Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis responses to DNA probes derived from corynephage beta and Corynebacterium diphtheriae.

abstract：:Guinea pig and mouse peritoneal macrophages in culture transport glucose by a specific, saturable system with characteristics compatible with facilitated diffusion. Phagocytosis of killed staphylococci or polystyrene latex spheres results in a significant increase in uptake of 2-deoxy-d-glucose. Reciprocal plot analys...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bonventre PF,Mukkada AJ

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm formation by the periodontal pathogen Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is dependent upon autoinducer-2 (AI-2)-mediated quorum sensing. However, the components that link the detection of the AI-2 signal to downstream gene expression have not been determined. One potential regulator is the QseBC two-compone...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Novak EA,Shao H,Daep CA,Demuth DR

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hallmarks of pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection are lung granulomas. These organized structures are composed of host immune cells whose purpose is to contain or clear infection, creating a complex hub of immune and bacterial cell activity, as well as limiting pathology in the lungs. Yet, given cellular...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wong EA,Joslyn L,Grant NL,Klein E,Lin PL,Kirschner DE,Flynn JL

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma arthritidis causes acute polyarthritis in rats and chronic proliferative arthritis in mice. M. arthritidis-induced arthritis serves as a model for arthritis caused by infectious agents and as a model for examining the role of the superantigen MAM (M. arthritidis T-cell mitogen) in the development of autoimm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tu AH,Clapper B,Schoeb TR,Elgavish A,Zhang J,Liu L,Yu H,Dybvig K

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Affinity-purified rabbit polyclonal (PAB96-1) and mouse monoclonal (1G9-1C2) antibodies to synthetic H-DDDDDDD-OH, an antimicrobial anionic peptide (AP) originally isolated from ovine pulmonary surfactant, were prepared and used to assess the concentrations of AP-like molecules in human respiratory tract samples. In b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brogden KA,Ackermann MR,McCray PB Jr,Huttner KM

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American opossum is the only experimental animal that regularly develops bacterial endocarditis spontaneously. There was no relation between the ability of opossums to clear bacteria from the bloodstream and the subsequent development of endocarditis. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Musher DM,Richie Y

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MtsABC is a Streptococcus pyogenes ABC transporter which was previously shown to be involved in iron and zinc accumulation. In this study, we showed that an mtsABC mutant has impaired growth, particularly in a metal-depleted medium and an aerobic environment. In metal-depleted medium, growth was restored by the additi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Janulczyk R,Ricci S,Björck L

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the underlying mechanisms that result in a sexually dimorphic response to Vibrio vulnificus endotoxic shock. V. vulnificus is a gram-negative bacterium, considered one of the most invasive and rapidly fatal human pathogens known. However, 85% of individuals that develop endotoxic shock from V. vu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Merkel SM,Alexander S,Zufall E,Oliver JD,Huet-Hudson YM

更新日期：2001-10-01 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：:Optimal protective immunity against babesial infection is postulated to require both complement-fixing and opsonizing antibodies in addition to gamma interferon (IFN-gamma)-mediated macrophage activation. The rhoptry-associated protein 1 (RAP-1) of Babesia bigemina induces partial protective immunity and is a candidat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brown WC,McElwain TF,Palmer GH,Chantler SE,Estes DM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection against colibacillosis in neonatal piglets was obtained by immunization of pregnant dams with procholeragenoid. Procholeragenoid is a stable high-molecular-weight aggregate of cholera toxin formed during the heating of cholera toxin. Procholeragenoid retained approximately 1% of the toxicity of native toxin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fürer E,Cryz SJ Jr,Dorner F,Nicolet J,Wanner M,Germanier R

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enteric pathogen Shigella is one of the leading causes of moderate-to-severe diarrhea and death in young children in developing countries. Transformed cell lines and animal models have been widely used to study Shigella pathogenesis. In addition to altered physiology, transformed cell lines are composed of a singl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ranganathan S,Doucet M,Grassel CL,Delaine-Elias B,Zachos NC,Barry EM

更新日期：2019-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Pools of rat antiserum to Plasmodium berghei had different levels of protective activity as assessed by a passive transfer test. Preincubation of parasite inocula with an effective pool before injection did not significantly enhance protective activity. Removal of the antiserum from preincubated parasite inocula aboli...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brown IN,Phillips RS

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased incidence of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in the United Kingdom caused by infection with Mycobacterium bovis is a cause of considerable economic loss to farmers and the government. The Eurasian badger (Meles meles) represents a wildlife source of recurrent M. bovis infections of cattle in the United Kingdom, and...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clark S,Cross ML,Nadian A,Vipond J,Court P,Williams A,Hewinson RG,Aldwell FE,Chambers MA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen clinical isolates of Trichomonas vaginalis were evaluated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with transfer to nitrocellulose and by immunoblots probed with human sera. All T. vaginalis isolates showed similar banding patterns by Coomassie brilliant blue and silver staining of the elec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Garber GE,Proctor EM,Bowie WR

