Identification of T-cell determinants in natural immune responses to the Plasmodium falciparum apical membrane antigen (AMA-1) in an adult population exposed to malaria.

abstract：:Utilization of heme-hemopexin as a source of heme by Haemophilus influenzae type b is dependent on expression by this bacterium of the 100-kDa HxuA protein, which is both present on the bacterial cell surface and released into the culture supernatant (L. D. Cope, R. Yogev, U. Muller-Eberhard, and E. J. Hansen, J. Bact...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cope LD,Thomas SE,Hrkal Z,Hansen EJ

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoelectric focusing and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) with acrylamide copolymerized with gelatin (substrate-SDS-PAGE) were combined to evaluate the proteinases of both long-term-grown and fresh isolates of Trichomonas vaginalis. This two-dimensional substrate-SDS-PAGE resolved a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Neale KA,Alderete JF

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification of three or four of the five histidine residues in the toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1) with diethylpyrocarbonate did not inhibit the precipitin reaction of the modified TSST-1 with polyvalent antisera to the toxin. Monoclonal antibody 7T did not react with the modified TSST-1, but monoclonal antibod...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kokan-Moore NP,Bergdoll MS

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several immunological, hematological, and pathological responses associated with Marek's disease were determined. Four-week-old Marek's disease-infected and control chickens were injected with Salmonella pullorum antigen. About one-half of all infected chickens tested were unresponsive to antigenic challenge. Antibody...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Evans DL,Patterson LT

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Engerotoxins isolated from Vibrio cholerae and toxigenic Escherichia coli cause permeability alterations in rabbit skin. Firm induration and erythema are observed within 18 to 24 h, and visualization of the reaction may be enhanced by intravenous injection of Pontamine sky blue dye. Two skin permeability factors (PF) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sandefur PD,Peterson JW

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between Capnocytophaga ochracea ATCC 33596 and Streptococcus sanguis H1, Actinomyces naeslundii PK984, or Actinomyces israelii PK16 are dependent on specific recognitions between heat-sensitive adhesins on C. ochracea and heat-stable structures (probably carbohydrate-containing receptors) on the surfa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weiss EI,London J,Kolenbrander PE,Kagermeier AS,Andersen RN

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have mapped a group of virulence genes of Porphyromonas gingivalis to a single large fragment of the genome. These genes (rgpA, kgp, and hagA) all contain a consensus repeat sequence (HArep). rgpA and kgp encode cysteine proteases with Arg-X and Lys-X specificity, respectively, and hagA encodes a hemagglutinin. Gen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lewis JP,Macrina FL

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a gram-negative marine bacterium. A limited population of the organisms causes acute gastroenteritis in humans. Almost all of the clinical V. parahaemolyticus isolates exhibit beta-type hemolysis on Wagatsuma agar, known as the Kanagawa phenomenon (KP). KP is induced by the thermostable dire...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Izutsu K,Kurokawa K,Tashiro K,Kuhara S,Hayashi T,Honda T,Iida T

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertional inactivation of the Streptococcus mutans spaP gene was used to construct an isogenic mutant (834) of strain NG8 (serotype c) which lacked the major cell surface-associated protein referred to as P1 (15). Results of several studies suggest that P1 is involved in the adherence of S. mutans to saliva-coated a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bowen WH,Schilling K,Giertsen E,Pearson S,Lee SF,Bleiweis A,Beeman D

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to infection of superficial tissues, Streptococcus pyogenes infection of deeper tissue can be associated with a significantly diminished inflammatory response, suggesting that this bacterium has the ability to both promote and suppress inflammation. To examine this, we analyzed the behavior of an S. pyogen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lin A,Loughman JA,Zinselmeyer BH,Miller MJ,Caparon MG

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To look for a possible correlation between the virulence of Rhodococcus equi and its cytokine-inducing capacity, we evaluated intracellular survival and measured cytokine induction by mouse macrophages infected with a virulent strain containing an 85-kb plasmid and expressing VapA (103+), its avirulent plasmid-cured d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giguère S,Prescott JF

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental infections of mice with the African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei lead to a profound state of T-cell unresponsiveness in the lymph node cell (LNC) compartment. This suppression is mediated by macrophage-like cells which inhibit interleukin 2 (IL-2) secretion and down-regulate IL-2 receptor expression (M....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Darji A,Beschin A,Sileghem M,Heremans H,Brys L,De Baetselier P

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus equi is an intracellular pathogen which causes pneumonia in young horses and in immunocompromised humans. R. equi arrests phagosome maturation in macrophages at a prephagolysosome stage and grows inside a privileged compartment. Here, we show that, in murine macrophages activated with gamma interferon and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： von Bargen K,Wohlmann J,Taylor GA,Utermöhlen O,Haas A

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplasma marginale subsp. centrale was the first vaccine used to protect against a rickettsial disease and is still in widespread use a century later. As its use preceded development of either cryopreservation or cell culture, the vaccine strain was maintained for decades by sequential passage among donor animals, ex...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Herndon DR,Ueti MW,Reif KE,Noh SM,Brayton KA,Agnes JT,Palmer GH

