Variations in the ospB gene of Borrelia burgdorferi result in differences in monoclonal antibody reactivity and in production of escape variants.

abstract：:Four strains of Staphylococcus aureus of a phage type other than the second group, isolated from patients with impetigo and Ritter's disease, were found to produce an exotoxin similar to those reported by Melish et al. (1972), Kapral and Miller (1971), and Arbuthnott et al. (1973). This toxin could elicit a general ex...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kondo I,Sakurai S,Sarai Y

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous data from our laboratory suggest that the transitional epithelium of the urinary bladder secretes and binds to its surface a glycosaminoglycan. The presence of this substance at the bladder surface markedly reduces the ability of microorganisms to adhere to the mucosa. Furthermore, this glycosaminoglycan can ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Parsons CL,Pollen JJ,Anwar H,Stauffer C,Schmidt JD

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When inoculated orally, Escherichia coli strain 1056 caused acute enteritis in 7 of 22 weanling hamsters. E. coli strain 1056 was isolated from the ileum of a hamster with proliferative ileitis. It was lactose negative, nonmotile, and anaerogenic. By electron microscopy and indirect fluorescent-antibody techniques, E....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Frisk CS,Wagner JE,Owens DR

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic role of staphylococcal coagulase and clumping factor was investigated in the rat model of endocarditis. The coagulase-producing and clumping factor-producing parent strain Staphylococcus aureus Newman and a series of mutants defective in either coagulase, clumping factor, or both were tested for their a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moreillon P,Entenza JM,Francioli P,McDevitt D,Foster TJ,François P,Vaudaux P

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane proteins of Bordetella avium were examined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Sarkosyl-insoluble outer membrane protein-enriched profiles from 50 virulent B. avium isolates, containing major 21,000- and 37,000-molecular-weight proteins (21K and 37K proteins, respectively) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leyh R,Griffith RW

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of C3H mice with Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, reliably produces an infectious arthritis and carditis that peak around 3 weeks postinfection and then spontaneously resolve. Macrophage polarization has been suggested to drive inflammation, the clearance of bacteria, and tissue rep...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lasky CE,Olson RM,Brown CR

更新日期：2015-07-01 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 influence of the growth medium on the ability of strains of Streptococcus mutans, Actinomyces viscosus and A. naeslundii to attach to saliva-treated hydroxyapatite (S-HA) surfaces was studied. Preliminary experiments indicated that cells of each species harvested in lag, log, and early stationary phases of growth ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peros WJ,Gibbons RJ

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans is surrounded by a capsular polysaccharide. There are at least four known serotypes of the polysaccharide. The objective of this study was to produce monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) that could be used to study the distribution of epitopes among the serotypes of C. neoformans. BALB/c mice were immu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eckert TF,Kozel TR

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that a Pasteurella multocida cexA mutant (PBA875) was impaired in capsule export and highly attenuated in virulence for mice (J. D. Boyce and B. Adler, Infect. Immun. 68:3463-3468, 2000). In this study we show that immunization with high, but not low, doses of PBA875 can confer significant pro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boyce JD,Adler B

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent development of acellular pertussis vaccines has been a significant improvement in the conventional whole-cell diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus toxoid vaccines, but high production costs will limit its widespread use in developing countries. Since Mycobacterium bovis BCG vaccination against tuberculosis is used ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nascimento IP,Dias WO,Mazzantini RP,Miyaji EN,Gamberini M,Quintilio W,Gebara VC,Cardoso DF,Ho PL,Raw I,Winter N,Gicquel B,Rappuoli R,Leite LC

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus), a leading cause of bacterial disease, is most commonly carried in the human nasopharynx. Colonization induces inflammation that promotes the organism's growth and transmission. This inflammatory response is dependent on intracellular sensing of bacterial components that acc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lemon JK,Miller MR,Weiser JN

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori colonizes the gastric epithelium of at least 50% of the world's human population, playing a causative role in the development of chronic gastritis, peptic ulcers, and gastric adenocarcinoma. Current evidence indicates that H. pylori can invade epithelial cells in the gastric mucosa. However, relati...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Terebiznik MR,Vazquez CL,Torbicki K,Banks D,Wang T,Hong W,Blanke SR,Colombo MI,Jones NL

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine monoclonal antibodies were generated against streptolysin O. One out of 10 tested immunoglobulin clones exhibited strong neutralizing activity; in solution, the presence of approximately two to four antibody molecules per toxin monomer effected 50% neutralization of hemolytic toxin activity. An enzyme-linked im...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hugo F,Reichwein J,Arvand M,Krämer S,Bhakdi S

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm formation by the periodontal pathogen Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is dependent upon autoinducer-2 (AI-2)-mediated quorum sensing. However, the components that link the detection of the AI-2 signal to downstream gene expression have not been determined. One potential regulator is the QseBC two-compone...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Novak EA,Shao H,Daep CA,Demuth DR

