Expansion of gamma interferon-producing CD8+ T cells following secondary infection of mice immune to Leishmania major.

abstract：:The viaB locus coding for the Vi antigen of Salmonella typhi Ty2 was cloned on a 40.6-kilobase fragment into the cosmid vector pHC79. The live, oral, attenuated Vi-negative S. typhi Ty21a vaccine strain was transformed with the recombinant cosmid encoding the viaB locus. Homologous recombination of the viaB locus into...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cryz SJ Jr,Fürer E,Baron LS,Noon KF,Rubin FA,Kopecko DJ

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of antibody in protection against infection with Cryptococcus neoformans is undefined. In this paper we describe the development of opsonic activity in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of rabbits in response to cryptococcal meningitis. The opsonin appeared to be immunoglobulin G (IgG); the activity was heat stab...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hobbs MM,Perfect JR,Granger DL,Durack DT

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with highly pathogenic Streptococcus suis can cause septic shock, which is characterized by high levels of inflammatory cytokines and a high mortality rate. Our previous study indicated that TREM-1 (triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1) was upregulated in swine spleen cells in response to S. suis...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yang C,Chen B,Zhao J,Lin L,Han L,Pan S,Fu L,Jin M,Chen H,Zhang A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antioxidants are protective against septic shock in animal models. Recently, free radical scavengers have been found to inhibit the activation of the NF-kappa B protein in a number of cell lines. This transcriptional regulatory protein binds to the promoters of the proinflammatory cytokines tumor necrosis factor, inte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kelly KA,Hill MR,Youkhana K,Wanker F,Gimble JM

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A periurban outbreak of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) caused by the protozoan Leishmania chagasi is ongoing outside Natal, northeast Brazil. Manifestations range from asymptomatic infection to disseminated visceral disease. Literature reports suggest that both genetic and environmental factors influence the outcome of i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Karplus TM,Jeronimo SM,Chang H,Helms BK,Burns TL,Murray JC,Mitchell AA,Pugh EW,Braz RF,Bezerra FL,Wilson ME

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To demonstrate local synthesis of anti-Mycobacterium leprae antibodies, biopsies from skin lesions of leprosy patients were cultured in vitro in a medium containing 14C-labeled lysine and isoleucine, and the culture fluids were analyzed by crossed immunoelectrophoresis with intermediate gel and autoradiography. The re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lai A Fat RF,Chan Pin Jin J,van Furth R,Harboe M

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified Escherichia coli type 1 fimbriae have been shown previously to stimulate T-cell-independent proliferation of human B lymphocytes. The response is mediated by the mannose-specific, lectin-like adhesin protein FimH. Here we show that type 1 fimbriae also stimulate immunoglobulin (Ig) secretion by B cells. The r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ponniah S,Abraham SN,Endres RO

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid DNA from two strains of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli harboring genes encoding coli surface antigen 4 (CS4) and from seven Indian enterotoxigenic E. coli isolates cross-hybridized at low stringency but not at high stringency with two polynucleotide probes derived from the colonization factor antigen I (CFA/...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sommerfelt H,Grewal HM,Svennerholm AM,Gaastra W,Flood PR,Viboud G,Bhan MK

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia cenocepacia strain K56-2 typically has rough colony morphology on agar medium; however, shiny colony variants (shv) can appear spontaneously. These shv all had a minimum of 50% reduction in biomass formation and were generally avirulent in an alfalfa seedling infection model. Three shv-K56-2 S15, K56-2 S7...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bernier SP,Nguyen DT,Sokol PA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With large amounts of parasite gene sequence available, additional bioinformatic tools to screen these sequences for identifying genes encoding antigens are needed. Proteins containing tandem repeat (TR) domains are often B-cell antigens, and antibody responses toward TR domains of the proteins are dominant in human i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goto Y,Coler RN,Reed SG

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus epidermidis is a leading cause of infections associated with indwelling medical devices, including prosthetic joint infection. While biofilm formation is assumed to be the main mechanism underlying the chronic infections S. epidermidis causes, we hypothesized that S. epidermidis also evades immune killi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Perez K,Patel R

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculous pleurisy allows the study of human cells at the site of active Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. In this study, we found that among pleural fluid (PF) lymphocytes, natural killer (NK) cells are a major source of early gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) upon M. tuberculosis stimulation, leading us to investig...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schierloh P,Yokobori N,Alemán M,Landoni V,Geffner L,Musella RM,Castagnino J,Baldini M,Abbate E,de la Barrera SS,Sasiain MC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brewer thioglycolate medium, a bacterial culture medium which is widely used as a nonspecific in vivo macrophage stimulant, was tested for its effect on mouse resistance to bacterial infection. Mice which did or did not receive thioglycolate medium were challenged with Listeria monocytogenes. Injection of thioglycolat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker LA,Campbell PA

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) and tetanus toxin (TeNT) are the most potent toxins for humans and elicit unique pathologies due to their ability to traffic within motor neurons. BoNTs act locally within motor neurons to elicit flaccid paralysis, while retrograde TeNT traffics to inhibitory neurons within the central ne...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zuverink M,Chen C,Przedpelski A,Blum FC,Barbieri JT

