Colonization of the cementum surface of teeth by oral Gram-negative bacteria.

abstract：:This study was undertaken to ascertain the relationship between complement-derived chemotactic factors and complement component 1 inactivator (C1INA) enhancement of neutrophil chemotaxis. Studies were also designed to determine whether the C1s- reactive or binding site on C1INA was functional in altering chemotactic r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Patrick RA,Hollers JC,Liu DY,Giese BH,Smith CW

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigens extracted from cells of Streptococcus pyogenes T6 and Streptococcus mutans strains AHT, BHT, 10449, OMZ175, and K1R adsorbed to the sarcolemmal sheath of cardiac muscle cells in vitro. Similar preparations from S. salivarius, S. sanguis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Lactobacillus casei had weak or negligible ti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stinson MW,Nisengard RJ,Bergey EJ

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, exists in a zoonotic cycle involving an arthropod tick and mammalian host. Dissemination of the organism within and between these hosts depends upon the spirochete's ability to traverse through complex tissues. Additionally, the spirochete outruns the host immune cell...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sultan SZ,Manne A,Stewart PE,Bestor A,Rosa PA,Charon NW,Motaleb MA

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cattle are an important reservoir of Shiga toxin-producing enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 strains, foodborne pathogens that cause hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic uremic syndrome in humans. EHEC O157:H7 strains are not pathogenic in calves >3 weeks old. Our objective was to determine if EHEC O157:H...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dean-Nystrom EA,Bosworth BT,Cray WC Jr,Moon HW

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosome-activated mouse peritoneal macrophages phagocytized and digested Trypanosoma brucei in vitro and in vivo, but in the absence of specific antiserum and complement the degree of phagocytosis was minimal. Ultrastructurally, the parasites attached to the macrophage by their flagella, and ingestion proceeded fl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stevens DR,Moulton JE

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spotted fever group rickettsiae are known to produce distinct plaque phenotypes. Strains that cause lytic infections in cell culture form clear plaques, while nonlytic strains form opaque plaques in which the cells remain intact. Clear plaques have historically been associated with more-virulent species or strains of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clark TR,Ellison DW,Kleba B,Hackstadt T

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to relate the protein profile to virulence, proteins from the cellular fractions and from culture supernatants of Streptococcus suis capsular type 2 strains from different geographical origins were compared by using Western blots (immunoblots). The protein profiles of the cellular fractions were similar f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Quessy S,Dubreuil JD,Caya M,Higgins R

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the progression of the life cycle of Plasmodium falciparum, a small proportion of asexual parasites differentiate into male or female sexual forms called gametocytes. Just like their asexual counterparts, gametocytes are contained within the infected host's erythrocytes (RBCs). However, unlike their asexual partner...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Acquah FK,Adjah J,Williamson KC,Amoah LE

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant cultures that lacked the ability to produce filamentous hemagglutinin were obtained by UV irradiation of Bordetella pertussis strain 18-323. Various biological activities of these mutants were compared with those of the parent culture. It was found that the leukocytosis-promoting, histamine-sensitizing, and mou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Watanabe M,Nakase Y

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies with animal models have demonstrated that viral respiratory tract infections suppress bacterial clearance processes in the lung and that this alteration in host defenses appears to explain the excessive mortality from bacterial pneumonia during influenza epidemics. However, since the pathogenesis of postinflue...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nugent KM,Pesanti EL

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arthritis is a frequent and major complication of infection with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto. The antigens responsible for the induction of arthritis are unknown. Here we provide direct evidence that a major surface protein, outer surface protein A (OspA), can induce arthritis. Hamsters were vaccinated with 30,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Croke CL,Munson EL,Lovrich SD,Christopherson JA,Remington MC,England DM,Callister SM,Schell RF

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：:Chlamydia pneumoniae is a human respiratory pathogen. Unlike the other two Chlamydia species, no species-specific antigen has been defined for C. pneumoniae. An immunoreactive clone containing a 0.8-kb fragment was isolated from a C. pneumoniae (AR-39) genomic library by using anti-C. pneumoniae rabbit immune serum. B...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Perez Melgosa M,Kuo CC,Campbell LA

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As reported elsewhere, an enterotoxigenic strain of Escherichia coli serotype O25:K98:NM was epidemiologically incriminated as the etiological agent in a shipboard outbreak of diarrheal illness. This enterotoxigenic E. coli strain and possibly other enteric isolates were found to produce heat-labile toxin and not heat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wachsmuth K,Wells J,Shipley P,Ryder R

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outer surface protein A (OspA) of the Lyme disease spirochete is primarily produced in the tick vector. OspA, which is a receptor for attaching spirochetes to the tick gut, is down regulated as the spirochetes leave the tick and enter the mammalian host. Although OspA is not a major antigen produced in the mammal, the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Strother KO,Hodzic E,Barthold SW,de Silva AM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stress-induced extracytoplasmic sigma factor E (SigE) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis shows increased expression after heat shock, sodium dodecyl sulfate treatment, and oxidative stress, as well as after phagocytosis in macrophages. We report that deletion of sigE results in delayed lethality in mice without a signi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ando M,Yoshimatsu T,Ko C,Converse PJ,Bishai WR

