Cultivation and partial characterization of spiroplasmas in cell cultures.

abstract：:Brucella abortus is recognized by several Toll-like receptor (TLR)-associated pathways triggering proinflammatory responses that affect both the nature and intensity of the immune response. Previously, we demonstrated that B. abortus-mediated dendritic cell (DC) maturation and control of infection are dependent on the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de Almeida LA,Macedo GC,Marinho FA,Gomes MT,Corsetti PP,Silva AM,Cassataro J,Giambartolomei GH,Oliveira SC

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:DNA microarrays provide an opportunity to combine the principles of signature-tagged mutagenesis (STM) with microarray technology to identify potentially important bacterial virulence genes. The scope of DNA microarrays allows for less laborious screening on a much larger scale than possible by STM alone. We have adap...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chan K,Kim CC,Falkow S

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Henle 407 and HeLa cells were compared as hosts for Shigella dysenteriae at a low multiplicity of infection. Efficiency of attachment and invasion without centrifugation, as well as selectivity for pathogenic over nonpathogenic S. dysenteriae without Congo red, were much greater for Henle 407 cells than for HeLa cells...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sen A,Leon MA,Palchaudhuri S

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythrocytic malaria parasites degrade hemoglobin as a principal source of amino acids for parasite protein synthesis. We have previously shown that a Plasmodium falciparum trophozoite cysteine proteinase, now termed falcipain, is required for hemoglobin degradation, and we have hypothesized that this proteinase is re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Salas F,Fichmann J,Lee GK,Scott MD,Rosenthal PJ

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Live or heat-killed cells of Streptococcus mutans specifically adhere to dextran previously synthesized on glass surfaces by the action of extracellular dextransucrase. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific stimulation of T cells by phytohemagglutinin and Lens culinaris lectin was inhibited by a soluble factor(s) secreted by normal adherent cells stimulated with culture filtrate protein extract (CFPE) derived from bacterial cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra (avirulent) and H37Rv (virulent). The induct...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Parra C,Montaño LF,Huesca M,Rayón I,Willms K,Goodsaid F

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C57BL/6 mice infected with Leishmania mexicana showed depression of the in vitro immunoglobulin M-plaque-forming cell response to sheep erythrocytes. Immunodepression was present 3 weeks after inoculation and was maximal at 11 weeks. Thereafter, there was a gradual return to normal immunoresponsiveness correlated with...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pérez H,Pocino M,Malavé I

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic lipid A analogs which have two amide-bound and two ester-bound (R)-3-hydroxytetradecanoyl groups at the C-2 and -2' and C-3 and -3' positions of beta(1-6)glucosamine disaccharide mono- or diphosphates showed high activities in most in vitro assays, and the lethality of a diphosphate derivative to galactosami...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kotani S,Takada H,Tsujimoto M,Ogawa T,Harada K,Mori Y,Kawasaki A,Tanaka A,Nagao S,Tanaka S

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus infections is influenced by multiple virulence factors that are expressed under variable conditions, and this has complicated the design of an effective vaccine. Clinical trials that targeted the capsule or clumping factor A (ClfA) failed to protect the recipients against stap...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tuchscherr LP,Buzzola FR,Alvarez LP,Lee JC,Sordelli DO

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance of lymphotoxin in the culture fluid of phytohemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated mouse spleen cells required two cell fractions that were separated by adherence to plastic. Upon stimulation with PHA, neither cell fraction alone produced significant amounts of lymphotoxin; however, when the cell fractions were...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Aksamit RR,Leonard EJ

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that malaria parasites liberate exoantigens which, through a phospholipid component, stimulate mouse macrophages to secrete tumor necrosis factor (TNF), which are toxic to D-galactosamine-sensitized mice, and which therefore might be involved in pathology. Plasmodium yoelii exoantigens detoxif...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bate CA,Taverne J,Playfair JH

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tetrasaccharide 3-deoxy-alpha-D-manno-2-octulosonic acid (alpha-KDO) (2----8)-alpha-KDO(2----4)-alpha-KDO(2----6)-beta GlcNAc, a partial structure of chlamydial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) representing a genus-specific epitope, was synthesized and covalently linked to bovine serum albumin, resulting in an artificial ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fu Y,Baumann M,Kosma P,Brade L,Brade H

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of treatment with live or inactivated Shope fibroma virus on host cell deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis were determined. The incorporation of (3)H-thymidine into nuclear DNA was suppressed by both active and inactivated virus, although live virus was more effective. During the early phase of infection...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chan JC,Hodes ME

