A wild and an attenuated strain of Francisella tularensis differ in susceptibility to hypochlorous acid: a possible explanation of their different handling by polymorphonuclear leukocytes.

abstract：:Despite effective antimicrobial chemotherapy, control of Chlamydia trachomatis urogenital infection will likely require a vaccine. We have assessed the protective effect of an outer membrane protein-based vaccine by using a murine model of chlamydial genital infection. Female mice were first vaccinated with Chlamydia ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Farris CM,Morrison SG,Morrison RP

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies secreted by six hybridomas and recognizing antigenic sites on glycoproteins gC, gAB, gD, gE, and gF of herpes simplex virus type 2 were examined for their ability to protect BALB/c mice from lethal infection by the virus. Administration of monoclonal antibodies to individual glycoproteins intrape...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Balachandran N,Bacchetti S,Rawls WE

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen preparations derived from Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes (but not from uninfected erythrocytes) can stimulate the in vitro proliferation of peripheral blood lymphocytes from malaria-sensitized as well as nonsensitized donors. The possibility that the nonspecific responses might be due to a parasit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wyler DJ,Herrod HG,Weinbaum FI

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theoretic basis for developing conjugate vaccines, to induce immunoglobulin G (IgG) lipopolysaccharide (LPS) antibodies for the prevention of shigellosis, has been described (J. B. Robbins, C.-Y. Chu, and R. Schneerson, Clin. Infect. Dis. 15:346-361, 1992). The O-specific polysaccharides (O-SPs) of Shigella dysent...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Taylor DN,Trofa AC,Sadoff J,Chu C,Bryla D,Shiloach J,Cohen D,Ashkenazi S,Lerman Y,Egan W

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effector mechanism, which operates against challenge parasites in the lungs of C57BL/6 mice vaccinated once with irradiated cercariae of Schistosoma mansoni, is mediated by CD4+ T helper lymphocytes. However, adoptive transfer of immunity from vaccinated donors to naive recipients by using sensitized T cells has n...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coulson PS,Wilson RA

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 is an important pathogen of humans. Cattle are most frequently identified as the primary source of infection, and therefore, reduction in E. coli O157:H7 prevalence in cattle by vaccination represents an attractive strategy for reducing the incidence of human disease. H7 flagella have been imp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McNeilly TN,Naylor SW,Mahajan A,Mitchell MC,McAteer S,Deane D,Smith DG,Low JC,Gally DL,Huntley JF

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slime production is not a generally recognized feature of Staphylococcus epidermidis. In a recent outbreak of S. epidermidis intravascular catheter-associated sepsis, we noted that 63% of clinically implicated strains grew as a slimy film coating the culture tube walls when propagated in tryptic soy broth. Only 37% of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Christensen GD,Simpson WA,Bisno AL,Beachey EH

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human lactoferrin is an iron-binding glycoprotein that is particularly prominent in exocrine secretions and leukocytes and is also found in serum, especially during inflammation. It is able to sequester iron from microbes and has immunomodulatory functions, including inhibition of both complement activation and cytoki...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Håkansson A,Roche H,Mirza S,McDaniel LS,Brooks-Walter A,Briles DE

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent pulmonary infections with Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are a major problem in cystic fibrosis (CF), leading to severe and progressive deterioration of the respiratory tract. Fibronectin (FN) has a binding site(s) for S. aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes. This bacterial bindings site(s) wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stanislawski L,Sorin M

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of bacterial phospholipases during serum-mediated killing of Escherichia coli was examined by using wild-type DR+ DS+ and an isogenic phospholipase-deficient mutant DR- DS-. No difference in serum sensitivity was observed when the parental DR+ DS+ and mutant DR- DS- strains were exposed to various conce...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kreutzer DL,Vandermaten M,Buller CS,Robertson DC,Hirata AA

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of type 1 pili in promoting bladder colonization was examined by constructing two mutant strains of a clinical Escherichia coli isolate. One mutant was isogenic to the parental strain save for a lesion in a gene required for pilus receptor binding; the other mutant was isogenic save for a lesion in the gene e...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Keith BR,Maurer L,Spears PA,Orndorff PE

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquisition of genomic elements by horizontal gene transfer represents an important mechanism in the evolution of bacterial species. Pathogenicity islands are a subset of horizontally acquired elements present in various pathogens. These elements are frequently located adjacent to tRNA genes. We performed a comparativ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hansen-Wester I,Hensel M

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NikR protein is a nickel-dependent regulatory protein which is a member of the ribbon-helix-helix family of transcriptional regulators. The gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori expresses a NikR ortholog, which was previously shown to mediate regulation of metal metabolism and urease expression, but the mechanism g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ernst FD,Kuipers EJ,Heijens A,Sarwari R,Stoof J,Penn CW,Kusters JG,van Vliet AH

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of nitric oxide (NO) by activated macrophages is believed to control mycobacterial infection in the murine system. In this study we examined the effect of Mycobacterium bovis BCG infection on the L-arginine-dependent NO pathway in J774.1 murine macrophages. We have confirmed previous results by demonstr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peteroy-Kelly M,Venketaraman V,Connell ND

