Toxin A-deficient mutants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA103: isolation and characterization.

abstract：:BCG, the attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis, has been widely used as a vaccine against tuberculosis and is thus an important candidate as a live carrier for multiple antigens. With the aim of developing a recombinant BCG (rBCG) vaccine against diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus (DPT), we analyzed the potential o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miyaji EN,Mazzantini RP,Dias WO,Nascimento AL,Marcovistz R,Matos DS,Raw I,Winter N,Gicquel B,Rappuoli R,Leite LC

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moraxella catarrhalis is a causative agent of otitis media in children and lower respiratory tract infections in adults suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This strict human pathogen continues to be a significant cause of disease in this broad spectrum of patients because there is no available...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schwingel JM,Edwards KJ,Cox AD,Masoud H,Richards JC,St Michael F,Tekwe CD,Sethi S,Murphy TF,Campagnari AA

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have demonstrated roles for eosinophils during innate and adaptive immune responses to helminth infections. However, evidence that eosinophils are capable of initiating an immune response to parasite antigens is lacking. The goal of the present in vitro study was to investigate the potential of eosinop...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Padigel UM,Lee JJ,Nolan TJ,Schad GA,Abraham D

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cure of amebic liver abscess is associated with resistance to recurrent invasive amebiasis and the development of a humoral and cell-mediated immune response. We determined whether human immune sera contain blocking antibody for the 170-kilodalton (kDa) galactose or N-acetylgalactosamine (Gal/GalNAc)-binding lectin of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Petri WA Jr,Joyce MP,Broman J,Smith RD,Murphy CF,Ravdin JI

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used an in vitro opsonophagocytic killing assay to measure the functional activity of antibody directed at the mucoid exopolysaccharide (MEP) antigen expressed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from cystic fibrosis patients. Rabbit antibodies raised to purified MEP were able to mediate phagocytic killing i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ames P,DesJardins D,Pier GB

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Placenta-sequestering Plasmodium falciparum involved in the pathogenesis of pregnancy-associated malaria (PAM) in otherwise clinically immune women expresses particular variant surface antigens (VSA(PAM)) on the surface of infected erythrocytes that differ from VSA found in parasitized nonpregnant individuals (non-PAM...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Megnekou R,Staalsoe T,Taylor DW,Leke R,Hviid L

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:Ehrlichia chaffeensis is a recently isolated minute gram-negative obligatory intracellular bacterium of monocytes/macrophages and is the etiologic agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis. It is not known how macrophages respond when they encounter ehrlichiae in terms of cytokine production. In this study, we examined cy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee EH,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An escape variant of Borrelia burgdorferi, selected with a monoclonal antibody to OspB, expressed a truncated form of OspB, the result of point mutations in the ospB gene leading to a premature termination codon. A single amino acid position in the C terminus of OspB was critical for monoclonal antibody recognition. T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coleman JL,Rogers RC,Rosa PA,Benach JL

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:Mutant analysis was used to identify Moraxella catarrhalis gene products necessary for biofilm development in a crystal violet-based assay involving 24-well tissue culture plates. The wild-type M. catarrhalis strains that formed the most extensive biofilms in this system proved to be refractory to transposon mutagenes...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pearson MM,Laurence CA,Guinn SE,Hansen EJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:We previously reported that infection by Fusobacterium nucleatum strongly induced the expression of both human beta-defensin 2 (HBD-2) and HBD-3 by gingival epithelial cells. The aim of this study was to characterize the pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) and regulatory mechanisms involved in the induction of HBD-2 ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ji S,Shin JE,Kim YS,Oh JE,Min BM,Choi Y

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae remains a major causative agent of serious human diseases. The worldwide increase of antibiotic resistant strains revealed the importance of horizontal gene transfer in this pathogen, a scenario that results in the modulation of the species-specific gene pool. We investigated genomic variation...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hakenbeck R,Balmelle N,Weber B,Gardès C,Keck W,de Saizieu A

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of meningococcal pathogenesis have been severely restricted due to the absence of an adequate animal model. Given the significance of iron in meningococcal pathogenesis, we developed a model of Neisseria meningitidis colonization in outbred adult mice that included daily administration of iron dextran. While r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yi K,Stephens DS,Stojiljkovic I