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils are the main inflammatory cell present in lesions involving the central nervous system (CNS) during human and murine listeriosis. In this study, administration of the neutrophil-depleting monoclonal antibody RB6-8C5 during experimental murine listeriosis facilitated the multiplication of Listeria monocytog...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： López S,Marco AJ,Prats N,Czuprynski CJ

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains H37Ra and H37Rv, attenuated and virulent variants, respectively, of the original human strain H37 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, were used to infect cultures of mouse peritoneal macrophages. Bacterial viability of each strain was assessed over a 2-week period, and the cellular response to H37Ra during the firs...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hart PD,Armstrong JA

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia enterocolitica is a human pathogen that is ubiquitous in livestock, especially pigs. The bacteria are able to colonize the intestinal tract of a variety of mammalian hosts, but the severity of induced gut-associated diseases (yersiniosis) differs significantly between hosts. To gain more information about the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schaake J,Kronshage M,Uliczka F,Rohde M,Knuuti T,Strauch E,Fruth A,Wos-Oxley M,Dersch P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that plasmid-deficient Chlamydia muridarum retains the ability to infect the murine genital tract but does not elicit oviduct pathology because it fails to activate Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2). We derived a plasmid-cured derivative of the human genital isolate Chlamydia trachomatis D/UW-3/Cx...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： O'Connell CM,AbdelRahman YM,Green E,Darville HK,Saira K,Smith B,Darville T,Scurlock AM,Meyer CR,Belland RJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:Pyolysin (PLO), the hemolytic exotoxin expressed by Arcanobacterium (Actinomyces) pyogenes, is a member of the thiol-activated cytolysin family of bacterial toxins. Insertional inactivation of the plo gene results in loss of expression of PLO with a concomitant loss in hemolytic activity. The plo mutant, PLO-1, has an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jost BH,Songer JG,Billington SJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of genetic resistance or "trypanotolerance" to infection with Trypanosoma congolense were investigated in two strains of mice. One strain C57BL, is outstandingly resistant to most stabilates of T. congolense and can survive for over 80 days, whereas CFLP, in common with most other strains, generally suc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whitelaw DD,Macaskill JA,Holmes PH,Jennings FW,Urquhart GM

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During persistence of nonencapsulated Haemophilus influenzae in the respiratory tracts of patients with chronic bronchitis, the major outer membrane proteins (MOMPs) P2 and P5 show antigenic drift. The hypothesis that appearance of antigenic variants is the consequence of antibody-dependent selection was tested in a r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vogel L,Duim B,Geluk F,Eijk P,Jansen H,Dankert J,vanAlphen L

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several isolates of Chlamydia pneumoniae were compared with each other and to Chlamydia trachomatis and Chlamydia psittaci by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and immunoblots. Protein profiles of the C. pneumoniae isolates appeared to be the same and were distinct from the other Chlamydia spec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Campbell LA,Kuo CC,Grayston JT

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were carried out to determine whether the in vitro capacity of adherent peritoneal cells to replicate herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) might correlate with the in vivo susceptibility of mice genetically resistant, moderately susceptible, or very susceptible to HSV-1 infection. Unstimulated and proteose pept...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lopez C,Dudas G

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is common after renal transplantation, and cytomegaloviruria occurs in about two-thirds of the recipients. These observations suggest that the allografts may be a site of latent infection with CMV and its reactivation may be the source of viruria. To investigate this possibility, 130 ki...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Naraqi S,Jackson GG,Jonasson O,Rubenis M

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium bovis BCG is widely used as a vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), despite its variable protective efficacy. Relatively little is known about the immune response profiles following BCG vaccination in relation to protection against TB. Here we tested whether BCG vaccination results in immune responses to Do...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lin MY,Geluk A,Smith SG,Stewart AL,Friggen AH,Franken KL,Verduyn MJ,van Meijgaarden KE,Voskuil MI,Dockrell HM,Huygen K,Ottenhoff TH,Klein MR

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the mechanisms underlying the eosinophil-mediated inflammation of tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (TPE), bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid, serum, and supernatants from pulmonary and blood leukocytes (WBC) from patients with acute TPE (n = 6) were compared with those obtained from healthy uninfected indivi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： O'Bryan L,Pinkston P,Kumaraswami V,Vijayan V,Yenokida G,Rosenberg HF,Crystal R,Ottesen EA,Nutman TB

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naegleria fowleri produces fatal meningoencephalitis in humans and in experimentally infected laboratory animals. The course of the disease in mice is dependent upon the infecting dose of amoebae, route of inoculation, and prior exposure to Naegleria antigens. DUB/ICR mice were immunized by various routes and antigen ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： John DT,Weik RR,Adams AC

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycolipid haptens of Mycoplasma pneumoniae became immunogenic when bound to membrane proteins of Acholeplasma laidlawii by reaggregation. This process consisted of the solubilization of lipid-depleted A. laidlawii membranes and M. pneumoniae glycolipids in 20 mm sodium dodecyl sulfate and dialysis of the mixed so...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Razin S,Prescott B,James WD,Caldes G,Valdesuso J,Chanock RM

更新日期：1971-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa utilizes a number of distinct pathways to secrete proteins that play various roles during infection. These include the type II secretion system, which is responsible for the secretion of the majority of exoproducts into the surrounding environment, including toxins and degradative enzymes. In co...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee VT,Smith RS,Tümmler B,Lory S

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00