Generalized infection and lack of delayed hypersensitivity in BALB/c mice infected with Leishmania tropica major.

abstract：:Moraxella catarrhalis is a causative agent of otitis media in children and lower respiratory tract infections in adults suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This strict human pathogen continues to be a significant cause of disease in this broad spectrum of patients because there is no available...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schwingel JM,Edwards KJ,Cox AD,Masoud H,Richards JC,St Michael F,Tekwe CD,Sethi S,Murphy TF,Campagnari AA

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:Endotoxin-treated mice exhibit a rapid rise in the level of the serum amyloid A (SAA) protein, but this effect is not observed in endotoxin-resistant C3H/HeJ mice. To evaluate the role of lymphoid cells in the production of SAA protein, C3H/HeJ mice were adoptively transfused with endotoxin-sensitive (C3H/HeN) bone ma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosenstreich DL,McAdam KP

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:Campylobacter jejuni is a major cause of human inflammatory enteritis. During the course of human disease numerous proinflammatory cytokines are produced. Little is known, however, about the cytokine responses produced during the interaction of this bacterium with the avian host. Campylobacter has been considered a co...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Smith CK,Kaiser P,Rothwell L,Humphrey T,Barrow PA,Jones MA

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which Helicobacter pylori, which has little or no invasive activity, induces gastric-tissue inflammation and injury has not been well characterized. We have previously demonstrated that water-extracted proteins of H. pylori are capable of activating human monocytes by a lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-indepe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pérez-Pérez GI,Shepherd VL,Morrow JD,Blaser MJ

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of indigenous Escherichia coli, Bacteroides, and Lactobacillus were isolated from the gastrointestinal tracts of specific pathogen-free (SPF) mice. Nonvaccinated SPF mice exhibited in their spleens low numbers of plaque-forming cells (PFC) and rosette-forming cells reacting with antigens of these andigenous ba...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Berg RD,Savage DC

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T lymphocyte subpopulations in the peripheral blood of children with congenital cytomegalovirus infections and in controls were enumerated with monoclonal antibodies. Infants of less than 1 year of age with symptomatic infections showed significant increases in the proportion of suppressor cells and decreases in the r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pass RF,Roper MA,August AM

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens capable of conferring protective immunity against tuberculosis has received a boost owing to the resurgence of tuberculosis over the past two decades. It has long been recognized that lymphoid cells are required for protection against M. tuberculosis. While tr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kumar P,Amara RR,Challu VK,Chadda VK,Satchidanandam V

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed an in vitro model to study the temperature-regulated cytotoxicity and intracellular growth of Mycobacterium haemophilum in cultured human epithelial and endothelial cells. M. haemophilum associated with human epithelial and endothelial cells at similar rates when incubated at 33 and 37 degrees C, but only...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fischer LJ,Quinn FD,White EH,King CH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attachment of isogenic fimbriated and nonfimbriated Haemophilus influenzae type b variants to human cells was studied by using a radioactive assay and an indirect immunofluorescent assay. As described previously, fimbriated H. influenzae variants adhered to a greater extent than nonfimbriated variants to human buc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sable NS,Connor EM,Hall CB,Loeb MR

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We attempted to induce experimental arthritis in rats by systematically testing the effect of Yersinia infections in five strains of rats, using the intragastric, intraperitoneal, and intravenous routes of inoculation. We observed that Lewis rats which were given 10(4) to 10(5) Yersinia enterocolitica WA organisms via...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hill JL,Yu DT

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slime production is not a generally recognized feature of Staphylococcus epidermidis. In a recent outbreak of S. epidermidis intravascular catheter-associated sepsis, we noted that 63% of clinically implicated strains grew as a slimy film coating the culture tube walls when propagated in tryptic soy broth. Only 37% of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Christensen GD,Simpson WA,Bisno AL,Beachey EH

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin B (SpeB), a conserved cysteine protease expressed by virtually all Streptococcus pyogenes strains, has recently been shown to be an important virulence factor (S. Lukomski, S. Sreevatsan, C. Amberg, W. Reichardt, M. Woischnik, A. Podbielski, and J. M. Musser, J. Clin. Invest. 99:2574-2...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lukomski S,Burns EH Jr,Wyde PR,Podbielski A,Rurangirwa J,Moore-Poveda DK,Musser JM

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phorbol myristate acetate stimulated oxidative metabolism in alveolar macrophages and blood neutrophils. This compound also stimulated lysozyme release from neutrophils but not from alveolar macrophages. These findings suggest that the regulation of lysozyme release from alveolar macrophages is different than for poly...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Biggar WD

