Enteropathogenicity of Aeromonas hydrophila and Plesiomonas shigelloides: prevalence among individuals with and without diarrhea in Thailand.

abstract：:The antigenic relationship of six different strains of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis was investigated by the agar-gel immunodiffusion test. Soluble antigens prepared from the two morphological phases of the fungus were diffused against human sera obtained from eight patients with paracoccidioidomycosis (South American...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Restrepo-Moreno A

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial pathogen Clostridium difficle synthesizes two high-molecular-weight toxins (A and B), which exhibit toxic effects in vivo and in vitro. Here, we present evidence that the major intracellular targets of these two toxins are the Rho GTPases. Overexpression of RhoA, RhoB, or RhoC GTPases in transfected HeLa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giry M,Popoff MR,von Eichel-Streiber C,Boquet P

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the mechanisms underlying the eosinophil-mediated inflammation of tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (TPE), bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid, serum, and supernatants from pulmonary and blood leukocytes (WBC) from patients with acute TPE (n = 6) were compared with those obtained from healthy uninfected indivi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： O'Bryan L,Pinkston P,Kumaraswami V,Vijayan V,Yenokida G,Rosenberg HF,Crystal R,Ottesen EA,Nutman TB

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization of New Zealand White rabbits with purified visna virus elicited antibody activity demonstrated by passive hemagglutination (PHA), complement fixation (CF), and indirect immunofluorescent tests. The antibody activities of hyperimmune sera and Sephadex G-200 fractions of the sera were studied. It was found ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karl SC,Thormar H

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To demonstrate local synthesis of anti-Mycobacterium leprae antibodies, biopsies from skin lesions of leprosy patients were cultured in vitro in a medium containing 14C-labeled lysine and isoleucine, and the culture fluids were analyzed by crossed immunoelectrophoresis with intermediate gel and autoradiography. The re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lai A Fat RF,Chan Pin Jin J,van Furth R,Harboe M

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to develop a new system for the analysis of capsular biosynthetic pathways we have explored the possibility of expressing type 3 capsular polysaccharide (CPS) from the pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae in Lactococcus lactis, an unencapsulated lactic acid bacterium being developed as a vaccine delivery vehicle...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gilbert C,Robinson K,Le Page RW,Wells JM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to cutaneous syphilitic reinfection in strain 2 and strain 13 guinea pigs developed gradually 3 to 7 months after primary infection and reached maximum levels at 6 to 7 months after the induction of primary cutaneous disease. Associated with this acquired resistance was the occurrence of Arthus reactions an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pavia CS,Niederbuhl CJ

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute pyelonephritis, a complication of Escherichia coli bacteriuria, must represent a bacterial invasion through the kidney epithelium. To study this process, we overlaid bacterial suspensions onto monolayers of cultured human kidney proximal tubular epithelial cells and measured cytotoxicity by release of lactate de...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mobley HL,Green DM,Trifillis AL,Johnson DE,Chippendale GR,Lockatell CV,Jones BD,Warren JW

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of macrophages was assessed in strains of mice inoculated intraperitoneally with 1,000 times the 50% lethal dose of Rickettsia akari. Macrophages from mice resistant to R. akari infection (C3H/HeN, C57BL/10J, and BALB/cN) were nonspecifically tumoricidal 2 to 4 days after rickettsial inoculation. Moreover, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nacy CA,Meltzer MS

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiologic agent of Lyme disease, is composed of a linear chromosome and more than 20 linear and circular plasmids. Typically, plasmid content analysis has been carried out by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and confirmed by Southern hybridization. However, multiple plasmids of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Iyer R,Kalu O,Purser J,Norris S,Stevenson B,Schwartz I

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we investigated the mucosal and systemic responses to two T-cell-independent polysaccharides, a serogroup f polysaccharide (formed of rhamnose glucose polymers [RGPs]) from Streptococcus mutans OMZ 175 and a mannan from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, covalently conjugated either to a linear peptide (peptide 3...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lett E,Klopfenstein C,Klein JP,Schöller M,Wachsmann D

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus is the leading cause of bacterial seafood-borne gastroenteritis worldwide, yet little is known about how this pathogen colonizes the human intestine. The alternative sigma factor RpoN/sigma-54 is a global regulator that controls flagellar synthesis, as well as a wide range of nonflagellar genes...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whitaker WB,Richards GP,Boyd EF

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the cell wall-anchored fibronectin-binding proteins SpsD and SpsL from the canine commensal and pathogen Staphylococcus pseudintermedius for their role in promoting bacterial invasion of canine progenitor epidermal keratinocytes (CPEK). Invasion was examined by the gentamicin protection ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pietrocola G,Gianotti V,Richards A,Nobile G,Geoghegan JA,Rindi S,Monk IR,Bordt AS,Foster TJ,Fitzgerald JR,Speziale P

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine hybridoma cell lines were developed which synthesized monoclonal antibodies against Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans-associated antigens. Monoclonal antibodies specific for an antigen(s) common to all A. actinomycetemcomitans isolates tested but not detected on other gram-negative oral plaque microorganisms...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Place DA,Scidmore NC,McArthur WP

