Use of monoclonal antibodies to identify phospholipase C as the enterotoxic factor of the bifunctional hemolysin-phospholipase C molecule of Vibrio cholerae O139.

abstract：:Although nasal vaccination has emerged as an interesting alternative to systemic or oral vaccination, knowledge is scarce about the immune responses after such immunization in humans. In the present study, we have compared the kinetics and organ distribution of the antibody responses after nasal and oral vaccination. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rudin A,Johansson EL,Bergquist C,Holmgren J

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preexisting antivector immunity can severely compromise the ability of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium live vaccines to induce protective CD8 T-cell frequencies after type III secretion system-mediated heterologous protein translocation in orally immunized mice. To circumvent this problem, we injected CpG DNA ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Berchtold C,Panthel K,Jellbauer S,Köhn B,Roider E,Partilla M,Heesemann J,Endres S,Bourquin C,Rüssmann H

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During an etiological study of Kawasaki disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome [MCLS]), we found that dominant viridans streptococcal strains on tooth surfaces and in the throat of both MCLS patients and non-MCLS control children formed erythrogenic and biologically active, extracellular products. In this study, w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takada H,Kawabata Y,Tamura M,Matsushita K,Igarashi H,Ohkuni H,Todome Y,Uchiyama T,Kotani S

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural heterogeneity in the structure of the lipid A portion of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) produces differential effects on the innate immune response. Gram-negative bacterial species produce LPS structures that differ from the classic endotoxic LPS structures. These differences include hypoacylation and hypophosphoryl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chilton PM,Hadel DM,To TT,Mitchell TC,Darveau RP

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity in mice to the infective third-stage larvae (L3) of Strongyloides stercoralis was shown to be dependent on immunoglobulin M (IgM), complement activation, and granulocytes. The objectives of the present study were to determine whether IgG was also a protective antibody isotype and to define the spec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ligas JA,Kerepesi LA,Galioto AM,Lustigman S,Nolan TJ,Schad GA,Abraham D

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An established cell line (Vero) defective in interferon production was used to evaluate the role of interferon in chronic rubella virus infections of cell cultures. Inoculation of Vero cells with a low multiplicity of virus resulted in the development of carrier cultures which had the characteristics of a regulated in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mifune K,Desmyter J,Rawls WE

更新日期：1970-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that oral immunization with flagellum-defective mutant strains of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium with the ClpXP-deficient background protected mice against oral challenge with the virulent strain. These data indicate that Salmonella flagellin is not a dominant protective antigen in oral immunization ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kodama C,Matsui H

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a leading cause of seafood-borne gastroenteritis; however, its virulence mechanisms are not well understood. The identification of type III secreted proteins has provided candidate virulence factors whose functions are still being elucidated. Genotypic strain variability contributes a level ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Casselli T,Lynch T,Southward CM,Jones BW,DeVinney R

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition by Mycoplasma dispar of ciliary activity of organ cultures of bovine fetal trachea was found to be dependent on the presence of serum in the maintenance medium. Inhibitory activity was unaffected by catalase and no toxic substance was demonstrated in organ culture supernatant fluid. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Howard CJ,Thomas LH

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonvertebrate model hosts represent valuable tools for the study of host-pathogen interactions because they facilitate the identification of bacterial virulence factors and allow the discovery of novel components involved in host innate immune responses. In this report, we determined that the greater wax moth caterpil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miyata S,Casey M,Frank DW,Ausubel FM,Drenkard E

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an emerging paradigm shift from coronary heart disease having a purely hereditary and nutritional causation to possibly having an infectious etiology. Recent epidemiological studies have shown a correlation between periodontal disease and coronary heart disease. However, to date, there is minimal information ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dorn BR,Dunn WA Jr,Progulske-Fox A

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of Rickettsia prowazekii-infected L929 cells with gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) immediately after infection altered the lipid metabolism of the host cells as determined by measurement of phospholipid hydrolysis and oleic acid incorporation into phospholipids and neutral lipids. At 48 h postinfection, there wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Winkler HH,Day L,Daugherty R,Turco J

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three dominant proteins (41, 48, and 49 kDa) were detected by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) in purified preparations of the extracellular aspartyl proteinase (AP) of Candida albicans. All three proteins bound to the specific carboxyl proteinase ligand, pepstatin A, and were assoc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Morrison CJ,Hurst SF,Bragg SL,Kuykendall RJ,Diaz H,Pohl J,Reiss E

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attachment of isogenic fimbriated and nonfimbriated Haemophilus influenzae type b variants to human cells was studied by using a radioactive assay and an indirect immunofluorescent assay. As described previously, fimbriated H. influenzae variants adhered to a greater extent than nonfimbriated variants to human buc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sable NS,Connor EM,Hall CB,Loeb MR

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of middle ear inflammation caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae was explored in the chinchilla model with different pneumococcal cell wall (CW) preparations, including isolated native CW, M1 muramidase CW (M1-CW) digest, amidase CW digest, and M1 peptidoglycan (M1-PG) digest. Inflammatory cell and lysoz...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carlsen BD,Kawana M,Kawana C,Tomasz A,Giebink GS