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin modification triggered by bacteria is a newly described mechanism by which pathogens impact host transcription. Listeria monocytogenes dephosphorylates histone H3 through the action of listeriolysin O (LLO); however, the underlying mechanism is unknown. Here we show that an unrelated pore-forming toxin, Aero...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hamon MA,Cossart P

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of delta-toxin is supposed to be responsible for various pathophysiological effects during infection with Staphylococcus aureus. We compared the effects of delta-toxin with the structurally related bee venom toxin melittin on granulocyte functions and inflammatory mediator release. Delta-toxin and melit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kasimir S,Schönfeld W,Alouf JE,König W

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo behavior of revertants of Staphylococcus aureus L-phase variants were studied in mice. The Giorgio strain of S. aureus was induced into L-phase variants by methicillin. After 13 serial passages in methicillin agar and six passages in antibiotic-free agar, reversion occurred. Six revertants, all phage untyp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Watanakunakorn C,Glotzbecker C

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, has a number of outer membrane proteins that are differentially regulated during its life cycle. In addition to their physiological functions in the organism, these proteins also likely serve different functions in invasiveness and immune evasion. In borreliae, as well ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Toledo A,Coleman JL,Kuhlow CJ,Crowley JT,Benach JL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucosal exposure to Escherichia coli elicits an inflammatory response in the urinary tract. Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is secreted into the urine, and polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNLs) are recruited to the site of infection. This study analyzed the ability of mucosally administered bacterial components to activate IL-6 a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Linder H,Engberg I,Hoschützky H,Mattsby-Baltzer I,Svanborg C

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung dendritic cells were identified by immunohistochemistry in lung tissue sections from C57BL/6 mice. Following isolation from the lungs using CD11c magnetic beads, the flow cytometric analysis of I-A(b+) and CD11c(+) cells indicated a mixed population of dendritic cells at different stages of maturation, with most ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gonzalez-Juarrero M,Orme IM

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whooping cough results from infection of the respiratory tract with Bordetella pertussis, and the secreted adenylate cyclase toxin (ACT) is essential for the bacterium to establish infection. Despite extensive study of the mechanism of ACT cytotoxicity and its effects over a range of concentrations in vitro, ACT has n...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eby JC,Gray MC,Warfel JM,Paddock CD,Jones TF,Day SR,Bowden J,Poulter MD,Donato GM,Merkel TJ,Hewlett EL

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis capsular type 2 is an important etiological agent of swine meningitis, and it is also a zoonotic agent. Since one hypothesis of the pathogenesis of S. suis infection is that bacteria enter the bloodstream and invade the meninges and other tissues in close association with mononuclear phagocytes, the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Segura M,Gottschalk M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonhuman primate model for malaria vaccine development allowing reliable, stringent sporozoite challenge and evaluation of both cellular and antibody responses is needed. We therefore constructed a multicomponent, multistage DNA vaccine for the simian malaria species Plasmodium knowlesi including two preerythrocytic...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogers WO,Baird JK,Kumar A,Tine JA,Weiss W,Aguiar JC,Gowda K,Gwadz R,Kumar S,Gold M,Hoffman SL

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal piglets have been used as models to study human campylobacteriosis and helicobacteriosis. The purpose of this study was to determine the relative pathogenicities, on the basis of the duration of fecal shedding and colonization of tissues, of three Arcobacter species in 1-day-old cesarean-derived colostrum-dep...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wesley IV,Baetz AL,Larson DJ

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella serovars are associated with human diseases that range from mild gastroenteritis to host-disseminated enteric fever. Human infections by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi can lead to typhoid fever, but this serovar does not typically cause disease in mice or other animals. In contrast, S. enterica serovar T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schwan WR,Huang XZ,Hu L,Kopecko DJ

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis is a facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen and the causative agent of tularemia. After infection of macrophages, the organism escapes from its phagosome and replicates to high density in the cytosol, but the bacterial factors required for these aspects of virulence are incompletely define...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Long ME,Lindemann SR,Rasmussen JA,Jones BD,Allen LA

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：: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：:The Escherichia coli blood culture isolate BK658 (O75:K1:H7) expresses F1A and F1B fimbriae as well as a third fimbrial type which reacts with anti-S-fimbrial antiserum but fails to show S-specific binding properties (i.e., agglutination of bovine erythrocytes). To characterize these fimbriae, we cloned the respective...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pawelzik M,Heesemann J,Hacker J,Opferkuch W

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00