Bile affects production of virulence factors and motility of Vibrio cholerae.

abstract：:Patients with chronic bronchitis are colonized by and may develop acute bronchopulmonary infection due to nontypable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) despite the presence of bactericidal and opsonizing antibody to the infecting organism. To test the hypothesis that secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) interferes with host de...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Musher DM,Goree A,Baughn RE,Birdsall HH

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated full-length cDNAs encoding two distinct types of CuZn superoxide dismutases (SODs) from the filarial nematode parasite Brugia pahangi. The derived amino acid sequences suggested that one class of cDNAs represented a cytoplasmic form of SOD and the second class represented an extracellular (EC) variant...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tang L,Ou X,Henkle-Dührsen K,Selkirk ME

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous interleukin-12 (IL-12) mediates protection against Yersinia enterocolitica in C57BL/6 mice by triggering gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) production in NK and CD4+ T cells. Administration of exogenous IL-12 confers protection against yersiniae in Yersinia-susceptible BALB/c mice but exacerbates yersiniosis in r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bohn E,Schmitt E,Bielfeldt C,Noll A,Schulte R,Autenrieth IB

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between Yersinia enterocolitica and rabbit ileal mucus were examined. Strains carrying the Yersinia virulence plasmid, pYV, adhered to crude mucus but not to intestinal luminal contents that had been immobilized on polystyrene. Using an Y. enterocolitica O:9 mutant in which the yadA gene (formerly called ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Paerregaard A,Espersen F,Jensen OM,Skurnik M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies secreted by six hybridomas and recognizing antigenic sites on glycoproteins gC, gAB, gD, gE, and gF of herpes simplex virus type 2 were examined for their ability to protect BALB/c mice from lethal infection by the virus. Administration of monoclonal antibodies to individual glycoproteins intrape...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Balachandran N,Bacchetti S,Rawls WE

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemolysins of Serpulina hyodysenteriae are active at 27 to 40 degrees C and pH 3 to 9 and are unaffected by enzymatic inhibitors. Pore formation was demonstrated by the inhibition of hemolysis with molecules of 2.0 to 2.3 nm in diameter and the release of 86rubidium from erythrocytes without hemoglobin release aft...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hyatt DR,Joens LA

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were performed to determine the optimal sites for primary isolation of Mycoplasma pulmonis from the respiratory system of laboratory rats. In a preliminary study, a group of 42 rats was cultured for respiratory M. pulmonis at several sites. Tracheal washes yielded the highest number of positive cultures (61.9%...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lentsch RH,Wagner JE,Owens DR

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attachment of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis to host tissue and penetration of mucosal surfaces are pivotal events in the pathogenesis of Johne's disease. Fibronectin (FN) binding is required for attachment and internalization of several mycobacteria by epithelial cells in vitro. The objective of this stu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Secott TE,Lin TL,Wu CC

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy-associated malaria is a severe clinical syndrome associated with the sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes in the placenta. Placental binding is mediated by VAR2CSA, a member of the large and diverse P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane 1 (PfEMP1) protein family. To better understand if ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Avril M,Cartwright MM,Hathaway MJ,Hommel M,Elliott SR,Williamson K,Narum DL,Duffy PE,Fried M,Beeson JG,Smith JD

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrobacter rodentium, a murine model pathogen for enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, colonizes the surface of intestinal epithelial cells and causes mucosal inflammation. This bacterium is an ideal model for investigating pathogen-host immune interactions in the gut. It is well known that gene transcripts for Th1 cyt...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shiomi H,Masuda A,Nishiumi S,Nishida M,Takagawa T,Shiomi Y,Kutsumi H,Blumberg RS,Azuma T,Yoshida M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of an effective vaccine against Leishmania infection is a priority of tropical disease research. We have recently demonstrated protection against Leishmania major in the murine and nonhuman primate models with individual or combinations of purified leishmanial recombinant antigens delivered as plasmid DNA ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coler RN,Skeiky YA,Bernards K,Greeson K,Carter D,Cornellison CD,Modabber F,Campos-Neto A,Reed SG

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular approaches to the rapid analysis of the serotyping antigens of Neisseria meningitidis, the class 2 and 3 outer membrane proteins (OMPs), were developed, evaluated, and used to study 12 antigenic variants of these proteins. A primer set for the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of the genes encodi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Feavers IM,Suker J,McKenna AJ,Heath AB,Maiden MC

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dispersed gene family 1 (DGF-1) is the fifth largest gene family in the Trypanosoma cruzi genome, with over 500 members (11). Many of the predicted DGF-1 protein products have several transmembrane domains and N-glycosylation and phosphorylation sites and were thought to localize in the plasma membrane. Here, we r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lander N,Bernal C,Diez N,Añez N,Docampo R,Ramírez JL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have implicated Gardnerella vaginalis as an important etiological agent in bacterial vaginosis (BV). It produces a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin, vaginolysin (VLY). In this study, we sought to characterize the interaction between vaginal epithelium, G. vaginalis, and VLY using EpiVaginal tissues from MatTek....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Garcia EM,Kraskauskiene V,Koblinski JE,Jefferson KK

更新日期：2019-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were vaccinated with 300 micrograms of BCG cell walls (BCG-CW) in oil-in-water emulsion intravenously or with a high or low dose of living BCG by inhalation (BCG-HD or BCG-LD, respectively). The consequences of vaccination were evaluated in terms of the growth of BCG in the lungs and spleen, lung and spleen weigh...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lefford MJ

