PLC/PRF/5 (Alexander) hepatoma cell line: further characterization and studies of infectivity.

abstract：:Murine cytomegalovirus pools from various in vitro and in vivo sources were compared for virulence in suckling mice in an effort to identify the conditions which were necessary for the production of virulent and attenuated viruses. Virus passaged in tracheal ring and salivary gland organ cultures, where virus is produ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Selgrade MK,Nedrud JG,Collier AM,Gardner DE

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin G (IgG)- and IgM-specific antibody titers against Salmonella typhi Ty2 porins have been measured in 30 paired typhoid sera by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. These studies have found that IgG serum titers of acute and convalescent sera were 625 and 5,000 times higher, respectively than the control se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Calderón I,Lobos SR,Rojas HA,Palomino C,Rodríguez LH,Mora GC

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli F-18 is a human fecal isolate that makes type 1 fimbriae, encoded by the fim gene cluster, and is an excellent colonizer of the streptomycin-treated mouse intestine. E. coli F-18 fimA::tet, lacking type 1 fimbriae, was constructed by bacteriophage P1 transduction of the fim region of the E. coli K-12 ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sweeney NJ,Klemm P,McCormick BA,Moller-Nielsen E,Utley M,Schembri MA,Laux DC,Cohen PS

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the ability of gut antigens to induce a protective immune response against blood-feeding nematodes, isolated gut antigens were used to immunize goats against Haemonchus contortus. Immunization-induced antibody responses recognized parasite gut antigens which were associated predominantly with the microvil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jasmer DP,McGuire TC

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite that is able to penetrate human monocytes by either passive uptake during phagocytosis or active penetration. It is expected that immunoglobulin G (IgG) opsonization will target the parasite to macrophage Fc gamma receptors for phagocytic processing and subsequent degradation....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fadul CE,Channon JY,Kasper LH

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is recognized as the major cause of antibiotic-associated colitis. C. difficile produces two toxins, A (enterotoxin) and B (cytotoxin), that are implicated in the pathogenesis of the colitis. We examined the dose responses, time course, and synergism of these two toxins in ligated rabbit intestin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lima AA,Lyerly DM,Wilkins TD,Innes DJ,Guerrant RL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphonuclear leukocytes from 46 adults (age 18 to 35), 19 adults (age 70 to 91), 10 children (age 1 to 3), and 22 neonates (cord blood samples) were tested for their chemiluminescence response to opsonized zymosan. Results indicated that both cord blood leukocytes and those from individuals over 70 were significa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Van Epps DE,Goodwin JS,Murphy S

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serotype-specific polysaccharide of Streptococcus mutans AHT (serotype a) was shown to be loosely associated with the cell surface of this organism. The antigen was extracted from whole cells by boiling in sodium acetate buffer, pH 4.0, for 10 min. The purified product was found to be a diheteroglycan of galactose...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Craig RA,Riege DH,Bleiweis AS

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that the Uganda Palo Alto line of Plasmodium falciparum propagated in Saimiri monkeys and the line maintained in culture in human erythrocytes for many years in our laboratory are genetically unrelated (T. Fandeur, S. Bonnefoy, and O. Mercereau-Puijalon, Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 47:167, 1991). Whe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fandeur T,Gysin J,Mercereau-Puijalon O

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in gram-negative bacterial repeats-in-toxin (RTX) toxin preparations, as well as the harsh conditions required to remove it, suggests that LPS may complex with RTX toxins. Concentrated culture supernatant (CCS) preparations of the RTX toxin Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin (L...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li J,Clinkenbeard KD

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis, a causative agent of whooping cough, expresses BrkA, which confers serum resistance, but the closely related human pathogen that also causes whooping cough, Bordetella parapertussis, does not. Interestingly, B. parapertussis, but not B. pertussis, produces an O antigen, a factor shown in other mo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goebel EM,Wolfe DN,Elder K,Stibitz S,Harvill ET

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of bacterial adherence and hemolysin production from Escherichia coli parent and genetically cloned strains as to their effects on histamine release from rat mast cells and leukotriene generation from human polymorphonuclear granulocytes. These mediators were involved in the induction of infla...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Scheffer J,König W,Hacker J,Goebel W

更新日期：1985-10-01 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：:Lymphocyte blastogenesis assays and immunoblotting were used to investigate and compare murine B-cell responses to preparations of extracellular membrane blebs (BAg) and spirochetes (Ag) of Borrelia burgdorferi. Immunoblotting BAg, Ag, and medium control preparations with serum from naive and infected C57BL/10 mice re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whitmire WM,Garon CF

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Once in the cytoplasm of mammalian cells, Shigella flexneri expresses a motile phenotype caused by polar directional assembly of actin. This process depends on accumulation of IcsA (VirG), a 120-kDa protein with ATPase activity, at the pole of the bacterium opposite to that at which ongoing septation occurs. IcsA is a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： d'Hauteville H,Dufourcq Lagelouse R,Nato F,Sansonetti PJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is an amphipathic macromolecule that is highly aggregated in aqueous preparations. LPS-binding protein (LBP) catalyzes the transfer of single LPS molecules, segregated from an LPS aggregate, to high-density lipoproteins (HDL), which results in the neutralization of LPS. When fluorescein isothi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de Haas CJ,Poppelier MJ,van Kessel KP,van Strijp JA