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rfb region from Vibrio cholerae O139 strain MO45 was cloned from cosmid gene banks established in Escherichia coli HB101, using an immunoblot assay for screening of the correct clones. Immunoblot analysis of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) preparations revealed the presence of two types of positive clones: (i) those expr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Favre D,Cryz SJ Jr,Viret JF

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a Plasmodium chabaudi infection in interleukin-10 (IL-10) knockout mice, there is greater parasite sequestration, more severe cerebral edema, and a high frequency of cerebral hemorrhage compared with infection of C57BL/6 mice. Anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha treatment ameliorated both cerebral edema and hemorr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sanni LA,Jarra W,Li C,Langhorne J

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theoretic basis for developing conjugate vaccines, to induce immunoglobulin G (IgG) lipopolysaccharide (LPS) antibodies for the prevention of shigellosis, has been described (J. B. Robbins, C.-Y. Chu, and R. Schneerson, Clin. Infect. Dis. 15:346-361, 1992). The O-specific polysaccharides (O-SPs) of Shigella dysent...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Taylor DN,Trofa AC,Sadoff J,Chu C,Bryla D,Shiloach J,Cohen D,Ashkenazi S,Lerman Y,Egan W

更新日期：1993-09-01 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：:Human multidrug efflux transporters are known for their ability to extrude antibiotics and toxic compounds out of cells, yet accumulating data indicate they have additional functions in diverse physiological processes not related to drug efflux. Here, we show that the human multidrug transporter P-glycoprotein (P-gp) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sigal N,Kaplan Zeevi M,Weinstein S,Peer D,Herskovits AA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitized mouse spleen cells decrease the spread of herpes simplex virus infection in cell culture lines derived from human and murine tissues. These washed, sensitized cells act alone and additively in combination with antibody to diminish the ability of single virus-infected cells to spread infection to contiguous ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ennis FA

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P.69 pertactin (P.69 Prn), an adhesion molecule from the causative agent of pertussis, Bordetella pertussis, is present in cellular and most acellular vaccines that are currently used worldwide. Although both humoral immunity and cellular immunity directed against P.69 Prn have been implicated in protective immune mec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stenger RM,Poelen MC,Moret EE,Kuipers B,Bruijns SC,Hoogerhout P,Hijnen M,King AJ,Mooi FR,Boog CJ,van Els CA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloid differentiation protein 88 (MyD88) is a general adaptor for the signaling cascade through receptors of the Toll/IL-1R family. When infected with Leishmania major parasites, MyD88-deficient mice displayed a dramatically enhanced parasite burden in their tissues similar to that found in susceptible BALB/c mice. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Debus A,Gläsner J,Röllinghoff M,Gessner A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi reduces the expression of outer surface protein C (OspC) in response to the development of an anti-OspC humoral response, leading to the hypothesis that the ability to repress OspC expression is critical for the pathogen to proceed to chronic infection. B. burgdorferi w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Xu Q,Seemanapalli SV,McShan K,Liang FT

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is the predominant cause of Legionnaires' disease in the United States and Europe, while Legionella longbeachae is the common cause of the disease in Western Australia. Although clinical manifestations by both intracellular pathogens are very similar, recent studies have shown that phagosome bio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Asare R,Santic M,Gobin I,Doric M,Suttles J,Graham JE,Price CD,Abu Kwaik Y

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Q fever is a zoonotic disease of worldwide significance caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii. Humans with Q fever may experience an acute flu-like illness and pneumonia and/or chronic hepatitis or endocarditis. Various markers demonstrate significant phylogenetic separation between and clus...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Russell-Lodrigue KE,Andoh M,Poels MW,Shive HR,Weeks BR,Zhang GQ,Tersteeg C,Masegi T,Hotta A,Yamaguchi T,Fukushi H,Hirai K,McMurray DN,Samuel JE

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous investigations have shown that 70-kDa heat shock protein (Hsp70) homologs interact tightly with hydrophobic proteins and functionally assist proteins in membranous organelles and environments. One such protein is the Chlamydia trachomatis Hsp70 that is associated with isolated outer membrane complexes of infe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Raulston JE,Davis CH,Paul TR,Hobbs JD,Wyrick PB

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-Amino acid oxidase (DAO) is a hydrogen peroxide-generating enzyme that uses a D-amino acid as a substrate. We hypothesized that DAO may protect against bacterial infection, because hydrogen peroxide is one of the most important molecules in the antibacterial defense systems in mammals. We show here that DAO suppress...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nakamura H,Fang J,Maeda H

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonvertebrate model hosts represent valuable tools for the study of host-pathogen interactions because they facilitate the identification of bacterial virulence factors and allow the discovery of novel components involved in host innate immune responses. In this report, we determined that the greater wax moth caterpil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miyata S,Casey M,Frank DW,Ausubel FM,Drenkard E

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00