Antibody responses in adult volunteers to pneumococcal polysaccharide types 19F and 19A administered singly and in combination.

abstract：:To serially examine the immunopathogenesis and histopathology of infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae, we inoculated two cynomolgus monkeys in the conjunctival sac, nose, and nasopharynx with C. pneumoniae TWAR. After inoculation, C. pneumoniae was isolated from the inoculation sites and the rectums of both monkeys for...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Holland SM,Taylor HR,Gaydos CA,Kappus EW,Quinn TC

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adoptive immunity is poorly expressed in normal syngeneic mice. This phenomenon was studied by using experimental antituberculosis immunity as a model system representing pure cell-mediated immunity. Expression of adoptive immunity was facilitated by pretreating recipients with sublethal ionizing radiation (500 rads) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lefford MJ

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

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：:Recent studies have shown that children with blood group A have increased susceptibility to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) diarrhea and that Lewis blood group "a" antigen (Le(a)) may be a candidate receptor for ETEC colonization factor (CF) antigen I (CFA/I) fimbriae. Based on these findings, we have attempte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ahmed T,Lundgren A,Arifuzzaman M,Qadri F,Teneberg S,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group B streptococci (GBS) are the major cause of neonatal pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis. Steps considered to be important in the pathogenesis of this infection include colonization of the rectum and vagina of the mother, aspiration of GBS into the fetal lung during or just prior to delivery, and invasion of GBS i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tamura GS,Kuypers JM,Smith S,Raff H,Rubens CE

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane glycolipids contain the lactose sequence (galactose linked to glucose), and the oligosaccharide is variously extended such that there is a cell-type-specific repertoire. In this study, binding of Pseudomonas aeruginosa M35 to lipid-linked lactose (Gal beta 1-4Glc [structure 1]), lacto-N-neotetraose (Gal beta ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosenstein IJ,Yuen CT,Stoll MS,Feizi T

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mouse model of Lyme borreliosis, the host immune response during infection with Borrelia burgdorferi results in the remission of carditis and arthritis, as well as global reduction of spirochete numbers in tissues, without elimination of infection. These events were recapitulated by passive transfer of immune s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barthold SW,Hodzic E,Tunev S,Feng S

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acetyl-muramyl-L-alanyl-D-isoglutamine (MDP), a structurally defined fragment of bacterial peptidoglycan, stimulated significant release of previously incorporated 45Ca from fetal rat bones in tissue culture over the concentration range of 0.1 to 10.0 micrograms/ml. MDP-Stimulated bone resorption was not inhibited b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dewhirst FE

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BALB/c mice were vaccinated by the intramuscular (i.m.) and subcutaneous (s.c.) routes with a native preparation of the Chlamydia trachomatis mouse pneumonitis (MoPn) major outer membrane protein (MOMP), using Montanide ISA 720 and CpG-1826 as adjuvants. A negative control group was immunized with ovalbumin and the tw...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pal S,Peterson EM,de la Maza LM

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urease from ureaplasmas was purified by immunoaffinity chromatography, and the N-terminal amino acid sequence was determined for two of the three subunits. These sequences were used to design primers for a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) that amplified most of the gene coding for one of the subunits. By using a novel ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Willoughby JJ,Russell WC,Thirkell D,Burdon MG

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of bacterial phospholipases during serum-mediated killing of Escherichia coli was examined by using wild-type DR+ DS+ and an isogenic phospholipase-deficient mutant DR- DS-. No difference in serum sensitivity was observed when the parental DR+ DS+ and mutant DR- DS- strains were exposed to various conce...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kreutzer DL,Vandermaten M,Buller CS,Robertson DC,Hirata AA

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified R-28 antigen from an M-protein-poor, R-antigen-rich strain of group A Streptococcus was prepared by sequential treatment of an acid extract of whole cells with ammonium sulfate fractionation and hydroxylapatite (HA) column chromatography. Purified R-28 antigen was eluted only with 0.10 M sodium phosphate, pH ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Johnson RH

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:H(2)O(2) levels accumulated by Mycoplasma pneumoniae can be influenced by carbon source, different horse sera, yeast extract, thallium acetate, or growth in a simplified, dialyzed medium. Thus, increased levels of H(2)O(2) were detected by growth in glycerol, by omission of thallium acetate, and by the use of dialyzed...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Low IE

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II heat-labile enterotoxin (LT-II) from Escherichia coli 41 was purified and compared with prototype LT-II encoded by genes from E. coli SA53. Both toxins were oligomeric proteins consisting of polypeptides A (Mr, 28,000) and B (Mr, 11,800). The A polypeptides were cleaved by trypsin into fragments A1 (Mr, 21,000...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guth BE,Twiddy EM,Trabulsi LR,Holmes RK

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of four monoclonal antibodies was produced against a highly purified pepsin extract of type 5 streptococcal M protein. Three of the four antibodies cross-reacted with purified M proteins from heterologous serotypes and opsonized the respective heterologous organisms. Our studies suggest that monoclonal antibodie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dale JB,Beachey EH