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown previously that serum from chronically infected patients with cystic fibrosis inhibits the phagocytosis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by both normal and cystic fibrosis alveolar macrophages. In the present study, the ability of peripheral monocytes and polymorphonuclear leukocytes from normal volunteers ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thomassen MJ,Demko CA,Wood RE,Sherman JM

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focuses on the interaction of the three components of the Bacillus cereus Nhe enterotoxin with particular emphasis on the functional roles of NheB and NheC. The results demonstrated that both NheB and NheC were able to bind to Vero cells directly while NheA lacked this ability. It was also shown that Nhe-in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lindbäck T,Hardy SP,Dietrich R,Sødring M,Didier A,Moravek M,Fagerlund A,Bock S,Nielsen C,Casteel M,Granum PE,Märtlbauer E

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia cenocepacia strain K56-2 typically has rough colony morphology on agar medium; however, shiny colony variants (shv) can appear spontaneously. These shv all had a minimum of 50% reduction in biomass formation and were generally avirulent in an alfalfa seedling infection model. Three shv-K56-2 S15, K56-2 S7...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bernier SP,Nguyen DT,Sokol PA

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：: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：:The adherence and aggregation properties of 46 human oral Streptococcus salivarius isolates were examined. A total of 41% of the isolates aggregated with whole human saliva, 50% aggregated with human erythrocytes, and 85% adhered to human buccal epithelial cells. Strains that aggregated with saliva and erythrocytes us...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weerkamp AH,McBride BC

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the role of complement in pneumococcal and staphylococcal pneumonia, we decomplemented rats with cobra venom factor and inoculated them intratracheally with Staphylococcus aureus or type 25 pneumococci. S. aureus produced a patchy bronchopneumonia in normal Sprague-Dawley or Lewis rats, and decomplementati...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coonrod JD,Yoneda K

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secretory immunoglobulin A (SIgA) antibodies directed against the O antigen of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) are the primary determinants of mucosal immunity to gram-negative enteric pathogens. However, the underlying mechanisms by which these antibodies interfere with bacterial colonization and invasion of intestinal epit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Forbes SJ,Eschmann M,Mantis NJ

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lung infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms are associated with refractory and fatal pneumonia in cystic fibrosis (CF). In this study, a group of genomically diverse P. aeruginosa isolates were compared with the reference strain PAO1 to assess the roles of motility, twitching, growth rate, and overpro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Head NE,Yu H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cell type 1 (TREM-1) is a cell surface molecule that has been identified on both human and murine polymorphonuclear neutrophils and mature monocytes. The activation of TREM-1 in the presence of microbial components amplifies the inflammatory response and may be responsible ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gibot S,Buonsanti C,Massin F,Romano M,Kolopp-Sarda MN,Benigni F,Faure GC,Béné MC,Panina-Bordignon P,Passini N,Lévy B

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Klebsiella pneumoniae strains to resist the bactericidal activity of serum was quantitated. The K. pneumoniae strains tested included mutants lacking the capsular polysaccharide and mutants having a modified lipopolysaccharide structure. The last mutants were obtained as phage-resistant mutants, and the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tomás JM,Benedí VJ,Ciurana B,Jofre J

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cell-deficient W/Wv mice and their mast cell-sufficient littermates were given infections of Trichinella spiralis. W/Wv mice were slower than their littermates to expel adult T. spiralis. Repair of the mast cell deficiency of W/Wv mice by bone marrow grafting was accompanied by accelerated expulsion of T. spirali...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ha TY,Reed ND,Crowle PK

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histophilus somni is capable of intracellular survival within professional phagocytic cells, but the mechanism of survival is not understood. The Fic motif within the direct repeat (DR1)/DR2 domains of the IbpA fibrillary network protein of H. somni is cytotoxic to epithelial and phagocytic cells, which may interfere ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pan Y,Tagawa Y,Champion A,Sandal I,Inzana TJ

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits are not usually susceptible to intestinal Shigella infection without extensive pretreatment, including starvation and administration of antimicrobial, antimotility, and toxic agents (carbon tetrachloride). Most animals infected this way die rapidly and do not always develop colonic lesions and signs of dysente...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rabbani GH,Albert MJ,Rahman H,Islam M,Mahalanabis D,Kabir I,Alam K,Ansaruzzaman M

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A/Scotland/74 (H3N2) and A/Victoria/75 (H3N2) cold-adapted (ca) recombinant viruses, prepared by mating the A/Ann Arbor/6/60 (H2N2) ca donor virus and influenza A wild-type virus, were evaluated in adult seronegative volunteers (serum hemagglutination-inhibiting antibody titer,

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murphy BR,Holley HP Jr,Berquist EJ,Levine MM,Spring SB,Maassab HF,Kendal AP,Chanock RM

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00