A globally disseminated M1 subclone of group A streptococci differs from other subclones by 70 kilobases of prophage DNA and capacity for high-frequency intracellular invasion.

abstract：:Acquisition of immunity to Plasmodium falciparum sexual stages is a key determinant for reducing human-mosquito transmission by preventing the fertilization and the development of the parasite in the mosquito midgut. Naturally acquired immunity against sexual stages may therefore form the basis for the development of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ouédraogo AL,Roeffen W,Luty AJ,de Vlas SJ,Nebie I,Ilboudo-Sanogo E,Cuzin-Ouattara N,Teleen K,Tiono AB,Sirima SB,Verhave JP,Bousema T,Sauerwein R

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella abortus is a class III zoonotic bacterial pathogen able to survive and replicate inside host cells, including macrophages. Here we report a multidimensional transposon sequencing analysis to identify genes essential for Brucella abortus growth in rich medium and replication in RAW 264.7 macrophages. The const...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sternon JF,Godessart P,Gonçalves de Freitas R,Van der Henst M,Poncin K,Francis N,Willemart K,Christen M,Christen B,Letesson JJ,De Bolle X

更新日期：2018-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lung infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes significant morbidity in cystic fibrosis patients initiated by the failure of innate immune responses. We used microarray analysis and real-time PCR to detect transcriptional changes associated with cytokine production in isogenic bronchial epithelial cell lines ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Reiniger N,Ichikawa JK,Pier GB

更新日期：2005-10-01 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：:Cell-free hemoglobin (Hb) is being developed as an erythrocyte substitute. We have previously demonstrated that cell-free Hb is an endotoxin-binding protein which disaggregates endotoxin and subsequently increases the biological activity of endotoxin in several in vitro assays. Because much of the morbidity and mortal...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Su D,Roth RI,Yoshida M,Levin J

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of splenectomy on animals infected with Trypanosoma lewisi is unclear, and previous reports are inconclusive or conflictive. We splenectomized rats of different ages after they had been infected with T. lewisi. Female Sprague-Dawley rats, Hemobartonella-free, were assigned to four groups according to weight...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Llende M,Santiago-Delpín EA,Lavergne JA

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the cloning of the gene encoding the 32-kDa lipoprotein, designated LipL32, the most prominent protein in the leptospiral protein profile. We obtained the N-terminal amino acid sequence of a staphylococcal V8 proteolytic-digest fragment to design an oligonucleotide probe. A Lambda-Zap II library containing E...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Haake DA,Chao G,Zuerner RL,Barnett JK,Barnett D,Mazel M,Matsunaga J,Levett PN,Bolin CA

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extracellular cytolysin produced by Vibrio metschnikovii was purified by acid precipitation, phenyl-Sepharose CL-4B chromatography, and rechromatography on a phenyl-Sepharose CL-4B column and high-performance liquid chromatography on a Mono Q (anion-exchange) column. The purified cytolysin had a molecular weight of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miyake M,Honda T,Miwatani T

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed structural studies were undertaken on five isolates of bovine rotavirus which showed variability in the migration patterns of their genome segments on electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gels. The individual genome segments of each isolate were characterized by partial digestion of terminally radiolabeled RNA w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clarke IN,McCrae MA

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA-1) is an invasion-related Plasmodium antigen that is expressed during both intracellular and extracellular asexual stages of the parasite's life cycle, making it an ideal target for induction of humoral and cellular immune responses that can protect against malaria. We show here that whe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bouillet LÉ,Dias MO,Dorigo NA,Moura AD,Russell B,Nosten F,Renia L,Braga EM,Gazzinelli RT,Rodrigues MM,Soares IS,Bruna-Romero O

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Streptococcus salivarius strain TOVE-R to inhibit the ecological emergence of virulent representatives of the most prevalent human mutans streptococci on the teeth of specific pathogen-free Osborne-Mendel rats was studied. Rats which were infected by TOVE-R, or either S. mutans 10449S or S. sobrinus 671...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tanzer JM,Kurasz AB,Clive J

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier work had shown that a collection of anaerobic bacteria, in conjunction with facultative anaerobes, may be implanted into germfree mice, thereby rendering the animals "normal" with respect to a variety of parameters tested. The present experiments indicate that a different collection of anaerobic bacteria, isol...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Freter R,Abrams GD

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zoopathogenic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum requires iron for growth. Intracellular growth of the fungus within mouse peritoneal macrophages is inhibited by recombinant murine gamma interferon (IFN-gamma). Such treatment of mouse peritoneal macrophages induces a marked downshift in transferrin receptors. We tested...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lane TE,Wu-Hsieh BA,Howard DH

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that both Ixodes scapularis saliva and Borrelia burgdorferi antigens modulated lymphokines and monokines in vitro. The studies presented here were designed to delineate the role of I. scapularis and B. burgdorferi in modulation of the host immune response in vivo. Infestation of C3H/...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zeidner N,Mbow ML,Dolan M,Massung R,Baca E,Piesman J