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The C-terminal 19-kDa domain of merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP1₁₉) is the target of protective antibodies but alone is poorly immunogenic. Previously, using the Plasmodium yoelii murine model, we fused P. yoelii MSP1₁₉ (PyMSP1₁₉) with full-length P. yoelii merozoite surface protein 8 (MSP8). Upon immunization, the M...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alaro JR,Angov E,Lopez AM,Zhou H,Long CA,Burns JM Jr

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections caused by organisms of the Mycobacterium avium complex occur in approximately 50 to 60% of patients with AIDS. M. avium is an intracellular pathogen that survives and multiplies within mononuclear phagocytes. In this study, we investigated the uptake of M. avium grown within macrophages (intracellular growt...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bermudez LE,Parker A,Goodman JR

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonhuman primate model for malaria vaccine development allowing reliable, stringent sporozoite challenge and evaluation of both cellular and antibody responses is needed. We therefore constructed a multicomponent, multistage DNA vaccine for the simian malaria species Plasmodium knowlesi including two preerythrocytic...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogers WO,Baird JK,Kumar A,Tine JA,Weiss W,Aguiar JC,Gowda K,Gwadz R,Kumar S,Gold M,Hoffman SL

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant analysis was used to identify Moraxella catarrhalis gene products necessary for biofilm development in a crystal violet-based assay involving 24-well tissue culture plates. The wild-type M. catarrhalis strains that formed the most extensive biofilms in this system proved to be refractory to transposon mutagenes...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pearson MM,Laurence CA,Guinn SE,Hansen EJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccine adjuvants exert critical and unique influences on the quality of immune responses induced during active immunizations. We investigated the mechanisms of action of immunological adjuvants in terms of their requirements for cytokine-mediated pathways for adjuvanticity. Antibody responses potentiated by several a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hui GS,Hashimoto CN

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are no vaccines against boutonneuse fever and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Previous studies have identified a Rickettsia rickettsii surface protein as a vaccine candidate and shown that an antigenically related protein is present in R. conorii, which causes boutonneuse fever. The gene encoding the R. rickettsii...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vishwanath S,McDonald GA,Watkins NG

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C57BL/6J mice infected with Plasmodium berghei ANKA develop neurological dysfunction and die within 7 days of infection. We show that treatment of infected mice with a kynurenine-3-hydroxylase inhibitor prevents them from developing neurological symptoms and extends their life span threefold until severe anemia develo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clark CJ,Mackay GM,Smythe GA,Bustamante S,Stone TW,Phillips RS

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogens produce virulence factors that interact directly with host molecules, but in many cases the host targets are unknown. The genetic and molecular identification of these orphan targets is often not feasible with mammalian experimental models. However, a substantial number of known targets are molecules and pat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Darby C,Falkow S

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, autoaggregates within a few minutes of cessation of shaking when grown at 28 degrees C. To identify the autoaggregation factor of Y. pestis, we performed mariner-based transposon mutagenesis. Autoaggregation-defective mutants from three different pools were identified, e...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Felek S,Muszyński A,Carlson RW,Tsang TM,Hinnebusch BJ,Krukonis ES

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six strains of Rickettsia rickettsii from Montana and North Carolina were examined in an effort to identify rickettsial constituents associated with virulence. Fever responses, scrotal reactions, and mortalities of male guinea pigs inoculated intraperitoneally with 1,000 PFU of rickettsial strains revealed that the tw...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anacker RL,Philip RN,Williams JC,List RH,Mann RE

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colostrum was collected and pooled from each of five cows in three experimental groups: group I cows received intramuscular and intramammary inoculations of adjuvanted modified live Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center rotavirus vaccine; group II cows were injected intramuscularly with a commercial modifi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Saif LJ,Redman DR,Smith KL,Theil KW

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Streptococcus intermedius and Streptococcus mutans are regarded as members of the commensal microflora of the body, S. intermedius is often associated with deep-seated purulent infections, whereas S. mutans is frequently associated with dental caries. In this study, we investigated the roles of the S. mutans ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Petersen FC,Assev S,van der Mei HC,Busscher HJ,Scheie AA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty Borellia burgdorferi strains isolated from humans and ticks in Europe and the United States were analyzed by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis. Eleven genetic loci were characterized on the basis of the electrophoretic mobilities of their products. Ten loci were polymorphic. The average number of alleles per loc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boerlin P,Peter O,Bretz AG,Postic D,Baranton G,Piffaretti JC

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent epidemiological observations suggest that clinical evolution of Plasmodium falciparum infections might be influenced by the concurrent presence of another Plasmodium species, and such mixed-species infections are now known to occur frequently in residents of most areas of endemicity. We used mice infected with ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Voza T,Vigário AM,Belnoue E,Grüner AC,Deschemin JC,Kayibanda M,Delmas F,Janse CJ,Franke-Fayard B,Waters AP,Landau I,Snounou G,Rénia L

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis is the causative agent of zoonotic tularemia, a severe pneumonia in humans, and Francisella novicida causes a similarly severe tularemia in mice upon inhalation. The correlates of protective immunity, as well as the virulence mechanisms of this deadly pathogen, are not well understood. In the pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sharma J,Li Q,Mishra BB,Georges MJ,Teale JM

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00