Influence of steroidal and nonsteroidal sex hormones on host resistance in mice: increased susceptibility to Listeria monocytogenes after exposure to estrogenic hormones.

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is an important pathogen of humans and other animals, causing bacteremia, abscesses, endocarditis, and other infectious syndromes. A signature-tagged mutagenesis (STM) system was adapted for use in studying the genes required for in vivo survival of S. aureus. An STM library was ultimately create...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schwan WR,Coulter SN,Ng EY,Langhorne MH,Ritchie HD,Brody LL,Westbrock-Wadman S,Bayer AS,Folger KR,Stover CK

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The target organs of infection in guinea pigs with asymptomatic acquired or congenital syphilis were identified by PCR and in some cases by rabbit infectivity test (RIT). The prevalence of Treponema pallidum DNA was examined in the following seven organs: the inguinal and mesenteric lymph nodes, spleen, liver, kidney,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wicher K,Abbruscato F,Wicher V,Baughn R,Noordhoek GT

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitinases of pathogens have been proposed as potential targets of vaccines or specific inhibitors. We studied the genomic organization, transcript levels, developmental expression, and biological function of chitinases in the rodent filarial nematode Acanthocheilonema viteae, a model organism for human-pathogenic fil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tachu B,Pillai S,Lucius R,Pogonka T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is one of the pathogens most frequently isolated in device-related infections. S. aureus is equipped with surface-associated proteins promoting specific binding to matrix molecules. Clumping factor A (ClfA, encoded by clfA) mediates adhesion to fibrinogen. Whereas the contribution of ClfA to path...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wolz C,Goerke C,Landmann R,Zimmerli W,Fluckiger U

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fractionation of the culture medium showed that Streptococcus salivarius ATCC 25975 secreted a glucosyltransferase (Gtf) that was primer independent. On the basis of this observation, a gene library of S. salivarius chromosomal DNA cloned into lambda L47.1 was screened for a gene(s) coding for such an activity. As a r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Simpson CL,Giffard PM,Jacques NA

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin (CPE), a single polypeptide of 319 amino acids, has a unique multistep mechanism of action. In the first step, CPE binds to claudin proteins and/or a 50-kDa eukaryotic membrane protein receptor, forming a small ( approximately 90-kDa) complex. This small complex apparently then asso...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kokai-Kun JF,Benton K,Wieckowski EU,McClane BA

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system is described for studying adoptive immunity to tuberculosis in syngeneic mice. Donor mice were immunized with 10(4) BCG intravenously, and lymphoid cells were harvested 28 days later. Adoptive immunity was measured in recipient mice in terms of the inhibition of growth of BCG in the liver and spleen following...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lefford MJ

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition by Mycoplasma dispar of ciliary activity of organ cultures of bovine fetal trachea was found to be dependent on the presence of serum in the maintenance medium. Inhibitory activity was unaffected by catalase and no toxic substance was demonstrated in organ culture supernatant fluid. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Howard CJ,Thomas LH

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is cleared from the blood mainly by the liver. The Kupffer cells are primarily responsible for this clearance; liver endothelial and parenchymal cells contribute to a lesser extent. Although several binding sites have been described, only CD14 is known to be involved in LPS signalling. Among t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van Oosten M,van de Bilt E,van Berkel TJ,Kuiper J

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the heavy (H)- and light (L)-chain variable (V) region nucleotide and translated amino acid sequences of the human immunoglobulin M(kappa) monoclonal antibody (MAb) 5E1, which is specific for the polysaccharide capsule of Escherichia coli K1 and Neisseria meningitidis group B (poly[alpha(2-->8)-N-acetyln...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Azmi FH,Lucas AH,Raff HV,Granoff DM

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin binding proteins are one of several pathogenicity factors which have been associated with invasive disease caused by group A streptococci. The surface-bound M and M-like proteins of Streptococcus pyogenes are the most characterized of these immunoglobulin binding proteins, and in most cases they bind on...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fagan PK,Reinscheid D,Gottschalk B,Chhatwal GS

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major problem in the study of chlamydial genital infections in animal models has been the use of varied doses of chlamydiae for infection in different laboratories. It is clearly desirable to use a dose which approximates that of natural sexual infection, but that dose to date has not been determined because of the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rank RG,Bowlin AK,Reed RL,Darville T

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of major outer membrane protein (MOMP) profiles of various meningococci by sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) revealed the presence of 0 to 2 low-molecular-weight, heat-modifiable MOMPs (molecular weight, 25,000 to 32,000) and 1 to 3 high-molecular-weight MOMPs (molecul...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Poolman JT,de Marie S,Zanen HC

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A toxin associated with Toxoplasma gondii infection was obtained from the trophozoites and culture medium used to propagate the parasite in cell cultures. The toxin, named Toxofactor (TF), administered parenterally or nonparenterally in adult mice, produces transient symptoms of lethargy, ruffled fur, and body weight ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grimwood B,O'Connor G,Gaafar HA

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) and tetanus toxin (TeNT) are the most potent toxins for humans and elicit unique pathologies due to their ability to traffic within motor neurons. BoNTs act locally within motor neurons to elicit flaccid paralysis, while retrograde TeNT traffics to inhibitory neurons within the central ne...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zuverink M,Chen C,Przedpelski A,Blum FC,Barbieri JT

