Staphylococcal Infection: Antitoxic Immunity

Time window of TNF- in innate immunity against staphylococcal infection

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Production of antitoxic immunity by live oral cholera vaccine.

Present knowledge about the extent of antitoxic immunity produced by cholera vaccination is meagre. Kasai and Burrows (J. Infect. Diseases 116:606, 1966) reported that the parenteral injection of killed vaccine increases the antitoxin titer of rabbit sera. They also showed that patients recovering from cholera develop antitoxic activity in their sera. Bhattacharya and Mukerjee (unpublished data...

Staphylococcal infection in hospitals.

Staphylococcal Infection and Infertility

Staphylococcus sp. is not only a commensal bacterium but also a major human pathogen that causes a wide range of clinical infections, such as skin and soft tissue infection, pleuropulmonary and osteoarticular infection, and endocarditis as well as lifethreatening systemic infections. More evidence is currently emerging to show that Staphylococcus, particularly Staphylococcus aureus, can coloniz...

Bacteriophage-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Mutant Confers Broad Immunity against Staphylococcal Infection in Mice

In the presence of a bacteriophage (a bacteria-attacking virus) resistance is clearly beneficial to the bacteria. As expected in such conditions, resistant bacteria emerge rapidly. However, in the absence of the phage, resistant bacteria often display reduced fitness, compared to their sensitive counterparts. The present study explored the fitness cost associated with phage-resistance as an opp...