IAI -- Table of Contents (June 1 2003, 71 [6])

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Contents: June 2003, Volume 71, Issue 6

       Guest Commentary

       Minireviews

       Molecular Pathogenesis

       Fungal and Parasitic Infections

       Host Response and Inflammation

       Microbial Immunity and Vaccines

       Bacterial Infections

       Molecular Genomics

       Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions

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Guest Commentary:

Bacteriophage and the Evolution of Epidemic Cholera
Jeff F. Miller
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 2981-2982;
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Minireviews:

Extracellular Enzymes with Immunomodulating Activities: Variations on a Theme in Streptococcus pyogenes
Mattias Collin and Arne Olsén
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 2983-2992;
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Molecular Pathogenesis:

Examination of Diverse Toxin-Coregulated Pilus-Positive Vibrio cholerae Strains Fails To Demonstrate Evidence for Vibrio Pathogenicity Island Phage
Shah M. Faruque, Jun Zhu, Asadulghani, M. Kamruzzaman, and John J. Mekalanos
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 2993-2999;
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Isolation and Characterization of Mini-Tn5Km2 Insertion Mutants of Brucella abortus Deficient in Internalization and Intracellular Growth in HeLa Cells
Suk Kim, Masahisa Watarai, Yuki Kondo, Janchivdorj Erdenebaatar, Sou-ichi Makino, and Toshikazu Shirahata
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3020-3027;
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A Fluoroquinolone Induces a Novel Mitogen-Encoding Bacteriophage in Streptococcus canis
Keely T. Ingrey, Jun Ren, and John F. Prescott
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3028-3033;
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Comparison of bipA Alleles within and across Bordetella Species
Bryna Fuchslocher, Laura L. Millar, and Peggy A. Cotter
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3043-3052;
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Role of Phosphoglucomutase of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in Lipopolysaccharide Biosynthesis, Virulence, and Antibiotic Resistance
Geoffrey A. McKay, Donald E. Woods, Kelly L. MacDonald, and Keith Poole
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3068-3075;
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degS Is Necessary for Virulence and Is among Extraintestinal Escherichia coli Genes Induced in Murine Peritonitis
Peter Redford, Paula L. Roesch, and Rodney A. Welch
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3088-3096;
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Relationship of plcR-Regulated Factors to BacillusEndophthalmitis Virulence
Michelle C. Callegan, Scott T. Kane, D. Clay Cochran, Michael S. Gilmore, Myriam Gominet, and Didier Lereclus
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3116-3124;
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Characterization of Anthrolysin O, the Bacillus anthracis Cholesterol-Dependent Cytolysin
Jeffrey G. Shannon, Cana L. Ross, Theresa M. Koehler, and Richard F. Rest
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3183-3189;
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Modulation of Virulence by Two Acidified Nitrite-Responsive Loci of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium
Charles C. Kim, Denise Monack, and Stanley Falkow
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3196-3205;
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Mutation of luxS of Streptococcus pneumoniae Affects Virulence in a Mouse Model
Uwe H. Stroeher, Adrienne W. Paton, A. David Ogunniyi, and James C. Paton
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3206-3212;
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Purification and Characterization of Enterotoxigenic El Tor-Like Hemolysin Produced by Vibrio fluvialis
Mahendra H. Kothary, Heather Lowman, Barbara A. McCardell, and Ben D. Tall
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3213-3220;
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Distribution and Kinetics of Lipoprotein-Bound Lipoteichoic Acid
Johannes H. M. Levels, Philip R. Abraham, Erik P. van Barreveld, Joost C. M. Meijers, and Sander J. H. van Deventer
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3280-3284;
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Mutational Analysis of the Enzymatic Domain of Clostridium difficile Toxin B Reveals Novel Inhibitors of the Wild-Type Toxin
Lea M. Spyres, Jeremy Daniel, Amy Hensley, Maen Qa'Dan, William Ortiz-Leduc, and Jimmy D. Ballard
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3294-3301;
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The Immunoglobulin D-Binding Protein MID from Moraxella catarrhalis Is Also an Adhesin
Arne Forsgren, Marta Brant, Mirela Karamehmedovic, and Kristian Riesbeck
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3302-3309;
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Secretin of the Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Type III Secretion System Requires Components of the Type III Apparatus for Assembly and Localization
Annick Gauthier, Jose Luis Puente, and B. Brett Finlay
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3310-3319;
