Oral immunization of mice and swine with an attenuated Salmonella choleraesuis [delta cya-12 delta(crp-cdt)19] mutant containing a recombinant plasmid.

abstract：:The relative roles of serum factors required for opsonization of type XIV Streptococcus pneumoniae were investigated by means of luminol-enhanced chemiluminescence (CL), bactericidal, and immunofluorescence assays employing adult sera containing high (>1,000 ng of antibody nitrogen per ml) or low (<200 ng of antibody ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gardner SE,Anderson DC,Webb BJ,Stitzel AE,Edwards MS,Spitzer RE,Baker CJ

更新日期：1982-03-01 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：:Human sera were examined by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM antibodies to purified type III polysaccharide of group B streptococci. The antigen-binding capacity of a reference human serum was determined by a radioimmunoassay, and the total antibody content was determined by quan...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anthony BF,Concepcion NF,Wass CA,Heiner DC

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila organisms are able to infect and multiply within the ciliated protozoan Tetrahymena pyriformis. This ability may be associated with virulence, because an attenuated strain of L. pneumophila fails to multiply within this protozoan, whereas a virulent strain increases 10,000-fold in number when co...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fields BS,Barbaree JM,Shotts EB Jr,Feeley JC,Morrill WE,Sanden GN,Dykstra MJ

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive aspergillosis is a major threat for patients suffering from chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). Although Aspergillus fumigatus is the most commonly encountered Aspergillus species, the presence of A. nidulans appears to be disproportionately high in CGD patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Henriet SS,Hermans PW,Verweij PE,Simonetti E,Holland SM,Sugui JA,Kwon-Chung KJ,Warris A

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown previously that serum from chronically infected patients with cystic fibrosis inhibits the phagocytosis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by both normal and cystic fibrosis alveolar macrophages. In the present study, the ability of peripheral monocytes and polymorphonuclear leukocytes from normal volunteers ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thomassen MJ,Demko CA,Wood RE,Sherman JM

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL12RB1 is a human gene that is important for resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. IL12RB1 is expressed by multiple leukocyte lineages, and encodes a type I transmembrane protein (IL12Rβ1) that associates with IL12p40 and promotes the development of host-protective T(H)1 cells. Recently, we observed tha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ray AA,Fountain JJ,Miller HE,Cooper AM,Robinson RT

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pasteurella multocida is the causative agent of fowl cholera in birds. In a previous study using signature-tagged mutagenesis, we identified a mutant, AL251, which was attenuated for virulence in mice and in the natural chicken host. Sequence analysis indicated that AL251 had an insertional inactivation of the gene wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harper M,Cox AD,St Michael F,Wilkie IW,Boyce JD,Adler B

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of chronic pathology in mice at 2 to 10 months after inoculation of 10(2) T. cruzi trypomastigotes can be prevented by preimmunization with live, attenuated culture parasites (strain TCC). Swiss mice received one or three immunizing inoculations of 10(6) TCC organisms and were challenged with 10(2) Tul...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Basombrío MA,Besuschio S

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined 205 enterotoxigenic strains of Escherichia coli for colonization factor antigens (CFA) I and II, using an immunodiffusion technique with specific antisera. A total of 36 strains of serogroups O63, O78, O114, O128, and O153 and 1 rough strain possessed CFA/I and gave a single precipitin line; 47 strains of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cravioto A,Scotland SM,Rowe B

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The indigenous microbial flora of the middle ear cavity of Mongolian gerbils, Meriones unguiculatus, was isolated, characterized, and identified, showing it to be sparse and transitory. Organisms, when found in the middle ear cavity, were most likely to be Staphylococcus epidermidis-like organisms. Cerumen from the ex...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thompson TA,Gardner D,Fulghum RS,Daniel HJ,Allen WE,Worthington JM,Williams PP

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in regulating the growth of Mycobacterium avium in Mycobacterium bovis BCG-resistant and -susceptible congenic mice was evaluated. Restraint was used to activate the HPA axis, which resulted in an increase in the level of corticosterone in the plasma. Activatio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brown DH,Sheridan J,Pearl D,Zwilling BS

更新日期：1993-11-01 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：:The major antigenic determinants of the lipoglycans from Acholeplasma granularum and Acholeplasma axanthum were found to be the oligosaccharide sequences Glcp(beta 1 leads to 2)-Glcp(alpha 1 leads to 4)-Glcp and Glcp(beta 1 leads to 2)-Glcp(beta 1 leads to 2)-Glcp, respectively. The disaccharides sophorose and maltose...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Al-Samarrai TH,Smith PF,Lynn RJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pretreatment with multiple doses of polymyxin B and colistimethate was evaluated as to its ability to sequester sufficient antibiotic in tissues to neutralize the effects of endotoxin in three animal models. Animals were challenged with endotoxin 24, 48, or 72 h after the last dose of antibiotic when there was minimal...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Craig WA,Turner JH,Kunin CM

