Experimental Escherichia coli ascending pyelonephritis in rats: active peroral immunization with live Escherichia coli.

abstract：:Differences in infection kinetics and host response between Burkholderia multivorans and Burkholderia cenocepacia were demonstrated in a pulmonary infection model in BALB/c mice. B. multivorans persisted in the lung, while B. cenocepacia was cleared. Indirect immunofluorescence and electron microscopy of B. multivoran...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chu KK,MacDonald KL,Davidson DJ,Speert DP

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole blood and plasma from animals in the acute stage of leptospirosis contained a toxic factor which produced a cytopathic effect on fibroblastic L cell monolayers. Firm adsorption of cytotoxic factor (CTF) to L cells occurred within 1 h. The highest titer of CTF in plasma was reached at 24 h and declined after 48 h...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Knight LL,Miller NG,White RJ

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture filtrate from Mycobacterium tuberculosis contains protective antigens of relevance for the generation of a new antituberculosis vaccine. We have identified two previously uncharacterized M. tuberculosis proteins (TB7.3 and TB10.4) from the highly active low-mass fraction of culture filtrate. The molecules were...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Skjøt RL,Oettinger T,Rosenkrands I,Ravn P,Brock I,Jacobsen S,Andersen P

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) initiates infection by colonizing the upper respiratory tract and is a common cause of localized respiratory tract disease. Previous work has established that the NTHi HMW1 and HMW2 proteins are potent adhesins that mediate efficient in vitro adherence to cultured human respir...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rempe KA,Porsch EA,Wilson JM,St Geme JW 3rd

更新日期：2016-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) is a significant pathogen for young children, and three Hib vaccines (named PRP-OMPC, HbOC, and PRP-T) are currently available for young children. Extensive studies of anti-Hib polysaccharide (PS) antibodies (Abs) have shown that the V regions of Abs against the Hib PS comprise a VH...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chung GH,Kim KH,Daum RS,Insel RA,Siber GR,Sood S,Gupta RK,Marchant C,Nahm MH

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-one Kanagawa-positive and -negative Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates from patient stools and seafood were examined for plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid content, culture characteristics, and indices of pathogenicity. No significant correlation was found between plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid contents and indices of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Twedt RM,Brown DF,Zink DL

更新日期：1981-07-01 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：:The polysaccharide antigen preparations from serotype a and serotype d strains of Streptococcus mutans contained both a serotype-specific antigenic determinant and a common a-d antigenic determinant, as demonstrated by agar gel diffusion studies and a quantitative cross-precipitin assay. The chromatographically purifi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Linzer R,Mukasa H,Slade HD

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella spp. are gram-negative intracellular pathogens that survive and multiply within phagocytic cells of their hosts. Smooth organisms present O polysaccharides (OPS) on their surface. These OPS help the bacteria avoid the bactericidal action of serum. The wboA gene, coding for the enzyme glycosyltransferase, is e...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernandez-Prada CM,Nikolich M,Vemulapalli R,Sriranganathan N,Boyle SM,Schurig GG,Hadfield TL,Hoover DL

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural-resistance-associated macrophage protein 1 (Nramp1) is a divalent cation transporter belonging to a family of transporter proteins highly conserved in eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Mammalian and bacterial transporters may compete for essential metal ions during mycobacterial infections. The mycobacterial Nramp h...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boechat N,Lagier-Roger B,Petit S,Bordat Y,Rauzier J,Hance AJ,Gicquel B,Reyrat JM

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a PCR-based strategy and degenerate oligonucleotides, we isolated a Legionella pneumophila gene that showed high sequence similarity to members of the fliI gene family. An insertion mutation that disrupted the fliI open reading frame was recombined onto the L. pneumophila chromosome and analyzed for its effects ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Merriam JJ,Mathur R,Maxfield-Boumil R,Isberg RR

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work in our laboratory has shown that corticosterone increases the susceptibility of macrophages from Bcgs mice to the growth of Mycobacterium avium. The innate antimycobacterial activity of macrophages from Bcgr mice was not affected by corticosterone. In contrast to the differential effect of corticosterone...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brown DH,LaFuse W,Zwilling BS

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomallei group Burkholderia species are facultative intracellular parasites that spread efficiently from cell to cell by a mechanism involving the fusion of adjacent cell membranes. Intercellular fusion requires the function of the cluster 5 type VI secretion system (T6SS-5) and its associated valine-glycine repea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Toesca IJ,French CT,Miller JF

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytes from uninfected, nonimmune mice can be stimulated to proliferate and produce antibody to diverse antigens in culture when exposed to the purified protein derivative of tuberculin or unheated tuberculin culture filtrate. Lymphocytes from numerous inbred strains of mice respond to tuberculin, but no true low...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sultzer BM,Nilsson BS,Kirschenbaum D

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endotoxin-resistant C3H/HeJ mice were used to test the hypothesis that a macrophage product, possibly interleukin-1, might mediate the depression of liver cytochrome P-450-dependent drug metabolism in endotoxin-treated mice. Depression of liver drug metabolism by endotoxin was observed in normal mice (C3H/HeN) but not...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ghezzi P,Saccardo B,Villa P,Rossi V,Bianchi M,Dinarello CA