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A defect in lymphocyte function could be responsible for persistent infection by the equine infectious anemia virus. The number of lymphocytes bearing surface immunoglobulin, as detected by immunofluorescence, and lymphocyte response to mitogens were the same in uninfected and equine infectious anemia-infected animals...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Banks KL,Henson JB

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pyogenes is one of the most frequent human pathogens. Recent studies have identified dendritic cells (DCs) as important contributors to host defense against S. pyogenes. The objective of this study was to identify the receptors involved in immune recognition of S. pyogenes by DCs. To determine whether To...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Loof TG,Goldmann O,Medina E

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme arthritis, does not produce any exported proteases capable of degrading extracellular matrix despite the fact that it is able to disseminate from a skin insertion site to infect multiple organs. Prior studies have shown that B. burgdorferi induces the host protease, ma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heilpern AJ,Wertheim W,He J,Perides G,Bronson RT,Hu LT

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance of lymphotoxin in the culture fluid of phytohemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated mouse spleen cells required two cell fractions that were separated by adherence to plastic. Upon stimulation with PHA, neither cell fraction alone produced significant amounts of lymphotoxin; however, when the cell fractions were...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Aksamit RR,Leonard EJ

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parameters of a persistent-state measles virus infection in BGM/MV cells were examined. The BGM/MV cell line was established by cocultivation of measles virus-infected primary C3H mouse brain cells with a stable line of African green monkey kidney cells (BGM). Initially, a morphologically mixed population of cells...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Menna JH,Collins AR,Flanagan TD

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen clinical isolates of Trichomonas vaginalis were evaluated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with transfer to nitrocellulose and by immunoblots probed with human sera. All T. vaginalis isolates showed similar banding patterns by Coomassie brilliant blue and silver staining of the elec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Garber GE,Proctor EM,Bowie WR

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli strains expressing the K1 capsule are a major cause of sepsis and meningitis in human neonates. The development of these diseases is dependent on the expression of a range of virulence factors, many of which remain uncharacterized. Here, we show that all but 1 of 34 E. coli K1 neonatal isolates carrie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McCarthy AJ,Martin P,Cloup E,Stabler RA,Oswald E,Taylor PW

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that gonococcal energy might play a role in the interaction of Neisseria gonorrhoeae with both phagocytic and nonphagocytic cells was examined. Respiratory chain inhibitors including KCN and amobarbital resulted in reduction in gonococcal association with human neutrophils. Similar results were seen wi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weber RD,Britigan BE,Svendsen T,Cohen MS

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 260-kDa galactose-inhibitable lectin of Entamoeba histolytica mediates binding of amebic trophozoites to purified colonic mucins and intestinal epithelial cells. Parenteral immunization of Lewis rats with immuno-affinity-purified lectin with Freund's adjuvant and then intra-Peyer's patch inoculation of lectin with...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kelsall BL,Ravdin JI

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pigs sensitized by repeated skin testing with potent, merthiolated coccidioidin, equal to Smith standard, exhibited erythema, edema, and an induration-like reaction to intradermal injection of the preparation. No statistically significant migration inhibition of peritoneal exudate macrophages from these animals...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sinski JT,Reed GL,Kelley LM,LeFebvre R

更新日期：1973-02-01 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：:We reexamined the binding specificity of the Shiga-like toxin variant associated with porcine edema disease, SLT2e, which is reported to be more cytotoxic for Vero cells than for HeLa cells, by using receptor-deficient cells and a liposomal insertion system for purified glycolipids. We found that SLT2e preferentially ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Keusch GT,Jacewicz M,Acheson DW,Donohue-Rolfe A,Kane AV,McCluer RH

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoteichoic acids (LTAs) belong to the immunostimulatory class of molecules of gram-positive bacteria (GPB). Previous investigations showed that the macrophage scavenger receptor (SR), a glycosylated trimeric transmembrane protein, binds directly to many GPB, possibly via LTA. SR binding to other ligands is dependent...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Greenberg JW,Fischer W,Joiner KA

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of Candida albicans to switch reversibly between the white phenotype and the opaque phenotype is required for the fungus to mate. It also influences virulence during hematogenously disseminated candidiasis. We investigated the roles of the mating type loci (MTL) and white-opaque switching in the capacity ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Solis NV,Park YN,Swidergall M,Daniels KJ,Filler SG,Soll DR

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-amino-acid repeating sequence of the hemagglutinating portion of Clostridium difficile toxin A has been synthesized and used to produce antisera in rabbits. Antipeptide antibody inhibited toxin A-mediated hemagglutination and neutralized cytotoxic activity. Immunoblot analysis with the antipeptide antibody reveal...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wren BW,Russell RR,Tabaqchali S

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two weeks after mice had been infected in the footpad with cells of Nocardia brasiliensis, immunoglobulin and C3 deposits were observed in tissue from the inoculation site. Both immunoglobulin and C3 were found in the actinomycotic granules that characterize the mycetoma and in the surrounding inflammatory zones, in w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Conde C,Mancilla R,Fresan M,Ortiz-Ortiz L

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00