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice immunized subcutaneously with heat-killed Escherichia coli were protected from pyelonephritis produced by the intravenous route, but there was little or no protection from ascending infection. No significant protection from ascending or hematogenous pyelonephritis was demonstrated when immunization was accomplish...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Montgomerie JZ,Kalmanson GM,Hubert EG,Guze LB

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humoral immune responses in experimental African trypanosomiasis were assessed in rabbits infected with Trypanosoma rhodesiense. Immune complexes as measured by a Clq binding assay or a Clq solid-phase assay were detected by day 10 and increased progressively through day 28. Immune complexes analyzed by double diffusi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lindsley HB,Janecek LL,Gilman-Sachs AM,Hassanein KM

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyprotein allergens are a family of structurally homologous molecules from parasitic nematodes which induce specific immunoglobulin E in infected individuals. We show here that both H-2 and non-H-2 factors determine the ability of mice to generate T- and B-cell responses to the filarial polyprotein allergen (Brugia ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Allen JE,Lawrence RA,Maizels RM

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified a gene (atlA) encoding autolytic activity from Streptococcus mutans Xc. The AtlA protein predicted to be encoded by atlA is composed of 979 amino acids with a molecular weight of 107,279 and has a conserved beta-1,4-N-acetylmuramidase (lysozyme) domain in the C-terminal portion. Sodium dodecyl sulfate ex...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shibata Y,Kawada M,Nakano Y,Toyoshima K,Yamashita Y

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 causes food and waterborne enteric infections that can result in hemorrhagic colitis and life-threatening hemolytic uremic syndrome. Intimate adherence of the bacteria to intestinal epithelial cells is mediated by intimin, but E. coli O157:H7 also possess several other putative adhesins, inclu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lloyd SJ,Ritchie JM,Rojas-Lopez M,Blumentritt CA,Popov VL,Greenwich JL,Waldor MK,Torres AG

更新日期：2012-03-01 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

abstract：:Following intranasal inoculation, Vibrio cholerae KFV101 (DeltactxAB DeltahapA DeltahlyA DeltartxA) colonizes and stimulates tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukin 1beta (IL-1beta) in mice, similar to what occurs with isogenic strain P4 (DeltactxAB), but is less virulent and stimulates reduced levels of IL-6, dem...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Haines GK 3rd,Sayed BA,Rohrer MS,Olivier V,Satchell KJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine cytomegalovirus pools from various in vitro and in vivo sources were compared for virulence in suckling mice in an effort to identify the conditions which were necessary for the production of virulent and attenuated viruses. Virus passaged in tracheal ring and salivary gland organ cultures, where virus is produ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Selgrade MK,Nedrud JG,Collier AM,Gardner DE

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae is the causative bacteria of the diarrheal disease cholera, but it also persists in aquatic environments, where it displays an expression profile that is distinct from that during infection. Upon entry into the host, a tightly regulated circuit coordinates the induction of two major virulence factors: ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hay AJ,Yang M,Xia X,Liu Z,Hammons J,Fenical W,Zhu J

更新日期：2016-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori secretes a pore-forming VacA toxin that has structural features and activities substantially different from those of other known bacterial toxins. VacA can assemble into multiple types of water-soluble flower-shaped oligomeric structures, and most VacA activities are dependent on its capacity to ol...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： González-Rivera C,Campbell AM,Rutherford SA,Pyburn TM,Foegeding NJ,Barke TL,Spiller BW,McClain MS,Ohi MD,Lacy DB,Cover TL

更新日期：2016-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The macrophage migration inhibition test was applied to the study of delayed hypersensitivity in mice vaccinated intravenously with oil-treated cell walls of Mycobacterium bovis BCG. Migration inhibition of peritoneal exudate cells from sensitized mice was demonstrated directly upon incubation of the cells with purifi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yamamoto K,Anacker RL

更新日期：1970-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of mycobacterial growth inhibitory factor (MycoIF) to trypsin, chymotrypsin, or neuraminidase decrease its ability to produce intracellular inhibition of mycobacterial growth within macrophages, suggesting that MycoIF was a glycoprotein. MycoIF was unaffected by deoxyribonuclease or ribonuclease. Supernatant ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cahall DL,Youmans GP

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autotransporters of gram-negative bacteria are single-peptide secretion systems that consist of a functional N-terminal alpha-domain ("passenger") fused to a C-terminal beta-domain ("translocator"). How passenger proteins are translocated through the outer membrane has not been resolved, and at present essentially thr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Müller D,Benz I,Tapadar D,Buddenborg C,Greune L,Schmidt MA

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the oligosaccharides (OS) of outer membrane lipooligosaccharides (LOS) of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis. OS from the LOS of an individual neisserial strain always eluted from Sephadex G-50S as multiple peaks; the polyacrylamide gel elution profiles were nearly identical to the polyacrylam...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Griffiss JM,O'Brien JP,Yamasaki R,Williams GD,Rice PA,Schneider H

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella abortus and polyacrylic acid, two agents whose interferon-inducing capacity in the mouse has been well established, failed to stimulate circulating interferon production in rabbits, yet protected rabbits against local vaccinia virus infection. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： De Clercq E,De Somer P

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00