Demonstration of lipopolysaccharide with O-polysaccharide chains among different heat-stable serotypes of Campylobacter jejuni by silver staining of polyacrylamide gels.

abstract：:The infiltration of neutrophils which phagocytose and kill microorganisms is an important defense mechanism against infections of the airways. Bordetella pertussis is a human respiratory pathogen which colonizes ciliated epithelium, causing whooping cough. We have investigated the effects of the peptidoglycan fragment...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cundell DR,Kanthakumar K,Taylor GW,Goldman WE,Flak T,Cole PJ,Wilson R

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diverse pathogens have evolved to survive and replicate in the endosomes or phagosomes of the host cells and establish persistent infection. Ehrlichiae are Gram-negative, intracellular bacteria that are transmitted by ticks. Ehrlichiae reside in the endosomes of the host phagocytic or endothelial cells and establish p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Singh AK,Thirumalapura NR

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonvertebrate model hosts represent valuable tools for the study of host-pathogen interactions because they facilitate the identification of bacterial virulence factors and allow the discovery of novel components involved in host innate immune responses. In this report, we determined that the greater wax moth caterpil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miyata S,Casey M,Frank DW,Ausubel FM,Drenkard E

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified, by two-dimensional electrophoretic analysis and microsequencing, a protein of Chlamydia trachomatis elementary bodies which corresponds to the polypeptide (pgp3) encoded by open reading frame 3 (ORF3). Amino acid analysis showed that the first residue (Gly) found in the native protein is the one encoded...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Comanducci M,Manetti R,Bini L,Santucci A,Pallini V,Cevenini R,Sueur JM,Orfila J,Ratti G

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of group A streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxins (SPE) type A and C was transferred from toxigenic streptococcal strains to nontoxigenic strains by lysogeny. Lysogens were tested for SPE with Ouchterlony immunodiffusion on Todd-Hewitt agar plates; toxin diffusing from isolated colonies reacted with specific hyp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Johnson LP,Schlievert PM,Watson DW

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity against tuberculosis is considered to be essentially cell mediated, and an important role for CD8(+) T lymphocytes has been suggested by several studies of murine and human infections. The present work, using an experimental model of infection with Mycobacterium bovis in cattle, showed that live M....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liébana E,Girvin RM,Welsh M,Neill SD,Pollock JM

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemolytic activity of the thermostable direct hemolysin produced by Vibrio parahaemolyticus was inhibited by a ganglioside mixture. The ganglioside component which inhibited the hemolysin was not FM1 ganglioside. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takeda R,Honda T,Sakural J,Otomo N

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells are considered to be key players in the early innate responses to protozoan infections, primarily indirectly by producing gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in response to cytokines, like interleukin 12 (IL-12). We demonstrate that live, as well as heat-inactivated, tachyzoites of Neospora caninum,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boysen P,Klevar S,Olsen I,Storset AK

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced human periodontitis is considered to be a B-cell lesion, but the cellular infiltrate contains several cell types, the distribution of which has not been determined. This experiment was designed to characterize and identify the immunocompetent cells on histological sections and in eluates from diseased human g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Okada H,Kida T,Yamagami H

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity in mice to the infective third-stage larvae (L3) of Strongyloides stercoralis was shown to be dependent on immunoglobulin M (IgM), complement activation, and granulocytes. The objectives of the present study were to determine whether IgG was also a protective antibody isotype and to define the spec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ligas JA,Kerepesi LA,Galioto AM,Lustigman S,Nolan TJ,Schad GA,Abraham D

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine proteases and serine protease homologs form the second largest gene family in the Drosophila melanogaster genome. Certain genes in the Jonah multigene family encoding serine proteases have been implicated in the fly antiviral immune response. Here, we report the involvement of Jonah66Ci in the Drosophila immune...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yadav S,Eleftherianos I

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane protein OmpU of Vibrio cholerae O1 strain 86B3 was characterized with reference to colonization of the intestine by the organism. The purified OmpU exhibited a pI of 3.6. Upon sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, it migrated to 38, 32, and 110 kDa when the sample was heated at ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nakasone N,Iwanaga M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal colonization is a necessary first step in the pathogenesis of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Using isolates containing defined mutations in the S. pneumoniae capsule locus, we found that expression of the capsular polysaccharide is essential for colonization by the type 2 strain D39 and the type 3 strains A6...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Magee AD,Yother J

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that activating-type Fc receptors for immunoglobulin G (FcgammaR), such as FcgammaRI and FcgammaRIII, are essential for inducing inflammatory responses. On the other hand, a unique inhibitory FcgammaR, FcgammaRIIB, inhibits intracellular signaling upon engagement of immunoglobulin G-immune compl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Henriques-Pons A,Olivieri BP,Oliveira GM,Daëron M,de Araújo-Jorge TC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematogenous infections caused by Candida krusei have been noted with increasing frequency, particularly in cancer patients receiving prophylaxis with antifungal triazoles. Progress in understanding the pathogenesis of this emerging infection has been limited by the lack of an animal model. We developed a CF1 mouse in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anaissie E,Hachem R,K-Tin-U C,Stephens LC,Bodey GP

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Livers of normal mice trapped over 80% of intravenously injected 51Cr-labeled lipopolysaccharide after 1 h. Liver fractionation studies showed that nearly 45% of the labeled endotoxin was associated with cell nuclei, 20% with the mitochondrial-lysosomal fraction, and approximately 30% with the cell sap. Analysis of th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zlydaszyk JC,Moon RJ

