Clindamycin-induced enterocolitis in hamsters as a model of pseudomembranous colitis in patients.

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori has been directly linked with active chronic gastritis, peptic ulceration, and gastric adenocarcinoma in humans. Although a substantial portion of the human population is colonized with H. pylori, the patterns of transmission of the organism remain in doubt, and reservoir hosts have not been identi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Handt LK,Fox JG,Dewhirst FE,Fraser GJ,Paster BJ,Yan LL,Rozmiarek H,Rufo R,Stalis IH

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial survival in a host is usually dependent on the ability of a pathogen to undergo changes that promote escape from host defense mechanisms. The human-pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans undergoes phenotypic switching in vivo that promotes persistence in tissue. By microarray and real-time PCR analyses, t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jain N,Li L,Hsueh YP,Guerrero A,Heitman J,Goldman DL,Fries BC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have reported that human vascular endothelial cells lack the membrane-bound lipopolysaccharide (LPS) receptor, CD14 (mCD14). By optimizing assay conditions, including the selection of anti-CD14 monoclonal antibody, we now demonstrate that human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) express CD14 on ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jersmann HP,Hii CS,Hodge GL,Ferrante A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A receptor moiety and blood group substance recognized by the O75X adhesin was studied. Well-defined erythrocytes representing different blood group systems and bacterial derivatives carrying plasmid pBJN406 encoding the adhesin were used in a direct hemagglutination assay. We showed that Dr blood group antigen, a com...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nowicki B,Moulds J,Hull R,Hull S

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia cepacia is an opportunistic pathogen that causes severe systemic infections in patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) or with cystic fibrosis (CF), but its mechanisms of virulence are poorly understood. We developed a murine model of systemic infection in wild-type (WT) and gamma interferon kno...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Speert DP,Steen B,Halsey K,Kwan E

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although certain helminth infections preferentially induce type 2 T-cell responses, the immunological mechanisms responsible for type 2 T-cell polarization remain unclear. In the present study, we investigated the effects of excretory-secretory (ES) antigen from the nematode Nippostrongylus brasiliensis on cytokine pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Uchikawa R,Matsuda S,Arizono N

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera toxin (CT) is a potent adjuvant for mucosal vaccination; however, its mechanism of action has not been clarified completely. It is well established that peripheral monocytes differentiate into dendritic cells (DCs) both in vitro and in vivo and that monocytes are the in vivo precursors of mucosal CD103(-) proi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Veglia F,Sciaraffia E,Riccomi A,Pinto D,Negri DR,De Magistris MT,Vendetti S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of microbial patterns by host receptors is the first step in a multistep sequence leading to neutrophil-dependent host resistance. Although the role of membrane-bound sensors in bacterial recognition has been examined in detail, the importance of cytosolic sensors in the lungs is largely unexplored. In thi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Balamayooran T,Batra S,Balamayooran G,Cai S,Kobayashi KS,Flavell RA,Jeyaseelan S

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence of Treponema denticola GM-1, TD-4, and MS25 to human gingival fibroblasts (HGFs) was studied to serve as an introduction to investigations into the interactions of these oral bacteria with human host cells. Under both aerobic (5% CO2) and anaerobic (85% N2 plus 10% H2 plus 5% CO2) environments, the inter...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weinberg A,Holt SC

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of heat and chemical inactivation on the antigenicity and immunogenicity of Vibrio cholerae 1418 in rabbits were studied. V. cholerae 1418 was inactivated with heat and chemical inactivants (phenol or Formalin) alone or in combination. Enzyme-linked immunoassay systems employing whole cells of V. cholerae ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cryz SJ Jr,Fürer E,Germanier R

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LT-IIa and LT-IIb, the type II heat-labile enterotoxins of Escherichia coli, are closely related in structure and function to cholera toxin and LT-I, the type I heat-labile enterotoxins of Vibrio cholerae and E. coli, respectively. Recent studies from our group demonstrated that LT-IIa and LT-IIb are potent systemic a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nawar HF,Arce S,Russell MW,Connell TD

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria elimination efforts would benefit from vaccines that block transmission of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes from humans to mosquitoes. A clear understanding of gametocyte-specific antibody responses in exposed populations could help determine whether transmission-blocking vaccines (TBV) would be boosted by na...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Skinner J,Huang CY,Waisberg M,Felgner PL,Doumbo OK,Ongoiba A,Kayentao K,Traore B,Crompton PD,Williamson KC

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the spleen in hepatic amoebiasis in hamsters was studied. In hamsters receiving an intrahepatic inoculation of 10(5) trophozoites of axenic Entamoeba histolytica at 7 or 14 days postsplenectomy, the mean weight of metastatic foci increased significantly when compared with sham-splenectomized or intact cont...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ghadirian E,Meerovitch E

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytoplasmic 75-kDa immunogen from Chlamydia trachomatis serovar L2 has previously been characterized as being similar to the Escherichia coli heat shock protein DnaK. We have localized a linear epitope for one monoclonal antibody specific for C. trachomatis DnaK. By use of a recombinant DNA technique, the epitope wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Birkelund S,Larsen B,Holm A,Lundemose AG,Christiansen G

