Campylobacter jejuni-stimulated secretion of interleukin-8 by INT407 cells.

abstract：:The response of ferrets after intranasal inoculation of inactivated A/Hong Kong/68 (H3N2) influenza virus vaccines is reported. Normal ferrets given either saline vaccine in drops or freeze-dried vaccine in an aerosol intranasally did not produce detectable serum or nasal hemagglutination inhibiting antibody and were ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McLaren C,Potter CW,Jennings R

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lack of efficacious vaccines against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection is a limiting factor in the prevention and control of tuberculosis (TB), the leading cause of death from an infectious agent. Improvement or replacement of the BCG vaccine with one that reliably protects all age-groups is urgent. Concerns ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang Y,Li Z,Wu S,Fleming J,Li C,Zhu G,Chen B,Ren B,Wang X,Du B,Li P,Hu P,Yang J,Liu Y,Zhou C,Zhang XE,Bi L,Zhang H,Yang J,Zhang Z

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The parameters of a persistent-state measles virus infection in BGM/MV cells were examined. The BGM/MV cell line was established by cocultivation of measles virus-infected primary C3H mouse brain cells with a stable line of African green monkey kidney cells (BGM). Initially, a morphologically mixed population of cells...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Menna JH,Collins AR,Flanagan TD

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular cysteine protease from Streptococcus pyogenes is a virulence factor that plays a significant role in host-pathogen interaction. Streptococcal protease is expressed as an inactive 40-kDa precursor that is autocatalytically converted into a 28-kDa mature (active) enzyme. Replacement of the single cyste...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Matsuka YV,Pillai S,Gubba S,Musser JM,Olmsted SB

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogens produce virulence factors that interact directly with host molecules, but in many cases the host targets are unknown. The genetic and molecular identification of these orphan targets is often not feasible with mammalian experimental models. However, a substantial number of known targets are molecules and pat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Darby C,Falkow S

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilus ducreyi previously has been shown to inhibit the phagocytosis of both secondary targets and itself by certain cells in vitro. Wild-type H. ducreyi strain 35000HP contains two genes, lspA1 and lspA2, whose encoded protein products are predicted to be 456 and 543 kDa, respectively. An isogenic mutant of H. d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vakevainen M,Greenberg S,Hansen EJ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite effective antimicrobial chemotherapy, control of Chlamydia trachomatis urogenital infection will likely require a vaccine. We have assessed the protective effect of an outer membrane protein-based vaccine by using a murine model of chlamydial genital infection. Female mice were first vaccinated with Chlamydia ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Farris CM,Morrison SG,Morrison RP

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite that is able to penetrate human monocytes by either passive uptake during phagocytosis or active penetration. It is expected that immunoglobulin G (IgG) opsonization will target the parasite to macrophage Fc gamma receptors for phagocytic processing and subsequent degradation....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fadul CE,Channon JY,Kasper LH

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisera against isolated cell surface preparations (PCSP-As) of Leishmania donovani promastigotes were used to detect extracellular antigens produced during the growth of these organisms in four different growth media. The PCSP-As precipitated two major antigenically identical but electrophoretically distinct compone...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kaneshiro ES,Gottlieb M,Dwyer DM

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased incidence of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in the United Kingdom caused by infection with Mycobacterium bovis is a cause of considerable economic loss to farmers and the government. The Eurasian badger (Meles meles) represents a wildlife source of recurrent M. bovis infections of cattle in the United Kingdom, and...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clark S,Cross ML,Nadian A,Vipond J,Court P,Williams A,Hewinson RG,Aldwell FE,Chambers MA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both dextransucrase and mutansynthetase activities have been purified from the culture fluids of Streptococcus mutans GS-5 (serotype c). Although homogeneous dextransucrase preparations normally synthesize little insoluble glucan, essentially all of the glucan synthesized by this enzyme in the presence of 1.5 M (NH4)2...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kuramitsu HK,Wondrack L

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic oligosaccharides derived from the capsular polysaccharide (PRP) of Haemophilus influenzae type b were conjugated to carrier proteins via a thioether linkage. Conjugates were made of trimeric and tetrameric ribose-ribitol-phosphate and tetanus toxoid or diphtheria toxin. All conjugates elicited anti-PRP antib...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Peeters CC,Evenberg D,Hoogerhout P,Käyhty H,Saarinen L,van Boeckel CA,van der Marel GA,van Boom JH,Poolman JT

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular growth of Legionella pneumophila occurs in a replication vacuole constructed by host proteins that regulate vesicular traffic from the host endoplasmic reticulum (ER). This process is promoted by a combination of approximately 300 Icm/Dot translocated substrates (IDTS). One of these proteins, Ceg9, was p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Haenssler E,Ramabhadran V,Murphy CS,Heidtman MI,Isberg RR

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice given Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli via the respiratory route succumbed much sooner to infection than mice given 1,000 times more bacilli via the intravenous route. Vaccination provided increased protection to an M. tuberculosis challenge infection; however, mice infected via the respiratory route remained m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： North RJ,LaCourse R,Ryan L

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-O-methylmannose isolated from Coccidioides immitis was characterized by gas chromatographic comparison of derivatives with those of synthetic 3-O-methylmannose. Gas chromatographic behavior of three derivatives of the natural and synthetic sugars was identical. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Porter JF,Scheer ER,Wheat RW

