Structural analysis of electrophoretic variation in the genome profiles of rotavirus field isolates.

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi is a human-restricted Gram-negative bacterial pathogen responsible for causing an estimated 27 million cases of typhoid fever annually, leading to 217,000 deaths, and current vaccines do not offer full protection. The O-antigen side chain of the lipopolysaccharide is an immunodominant...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kintz E,Heiss C,Black I,Donohue N,Brown N,Davies MR,Azadi P,Baker S,Kaye PM,van der Woude M

更新日期：2017-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon storage regulator A (CsrA) is an RNA binding protein that has been characterized in many bacterial species to play a central regulatory role by modulating several metabolic processes. We recently showed that a homolog of CsrA in Borrelia burgdorferi (CsrA(Bb), BB0184) was upregulated in response to propagation ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karna SL,Sanjuan E,Esteve-Gassent MD,Miller CL,Maruskova M,Seshu J

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Streptococcus intermedius and Streptococcus mutans are regarded as members of the commensal microflora of the body, S. intermedius is often associated with deep-seated purulent infections, whereas S. mutans is frequently associated with dental caries. In this study, we investigated the roles of the S. mutans ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Petersen FC,Assev S,van der Mei HC,Busscher HJ,Scheie AA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decay-accelerating factor (DAF), a complement regulatory protein, also serves as a receptor for Dr adhesin-bearing Escherichia coli. The repeat three of DAF was shown to be important in Dr adhesin binding and complement regulation. However, Dr adhesins do not bind to red blood cells with the rare polymorphism of DAF, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hasan RJ,Pawelczyk E,Urvil PT,Venkatarajan MS,Goluszko P,Kur J,Selvarangan R,Nowicki S,Braun WA,Nowicki BJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine monoclonal and rabbit, murine, and human polyclonal antibodies against chlamydial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were characterized by the passive hemolysis and passive hemolysis inhibition assays and by absorption experiments with LPSs of Chlamydia psittaci, Chlamydia trachomatis, and a recombinant strain of Salmone...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brade L,Holst O,Kosma P,Zhang YX,Paulsen H,Krausse R,Brade H

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local gingival immunization was attempted in an effort to confine the immune response to the oral cavity and bypass the systemic immune response. A low-molecular-weight (3.8K) streptococcal antigen (SA) I/II was applied 10 times over a period of 1 year to the gingival crevices of rhesus monkeys. The antigen was mainta...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lehner T,Mehlert A,Caldwell J

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interferon-inducing capabilities of the three molecular segments of bacteriophage phi6 double-stranded ribonucleic acid increased with increasing molecular weight. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kleinschmidt WJ,Van Etten JL,Vidaver AK

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The humoral and cell-mediated immune responses of murine lymphocytes exposed to lead in vivo and in vitro were investigated. In vivo Pb was administered via the drinking water (0 to 10 mM) for 1 to 10 weeks. In vivo exposure of the mice to Pb did not alter significantly their plaque-forming cell response to sheep eryt...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lawrence DA

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia in cancer patients develops from initial gastrointestinal (GI) colonization with translocation into the bloodstream in the setting of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia and GI mucosal damage. We established a reproducible mouse model of P. aeruginosa GI colonization and systemic spread ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Koh AY,Priebe GP,Pier GB

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between human neutrophils and wild-type Bordetella pertussis or mutants expressing altered lipopolysaccharide or lacking virulence factors-pertussis toxin, adenylate cyclase toxin, dermonecrotic toxin, filamentous hemagglutinin (FHA), pertactin, or BrkA-was examined. In the absence of antibodies, the w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weingart CL,Weiss AA

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salivary gland lysates of the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis markedly enhance the course of infection with Leishmania major in mice. Here we examine various parameters of this phenomenon. The exacerbative effect of L. longipalpis salivary gland lysates occurred in five different mouse strains; however, the character o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Theodos CM,Ribeiro JM,Titus RG

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type Bordetella bronchiseptica and a bvg mutant strain were used for invasion and survival experiments in human Caco-2 and A549 epithelial cells. Both bacterial strains were able to enter and persist within the host cells for at least a week. A significant proportion of the bacteria from both B. bronchiseptica st...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schipper H,Krohne GF,Gross R

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of protein kinase C (PKC) activation on the cyclic GMP response to heat-stable enterotoxin (STa) in a colonic carcinoma intestinal epithelial cell line, T84 cells. Our results demonstrate that the active phorbol ester analog, phorbol dibutyrate, but not the inactive alpha-phorbol dibutyrate, act...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weikel CS,Spann CL,Chambers CP,Crane JK,Linden J,Hewlett EL

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditions for the release of streptococcal type 12 M protein from whole cells by cyanogen bromide are described; they demonstrated that methionine is not essential to the structural arrangements which account for some of its immunological and biological properties. The released M protein was separated from other prot...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vosti KL,Williams WK

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adherence to fibrinogen and fibronectin plays a crucial role in Staphylococcus aureus experimental endocarditis. Previous genetic studies have shown that infection and carriage isolates do not systematically differ in their virulence-related genes, including genes conferring adherence, such as clfA and fnbA. We set ou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ythier M,Entenza JM,Bille J,Vandenesch F,Bes M,Moreillon P,Sakwinska O