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae O1 bacteria harvested directly from ligated or nonligated intestines of rabbits with experimental cholera expressed at least 7 to 8 novel, in vivo-specific cell envelope (env) proteins that were not found on vibrios after in vitro culture in various ordinary liquid media. At the same time, several of t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jonson G,Svennerholm AM,Holmgren J

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of immunoglobulin-containing cells and antigen-specific plasma cells in retropharyngeal and bronchial lymph nodes, in lung tissue, and in nasal mucous membrane was followed during an experimental infection of pigs with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to follow st...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suter M,Kobisch M,Nicolet J

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A receptor moiety and blood group substance recognized by the O75X adhesin was studied. Well-defined erythrocytes representing different blood group systems and bacterial derivatives carrying plasmid pBJN406 encoding the adhesin were used in a direct hemagglutination assay. We showed that Dr blood group antigen, a com...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nowicki B,Moulds J,Hull R,Hull S

更新日期：1988-05-01 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：: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：:While gamma/delta T cells are involved in host defense and immunopathology in a variety of infectious diseases, their precise role is not yet clearly defined. In the absence of gamma/delta T cells, mice die after infection with a dose of Listeria monocytogenes that is not lethal in immunologically intact animals. Morb...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Skeen MJ,Rix EP,Freeman MM,Ziegler HK

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protozoan parasite Giardia duodenalis (Giardia lamblia) is one of the most commonly found intestinal pathogens in mammals, including humans. In the current study, a Giardia muris-mouse model was used to analyze cytokine transcription patterns and histological changes in intestinal tissue at different time points d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dreesen L,De Bosscher K,Grit G,Staels B,Lubberts E,Bauge E,Geldhof P

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we isolated a high-molecular-weight immunogenic polysaccharide (designated PS) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa immunotype 1 (IT-1). The method which we used was modified to permit the isolation of a similar PS from P. aeruginosa IT-2. This antigen was composed primarily of carbohydrate, had a complex monosacch...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pier GB,Sidberry HF,Sadoff JC

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae neuraminidase (NANase) is hypothesized to act synergistically with cholera toxin (CT) and increase the severity of a secretory response by increasing the binding and penetration of CT to enterocytes. To test this hypothesis, the NANase gene (nanH) from V. cholerae Ogawa 395 was first cloned and sequenc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galen JE,Ketley JM,Fasano A,Richardson SH,Wasserman SS,Kaper JB

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 causes food and waterborne enteric infections that can result in hemorrhagic colitis and life-threatening hemolytic uremic syndrome. Intimate adherence of the bacteria to intestinal epithelial cells is mediated by intimin, but E. coli O157:H7 also possess several other putative adhesins, inclu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lloyd SJ,Ritchie JM,Rojas-Lopez M,Blumentritt CA,Popov VL,Greenwich JL,Waldor MK,Torres AG

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F344 rats chronically infected with Ureaplasma parvum develop two distinct profiles: asymptomatic urinary tract infection (UTI) and UTI complicated by struvite urolithiasis. To identify factors that affect disease outcome, we characterized the temporal host immune response during infection by histopathologic analysis ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Reyes L,Alvarez S,Allam A,Reinhard M,Brown MB

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat middle ear and lung clearance model has been used to show that the nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae 26-kDa outer membrane protein OMP26 is highly efficacious as a mucosal immunogen, inducing significantly enhanced clearance in immunized rats upon direct challenge of these two anatomic sites. Similarly, the c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kyd JM,Cripps AW,Novotny LA,Bakaletz LO

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody levels in sera and respiratory secretions and resistance to respiratory infections were examined in mice given live infuenza virus in small-particle (2 mum) aerosols, large-particle (10 mum) aerosols, intraperitoneally, and subcutaneously. After parenteral administration antibody was found primarily in the se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Scott GH,Sydiskis RJ

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a human inhibition monoclonal enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (HIMELISA) to investigate the human immune response to the lipooligosaccharides (LOS) of Neisseria meningitidis. Monoclonal antibodies (MAb) were used to define seven epitopes on four LOS molecules of a meningococcal strain (126E) previously ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Estabrook MM,Mandrell RE,Apicella MA,Griffiss JM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the cloning, molecular characterization, and purification of functionally active recombinant glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) from the human bloodfluke Schistosoma japonicum. The GAPDH homolog from the related species Schistosoma mansoni has shown correlation of antibody titer to resistance t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Waine GJ,Becker M,Yang W,Kalinna B,McManus DP

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecalis is a highly stress resistant opportunistic pathogen. The intrinsic ruggedness of this bacterium is supposed to be the basis of its capacity to colonize the hostile environments of hospitals and to cause several kinds of infections. We show in this work that general resistance to very different en...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rana NF,Sauvageot N,Laplace JM,Bao Y,Nes I,Rincé A,Posteraro B,Sanguinetti M,Hartke A

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00