Tumor-associated bacteria capable of producing a human choriogonadotropin-like substance.

abstract：:Characteristics of four transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE) virus field strains (Miller, Purdue, Bl, and V203) and four cell culture-attenuated strains (Purdue, SH, CKp, and Bl) were studied to find methods of differentiation between the two groups of viruses. TGE field virus strains did not replicate as well as atten...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hess RG,Bachmann PA

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of delta-toxin is supposed to be responsible for various pathophysiological effects during infection with Staphylococcus aureus. We compared the effects of delta-toxin with the structurally related bee venom toxin melittin on granulocyte functions and inflammatory mediator release. Delta-toxin and melit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kasimir S,Schönfeld W,Alouf JE,König W

更新日期：1990-06-01 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：:3-O-methylmannose isolated from Coccidioides immitis was characterized by gas chromatographic comparison of derivatives with those of synthetic 3-O-methylmannose. Gas chromatographic behavior of three derivatives of the natural and synthetic sugars was identical. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Porter JF,Scheer ER,Wheat RW

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma hyorhinis organisms were fractionated into lipid, carbohydrate, and protein fractions by chemical and physiochemical procedures. When all fractions were tested for complement fixation and inhibition of growth inhibition activity, only the protein fractions possessed activity. Thus, it appears that the major...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barden JA,Prescott B

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we identified five genes (Cj1321 to Cj1326, of which Cj1325 and Cj1326 are a single gene) in the O-linked flagellin glycosylation island that are highly prevalent in Campylobacter jejuni isolates from chickens. We report mutagenesis, functional, and structural data to confirm that this locus, and Cj1324 in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Howard SL,Jagannathan A,Soo EC,Hui JP,Aubry AJ,Ahmed I,Karlyshev A,Kelly JF,Jones MA,Stevens MP,Logan SM,Wren BW

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiserum to a synthetic peptide, CTP3, consisting of residues 50 to 64 of the B subunit of cholera enterotoxin (CT), a sequence which is conserved in heat-labile enterotoxins from Escherichia coli strains of human (H-LT) or porcine (P-LT) origin, cross-reacted with and neutralized all three enterotoxins. It also cros...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jacob CO,Arnon R,Finkelstein RA

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of macrophages in protecting mice from murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) was studied in Swiss, CBA/J, and C57BL/6J mice. CBA/J mice were more resistant to virus than were C57BL/6J mice at all ages tested. Prior treatment of adult Swiss mice with 60 mg of silica, a dose selectively toxic to macrophages, increased ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Selgrade MK,Osborn JE

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were inoculated with Legionella pneumophila via an intratracheal route to establish an experimental model of infection. Lung lavage fluid obtained from infected mice contained a cytolytic factor identified as tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Peak levels of TNF were produced at about 24 h postinfection and rapidly dec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Blanchard DK,Djeu JY,Klein TW,Friedman H,Stewart WE 2nd

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female C57BL/6J mice were infected with Trypanosoma cruzi and subsequently given macrophages or lymphocytes from syngeneic donors which had recovered from the acute infection. Mice which received immune peritoneal macrophages, splenic lymphocytes, or lymph node lymphocytes developed lower mean parasitemias and cumulat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Burgess DE,Hanson WL

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A GroEL-like protein from Bordetella pertussis was purified. This protein was found to have the tetradecameric subunit structure typical of the GroEL family of proteins and to contain epitopes similar to those of other members of this family, including a human GroEL-like protein. Active immunization of neonatal mice w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Burns DL,Gould-Kostka JL,Kessel M,Arciniega JL

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pasteurella multocida is the causative agent of fowl cholera in birds. In a previous study using signature-tagged mutagenesis, we identified a mutant, AL251, which was attenuated for virulence in mice and in the natural chicken host. Sequence analysis indicated that AL251 had an insertional inactivation of the gene wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harper M,Cox AD,St Michael F,Wilkie IW,Boyce JD,Adler B

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin G (IgG)- and IgM-specific antibody titers against Salmonella typhi Ty2 porins have been measured in 30 paired typhoid sera by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. These studies have found that IgG serum titers of acute and convalescent sera were 625 and 5,000 times higher, respectively than the control se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Calderón I,Lobos SR,Rojas HA,Palomino C,Rodríguez LH,Mora GC

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies concerned with the mechanisms responsible for relative resistance or susceptibility of strains of inbred mice to Trypanosoma musculi infections are presented. Treatment with 400 rads of ionizing radiation, silica dust, or trypan blue (reticuloendothelial blocking agents) rendered C3H mice unable to control the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Albright JW,Albright JF

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here on the isolation of isogenic strains of Aeromonas hydrophila AB3 deleted for a segment of the aerolysin gene. All aer mutants obtained lacked the 49-kilodalton aerolysin gene product and were neither hemolytic for blood erythrocytes nor cytotoxic for Chinese hamster ovary tissue culture cells. One such ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chakraborty T,Huhle B,Hof H,Bergbauer H,Goebel W

