destruction. The aim of the present study was to investigate the contribution of Arg- and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grenier D,Imbeault S,Plamondon P,Grenier G,Nakayama K,Mayrand D

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo role of endogenous interleukin 12 (IL-12) in modulating intrapulmonary growth of Legionella pneumophila was assessed by using a murine model of replicative L. pneumophila lung infection. Intratracheal inoculation of A/J mice with virulent bacteria (10(6) L. pneumophila cells per mouse) resulted in inductio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brieland JK,Remick DG,LeGendre ML,Engleberg NC,Fantone JC

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera toxin (CT) and related Escherichia coli enterotoxins LTI and LTIIb have a conserved hydrophobic region at the AB(5) interface postulated to be important for toxin assembly. Hydrophobic residue F223 in the A subunit of CT (CTA) as well as residues 174, L77, and T78 in the B subunit of CT (CTB) were replaced ind...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tinker JK,Erbe JL,Hol WG,Holmes RK

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By crossed immunoelectrophoresis and Western blotting (immunoblotting), it was shown that Borrelia burgdorferi expresses the 60-kilodalton Common Antigen (CA) that is cross-reactive with an equivalent antigen in a wide range of remotely related bacteria. B. burgdorferi CA is strongly immunogenic. A B. burgdorferi geno...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hansen K,Bangsborg JM,Fjordvang H,Pedersen NS,Hindersson P

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitinases of pathogens have been proposed as potential targets of vaccines or specific inhibitors. We studied the genomic organization, transcript levels, developmental expression, and biological function of chitinases in the rodent filarial nematode Acanthocheilonema viteae, a model organism for human-pathogenic fil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tachu B,Pillai S,Lucius R,Pogonka T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pseudotuberculosis inv mutant strains cured of the virulence plasmid exhibit thermoinducible adhesion to cultured mammalian cells. To identify the genes responsible for this phenotype, Y. pseudotuberculosis homologs of the Y. enterocolitica ail and the Y. pestis psa loci were identified. Mutations in the Y. p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yang Y,Merriam JJ,Mueller JP,Isberg RR

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of interleukin-10 (IL-10) by C57BL/6 mice following infection with Borrelia burgdorferi has been proposed as a mechanism whereby resistance to the development of experimental Lyme arthritis is maintained. In the current study, we sought to determine the role of IL-10 during infection of arthritis- and cardi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brown CR,Lai AY,Callen ST,Blaho VA,Hughes JM,Mitchell WJ

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this communication, we examine the specificity of anti-herpes simplex virus (HSV) cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). Serological studies of the two related HSV serotypes (HSV-1 and HSV-2) have revealed both type-specific and cross-reactive antigenic determinants in the viral envelope and on the surface of infected cell...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eberle R,Russell RG,Rouse BT

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the structural components of the Streptococcus pyogenes membrane between exponential and early stationary phases of growth are reported. The overall protein composition ranged from 70 to 73% of the dry weight of the membranes, irrespective of the phase of growth from which they were isolated. Amino acid ana...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van de Rijn I,Kessler RE

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inner ear dysfunction secondary to chronic otitis media (OM), including high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss or vertigo, is not uncommon. Although chronic middle ear inflammation is believed to cause inner ear dysfunction by entry of OM pathogen components or cytokines from the middle ear into the inner ear, the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moon SK,Woo JI,Lee HY,Park R,Shimada J,Pan H,Gellibolian R,Lim DJ

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III secretion system (T3SS) of pathogenic bordetellae employs a self-associating tip complex protein Bsp22. This protein is immunogenic during infections by Bordetella bronchiseptica and could be used as a protective antigen to immunize mice against B. bronchiseptica challenge. Since low-passage clinical isol...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Villarino Romero R,Bibova I,Cerny O,Vecerek B,Wald T,Benada O,Zavadilova J,Osicka R,Sebo P

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium parvum is a significant cause of diarrheal disease worldwide. Attachment to and invasion of host intestinal epithelial cells by C. parvum sporozoites are crucial steps in the pathogenesis of cryptosporidiosis. The molecular basis of these initial interactions is unknown. In order...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cevallos AM,Bhat N,Verdon R,Hamer DH,Stein B,Tzipori S,Pereira ME,Keusch GT,Ward HD

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of bacterial mannose-resistant fimbriation of S fimbriae (Fim), mannose-resistant hemagglutination (S-Mrh), and hemolysin (Hly) production by an Escherichia coli parent and genetically cloned strains as regards their effect on histamine release from rat mast cells and generation of the chemilu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： König B,König W,Scheffer J,Hacker J,Goebel W

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III capsular polysaccharide of group B streptococci (GBS) consists of a linear backbone with short side chains ending in residues of N-acetylneuraminic acid, or sialic acid. The presence of sialic acid on the surface of the organism inhibits activation of the alternative pathway of complement and is thought t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wessels MR,Haft RF,Heggen LM,Rubens CE

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00