Recombinant human bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (rBPI23) is a universal lipopolysaccharide-binding ligand.

abstract：:The pattern of meningococcal surface structure expression in different microenvironments following bloodstream invasion in vivo is not known. We used immunohistochemistry to determine the expression of capsule, type IV pili, and PorA by meningococci residing in the skin lesions of children with purpura fulminans. All ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harrison OB,Robertson BD,Faust SN,Jepson MA,Goldin RD,Levin M,Heyderman RS

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human serum at low concentrations inhibits the growth of Cryptococcus neoformans in vitro. Fractionation of serum yielded a purified inhibitory protein with a molecular mass of approximately 81.8 kDa, a pI of approximately 6.2, and an amino acid sequence that matched that of human transferrin. The inhibitory activity ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sridhar S,Ahluwalia M,Brummer E,Stevens DA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a standard regimen of cimetidine on the gastric flora of 20 male volunteers was studied in a double-blind manner and compared with the effects of a standard antacid regimen. Postprandial microbial titers in gastric aspirates were significantly higher at 4, 8, and 16 weeks of therapy in subjects taking an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Snepar R,Poporad GA,Romano JM,Kobasa WD,Kaye D

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed sensitive and specific solid-phase radioimmunoassays to quantitate the distribution and persistence of bacterial antigen in rats developing arthritis in response to a single injection of streptococcal cell wall material. Three separate assays were specific for either the A polysaccharide (N-acetyl-D-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eisenberg R,Fox A,Greenblatt JJ,Anderle SK,Cromartie WJ,Schwab JH

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ethanol-insoluble product formed from sucrose by purified enzyme encoded by the gtfA gene from Streptococcus mutans, expressed in recombinant Escherichia coli, was analyzed by 13C and 31P nuclear magnetic resonance. The product was identified as alpha-D-glucose-1-phosphate, and it was concluded that the GTF-A enzy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Russell RR,Mukasa H,Shimamura A,Ferretti JJ

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbred strain 2 guinea pigs were vaccinated with Mycobacterium bovis BCG or were left unvaccinated and challenged 6 weeks later by the respiratory route with virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis. By using a double rosette assay with isotype-specific antibody-coated ox and uncoated rabbit erythrocytes, the proportions o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bartow RA,McMurray DN

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eperythrozoon coccoides is a common blood parasite of rodents and the etiological agent of a chronic infection present in many mouse colonies. After primary infection, mice develop a parasitemia and anemia followed by a chronic, latent infection. During the acute phase of infection, mice manifest a striking suppressio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Glasgow LA,Odugbemi T,Dwyer P,Ritterson AL

更新日期：1971-10-01 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：:Immune cytolysis was measured by release of absorbed radioactive chromium from infected cells that were incubated with antiviral antibody and complement. The presence of virus-specific antigens detected in this manner on the surface of several types of cells infected with Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus did not corre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brandt WE,Russell PK

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired erythropoiesis causes anemia during genetic disorders, chronic disease, and infection. In studies of the underlying mechanisms researchers have increasingly focused on gamma interferon (IFN-gamma). Here, we identified a previously unrecognized role for interleukin-15 (IL-15) in red blood cell homeostasis and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mullarky IK,Szaba FM,Kummer LW,Wilhelm LB,Parent MA,Johnson LL,Smiley ST

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adherence of blastoconidia to epidermal corneocytes is an early event in Candida colonization and infection of the skin. Pathogenic species adhere more avidly than nonpathogenic species, transform to hyphal growth, and invade the stratum corneum of the skin. Adherence was studied by scanning electron microscopy of exp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ray TL,Payne CD

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galactomannan (GM) extracted from mycelia of Aspergillus fumigatus with cold dilute alkali reacted with antiserum specific for an antigen that circulated in invasive aspergillosis in rabbits and humans. The GM was purified by its affinity for concanavalin A and was separated from a nonantigenic glucan by gel permeatio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Reiss E,Lehmann PF

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human galectin-3 binds to the surface of Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes and human coronary artery smooth muscle (CASM) cells. CASM cells express galectin-3 on their surface and secrete it. Exogenous galectin-3 increased the binding of T. cruzi to CASM cells. Trypanosome binding to CASM cells was enhanced when eithe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kleshchenko YY,Moody TN,Furtak VA,Ochieng J,Lima MF,Villalta F

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anopheles gambiae is the major African vector of Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly species of human malaria parasite and the most prevalent in Africa. Several strategies are being developed to limit the global impact of malaria via reducing transmission rates, among which are transmission-blocking vaccines (TBVs)...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lavazec C,Boudin C,Lacroix R,Bonnet S,Diop A,Thiberge S,Boisson B,Tahar R,Bourgouin C

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) is defined as the triad of anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute kidney injury. Enterohemorrhagic Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (EHEC), which causes a prodromal hemorrhagic enteritis, remains the most common etiology of the typical or epidemic form of HUS. Because no licens...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mejias MP,Cabrera G,Fernández-Brando RJ,Baschkier A,Ghersi G,Abrey-Recalde MJ,Miliwebsky E,Meiss R,Goldbaum F,Zylberman V,Rivas M,Palermo MS

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin E protects nonimmunized and immunized mice against fatal Diplococcus pneumoniae type I (DpI) infection. A dietary supplementation of 180 mg of dl-alpha-tocopheryl acetate per kg of diet increased survival of nonimmunized mice from 20 to 80% when challenged with 20 organisms, and of mice immunized with 0.5 ng o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heinzerling RH,Tengerdy RP,Wick LL,Lueker DC

