Protection from respiratory syncytial virus infection in cotton rats by passive transfer of monoclonal antibodies.

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：:Nerve damage is a clinical hallmark of leprosy and a major source of patient morbidity. We investigated the possibility that human Schwann cells are susceptible to cell death through the activation of Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2), a pattern recognition receptor of the innate immune system. TLR2 was detected on the surf...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Oliveira RB,Ochoa MT,Sieling PA,Rea TH,Rambukkana A,Sarno EN,Modlin RL

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumolysin (PLY), an important virulence factor of Streptococcus pneumoniae, is known to exert various effects on the host immune cells, including cytokine induction, in addition to its known cytolytic activity as a member of the thiol-activated cytolysins. It is of interest to determine whether cytolytic activity is...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baba H,Kawamura I,Kohda C,Nomura T,Ito Y,Kimoto T,Watanabe I,Ichiyama S,Mitsuyama M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcal protective antigen (Spa) is a newly described surface protein of group A streptococci that was recently shown to evoke protective antibodies (J. B. Dale, E. Y. Chiang, S. Liu, H. S. Courtney, and D. L. Hasty, J. Clin. Investig. 103:1261--1268, 1999). In this study, we have determined the complete sequenc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McLellan DG,Chiang EY,Courtney HS,Hasty DL,Wei SC,Hu MC,Walls MA,Bloom JJ,Dale JB

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella enterica serovar Dublin invade osteoblasts and are causative agents of human bone disease. In the present study, we examined the ability of S. aureus and Salmonella serovar Dublin to induce the production of tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) by normal ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alexander EH,Bento JL,Hughes FM Jr,Marriott I,Hudson MC,Bost KL

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic peptide whose sequence was derived from the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium knowlesi coupled to bovine gamma globulin has been shown to be immunogenic when administered with Freund complete adjuvant. The present experiments were designed to test the immunogenicity of the peptide when attached to a t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clough ER,Audibert FM,Barnwell JW,Schlesinger DH,Arnon R,Chedid LA

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flavivirus dengue and the arenavirus Junin are both associated with a hemorrhagic shock syndrome in man. We have demonstrated the replication of these viruses in vitro in both rabbit and human endothelial cells by viral titers and immunofluorescent antibody studies. Rabbit endothelium established in continuous cul...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Andrews BS,Theofilopoulos AN,Peters CJ,Loskutoff DJ,Brandt WE,Dixon FJ

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood mononuclear cells (lymphocytes and monocytes) were isolated from infected calves during in vivo control of acute anaplasmosis and cultured with Anaplasma marginale organisms. Supernatants from the cultures reduced the proportion of erythrocytes containing viable A. marginale in vitro, indicating that an antibody...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wyatt CR,Davis WC,Knowles DP,Goff WL,Palmer GH,McGuire TC

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The method of Garra and Baygorria, for localized antibody production, has been adapted for obtaining high-titered and monospecific antibodies against the murine toxin of Yersinia pestis. A hollow, perforated plastic golf ball surgically implanted under the skin of rabbits induced the formation of a granuloma. When the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hillam RP,Tengerdy RP,Brown GL

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement-fixing antibodies were first detected in mice 7 days after intravenous injection with Mycoplasma arthritidis. Peak titers were observed at 21 days, and high levels of antibody persisted through 293 days. The metabolism-inhibiting antibody response was minimal. On fractionation of mouse sera, only 7S antibod...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coke BC,Ward JR,Golightly-Rowland C,Trapp GA

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal epithelial cells (IECs), including secretory goblet cells, form essential physiochemical barriers that separate luminal bacteria from underlying immune cells in the intestinal mucosa. IECs are common targets for enteric bacterial pathogens, with hosts responding to these microbes through innate toll-like re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bhinder G,Stahl M,Sham HP,Crowley SM,Morampudi V,Dalwadi U,Ma C,Jacobson K,Vallance BA

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics and homing characteristics of T-cell responses in humans after mucosal immunizations have not been well characterized. Therefore, we have investigated the magnitude and duration of such responses as well as the homing receptor expression of antigen-specific peripheral blood T cells by using an oral model ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lundin BS,Johansson C,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity against Babesia bigemina is hypothesized to involve antibodies directed against merozoite surface-exposed epitopes. Levels of antibody against a rhoptry-associated protein 1 (RAP-1) B-lymphocyte epitope, defined by surface-reactive and inhibitory monoclonal antibodies, in immune cattle sera were de...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ushe TC,Palmer GH,Sotomayor L,Figueroa JV,Buening GM,Perryman LE,McElwain TF

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most Helicobacter pylori strains express the BabA adhesin, which binds to ABO/Leb blood group antigens on gastric mucin and epithelial cells and is found more commonly in strains that cause peptic ulcers or gastric cancer, rather than asymptomatic infection. We and others have previously reported that in mice, gerbils...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hansen LM,Gideonsson P,Canfield DR,Borén T,Solnick JV

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse humoral immune response toward native or detergent-extracted outer membrane vesicles (NOMVs and DOMVs, respectively) from Neisseria meningitidis was determined after intranasal immunization. Both preparations elicited high frequencies of NOMV-specific antibody-forming cells (AFCs) locally in the nasal associ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guthrie T,Wong SY,Liang B,Hyland L,Hou S,Høiby EA,Andersen SR

