Efficacy of antimicrobial therapy in experimental rat pneumonia: effects of impaired phagocytosis.

abstract：:Tritrichomonas foetus is a serious veterinary pathogen, causing bovine trichomoniasis, a sexually transmitted disease leading to infertility and abortion. T. foetus infects the mucosal surfaces of the reproductive tract. Infection with T. foetus leads to apoptotic cell death of bovine vaginal epithelial cells (BVECs) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Singh BN,Lucas JJ,Hayes GR,Kumar I,Beach DH,Frajblat M,Gilbert RO,Sommer U,Costello CE

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We produced anti-idiotype antibodies to antibody to lipid A from Eikenella corrodens. The ALA-1 monoclonal antibody (immunoglobulin M [IgM] isotype), which had already been produced in our laboratory (T. Kato, I. Takazoe, and K. Okuda, Infect. Immun. 57:656-659, 1989), had reacted strongly with lipid A from E. corrode...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kato T,Takazoe I,Okuda K

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) binding protein (LBP) is an acute-phase protein that enhances the responsiveness of immune cells to LPS by virtue of its capacity to transfer LPS to CD14. To determine the role of LBP in the innate immune response to peritonitis, LBP gene-deficient (LBP(-/-)) and normal wild-type mice were int...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Knapp S,de Vos AF,Florquin S,Golenbock DT,van der Poll T

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonellae possess the ability to adhere to and invade macrophages and in so doing trigger a number of intracellular events that are associated with cellular activation. As an initial approach to defining the mechanisms by which invasive salmonellae alter macrophage function, we have explored the impact of Salmonella...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mizel SB,Kucera LS,Richardson SH,Ciacci F,Iyer NP

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:Adherence of erythrocytes infected with Plasmodium falciparum to microvascular endothelial cells (sequestration) is considered to play an important role in parasite virulence and pathogenesis. However, the real importance of sequestration for infection and disease has never been fully assessed. The absence of an appro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mota MM,Jarra W,Hirst E,Patnaik PK,Holder AA

更新日期：2000-07-01 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：:Mosquitoes are infected with Plasmodium falciparum by taking a blood meal from a gametocyte carrier. Since a mosquito takes a volume of 1 to 2 microl, a blood meal may contain 1 x 10(4) to 3 x 10(4) leukocytes (WBC). The majority of WBC are composed of neutrophils which may phagocytose and kill developing gametes insi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lensen AH,Bolmer-Van de Vegte M,van Gemert GJ,Eling WM,Sauerwein RW

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：:The bactericidal and opsonizing effects of normal human serum on six strains of Salmonella typhimurium LT-2 having different lipopolysaccharide (LPS) composition were demonstrated through five indices. Complement activity in the presence of antibody was important for the opsonization of all six strains and for the bac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shaio MF,Rowland H

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human polymorphonuclear leukocytes from normal subjects produced proinflammatory cytokines in response to stimulation with Cryptococcus neoformans yeast cells. The cytokines released after stimulation of neutrophils included interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), IL-6, IL-8 and tumor necrosis factor alpha. The magnitude of the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Retini C,Vecchiarelli A,Monari C,Tascini C,Bistoni F,Kozel TR

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CS31A is a K88-related capsule-like surface protein that mediates Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae adhesion to the human Caco-2 and Intestine-407 cell lines. In this study, we demonstrate that ClpG, the major subunit of CS31A, contains the adhesive domain of the polymerized structure. We mapped this domain w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Di Martino P,Girardeau JP,Der Vartanian M,Joly B,Darfeuille-Michaud A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) chemotactic factors derived from complement components have been described. We sought to determine which of these factors accounted for the majority of PMN chemotactic activity in rabbit serum and guinea pig serum treated with preformed immune complexes. Normal rabbit sera...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Snyderman R,Phillips J,Mergenhagen SE

更新日期：1970-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the babesial rhoptry-associated protein 1 (RAP-1) family express surface-exposed B-cell epitopes and are candidate antigens for vaccine development. The relationship between rap-1 genomic polymorphism and surface-exposed B-cell epitope expression was analyzed by comparison of biological clones of Mexico str...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suarez CE,McElwain TF,Echaide I,Torioni de Echaide S,Palmer GH

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently found that strain B31 infection-immune rabbits are completely protected against homologous challenge with large numbers (>10(6)) of host-adapted Borrelia burgdorferi (HAB) (E. S. Shang, C. I. Champion, X. Wu, J. T. Skare, D. B. Blanco, J. N. Miller, and M. A. Lovett, Infect. Immun. 68:4189-4199, 2000)...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shang ES,Wu XY,Lovett MA,Miller JN,Blanco DR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of (125)I-labeled S component to rabbit polymorphonuclear leukocytes was found to be concentration dependent and saturable at 37 degrees C. Scatchard analysis of the binding curve gave a straight line, indicating that S component binds to a single population of sites. The dissociation constant, K(D), deriv...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Noda M,Kato I,Matsuda F,Hirayama T

