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Contents: April 2007, Volume 75, Issue 4

       Spotlight

       Minireviews

       Host Response and Inflammation

       Bacterial Infections

       Fungal and Parasitic Infections

       Microbial Immunity and Vaccines

       Molecular Pathogenesis

       Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions

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Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1543-1544;
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Minireviews:

Immunity to Microbes: Lessons from Primary Immunodeficiencies
Magda Carneiro-Sampaio and Antonio Coutinho
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1545-1555; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.00787-06
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Host Response and Inflammation:

An Increase in Epithelial Cell Apoptosis Is Associated with Chronic Intestinal Nematode Infection
Laura J. Cliffe, Christopher S. Potten, Catherine E. Booth, and Richard K. Grencis
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1556-1564; published ahead of print January 22, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01375-06
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Resistance to Pseudomonas aeruginosa Chronic Lung Infection Requires Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator-Modulated Interleukin-1 (IL-1) Release and Signaling through the IL-1 Receptor
Nina Reiniger, Martin M. Lee, Fadie T. Coleman, Christopher Ray, David E. Golan, and Gerald B. Pier
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1598-1608; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01980-06
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Lactobacillus paracasei subsp. paracasei B21060 Suppresses Human T-Cell Proliferation
Ilaria Peluso, Daniele Fina, Roberta Caruso, Carmine Stolfi, Flavio Caprioli, Massimo Claudio Fantini, Giorgio Caspani, Enzo Grossi, Laura Di Iorio, Francesco Maria Paone, Francesco Pallone, and Giovanni Monteleone
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1730-1737; published ahead of print January 22, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01172-06
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Interleukin-12 Drives the Th1 Signaling Pathway in Helicobacter pylori-Infected Human Gastric Mucosa
Antonia Pellicanò, Ladislava Sebkova, Giovanni Monteleone, Giovanni Guarnieri, Maria Imeneo, Francesco Pallone, and Francesco Luzza
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1738-1744; published ahead of print January 12, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01446-06
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Evidence for Widespread Epithelial Damage and Coincident Production of Monocyte Chemotactic Protein 1 in a Murine Model of Intestinal Ricin Intoxication
J. Marina Yoder, Rabia U. Aslam, and Nicholas J. Mantis
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1745-1750; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01528-06
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Coinfection with Schistosoma mansoni Reactivates Viremia in Rhesus Macaques with Chronic Simian-Human Immunodeficiency Virus Clade C Infection
Mila Ayash-Rashkovsky, Agnès-Laurence Chenine, Lisa N. Steele, Sandra J. Lee, Ruijiang Song, Helena Ong, Robert A. Rasmussen, Regina Hofmann-Lehmann, James G. Else, Peter Augostini, Harold M. McClure, W. Evan Secor, and Ruth M. Ruprecht
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1751-1756; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01703-06
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Murine Innate Immune Response to Virulent Toxigenic and Nontoxigenic Bacillus anthracis Strains
Melissa Drysdale, Gwyneth Olson, Theresa M. Koehler, Mary F. Lipscomb, and C. Rick Lyons
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1757-1764; published ahead of print January 22, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01712-06
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Inflammatory Lipoproteins Purified from a Toxigenic and Arthritogenic Strain of Mycoplasma arthritidis Are Dependent on Toll-Like Receptor 2 and CD14
Akira Hasebe, Hong-Hua Mu, Leigh R. Washburn, Fok V. Chan, Nathan D. Pennock, Michael L. Taylor, and Barry C. Cole
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1820-1826; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.00516-06
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Guinea Pig Neutrophils Infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Produce Cytokines Which Activate Alveolar Macrophages in Noncontact Cultures
Kirti V. Sawant and David N. McMurray
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1870-1877; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.00858-06
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Screening of an Antigen Target for Immunocontraceptives from Cross-Reactive Antigens between Human Sperm and Ureaplasma urealyticum
Jianli Shi, Zhengmin Yang, Min Wang, Guoyan Cheng, Ding Li, Yifei Wang, Yuancong Zhou, Xiaolong Liu, and Chen Xu
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 2004-2011; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01171-06
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Phagocytosis of Borrelia burgdorferi and Treponema pallidum Potentiates Innate Immune Activation and Induces Gamma Interferon Production
Meagan W. Moore, Adriana R. Cruz, Carson J. LaVake, Amanda L. Marzo, Christian H. Eggers, Juan C. Salazar, and Justin D. Radolf
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 2046-2062; published ahead of print January 12, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01666-06
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Mice Lacking CD21 and CD35 Proteins Mount Effective Immune Responses against Borrelia burgdorferi Infection
Amanda C. Jacobson, Ying Ma, James F. Zachary, Janis J. Weis, and John H. Weis
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 2075-2078; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01920-06
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Muropeptide Modification-Amidation of Peptidoglycan D-Glutamate Does Not Affect the Proinflammatory Activity of Staphylococcus aureus
Dirk Kraus, Hubert Kalbacher, Julia Buschmann, Brigitte Berger-Bächi, Friedrich Götz, and Andreas Peschel
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 2084-2087; published ahead of print January 29, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01576-06
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Bacterial Infections:

