Pulmonary infection of mice with Staphylococcus aureus.

abstract：:Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis patterns of proteins and externally exposed labeled surface constituents were analyzed in promastigotes of three etiological agents of kala azar (Leishmania donovani, HS70 strain from India; L. chagasi, Imperatriz strain from Brazil; L. infantum, ITMPA K263 str...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lemesre JL,Rizvi FS,Afchain D,Sadigursky M,Capron A,Santoro F

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenicities of three proteases from Serratia marcescens, two proteases from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and one thermolysin from Bacillus stearothermophilus were examined. All proteases tested caused acute liquefactive necrosis of the cornea and descemetocele formation in guinea pig eyes after intrastromal injecti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Molla A,Matsumura Y,Yamamoto T,Okamura R,Maeda H

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based upon the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) structure and antigenicity of Shigella group B, a strategy for broad cross-protection against 14 Shigella flexneri serotypes was designed. This strategy involves the use of two S. flexneri serotypes (2a and 3a), which together bear the all of the major antigenic group factors of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Noriega FR,Liao FM,Maneval DR,Ren S,Formal SB,Levine MM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention has recently been focused on immunoglobulin A1 (IgA1) protease production as a possible virulence factor of bacteria implicated in meningitis and gonorrhea. This report demonstrates that suspected principal etiological agents in destructive periodontal disease include bacteria capable of degrading IgA1, IgA2...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kilian M

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exogenous ammonium ions (NH(4) (+)) and amine compounds had a profound influence on the antibacterial activity of the myeloperoxidase-hydrogen peroxide-chloride system against Escherichia coli. The rate of killing increased in the presence of NH(4) (+) and certain guanidino compounds and decreased in the presence of a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thomas EL

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of whether Mycobacterium tuberculosis resides within a relatively impermeable membrane-bound vacuole or is free within the cytoplasm within its host cell is central to an understanding of the immunobiology of this intracellular parasite but is a matter of controversy. To explore this issue, we assessed the a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clemens DL,Lee BY,Horwitz MA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice with disrupted beta 2-microglobulin (beta 2m-/-), I-A (class II-/-), or CD4 (CD4-/-) genes were examined for their capacity to resolve Chlamydia trachomatis genital tract infection. C57BL/6 and beta 2m-/- mice resolved infection similarly and were culture negative by 4 to 5 weeks following infection. Conversely, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Morrison RP,Feilzer K,Tumas DB

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural gene of pneumolysin was randomly mutagenized. A screen, developed to identify mutants with reduced hemolytic activity, identified substitutions within the cysteine-containing region and also at residues toward the N terminus of the toxin. These are the first reported changes within the N-terminal region...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hill J,Andrew PW,Mitchell TJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori mutants deficient in 6-phosphogluconate dehydratase (6PGD) were constructed. Colonization densities were lower and minimum infectious doses were higher for mutant strains than for wild-type strains. In spite of better colonization, however, wild-type strains did not displace the mutant in cocoloniz...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wanken AE,Conway T,Eaton KA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells (IRBCs) in the human placenta is mediated by chondroitin-4-sulfate (C4S). Although IRBC binding to C4S has been unequivocally established, the adherence characteristics of IRBCs at different stages of parasite development and through successive parasite g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Madhunapantula SV,Achur RN,Gowda DC

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotypes A and B of the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia turicatae produce different disease manifestations in infected mice. Whereas serotype B causes more severe arthritis and reaches higher densities in the blood of mice than serotype A, serotype A invades the central nervous system earlier than serotype B duri...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pennington PM,Cadavid D,Barbour AG

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of clearance of Vibrio fetus var. venerealis was measured by using in vivo and in vitro methods. The rate of clearance from the circulating blood increased in immune rabbits and reached a plateau 4 days after immunization. Thereafter in vivo clearance did not increase further despite rising agglutinin titers....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carrier SP,Kramer TT

更新日期：1971-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenicities of 10 temperature-sensitive mutants of Venezuelan encephalitis virus were studied using the hamster model of human virulence. The parental strain and nine of the temperature-sensitive mutants produced lethal infections in hamsters. Strain ts 126 showed reduced hamster virulence. Deaths with the lethal ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krieger JN,Scherer WF,Wiebe ME,Pancake BA,Harsanyi ZP

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fimbriae are colonization factors of the human pathogen Haemophilus influenzae in that they mediate bacterial adherence to human eukaryotic cells. The contribution of the major (HifA) and putative minor (HifD and HifE) subunits of H. influenzae fimbriae to fimbria-specific adherence was studied by using mutants that w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van Ham SM,van Alphen L,Mooi FR,van Putten JP