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) is the standard measure of T-cell responsiveness to infectious organisms. For leprosy, the Mitsuda reaction, a local immune response to cutaneous challenge with Mycobacterium leprae, is considered to represent a measure of DTH against the pathogen. We analyzed the diversity of the T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Uyemura K,Ohmen JD,Grisso CL,Sieling PA,Wyzykowski R,Reisinger DM,Rea TH,Modlin RL

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the role of lipoteichoic acid in mediating the adherence of different serotypes of group B streptococci to human adult and neonatal epithelial cells. Pretreatment of neonatal buccal and vaginal epithelial cells with lipoteichoic acid, but not with deacylated lipoteichoic acid, induced a marked inh...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Teti G,Tomasello F,Chiofalo MS,Orefici G,Mastroeni P

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicity by inhalation of various gram-negative bacteria, isolated from settings associated with inhalation disease, was studied by a variety of means. These microorganisms were not equally toxic. Citrobacter freundii aerosol challenges of rabbits provoked significant (up to fivefold) increases in plasma haptoglob...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baseler MW,Fogelmark B,Burrell R

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenicity of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae T28 (serotype 2) was investigated. Antigens were solubilized from the cell surface with detergents. By means of sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting it was shown that the molecular weight of the main antigenic component--a nonprot...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lachmann PG,Deicher H

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Yersinia high-pathogenicity island (HPI) is common to multiple virulence strategies used by Escherichia coli strains associated with urinary tract infection (UTI). Among the genes in this island are ybtP and ybtQ, encoding distinctive ATP binding cassette (ABC) proteins associated with iron(III)-yersiniabactin imp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Koh EI,Hung CS,Henderson JP

更新日期：2016-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The urease gene of Staphylococcus saprophyticus CCM883 was cloned and expressed in Staphylococcus carnosus TM300. In vitro translation of the cloned DNA sequences revealed six polypeptides (of 70, 47, 29, 27, 20, and 17 kilodaltons) that were associated with enzyme activity. Introduction of the cloned genes into a ure...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gatermann S,Marre R

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular bacterial infections affect all vertebrates. Cultured fish are particularly vulnerable because no effective protection measures have been established since such infections emerged approximately 50 years ago. As in other vertebrates, the induction of cell-mediated immunity (CMI) plays an important role in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Matsumoto M,Kubota T,Fujita S,Shiozaki K,Kishida S,Yamamoto A

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma interferon (IFN-γ) drives antiparasite responses and immunopathology during infection with Plasmodium species. Immunity-related GTPases (IRGs) are a class of IFN-γ-dependent proteins that are essential for cell autonomous immunity to numerous intracellular pathogens. However, it is currently unknown whether IRGs...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guo J,McQuillan JA,Yau B,Tullo GS,Long CA,Bertolino P,Roediger B,Weninger W,Taylor GA,Hunt NH,Ball HJ,Mitchell AJ

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While gamma/delta T cells are involved in host defense and immunopathology in a variety of infectious diseases, their precise role is not yet clearly defined. In the absence of gamma/delta T cells, mice die after infection with a dose of Listeria monocytogenes that is not lethal in immunologically intact animals. Morb...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Skeen MJ,Rix EP,Freeman MM,Ziegler HK

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outer membrane protein F (porin) was purified by extraction from polyacrylamide gels of cell envelope proteins of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 strain. Rats were immunized intramuscularly with 25 micrograms of protein F on days 1 and 14 and then challenged on day 28 via intratracheal inoculation of bacterium-contain...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gilleland HE Jr,Gilleland LB,Matthews-Greer JM

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of passive administration of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (MAB) to respiratory syncytial virus glycoproteins (GP90 and VP70) was evaluated in cotton rats challenged with respiratory syncytial virus. Animals injected with MAB to VP70 had lower mean viral titers in lung tissues than did controls (log10...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Walsh EE,Schlesinger JJ,Brandriss MW

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using polystyrene microspheres coated with heparin or heparan sulfate, it was shown that coated microspheres specifically bound eukaryotic cells and were endocytosed by nonprofessional phagocytic cells. Coated microspheres displayed properties of binding to eukaryotic cells that were similar to those of chlamydiae, an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stephens RS,Fawaz FS,Kennedy KA,Koshiyama K,Nichols B,van Ooij C,Engel JN

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we have characterized the association of a polysaccharide-deficient, lipid-rich lipopolysaccharide (LPS) with rabbit erythrocytes (RaRBC). With polymyxin B sulfate-mediated hemolysis as a probe, we have shown that Salmonella minnesota R595 LPS interacts with RaRBC in two distinguishable steps. The first ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carr C Jr,Morrison DC

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cell interactions with pathogenic microbes initiate and direct the development of subsequent adaptive responses. The protozoan pathogen Giardia lamblia infects the mammalian small intestine, leading to nutrient malabsorption and diarrhea but rarely causing inflammation. In order to begin to understand how th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kamda JD,Singer SM

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified R-28 antigen from an M-protein-poor, R-antigen-rich strain of group A Streptococcus was prepared by sequential treatment of an acid extract of whole cells with ammonium sulfate fractionation and hydroxylapatite (HA) column chromatography. Purified R-28 antigen was eluted only with 0.10 M sodium phosphate, pH ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Johnson RH

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00