Comparative virulence of Streptococcus pneumoniae strains with insertion-duplication, point, and deletion mutations in the pneumolysin gene.

abstract：:Antiserum and purified immunoglobulin directed against Mycoplasma pneumoniae membrane protein P1 were examined for their influence on mycoplasma viability, metabolism, and cytadsorption. Anti-P1 immunoglobulin inhibited adherence of M. pneumoniae to hamster tracheal rings in vitro by up to 80% and inhibited hemadsorpt...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krause DC,Baseman JB

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While several diseases associated with Chlamydia psittaci infection have been reported in Phascolarctos cinereus (koala), it is still unclear whether one or more chlamydial strains are responsible. In this study, we provide evidence, obtained by restriction enzyme and gene probe analysis, that two quite distinct strai...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Girjes AA,Hugall AF,Timms P,Lavin MF

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella abortus injected into CBA mice replicated primarily in the spleen and liver, reaching a peak bacterial count in both organs about 7 days postinfection. The organism was eliminated from the liver but declined to a chronic phase in the spleen. The infection caused hepatosplenomegaly. An influx of macrophages in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Doyle AG,Halliday WJ,Barnett CJ,Dunn TL,Hume DA

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that infection by Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasitic protozoan, is reduced by injection of CD40 ligand (CD40L)-transfected 3T3 fibroblasts (D. Chaussabel, F. Jacobs, J. de Jonge, M. de Veerman, Y. Carlier, K. Thielemans, M. Goldman, and B. Vray, Infect. Immun. 67:1929-1934, 1999). This prompted us...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chamekh M,Vercruysse V,Habib M,Lorent M,Goldman M,Allaoui A,Vray B

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most frequently encountered bacterial pathogens in patients with chronic pulmonary infections, including cystic fibrosis and diffuse panbronchiolitis. Bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue (BALT), noted frequently in patients with cystic fibrosis and diffuse panbronchiolitis, is cons...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Iwata M,Sato A

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella infection can cause gastroenteritis in healthy individuals or a serious, systemic infection in immunocompromised patients and has a global impact. CD4 Th1 cells represent the main lymphocyte population that participates in bacterial clearance during both primary and secondary infections in mice of the H-2b ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Labuda JC,Depew CE,Pham OH,Benoun JM,Ramirez NA,McSorley SJ

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that children with blood group A have increased susceptibility to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) diarrhea and that Lewis blood group "a" antigen (Le(a)) may be a candidate receptor for ETEC colonization factor (CF) antigen I (CFA/I) fimbriae. Based on these findings, we have attempte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ahmed T,Lundgren A,Arifuzzaman M,Qadri F,Teneberg S,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella bronchiseptica is closely related to Bordetella pertussis, which produces respiratory disease primarily in mammals other than humans. However, its importance as a human pathogen is being increasingly recognized. Although a large amount of research on Bordetella has been generated regarding protein virulence...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sisti F,Fernández J,Rodríguez ME,Lagares A,Guiso N,Hozbor DF

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between Klebsiella pneumoniae and the host environment at the site of infection are largely unknown. Pulmonary surfactant serves as an initial point of contact for inhaled bacteria entering the lung and is thought to contain molecular cues that aid colonization and pathogenesis. To gain insight into t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Willsey GG,Ventrone S,Schutz KC,Wallace AM,Ribis JW,Suratt BT,Wargo MJ

更新日期：2018-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene products from an 8-kb region adjacent to the 3' end of the ptx operon are required by Bordetella pertussis for the export of pertussis holotoxin. At least one of these gene products (PtlC) is specifically required for the export of assembled holotoxin from the periplasmic space. ptlC mutants exhibit a 20-fold...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker SM,Masi A,Liu DF,Novitsky BK,Deich RA

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stress-induced extracytoplasmic sigma factor E (SigE) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis shows increased expression after heat shock, sodium dodecyl sulfate treatment, and oxidative stress, as well as after phagocytosis in macrophages. We report that deletion of sigE results in delayed lethality in mice without a signi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ando M,Yoshimatsu T,Ko C,Converse PJ,Bishai WR

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the structural components of the Streptococcus pyogenes membrane between exponential and early stationary phases of growth are reported. The overall protein composition ranged from 70 to 73% of the dry weight of the membranes, irrespective of the phase of growth from which they were isolated. Amino acid ana...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van de Rijn I,Kessler RE

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between hypersensitivity and cellular resistance to infection with facultative intracellular parasites was studied in mice by using infection-immunity in tularemia as a model system. Delayed hypersensitivity to antigenic fractions of Francisella tularensis was first detected 6 to 7 days after immuniza...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Claflin JL,Larson CL

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidoglycans of organisms belonging to the strictly anaerobic family Bacteroidaceae were investigated for the presence of lanthionine. Different procedures for the quantitation of lanthionine were compared. Performic acid and peroxide oxidation procedures on 35S-labeled peptidoglycan from Fusobacterium nucleatum Fev...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vasstrand EN,Jensen HB,Miron T,Hofstad T

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that animals exposed to Streptococcus pneumoniae while recovering from influenza A virus infection exhibit exacerbated disease symptoms. However, many of the current animal models exploring dual viral and bacterial synergistic exacerbations of respiratory disease have utilized mouse-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Speshock JL,Doyon-Reale N,Rabah R,Neely MN,Roberts PC