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selC tRNA gene is a common site for the insertion of pathogenicity islands in a variety of bacterial enteric pathogens. We demonstrate here that Escherichia coli that produces Shiga toxin 2d and does not harbor the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) contains, instead, a novel genomic island. In one representativ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schmidt H,Zhang WL,Hemmrich U,Jelacic S,Brunder W,Tarr PI,Dobrindt U,Hacker J,Karch H

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key function of monocytes/macrophages (Mphi) is to present antigens to T cells. However, upon interaction with bacteria, Mphi lose their ability to effectively present soluble antigens. This functional loss was associated with alterations in the expression of adhesion molecules and CD14 and a reduction in the uptake...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wyant TL,Tanner MK,Sztein MB

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The P2 porin protein is the major outer membrane protein of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae and is a potential target of a protective immune response. Nine monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to P2 were developed by immunizing mice with nontypeable H. influenzae whole organisms. Each MAb reacted exclusively with the homol...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Haase EM,Yi K,Morse GD,Murphy TF

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria elimination efforts would benefit from vaccines that block transmission of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes from humans to mosquitoes. A clear understanding of gametocyte-specific antibody responses in exposed populations could help determine whether transmission-blocking vaccines (TBV) would be boosted by na...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Skinner J,Huang CY,Waisberg M,Felgner PL,Doumbo OK,Ongoiba A,Kayentao K,Traore B,Crompton PD,Williamson KC

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group B streptococci (GBS) adhere to surface receptors present on epithelial cells; these receptors include fibronectin and laminin. To identify other possible receptors, plasma membranes from A549 cells, a respiratory tract epithelial cell line, were prepared. These plasma membranes were tested in a protein blot anal...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tamura GS,Nittayajarn A

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi produces potent cell-activating molecules capable of stimulating polyclonal proliferation and immunoglobulin production by murine B lymphocytes and cytokine production by a variety of cell types. These stimulatory molecules function in infected mice, resulting in elevated levels of circulating imm...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tai KF,Ma Y,Weis JJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular resistance to facultative intracellular parasites has been studied by determining the antimycobacterial activity and the amount of fatty acids in sera and in heptane extracts of freshly collected and 24-h-cultured normal and activated guinea pig alveolar macrophages and liver cells. The quantity and the antim...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hemsworth GR,Kochan I

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) strains are a diverse group of organisms capable of causing severe gastrointestinal disease in humans. Within the STEC family, eae-positive STEC strains, particularly those belonging to serogroups O157 and O111, appear to have greater virulence for humans. However, in spite of b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Paton AW,Paton JC

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils play a major role in defending the periodontium against infection by oral, gram-negative, facultative bacteria, such as Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, Eikenella corrodens, and Capnocytophaga spp. We examined the sensitivity of these bacteria to a mixture of low-molecular-weight peptides and highly p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miyasaki KT,Bodeau AL,Ganz T,Selsted ME,Lehrer RI

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vast majority of cases of gram-negative meningitis in neonates are caused by K1-encapsulated Escherichia coli. The role of the K1 capsule in the pathogenesis of E. coli meningitis was examined with an in vivo model of experimental hematogenous E. coli K1 meningitis and an in vitro model of the blood-brain barrier....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hoffman JA,Wass C,Stins MF,Kim KS

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the identification and characterization of two zinc uptake systems, ZurAM and ZinABC, in the intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. Transcription of both operons was zinc responsive and regulated by the zinc-sensing repressor Zur. Deletion of either zurAM or zinA had no detectable effect on grow...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Corbett D,Wang J,Schuler S,Lopez-Castejon G,Glenn S,Brough D,Andrew PW,Cavet JS,Roberts IS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adherence of blastoconidia to epidermal corneocytes is an early event in Candida colonization and infection of the skin. Pathogenic species adhere more avidly than nonpathogenic species, transform to hyphal growth, and invade the stratum corneum of the skin. Adherence was studied by scanning electron microscopy of exp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ray TL,Payne CD

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is a major opportunistic pathogen in immunocompromised patients. Production of proinflammatory cytokines by host cells in response to C. albicans plays a critical role in the activation of immune cells and final clearance of the organism. Invasion of host cells and tissues is considered one of the vir...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Villar CC,Kashleva H,Mitchell AP,Dongari-Bagtzoglou A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The host immune response plays an important role in the onset and progression of cerebral malaria (CM). The complement system is an essential component of the innate immune response to malaria, and its activation generates the anaphylatoxin C5a. To test the hypothesis that C5a signaling contributes to the pathogenesis...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kim H,Erdman LK,Lu Z,Serghides L,Zhong K,Dhabangi A,Musoke C,Gerard C,Cserti-Gazdewich C,Liles WC,Kain KC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella parapertussis, a respiratory tract pathogen commonly regarded as noninvasive, was found to invade HeLa 229 cell monolayers. Following treatment of the monolayers with gentamicin, numbers of viable B. parapertussis recovered were comparable to those of invasive Salmonella and Shigella isolates. Invasion occu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ewanowich CA,Sherburne RK,Man SF,Peppler MS

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00