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Study of Capsular Polysaccharide from Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Yu-Chi Hsieh, Shu-Mei Liang, Wan-Ling Tsai, Yee-Hsiung Chen, Teh-Yung Liu, and Chi-Ming Liang
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3329-3336;
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A Mosaic Pathogenicity Island Made Up of the Locus of Enterocyte Effacement and a Pathogenicity Island of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Is Frequently Present in Attaching and Effacing E. coli
Stefano Morabito, Rosangela Tozzoli, Eric Oswald, and Alfredo Caprioli
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3343-3348;
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Structural and Functional Consequences of Cleavage of Human Secretory and Human Serum Immunoglobulin A1 by Proteinases from Proteus mirabilis and Neisseria meningitidis
Adel Almogren, Bernard W. Senior, Lesley M. Loomes, and Michael A. Kerr
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3349-3356;
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Helicobacter pylori Infection Induces Interleukin-8 Receptor Expression in the Human Gastric Epithelium
Fredrik Bäckhed, Elisabeth Torstensson, Delphine Seguin, Agneta Richter-Dahlfors, and Bachra Rokbi
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3357-3360;
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Contribution of Proton-Translocating Proteins to the Virulence of Salmonella enterica Serovars Typhimurium, Gallinarum, and Dublin in Chickens and Mice
A. K. Turner, L. Z. Barber, P. Wigley, S. Muhammad, M. A. Jones, M. A. Lovell, S. Hulme, and P. A. Barrow
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3392-3401;
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Immunity Profiles of Wild-Type and Recombinant Shiga-Like Toxin-Encoding Bacteriophages and Characterization of Novel Double Lysogens
Heather E. Allison, Martin J. Sergeant, Chloë E. James, Jon R. Saunders, Darren L. Smith, Richard J. Sharp, Trevor S. Marks, and Alan J. McCarthy
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3409-3418;
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Antigenic Composition of Borrelia burgdorferi during Infection of SCID Mice
Timothy R. Crother, Cheryl I. Champion, Xiao-Yang Wu, David R. Blanco, James N. Miller, and Michael A. Lovett
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3419-3428;
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Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae Gene Expression Induced In Vivo in a Chinchilla Model of Otitis Media
Kevin M. Mason, Robert S. Munson, Jr., and Lauren O. Bakaletz
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3454-3462;
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Deletion of the Gene Encoding p60 in Listeria monocytogenes Leads to Abnormal Cell Division and Loss of Actin-Based Motility
Sabine Pilgrim, Annette Kolb-Mäurer, Ivaylo Gentschev, Werner Goebel, and Michael Kuhn
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3473-3484;
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The rovA Mutant of Yersinia enterocolitica Displays Differential Degrees of Virulence Depending on the Route of Infection
Peter H. Dube, Scott A. Handley, Paula A. Revell, and Virginia L. Miller
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3512-3520;
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Analysis of the OspE Determinants Involved in Binding of Factor H and OspE-Targeting Antibodies Elicited during Borrelia burgdorferi Infection in Mice
Michael S. Metts, John V. McDowell, Michael Theisen, Paul Robert Hansen, and Richard Thomas Marconi
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3587-3596;
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Comprehensive Analysis of the Factor H Binding Capabilities of Borrelia Species Associated with Lyme Disease: Delineation of Two Distinct Classes of Factor H Binding Proteins
John V. McDowell, Jill Wolfgang, Emily Tran, Michael S. Metts, Duncan Hamilton, and Richard T. Marconi
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3597-3602;
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Visualization of Proteus mirabilis Morphotypes in the Urinary Tract: the Elongated Swarmer Cell Is Rarely Observed in Ascending Urinary Tract Infection
Angela M. Jansen, C. Virginia Lockatell, David E. Johnson, and Harry L. T. Mobley
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3607-3613;
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Listeriolysin O-Mediated Calcium Influx Potentiates Entry of Listeria monocytogenes into the Human Hep-2 Epithelial Cell Line
Shaynoor Dramsi and Pascale Cossart
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3614-3618;
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Helicobacter pylori Supernatants Cause Epithelial Cytoskeletal Disruption That Is Bacterial Strain and Epithelial Cell Line Dependent but Not Toxin VacA Dependent
James R. Bebb, Darren P. Letley, Joanne L. Rhead, and John C. Atherton
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3623-3627;
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Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans Serotype b Lipopolysaccharide Mediates Coaggregation with Fusobacterium nucleatum
Graciela Rosen, Ira Nisimov, Monica Helcer, and Michael N. Sela
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3652-3656;
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Fungal and Parasitic Infections:

