Immunoglobulin A (IgA), IgA1, and IgA2 antibodies to Candida albicans in whole and parotid saliva in human immunodeficiency virus infection and AIDS.

abstract：:Exohemagglutinin was found in the culture medium of Bacteroides gingivalis 381. Exohemagglutinin was purified 3,150-fold from culture fluid by ultracentrifugation followed by gel filtration on Sepharose CL-4B and by affinity chromatography on arginine-agarose. Examination of the final preparation of exohemagglutinin b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Inoshita E,Amano A,Hanioka T,Tamagawa H,Shizukuishi S,Tsunemitsu A

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbred mouse strains differ in their susceptibility to infection with the facultative intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, largely due to delayed or deficient innate immune responses. Previous antibody depletion studies suggested that neutrophils (polymorphonuclear leukocytes [PMN]) were particularly import...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pitts MG,Combs TA,D'Orazio SEF

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccine antigen-specific antibody-secreting cell (ASC) responses in peripheral blood of healthy adult volunteers were studied after oral immunization with a prototype enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) vaccine by means of the enzyme-linked immunospot technique. Three doses of vaccine consisting of formalin-killed...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wennerås C,Svennerholm AM,Ahrén C,Czerkinsky C

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cimetidine is a powerful H2 receptor antagonist that eliminates histamine's effects on chemotaxis, phagocytosis, and superoxide anion production by phagocytes. The purpose of this study was to analyze the clinical and histopathological changes associated with experimental periodontitis in rabbits in response to topica...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hasturk H,Kantarci A,Ebrahimi N,Andry C,Holick M,Jones VL,Van Dyke TE

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) were produced by immunizing mice with a disrupted yeast cell homogenate of Histoplasma capsulatum. MAbs 1 and 2 reacted only with the yeast cell antigens of H. capsulatum and Blastomyces dermatitidis, whereas MAbs 3 and 4 showed broader cross-reactivity. MAb 3 cross-reacted with B. de...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kamel SM,Wheat LJ,Garten ML,Bartlett MS,Tansey MR,Tewari RP

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patent filarial infection is associated with the downregulation of parasite-specific immune reactivity. In the present study, the relationship between in vitro parasite antigen-specific humoral and cellular immune responsiveness was investigated in Brugia pahangi-infected jirds and in jirds immunized with soluble anti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Prier RC,Lammie PJ

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory cytokines play an important role in human immune responses to malarial disease. However, the role of these mediators in disease pathogenesis, and the relationship between host protection and injury remains unclear. A total of 248 cases of severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria among children aged 3 months t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lyke KE,Burges R,Cissoko Y,Sangare L,Dao M,Diarra I,Kone A,Harley R,Plowe CV,Doumbo OK,Sztein MB

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we found that serum inhibitory activity against Blastomyces dermatitidis was principally mediated by albumin. This was confirmed in experiments using albumin from several mammalian species. Analbuminemic rat serum did not inhibit B. dermatitidis growth in vivo; however, the addition of albumin restored i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giles S,Czuprynski C

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The data presented indicate that in experimental Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection of mice, protease enhances the virulence of the organism. Anesthetized CBA/Lü mice were subjected to a 15-s flame burn and infected with a wild-type protease-producing strain and two of its protease-deficient mutants. The average bacteri...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pavlovskis OR,Wretlind B

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharides obtained from Brucella abortus, B. melitensis, and B. suis, but not B. canis, were found to contain amino sugars identified as glucosamine and quinovosamine by cation exchange and thin-layer cellulose chromatography and ninhydrin degradation. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bowser DV,Wheat RW,Foster JW,Leong D

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of splenectomy on animals infected with Trypanosoma lewisi is unclear, and previous reports are inconclusive or conflictive. We splenectomized rats of different ages after they had been infected with T. lewisi. Female Sprague-Dawley rats, Hemobartonella-free, were assigned to four groups according to weight...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Llende M,Santiago-Delpín EA,Lavergne JA

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of iron concentration during growth on the physicochemical surface properties of the colonial variants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae has been assessed by aqueous two-phase partitioning in a dextran-polyethyleneglycol system containing positively charged trimethylamino-polyethyleneglycol or hydrophobic polyethyle...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Magnusson KE,Kihlstrom E,Norqvist A,Davies J,Normark S

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Representative strains of serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis were chosen from all major meningitis epidemics worldwide since 1960 and subjected to analysis for the electrophoretic variation of 15 cytoplasmic allozymes and four outer membrane proteins. The 290 strains defined 84 unique electrophoretic types which were ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang JF,Caugant DA,Li X,Hu X,Poolman JT,Crowe BA,Achtman M

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired cellular immunity to infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is believed to reside in the capacity of mononuclear phagocytes of immunized animals to inhibit intracellular multiplication of the parasite. However, in macrophage tissue culture systems, it has been customary to employ streptomycin in the medium...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Patterson RJ,Youmans GP

更新日期：1970-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human peripheral blood monocytes become apoptotic following phagocytosis of Staphylococcus aureus. In this study, we investigated the mechanisms involved in this phenomenon. Cells exposed to bacteria were examined for the surface expression of Fas and Fas ligand (FasL). The level of soluble form of FasL was also measu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baran J,Weglarczyk K,Mysiak M,Guzik K,Ernst M,Flad HD,Pryjma J