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapping vectors containing antibiotic resistance markers inserted adjacent to or within different cloned genes from Streptococcus mutans were used to determine the relative positions of these genes on the chromosome. The gtfA, ftf, and scrB genes were inserted into streptococcal mapping vector pVA891 adjacent to an Em...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Perry D,Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：1989-03-01 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：:Although excystation is crucial to the initiation of infection by Giardia lamblia, little is known about the regulation of this important process. We have been able to reliably induce excystation in vitro by mimicking cyst passage through the stomach and upper small intestine by the exposure of in vitro-derived cysts ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Meng TC,Hetsko ML,Gillin FD

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection against infection with virulent blood (trypomastigote) forms of Trypanosoma cruzi was accomplished in mice by immunization with culture (mainly epimastigote) forms killed by treatment with sodium perchlorate. Sodium chloride, used instead of sodium perchlorate, with all other conditions kept the same, faile...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kierszenbaum F,Budzko DB

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously identified a cell wall-associated protein from Fusobacterium nucleatum, a Gram-negative bacterium of the oral cavity, that induces human beta defensin 2 (hBD-2) in primary human oral epithelial cells (HOECs) and designated it FAD-I (Fusobacterium-associated defensin inducer). Here, we report differential...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bhattacharyya S,Ghosh SK,Shokeen B,Eapan B,Lux R,Kiselar J,Nithianantham S,Young A,Pandiyan P,McCormick TS,Weinberg A

更新日期：2016-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene expression and cytokine release of the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) after infection of human epithelial cells (HEp-2 cells) and polymorphonuclear granulocytes (PMNs) were investigated by using isogenic pairs of Listeria monocytogen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Arnold R,Scheffer J,König B,König W

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 23-membered Esx protein family is involved in the host-pathogen interactions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. These secreted proteins are among the most immunodominant antigens recognized by the human immune system and have thus been used to develop vaccines and immunodiagnostic tests for tuberculosis (TB). Gene pai...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Uplekar S,Heym B,Friocourt V,Rougemont J,Cole ST

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Random minitransposon mutagenesis was used to identify genes involved in the survival of Bordetella bronchiseptica within eukaryotic cells. One of the mutants which exhibited a reduced ability to survive intracellularly harbored a minitransposon insertion in a locus (ris) which displays a high degree of homology to tw...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jungnitz H,West NP,Walker MJ,Chhatwal GS,Guzmán CA

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：: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：:Porphyromonas gingivalis is a gram-negative anaerobic bacterium that is considered the key etiologic agent of chronic periodontitis. Arg- and Lys-gingipain cysteine proteinases produced by P. gingivalis are key virulence factors and are believed to be essential for significant tissue component degradation, leading to ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Andrian E,Grenier D,Rouabhia M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major pathogen in humans. The pathogenicity of this organism is related to its many virulence factors, the most important of which is the thick pneumococcal capsule that minimizes phagocytosis. Another virulence-associated trait is the tendency of this bacterium to undergo autolysis in st...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Martner A,Skovbjerg S,Paton JC,Wold AE

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slime production is not a generally recognized feature of Staphylococcus epidermidis. In a recent outbreak of S. epidermidis intravascular catheter-associated sepsis, we noted that 63% of clinically implicated strains grew as a slimy film coating the culture tube walls when propagated in tryptic soy broth. Only 37% of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Christensen GD,Simpson WA,Bisno AL,Beachey EH

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zoopathogenic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum requires iron for growth. Intracellular growth of the fungus within mouse peritoneal macrophages is inhibited by recombinant murine gamma interferon (IFN-gamma). Such treatment of mouse peritoneal macrophages induces a marked downshift in transferrin receptors. We tested...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lane TE,Wu-Hsieh BA,Howard DH

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Bacteroides fragilis associated with diarrhea in children (termed enterotoxigenic B. fragilis, or ETBF) produce a heat-labile ca. 20-kDa protein toxin (BFT). The purpose of this study was to examine the activity of BFT on polarized monolayers of human intestinal epithelial cells (T84 cells). In Ussing chamb...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chambers FG,Koshy SS,Saidi RF,Clark DP,Moore RD,Sears CL

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oral streptococcal group (mitis phylogenetic group) currently consists of nine recognized species, although the group has been traditionally difficult to classify, with frequent changes in nomenclature over the years. The pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae), an important human pathogen, is traditionally distin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whatmore AM,Efstratiou A,Pickerill AP,Broughton K,Woodard G,Sturgeon D,George R,Dowson CG

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00