Involvement of cells of hematopoietic origin in genetically determined resistance of Syrian hamsters to vesicular stomatitis virus.

abstract：:A panel of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) specific for the heat-stable enterotoxin (STh) of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli was produced. All four MAbs (8G7, 53-4, 11C, and SH1) bound to native STh in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to various degrees, with clone SH1 showing the best affinity. The MAbs were screen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takeda T,Nair GB,Suzuki K,Zhe HX,Yokoo Y,De Mol P,Hemelhof W,Butzler JP,Takeda Y,Shimonishi Y

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ocular surface is continuously exposed to potential pathogens, including free-living amoebae. Acanthamoeba species are among the most ubiquitous amoebae, yet Acanthamoeba keratitis is remarkably rare. The pathogenesis of Acanthamoeba keratitis is a complex, sequential process. Here we show that Acanthamoeba kerati...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alizadeh H,Neelam S,Hurt M,Niederkorn JY

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli is a major cause of enteric/diarrheal diseases, urinary tract infections, and sepsis. E. coli K1 is the leading gram-negative organism causing neonatal meningitis, but the microbial basis of E. coli K1 meningitis is incompletely understood. Here we employed comparative genomic hybridization to investi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yao Y,Xie Y,Kim KS

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of an effective vaccine against Leishmania infection is a priority of tropical disease research. We have recently demonstrated protection against Leishmania major in the murine and nonhuman primate models with individual or combinations of purified leishmanial recombinant antigens delivered as plasmid DNA ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coler RN,Skeiky YA,Bernards K,Greeson K,Carter D,Cornellison CD,Modabber F,Campos-Neto A,Reed SG

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fasciola hepatica is a prevalent helminth parasite of livestock. Infection results in polarization of the host's immune response and generation of type 2 helper (Th2) immune responses, which are known to be inhibitory to Th1 responses. Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) is a bacterial disease of economic and zoonotic importanc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Flynn RJ,Mannion C,Golden O,Hacariz O,Mulcahy G

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that a wild strain of Francisella tularensis is much less efficiently killed by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes than is an attenuated strain. In the present study, the killing of the attenuated strain was found to be strictly oxygen dependent. The wild and the attenuated strains both ind...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Löfgren S,Tärnvik A,Thore M,Carlsson J

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treponema denticola is a cultivable oral spirochete which perturbs the cytoskeleton in cultured cells of oral origin, but intracellular signalling pathways by which it affects actin assembly are largely unknown. As the outer membrane (OM) of Treponema denticola disrupts actin-dependent processes that normally require ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ko KS,Glogauer M,McCulloch CA,Ellen RP

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of ferrets after intranasal inoculation of inactivated A/Hong Kong/68 (H3N2) influenza virus vaccines is reported. Normal ferrets given either saline vaccine in drops or freeze-dried vaccine in an aerosol intranasally did not produce detectable serum or nasal hemagglutination inhibiting antibody and were ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McLaren C,Potter CW,Jennings R

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium renale type I (strain 115), 1.7 X 10(7) to 4.5 X 10(7) organisms, introduced intravenously into mice disappeared from the blood less than 24 h after inoculation and did not produce pyelonephritis. The same strain, 1 X 10(7) to 5 X 10(7) organisms, inoculated into the urinary bladder of mice was not rec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shimono E,Yanagawa R

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

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：: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 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：:In this study, cytokine patterns produced by CD4(+) T cells isolated from antrum or corpus gastral biopsy specimens of 10 patients with Helicobacter pylori-positive gastritis were compared. To this end, expression of intracellular cytokines (interleukin-4 [IL-4] and gamma interferon) and of CD4 was assessed by flow cy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sommer F,Faller G,Konturek P,Kirchner T,Hahn EG,Zeus J,Röllinghoff M,Lohoff M

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) base composition, as measured by guanine plus cytosine (G + C) content, was determined in 17 strains of Sporothrix schenckii and Ceratocystis species. The average G + C content for S. schenckii was 54.7 +/- 0.2 mol%. No strain of Ceratocystis, with the exception of C. minor, gave values for...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mendonça-Hagler LC,Travassos LR,Lloyd KO,Phaff HJ

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of Rickettsia prowazekii-infected L929 cells with gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) immediately after infection altered the lipid metabolism of the host cells as determined by measurement of phospholipid hydrolysis and oleic acid incorporation into phospholipids and neutral lipids. At 48 h postinfection, there wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Winkler HH,Day L,Daugherty R,Turco J

