Determinants that increase the serum resistance of Escherichia coli.

abstract：:Attaching and effacing adhesion to epithelial cells is a pathognomonic feature of infection by both enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and certain strains of verocytotoxin-producing E. coli (VTEC). EPEC adhesion to tissue culture epithelial cells results in activation of the phosphatidylinositol pathway, with el...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ismaili A,Philpott DJ,Dytoc MT,Sherman PM

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system plays an important role in the host defense against infection, and the formation of the terminal complement complex on the bacterial surface has been shown to be particularly important in killing of gram-negative bacteria. The gram-negative periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis is resista...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Slaney JM,Gallagher A,Aduse-Opoku J,Pell K,Curtis MA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of water-insoluble glucan by extracellular glucosyltransferase from Streptococcus mutans 6715 found to be greatly stimulated by various mono- or divalent cations. An enzyme preparation, obtained by ethanol fractionation, was able to catalyze the formation of water-insoluble glucan from sucrose in the pre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mukasa H,Shimamura A,Tsumori H

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of complement-mediated killing of seven serum-sensitive Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains was examined. All seven strains were sensitive to the bactericidal activity of 20% pooled normal human serum (PNHS) containing magnesium EGTA, which blocks the classical complement pathway (CCP), or 20% PNHS preheated ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schiller NL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III capsular polysaccharide of group B streptococci (GBS) consists of a linear backbone with short side chains ending in residues of N-acetylneuraminic acid, or sialic acid. The presence of sialic acid on the surface of the organism inhibits activation of the alternative pathway of complement and is thought t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wessels MR,Haft RF,Heggen LM,Rubens CE

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abilities of six strains of Mycobacterium bovis strain BCG to replicate in vivo and to cause spleen enlargement in the CDF(1) male mouse were compared. The strains were grown in synthetic medium and harvested soon after complete pellicles were produced on liquid medium. In addition, two freeze-dried commercially a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sher NA,Chaparas SD,Pearson J,Chirigos M

更新日期：1973-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi is a human-restricted Gram-negative bacterial pathogen responsible for causing an estimated 27 million cases of typhoid fever annually, leading to 217,000 deaths, and current vaccines do not offer full protection. The O-antigen side chain of the lipopolysaccharide is an immunodominant...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kintz E,Heiss C,Black I,Donohue N,Brown N,Davies MR,Azadi P,Baker S,Kaye PM,van der Woude M

更新日期：2017-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The diphtheria toxin repressor (DtxR) is an iron-dependent regulator of diphtheria toxin production and iron uptake in Corynebacterium diphtheriae. It is activated in vitro by divalent metal ions including Fe2+, Cd2+, Co2+, Mn2+, Ni2+, and Zn2+. We characterized 20 different mutations in dtxR induced by bisulfite muta...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang Z,Schmitt MP,Holmes RK

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arg-gingipain (Rgp) and Lys-gingipain (Kgp) are Porphyromonas gingivalis cysteine proteinases implicated as major virulence factors in pathologies of periodontitis. We purified a 660-kDa cell-associated gingipain complex existing as a homodimer of two catalytically active monomers which comprises their catalytic and a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takii R,Kadowaki T,Baba A,Tsukuba T,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodontitis is a disease of polymicrobial etiology characterized by inflammation, degradation of host tissue, and bone that irreversibly destroys the supporting apparatus of teeth. Porphyromonas gingivalis contains lipid A with structural heterogeneity that has been postulated to contribute to the initiation of dysb...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zenobia C,Hasturk H,Nguyen D,Van Dyke TE,Kantarci A,Darveau RP

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial products from gram-positive bacteria, such as peptidoglycan, teichoic acid, and toxins, activate mononuclear cells to produce tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF). The present study evaluated the release of soluble cell wall components from Staphylococcus epidermidis capable of inducing TNF after exposure of th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mattsson E,Van Dijk H,Verhoef J,Norrby R,Rollof J

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the underlying mechanisms that result in a sexually dimorphic response to Vibrio vulnificus endotoxic shock. V. vulnificus is a gram-negative bacterium, considered one of the most invasive and rapidly fatal human pathogens known. However, 85% of individuals that develop endotoxic shock from V. vu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Merkel SM,Alexander S,Zufall E,Oliver JD,Huet-Hudson YM

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila organisms are able to infect and multiply within the ciliated protozoan Tetrahymena pyriformis. This ability may be associated with virulence, because an attenuated strain of L. pneumophila fails to multiply within this protozoan, whereas a virulent strain increases 10,000-fold in number when co...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fields BS,Barbaree JM,Shotts EB Jr,Feeley JC,Morrill WE,Sanden GN,Dykstra MJ

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial encounter of Leishmania cells and cells from the immune system is fundamentally important in the outcome of infection and determines disease development or resistance. We evaluated the anti-Leishmania amazonensis response of naive volunteers by using an in vitro priming (IVP) system and comparing the respo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pompeu MM,Brodskyn C,Teixeira MJ,Clarêncio J,Van Weyenberg J,Coelho IC,Cardoso SA,Barral A,Barral-Netto M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Streptococcus intermedius and Streptococcus mutans are regarded as members of the commensal microflora of the body, S. intermedius is often associated with deep-seated purulent infections, whereas S. mutans is frequently associated with dental caries. In this study, we investigated the roles of the S. mutans ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Petersen FC,Assev S,van der Mei HC,Busscher HJ,Scheie AA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 and gamma interferon on the phenotypic changes associated with monocyte maturation in vitro were investigated. Human monocytes separated from peripheral blood mononuclear cell populations by adherence to plastic were cultured for 7 days on glass. Immunocytological analysis was ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Poulter LW,Rook GA,Steele J,Condez A