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oophorectomized, estrogen-treated rats were immunized by the intravaginal or intranasal route with a mannoprotein extract (MP) or secreted aspartyl proteinases (Sap) of Candida albicans, with or without cholera toxin as a mucosal adjuvant. Both routes of immunization were equally effective in (i) inducing anti-MP and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： De Bernardis F,Boccanera M,Adriani D,Girolamo A,Cassone A

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-two trachoma strains were simultaneously titrated in the yolk sac of embryonated chicken eggs and in HeLa 229 cells pretreated with diethylaminoethyl-dextran to determine the relative sensitivity of the two culture systems for detection of the infection. The strains tested were both yolk sac- and HeLa cell-esta...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kuo CC,Wang SP,Grayston JT

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-specific T-cell responses and histopathological changes were studied in mice experimentally inoculated with Borrelia burgdorferi B31. Inbred mice with different H-2 haplotypes and/or different genetic backgrounds were inoculated with B. burgdorferi organisms and tested for antigen-specific T-cell responses in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schaible UE,Kramer MD,Justus CW,Museteanu C,Simon MM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis serovar E, the leading bacterial agent responsible for sexually transmitted diseases, is required to invade genital epithelial cells for its growth and survival, yet little is known about the adhesin-receptor interactions promoting its entry. In contrast, much has been published on the heparan su...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Davis CH,Raulston JE,Wyrick PB

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli strain RDEC-1 causes a diarrheagenic infection in rabbits with AF/R1 fimbriae, which have been identified as an important colonization factor in RDEC-1 adherence leading to disease. The AF/R1-mediated RDEC-1 adherence model has been used as a model systems for E. coli diarrheal diseases. In this study...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ryu H,Kim YS,Grange PA,Cassels FJ

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae cell wall and pneumolysin are important contributors to pneumococcal pathogenicity in some animal models. To further explore these factors in middle ear inflammation caused by pneumococci, penicillin-induced inflammatory acceleration was studied by using three closely related pneumococcal stra...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sato K,Quartey MK,Liebeler CL,Le CT,Giebink GS

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic diversity and relationships among 109 isolates of Neisseria meningitidis obtained from throat cultures of healthy individuals in Norway in 1984 were assessed by analyzing electrophoretically demonstrable allelic variation at 15 enzyme-encoding chromosomal genes. Seventy-eight distinctive electrophoretic types ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Caugant DA,Kristiansen BE,Frøholm LO,Bøvre K,Selander RK

更新日期：1988-08-01 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：:Gamma interferon (IFN-gamma), a pleiotropic cytokine, is now known to be produced by macrophages as well as by NK cells, gammadelta cells, and activated T cells. The autocrine biological functions of IFN-gamma on the macrophage include the upregulation of major histocompatibility complex MHC class II and the activatio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Salins S,Newton C,Widen R,Klein TW,Friedman H

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the protective efficacy of human hyperimmune globulin to Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in an infant rat model, we compared hyperimmune globulin containing 600 mug of anti-polyribophosphate (PRP) antibody per ml to conventional immune globulin containing 66 mug of anti-PRP antibody per ml. The hype...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ambrosino D,Schreiber JR,Daum RS,Siber GR

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-1,2-linked mannosides (beta-Mans) are believed to contribute to Candida albicans virulence. The presence of beta-Mans has been chemically established for two molecules (phosphopeptidomannan [PPM] and phospholipomannan) that are noncovalently linked to the cell wall, where they correspond to specific epitopes. How...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fradin C,Slomianny MC,Mille C,Masset A,Robert R,Sendid B,Ernst JF,Michalski JC,Poulain D

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major surface antigen of Trichomonas vaginalis was purified by using three independently derived monoclonal antibodies (two immunoglobulin M and one immunoglobulin G1) prepared against T. vaginalis PHS-2J. A 115,000-molecular-weight antigen and one or more components with a molecular weight of 58,000 to 64,000 were ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Connelly RJ,Torian BE,Stibbs HH

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The M1inv+ subclone of M1 group A streptococci that spread globally in the late 1980s and early 1990s was previously identified by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), M protein, and SpeA exotoxin sequence analyses. Strains representing this subclone were characterized with regard to carriage of bacterioph...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cleary PP,LaPenta D,Vessela R,Lam H,Cue D

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that individuals infected with Chlamydia trachomatis can develop a robust antibody response to a chlamydia-secreted protein (designated chlamydial proteasome/protease-like activity factor [CPAF]). We now report that sera collected from these infected individuals neutralized the proteolytic act...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sharma J,Dong F,Pirbhai M,Zhong G

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurological syndrome caused by Plasmodium berghei ANKA in rodents partially mimics the human disease. Several rodent models of cerebral malaria (CM) exist for the study of the mechanisms that cause the disease. However, since common laboratory mouse strains have limited gene pools, the role of their phenotypic va...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bagot S,Idrissa Boubou M,Campino S,Behrschmidt C,Gorgette O,Guénet JL,Penha-Gonçalves C,Mazier D,Pied S,Cazenave PA

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00