Molecular cloning of the major outer membrane protein of Chlamydia trachomatis.

abstract：:Immunization with avirulent Salmonella typhimurium strain SL3235, a smooth, aroA- derivative, was shown to induce high levels of resistance to challenge with virulent S. typhimurium in innately hypersusceptible C3H/HeJ mice and inherently resistant C3H/HeNCrlBR mice. Strain SL3235 is one of a class of avirulent aroA- ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Killar LM,Eisenstein TK

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal administration of 16 mg of cyclophosphamide in inbred chickens resulted in a transient, but profound, deficiency in the in vitro proliferative response of spleen cells. Functional T-cell deficiency was accompanied by a marked morphological degeneration in the thymus and thymus-dependent areas in the spleen. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sharma JM,Lee LF

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potassium thiocyanate extracts of a virulent Pasteurella multocida 3:A rabbit isolate were prepared and used as a vaccine in rabbits. The extract contained protein, carbohydrate, hyaluronic acid, lipopolysaccharide, DNA, and RNA. The protein and lipopolysaccharide profiles of the extract were similar to those of the P...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lu YS,Pakes SP,Massey L,Stefanu C

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies against the class 4 outer membrane protein (OMP) from Neisseria meningitidis have been purified from sera from vaccinees immunized with the Norwegian meningococcal group B outer membrane vesicle vaccine. The human sera and purified antibodies reacted strongly with the class 4 OMP in immunoblots, whereas exp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosenqvist E,Musacchio A,Aase A,Høiby EA,Namork E,Kolberg J,Wedege E,Delvig A,Dalseg R,Michaelsen TE,Tommassen J

更新日期：1999-03-01 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 she gene of Shigella flexneri 2a, which also harbors the internal enterotoxin genes set1A and set1B (F. R. Noriega, GenBank accession no. U35656, 1995) encodes a homolog of the virulence-related immunoglobulin A (IgA) protease-like family of secreted proteins, Tsh, EspC, SepA, and Hap, from an avian pathogenic Esc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rajakumar K,Sasakawa C,Adler B

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular survival of Chlamydia psittaci is in part dependent on the ability of the organism to thwart phagolysosome formation. Circumvention of phagolysosome fusion could be either localized to chlamydia-laden vacuoles or generalized to all phagosomes in the host cell. To determine which of these modes is in oper...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eissenberg LG,Wyrick PB

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio mimicus 61892, isolated in 1977 from a case of watery diarrhea in Bangladesh, produces an enterotoxin which possesses activity in Y-1 mouse adrenal cells and in rabbit ileal loops which is identical to the prototype cholera toxin (CT) produced by Vibrio cholerae 569B. The neutralization of the adrenal cell acti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Spira WM,Fedorka-Cray PJ

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori mutants deficient in 6-phosphogluconate dehydratase (6PGD) were constructed. Colonization densities were lower and minimum infectious doses were higher for mutant strains than for wild-type strains. In spite of better colonization, however, wild-type strains did not displace the mutant in cocoloniz...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wanken AE,Conway T,Eaton KA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were protected against a lethal infection with Listeria monocytogenes when treated with low doses of an anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (MAb). Injection of anti-CD3 MAb induced rapid production of endogenous tumor necrosis factor (TNF) in the spleens and endogenous gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in the bloodstreams an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nakane A,Okamoto M,Asano M,Kohanawa M,Minagawa T

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunity to infection with Eimeria vermiformis was transferred in NIH mice by both the nylon wool-adherent (B-cell-enriched) and nonadherent (T-cell-enriched) fractions of lymphocytes (spleen and mesenteric lymph node) taken from infected donors. Transfer was more variable with the adherent fraction, and when contamin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rose ME,Joysey HS,Hesketh P,Grencis RK,Wakelin D

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinlike material was obtained from disrupted Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells by a modification of the method of Hancock and Nikaido (J. Bacteriol. 136:381-390) for isolating outer membrane vesicles. Pelleted membranes were dissolved in Laemmli sample buffer and electrophoresed in parallel lanes with purified rabbit ske...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Berk RS,Moon M,Higbee R,Cramer C,Roher A,Weis M,Hazlett L

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work (P. Castric, F. J. Cassels, and R. W. Carlson, J. Biol. Chem. 276:26479-26485, 2001) has shown the Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1244 pilin glycan to be covalently bound to a serine residue. N-terminal sequencing of pilin fragments produced from endopeptidase treatment and identified by reaction with a glycan-s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Comer JE,Marshall MA,Blanch VJ,Deal CD,Castric P

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Buruli ulcer, caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, is characterized by deep and necrotizing skin lesions, mostly on the arms and legs. Together with tuberculosis and leprosy, this mycobacterial disease has become a major health problem in tropical and subtropical regions, particularly in central and western Africa. No sp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tanghe A,Content J,Van Vooren JP,Portaels F,Huygen K