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The route of pathogen inoculation by needle has been shown to influence the outcome of infection. Employing needle inoculation of the obligately intracellular parasite Leishmania major, which is transmitted in nature following intradermal (i.d.) deposition of parasites by the bite of an infected sand fly, we identifie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ribeiro-Gomes FL,Roma EH,Carneiro MB,Doria NA,Sacks DL,Peters NC

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ExoU is a potent effector protein that causes rapid host cell death upon injection by the type III secretion system of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The N-terminal half of ExoU contains a patatin-like phospholipase A(2) (PLA(2)) domain that requires the host cell cofactor superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) for activation, while ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Veesenmeyer JL,Howell H,Halavaty AS,Ahrens S,Anderson WF,Hauser AR

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurological syndrome caused by Plasmodium berghei ANKA in rodents partially mimics the human disease. Several rodent models of cerebral malaria (CM) exist for the study of the mechanisms that cause the disease. However, since common laboratory mouse strains have limited gene pools, the role of their phenotypic va...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bagot S,Idrissa Boubou M,Campino S,Behrschmidt C,Gorgette O,Guénet JL,Penha-Gonçalves C,Mazier D,Pied S,Cazenave PA

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：:Small-colony variants (SCVs) are slow-growing variants of human bacterial pathogens. They are associated with chronic persistent infections, and their biochemical identification and antimicrobial treatment are impaired by altered metabolic properties. To contribute to the understanding of SCV-mediated infections, we a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Roggenkamp A,Hoffmann H,Hornef MW

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune cytolysis was measured by release of absorbed radioactive chromium from infected cells that were incubated with antiviral antibody and complement. The presence of virus-specific antigens detected in this manner on the surface of several types of cells infected with Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus did not corre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brandt WE,Russell PK

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated full-length cDNAs encoding two distinct types of CuZn superoxide dismutases (SODs) from the filarial nematode parasite Brugia pahangi. The derived amino acid sequences suggested that one class of cDNAs represented a cytoplasmic form of SOD and the second class represented an extracellular (EC) variant...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tang L,Ou X,Henkle-Dührsen K,Selkirk ME

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) are the most toxic proteins for humans. The current clostridial-derived vaccines against BoNT intoxication have limitations including production and accessibility. Conditions were established to express the soluble receptor binding domain (heavy-chain receptor [HCR]) of BoNT s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baldwin MR,Tepp WH,Pier CL,Bradshaw M,Ho M,Wilson BA,Fritz RB,Johnson EA,Barbieri JT

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Salmonella dublin virulence plasmid mediates systemic infection in mice and cattle. Here, we analyze the interaction between wild-type and plasmid-cured Salmonella strains with phagocytes in vitro and in vivo. The intracellular recovery of S. dublin from murine peritoneal and bovine alveolar macrophages cultured i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guilloteau LA,Wallis TS,Gautier AV,MacIntyre S,Platt DJ,Lax AJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-molecular-weight, immunogenic form of the lipopolysaccharide O side chain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Fisher immunotype 4 (type 4, International Antigenic Typing System 1, Lanyi O:6) was isolated and characterized. Analysis by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy confirmed the structural similarity of this hig...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pier GB,Pollack M

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is a pathogen of increasing medical importance with a propensity to be multidrug resistant, thereby making treatment challenging. Little is known of virulence traits in A. baumannii. To identify virulence factors and potential drug targets, random transposon (Tn) mutants derived from the A. bau...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Russo TA,Luke NR,Beanan JM,Olson R,Sauberan SL,MacDonald U,Schultz LW,Umland TC,Campagnari AA

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the susceptibilities of Chlamydia trachomatis elementary bodies (EBs) to human defensin HNP-2 and porcine protegrin PG-1, cysteine-rich beta-sheet antimicrobial peptides produced by mammalian leukocytes. Although both peptides protected McCoy cell monolayers from infection by chlamydial EBs, protegrins wer...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yasin B,Harwig SS,Lehrer RI,Wagar EA

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella bronchiseptica secreted a hydroxamate siderophore when grown in Fe-depleted medium. A Tn5lac insertion mutant of B. bronchiseptica, DBB22, did not produce this hydroxamate siderophore and was incapable of using lactoferrin as an Fe source. Our data suggest that B. bronchiseptica uses a siderophore for remov...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Foster LA,Dyer DW

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotypes A and B of the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia turicatae produce different disease manifestations in infected mice. Whereas serotype B causes more severe arthritis and reaches higher densities in the blood of mice than serotype A, serotype A invades the central nervous system earlier than serotype B duri...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pennington PM,Cadavid D,Barbour AG

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic species of the spotted fever group Rickettsia are subjected to repeated exposures to the host complement system through cyclic infections of mammalian and tick hosts. The serum complement machinery is a formidable obstacle for bacteria to overcome if they endeavor to endure this endozoonotic cycle. We have ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Riley SP,Patterson JL,Martinez JJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human peripheral blood monocytes become apoptotic following phagocytosis of Staphylococcus aureus. In this study, we investigated the mechanisms involved in this phenomenon. Cells exposed to bacteria were examined for the surface expression of Fas and Fas ligand (FasL). The level of soluble form of FasL was also measu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baran J,Weglarczyk K,Mysiak M,Guzik K,Ernst M,Flad HD,Pryjma J

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00