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement receptor type 3 (CR3) was initially described as an opsonic receptor. Subsequently, CR3-mediated lectin-sugar recognition mechanisms have been shown to play a major role in the nonopsonic phagocytosis of several pathogens, among them Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Little is known about the binding and signal t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Le Cabec V,Cols C,Maridonneau-Parini I

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is a bacterial pathogen that thrives in alveolar macrophages, causing a severe pneumonia. The virulence of L. pneumophila depends on its Dot/Icm type IV secretion system (T4SS), which delivers more than 300 effector proteins into the host, where they rewire cellular signaling to establish a repl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schroeder GN,Aurass P,Oates CV,Tate EW,Hartland EL,Flieger A,Frankel G

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the role of lipoteichoic acid in mediating the adherence of different serotypes of group B streptococci to human adult and neonatal epithelial cells. Pretreatment of neonatal buccal and vaginal epithelial cells with lipoteichoic acid, but not with deacylated lipoteichoic acid, induced a marked inh...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Teti G,Tomasello F,Chiofalo MS,Orefici G,Mastroeni P

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of CD19(+) CD5(+) and CD19(+) CD5(-) B cell subpopulations in the antibody response to pneumococcal capsular polysaccharides (caps-PSs) is controversial. In the present study, we evaluated the role of human CD19(+) CD5(+) and CD19(+) CD5(-) cell populations in the serotype-specific antibody response to caps-P...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moens L,Verbinnen B,Covens K,Wuyts G,Johnson M,Roalfe L,Goldblatt D,Meyts I,Bossuyt X

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum antibody response and four different cellular immune responses (cytotoxic T cells, delayed-type hypersensitivity T cells, natural killer cells, and cytotoxic macrophage levels) induced in CBA/H mice were measured at different times after intranasal inoculation of a cold-adapted (ca) variant of influenza A vi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mak NK,Zhang YH,Ada GL,Tannock GA

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of group A streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxins (SPE) type A and C was transferred from toxigenic streptococcal strains to nontoxigenic strains by lysogeny. Lysogens were tested for SPE with Ouchterlony immunodiffusion on Todd-Hewitt agar plates; toxin diffusing from isolated colonies reacted with specific hyp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Johnson LP,Schlievert PM,Watson DW

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and reproducible method of bacteriocin typing is described based on leakage of ultraviolet light-absorbing material (UVAM), detectable in supernatants of bacteriocin-sensitive cultures, by means of a spectrophotometer. The prerequisites for reproducible results, with nonsignificant fluctuations in standard err...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Farkas-Himsley H,Pagel A

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial products from gram-positive bacteria, such as peptidoglycan, teichoic acid, and toxins, activate mononuclear cells to produce tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF). The present study evaluated the release of soluble cell wall components from Staphylococcus epidermidis capable of inducing TNF after exposure of th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mattsson E,Van Dijk H,Verhoef J,Norrby R,Rollof J

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed cell-mediated immunity to herpes simplex virus type 1 antigen in patients suffering from recurrent cold sores and in a series of healthy controls. Paradoxically, all those subject to recurrent herpetic infections had, without exception, evidence of cell-mediated immunity to herpes antigens. This was demons...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Russell AS,Percy JS,Kovithavongs T

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis is the causative agent of zoonotic tularemia, a severe pneumonia in humans, and Francisella novicida causes a similarly severe tularemia in mice upon inhalation. The correlates of protective immunity, as well as the virulence mechanisms of this deadly pathogen, are not well understood. In the pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sharma J,Li Q,Mishra BB,Georges MJ,Teale JM

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic microorganisms were isolated and identified from 9 of 10 malignant tissues aseptically obtained from surgical patients. The organisms isolated are species commonly associated with the flora of the human body. When these cancer-associated organisms were grown in Trypticase soy broth (BBL Microbiology Systems), ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Backus BT,Affronti LF

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III secretion system (T3SS) encoded by the Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI2) has a central role in systemic infections by Salmonella enterica and for the intracellular phenotype. Intracellular S. enterica uses the SPI2-encoded T3SS to translocate a set of effector proteins into the host cell, which mod...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hansen-Wester I,Chakravortty D,Hensel M

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of the complement-downregulating protein factor H (fH) to the surface of the meningococcus is important for survival of the organism in human serum. The meningococcal vaccine candidate factor H binding protein (fHbp) is an important ligand for human fH. While some fHbp-specific monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) blo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giuntini S,Reason DC,Granoff DM

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Duffy binding protein (DBP) is a vital ligand for Plasmodium vivax blood-stage merozoite invasion, making the molecule an attractive vaccine candidate against vivax malaria. Similar to other blood-stage vaccine candidates, DBP allelic variation eliciting a strain-specific immunity may be a major challenge for deve...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ntumngia FB,Schloegel J,Barnes SJ,McHenry AM,Singh S,King CL,Adams JH

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin class-specific antibodies were measured by a solid-phase radioimmunoassay in serum, bronchoalveolar washings (BAW), lung cell lysates, and spleen cell lysates in germfree mice after intranasal (i.n.) and intraperitoneal (i.p.) primary and secondary 10(5), 10(4), and 10(3) mean tissue culture infective d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Charlton D,Blandford G

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00