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis, proliferative typhlitis, and colitis were characterized in young adult and older SCID/NCr mice naturally infected with Helicobacter hepaticus. Liver lesions consisted of Kupffer, Ito, and oval cell hyperplasia along with multifocal to coalescing coagulative hepatocyte necrosis. Numerous Warthin-Starry-posit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li X,Fox JG,Whary MT,Yan L,Shames B,Zhao Z

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several Shigella flexneri mutants with defects in aromatic amino acid and/or purine biosynthesis have been evaluated as vaccines in humans or in animal models. To be suitable as a vaccine, a mutant has to show virulence attenuation, minimal reactogenicity, and a good immunogenic potential in animal models. With this a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cersini A,Martino MC,Martini I,Rossi G,Bernardini ML

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin E protects nonimmunized and immunized mice against fatal Diplococcus pneumoniae type I (DpI) infection. A dietary supplementation of 180 mg of dl-alpha-tocopheryl acetate per kg of diet increased survival of nonimmunized mice from 20 to 80% when challenged with 20 organisms, and of mice immunized with 0.5 ng o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heinzerling RH,Tengerdy RP,Wick LL,Lueker DC

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the roles of interleukin 12 (IL-12) and IL-18 and their possible interaction during superantigen-induced responses were studied by injection of staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) into mice. These data suggest that the role of IL-12 in SEB-induced responses is limited to sustaining gamma interfero...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lauw FN,Florquin S,Speelman P,van Deventer SJ,van der Poll T

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial fatty acids (AFAs) protect the human epidermis against invasion by pathogenic bacteria. In this study, we questioned whether human skin fatty acids (FAs) can be incorporated into the lipid moiety of lipoproteins and whether such incorporation would have an impact on innate immune stimulation in the model...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nguyen MT,Hanzelmann D,Härtner T,Peschel A,Götz F

更新日期：2015-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:C57BL/6 mice were infected intravenously with 6 X 10(3) Listeria monocytogenes organisms. As early as day 3 of infection, there was a marked reduction in the number of lymphocytes recovered from the peripheral blood, bone marrow, and thymuses of infected animals. Concomitantly, there was an increase in the number of s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Watson SR,Redington TJ,Miller TB,Bullock WE

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified R-28 antigen from an M-protein-poor, R-antigen-rich strain of group A Streptococcus was prepared by sequential treatment of an acid extract of whole cells with ammonium sulfate fractionation and hydroxylapatite (HA) column chromatography. Purified R-28 antigen was eluted only with 0.10 M sodium phosphate, pH ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Johnson RH

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes that do not cause arthritis or carditis were developed and used to investigate Lyme disease pathogenesis. A clonal isolate of B. burgdorferi N40 (cN40), which induces disease in C3H/HeN (C3H) mice, was repeatedly passaged in vitro to generate nonpathogenic spirochetes. The passage 75 i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anguita J,Samanta S,Revilla B,Suk K,Das S,Barthold SW,Fikrig E

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila was mutagenized with Tn903dIIlacZ, and a collection of mutants was screened for defects in macrophage killing (Mak-). Of 4,564 independently derived mutants, 55 (1.2%) showed a reduced or complete lack in the ability to kill HL-60-derived human macrophages. Forty-nine of the Mak- mutants could b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sadosky AB,Wiater LA,Shuman HA

更新日期：1993-12-01 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：:Previous studies have reported that human vascular endothelial cells lack the membrane-bound lipopolysaccharide (LPS) receptor, CD14 (mCD14). By optimizing assay conditions, including the selection of anti-CD14 monoclonal antibody, we now demonstrate that human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) express CD14 on ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jersmann HP,Hii CS,Hodge GL,Ferrante A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species-specific antibody epitopes within several major immunoreactive protein orthologs of Ehrlichia species have recently been identified and molecularly characterized. In this study, dominant B-cell epitopes within the acidic (pI 5.35) ankyrin repeat-containing 200-kDa major immunoreactive protein (gp200) of Ehrlic...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nethery KA,Doyle CK,Zhang X,McBride JW

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) can induce mouse macrophages to produce a number of cytokines and other inflammatory mediators. Our laboratory previously reported that LPS-dependent macrophage-derived tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) production could be significantly potentiated by pretreatment with LPS at substimulat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hirohashi N,Morrison DC

更新日期：1996-03-01 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：:To analyze the role of interleukin-10 (IL-10) in bacterial cerebral infections, we studied cerebral listeriosis in IL-10-deficient (IL-10(-/-)) and wild-type (WT) mice, the latter of which express high levels of IL-10 in both primary and secondary cerebral listeriosis. IL-10(-/-) mice succumbed to primary as well as s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Deckert M,Soltek S,Geginat G,Lütjen S,Montesinos-Rongen M,Hof H,Schlüter D

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suppression of the host defense is one of the hallmarks of Yersinia enterocolitica infection. This enteric pathogen resists phagocytosis and interferes with macrophage functions from an extracellular localization (oxidative-burst generation and tumor necrosis factor alpha production). In this study, we investigated th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ruckdeschel K,Roggenkamp A,Lafont V,Mangeat P,Heesemann J,Rouot B

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00