Mammalian Transforming Growth Factor ß1 Activated after Ingestion by Anopheles stephensi Modulates Mosquito Immunity
Shirley Luckhart, Andrea L. Crampton, Ruben Zamora, Matthew J. Lieber, Patricia C. Dos Santos, Tina M. L. Peterson, Nicole Emmith, Junghwa Lim, David A. Wink, and Yoram Vodovotz
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3000-3009;
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A Recombinant ß-1,3-Glucanosyltransferase Homolog of Coccidioides posadasii Protects Mice against Coccidioidomycosis
Nelson Delgado, Jianmin Xue, Jieh-Juen Yu, Chiung-Yu Hung, and Garry T. Cole
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3010-3019;
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Killing of Aspergillus fumigatus by Alveolar Macrophages Is Mediated by Reactive Oxidant Intermediates
B. Philippe, O. Ibrahim-Granet, M. C. Prévost, M. A. Gougerot-Pocidalo, M. Sanchez Perez, A. Van der Meeren, and J. P. Latgé
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3034-3042;
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T Cells Are Required for Host Protection against Brugia malayi but Need Not Produce or Respond to Interleukin-4
L. Spencer, L. Shultz, and T. V. Rajan
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3097-3106;
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Critical Contribution of CD28-CD80/CD86 Costimulatory Pathway to Protection from Trypanosoma cruzi Infection
Yasushi Miyahira, Masaharu Katae, Seiki Kobayashi, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Yoshinosuke Fukuchi, Ryo Abe, Ko Okumura, Hideo Yagita, and Takashi Aoki
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3131-3137;
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Optimal Tumor Necrosis Factor Induction by Plasmodium falciparum Requires the Highly Localized Release of Parasite Products
Kieran P. O'Dea and Geoffrey Pasvol
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3155-3164;
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Humoral and Cellular Immune Responses to Trypanosoma cruzi-Derived Paraflagellar Rod Proteins in Patients with Chagas' Disease
Vladimir Michailowsky, Keith Luhrs, Manoel Otávio C. Rocha, David Fouts, Ricardo T. Gazzinelli, and Jerry E. Manning
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3165-3171;
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Perforin and Gamma Interferon Are Critical CD8⁺ T-Cell-Mediated Responses in Vaccine-Induced Immunity against Leishmania amazonensis Infection
María Colmenares, Peter E. Kima, Erika Samoff, Lynn Soong, and Diane McMahon-Pratt
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3172-3182;
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Expression of Multiple CPB Genes Encoding Cysteine Proteases Is Required for Leishmania mexicana Virulence In Vivo
Hubert Denise, Kathryn McNeil, Darren R. Brooks, James Alexander, Graham H. Coombs, and Jeremy C. Mottram
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3190-3195;
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The Secreted Aspartyl Proteinases Sap1 and Sap2 Cause Tissue Damage in an In Vitro Model of Vaginal Candidiasis Based on Reconstituted Human Vaginal Epithelium
Martin Schaller, Matthias Bein, Hans C. Korting, Stefan Baur, Gerald Hamm, Michel Monod, Sabine Beinhauer, and Bernhard Hube
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3227-3234;
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Killing of Candida albicans by Human Salivary Histatin 5 Is Modulated, but Not Determined, by the Potassium Channel TOK1
Didi Baev, Alberto Rivetta, Xuewei S. Li, Slavena Vylkova, Esther Bashi, Clifford L. Slayman, and Mira Edgerton
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3251-3260;
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Neospora caninum-Infected Cattle Develop Parasite-Specific CD4⁺ Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes
Lauren M. Staska, Travis C. McGuire, Christopher J. Davies, Harris A. Lewin, and Timothy V. Baszler
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3272-3279;
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Prior Exposure to Live Mycobacterium bovis BCG Decreases Cryptococcus neoformans-Induced Lung Eosinophilia in a Gamma Interferon-Dependent Manner
Gerhard Walzl, Ian R. Humphreys, Ben G. Marshall, Lorna Edwards, Peter J. M. Openshaw, Rory J. Shaw, and Tracy Hussell
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3384-3391;
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Genetic Diversity and Antigenic Polymorphism in Plasmodium falciparum: Extensive Serological Cross-Reactivity between Allelic Variants of Merozoite Surface Protein 2
Simon Franks, Luke Baton, Kevin Tetteh, Eric Tongren, David Dewin, Bartholomew D. Akanmori, Kojo A. Koram, Lisa Ranford-Cartwright, and Eleanor M. Riley
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3485-3495;
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Catalases of Aspergillus fumigatus
Sophie Paris, Deborah Wysong, Jean-Paul Debeaupuis, Kazutoshi Shibuya, Bruno Philippe, Richard D. Diamond, and Jean-Paul Latgé
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3551-3562;
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Interleukin-12 p40 Secretion by Cutaneous CD11c⁺ and F4/80⁺ Cells Is a Major Feature of the Innate Immune Response in Mice That Develop Th1-Mediated Protective Immunity to Schistosoma mansoni
Karen G. Hogg, Supeecha Kumkate, Sonia Anderson, and Adrian P. Mountford
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3563-3571;
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A Dominant Role for Extracellular Glutathione S-Transferase from Onchocerca volvulus Is the Production of Prostaglandin D₂
Alexandra Sommer, Rainer Rickert, Peter Fischer, Hans Steinhart, Rolf D. Walter, and Eva Liebau
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3603-3606;
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Chemokine Receptor CCR2 Is Not Essential for the Development of Experimental Cerebral Malaria
Elodie Belnoue, Fabio T. M. Costa, Ana M. Vigário, Tatiana Voza, Françoise Gonnet, Irène Landau, Nico van Rooijen, Matthias Mack, William A. Kuziel, and Laurent Rénia
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3648-3651;
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Host Response and Inflammation:

Involvement of Beta Interferon in Enhancing Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Production and Antimicrobial Activity of Burkholderia pseudomallei-Infected Macrophages
P. Utaisincharoen, N. Anuntagool, K. Limposuwan, P. Chaisuriya, and S. Sirisinha
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3053-3057;
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Stimulation of Hematopoiesis by the Fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3 Ligand Restores Bacterial Induction of Th1 Cytokines in Thermally Injured Mice
Tracy E. Toliver-Kinsky, Cheng Y. Lin, David N. Herndon, and Edward R. Sherwood
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3058-3067;
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Lipopolysaccharide-Mimetic Activities of a Toll-Like Receptor 2-Stimulatory Substance(s) in Enterobacterial Lipopolysaccharide Preparations
Masashi Muroi, Takahiro Ohnishi, Satoko Azumi-Mayuzumi, and Ken-ichi Tanamoto
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3221-3226;
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Differential Induction of Interleukin-10 and Interleukin-12 in Dendritic Cells by Microbial Toll-Like Receptor Activators and Skewing of T-Cell Cytokine Profiles
Hai Qi, Timothy L. Denning, and Lynn Soong
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3337-3342;
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Inhibition of Interleukin-17 Prevents the Development of Arthritis in Vaccinated Mice Challenged with Borrelia burgdorferi
Matthew A. Burchill, Dean T. Nardelli, Douglas M. England, David J. DeCoster, John A. Christopherson, Steven M. Callister, and Ronald F. Schell
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3437-3442;
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Host Susceptibility to the Attaching and Effacing Bacterial Pathogen Citrobacter rodentium
Bruce A. Vallance, Wanyin Deng, Kevan Jacobson, and B. Brett Finlay
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3443-3453;
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Helicobacter pylori Activates Toll-Like Receptor 4 Expression in Gastrointestinal Epithelial Cells
Bin Su, Peter J. M. Ceponis, Sylvie Lebel, Hien Huynh, and Philip M. Sherman
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3496-3502;
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Gamma Interferon Augments the Intracellular Pathway for Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) Recognition in Human Intestinal Epithelial Cells through Coordinated Up-Regulation of LPS Uptake and Expression of the Intracellular Toll-Like Receptor 4-MD-2 Complex
Manabu Suzuki, Tadakazu Hisamatsu, and Daniel K. Podolsky
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3503-3511;
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CD40 Contributes to Lethality in Acute Sepsis: In Vivo Role for CD40 in Innate Immunity
Jeffrey A. Gold, Merdad Parsey, Yoshihiko Hoshino, Satomi Hoshino, Anna Nolan, Herman Yee, Doris B. Tse, and Michael D. Weiden
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3521-3528;
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Helicobacter-Induced Chronic Active Lymphoid Aggregates Have Characteristics of Tertiary Lymphoid Tissue
Nirah H. Shomer, James G. Fox, Amy E. Juedes, and Nancy H. Ruddle
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3572-3577;
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Involvement of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Controlling Chlamydia pneumoniae Growth in Epithelial HEp-2 Cells
Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Herman Friedman, and Yoshimasa Yamamoto
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3645-3647;
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The Stereochemistry of the Amino Acid Side Chain Influences the Inflammatory Potential of Muramyl Dipeptide in Experimental Meningitis
P. Cottagnoud, C. M. Gerber, P. A. Majcherczyk, F. Acosta, M. Cottagnoud, K. Neftel, P. Moreillon, and M. G. Täuber
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3663-3666;
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Microbial Immunity and Vaccines:

T-Cell Responses to CD1-Presented Lipid Antigens in Humans with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
Timo Ulrichs, D. Branch Moody, Ethan Grant, Stefan H. E. Kaufmann, and Steven A. Porcelli
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3076-3087;
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Stx2-Specific Human Monoclonal Antibodies Protect Mice against Lethal Infection with Escherichia coli Expressing Stx2 Variants
Abhineet S. Sheoran, Susan Chapman, Pradeep Singh, Arthur Donohue-Rolfe, and Saul Tzipori
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3125-3130;
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The Mycobacterium tuberculosis Recombinant 27-Kilodalton Lipoprotein Induces a Strong Th1-Type Immune Response Deleterious to Protection
Avi-Hai Hovav, Jacob Mullerad, Liuba Davidovitch, Yolanta Fishman, Fabiana Bigi, Angel Cataldi, and Herve Bercovier
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3146-3154;
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Protection against Shiga Toxin 1 Challenge by Immunization of Mice with Purified Mutant Shiga Toxin 1
Satoshi Ishikawa, Kazuyoshi Kawahara, Yutaka Kagami, Yasunori Isshiki, Aki Kaneko, Hidenori Matsui, Nobuhiko Okada, and Hirofumi Danbara
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3235-3239;
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Antigenic Organization of the N-Terminal Part of the Polymorphic Outer Membrane Proteins 90, 91A, and 91B of Chlamydophila abortus
Evangelia Vretou, Panagiota Giannikopoulou, David Longbottom, and Evgenia Psarrou
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3240-3250;
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Characterization of Brucella abortus O-Polysaccharide and Core Lipopolysaccharide Mutants and Demonstration that a Complete Core Is Required for Rough Vaccines To Be Efficient against Brucella abortus and Brucella ovis in the Mouse Model
D. Monreal, M. J. Grilló, D. González, C. M. Marín, M. J. De Miguel, I. López-Goñi, J. M. Blasco, A Cloeckaert, and I. Moriyón
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3261-3271;
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Disparity in Functional Activity between Serum Anticapsular Antibodies Induced in Adults by Immunization with an Investigational Group A and C Neisseria meningitidis-Diphtheria Toxoid Conjugate Vaccine and by a Polysaccharide Vaccine
Shannon L. Harris, Adam Finn, and Dan M. Granoff
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3402-3408;
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Attenuated Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Carrier Vaccine for Simultaneous Antigen-Specific CD4 and CD8 T-Cell Induction
Holger Rüssmann, Ulrike Gerdemann, Emeka I. Igwe, Klaus Panthel, Jürgen Heesemann, Sara Garbom, Hans Wolf-Watz, and Gernot Geginat
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3463-3472;
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Vaccine-Induced Protection against Helicobacter pylori in Mice Lacking Both Antibodies and Interleukin-4
Christine A. Garhart, John G. Nedrud, Frederick P. Heinzel, Norma E. Sigmund, and Steven J. Czinn
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3628-3633;
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Bacterial Infections:

Nonpathogenic Escherichia coli Can Contribute to the Production of Shiga Toxin
Shantini D. Gamage, Jane E. Strasser, Claudia L. Chalk, and Alison A. Weiss
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3107-3115;
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Plasmid Stability during In Vitro Propagation of Borrelia burgdorferi Assessed at a Clonal Level
Dorothee Grimm, Abdallah F. Elias, Kit Tilly, and Patricia A. Rosa
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3138-3145;
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Association of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae Capsular Polysaccharide with Virulence in Pigs
Aloka B. Bandara, Mark L. Lawrence, Hugo P. Veit, and Thomas J. Inzana
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3320-3328;
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Experimental Validation of Low Virulence in Field Strains of Listeria monocytogenes
S. M. Roche, P. Gracieux, I. Albert, M. Gouali, C. Jacquet, P. M. V. Martin, and P. Velge
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3429-3436;
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Drosophila melanogaster Is a Genetically Tractable Model Host for Mycobacterium marinum
Marc S. Dionne, Nafisa Ghori, and David S. Schneider
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3540-3550;
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The FimH A27V Mutation Is Pathoadaptive for Urovirulence in Escherichia coli B2 Phylogenetic Group Isolates
Florence Hommais, Stéphanie Gouriou, Christine Amorin, Hung Bui, Mohamed Chérif Rahimy, Bertrand Picard, and Erick Denamur
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3619-3622;
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Natural History of Helicobacter hepaticus Infection in Conventional A/J Mice, with Special Reference to Liver Involvement
Philippe Avenaud, Brigitte Le Bail, Kathryn Mayo, Armelle Marais, Rabia Fawaz, Paulette Bioulac-Sage, and Francis Megraud
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3667-3672;
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Molecular Genomics:

Characterization of an iroBCDEN Gene Cluster on a Transmissible Plasmid of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli: Evidence for Horizontal Transfer of a Chromosomal Virulence Factor
Liisa Johanna Sorsa, Severin Dufke, Jürgen Heesemann, and Sören Schubert
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3285-3293;
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Global Analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi Genes Regulated by Mammalian Host-Specific Signals
Chad S. Brooks, P. Scott Hefty, Sarah E. Jolliff, and Darrin R. Akins
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3371-3383;
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pH-Regulated Gene Expression of the Gastric Pathogen Helicobacter pylori
D. Scott Merrell, Maria L. Goodrich, Glen Otto, Lucy S. Tompkins, and Stanley Falkow
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3529-3539;
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Cytolethal Distending Toxin Gene Cluster in Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H^- and O157:H7: Characterization and Evolutionary Considerations
Andreas Janka, Martina Bielaszewska, Ulrich Dobrindt, Lilo Greune, M. Alexander Schmidt, and Helge Karch
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3634-3638;
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Complete Sequence of the cap Locus of Haemophilus influenzae Serotype b and Nonencapsulated b Capsule-Negative Variants
Sarah W. Satola, Patricia L. Schirmer, and Monica M. Farley
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3639-3644;
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Physical Map and Genome Sequencing Survey of Mycoplasma haemofelis (Haemobartonella felis)
Linda M. Berent and Joanne B. Messick
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3657-3662;
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Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions:

c-Jun NH₂-Terminal Kinase-Mediated Signaling Is Essential for Pseudomonas aeruginosa ExoS-Induced Apoptosis
Jinghua Jia, Mounia Alaoui-El-Azher, Marie Chow, Timothy C. Chambers, Henry Baker, and Shouguang Jin
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3361-3370;
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Intracellular Replication of Mycobacterium marinum within Dictyostelium discoideum: Efficient Replication in the Absence of Host Coronin
Jonathan M. Solomon, Grace S. Leung, and Ralph R. Isberg
Infect. Immun. June 2003 71: 3578-3586;
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