The causative agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, is transmitted by ticks of the Ixodes ricinus complex. In this study, we report the antibody response of recombinant inbred strains of mice of the H-2, b, d, and k haplotypes, infected with/~ burgdorferi as a result of exposure to infected I. daramini. The patterns of antibody response assayed by Western blot analysis indicate significa...

Bacterial colonisation of the airways is associated with increased risk of childhood asthma. Immunoglobulin (Ig)E against bacterial antigens has been reported in some asthmatics, suggesting a role for bacterial-specific type-2 immunity in disease pathogenesis. We aimed to investigate relationships between bacterial-specific IgE amongst teenagers and asthma susceptibility. We measured titres of ...

Abstract Sepsis and autoimmune diseases remain major causes of morbidity mortality. The last decade has seen a new appreciation platelets in host defense, both immunity thrombosis. Platelets are first responders the blood to microbes or non?microbial antigens. role physiologic is counterbalanced by their pathology, for example, microvascular encounter antigens via innate adaptive immun...

Sera from normal rabbits were shown to have antibodies that bound radiolabeled test antigens derived from many taxonomically unrelated bacteria. Sera from rabbits that had been immunized with sonically treated material of 12 different bacteria, including M. bovis strain BCG, had antibodies that bound not only radiolabeled homologous test antigens but also radiolabeled antigens from many unrelat...

For over 100 years, it has been known that oral immunization can protect against challenge by certain enteropathogenic ba~teria. ' .~ The mechanism of this protection was unclear as most individuals did not demonstrate strong serum agglutinins to the orally administered vaccine. Work by Davies in 1922 provided evidence that agglutinating antibodies in stool specimens from patients with dysenter...

Since lumenal bacteria have been postulated to play an important role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), we investigated the humoral response to cecal aerobic bacterial antigens by Western blot analysis in TCR alpha -/- mice which spontaneously develop IBD. The sera from TCR alpha -/- mice revealed an alteration of the recognition pattern against aerobic bacterial antigens...

BACKGROUND The clinical course of tuberculosis (TB) infection, bacterial load and the morphology of lesions vary between pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB. Antigens expressed in abundance during infection could represent relevant antigens in the development of diagnostic tools, but little is known about the in vivo expression of various M. tuberculosis antigens in different clinical manifestation...

Nanoparticles (NPs) are effective and safe adjuvants for antigen delivery in modern vaccinology. Biodegradable nanomaterials with suitable properties are frequently applied for conjugation or loading with antigens; they protect the antigens from degradation in vivo. NPs are applied as effective delivery system to facilitate antigen uptake by antigen presenting cells (APCs) and especially dendri...