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats kept under germfree conditions showed lower specific lysosomal enzyme activities in liver endothelial cells, but not in Kupffer cells. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Knook DL,Barkway C,Sleyster EC

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis is the causative agent of whooping cough, a potentially lethal respiratory disease in children. In immunocompetent individuals, B. pertussis infection elicits an effective adaptive immune response driven by activated CD4(+) T cells. However, live B. pertussis persists in the host for 3 to 4 weeks ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shumilla JA,Lacaille V,Hornell TM,Huang J,Narasimhan S,Relman DA,Mellins ED

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of inhibitors of cell wall biosynthesis to exponential-phase cultures of Streptococcus mutans may do one of three things, depending on the concentrations used: (i) prevent cell division at a time coincident with the onset of chromosome replication, (ii) prevent cell division later in the cell cycle coinci...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kral TA,Daneo-Moore L

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue macrophages are the obligatory host cells for Leishmania donovani, the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis. In this study we sought to determine whether activated macrophages, as defined by the functional criterion of tumor cell cytotoxicity, were also able to exert a microbicidal effect on ingested L. do...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Haidaris CG,Bonventre PF

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyprotein allergens are a family of structurally homologous molecules from parasitic nematodes which induce specific immunoglobulin E in infected individuals. We show here that both H-2 and non-H-2 factors determine the ability of mice to generate T- and B-cell responses to the filarial polyprotein allergen (Brugia ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Allen JE,Lawrence RA,Maizels RM

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunity to pneumococcal colonization in mice by exposure to live or killed pneumococci has been shown to be antibody independent but dependent on CD4+ T cells. Here we show that intranasal immunization with pneumococcal proteins (pneumococcal surface protein C, adhesin A, and a pneumolysoid) can elicit a similar mech...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Basset A,Thompson CM,Hollingshead SK,Briles DE,Ades EW,Lipsitch M,Malley R

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parameters of a persistent-state measles virus infection in BGM/MV cells were examined. The BGM/MV cell line was established by cocultivation of measles virus-infected primary C3H mouse brain cells with a stable line of African green monkey kidney cells (BGM). Initially, a morphologically mixed population of cells...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Menna JH,Collins AR,Flanagan TD

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three MudJ prototrophs demonstrated that intracellular replication is a Salmonella virulence trait (K. Y. Leung and B. B. Finlay, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 88:11470-11474, 1991). mutS and mutH are disrupted in mutants 3-11 and 12-23, and ssaQ is disrupted in mutant 17-21. Further analysis revealed that loss of Salmo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suvarnapunya AE,Zurawski DV,Guy RL,Stein MA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli hemolysin is considered an important virulence factor in extraintestinal E. coli infections. The present study demonstrates that cultured pulmonary artery endothelial cells are susceptible to attack by low concentrations of E. coli hemolysin (greater than or equal to 0.05 hemolytic units/ml; greater t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suttorp N,Flöer B,Schnittler H,Seeger W,Bhakdi S

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unmethylated CpG dinucleotide motifs present in bacterial genomes or synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) serve as strong immunostimulatory agents in mice, monkeys and humans. We determined the adjuvant effect of murine CpG ODN 1826 on the immunogenicity and protective efficacy of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae-expres...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kumar S,Jones TR,Oakley MS,Zheng H,Kuppusamy SP,Taye A,Krieg AM,Stowers AW,Kaslow DC,Hoffman SL

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the spleen in hepatic amoebiasis in hamsters was studied. In hamsters receiving an intrahepatic inoculation of 10(5) trophozoites of axenic Entamoeba histolytica at 7 or 14 days postsplenectomy, the mean weight of metastatic foci increased significantly when compared with sham-splenectomized or intact cont...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ghadirian E,Meerovitch E

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A parasitic protozoan, Leishmania mexicana amazonensis, was previously made resistant to tunicamycin (J.A. Kink and K.-P. Chang, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84:1253-1257, 1987). In the present study, six different tunicamycin-resistant variants were biologically and biochemically compared with their parental wild type ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kink JA,Chang KP

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-amino-acid repeating sequence of the hemagglutinating portion of Clostridium difficile toxin A has been synthesized and used to produce antisera in rabbits. Antipeptide antibody inhibited toxin A-mediated hemagglutination and neutralized cytotoxic activity. Immunoblot analysis with the antipeptide antibody reveal...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wren BW,Russell RR,Tabaqchali S

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastomyces dermatitidis is a thermally induced dimorphic fungus capable of causing lung and systemic infections in immunocompetent animal hosts. With the publication of genomic sequences from three different strains of B. dermatitidis and the development of RNA interference as a gene-silencing tool, it has become pos...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krajaejun T,Wüthrich M,Gauthier GM,Warner TF,Sullivan TD,Klein BS

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00