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukosis viruses of seven subgroups were tested for oncogenicity in chickens susceptible to virus infection and to development of lymphoid leukosis (LL) tumors. All subgroup A viruses and the subgroup B virus tested produced a high incidence of LL and other related neoplasms. Viruses of subgroup C and RAV-61 of subgro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Purchase HG,Okazaki W,Vogt PK,Hanafusa H,Burmester BR,Crittenden LB

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lectin with strong hemagglutinating activity toward erythrocytes of several animal species was isolated from an 18-h culture supernatant of a diarrheagenic strain, V2, of non-O1 Vibrio cholerae. The hemagglutinin (HA) was purified free of lipopolysaccharide by salt fractionation followed by gel filtration, hydrophob...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Banerjee KK,Ghosh AN,Dutta-Roy K,Pal SC,Ghose AC

更新日期：1990-11-01 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

abstract：:Rabbit-specific enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (REPEC) is an attaching and effacing pathogen of young rabbits. Using signature-tagged mutagenesis, we identified several known colonization factors of REPEC as well as a gene predicted to encode a novel autotransporter protein. This novel gene was termed rpeA for REPE...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leyton DL,Adams LM,Kelly M,Sloan J,Tauschek M,Robins-Browne RM,Hartland EL

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that a mucoid, alginate-producing strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from the lungs of a cystic fibrosis (CF) patient secretes multiple enzymes with nucleoside diphosphate kinase (Ndk), ATPase, adenylate kinase, 5'-nucleotidase, and ATP-modifying enzymatic activities. The secretion is triggered a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zaborina O,Misra N,Kostal J,Kamath S,Kapatral V,El-Idrissi ME,Prabhakar BS,Chakrabarty AM

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin-binding proteins mediate Staphylococcus aureus internalization into nonphagocytic cells in vitro. We have investigated whether fibronectin-binding proteins are virulence factors in the pathogenesis of pneumonia by using S. aureus strain 8325-4 and isogenic mutants in which fibronectin-binding proteins were...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McElroy MC,Cain DJ,Tyrrell C,Foster TJ,Haslett C

更新日期：2002-07-01 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：:Pertussis is a severe respiratory disease caused by Bordetella pertussis The classic symptoms of pertussis include paroxysmal coughing with an inspiratory whoop, posttussive vomiting, cyanosis, and persistent coryzal symptoms. Infants under 2 months of age experience more severe disease, with most deaths occurring in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zimmerman LI,Papin JF,Warfel J,Wolf RF,Kosanke SD,Merkel TJ

更新日期：2018-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described a new system for the delivery of recombinant antigens in live Salmonella vaccines as genetic fusions to the C terminus of fragment C of tetanus toxin (TetC) driven by the anaerobically inducible nirB promoter. It has been reported that preimmunization with tetanus toxoid (TT) can suppress ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chabalgoity JA,Villareal-Ramos B,Khan CM,Chatfield SN,de Hormaeche RD,Hormaeche CE

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbicidal myeloperoxidase (MPO)-H2O2-chloride system strongly inhibits Escherichia coli DNA synthesis. Also, cell envelopes from MPO-treated E. coli cells lose their ability to interact with hemimethylated DNA sequences of oriC, the chromosomal origin of replication, raising the prospect that suppression of DNA...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosen H,Michel BR,vanDevanter DR,Hughes JP

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring antibodies for Vibrio fetus with whole-cell and O antigen specificities were detected in sera of mature cattle by means of the agglutination and indirect immunofluorescence reactions. O antibodies occurred in each of 21 sera examined, and whole-cell antibodies, in lower concentrations, occurred in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Duncan JR,Wilkie BN,Winter AJ

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis, with phagocytic cells induces the activation of NF-kappaB and the expression of proinflammatory cytokines including tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha). B. burgdorferi-induced TNF-alpha production is also dependent on the activation ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Olson CM,Hedrick MN,Izadi H,Bates TC,Olivera ER,Anguita J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most strains of Shigella flexneri 2a and enteroaggregative Escherichia coli carry a highly conserved chromosomal locus which encodes a 109-kDa secreted mucinase (called Pic) and, on the opposite strand in overlapping fashion, an oligomeric enterotoxin called ShET1, encoded by the setA and setB genes. Here, we characte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Behrens M,Sheikh J,Nataro JP

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of an ornithine-containing lipid [alpha-N-(3-acyloxyacyl)-ornithine (Orn-L)] or a serine-containing lipid [alpha-N-(3-acyloxyacyl)-serine (Ser-L)] from Flavobacterium meningosepticum on lethal endotoxemia in mice were examined. When 500 micrograms of Orn-L was intravenously administered 1 h before intraven...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kawai Y,Kaneda K,Morisawa Y,Akagawa K

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hagfish, Eptatretus stoutii, has been shown to synthesize bactericidal antibodies after injections of gram-negative organisms. These bactericidins could be detected as early as 2 days after the primary injection. Secondary responses were accelerated, although titers were not significantly higher than those reached...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Acton RT,Weinheimer PF,Hildemann WH,Evans EE

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00