Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin: rapid method of purification and some characteristics of the toxin.

abstract：:The Haemophilus ducreyi 35000HP genome encodes a homolog of the CpxRA two-component cell envelope stress response system originally characterized in Escherichia coli. CpxR, the cytoplasmic response regulator, was shown previously to be involved in repression of the expression of the lspB-lspA2 operon (M. Labandeira-Re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Labandeira-Rey M,Brautigam CA,Hansen EJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo role of endogenous interleukin 12 (IL-12) in modulating intrapulmonary growth of Legionella pneumophila was assessed by using a murine model of replicative L. pneumophila lung infection. Intratracheal inoculation of A/J mice with virulent bacteria (10(6) L. pneumophila cells per mouse) resulted in inductio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brieland JK,Remick DG,LeGendre ML,Engleberg NC,Fantone JC

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several early nonspecific host defense mechanisms were examined in resistant (BALB/c) and susceptible (C3H/He) mice after intraperitoneal inoculation with Rickettsia tsutsugamushi strain Gilliam. Inflammatory exudates were formed in both mouse strains in response to rickettsial inoculation, but the inflammatory respon...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nacy CA,Groves MG

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a murine model to determine whether chronic corticosteroid therapy has uniform effects on bacterial clearance processes in different tissues. After a 2-week regimen of oral prednisolone, Swiss Webster mice were challenged with Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PAO1 or virulent derivatives of PAO1 (IP-8 and IT-10)....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nugent KM,Cox CD,Pesanti EL

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro or animal models have been used to investigate the pathogenesis of Helicobacter pylori infection. However, extrapolation to humans of results obtained with these heterologous models remains difficult. We have developed a new model for the study of H. pylori infection that uses human entire embryonic stomachs ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lozniewski A,Muhale F,Hatier R,Marais A,Conroy MC,Edert D,le Faou A,Weber M,Duprez A

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria lactamica, a common human pharyngeal commensal, contributes to acquired immunity to Neisseria meningitidis. To define the surface antigens shared between these two species, we used monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to study 35 N. lactamica strains isolated in various parts of the world for cross-reactivity with m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kim JJ,Mandrell RE,Griffiss JM

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits are not usually susceptible to intestinal Shigella infection without extensive pretreatment, including starvation and administration of antimicrobial, antimotility, and toxic agents (carbon tetrachloride). Most animals infected this way die rapidly and do not always develop colonic lesions and signs of dysente...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rabbani GH,Albert MJ,Rahman H,Islam M,Mahalanabis D,Kabir I,Alam K,Ansaruzzaman M

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bactericidal activity and binding of a 57,000-dalton cationic antimicrobial neutrophil granule protein (CAP57) are determined by the presence on bacteria of O-antigen polysaccharide chains and the availability of negatively charged groups in the lipid A region, the inner core region, or both regions of lipopolysacchar...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Farley MM,Shafer WM,Spitznagel JK

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) from patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) fail to produce microbicidal concentrations of reactive oxygen species (ROS) due to mutations in NOX2. Patients with CGD suffer from severe, life-threatening infections and inflammatory complications. Granulibacter bethesdensis i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Greenberg DE,Sturdevant DE,Marshall-Batty KR,Chu J,Pettinato AM,Virtaneva K,Lane J,Geller BL,Porcella SF,Gallin JI,Holland SM,Zarember KA

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this investigation was to examine gamma interferon potentiation of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) responses in human monocytes by using phenol-water-extracted (unfractionated) and highly purified LPS preparations isolated from Bacteroides intermedius and Salmonella typhimurium. Phenol-water-extracted LPS prep...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nichols FC,Peluso JF,Tempro PJ,Garrison SW,Payne JB

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral spirochetes possess many potential virulence factors, including the capacity for tissue invasion and persistence despite a vigorous host immune response. In an attempt to identify treponemal immunoreactive components, sera derived from individuals with advanced periodontal disease were used as a reagent to isolat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heinzerling HF,Olivares M,Burne RA

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonhuman primate model for malaria vaccine development allowing reliable, stringent sporozoite challenge and evaluation of both cellular and antibody responses is needed. We therefore constructed a multicomponent, multistage DNA vaccine for the simian malaria species Plasmodium knowlesi including two preerythrocytic...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogers WO,Baird JK,Kumar A,Tine JA,Weiss W,Aguiar JC,Gowda K,Gwadz R,Kumar S,Gold M,Hoffman SL

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uropathogenic Escherichia coli strain J96 carries multiple determinants for fimbrial adhesins. The regulatory protein PapB of P fimbriae has previously been implicated in potential coregulatory events. The focB gene of the F1C fimbria determinant is highly homologous to papB; the translated sequences share 81% identit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lindberg S,Xia Y,Sondén B,Göransson M,Hacker J,Uhlin BE

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking is associated with increased susceptibility to tuberculosis and influenza. However, little information is available on the mechanisms underlying this increased susceptibility. Mice were left unexposed or were exposed to cigarette smoke and then infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis by aerosol or influenza A...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Feng Y,Kong Y,Barnes PF,Huang FF,Klucar P,Wang X,Samten B,Sengupta M,Machona B,Donis R,Tvinnereim AR,Shams H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity in mice to the infective third-stage larvae (L3) of Strongyloides stercoralis was shown to be dependent on immunoglobulin M (IgM), complement activation, and granulocytes. The objectives of the present study were to determine whether IgG was also a protective antibody isotype and to define the spec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ligas JA,Kerepesi LA,Galioto AM,Lustigman S,Nolan TJ,Schad GA,Abraham D