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between bacteria and salivary components are thought to be important in the establishment and ecology of the oral microflora. alpha-Amylase, the predominant salivary enzyme in humans, binds to Streptococcus gordonii, a primary colonizer of the tooth. Previous studies have implicated this interaction in ad...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rogers JD,Palmer RJ Jr,Kolenbrander PE,Scannapieco FA

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody (MAb) was raised against Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2) of Escherichia coli O157:H7. MAb VTm1.1 belonged to the immunoglobulin G1 subclass and had a kappa light chain, and it could neutralize the cytotoxic activity of Stx2 and variants derived from patient strains but not that of variants derived from anim...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nakao H,Kiyokawa N,Fujimoto J,Yamasaki S,Takeda T

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The EUO gene (for early upstream open reading frame) of Chlamydia psittaci was previously found to be transcribed better at 1 than at 24 h postinfection. We found that the EUO gene encodes a minor protein that is expressed within 1 h of infection of host cells with C. psittaci 6BC but that protein quantity peaks durin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang L,Douglas AL,Hatch TP

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is the leading cause of infectious gastroenteritis in industrialized nations. Its ability to enter and survive within nonphagocytic cells is thought to be very important for pathogenesis. However, little is known about the C. jejuni determinants that mediate these processes. Through an extensive t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Novik V,Hofreuter D,Galán JE

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free lipid A of Bordetella pertussis, Neisseria meningitidis, and Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was prepared by hydrolysis in acetate buffer (pH 4.5); in addition, lipid A from B. pertussis and E. coli was prepared by hydrolysis in mineral acid (HCl). The precipitates obtained were purified by extraction m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Caroff M,Cavaillon JM,Fitting C,Haeffner-Cavaillon N

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The target organs of infection in guinea pigs with asymptomatic acquired or congenital syphilis were identified by PCR and in some cases by rabbit infectivity test (RIT). The prevalence of Treponema pallidum DNA was examined in the following seven organs: the inguinal and mesenteric lymph nodes, spleen, liver, kidney,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wicher K,Abbruscato F,Wicher V,Baughn R,Noordhoek GT

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo expression of pili by Escherichia coli in the urine of 41 adults with lower urinary tract infections was analyzed by immunostaining with polyclonal antiserum to type 1 and P pili. Type 1 pili were detected in 31 of 41 urine specimens, while P pili were detected in 6 of 18 specimens. The piliation status of bac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kisielius PV,Schwan WR,Amundsen SK,Duncan JL,Schaeffer AJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella spp. are gram-negative intracellular pathogens that survive and multiply within phagocytic cells of their hosts. Smooth organisms present O polysaccharides (OPS) on their surface. These OPS help the bacteria avoid the bactericidal action of serum. The wboA gene, coding for the enzyme glycosyltransferase, is e...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernandez-Prada CM,Nikolich M,Vemulapalli R,Sriranganathan N,Boyle SM,Schurig GG,Hadfield TL,Hoover DL

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella spp. are intracellular bacteria that cause the most frequent zoonosis in the world. Although recent work has advanced the field of Brucella vaccine development, there remains no safe human vaccine. In order to produce a safe and effective human vaccine, the immune response to Brucella spp. requires greater un...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Durward MA,Harms J,Magnani DM,Eskra L,Splitter GA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of the leukotoxin of Pasteurella haemolytica on the generation of arachidonic acid metabolites by bovine polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) was investigated. PMNs released 5-, 12-, and 15-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acids (5-, 12-, and 15-HETE) and leukotriene B4 (LTB4) upon stimulation with arachidonic aci...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Henricks PA,Binkhorst GJ,Drijver AA,Nijkamp FP

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization of monkeys with the 82-kDa rhoptry protein (p82) of Plasmodium falciparum can protect them against a lethal blood stage challenge, and monoclonal antibodies to p82 inhibit parasite growth in vitro. The role that a p82-specific immune response might play in human immunity to the parasite is not known. To d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Howard RF,Jensen JB,Franklin HL

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic-resistant recombinants obtained from mating antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli with virulent, antibiotic-sensitive Salmonella typhimurium are generally avirulent. After 32 consecutive transfers, two of four avirulent recombinants regained their virulence without loss of episome-mediated resistance. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thiele EH

更新日期：1970-10-01 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：:Monoclonal antibodies against Ureaplasma urealyticum serotype 4 were produced by immunizing BALB/c mice with whole-cell antigens of the U. urealyticum serotype 4 reference strain. Ten monoclonal antibodies differentiated into two groups were found: one group included five monoclonal antibodies recognizing a band in im...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cheng X,Naessens A,Lauwers S

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A peptidoglycan layer of Treponema pallidum kazan was isolated by solubilization of whole cells with 1% warm sodium dodecyl sulfate and subsequent digestion of an insoluble residue with proteases. Electron microscopy revealed that the peptidoglycan was isolated as a single-layered sacculus of less than 5 nm in thickne...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Umemoto T,Ota T,Sagawa H,Kato K,Takada H,Tsujimoto M,Kawasaki A,Ogawa T,Harada K,Kotani S

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00