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis can activate inflammatory responses through Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and may cause renal tubulointerstitial fibrosis characterized by the accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM). We have previously demonstrated that Leptospira santorosai serovar Shermani detergent extract stimulates ECM accumulation...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tian YC,Hung CC,Li YJ,Chen YC,Chang MY,Yen TH,Hsu HH,Wu MS,Phillips A,Yang CW

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

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：:Salmonella strains that lack or overproduce DNA adenine methylase (Dam) elicit a protective immune response to different Salmonella species. To generate vaccines against other bacterial pathogens, the dam genes of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Vibrio cholerae were disrupted but found to be essential for viability. O...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Julio SM,Heithoff DM,Provenzano D,Klose KE,Sinsheimer RL,Low DA,Mahan MJ

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P6, a 16,600-dalton protein present in the outer membranes of both typeable and nontypeable strains, may be an important antigen in immunity to Haemophilus influenzae. The gene encoding P6 of a nontypeable strain of H. influenzae was cloned by using bacteriophage lambda gt11. Four recombinant phages were detected by s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nelson MB,Apicella MA,Murphy TF,Vankeulen H,Spotila LD,Rekosh D

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo expression of pili by Escherichia coli in the urine of 41 adults with lower urinary tract infections was analyzed by immunostaining with polyclonal antiserum to type 1 and P pili. Type 1 pili were detected in 31 of 41 urine specimens, while P pili were detected in 6 of 18 specimens. The piliation status of bac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kisielius PV,Schwan WR,Amundsen SK,Duncan JL,Schaeffer AJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization of BALB/c mice with a plasmid containing the gene for Trypanosoma cruzi trans-sialidase (TS) induced antibodies that inhibited TS enzymatic activity, CD4+ Th1 and CD8+ Tc1 cells, and protective immunity against infection. We used this model to obtain basic information on the requirement of CD4 or CD8 or B...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fujimura AE,Kinoshita SS,Pereira-Chioccola VL,Rodrigues MM

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American opossum is the only experimental animal that regularly develops bacterial endocarditis spontaneously. There was no relation between the ability of opossums to clear bacteria from the bloodstream and the subsequent development of endocarditis. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Musher DM,Richie Y

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) base composition, as measured by guanine plus cytosine (G + C) content, was determined in 17 strains of Sporothrix schenckii and Ceratocystis species. The average G + C content for S. schenckii was 54.7 +/- 0.2 mol%. No strain of Ceratocystis, with the exception of C. minor, gave values for...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mendonça-Hagler LC,Travassos LR,Lloyd KO,Phaff HJ

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galactomannan (GM) extracted from mycelia of Aspergillus fumigatus with cold dilute alkali reacted with antiserum specific for an antigen that circulated in invasive aspergillosis in rabbits and humans. The GM was purified by its affinity for concanavalin A and was separated from a nonantigenic glucan by gel permeatio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Reiss E,Lehmann PF

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified, by two-dimensional electrophoretic analysis and microsequencing, a protein of Chlamydia trachomatis elementary bodies which corresponds to the polypeptide (pgp3) encoded by open reading frame 3 (ORF3). Amino acid analysis showed that the first residue (Gly) found in the native protein is the one encoded...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Comanducci M,Manetti R,Bini L,Santucci A,Pallini V,Cevenini R,Sueur JM,Orfila J,Ratti G

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli D2 (serotype 07:H-) that was isolated from a child with diarrhea hybridized with an F1845 DNA probe used to detect diffuse adherence. Strain D2 adhered to tissue culture cells (HeLa and HEp-2 cells) in a clustered pattern but did not autoagglutinate on the cell surface and induced the elongation of mi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yamamoto T,Kaneko M,Changchawalit S,Serichantalergs O,Ijuin S,Echeverria P

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal animals are generally very susceptible to infection with bacterial pathogens. However, we recently reported that neonatal mice are highly resistant to orogastric infection with Yersinia enterocolitica. Here, we show that proinflammatory responses greatly exceeding those in adults arise very rapidly in the mes...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Siefker DT,Echeverry A,Brambilla R,Fukata M,Schesser K,Adkins B

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which bacterial heat-stable enterotoxins (ST I STA) cause diarrhea in humans and animals has been linked to the activation of an intestinal membrane-bound guanylate cyclase. Guanylin, a recently discovered rat intestinal peptide, is homologous in structure to ST I and can activate guanylate cyclase pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carpick BW,Gariépy J

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization with avirulent Salmonella typhimurium strain SL3235, a smooth, aroA- derivative, was shown to induce high levels of resistance to challenge with virulent S. typhimurium in innately hypersusceptible C3H/HeJ mice and inherently resistant C3H/HeNCrlBR mice. Strain SL3235 is one of a class of avirulent aroA- ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Killar LM,Eisenstein TK

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performing patch-clamp experiments on human macrophages, we show that the K(+) channel MaxiK is activated by lipopolysaccharide, peptidoglycan, and interleukin-1. Cytokine production initiated by several Toll-like receptor (TLR) ligands and by interleukin-1 is inhibited by MaxiK blockade. This provides evidence for fu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Scheel O,Papavlassopoulos M,Blunck R,Gebert A,Hartung T,Zähringer U,Seydel U,Schromm AB

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00