Efficacy of human hyperimmune globulin in prevention of Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in infant rats.

abstract：:The effect of the secondary infection with Toxoplasma gondii on antibody responses to unrelated antigens was examined in mice. A reinfection with 5 X 10(3) organisms did not affect either primary anti-sheep erythrocyte antibody responses, or anti-dinitrophenol antibody responses to dinitrophenylated keyhole limpet hem...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suzuki Y,Kobayashi A

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemoattraction of Propionibacterium acnes lipase for neutrophils and the effect of lipase inhibitor and two antibiotic agents on the chemotaxis were evaluated. Of the various fractions tested, partially purified lipase (fraction 2c) was the most active cytotaxin produced by P. acnes. Serum mediators were not requ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee WL,Shalita AR,Suntharalingam K,Fikrig SM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease that is caused by the gram-negative bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The low efficacy of currently available killed-whole-cell vaccines and the reactinogenicity coupled with potential reversion of live vaccines have thus far precluded widespread vaccination for the control of cholera. R...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wu JY,Wade WF,Taylor RK

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were rendered deficient in B-cell activity by treatment with anti-mu antibody from birth. These animals were then infected intranasally with murine Chlamydia trachomatis (murine pneumonitis agent [MoPn]). They produced neither local nor systemic antibody to MoPn but had intact delayed-type hypersensitivity to MoP...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Williams DM,Grubbs B,Schachter J

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, an agent of Lyme disease, establishes persistent infection in immunocompetent animals and humans. Although the infection in humans can be cleared by antibiotic therapy, persistence in reservoir animals is necessary for the maintenance of the bacterium in the natural reservoir host⇔tick vector inf...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： LaFrance ME,Pierce JV,Antonara S,Coburn J

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using pharmacologic and biochemical criteria, we evaluated whether uptake of four different Chlamydia trachomatis serovars, D, E, K, and L2, was dependent upon lipid rafts. Our data suggest that lipid raft-mediated entry is not required for C. trachomatis infection of cultured epithelial cells. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gabel BR,Elwell C,van Ijzendoorn SC,Engel JN

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen Habs-serotype strains could be classified into 11 groups depending on the characteristic patterns of 2-amino sugar composition; strains of serotypes 2, 5, and 7 had the same pattern, and each other serotype strain had its own distinctive pattern. In our classification, fucosamine and quinovosamine were of imp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suzuki N,Tsunematsu Y,Matsumoto H,Tazaki T

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By subcutaneous treatment with an aqueous solution of 6-O-stearoyl-N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanyl-D-isoglutamine [6-O-CH3-(CH2)16-CO-MurNAc-L-Ala-D-isoGln] [referred to here as L18-MDP(Ala)], an augmentation of the resistance of mice to Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Staphylococcus aureus, and Candida albicans in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Osada Y,Mitsuyama M,Une T,Matsumoto K,Otani T,Satoh M,Ogawa H,Nomoto K

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute lethality was induced in rabbits by the sequential injection of Propionibacterium acnes and lipopolysaccharide (LPS). P. acnes induced the infiltration of inflammatory cells into the liver lobules during the early phase, and LPS in the late phase caused death in association with pathological changes mimicking he...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ikeda N,Mukaida N,Kaneko S,Fujioka N,Su S,Nariuchi H,Unoura M,Harada K,Nakanuma Y,Kobayashi K

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effector mechanisms resulting from alternative complement pathway (ACP) activation cannot act efficiently against Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O3, as indicated by poor C3 to C9 consumption and by survival in EGTA (ethyleneglycoldiaminetetraacetic acid) Mg-serum. These results were not influenced by the lack or pre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wachter E,Brade V

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) is produced in response to circulating lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and contributes to the lethality of endotoxic shock. To address the cellular source of IFN-gamma production in vivo, T cells and B cells were magnetically purified from C57BL/6 mouse spleens 5 h following endotoxin injection. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heinzel FP,Rerko RM,Ling P,Hakimi J,Schoenhaut DS

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Athymic nude mice (nu/nu), heterozygous litter mates (nu/+), and thymic reconstituted homozygous animals (nu/nu TxR) were infected with Trypanosoma rhodesiense. A reduced parasitemia and prolonged survival were observed in the nu/nu animals after infection and cure or after immunization with irradiated organisms. Thes...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Campbell GH,Esser KM,Phillips SM

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-six Aeromonas hydrophila isolates were tested for cytotoxin and hemolysin production. Sixty-six (69%) of the isolates were both cytotoxic and hemolytic, whereas the rest produced neither cytotoxin nor hemolysin. No evidence of a separate cytotonic activity could be found in any of the isolates. Cytotoxin activi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cumberbatch N,Gurwith MJ,Langston C,Sack RB,Brunton JL

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies to the capsular polysaccharide of Cryptococcus neoformans produce distinct capsular reactions and have biological activities that are determined by serotype specificity. In the present study, polyclonal rabbit anticapsular antibodies were cross-absorbed to produce serotype specificities similar t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： MacGill TC,MacGill RS,Kozel TR