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transplacental infection of mouse fetuses with Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis was produced by intraperitoneal injection of dams at various stages of gestation with 10(3) suckling mouse intracerebral median lethal doses of an attenuated strain (TC-83). Virus inoculation, at times ranging from 6 days prior to matin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Spertzel RO,Crabbs CL,Vaughn RE

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described (L. M. Vaughan, P. R. Smith, and T. J. Foster, Infect. Immun. 61:2172-2181, 1993) the construction of a kanamycin-resistant aromatic-dependent mutant of Aeromonas salmonicida, the causative agent of furunculosis, and its use as a live vaccine. Here we describe the construction of an unmark...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marsden MJ,Vaughan LM,Foster TJ,Secombes CJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxiella burnetii is the causative agent of Q fever, a zoonotic disease that threatens both human and animal health. Due to the paucity of experimental animal models, little is known about how host factors interface with bacterial components and affect pathogenesis. Here, we used Drosophila melanogaster, in conjunctio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bastos RG,Howard ZP,Hiroyasu A,Goodman AG

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonproteolytic strain of Clostridium botulinum type B produces two toxins of different molecular weight (16S and 12S) that are indistinguishable from the corresponding toxins of a proteolytic strain in molecular weight and construction but differ in potential toxicity, activation ratio, and hemagglutinability. Succe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miyazaki S,Kozaki S,Sakaguchi S,Sakaguchi G

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium causes self-limiting gastroenteritis in humans and a typhoid-like disease in mice that serves as a model for typhoid infections in humans. A critical step in Salmonella pathogenesis is the invasion of enterocytes and M cells of the small intestine via expression of a type III se...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boddicker JD,Jones BD

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hagfish, Eptatretus stoutii, has been shown to synthesize bactericidal antibodies after injections of gram-negative organisms. These bactericidins could be detected as early as 2 days after the primary injection. Secondary responses were accelerated, although titers were not significantly higher than those reached...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Acton RT,Weinheimer PF,Hildemann WH,Evans EE

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis, the etiological agent of anthrax disease, is a proven weapon of bioterrorism. Currently, the only licensed vaccine against anthrax in the United States is AVA Biothrax, which, although efficacious, suffers from several limitations. This vaccine requires six injectable doses over 18 months to stimul...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Osorio M,Wu Y,Singh S,Merkel TJ,Bhattacharyya S,Blake MS,Kopecko DJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to evaluate the immunogenicity and the protective efficacy of a divalent fusion DNA vaccine encoding both the Brucella abortus L7/L12 protein (ribosomal protein) and Omp16 protein (outer membrane lipoprotein), designated pcDNA3.1-L7/L12-Omp16. Intramuscular injection of this divalent DNA vaccin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Luo D,Ni B,Li P,Shi W,Zhang S,Han Y,Mao L,He Y,Wu Y,Wang X

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cryptococcosis is characterized as a chronic central nervous system disease, it is generally accepted that the lungs are the primary portal of entry for the etiological agent. Despite this, there is a distinct lack of evidence that viable airborne particles of Cryptococcus neoformans are small enough to reach...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Neilson JB,Fromtling RA,Bulmer GS

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomes of strain NOR-7 of group B Neisseria meningitidis were isolated by a procedure that included treatment of the cells with sodium dodecyl sulfate, disruption in a French pressure cell, and differential centrifugation. These preparations consisted of 66% ribonucleic acid and 24% protein and sedimented as a sing...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thomas DW,Weiss E

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that protection from allergic inflammation by Ascaris suum infection was characterized by a global increase in interleukin-10 (IL-10) and the development of protective CD4(+)/CD25(+) T cells (L. Schopf, S. Luccioli, V. Bundoc, P. Justice, C. C. Chan, B. J. Wetzel, H. H. Norris, J. F. Ur...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McConchie BW,Norris HH,Bundoc VG,Trivedi S,Boesen A,Urban JF Jr,Keane-Myers AM

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed the expression vector pSK-SCP containing the streptococcal exotoxin B gene (spe b) which expressed protease activity. We showed that the recombinant streptococcal pyogenic exotoxin B/streptococcal cysteine protease (rSPE B/SCP) was secreted into the culture supernatant of the transformant and retained i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Watanabe Y,Todome Y,Ohkuni H,Sakurada S,Ishikawa T,Yutsudo T,Fischetti VA,Zabriskie JB

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic microorganisms were isolated and identified from 9 of 10 malignant tissues aseptically obtained from surgical patients. The organisms isolated are species commonly associated with the flora of the human body. When these cancer-associated organisms were grown in Trypticase soy broth (BBL Microbiology Systems), ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Backus BT,Affronti LF

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin-binding proteins mediate Staphylococcus aureus internalization into nonphagocytic cells in vitro. We have investigated whether fibronectin-binding proteins are virulence factors in the pathogenesis of pneumonia by using S. aureus strain 8325-4 and isogenic mutants in which fibronectin-binding proteins were...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McElroy MC,Cain DJ,Tyrrell C,Foster TJ,Haslett C

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that activating-type Fc receptors for immunoglobulin G (FcgammaR), such as FcgammaRI and FcgammaRIII, are essential for inducing inflammatory responses. On the other hand, a unique inhibitory FcgammaR, FcgammaRIIB, inhibits intracellular signaling upon engagement of immunoglobulin G-immune compl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Henriques-Pons A,Olivieri BP,Oliveira GM,Daëron M,de Araújo-Jorge TC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00