In vivo and in vitro effects of lead on humoral and cell-mediated immunity.

abstract：:The goal of this study was to determine the roles of eosinophils and neutrophils in innate and adaptive protective immunity to larval Strongyloides stercoralis in mice. The experimental approach used was to treat mice with an anti-CCR3 monoclonal antibody to eliminate eosinophils or to use CXCR2-/- mice, which have a ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galioto AM,Hess JA,Nolan TJ,Schad GA,Lee JJ,Abraham D

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:Monoclonal antibody WM-25 inhibited the in vitro growth of 13 F38 isolates from goats with contagious caprine pleuropneumonia but not 7 heterologous mycoplasma isolates representing four different species. In contrast to results with polyclonal antisera, growth inhibition by monoclonal antibody WM-25 was specific for ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rurangirwa FR,McGuire TC,Musoke AJ,Kibor A

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two published sequences of the pertussis toxin operon differ in 3 bp in the S1 subunit gene. In this report, we provide evidence that Bordetella pertussis strains are able to produce active pertussis toxin only when they contain one of the two possible nucleotide sequences. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pizza M,Bugnoli M,Pucci P,Siciliano R,Marino G,Rappuoli R

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of iron concentration during growth on the physicochemical surface properties of the colonial variants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae has been assessed by aqueous two-phase partitioning in a dextran-polyethyleneglycol system containing positively charged trimethylamino-polyethyleneglycol or hydrophobic polyethyle...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Magnusson KE,Kihlstrom E,Norqvist A,Davies J,Normark S

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of high-molecular-weight (HMW) surface-exposed proteins important in the attachment of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) to human epithelial cells was previously identified (J. W. St. Geme III, S. Falkow, and S. J. Barenkamp, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:2875-2879, 1993). In the present investigation...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bakaletz LO,Barenkamp SJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial passage of Cryptococcus neoformans in mice increases virulence relative to the nonpassaged line. Postpassaged lines showed no difference in the expression of most known virulence factors, with the exception that the more virulent lines had smaller capsules in vitro. These data imply that other mechanisms of vir...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McClelland EE,Perrine WT,Potts WK,Casadevall A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic role of staphylococcal coagulase and clumping factor was investigated in the rat model of endocarditis. The coagulase-producing and clumping factor-producing parent strain Staphylococcus aureus Newman and a series of mutants defective in either coagulase, clumping factor, or both were tested for their a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moreillon P,Entenza JM,Francioli P,McDevitt D,Foster TJ,François P,Vaudaux P

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alkali-soluble water-soluble extract of Blastomyces dermatitidis yeast-phase cell walls was tested for its ability to elicit a response in lymphocytes isolated from the peripheral blood of Blastomyces-infected guinea pigs. Sequential preparations of the antigen were reproducible and specific in the in vitro lymphoc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hall NK,Deighton F,Larsh HW

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of sepsis and meningitis but is also a common commensal, present in the nasopharynx of between 8 and 20% of healthy individuals. During carriage, the bacterium is found on the surface of the nasopharyngeal epithelium and in deeper tissues, while to develop disease the meningococ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sutherland TC,Quattroni P,Exley RM,Tang CM

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet microbicidal proteins (PMPs) are small, cationic peptides which possess potent microbicidal activities against common bloodstream pathogens, such as Staphylococcus aureus. We previously showed that S. aureus strains exhibiting resistance to thrombin-induced PMP (tPMP-1) in vitro have an enhanced capacity to c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bayer AS,Prasad R,Chandra J,Koul A,Smriti M,Varma A,Skurray RA,Firth N,Brown MH,Koo SP,Yeaman MR

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the second messenger cyclic-di-GMP and Gac/Rsm signaling pathways are associated with the transition from acute to chronic infection. Therefore, identification of the molecular mechanisms that govern lifestyle choice in bacteria is very important. Here, we identified a novel cyclic-di-GMP mo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jiao H,Li F,Wang T,Yam JKH,Yang L,Liang H

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A clone expressing a 58-kDa protein reactive with human convalescent-phase serum was isolated from a recombinant library of Ehrlichia chaffeensis, the etiologic agent of human ehrlichiosis. Sequencing identified two open reading frames, one encoding a 10.3-kDa polypeptide consisting of 94 amino acids and another encod...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sumner JW,Sims KG,Jones DC,Anderson BE

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exoenzyme S (ExoS), an ADP-ribosylating enzyme produced by the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, is directly translocated into eukaryotic cells by bacterial contact. Within the cell, ExoS ADP-ribosylates the cell signaling protein Ras and causes inhibition of DNA synthesis and alterations in cytoskeletal ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Olson JC,Fraylick JE,McGuffie EM,Dolan KM,Yahr TL,Frank DW,Vincent TS

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae can use porcine transferrin as the sole source of iron. Two proteins with molecular masses of approximately 60 kDa (TfbA) and 110 kDa have been shown to specifically bind porcine transferrin; from the TfbA protein, three isoforms from A. pleuropneumoniae serotypes 1, 5, and 7 have been ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Strutzberg K,von Olleschik L,Franz B,Pyne C,Schmidt MA,Gerlach GF