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A receptor specific for lipoglycans from Acholeplasma axanthum and Acholeplasma granularum was isolated from sheep erythrocyte stroma by extraction with n-pentanol and permeation chromatography. The purified receptor appeared as one band on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels and stained with Coomassie blue, pe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Al-Samarrai TH,Smith PF,Lynn RJ

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human lactoferrin (hLf), a glycoprotein released from neutrophil granules during inflammation, and the lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-binding protein (LBP), an acute-phase serum protein, are known to bind to the lipid A of LPS. The LPS-binding sites are located in the N-terminal regions of both proteins, at amino acid resid...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Elass-Rochard E,Legrand D,Salmon V,Roseanu A,Trif M,Tobias PS,Mazurier J,Spik G

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed an efficient electrotransformation system for the pathogenic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum and used it to examine the effects of features of the transforming DNA on transformation efficiency and fate of the transforming DNA and to demonstrate fungal expression of two recombinant Escherichia coli genes, hp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Woods JP,Heinecke EL,Goldman WE

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms that govern the initial interaction between Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, a primary dimorphic fungal pathogen, and cells of the innate immunity need to be clarified. Our previous studies showed that Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) and TLR4 regulate the initial interaction of fungal cells with macrophages a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Loures FV,Pina A,Felonato M,Feriotti C,de Araújo EF,Calich VL

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas' disease, may induce antibodies and T cells reactive with self antigens (autoimmunity). Because autoimmunity is generally thought to develop during the chronic phase of infection, one hypothesis is that autoimmunity develops only after long-term, low-level stimulat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leon JS,Godsel LM,Wang K,Engman DM

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidial infections were established in five young foals with severe combined immunodeficiency following oral administration of 10(8) Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts. All foals shed oocysts (average of 8 x 10(6) to 2 x 10(8)/g of feces) until death. Inflammation and C. parvum organisms were observed in the commo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bjorneby JM,Leach DR,Perryman LE

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface proteins in gram-positive bacteria are frequently required for virulence, and many are attached to the cell wall by sortase enzymes. Bacteria frequently encode more than one sortase enzyme and an even larger number of potential sortase substrates that possess an LPXTG-type cell wall sorting signal. In order to...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Comfort D,Clubb RT

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Randomly bred guinea pigs were infected with Listeria monocytogenes using the intracardial, intravenous and intraperitoneal routes of infection. Doses of Listeria ranged from 5 to 1,000 x the 50% lethal dose based on the 50% lethal dose for intracardially injected Listeria. A complete necropsy was performed on all ani...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dustoor M,Croft W,Fulton A,Blazkovec A

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin E protects nonimmunized and immunized mice against fatal Diplococcus pneumoniae type I (DpI) infection. A dietary supplementation of 180 mg of dl-alpha-tocopheryl acetate per kg of diet increased survival of nonimmunized mice from 20 to 80% when challenged with 20 organisms, and of mice immunized with 0.5 ng o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heinzerling RH,Tengerdy RP,Wick LL,Lueker DC

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that preexisting specific serum antibody could suppress a defined mucosal immune response to a topically applied antigen was studied in rats. Hyperimmune serum antibody induced by parenteral immunization of rats with cholera toxoid markedly suppressed the mucosal immune response to enterically applied ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pierce NF

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans is one of the best-known biofilm-forming organisms associated with humans. We investigated the role of the sortase gene (srtA) in monospecies biofilm formation and observed that inactivation of srtA caused a decrease in biofilm formation. Genes encoding three putative sortase-dependent proteins we...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lévesque CM,Voronejskaia E,Huang YC,Mair RW,Ellen RP,Cvitkovitch DG

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to ascertain if Cryptococcus neoformans components can induce interleukin-6 (IL-6) production, we stimulated human whole blood with purified capsular products. Their potencies in stimulating IL-6 release were mannoproteins > galactoxylomannan = glucuronoxylomannan > alpha(1-3)glucan. IL-6 production was tumor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Delfino D,Cianci L,Lupis E,Celeste A,Petrelli ML,Curró F,Cusumano V,Teti G

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：:Trypanosoma cruzi species is categorized into six discrete typing units (TcI to TcVI) of which TcI is most abundantly noted in the sylvatic transmission cycle and considered the major cause of human disease. In our study, the TcI strains Colombiana (COL), SylvioX10/4 (SYL), and a cultured clone (TCC) exhibited differe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zago MP,Hosakote YM,Koo SJ,Dhiman M,Piñeyro MD,Parodi-Talice A,Basombrio MA,Robello C,Garg NJ

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have noted that the prevalence of certain gonococcal colony types is influenced by the physiological state of the human host. Consequently eight different gonococcal strains were passed on clear typing medium, and opaque (Op) and transparent (Tr) variants of heavily pilated (P++) bacteria were selecte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Salit IE,Gotschlich EC

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes to the capillary endothelium can cause obstruction and localized tissue damage. Occlusion of vessels in falciparum malaria infection has been related to two properties of the parasite: adhesion to endothelial cells and rosette formation. Our study on P. falc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Udomsangpetch R,Webster HK,Pattanapanyasat K,Pitchayangkul S,Thaithong S

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00