Characterization of outer membrane protein OmpU of Vibrio cholerae O1.

abstract：:Pneumolysin is a 471-amino-acid toxin produced by Streptococcus pneumoniae which has both cytolytic and complement activation properties. We have constructed a derivative of the type 2 S. pneumoniae strain D39 in which the portion of the pneumolysin gene encoding amino acids 55 to 437 has been deleted in-frame. The vi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Berry AM,Ogunniyi AD,Miller DC,Paton JC

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) is the standard measure of T-cell responsiveness to infectious organisms. For leprosy, the Mitsuda reaction, a local immune response to cutaneous challenge with Mycobacterium leprae, is considered to represent a measure of DTH against the pathogen. We analyzed the diversity of the T...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Uyemura K,Ohmen JD,Grisso CL,Sieling PA,Wyzykowski R,Reisinger DM,Rea TH,Modlin RL

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radial immunodiffusion procedures have been developed for testing bovine sera for the presence of antibody activity against three foot-and-mouth disease virus types and a virus infection-associated antigen. Reactions with virus antigens were obtained as early as 4 days after infection, and the virus type causing the r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wagner GG,Cowan KM,McVicar JW

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria have evolved strategies to resist killing by antimicrobial peptides (APs), important effectors of innate immunity. The sap (sensitivity to antimicrobial peptides) operon confers resistance to AP-mediated killing of Salmonella. We have recently shown that sapA gene expression is upregulated in the middle ear i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mason KM,Munson RS Jr,Bakaletz LO

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a prominent human pathogen and a leading cause of community- and hospital-acquired bacterial infections worldwide. Herein, we describe the identification and characterization of the S. aureus 67.6-kDa hypothetical protein, named for the surface factor promoting resistance to oxidative killing ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Malachowa N,Kohler PL,Schlievert PM,Chuang ON,Dunny GM,Kobayashi SD,Miedzobrodzki J,Bohach GA,Seo KS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intravenous administration of hydrogen peroxide has been reported to benefit patients with pneumonia and to reduce Plasmodium parasitemia in experimentally infected mice. We assessed the antibacterial activity of intravenously infused hydrogen peroxide against hydrogen peroxide-susceptible Escherichia coli (MBC of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shenep JL,Stokes DC,Hughes WT

更新日期：1985-06-01 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：:To determine whether an ongoing response to Leishmania major would affect the response to a non-cross-reacting, non-leishmanial antigen, susceptible BALB/c mice and resistant C3H mice were infected with L. major parasites expressing Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase (beta-GAL); this parasite was designated L. major-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chakkalath HR,Siddiqui AA,Shankar AH,Dobson DE,Beverley SM,Titus RG

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella enterica serovar Dublin invade osteoblasts and are causative agents of human bone disease. In the present study, we examined the ability of S. aureus and Salmonella serovar Dublin to induce the production of tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) by normal ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Alexander EH,Bento JL,Hughes FM Jr,Marriott I,Hudson MC,Bost KL

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehrlichia chaffeensis, a tick-transmitted rickettsial, is the causative agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis. To examine protein expression patterns, we analyzed total, membrane, and immunogenic proteomes of E. chaffeensis originating from macrophage and tick cell cultures. Total proteins resolved by one-dimensional ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Seo GM,Cheng C,Tomich J,Ganta RR

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocarditis isolates of Enterococcus faecalis produced biofilm significantly more often than nonendocarditis isolates, and 39% of 79 versus 6% of 84 isolates produced strong biofilm (P < 0.0001). esp was not required, but its presence was associated with higher amounts of biofilm (P < 0.001). Mutants disrupted in dlt...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mohamed JA,Huang W,Nallapareddy SR,Teng F,Murray BE

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Once in the cytoplasm of mammalian cells, Shigella flexneri expresses a motile phenotype caused by polar directional assembly of actin. This process depends on accumulation of IcsA (VirG), a 120-kDa protein with ATPase activity, at the pole of the bacterium opposite to that at which ongoing septation occurs. IcsA is a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： d'Hauteville H,Dufourcq Lagelouse R,Nato F,Sansonetti PJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

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：:Toxoplasma gondii infection in pregnant women may result in abortion or in fetal teratogenesis; however, the underlying mechanisms are still unclear. In this paper, based on a murine model, we showed that maternal infection with RH strain T. gondii tachyzoites induced elevated production of reactive oxygen species (RO...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Xu X,Liu T,Zhang A,Huo X,Luo Q,Chen Z,Yu L,Li Q,Liu L,Lun ZR,Shen J

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile causes pseudomembranous colitis in humans. The enterotoxin (i.e., toxin A) from this organism is believed to be responsible for the initial intestinal pathology associated with this disease. Previous work shows that this toxin binds to carbohydrates that contain Gal alpha 1-3Gal beta 1-4GlcNAc. H...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tucker KD,Wilkins TD