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various factors affecting the aggregation of Actinomyces naeslundii strain 12104 were studied. When the pH of glucose-supplemented growth medium fell below 5.5, the cells aggregated and formed microbial masses which tenaciously adhered to the culture vessels. When the organism was cultured in the same medium in the ab...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miller CH,Palenik CJ,Stamper KE

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A heterogeneous subset of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) strains, referred to as uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC), causes most uncomplicated urinary tract infections. However, no core set of virulence factors exists among UPEC strains. Instead, the focus of the analysis of urovirulence has shifted to ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Engstrom MD,Alteri CJ,Mobley HL

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We produced anti-idiotype antibodies to antibody to lipid A from Eikenella corrodens. The ALA-1 monoclonal antibody (immunoglobulin M [IgM] isotype), which had already been produced in our laboratory (T. Kato, I. Takazoe, and K. Okuda, Infect. Immun. 57:656-659, 1989), had reacted strongly with lipid A from E. corrode...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kato T,Takazoe I,Okuda K

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies concerned with the mechanisms responsible for relative resistance or susceptibility of strains of inbred mice to Trypanosoma musculi infections are presented. Treatment with 400 rads of ionizing radiation, silica dust, or trypan blue (reticuloendothelial blocking agents) rendered C3H mice unable to control the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Albright JW,Albright JF

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of the complement-downregulating protein factor H (fH) to the surface of the meningococcus is important for survival of the organism in human serum. The meningococcal vaccine candidate factor H binding protein (fHbp) is an important ligand for human fH. While some fHbp-specific monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) blo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giuntini S,Reason DC,Granoff DM

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with mycobacterial species, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has long been implicated in the etiopathology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) on the basis of clinical and pathological similarities between tuberculosis and RA. Despite evidence of immune responses to mycobacterial antigens in RA patient synovia...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kempsell KE,Cox CJ,McColm AA,Bagshaw JA,Reece R,Veale DJ,Emery P,Isaacs JD,Gaston JS,Crowe JS

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：:A cytotoxin was found in culture filtrates of a number of Escherichia coli strains that differed from the known heat-stable and heat-labile enterotoxins of E. coli. It was cytotoxic for Vero but not for Y-1 or CHO cells, and its effect on Vero was distinctly different from that of heat-labile enterotoxin. It was labil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Konowalchuk J,Speirs JI,Stavric S

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated immune (CMI) responses and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) have been shown to be essential in acquired protection against Cryptococcus neoformans. Induction of a protective anticryptococcal CMI response includes increases in dendritic cells (DC) and activated CD4(+) T cells in draining lymph node...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bauman SK,Huffnagle GB,Murphy JW

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humoral and cell-mediated immune responses to varicella-zoster (V-Z) virus were assessed in patients during and after V-Z infections. Ongoing V-Z infections was associated with minimal cellular immunity but not necessarily with poor humoral immunity. Recovery from V-Z infection was associated with a vigorous cellular ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gershon AA,Steinberg SP

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetoplastid membrane protein 11 (KMP-11) from Leishmania donovani is an abundant 11-kDa surface membrane glycoprotein. Lymph node cells from mice of six different H-2 haplotypes immunized with KMP-11 or with L. donovani promastigotes were stimulated to proliferate in vitro KMP-11. Primed purified T cells required an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tolson DL,Jardim A,Schnur LF,Stebeck C,Tuckey C,Beecroft RP,Teh HS,Olafson RW,Pearson TW

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An "immunogenic" ribonucleic acid (Im-RNA) has been extracted from peritoneal exudate (PE) cells of rats that were immunized with sheep erythrocytes (SRBC). Following multiple phenol extractions and deoxyribonuclease treatment, the material obtained from PE cells was eluted from diethylaminoethyl-cellulose at 0.55 M N...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Archer SJ,Wust CJ

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivated Marek's disease virus-infected chicken kidney cells and inactivated MSB-1 lymphoblastoid Marek's disease tumor cells were used to immunize chickens as virus- and tumor-associated antigens, respectively. Immune and nonimmune birds were then challenged by exposure to live virulent Marek's disease virus. Both...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murthy KK,Calnek BW

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasite antigens which bind to host cell molecules of approximately 32 and 34 kilodaltons (kDa) were identified in supernatant fluids obtained from axenic cultures of Trypanosoma cruzi. These parasite components were first detected in culture supernatants obtained after 2 weeks in culture. Immunoblot analysis of cult...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Davis CD,Kuhn RE

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloid differentiation protein 88 (MyD88) is a general adaptor for the signaling cascade through receptors of the Toll/IL-1R family. When infected with Leishmania major parasites, MyD88-deficient mice displayed a dramatically enhanced parasite burden in their tissues similar to that found in susceptible BALB/c mice. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Debus A,Gläsner J,Röllinghoff M,Gessner A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecalis strains are resident intestinal bacteria associated with invasive infections, inflammatory bowel diseases, and colon cancer. Although factors promoting E. faecalis colonization of intestines are not fully known, one implicated pathway is a phosphotransferase system (PTS) in E. faecalis strain OG1...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fan TJ,Goeser L,Naziripour A,Redinbo MR,Hansen JJ

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00