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequences of three previously undescribed Pseudomonas aeruginosa pilin structural genes are presented. Comparisons of deduced pilin primary structure and flanking DNA sequence allowed placement of these and six previously published sequences into one of two groups. Epitope mapping, using overlapping imm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Castric PA,Deal CD

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae V86 El Tor Inaba caused experimental cholera in germfree ICR suckling mice. Sucklings born of gnotobiotic mothers monoassociated with the same strain were completely protected against live oral homologous challenge. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shimamura T,Tazume S,Hashimoto K,Sasaki S

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory CD8+ T cells are essential for protective immunity against many intracellular pathogens; therefore, stimulation of this population of cells is an important goal of vaccination. We have previously shown that a detoxified derivative of Bacillus anthracis anthrax lethal toxin (LT) can deliver heterologous CD8+ T-c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shaw CA,Starnbach MN

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the role of CD4+ T cells in host defense against cholera enterotoxin-induced diarrhea. Antitoxin immunoglobulin A formation and gut protection against cholera toxin (CT) following oral immunizations with CT were evaluated in normal mice and mice that had been depleted of CD4+ T cells by in vivo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hörnqvist E,Goldschmidt TJ,Holmdahl R,Lycke N

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a relationship between schistosomiasis and anemia, although the magnitude and exact mechanisms involved are unclear. In a cohort of 580 Schistosoma japonicum-infected 7- to 30-year-old patients from Leyte, The Philippines, we evaluated the impact of reinfection with S. japonicum after treatment with praziquan...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leenstra T,Coutinho HM,Acosta LP,Langdon GC,Su L,Olveda RM,McGarvey ST,Kurtis JD,Friedman JF

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Anaplasma phagocytophilum are agents of human monocytic and granulocytic ehrlichioses, respectively. They are extremely sensitive to mechanical stress and are pleomorphic gram-negative bacteria. Membrane incorporation of cholesterol from the eukaryotic host is known to be essential for other ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lin M,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehrlichia chaffeensis is an obligately intracellular gram-negative bacterium and is the etiologic agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME). Although E. chaffeensis induces the generation of several cytokines and chemokines by leukocytes, E. chaffeensis lacks lipopolysaccharide and peptidoglycan. Bioinfomatic analys...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huang H,Lin M,Wang X,Kikuchi T,Mottaz H,Norbeck A,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current efforts to develop plague vaccines focus on LcrV, a polypeptide that resides at the tip of type III secretion needles. LcrV-specific antibodies block Yersinia pestis type III injection of Yop effectors into host immune cells, thereby enabling phagocytes to kill the invading pathogen. Earlier work reported that...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miller NC,Quenee LE,Elli D,Ciletti NA,Schneewind O

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of CD4+ cells and gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in the resolution of established Cryptosporidium parvum infection was investigated with a murine model of cryptosporidiosis in severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice. C. parvum-infected SCID mice were reconstituted with spleen cells from immunocompeten...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chen W,Harp JA,Harmsen AG

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By crossed immunoelectrophoresis and Western blotting (immunoblotting), it was shown that Borrelia burgdorferi expresses the 60-kilodalton Common Antigen (CA) that is cross-reactive with an equivalent antigen in a wide range of remotely related bacteria. B. burgdorferi CA is strongly immunogenic. A B. burgdorferi geno...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hansen K,Bangsborg JM,Fjordvang H,Pedersen NS,Hindersson P

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fasciola hepatica is a prevalent helminth parasite of livestock. Infection results in polarization of the host's immune response and generation of type 2 helper (Th2) immune responses, which are known to be inhibitory to Th1 responses. Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) is a bacterial disease of economic and zoonotic importanc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Flynn RJ,Mannion C,Golden O,Hacariz O,Mulcahy G

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed the expression vector pSK-SCP containing the streptococcal exotoxin B gene (spe b) which expressed protease activity. We showed that the recombinant streptococcal pyogenic exotoxin B/streptococcal cysteine protease (rSPE B/SCP) was secreted into the culture supernatant of the transformant and retained i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Watanabe Y,Todome Y,Ohkuni H,Sakurada S,Ishikawa T,Yutsudo T,Fischetti VA,Zabriskie JB

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of type 1 fimbriae in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is controlled, in part, by three proteins, FimZ, FimY, and FimW. Amino acid sequence analysis indicates that FimZ belongs to the family of bacterial response regulators of two-component systems. In these studies, we have demonstrated that int...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zeiner SA,Dwyer BE,Clegg S

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of attachment and ingestion of Chlamydia trachomatis serotype L1 by monolayers of McCoy cells were studied by using a method that discriminated between attachment and uptake. When about 1% of the McCoy cells was infected, the proteinase K-resistant chlamydial fraction, regarded as ingested chlamydiae, rea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Söderlund G,Kihlström E

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The urease gene of Staphylococcus saprophyticus CCM883 was cloned and expressed in Staphylococcus carnosus TM300. In vitro translation of the cloned DNA sequences revealed six polypeptides (of 70, 47, 29, 27, 20, and 17 kilodaltons) that were associated with enzyme activity. Introduction of the cloned genes into a ure...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gatermann S,Marre R

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00