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was carried out to determine the role of nitric oxide (NO) in Staphylococcus aureus infection in mice. NO production in spleen cell cultures was induced by heat-killed S. aureus. Expression of mRNA of the inducible isoform of NO synthase (iNOS) was induced in the spleens and kidneys of S. aureus-infected mi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sasaki S,Miura T,Nishikawa S,Yamada K,Hirasue M,Nakane A

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Klebsiella pneumoniae strains to resist the bactericidal activity of serum was quantitated. The K. pneumoniae strains tested included mutants lacking the capsular polysaccharide and mutants having a modified lipopolysaccharide structure. The last mutants were obtained as phage-resistant mutants, and the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tomás JM,Benedí VJ,Ciurana B,Jofre J

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular cysteine protease from Streptococcus pyogenes is a virulence factor that plays a significant role in host-pathogen interaction. Streptococcal protease is expressed as an inactive 40-kDa precursor that is autocatalytically converted into a 28-kDa mature (active) enzyme. Replacement of the single cyste...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Matsuka YV,Pillai S,Gubba S,Musser JM,Olmsted SB

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to deploy virulence factors at appropriate times and locations, microbes must rapidly sense and respond to various metabolite signals. Previously, we showed a transient elevation of the methionine-derived metabolite methylthioadenosine (MTA) concentration in serum during systemic Salmonella enterica serovar T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bourgeois JS,Zhou D,Thurston TLM,Gilchrist JJ,Ko DC

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature on chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis contains multiple reports which suggest that loss of cell-mediated immunity in this disease may be related in part to the presence of an inhibitory factor(s) present in patient plasma. One such inhibitory factor has been suggested to be mannan polysaccharide released...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nelson RD,Herron MJ,McCormack RT,Gehrz RC

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-presenting cells (APCs) are key players in the induction and regulation of immune responses. In Plasmodium falciparum malaria, determination of which cells and pathways are activated in the network of APCs remains elusive. We therefore investigated the effects of a controlled human malaria infection in healthy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Teirlinck AC,Roestenberg M,Bijker EM,Hoffman SL,Sauerwein RW,Scholzen A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are no vaccines against boutonneuse fever and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Previous studies have identified a Rickettsia rickettsii surface protein as a vaccine candidate and shown that an antigenically related protein is present in R. conorii, which causes boutonneuse fever. The gene encoding the R. rickettsii...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vishwanath S,McDonald GA,Watkins NG

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit endogenous pyrogens occurred in two forms. One was an apparently single protein with a pI of 7.3; the other was a family of proteins with pI values of 4.5 to 5.0. We selected two of the latter, with pI values of 4.6 and 4.72, as representative of the group and compared them with the pI 7.3 pyrogen. Antisera rai...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murphy PA,Cebula TA,Levin J,Windle BE

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infiltration of neutrophils which phagocytose and kill microorganisms is an important defense mechanism against infections of the airways. Bordetella pertussis is a human respiratory pathogen which colonizes ciliated epithelium, causing whooping cough. We have investigated the effects of the peptidoglycan fragment...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cundell DR,Kanthakumar K,Taylor GW,Goldman WE,Flak T,Cole PJ,Wilson R

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional adult mice were pretreated with metronidazole to make their intestinal tracts receptive to colonization by Clostridium botulinum. These mice, in groups of 10, were fed 0 (controls), 10(2), 10(3), 10(4), or 10(5) C. botulinum type B spores and were placed for observation in filter-lid cages whose screen fl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang Y,Sugiyama H

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans, a major oral pathogen responsible for dental caries formation, possesses a variety of mechanisms for survival in the human oral cavity, where the conditions of the external environment are diverse and in a constant state of flux. The formation of biofilms, survival under conditions of acidic pH, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chong P,Drake L,Biswas I

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane and soluble fractions of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, M. pulmonis, and M. laidlawii B were prepared by hypotonic lysis of whole cells. The membranes of M. pneumoniae and M. laidlawii B contained, as percentage of dry weight: 34 to 37% protein, 59 to 61% lipid, 3 to 4% carbohydrate as hexose, and 0.2% ribonucleic ac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pollack JD,Somerson NL,Senterfit LB

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody to Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin was detected in human sera by using a cytotoxicity-neutralization assay. Serum antitoxin was present in high titer in all 14 patients who recovered from serious pseudomonas infections (log2 of 50% neutralization titer, mean +/- standard deviation = 6.0 +/- 1.2). In contrast,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pollack M,Callahan LT 3rd,Taylor NS

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials of novel tuberculosis (TB) vaccines are expensive, while global resources for TB vaccine development are limited. Therefore, there is a need for robust and predictive preclinical data to support advancement of candidate vaccines into clinical trials. Here, we provide a rationale for using the nonhuman ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Laddy DJ,Bonavia A,Hanekom WA,Kaushal D,Williams A,Roederer M,Seder RA,Sharpe S,Verreck FAW,Darrah PA

更新日期：2018-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergic-type immune responses, particularly immunoglobulin E (IgE), correlate with protective immunity in human schistosomiasis. To better understand the mechanisms of parasite elimination we examined the immune correlates of protection in baboons (Papio cynocephalus anubis), which are natural hosts for Schistosoma m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nyindo M,Kariuki TM,Mola PW,Farah IO,Elson L,Blanton RE,King CL

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00