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously determined that complement receptors on human mononuclear phagocytes and complement component C3 in nonimmune serum mediate phagocytosis of the intracellular bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium leprae, the agent of leprosy. We have also determined that C3 fixes selectively to the major surface glycolip...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schlesinger LS,Horwitz MA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whooping cough results from infection of the respiratory tract with Bordetella pertussis, and the secreted adenylate cyclase toxin (ACT) is essential for the bacterium to establish infection. Despite extensive study of the mechanism of ACT cytotoxicity and its effects over a range of concentrations in vitro, ACT has n...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eby JC,Gray MC,Warfel JM,Paddock CD,Jones TF,Day SR,Bowden J,Poulter MD,Donato GM,Merkel TJ,Hewlett EL

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of myelopoiesis by three synthetic muramyl peptides was investigated in vivo. Two adjuvant-active compounds (N-acetylmuramyl dipeptide [MDP] and MDP-butyl-ester) elicited significant responses in DBA/2 mice characterized by a rise in the level of monocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating activity in serum, a p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galelli A,Chedid L

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lung infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes significant morbidity in cystic fibrosis patients initiated by the failure of innate immune responses. We used microarray analysis and real-time PCR to detect transcriptional changes associated with cytokine production in isogenic bronchial epithelial cell lines ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Reiniger N,Ichikawa JK,Pier GB

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the role of complement in pneumococcal and staphylococcal pneumonia, we decomplemented rats with cobra venom factor and inoculated them intratracheally with Staphylococcus aureus or type 25 pneumococci. S. aureus produced a patchy bronchopneumonia in normal Sprague-Dawley or Lewis rats, and decomplementati...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coonrod JD,Yoneda K

更新日期：1982-09-01 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：:Studies have implicated Gardnerella vaginalis as an important etiological agent in bacterial vaginosis (BV). It produces a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin, vaginolysin (VLY). In this study, we sought to characterize the interaction between vaginal epithelium, G. vaginalis, and VLY using EpiVaginal tissues from MatTek....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Garcia EM,Kraskauskiene V,Koblinski JE,Jefferson KK

更新日期：2019-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise role of Leishmania glycoconjugate molecules including phosphoglycans (PGs) and lipophosphoglycan (LPG) on host cellular responses is still poorly defined. Here, we investigated the interaction of Leishmania major LPG2 null mutant (lpg2(-)), which lacks both PGs and LPG, with dendritic cells (DCs) and the s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liu D,Kebaier C,Pakpour N,Capul AA,Beverley SM,Scott P,Uzonna JE

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies to Trichomonas vaginalis were prepared by immunizing mice with a cloned isolate of T. vaginalis. Eight antibodies reacted with the same four isolates or strains but did not react with the other T. vaginalis strains or isolates tested. All eight antibodies reacted uniformly with both the body and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Torian BE,Connelly RJ,Stephens RS,Stibbs HH

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased resistance to infection with Brucella abortus 2308 resulted when recombinant murine gamma interferon (rMuIFN-gamma) was given to mice both before and during infection but not when given only before infection. Mice given rMuIFN-gamma had enhanced peritoneal and splenic macrophage bactericidal activity against...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stevens MG,Pugh GW Jr,Tabatabai LB

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and its possible relationship to host resistance and inflammatory response to Pneumocystis carinii infection were examined in mice with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID mice). IL-6 activity was detected in the serum and lungs of P. carinii-infected mice but not in mice free...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chen W,Havell EA,Gigliotti F,Harmsen AG

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Help from CD4 T cells is often important for the establishment of primary and memory CD8 T-cell responses. However, it has yet to be determined whether T helper polarization affects the delivery of help and/or whether responding CD8 T cells helped by Th1 or Th2 cells express distinct effector properties. To address th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ekkens MJ,Shedlock DJ,Jung E,Troy A,Pearce EL,Shen H,Pearce EJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rubella virus was capable of replicating in both unstimulated and phytohemagglutinin-stimulated cultures of human mononuclear blood cells. Monocyte-derived macrophages were the main cell type responsible for viral replication. The susceptibility of macrophages increased during cultivation. Phytohemagglutinin-stimulate...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van der Logt JT,van Loon AM,van der Veen J

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial tyrosine kinases and their cognate protein tyrosine phosphatases are best known for regulating the biosynthesis of polysaccharides. Moreover, their roles in the stress response, DNA metabolism, cell division, and virulence have also been documented. The aim of this study was to investigate the pathogenicity ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ferreira AS,Silva IN,Fernandes F,Pilkington R,Callaghan M,McClean S,Moreira LM

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of bile on the expression of cholera toxin (CT) and the major subunit of the toxin-coregulated pilus (TcpA) and on motility was examined in the Vibrio cholerae O1 classical-biotype strains 0395 and 569B. Although the motility of the cells increased significantly in the presence of bile, transcription of the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gupta S,Chowdhury R

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00