Cellular Reactions in Infection

Listeria monocytogenes meningitis: an opportunistic infection

“…L. monocytogenes is a facultative intracellular parasite; thus, it has the property of resistance to bactericidal proce,ses within normal phagocytes and has the ability, at least in virulent strains, to multiply within phagocytes and destroy them. In addition to L. monocytogenes, many pathogenic fungi, M. tuberculosis, Salmonella, and Brucella organisms are all in this category (Suter and Ramseier, 1964). Since patients with leukaemia and lymphoma are unusually susceptible to infection with these organisms, an examination of common features in this group of organisms may be significant.…”

The separation, long-term cultivation, and maturation of the human monocyte.

“…However they are now recognized as major secretory cells (complement [6], neutral proteases [37], lysozyme [15], prostaglandins [38], endogenous pyrogen [39,40]), and mediators of host defense against a variety of obligate intracellular micro-organisms (1,24,26,(41)(42)(43)(44)(45). The methods described herein for the isolation and cultivation of human monocytes make it possible to examine monocyte function in patients with specific disease states and to undertake the longitudinal study of cells in vitro.…”

The Chemical Compositions in the Cell Wall ofSalmonella typhimuriumaffecting the Clearance-Rate in Mouse

“…The knowledge of the process of phagocytosis of Salmonella has been investigated by morphological, biological and biochemical studies of the phagocytizing cells [7,14,17,21]. However, little is known about the chemical components in Salmonella affecting the rate of phagocytosis.…”