更新日期：2001-09-01 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：:A nonhuman primate model for malaria vaccine development allowing reliable, stringent sporozoite challenge and evaluation of both cellular and antibody responses is needed. We therefore constructed a multicomponent, multistage DNA vaccine for the simian malaria species Plasmodium knowlesi including two preerythrocytic...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogers WO,Baird JK,Kumar A,Tine JA,Weiss W,Aguiar JC,Gowda K,Gwadz R,Kumar S,Gold M,Hoffman SL

更新日期：2001-09-01 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：:Amebic erythrophagocytosis is characteristic of invasive amebiasis, and mutants deficient in erythrocyte ingestion are avirulent. We sought to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying erythrocyte phagocytosis by Entamoeba histolytica. Following adherence to amebae, erythrocytes became round and crenulated, and p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boettner DR,Huston CD,Sullivan JA,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto is the major causative agent of Lyme disease in the United States, while B. garinii and B. afzelii are more prevalent in Europe. The highly complex genome of B. burgdorferi is comprised of a linear chromosome and a large number of variably sized linear and circular plasmids. Many pla...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chan K,Casjens S,Parveen N

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to phagocytosis is a hallmark of virulent Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus). Surface-bound C5a peptidase reduces recruitment of phagocytes to the site of infection, and hyaluronic acid capsules and/or the M protein limit the uptake of streptococci. In this study the relative impact of M and M-l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ji Y,Schnitzler N,DeMaster E,Cleary P

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei is a facultative intracellular gram-negative bacterium that can survive and multiply inside macrophages. One of the mechanisms by which B. pseudomallei escapes macrophage killing is by interfering with the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS). However, the bacterial components...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Arjcharoen S,Wikraiphat C,Pudla M,Limposuwan K,Woods DE,Sirisinha S,Utaisincharoen P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmid-encoded structural gene cofA necessary for the production of the major pilin subunit of pilus colonization factor antigen III (CFA/III) of human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli was identified, and the nucleotide sequence of the gene was determined. cofA consists of 714 nucleotides encoding a 238-amino-aci...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Taniguchi T,Fujino Y,Yamamoto K,Miwatani T,Honda T

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumonia due to Gram-negative bacteria is associated with high mortality. Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative bacterium that is associated with hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia. Bacteria have been described to release outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) that are capable of mediating systemic in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marion CR,Lee J,Sharma L,Park KS,Lee C,Liu W,Liu P,Feng J,Gho YS,Dela Cruz CS

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine goats were injected transthoracically with Pasteurella haemolytica A1 to determine if an extracellular bacterial enzyme, neuraminidase, was produced in vivo during infection with this organism. The principal group of goats (n = 9) each received 1 ml of 7.25 x 10(5) live P. haemolytica A1 cells in polyacrylate bea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Straus DC,Purdy CW

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lung infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms are associated with refractory and fatal pneumonia in cystic fibrosis (CF). In this study, a group of genomically diverse P. aeruginosa isolates were compared with the reference strain PAO1 to assess the roles of motility, twitching, growth rate, and overpro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Head NE,Yu H

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:We attempted to induce experimental arthritis in rats by systematically testing the effect of Yersinia infections in five strains of rats, using the intragastric, intraperitoneal, and intravenous routes of inoculation. We observed that Lewis rats which were given 10(4) to 10(5) Yersinia enterocolitica WA organisms via...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hill JL,Yu DT

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli strains produce at least two heat-stable enterotoxins, STa and STb. STa is well known to be important in the pathogenesis of human diarrheal disease; the role of STb has not been defined. Fifty-two E. coli strains recovered from human diarrheal illness in northeast Brazil or Bangladesh were examined i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weikel CS,Tiemens KM,Moseley SL,Huq IM,Guerrant RL

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferrets which had been orally dosed with 5 mg of Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) responded with an increase in subcutaneous temperature. At 75 min, the subcutaneous temperature was significantly higher (+ 0.9 degrees C +/- 0.38 degrees C, P < 0.007) than in control animals. Animals dosed with 1 or 2 mg of SEB respo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wright A,Andrews PL,Titball RW

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major obstacle to studying the functions of particular gene products in the mouse-tick infectious cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi has been an inability to knock out genes in pathogenic strains. Here, we investigated conditions for site-directed mutagenesis in B31 MI, the low-passage-number, infectious B. burgdorferi s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Elias AF,Stewart PE,Grimm D,Caimano MJ,Eggers CH,Tilly K,Bono JL,Akins DR,Radolf JD,Schwan TG,Rosa P

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00