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovars Typhimurium and Dublin lysed primary bovine alveolar macrophages and immortalized J774.2 macrophage-like cells in the absence of either the morphological changes or DNA fragmentation characteristic of apoptosis. Macrophage lysis was dependent on a subset of caspases and an intact sipB gene...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Watson PR,Gautier AV,Paulin SM,Bland AP,Jones PW,Wallis TS

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis remains a leading killer worldwide, and new approaches for its treatment and prevention are urgently needed. This effort will benefit greatly from a better understanding of gene regulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, particularly with respect to this pathogen's response to its host environment. We exam...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Purkayastha A,McCue LA,McDonough KA

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pyogenes is one of the most frequent human pathogens. Recent studies have identified dendritic cells (DCs) as important contributors to host defense against S. pyogenes. The objective of this study was to identify the receptors involved in immune recognition of S. pyogenes by DCs. To determine whether To...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Loof TG,Goldmann O,Medina E

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relapsing fever is a rapidly progressive and severe septic disease caused by certain Borrelia spirochetes. The disease is divided into two forms, i.e., epidemic relapsing fever, caused by Borrelia recurrentis and transmitted by lice, and the endemic form, caused by several Borrelia species, such as B. duttonii, and tr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Meri T,Cutler SJ,Blom AM,Meri S,Jokiranta TS

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD8 T cells are effective mediators of specific immunity to infection by Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterial pathogen that initially infects macrophages in the spleen and liver and subsequently spreads to hepatocytes and unidentified parenchymal cells in the spleen. To identify the in vivo target cells of L. monocytog...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harty JT,Bevan MJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) appears to cause intestinal fluid secretion by activating intestinal particulate guanylate cyclase. Recent studies suggest that chlorpromazine and quinacrine reduce the intestinal secretory response to ST and activation of guanylate cyclase by ST. We have examined the effe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Greenberg RN,Murad F,Guerrant RL

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized outer membrane proteins (OMPs) from selected Campylobacter jejuni, C. coli, and C. fetus strains by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2DGE), using isoelectric focusing and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), and by immunoblotting with immune rabbit serum. The flage...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dunn BE,Blaser MJ,Snyder EL

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous examination of thin sections of L929 cells heavily infected with the Q fever Priscilla isolate by conventional transmission electron microscopy indicated that the rickettsiae resided within multiple vacuoles. The present study using high-voltage electron microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction reveale...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hechemy KE,McKee M,Marko M,Samsonoff WA,Roman M,Baca O

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis, the agent of plague, has arisen from a less virulent pathogen, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, by a rapid evolutionary process. Although Y. pestis displays a large number of virulence phenotypes, it is not yet clear which of these phenotypes descended from Y. pseudotuberculosis and which were acquired in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pujol C,Bliska JB

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is the predominant cause of Legionnaires' disease in the United States and Europe, while Legionella longbeachae is the common cause of the disease in Western Australia. Although clinical manifestations by both intracellular pathogens are very similar, recent studies have shown that phagosome bio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Asare R,Santic M,Gobin I,Doric M,Suttles J,Graham JE,Price CD,Abu Kwaik Y

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:H(2)O(2) levels accumulated by Mycoplasma pneumoniae can be influenced by carbon source, different horse sera, yeast extract, thallium acetate, or growth in a simplified, dialyzed medium. Thus, increased levels of H(2)O(2) were detected by growth in glycerol, by omission of thallium acetate, and by the use of dialyzed...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Low IE

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced-minus-oxidized difference spectra of sonically treated virulent Treponema pallidum disclosed cytochromes of the b anc c types as well as large amounts of flavoprotein. Difference spectra of the carbon monoxide-binding pigment identified cytochrome o as the terminal oxidase. Physiological reduction of the cytoc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lysko PG,Cox CD

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To ascertain the effects of selective impairment of the fixed macrophage compartment on host defense, rabbit anti-rat Kupffer cell serum was raised and tested for its ability to depress phagocytosis and to serve as an immunosuppressant. The ability of the anti-Kupffer cell serum (AKS) to depress intravascular clearanc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pisano JC,di Luzio NR

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of five bacteriological samples from the periodontal pockets of two sisters with localized juvenile periodontitis and their mother with advanced periodontitis was studied. Gram-negative anaerobic rods were predominant in the samples. Bacteroides intermedius and Bacteroides loescheii were the most predominant s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Okuda K,Naito Y,Ohta K,Fukumoto Y,Kimura Y,Ishikawa I,Kinoshita S,Takazoe I

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the in vivo physiology and metabolism of Streptococcus pneumoniae is limited, even though pneumococci rely on efficient acquisition and metabolism of the host nutrients for growth and survival. Because the nutrient-limited, hypoxic host tissues favor mixed-acid fermentation, we studied the role of the pne...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yesilkaya H,Spissu F,Carvalho SM,Terra VS,Homer KA,Benisty R,Porat N,Neves AR,Andrew PW

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00