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the partition in a two-polymer phase system of Salmonella typhimurium R mutants with different susceptibility to phagocytosis distinguished between the mutants. Close to 80% of the R mutants least resistant to phagocytosis accumulated in the dextran-rich phase, whereas more phagocytosis-resistant mutants s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stendahl O,Tagesson C,Edebo M

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using in vitro assays, a group of related, filamentous gram-negative bacteria isolated from subgingival plaque deposits of patients with periodontal disease were found to colonize intact teeth. Tentatively identified as members of the genus Cytophaga, these isolates exhibited a preference for colonizing the cementu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Celesk RA,McCabe RM,London J

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies were raised against a bactericidal protein fraction that was purified from an extract of bovine neutrophil granules and that was previously shown (A. Savoini, R. Marzari, L. Dolzani, D. Serranò, G. Graziosi, R. Gennaro, and D. Romeo, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 26:405-407, 1984) to inhibit bact...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marzari R,Scaggiante B,Skerlavaj B,Bittolo M,Gennaro R,Romeo D

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro effects of Pseudomonas aeruginosa elastase (P. aeruginosa E) and of human leukocyte elastase on human airway lysozyme (HAL) were investigated. P. aeruginosa E inactivated and cleaved HAL, whereas human leukocyte elastase had no effect. Total inactivation of HAL by P. aeruginosa E was observed after 120 mi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jacquot J,Tournier JM,Puchelle E

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonellae with differences only in the O-antigenic polysaccharide of their lipopolysaccharide were previously shown to differentially activate complement via the alternative pathway, causing them to be ingested at different rates by the mouse macrophage-like cell line J774. We now show that this mechanism could expl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liang-Takasaki CJ,Saxén H,Mäkelä PH,Leive L

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides, such as defensins or cathelicidins, are effector substances of the innate immune system and are thought to have antimicrobial properties that contribute to host defense. The evidence that vertebrate antimicrobial peptides contribute to innate immunity in vivo is based on their expression patter...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bals R,Weiner DJ,Moscioni AD,Meegalla RL,Wilson JM

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chlamydial inclusion occupies a unique niche within the eukaryotic cell that does not interact with endocytic compartments but instead is fusogenic with a subset of sphingomyelin-containing exocytic vesicles. The Chlamydia trachomatis inclusion acquires these distinctive properties by as early as 2 h postinfection...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Scidmore MA,Fischer ER,Hackstadt T

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F1651 and the pyelonephritis-associated pili (Pap) are two members of the type P family of adhesive factors. They play a key role in establishing disease caused by extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) strains in animals and humans. Both F1651 and Pap are under the control of an epigenetic and reversible...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Graveline R,Lavoie R,Garneau P,Daigle F,Sénéchal S,Martin C,Harel J

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of how bacteria respond to and obtain divalent metal ions provides insight into the regulation of virulence factors in the host environment. Regulation of metal permease operons in gram-positive bacteria may involve the binding of metal-responsive repressors to palindromic domains in their control regions. T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Oetjen J,Fives-Taylor P,Froeliger EH

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of earlier investigations have indicated that the saprobic phase of Coccidioides immitis produces a heat-stable, 19-kDa antigen with serine proteinase activity which has been suggested to be specific for this pathogenic fungus. In the present study we have determined the N-terminal and partial internal amino a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pan S,Cole GT

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial overgrowth in the small bowel is known to occur in patients with persistent diarrhea, but it has been unclear if colonization alone causes fluid secretion. We studied isogenic, nontoxigenic Escherichia coli strains with colonizing factor antigen II (CFA/II) (1392+) and without CFA/II (1392-) in 18-h rabbit i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wanke CA,Guerrant RL

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate and the adaptive arms of the mucosal immune system must be coordinated to facilitate the control of pathogenic invasion while maintaining immune homeostasis. Toll-like receptors, able to activate the cell to produce bactericidal and inflammatory cytokines but also able to upregulate antigen (Ag)-presenting ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Muthukuru M,Cutler CW

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of an ornithine-containing lipid [alpha-N-(3-acyloxyacyl)-ornithine (Orn-L)] or a serine-containing lipid [alpha-N-(3-acyloxyacyl)-serine (Ser-L)] from Flavobacterium meningosepticum on lethal endotoxemia in mice were examined. When 500 micrograms of Orn-L was intravenously administered 1 h before intraven...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kawai Y,Kaneda K,Morisawa Y,Akagawa K

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil serine proteases cathepsin G (CG), neutrophil elastase (NE), and proteinase 3 (PR3) have recently been shown to contribute to killing of Streptococcus pneumoniae in vitro. However, their relevance in lung-protective immunity against different serotypes of S. pneumoniae in vivo has not been determined so far...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hahn I,Klaus A,Janze AK,Steinwede K,Ding N,Bohling J,Brumshagen C,Serrano H,Gauthier F,Paton JC,Welte T,Maus UA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00