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodontitis is a bacterium-induced chronic inflammation that destroys tissues that attach teeth to jaw bone. Pathologically excessive matrix metalloproteinase 8 (MMP-8) is among the key players in periodontal destruction by initiating type I collagen degradation. We studied MMP-8 in Porphyromonas gingivalis-induced ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kuula H,Salo T,Pirilä E,Tuomainen AM,Jauhiainen M,Uitto VJ,Tjäderhane L,Pussinen PJ,Sorsa T

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An array of pro- and anti-inflammatory mediators of the innate immune system was analyzed in stool, urine, and rectal mucosa samples from adults and children with shigellosis to better understand their role in recovery from and in the immunopathogenesis of the disease. Increased concentrations of lactoferrin (Lf), mye...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Raqib R,Mia SM,Qadri F,Alam TI,Alam NH,Chowdhury AK,Mathan MM,Andersson J

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gender is a significant factor in determining the susceptibility to and severity of pulmonary diseases in both humans and animals. Murine respiratory mycoplasmosis (MRM), due to Mycoplasma pulmonis infection, is an excellent animal model for evaluation of the role of various host factors on the development of acute or...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yancey AL,Watson HL,Cartner SC,Simecka JW

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Curli are thin, coiled fibers expressed on the surface of Escherichia coli that bind several matrix and plasma proteins such as fibronectin, laminin, plasminogen, tissue plasminogen activator, and H-kininogen. In this work, we examined the interactions between curli-expressing E. coli and human major histocompatibilit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Olsén A,Wick MJ,Mörgelin M,Björck L

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We utilized magnetic resonance imaging to visualize lesions in the lungs of guinea pigs infected by low-dose aerosol exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Lesions were prominent in such images, and colorized three-dimensional reconstructions of images revealed a very uniform distribution in the lungs. Lesion numbers...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kraft SL,Dailey D,Kovach M,Stasiak KL,Bennett J,McFarland CT,McMurray DN,Izzo AA,Orme IM,Basaraba RJ

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus peptidoglycan displayed a marked dose-dependent mitogenic activity for mouse splenocytes and human peripheral blood lymphocytes in vitro, as measured by increased [3H]thymidine incorporation. Similarly it was mitogenic for athymic nude mouse spleen cells, whereas no blastogenic effect was observe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dziarski R,Dziarski A

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of choriogonadotropin- and alpha-subunit-like materials in two species of bacteria identified as Staphylococcus simulans and Streptococcus faecalis have been demonstrated by the indirect fluorescein-labeled and the indirect peroxidase-labeled immunocytochemical techniques, utilizing antiserum for human ch...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Acevedo HF,Koide SS,Slifkin M,Maruo T,Campbell-Acevedo EA

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella organisms are intracellular stealth pathogens of animals and humans. The bacteria overcome the assault of innate immunity at early stages of an infection. Removal of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) at the onset of adaptive immunity against Brucella abortus favored bacterial elimination in mice. This was ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mora-Cartín R,Gutiérrez-Jiménez C,Alfaro-Alarcón A,Chaves-Olarte E,Chacón-Díaz C,Barquero-Calvo E,Moreno E

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned and sequenced the d15 gene from two strains of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and two strains of nontypeable H. influenzae (NTHI). The nucleotide and deduced protein sequences of d15 are highly conserved, with only a small variable region identified near the carboxyl terminus of the protein. Analys...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Loosmore SM,Yang YP,Coleman DC,Shortreed JM,England DM,Klein MH

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chemically defined medium developed for Neisseria gonorrhoeae was modified to support the growth of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli. A total of 76 isolates of C. jejuni and 14 isolates of C. coli were tested on this medium, which was designated Campylobacter defined medium (CDM), over a 3-month period. A...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tenover FC,Knapp JS,Patton C,Plorde JJ

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type Bordetella bronchiseptica and a bvg mutant strain were used for invasion and survival experiments in human Caco-2 and A549 epithelial cells. Both bacterial strains were able to enter and persist within the host cells for at least a week. A significant proportion of the bacteria from both B. bronchiseptica st...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schipper H,Krohne GF,Gross R

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A C3d-binding glycoprotein was purified from the culture filtrate of Candida albicans by preparative isoelectric focusing. The protein possessed a pI of 3.9 to 4.1 and could inhibit rosetting of EAC3d (sheep erythrocytes conjugated to C3d) by pseudohyphae of C. albicans. When analyzed by polyacrylamide gel electrophor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Saxena A,Calderone R

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen consumption by Treponema pallidum was observed to be glucose dependent. Treponemes consumed O2 to a low dissolved O2 concentration of 0.01 mumol of O2 per ml when respiration ceased. A fermentative degradation of glucose occurred during the maintenance of treponemes at 0.01 mumol of O2 per ml. Although the init...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barbieri JT,Cox CD

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the 56-kDa protein of Orientia tsutsugamushi Shanxi was amplified by a nested PCR and cloned into the expression vector pQE30. The 56-kDa protein of O. tsutsugamushi Shanxi (Sxh56) was expressed as a fusion protein with the His(6)-binding protein of Escherichia coli by deleting the signal peptide-enc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chen WJ,Niu DS,Zhang XY,Chen ML,Cui H,Wei WJ,Wen BH,Chen XR

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00