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus population dynamics in the lungs, trachea, and nasopharynx of Swiss-ICR mice were studied after respiratory challenge with mouse-adapted preparations of strain A2/Aichi/2/68 influenza virus. Markedly higher doses of virus were required to produce infection with nasopharyngeal challenge than with bronchoalveolar ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Larson EW,Dominik JW,Rowberg AH,Higbee GA

更新日期：1976-02-01 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：:Antigens shared between Streptococcus pyogenes and heart tissue may play an important role in autoimmune cardiac injury associated with acute rheumatic fever. Antiheart/antistreptococcal antibodies found in the disease react with antigens of S. pyogenes, including M protein and a 60-kDa antigen distinct from M protein...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barnett LA,Cunningham MW

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-toxin, the major cytolysin of Staphylococcus aureus, preferentially attacks human platelets and cultured monocytes, thereby promoting coagulation and the release of interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor. Titers of naturally occurring antibodies in human blood are not high enough to substantially inhibit these ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bhakdi S,Mannhardt U,Muhly M,Hugo F,Ronneberger H,Hungerer KD

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of D-alanine and carbohydrate substitution of lipoteichoic acids (LTAs) on the binding of antibody directed to the polyglycerol phosphate (PGP) portion was found to be at least partially dependent upon the mode of presentation of the antigen. There were greater differences in binding of anti-PGP immunogl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kessler RE,Thivierge BH

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins are abundantly expressed in the infective and intracellular stages of Trypanosoma cruzi and are recognized as antigenic targets by both the humoral and cellular arms of the immune system. Previously, we demonstrated the efficacy of genes encoding GPI-anchored protei...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bhatia V,Sinha M,Luxon B,Garg N

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of tryptophan-101 in Clostridium difficile toxin A, a 308-kDa glucosyltransferase, resulted in a 50-fold-reduced cytopathic activity in cell culture experiments. The mutant toxin A was characterized and applied to distinguish between glucosyltransferase-dependent and -independent effects with respect to RhoB ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Teichert M,Tatge H,Schoentaube J,Just I,Gerhard R

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some clinical strains of Vibrio cholerae non-O1 produce an extracellular factor that evokes a rapid and dramatic cytotoxic response which manifests as cell rounding of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) and HeLa cells without accompanying membrane damage. This study was performed to establish the identity of the non-membrane...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Saha PK,Koley H,Nair GB

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enhanced memory response, as shown by increased titers of specific immunoglobulin A (IgA), was seen in intestinal secretions from isolated Thiry-Vella loops in rabbits primed orally with live, locally invasive Shigella sp. X16 and challenged 60 days later with a single oral dose of the same antigen. Heat-killed shi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Keren DF,McDonald RA,Scott PJ,Rosner AM,Strubel E

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A ruthenium red-staining capsule was observed on two pathogenic strains, but not on one nonpathogenic strain of Mycoplasma gallisepticum. The capsule appeared to mediate cytadsorption of mycoplasmas to the chicken tracheal epithelium without evidence of membrane fusion. No relationship was seen between the presence of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tajima M,Yagihashi T,Miki Y

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of butyric acid, an extracellular metabolite from periodontopathic bacteria, to induce apoptosis in murine WEHI 231 cells, splenic B cells, and human RAJI cells was examined. The culture filtrate of Porphyromonas gingivalis, Prevotella loescheii, and Fusobacterium nucleatum, which contains high a percentag...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kurita-Ochiai T,Ochiai K,Fukushima K

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colony variants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae differ in their interactions with eucaryotic cells. When gonococci were cultivated with HeLa cell monolayers, the opacity phenotype (Op) became increasingly dominant in the subpopulation of organisms which adhered to the HeLa cells. Once bound, Op organisms displayed very low l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bessen D,Gotschlich EC

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was carried out to determine the role of nitric oxide (NO) in Staphylococcus aureus infection in mice. NO production in spleen cell cultures was induced by heat-killed S. aureus. Expression of mRNA of the inducible isoform of NO synthase (iNOS) was induced in the spleens and kidneys of S. aureus-infected mi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sasaki S,Miura T,Nishikawa S,Yamada K,Hirasue M,Nakane A

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit endogenous pyrogens were of about the same molecular size, but showed considerable heterogeneity of their isoelectric points. We attempted to show that this heterogeneity was attributable to variable glycosylation of a single polypeptide chain. When peritoneal exudate cells were stimulated to make pyrogens in t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murphy PA,Cebula TA,Windle BE

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of INT407 cells with various clinical isolates of Campylobacter jejuni resulted in secretion of interleukin-8 (IL-8) at levels ranging from 96 to 554 pg/ml at 24 h. The strains which produced the highest levels of IL-8 secretion were 81-176 and BT44. Induction of IL-8 secretion required live cells of 81-176...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hickey TE,Baqar S,Bourgeois AL,Ewing CP,Guerry P

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00