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By screening a genomic lambda library of Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus, we have cloned and sequenced a gene, termed fnz, encoding a fibronectin (Fn)-binding protein called FNZ. On the basis of the deduced amino acid sequence of FNZ, the mature protein has a molecular mass of approximately 61 kDa. Analysis of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lindmark H,Jacobsson K,Frykberg L,Guss B

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 fimbrial phase-locked mutants of uropathogenic Escherichia coli cystitis isolate F11 were used to assess the role of the invertible element during urinary tract infection. Compared to the wild type, the phase-locked off mutant was attenuated, and constitutive production of type 1 fimbriae by the phase-locked on...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Snyder JA,Lloyd AL,Lockatell CV,Johnson DE,Mobley HL

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate diagnosis and early treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB infection (LTBI) are vital to prevent and control TB. The lack of specific biomarkers hinders these efforts. This study's purpose was to screen immunological markers that discriminate Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection outcomes in a setting wh...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Teklu T,Kwon K,Wondale B,HaileMariam M,Zewude A,Medhin G,Legesse M,Pieper R,Ameni G

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The suspected correlation between cessation of type C virus production and halt in immunoglobulin secretion by murine myeloma cells was studied. Employing two variants of the murine myeloma MOPC-315, immunoglobulin A-producing and nonproducing cells, we demonstrated that the two myelomas release similar levels of type...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gazit A,Yaniv A,Halperin D,Ben-Efraim S

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus was stable for 10 days at 4 C in stream and well water, after which the virus had a half-life of 7.5 days. At 15 C, the virus was stable for 5 days, and then had a half-life between 5 and 6 days. Viral antigen in infected cells developed much more slowly at 4 C than at 20 C. Infect...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tu KC,Spendlove RS,Goede RW

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioluminescent reporter assays have been widely used to study the effect of Toxoplasma gondii on host gene expression. In the present study, we extend these studies by engineering novel reporter cell lines containing a gamma-activated sequence (GAS) element driving firefly luciferase (FLUC). In RAW264.7 macrophages, T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Olias P,Sibley LD

更新日期：2016-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of major outer membrane protein (MOMP) profiles of various meningococci by sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) revealed the presence of 0 to 2 low-molecular-weight, heat-modifiable MOMPs (molecular weight, 25,000 to 32,000) and 1 to 3 high-molecular-weight MOMPs (molecul...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Poolman JT,de Marie S,Zanen HC

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aroC gene of the facultative intracellular pathogen Brucella suis was cloned and sequenced. The cloned aroC gene complements Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium aroC mutants. A B. suis aroC mutant was found to be unable to grow in a defined medium without aromatic compounds. The mutant was...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Foulongne V,Walravens K,Bourg G,Boschiroli ML,Godfroid J,Ramuz M,O'Callaghan D

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uropathogenic Escherichia coli strain J96 carries multiple determinants for fimbrial adhesins. The regulatory protein PapB of P fimbriae has previously been implicated in potential coregulatory events. The focB gene of the F1C fimbria determinant is highly homologous to papB; the translated sequences share 81% identit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lindberg S,Xia Y,Sondén B,Göransson M,Hacker J,Uhlin BE

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial infection with group B Streptococcus (GBS) represents a prominent threat to neonates and fetuses in the Western world, causing severe organ damage and even death. To improve current therapeutic strategies and to investigate new approaches, an appropriate in vivo model to study the immune response of a human ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ernst W,Zimara N,Hanses F,Männel DN,Seelbach-Göbel B,Wege AK

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral inoculation of 5-day-old gnotobiotic pigs with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strain F98 resulted in severe enteritis and invasive disease. Preinoculation 24 h earlier with an avirulent mutant of Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis (1326/28) completely prevented disease for up to 14 days (when the exper...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Foster N,Lovell MA,Marston KL,Hulme SD,Frost AJ,Bland P,Barrow PA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune response to the mycobacterial 65-kDa heat shock protein (hsp65) is considered an important event in the induction of adjuvant arthritis (AA) in rats; this induction probably occurs through a molecular mimicry mechanism involving cross-reactivity against the rat homolog hsp60. To analyze the role of mammalia...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： López-Guerrero JA,López-Bote JP,Ortiz MA,Gupta RS,Páez E,Bernabeu C

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease that is caused by the gram-negative bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The low efficacy of currently available killed-whole-cell vaccines and the reactinogenicity coupled with potential reversion of live vaccines have thus far precluded widespread vaccination for the control of cholera. R...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wu JY,Wade WF,Taylor RK

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The compositions of lipopolysaccharides I and II, isolated from Coxiella burnetii phase I and pure phase II cells, respectively, showed drastic and clear-cut differences. Lipopolysaccharide II exhibited a comparatively simple composition. It contained, in addition to glucosamine (from lipid A) and a 2-keto-3-deoxyoctu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schramek S,Mayer H

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00