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania exist as obligatory intracellular amastigotes and invade macrophages and Langerhans cells, the dendritic cells of the skin. Langerhans cells are much more efficient in presenting Leishmania major antigen to T cells than macrophages are and have the unique ability to retain p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Flohé S,Lang T,Moll H

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using a suckling mouse assay, heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) was purified from the culture filtrate of Yersinia enterocolitica isolated from a diarrheal patient. The purification procedures involve ultrafiltration with an Amicon HIP-10 hollow fiber, ethanol fractionation, protamine sulfate treatment, diethylaminoethy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Okamoto K,Inoue T,Ichikawa H,Kawamoto Y,Miyama A

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Streptococcus mutans serotype c gtfA gene encodes a 55-kilodalton sucrose-hydrolyzing enzyme. Analysis of S. mutans gtfA mutants revealed that the mutant strains were specifically impaired in the ability to use melibiose as a sole carbon source. S. mutans gtfA mutant strains synthesized less alpha-galactosidase ac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barletta RG,Curtiss R 3rd

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of immunological responsiveness to a soluble cercarial antigenic preparation (CAP) from Schistosoma mansoni was analyzed in inbred CBA/J mice infected with cercariae, one or multiple times, or sensitized using CAP. Repeated exposure to 75 cercariae at three weekly intervals (3X-75) or subcutaneous admi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Katz SP,Colley DG

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium causes self-limiting gastroenteritis in humans and a typhoid-like disease in mice that serves as a model for typhoid infections in humans. A critical step in Salmonella pathogenesis is the invasion of enterocytes and M cells of the small intestine via expression of a type III se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boddicker JD,Jones BD

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III secretion system (T3SS) encoded by the Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI2) has a central role in systemic infections by Salmonella enterica and for the intracellular phenotype. Intracellular S. enterica uses the SPI2-encoded T3SS to translocate a set of effector proteins into the host cell, which mod...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hansen-Wester I,Chakravortty D,Hensel M

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both interleukin-17A (IL-17A) and IL-17F are proinflammatory cytokines that have an important role in intestinal homeostasis via receptor signaling. These cytokines have been characterized in chickens, but very little is known about their receptors and their functional activity. We provide here the first description o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kim WH,Jeong J,Park AR,Yim D,Kim S,Chang HH,Yang SH,Kim DH,Lillehoj HS,Min W

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two weeks after mice had been infected in the footpad with cells of Nocardia brasiliensis, immunoglobulin and C3 deposits were observed in tissue from the inoculation site. Both immunoglobulin and C3 were found in the actinomycotic granules that characterize the mycetoma and in the surrounding inflammatory zones, in w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Conde C,Mancilla R,Fresan M,Ortiz-Ortiz L

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacterial infections, mononuclear and polymorphonuclear phagocytes are key components of host defenses. Recent investigations have indicated that chemokines are able to recruit and activate phagocytes. In particular, interleukin-8 (IL-8) attracts polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs), while monocyte chemoattractant p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tonetti MS,Imboden MA,Gerber L,Lang NP,Laissue J,Mueller C

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent infection with Borrelia burgdorferi in the presence of a vigorous host immune response has been demonstrated in humans and in animal models of Lyme disease. Long-term persistence of B. burgdorferi was documented recently in our studies of BALB/c and C3H mice infected with cloned and uncloned strains of B. b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Persing DH,Mathiesen D,Podzorski D,Barthold SW

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural gene of pneumolysin was randomly mutagenized. A screen, developed to identify mutants with reduced hemolytic activity, identified substitutions within the cysteine-containing region and also at residues toward the N terminus of the toxin. These are the first reported changes within the N-terminal region...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hill J,Andrew PW,Mitchell TJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli genome varies in size from 4.5 to 5.5 Mb. It is unclear whether this variation may be distributed finely throughout the genome or is concentrated at just a few chromosomal loci or on plasmids. Further, the functional correlates of size variation in different genome copies are largely unexplored. W...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rode CK,Melkerson-Watson LJ,Johnson AT,Bloch CA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a by-product of glycerol metabolism in mycoplasmas and has been shown to cause cytotoxicity for cocultured eukaryotic cells. There appears to be selective pressure for mycoplasmas to retain the genes needed for glycerol metabolism. This has generated interest and speculation as to their fun...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Szczepanek SM,Boccaccio M,Pflaum K,Liao X,Geary SJ

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterile sonic-treated materials of pneumococci grown in media containing N-acetylmannosamine as the carbohydrate source were lethal for mice. Purification of the toxic factor led to its identification as the enzyme neuraminidase. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kelly R,Greiff D

更新日期：1970-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and reproducible method of bacteriocin typing is described based on leakage of ultraviolet light-absorbing material (UVAM), detectable in supernatants of bacteriocin-sensitive cultures, by means of a spectrophotometer. The prerequisites for reproducible results, with nonsignificant fluctuations in standard err...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Farkas-Himsley H,Pagel A

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00