Saccharomyces boulardii protease inhibits the effects of Clostridium difficile toxins A and B in human colonic mucosa.

abstract：:Rickettsia rickettsii infection of endothelial cells is manifested in very distinctive changes in cell morphology, consisting of extensive dilatation of the membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum and outer nuclear envelope and blebbing of the plasma membrane, as seen by transmission electron microscopy (D. J. Silverma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eremeeva ME,Silverman DJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：:Clostridium difficile is a spore-forming bacterium that can reside in animals and humans. C. difficile infection causes a variety of clinical symptoms, ranging from diarrhea to fulminant colitis. Disease is mediated by TcdA and TcdB, two large enterotoxins released by C. difficile during colonization of the gut. In th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leuzzi R,Spencer J,Buckley A,Brettoni C,Martinelli M,Tulli L,Marchi S,Luzzi E,Irvine J,Candlish D,Veggi D,Pansegrau W,Fiaschi L,Savino S,Swennen E,Cakici O,Oviedo-Orta E,Giraldi M,Baudner B,D'Urzo N,Maione D,Sor

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：:Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), which recognizes lipopolysaccharide from Gram-negative bacteria, plays a major role in resistance of mice and humans to Salmonella infection. In chickens, Salmonella may establish a carrier state whereby bacteria are able to persist in the host organism without triggering clinical signs. B...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chaussé AM,Grépinet O,Bottreau E,Le Vern Y,Menanteau P,Trotereau J,Robert V,Wu Z,Kerboeuf D,Beaumont C,Velge P

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recombinant protective antigen (rPA) of Bacillus anthracis is a promising anthrax vaccine. We compared serum immunoglobulin G levels and toxin-neutralizing antibody titers in rabbits following delivery of various doses of vaccine by microneedle-based intradermal (i.d.) delivery or intramuscular (i.m.) injection us...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mikszta JA,Dekker JP 3rd,Harvey NG,Dean CH,Brittingham JM,Huang J,Sullivan VJ,Dyas B,Roy CJ,Ulrich RG

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus can produce a wide variety of exotoxins, including toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1), staphylococcal enterotoxins, and staphylococcal enterotoxin-like toxins. These toxins share superantigenic activity. To investigate the beta chain (Vbeta) specificities of each of these toxins, TSST-1 and al...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thomas D,Dauwalder O,Brun V,Badiou C,Ferry T,Etienne J,Vandenesch F,Lina G

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resequencing estA3, an allele of the methanol-soluble heat-stable enterotoxin of Escherichia coli showed that the proline triplet 19 is in fact an alanine codon; thus, estA alleles 3 and 4 were shown to be identical. Resequencing has also shown that the carboxy terminus of another allele, estA2, is not the previously ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guzman-Verduzco LM,Kupersztoch YM

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis serovar L2 is an obligate intracellular bacterium which is internalized in target epithelial cells by endocytosis and resides within a membrane-bound vesicle. Over the next several hours following entry, individual serovar L2-containing vesicles fuse with one another to form a single membrane-bou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schramm N,Bagnell CR,Wyrick PB

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Existing evidence suggests that oxidative insults and antioxidant defense mechanisms play a critical role in the host cell response during infection of endothelial cells by Rickettsia rickettsii, the causative agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Heme oxygenase (HO), a rate-limiting enzyme in the pathway for heme ca...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rydkina E,Sahni A,Silverman DJ,Sahni SK

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence of Treponema denticola GM-1, TD-4, and MS25 to human gingival fibroblasts (HGFs) was studied to serve as an introduction to investigations into the interactions of these oral bacteria with human host cells. Under both aerobic (5% CO2) and anaerobic (85% N2 plus 10% H2 plus 5% CO2) environments, the inter...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weinberg A,Holt SC

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygenated fatty acids, or oxylipins, play an essential role in physiological signaling and developmental processes in animals, plants, and fungi. Previous characterization of three Aspergillus fumigatus dioxygenases (PpoA, PpoB, and PpoC), similar in sequence to mammalian cyclooxygenases, showed that PpoA is responsi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dagenais TR,Chung D,Giles SS,Hull CM,Andes D,Keller NP

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae O1 has two biotypes, El Tor and Classical, and the latter is now presumed to be extinct in nature. Under carbohydrate-rich growth conditions, El Tor biotype strains produce the neutral fermentation end product 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BD), which prevents accumulation of organic acids from mixed acid ferment...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bari W,Song YJ,Yoon SS

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-driven macrophage apoptosis contributes to innate immunity during bacterial infection. Neisseria meningitidis inhibits apoptosis in a variety of cells, but its impact on macrophage apoptosis is unknown. We demonstrate that N. meningitidis prevents macrophage apoptosis via genes encoding nitric oxide detoxificatio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tunbridge AJ,Stevanin TM,Lee M,Marriott HM,Moir JW,Read RC,Dockrell DH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimally manipulated nasal secretions, an accessible form of airway surface fluid, were tested against indigenous and added bacteria by using CFU assays. Antimicrobial activity was found to vary between donors and with different target bacteria and was markedly diminished by dilution of the airway secretions. Donor-t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cole AM,Dewan P,Ganz T