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera toxin (CT) is a potent adjuvant for mucosal vaccination; however, its mechanism of action has not been clarified completely. It is well established that peripheral monocytes differentiate into dendritic cells (DCs) both in vitro and in vivo and that monocytes are the in vivo precursors of mucosal CD103(-) proi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Veglia F,Sciaraffia E,Riccomi A,Pinto D,Negri DR,De Magistris MT,Vendetti S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assembly of adherent biofilms is the key mechanism involved in Staphylococcus epidermidis virulence during device-associated infections. Aside from polysaccharide intercellular adhesin (PIA), the accumulation-associated protein Aap and the extracellular matrix binding protein Embp act as intercellular adhesins, mediat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schommer NN,Christner M,Hentschke M,Ruckdeschel K,Aepfelbacher M,Rohde H

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli hemolysin is considered an important virulence factor in extraintestinal E. coli infections. The present study demonstrates that cultured pulmonary artery endothelial cells are susceptible to attack by low concentrations of E. coli hemolysin (greater than or equal to 0.05 hemolytic units/ml; greater t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suttorp N,Flöer B,Schnittler H,Seeger W,Bhakdi S

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several pathogenic fungal organisms enter eukaryotic cells and manipulate the host cell environment to favor their own growth and survival. Aspergillus fumigatus is a saprophytic fungus that causes invasive lung disease in the immunocompromised host. To determine whether A. fumigatus could enter eukaryotic cells, we s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wasylnka JA,Moore MM

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A persistent Staphylococcus epidermidis infection in mice around a subcutaneous polyvinylpyrrolidone-grafted silicon elastomer catheter (SEpvp) but not around a conventional silicon elastomer catheter was observed. With SEpvp pericatheter tissue, protracted and exaggerated interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) production was f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boelens JJ,Zaat SA,Murk JL,Weening JJ,van Der Poll T,Dankert J

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several early nonspecific host defense mechanisms were examined in resistant (BALB/c) and susceptible (C3H/He) mice after intraperitoneal inoculation with Rickettsia tsutsugamushi strain Gilliam. Inflammatory exudates were formed in both mouse strains in response to rickettsial inoculation, but the inflammatory respon...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nacy CA,Groves MG

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture supernatants from antigen-pulsed spleen cells of mice infected previously with either BCG or Plasmodium chabaudi were used to study macrophage activation as judged by phagocytosis of immunoglobulin G-sensitized erythrocytes and Plasmodium berghei- and P. chabaudi-infected erythrocytes. Resident peritoneal macr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ockenhouse CF,Shear HL

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selection of influenza B virus recombinants from plaques in bovine kidney cell monolayers is described. Two sets of recombinants were each derived from parents of high and low virulence for humans, respectively. Recombination frequency was apparently high, and reassortment of genes made it possible to obtain atten...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Beare AS,Sherwood JE,Callow KA,Craig JW

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we reported that mutants of Legionella pneumophila lacking a type II secretion (T2S) system elicit higher levels of cytokines (e.g., interleukin-6 [IL-6]) following infection of U937 cells, a human macrophage-like cell line. We now show that this effect of T2S is also manifest upon infection of human THP-1...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mallama CA,McCoy-Simandle K,Cianciotto NP

更新日期：2017-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between human neutrophils and wild-type Bordetella pertussis or mutants expressing altered lipopolysaccharide or lacking virulence factors-pertussis toxin, adenylate cyclase toxin, dermonecrotic toxin, filamentous hemagglutinin (FHA), pertactin, or BrkA-was examined. In the absence of antibodies, the w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weingart CL,Weiss AA

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokine mRNA expression in biopsies of Mycobacterium ulcerans-infected human tissue was investigated using real-time PCR, and the findings were correlated with the clinical stages of disease and histopathologies. A broad range of cytokine mRNAs were detected in 16 early nodules and 28 late-stage ulcers, including tho...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Phillips R,Horsfield C,Mangan J,Laing K,Etuaful S,Awuah P,Nyarko K,Osei-Sarpong F,Butcher P,Lucas S,Wansbrough-Jones M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At pH 7.4 and in the presence of NaHCO3, human milk and bovine colostrum inhibited the growth of Escherichia coli O111. Adding sufficient iron to saturate the iron-binding capacity of the lactoferrin present in the milk or colostrum prevented bacteriostasis. At pH 6.8 neither molk nor colostrum inhibited E. coli 0111....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Griffiths E,Humphreys J

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitinases of pathogens have been proposed as potential targets of vaccines or specific inhibitors. We studied the genomic organization, transcript levels, developmental expression, and biological function of chitinases in the rodent filarial nematode Acanthocheilonema viteae, a model organism for human-pathogenic fil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tachu B,Pillai S,Lucius R,Pogonka T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the cloning of the gene encoding the 32-kDa lipoprotein, designated LipL32, the most prominent protein in the leptospiral protein profile. We obtained the N-terminal amino acid sequence of a staphylococcal V8 proteolytic-digest fragment to design an oligonucleotide probe. A Lambda-Zap II library containing E...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Haake DA,Chao G,Zuerner RL,Barnett JK,Barnett D,Mazel M,Matsunaga J,Levett PN,Bolin CA

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00