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic dimeric GMP (c-di-GMP), a bacterial second messenger, is known to regulate bacterial biofilm and sessility. Replication of an obligatory intracellular pathogen, Ehrlichia chaffeensis, is characterized by formation of bacterial aggregates called morulae inside membrane-bound inclusions. When E. chaffeensis matur...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kumagai Y,Matsuo J,Cheng Z,Hayakawa Y,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we identified five genes (Cj1321 to Cj1326, of which Cj1325 and Cj1326 are a single gene) in the O-linked flagellin glycosylation island that are highly prevalent in Campylobacter jejuni isolates from chickens. We report mutagenesis, functional, and structural data to confirm that this locus, and Cj1324 in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Howard SL,Jagannathan A,Soo EC,Hui JP,Aubry AJ,Ahmed I,Karlyshev A,Kelly JF,Jones MA,Stevens MP,Logan SM,Wren BW

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis (Corynebacterium ovis) were examined for the production of diphtheria toxin. A majority of C. ulcerans strains (25 of 37) and 1 C. pseudotuberculosis strain (1 of 14) gave a positive Elek test for diphtheria toxin, and for all strains but 1, pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Groman N,Schiller J,Russell J

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate (TDM) plays important roles in the development of granulomatous inflammation during infection with Mycobacterium spp., Rhodococcus spp., etc. To reveal the augmenting effect of TDM on vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) production and neovascularization, we investigated murine granuloma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sakaguchi I,Ikeda N,Nakayama M,Kato Y,Yano I,Kaneda K

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased resistance to infection with Brucella abortus 2308 resulted when recombinant murine gamma interferon (rMuIFN-gamma) was given to mice both before and during infection but not when given only before infection. Mice given rMuIFN-gamma had enhanced peritoneal and splenic macrophage bactericidal activity against...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stevens MG,Pugh GW Jr,Tabatabai LB

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonacylated form of protein D (PDm) of Haemophilus influenzae has been shown to induce the production of antibodies that are bactericidal to homologous and heterologous nontypeable H. influenzae (NTHi) strains. In this study, immunization of rats with lipoprotein D (LPD) induced higher levels of anti-protein D imm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Akkoyunlu M,Melhus A,Capiau C,van Opstal O,Forsgren A

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, relies on multiple virulence factors to subvert the host immune defense. Using Caenorhabditis elegans as an infection model, we screened approximately 5,000 transposon mutants of B. anthracis Sterne for decreased virulence. One of the attenuated mutants resulted in l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Franks SE,Ebrahimi C,Hollands A,Okumura CY,Aroian RV,Nizet V,McGillivray SM

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial overgrowth in the small bowel is known to occur in patients with persistent diarrhea, but it has been unclear if colonization alone causes fluid secretion. We studied isogenic, nontoxigenic Escherichia coli strains with colonizing factor antigen II (CFA/II) (1392+) and without CFA/II (1392-) in 18-h rabbit i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wanke CA,Guerrant RL

更新日期：1987-08-01 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：: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

abstract：:Membrane and soluble fractions of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, M. pulmonis, and M. laidlawii B were prepared by hypotonic lysis of whole cells. The membranes of M. pneumoniae and M. laidlawii B contained, as percentage of dry weight: 34 to 37% protein, 59 to 61% lipid, 3 to 4% carbohydrate as hexose, and 0.2% ribonucleic ac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pollack JD,Somerson NL,Senterfit LB

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial encounter of Leishmania cells and cells from the immune system is fundamentally important in the outcome of infection and determines disease development or resistance. We evaluated the anti-Leishmania amazonensis response of naive volunteers by using an in vitro priming (IVP) system and comparing the respo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pompeu MM,Brodskyn C,Teixeira MJ,Clarêncio J,Van Weyenberg J,Coelho IC,Cardoso SA,Barral A,Barral-Netto M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenethyl alcohol, at the maximum concentration which did not inhibit growth (0.3% [vol/vol]), inhibited the production of alpha-lysin and exoproteases but not that of delta-lysin in Staphylococcus aureus Wood 46. The inhibition of alpha-lysin was reversible, and transient accumulation of cell-associated alpha-lysin o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee KY,Birkbeck TH

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human and rat C-reactive proteins, major acute-phase reactants, bind to sporozoites and inhibit their in vitro development in hepatocytes (A. Nussler, S. Pied, M. Pontet, F. Miltgen, L. Renia, M. Gentilini, and D. Mazier, Exp. Parasitol. 72:1-7, 1991, and S. Pied, A. Nussler, M. Pontet, F. Miltgen, H. Matile, P.-H. La...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rénia L,Xia D,Samols D,Nussenzweig V

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Help from CD4 T cells is often important for the establishment of primary and memory CD8 T-cell responses. However, it has yet to be determined whether T helper polarization affects the delivery of help and/or whether responding CD8 T cells helped by Th1 or Th2 cells express distinct effector properties. To address th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ekkens MJ,Shedlock DJ,Jung E,Troy A,Pearce EL,Shen H,Pearce EJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00