Specific absence of type 2 fimbriae on a coaggregation-defective mutant of Actinomyces viscosus T14V.

abstract：:The application of dissociation techniques, involving gel filtration in the presence of guanidine, to a semipurified preparation of Campylobacter jejuni heat-labile enterotoxin yielded a material whose functional and immunological properties resemble those of the B subunits of cholera toxin and Escherichia coli heat-l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klipstein FA,Engert RF

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Alexander hepatoma cell line, PLC/PRF/5, was studied for evidence of hepatitis B virus markers and alpha-fetoprotein. Only hepatitis B surface antigen and alpha-fetoprotein were detected. Induction experiments with 5-iodo-2'-deoxyuridine and inoculation of chimpanzees with whole cells or tissue culture fluid did n...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Daemer RJ,Feinstone SM,Alexander JJ,Tully JG,London WT,Wong DC,Purcell RH

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization of New Zealand White rabbits with purified visna virus elicited antibody activity demonstrated by passive hemagglutination (PHA), complement fixation (CF), and indirect immunofluorescent tests. The antibody activities of hyperimmune sera and Sephadex G-200 fractions of the sera were studied. It was found ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karl SC,Thormar H

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a frequent colonizer of the upper respiratory tract and a leading cause of bacterial pneumonia. The innate immune system senses pneumococcal cell wall components, toxin, and nucleic acids, which leads to production of inflammatory mediators to initiate and control antibacterial defense. Her...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ruiz-Moreno JS,Hamann L,Jin L,Sander LE,Puzianowska-Kuznicka M,Cambier J,Witzenrath M,Schumann RR,Suttorp N,Opitz B

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization of BALB/c mice with a plasmid containing the gene for Trypanosoma cruzi trans-sialidase (TS) induced antibodies that inhibited TS enzymatic activity, CD4+ Th1 and CD8+ Tc1 cells, and protective immunity against infection. We used this model to obtain basic information on the requirement of CD4 or CD8 or B...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fujimura AE,Kinoshita SS,Pereira-Chioccola VL,Rodrigues MM

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The actions of polymyxin B, rabbit polymorphonuclear lysosome extracts, 14 polycationic peptides (including defensin NP-2, cecropin P1, lactoferricin B, and active peptides from cationic protein 18 and bactenecin), EDTA, and Tris on Brucella spp. were studied, with other gram-negative bacteria as controls. Brucella sp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Martínez de Tejada G,Pizarro-Cerdá J,Moreno E,Moriyón I

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic tobacco plants stably expressing recombinant FaeG, which is the major subunit and adhesin of K88ad fimbriae, were obtained. Analysis of sera from immunized mice indicates that in mice, the immunogenicity induced by plant-derived FaeG protein is comparable to that generated with traditional approaches. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huang Y,Liang W,Pan A,Zhou Z,Huang C,Chen J,Zhang D

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pasteurella multocida is the causative agent of a number of diseases in animals, including fowl cholera. P. multocida strains simultaneously express two lipopolysaccharide (LPS) glycoforms (glycoforms A and B) that differ only in their inner core structure. Glycoform A contains a single 3-deoxy-d-manno-octulosonic aci...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harper M,Cox AD,St Michael F,Ford M,Wilkie IW,Adler B,Boyce JD

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and convenient method was developed for the preparation of Streptococcus pneumoniae type 14 polysaccharide (Pn14PS)-tetanus toxoid (TT) conjugate vaccines, using terminally linked Pn14PS fragments of different lengths. Native Pn14PS was simultaneously depolymerized and activated for conjugation by partial N-d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Laferriere CA,Sood RK,de Muys JM,Michon F,Jennings HJ

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of an ornithine-containing lipid [alpha-N-(3-acyloxyacyl)-ornithine (Orn-L)] or a serine-containing lipid [alpha-N-(3-acyloxyacyl)-serine (Ser-L)] from Flavobacterium meningosepticum on lethal endotoxemia in mice were examined. When 500 micrograms of Orn-L was intravenously administered 1 h before intraven...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kawai Y,Kaneda K,Morisawa Y,Akagawa K

更新日期：1991-08-01 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：:The binding of cryptococcal polysaccharide to a non-encapsulated strain of Cryptococcus neoformans was studied. Binding of purified polysaccharide to the yeast was determined by inhibition of phagocytosis and by indirect immunofluorescence techniques. The ability of cryptococcal polysaccharide to prevent phagocytosis ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR

更新日期：1977-04-01 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：:Vibrio mimicus 61892, isolated in 1977 from a case of watery diarrhea in Bangladesh, produces an enterotoxin which possesses activity in Y-1 mouse adrenal cells and in rabbit ileal loops which is identical to the prototype cholera toxin (CT) produced by Vibrio cholerae 569B. The neutralization of the adrenal cell acti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Spira WM,Fedorka-Cray PJ