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein we report an important role for the ferric uptake regulator (Fur) in the resistance of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to the reactive nitrogen species produced by inducible nitric oxide (NO) synthase in an NRAMP1(r) murine model of acute systemic infection. The expression of fur protected Salmonella gr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Husain M,Jones-Carson J,Liu L,Song M,Saah JR,Troxell B,Mendoza M,Hassan H,Vázquez-Torres A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), interleukin 8 (IL-8), IL-6, IL-1 alpha, and IL-1 beta produced during the immune and inflammatory responses to bacterial stimuli have been reported to interact with polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Elbim C,Bailly S,Chollet-Martin S,Hakim J,Gougerot-Pocidalo MA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition by Mycoplasma dispar of ciliary activity of organ cultures of bovine fetal trachea was found to be dependent on the presence of serum in the maintenance medium. Inhibitory activity was unaffected by catalase and no toxic substance was demonstrated in organ culture supernatant fluid. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Howard CJ,Thomas LH

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed experimental murine Campylobacter infection models which demonstrate efficient establishment and reproducible, high-level colonization. Following oral inoculation, wild-type C3H mice with normal enteric flora were colonized inconsistently and inefficiently by C. jejuni strain 81-176. However, C3H mic...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chang C,Miller JF

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very little is known about the host response to chlamydial genital infection in the male, particularly about the nature of the local response in the urethra. In this study, the pathological and immunologic responses to urethral infection of the male guinea pig with Chlamydia caviae (Chlamydophila caviae) were characte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang Y,Nagarajan U,Hennings L,Bowlin AK,Rank RG

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a porcine dermal explant model to determine the extent to which Staphylococcus aureus biofilm communities deplete oxygen, change pH, and produce damage in underlying tissue. Microelectrode measurements demonstrated that dissolved oxygen (DO) in biofilm-free dermal tissue was 4.45 ± 1.17 mg/liter, while DO...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lone AG,Atci E,Renslow R,Beyenal H,Noh S,Fransson B,Abu-Lail N,Park JJ,Gang DR,Call DR

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because combined administration of intramuscular and intravenous interferon has been partially successful in the incubationary treatment of rabies, the effect of direct interferon administration into the cerebrospinal fluid space was tested. After injecting 1,800 U of interferon into the cisterna magna or the lateral ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ho M,Nash C,Morgan CW,Armstrong JA,Carroll RG,Postic B

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis causes bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic plague, diseases that are rapidly lethal to most mammals, including humans. Plague develops as a consequence of bacterial neutralization of the host's innate immune response, which permits uncontrolled growth and causes the systemic hyperactivation of the infla...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dhariwala MO,Olson RM,Anderson DM

更新日期：2017-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Both rat alveolar macrophages and a human macrophages cell line with characteristics of human tissue (e.g., alveolar) macrophages (THP-1) were found to inhibit the germination of Rhizopus spores. However, the conditions under which fungistatic activity occurs are different for these two cell types. The inhibition of R...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jorens PG,Boelaert JR,Halloy V,Zamora R,Schneider YJ,Herman AG

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonclonal population of Borrelia burgdorferi N40 (passage 3) that survived protective immunity following challenge inoculation of outer surface protein (Osp) A- or B-hyperimmunized mice were characterized for the molecular basis of evasion of immunity. Two of six B. burgdorferi isolates, cultured from OspA-immunized...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fikrig E,Tao H,Barthold SW,Flavell RA

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD) protein 1 (NOD1) and NOD2 are pathogen recognition receptors that sense breakdown products of peptidoglycan (PGN) (muropeptides). It is shown that a number of these muropeptides can induce tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) gene expression without significant TNF-al...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wolfert MA,Roychowdhury A,Boons GJ

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children are more resistant to gingivitis than are adults. To determine possible differences in their periodontal floras, an experimental gingivitis study, identical in design to one reported earlier with young adults, was conducted with four 4- to 6-year-old children. The incidence of sites that developed gingival in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moore WE,Holdeman LV,Smibert RM,Cato EP,Burmeister JA,Palcanis KG,Ranney RR

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsia prowazeki, pretreated with typhus immune human serum, readily infects, and grows in, chicken embryo cells in culture. This finding is similar to those of previous studies which showed that typhus rickettsiae, pretreated with immune serum, grow in cells of the yolk sac of embryonated hen eggs and in the cell...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wisseman CL Jr,Waddell AD,Walsh WT

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae normally inhabits aquatic habitats but can cause a severe diarrheal illness in humans. Its arsenal of virulence factors includes a secreted hemagglutinin (HA) protease. An HA protease-deficient mutant of V. cholerae was isolated and designated E7946 mpc. E7946 mpc was found to contain a point mutation ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vance RE,Zhu J,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae O1 has two biotypes, El Tor and Classical, and the latter is now presumed to be extinct in nature. Under carbohydrate-rich growth conditions, El Tor biotype strains produce the neutral fermentation end product 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BD), which prevents accumulation of organic acids from mixed acid ferment...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bari W,Song YJ,Yoon SS

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal mucosa forms the first line of defense against infections mediated by enteric pathogens such as salmonellae. Here we exploited intestinal "organoids" (iHOs) generated from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hIPSCs) to explore the interaction of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium with iHOs. Imagi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Forbester JL,Goulding D,Vallier L,Hannan N,Hale C,Pickard D,Mukhopadhyay S,Dougan G

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00