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neospora caninum is a recently identified coccidian parasite which shares many features with, but is clearly distinct from, Toxoplasma gondii. N. caninum tachyzoites infect a wide range of mammalian cells both in vivo and in vitro. The mechanisms by which infection is achieved are largely unknown. Recent evidence has ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hemphill A

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus agalactiae (group B Streptococcus or GBS) is a common colonizer of the gastrointestinal and genital tracts and an important cause of invasive infections in newborn infants and in adults with predisposing chronic conditions or advanced age. Attachment to epithelial surfaces at mucosal sites is a critical ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Park SE,Jiang S,Wessels MR

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each of the four epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like domains of the Plasmodium falciparum sexual-stage antigen Pfs25 has been individually expressed as a yeast-secreted recombinant protein (yEGF1 through yEGF4). All four are recognized by the immune sera of animals and humans vaccinated with TBV25H (the corresponding y...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stowers AW,Keister DB,Muratova O,Kaslow DC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A/Scotland/74 (H3N2) and A/Victoria/75 (H3N2) cold-adapted (ca) recombinant viruses, prepared by mating the A/Ann Arbor/6/60 (H2N2) ca donor virus and influenza A wild-type virus, were evaluated in adult seronegative volunteers (serum hemagglutination-inhibiting antibody titer,

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murphy BR,Holley HP Jr,Berquist EJ,Levine MM,Spring SB,Maassab HF,Kendal AP,Chanock RM

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the intraleukocytic survival of isogenic strains of Salmonella typhimurium, whose outer membrane lipopolysaccharide differed in O antigen and lipid A composition and whose susceptibility to nonoxidative antimicrobial granule proteins of human polymorphonuclear neutrophilis (PMN) could be established. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stinavage P,Martin LE,Spitznagel JK

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that soluble products of Schistosoma mansoni eggs might participate in the pathogenesis of hepatic fibrosis in schistosomiasis was investigated. Both crude saline extracts of eggs (soluble egg antigen [SEA]) and a partially purified SEA fraction contained activity which stimulated guinea pig and human ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wyler DJ,Tracy JW

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans, a major oral pathogen responsible for dental caries formation, possesses a variety of mechanisms for survival in the human oral cavity, where the conditions of the external environment are diverse and in a constant state of flux. The formation of biofilms, survival under conditions of acidic pH, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chong P,Drake L,Biswas I

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual strains of Staphylococcus aureus have different capacities to become internalized by osteoblasts. Here we report that the levels of sigma(B) expressed by S. aureus correlate with the capacity of this bacterium to be internalized by osteoblasts. However, sigma(B) is not essential for internalization and does...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nair SP,Bischoff M,Senn MM,Berger-Bächi B

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is associated with inhibition of cell-mediated immunity and downregulation of the expression of costimulatory molecules required for T-cell activation. When IL-10-deficient (IL-10KO) mice are infected with Toxoplasma gondii, they succumb to a T-cell-mediated shock-like reaction characterized by ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Villegas EN,Wille U,Craig L,Linsley PS,Rennick DM,Peach R,Hunter CA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reinfection of immune mice with Leishmania major elicits a secondary gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) response to which specific CD8+ T cells are essential. We have shown previously that specific CD8+ T cells from reinfected immune mice release substantially higher levels of IFN-gamma, a cytokine essential for the efficie...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Müller I,Kropf P,Louis JA,Milon G

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of meningococcal pathogenesis have been severely restricted due to the absence of an adequate animal model. Given the significance of iron in meningococcal pathogenesis, we developed a model of Neisseria meningitidis colonization in outbred adult mice that included daily administration of iron dextran. While r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yi K,Stephens DS,Stojiljkovic I

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosoma mansoni-infected wild-type (WT) mice develop a Th2 response and chronic disease. In contrast, infected interleukin-4 double-deficient (IL-4(-/-)) mice develop a Th1-like response and an acute, lethal syndrome. Disease severity in these animals correlates with excessive and prolonged production of nitric ox...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Patton EA,La Flamme AC,Pedras-Vasoncelos JA,Pearce EJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When type I Candida stellatoidea is plated onto sucrose agar at levels in excess of 10(8) cells, some isolates spontaneously form sucrose-positive colonies. These isolates do not display typical type I phenotypes but instead exhibit phenotypes intermediate between type I C. stellatoidea and C. albicans. Also, this phe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wickes BL,Golin JE,Kwon-Chung KJ

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune response of humans and mice to temperature-specific, plasmid- or chromosome-encoded proteins of yersinia pestis and Yersinia enterocolitica was investigated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western blotting. Extracts from Y. pestis and Y. enterocolitica strains with and witho...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mazza G,Karu AE,Kingsbury DT

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An impressive change in the epidemiology and severity of invasive group A streptococcal infections occurred in the 1980s, and the incidence of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome cases continues to rise. The reason for the resurgence of severe invasive cases remains a mystery-has there been a change in the pathogen or ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Basma H,Norrby-Teglund A,Guedez Y,McGeer A,Low DE,El-Ahmedy O,Schwartz B,Kotb M

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00