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, has a number of outer membrane proteins that are differentially regulated during its life cycle. In addition to their physiological functions in the organism, these proteins also likely serve different functions in invasiveness and immune evasion. In borreliae, as well ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Toledo A,Coleman JL,Kuhlow CJ,Crowley JT,Benach JL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a pathogen often found in pneumonia and sepsis. In the context of the resistance of this organism to conventional antibiotics, an understanding of the regulation of natural endogenous antimicrobial molecules is of paramount importance. Previous studies have shown that both human and mouse airw...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McMichael JW,Maxwell AI,Hayashi K,Taylor K,Wallace WA,Govan JR,Dorin JR,Sallenave JM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is considered an extracellular pathogen. Using assays to determine intracellular survival in the presence of gentamicin, we have demonstrated that some strains of P. aeruginosa are able to invade corneal cells during experimental bacterial keratitis in mice. Although intracellular bacteria were ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fleiszig SM,Zaidi TS,Fletcher EL,Preston MJ,Pier GB

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice (BALB/cJ, C3H/HeN, and C3H/HeJ) primed with actinomycin D became highly susceptible to lethal intoxication with staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB). The mice underwent toxicosis and toxic shock and died. Actinomycin D-primed C3H/HeN and C3H/HeJ mice showed equal sensitivity to SEB, suggesting that bacterial lipopo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chen JY,Qiao Y,Komisar JL,Baze WB,Hsu IC,Tseng J

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunological assay utilizing double-diffusion principles was developed for identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutants deficient in toxin A. Mutations were chemically induced, and mutants were isolated from P. aeruginosa strain PA103. Quantitative assays, both enzymatic and immunological, indicated that five ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ohman DE,Sadoff JC,Iglewski BH

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and antibody (anti-HBs), hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) and antibody (anti-HBe), the nature of T-cell function, and specific cell-mediated immunity to HBsAg were determined and evaluated serially in groups of subjects with chronic HBsAg carrier states and in seronegat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Beutner KR,Tiku ML,Ogra PL

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, an agent of Lyme disease, establishes persistent infection in immunocompetent animals and humans. Although the infection in humans can be cleared by antibiotic therapy, persistence in reservoir animals is necessary for the maintenance of the bacterium in the natural reservoir host⇔tick vector inf...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： LaFrance ME,Pierce JV,Antonara S,Coburn J

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work (P. Castric, F. J. Cassels, and R. W. Carlson, J. Biol. Chem. 276:26479-26485, 2001) has shown the Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1244 pilin glycan to be covalently bound to a serine residue. N-terminal sequencing of pilin fragments produced from endopeptidase treatment and identified by reaction with a glycan-s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Comer JE,Marshall MA,Blanch VJ,Deal CD,Castric P

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated immunity is pivotal in host resistance to Blastomyces dermatitidis infection. Immunization of mice with the WI-1 adhesin enhances resistance against experimental pulmonary infection but elicits features of a mixed T-helper-cell immune response. Immune mice acquire delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) but ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wüthrich M,Finkel-Jiminez BE,Klein BS

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid DNA from two strains of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli harboring genes encoding coli surface antigen 4 (CS4) and from seven Indian enterotoxigenic E. coli isolates cross-hybridized at low stringency but not at high stringency with two polynucleotide probes derived from the colonization factor antigen I (CFA/...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sommerfelt H,Grewal HM,Svennerholm AM,Gaastra W,Flood PR,Viboud G,Bhan MK

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomaterial-associated infections (BAI), which are predominantly caused by Staphylococcus epidermidis, are a significant problem in modern medicine. Biofilm formation is considered the pivotal element in the pathogenesis, but in previous mouse studies we retrieved S. epidermidis from peri-implant tissue. To assess the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Broekhuizen CA,de Boer L,Schipper K,Jones CD,Quadir S,Feldman RG,Dankert J,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Weening JJ,Zaat SA

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-rabbit alveolar macrophage goat serum (AMS), adsorbed of hemolysins and hemagglutinins, exhibited complement-dependent cytotoxicity for the following rabbit target cells: alveolar macrophages, thymocytes, and kidney (RK-13) cells. The intravenous injection of AMS, sufficient to reduce markedly the dermal tubercul...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moore VL,Myrvik QN

更新日期：1970-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of protein kinase C (PKC) activation on the cyclic GMP response to heat-stable enterotoxin (STa) in a colonic carcinoma intestinal epithelial cell line, T84 cells. Our results demonstrate that the active phorbol ester analog, phorbol dibutyrate, but not the inactive alpha-phorbol dibutyrate, act...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weikel CS,Spann CL,Chambers CP,Crane JK,Linden J,Hewlett EL

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that primarily causes disease in immunocompromised individuals. Dendritic cells (DCs) can phagocytose C. neoformans, present cryptococcal antigen, and kill C. neoformans. However, early events following C. neoformans phagocytosis by DCs are not well defined. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wozniak KL,Levitz SM

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular source of interleukin-6 (IL-6) during infection of mice with Listeria monocytogenes was investigated both in vitro and in vivo. Peritoneal cells taken at intervals from infected mice and cultured in vitro without added stimulus produced high titers of IL-6 peaking 2 days postinfection in a time course sim...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liu Z,Cheers C

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00