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular source of interleukin-6 (IL-6) during infection of mice with Listeria monocytogenes was investigated both in vitro and in vivo. Peritoneal cells taken at intervals from infected mice and cultured in vitro without added stimulus produced high titers of IL-6 peaking 2 days postinfection in a time course sim...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liu Z,Cheers C

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient utilization of heme as an iron (Fe) source by Bordetella avium requires bhuR, an Fe-regulated gene which encodes an outer membrane heme receptor. Upstream of bhuR is a 507-bp open reading frame, hereby designated rhuI (for regulator of heme uptake), which codes for a 19-kDa polypeptide. Whereas the 19-kDa po...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kirby AE,Metzger DJ,Murphy ER,Connell TD

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have discovered two distinctly different fimbriae expressed by the same Porphyromonas gingivalis strain. The construction of a fimA mutant of P. gingivalis ATCC 33277 has previously been reported by N. Hamada et al. (Infect. Immun. 62:1696-1704, 1994). Expression of fimbriae on the surface of the fimA mutant and th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hamada N,Sojar HT,Cho MI,Genco RJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peru-15 is a live attenuated oral vaccine derived from a Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Inaba strain by a series of deletions and modifications, including deletion of the entire CT genetic element. Peru-15 is also a stable, motility-defective strain and is unable to recombine with homologous DNA. We wished to determine whe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cohen MB,Giannella RA,Bean J,Taylor DN,Parker S,Hoeper A,Wowk S,Hawkins J,Kochi SK,Schiff G,Killeen KP

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of water-insoluble glucan by extracellular glucosyltransferase from Streptococcus mutans 6715 found to be greatly stimulated by various mono- or divalent cations. An enzyme preparation, obtained by ethanol fractionation, was able to catalyze the formation of water-insoluble glucan from sucrose in the pre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mukasa H,Shimamura A,Tsumori H

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis, a periodontopathic bacterium, is known to invade oral epithelial cells in periodontal lesions, although the mechanism is unclear. In the present study, goat polyclonal anti-intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (anti-ICAM-1) antibody inhibited the invasion of P. gingivalis into KB cells (human or...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tamai R,Asai Y,Ogawa T

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB) protect from ameba infection, and protection is transferable with bone marrow dendritic cells (BMDCs). SFB cause an increase in serum amyloid A (SAA), suggesting that SAA might mediate SFB's effects on BMDCs. Here we further explored the role of bone marrow in SFB-mediat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Burgess SL,Saleh M,Cowardin CA,Buonomo E,Noor Z,Watanabe K,Abhyankar M,Lajoie S,Wills-Karp M,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：2016-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-specific T-cell responses and histopathological changes were studied in mice experimentally inoculated with Borrelia burgdorferi B31. Inbred mice with different H-2 haplotypes and/or different genetic backgrounds were inoculated with B. burgdorferi organisms and tested for antigen-specific T-cell responses in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schaible UE,Kramer MD,Justus CW,Museteanu C,Simon MM

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：: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：:Zoonotic infections caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium pose a constant threat to consumer health, with the pig being a particularly major source of multidrug-resistant isolates. Vaccination, as a promising approach to reduce colonization and shedding, has been scarcely used, as it interferes with curren...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Selke M,Meens J,Springer S,Frank R,Gerlach GF

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans, a major pathogen of dental caries, is considered one of the causative agents of infective endocarditis (IE). Recently, bacterial DNA encoding 120-kDa cell surface collagen-binding proteins (CBPs) has frequently been detected from S. mutans-positive IE patients. In addition, some of the CBP-positi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Otsugu M,Nomura R,Matayoshi S,Teramoto N,Nakano K

更新日期：2017-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:As an opportunistic bacterial pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa mainly affects immunocompromised individuals as well as patients with cystic fibrosis. In a previous study, we showed that ExoS of P. aeruginosa, when injected into host cells through a type III secretion apparatus, functions as an effector molecule to tri...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jia J,Alaoui-El-Azher M,Chow M,Chambers TC,Baker H,Jin S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of virulence determinants by Bordetella pertussis, the primary etiological agent of whooping cough, is regulated by the BvgAS two-component regulatory system. The role of a second two-component regulatory system, encoded by risAS, in this process is not defined. Here, we show that mutation of B. pertussis r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stenson TH,Allen AG,Al-Meer JA,Maskell D,Peppler MS

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomyces naeslundii and Streptococcus gordonii, oral bacteria that possess Gal/GalNAc- and sialic acid-reactive lectins, respectively, were adherent to immobilized secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) and two IgA1 myeloma proteins but not to two IgA2 myeloma proteins. Apparently, O-linked oligosaccharides at the hinge ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ruhl S,Sandberg AL,Cole MF,Cisar JO

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conidia ingested by resident macrophages had an enhanced percentage of transformation to yeast cells compared with those in culture medium without macrophages. The yeast cells subsequently grew intracellularly by budding. Macrophages treated with cytokines from antigen-stimulated spleen cells from immunized mice signi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cano LE,Brummer E,Stevens DA,Restrepo A

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00