Native Microbial Colonization of Drosophila melanogaster and Its Use as a Model of Enterococcus faecalis Pathogenesis
Christopher R. Cox and Michael S. Gilmore
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1565-1576; published ahead of print January 12, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01496-06
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Solitary Intestinal Lymphoid Tissue Provides a Productive Port of Entry for Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium
Stephan Halle, Dirk Bumann, Heike Herbrand, Yvonne Willer, Sabrina Dähne, Reinhold Förster, and Oliver Pabst
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1577-1585; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01392-06
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Influence of Neutropenia on the Course of Serotype 8 Pneumococcal Pneumonia in Mice
Matthew Marks, Tamika Burns, Maria Abadi, Beza Seyoum, Justin Thornton, Elaine Tuomanen, and Liise-anne Pirofski
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1586-1597; published ahead of print February 12, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01579-06
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Mouse Model of Oral Infection with Virulent Type A Francisella tularensis
R. KuoLee, X. Zhao, J. Austin, G. Harris, J. W. Conlan, and W. Chen
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1651-1660; published ahead of print January 22, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01834-06
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Inhibition of Interleukin-22 Attenuates Bacterial Load and Organ Failure during Acute Polymicrobial Sepsis
Georg F. Weber, Sylvia Schlautkötter, Simone Kaiser-Moore, Felicitas Altmayr, Bernhard Holzmann, and Heike Weighardt
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1690-1697; published ahead of print January 29, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01564-06
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Immunostimulatory Properties of the Emerging Pathogen Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
Valerie J. Waters, Marisa I. Gómez, Grace Soong, Sunil Amin, Robert K. Ernst, and Alice Prince
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1698-1703; published ahead of print January 12, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01469-06
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Rat Model of Polymicrobial Infection, Immunity, and Alveolar Bone Resorption in Periodontal Disease
Lakshmyya Kesavalu, Sabapathi Sathishkumar, Vasudevan Bakthavatchalu, Chad Matthews, Dolph Dawson, Michelle Steffen, and Jeffrey L. Ebersole
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1704-1712; published ahead of print January 8, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.00733-06
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Pertussis Toxin Targets Airway Macrophages To Promote Bordetella pertussis Infection of the Respiratory Tract
Nicholas H. Carbonetti, Galina V. Artamonova, Nico Van Rooijen, and Victor I. Ayala
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1713-1720; published ahead of print January 22, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01578-06
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A MyD88-Deficient Mouse Model Reveals a Role for Nramp1 in Campylobacter jejuni Infection
Robert O. Watson, Veronica Novik, Dirk Hofreuter, María Lara-Tejero, and Jorge E. Galán
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1994-2003; published ahead of print December 28, 2006, doi:10.1128/IAI.01216-06
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Fungal and Parasitic Infections:

Effect of Farnesol on a Mouse Model of Systemic Candidiasis, Determined by Use of a DPP3 Knockout Mutant of Candida albicans
Dhammika H. M. L. P. Navarathna, Jacob M. Hornby, Navasona Krishnan, Anne Parkhurst, Gerald E. Duhamel, and Kenneth W. Nickerson
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1609-1618; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01182-06
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Induction of Host Chemotactic Response by Encephalitozoon spp.
Jeffrey Fischer, Jeffrey West, Nnenaya Agochukwu, Colby Suire, and Hollie Hale-Donze
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1619-1625; published ahead of print December 18, 2006, doi:10.1128/IAI.01535-06
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Bradyzoite-Specific Surface Antigen SRS9 Plays a Role in Maintaining Toxoplasma gondii Persistence in the Brain and in Host Control of Parasite Replication in the Intestine
Seon-Kyeong Kim, Ariela Karasov, and John C. Boothroyd
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1626-1634; published ahead of print January 29, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01862-06
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Induction of Monocyte Chemotactic Protein 1 in Colonic Epithelial Cells by Entamoeba histolytica Is Mediated via the Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase/p65 Pathway
Srinivas J. Kammanadiminti, Indranil Dey, and Kris Chadee
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1765-1770; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01442-06
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Complement Factor D, Albumin, and Immunoglobulin G Anti-Band 3 Protein Antibodies Mimic Serum in Promoting Rosetting of Malaria-Infected Red Blood Cells
Alexander Luginbühl, Milica Nikolic, Hans Peter Beck, Mats Wahlgren, and Hans U. Lutz
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1771-1777; published ahead of print January 29, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01514-06
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Effects of Exogenous Transforming Growth Factor ß on Trypanosoma congolense Infection in Mice
Boniface Namangala, Chihiro Sugimoto, and Noboru Inoue
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1878-1885; published ahead of print January 29, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01452-06
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Trypanosoma cruzi Infection Induces Differential Modulation of Costimulatory Molecules and Cytokines by Monocytes and T Cells from Patients with Indeterminate and Cardiac Chagas' Disease
Paulo E. A. Souza, Manoel O. C. Rocha, Cristiane A. S. Menezes, Janete S. Coelho, Andréa C. L. Chaves, Kenneth J. Gollob, and Walderez O. Dutra
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1886-1894; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01931-06
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Peritoneal Lavage Cells of Indonesian Thin-Tail Sheep Mediate Antibody-Dependent Superoxide Radical Cytotoxicity In Vitro against Newly Excysted Juvenile Fasciola gigantica but Not Juvenile Fasciola hepatica
David Piedrafita, Endah Estuningsih, Jill Pleasance, Rhoda Prowse, Herman W. Raadsma, Els N. T. Meeusen, and Terry W. Spithill
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1954-1963; published ahead of print January 8, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01034-06
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Molecular Factors and Biochemical Pathways Induced by Febrile Temperature in Intraerythrocytic Plasmodium falciparum Parasites
Miranda S. M. Oakley, Sanjai Kumar, Vivek Anantharaman, Hong Zheng, Babita Mahajan, J. David Haynes, J. Kathleen Moch, Rick Fairhurst, Thomas F. McCutchan, and L. Aravind
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 2012-2025; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01236-06
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Falcipain-1, a Plasmodium falciparum Cysteine Protease with Vaccine Potential
Amit Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Reshma Korde, Sunil Kumar Puri, Pawan Malhotra, and Virander Singh Chauhan
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 2026-2034; published ahead of print January 22, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01533-06
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The SAG1 Toxoplasma gondii Surface Protein Is Not Required for Acute Ocular Toxoplasmosis in Mice
Elizabeth Charles, Michelle C. Callegan, and Ira J. Blader
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 2079-2083; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01685-06
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Microbial Immunity and Vaccines:

Carboxypeptidases B of Anopheles gambiae as Targets for a Plasmodium falciparum Transmission-Blocking Vaccine
C. Lavazec, C. Boudin, R. Lacroix, S. Bonnet, A. Diop, S. Thiberge, B. Boisson, R. Tahar, and C. Bourgouin
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1635-1642; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.00864-06
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Pneumococcal Capsular Polysaccharide Vaccine-Mediated Protection against Serotype 3 Streptococcus pneumoniae in Immunodeficient Mice
Haijun Tian, Avi Groner, Marianne Boes, and Liise-anne Pirofski
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1643-1650; published ahead of print January 12, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01371-06
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Intranasal Vaccination with Recombinant Outer Membrane Protein CD and Adamantylamide Dipeptide as the Mucosal Adjuvant Enhances Pulmonary Clearance of Moraxella catarrhalis in an Experimental Murine Model
Pablo D. Becker, Gustavo M. Bertot, David Souss, Thomas Ebensen, Carlos A. Guzmán, and Saúl Grinstein
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1778-1784; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1128/IAI.01081-06
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Functional Analysis of Neutralizing Antibodies against Clostridium perfringens Epsilon-Toxin
Mark S. McClain and Timothy L. Cover
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1785-1793; published ahead of print January 29, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01643-06
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Functional Antibodies Elicited by Two Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines in the Finnish Otitis Media Vaccine Trial
Nina Ekström, Merja Väkeväinen, Jouko Verho, Terhi Kilpi, Helena Käyhty, and the FinOM Study Group
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1794-1800; published ahead of print January 29, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01673-06
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Impact of the Molecular Form of Immunoglobulin A on Functional Activity in Defense against Streptococcus pneumoniae
Claudine E. Fasching, Tracy Grossman, Blaise Corthésy, Andrew G. Plaut, Jeffrey N. Weiser, and Edward N. Janoff
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1801-1810; published ahead of print January 29, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01758-06
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Oral Administration of a Salmonella enterica-Based Vaccine Expressing Bacillus anthracis Protective Antigen Confers Protection against Aerosolized B. anthracis
Margaret G. M. Stokes, Richard W. Titball, Brendan N. Neeson, James E. Galen, Nicola J. Walker, Anthony J. Stagg, Dominic C. Jenner, Joanne E. Thwaite, James P. Nataro, Leslie W. J. Baillie, and Helen S. Atkins
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1827-1834; published ahead of print December 4, 2006, doi:10.1128/IAI.01242-06
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Candidate Live, Attenuated Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhimurium Vaccines with Reduced Fecal Shedding Are Immunogenic and Effective Oral Vaccines
Moataz Abd El Ghany, Angela Jansen, Simon Clare, Lindsay Hall, Derek Pickard, Robert A. Kingsley, and Gordon Dougan
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1835-1842; published ahead of print February 12, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01655-06
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Antigen-Specific CD4⁺ T Cells Recognize Epitopes of Protective Antigen following Vaccination with an Anthrax Vaccine
Elsa M. Laughlin, Joseph D. Miller, Eddie James, Dimitri Fillos, Chris C. Ibegbu, Robert S. Mittler, Rama Akondy, William Kwok, Rafi Ahmed, and Gerald Nepom
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1852-1860; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01814-06
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Identification of Candidates for a Subunit Vaccine against Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli
Lionel Durant, Arnaud Metais, Coralie Soulama-Mouze, Jean-Marie Genevard, Xavier Nassif, and Sonia Escaich
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1916-1925; published ahead of print December 4, 2006, doi:10.1128/IAI.01269-06
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Evidence of Immunostimulating Lipoprotein Existing in the Natural Lipoteichoic Acid Fraction
Masahito Hashimoto, Maiko Furuyashiki, Ryoko Kaseya, Yuka Fukada, Mai Akimaru, Kazue Aoyama, Toshiomi Okuno, Toshihide Tamura, Teruo Kirikae, Fumiko Kirikae, Nobutaka Eiraku, Hirofumi Morioka, Yukari Fujimoto, Koichi Fukase, Katsuhiro Takashige, Yoichiro Moriya, Shoichi Kusumoto, and Yasuo Suda
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1926-1932; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.02083-05
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Molecular Pathogenesis:

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 gal Mutants Are Sensitive to Bacteriophage P1 and Defective in Intestinal Colonization
Theresa Deland Ho and Matthew K. Waldor
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1661-1666; published ahead of print December 11, 2006, doi:10.1128/IAI.01342-06
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Burkholderia cenocepacia Requires a Periplasmic HtrA Protease for Growth under Thermal and Osmotic Stress and for Survival In Vivo
Ronald S. Flannagan, Daniel Aubert, Cora Kooi, Pamela A. Sokol, and Miguel A. Valvano
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1679-1689; published ahead of print January 12, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01581-06
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Cloning, Expression, and Characterization of the Superantigen Streptococcal Pyrogenic Exotoxin G from Streptococcus dysgalactiae
Jizi Zhao, Tomohito Hayashi, Susanna Saarinen, Anastassios C. Papageorgiou, Hidehito Kato, Ken'ichi Imanishi, Teruo Kirikae, Ryo Abe, Takehiko Uchiyama, and Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1721-1729; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01183-06
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Comparison of Virulence Plasmids among Clostridium perfringens Type E Isolates
Jihong Li, Kazuaki Miyamoto, and Bruce A. McClane
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1811-1819; published ahead of print January 29, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01981-06
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Contributions of Pneumolysin, Pneumococcal Surface Protein A (PspA), and PspC to Pathogenicity of Streptococcus pneumoniae D39 in a Mouse Model
Abiodun D. Ogunniyi, Kim S. LeMessurier, Rikki M. A. Graham, James M. Watt, David E. Briles, Uwe H. Stroeher, and James C. Paton
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1843-1851; published ahead of print January 29, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01384-06
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Extracellular Gelatinase of Enterococcus faecalis Destroys a Defense System in Insect Hemolymph and Human Serum
Shin Yong Park, Kyoung Mi Kim, Joon Ha Lee, Sook Jae Seo, and In Hee Lee
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1861-1869; published ahead of print January 29, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01473-06
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Contributions of Histamine, Prostanoids, and Neurokinins to Edema Elicited by Edema Toxin from Bacillus anthracis
Jeffrey Tessier, Candace Green, Diana Padgett, Wei Zhao, Lawrence Schwartz, Molly Hughes, and Erik Hewlett
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1895-1903; published ahead of print January 29, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01632-06
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Genetic Susceptibility and Caspase Activation in Mouse and Human Macrophages Are Distinct for Legionella longbeachae and L. pneumophila
Rexford Asare, Marina Santic, Ivana Gobin, Miljenko Doric, Jill Suttles, James E. Graham, Christopher D. Price, and Yousef Abu Kwaik
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1933-1945; published ahead of print January 29, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.00025-07
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Effect of Fatty Acids and Cholesterol Present in Bile on Expression of Virulence Factors and Motility of Vibrio cholerae
Arpita Chatterjee, Pradeep K. Dutta, and Rukhsana Chowdhury
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1946-1953; published ahead of print January 29, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01435-06
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Regulation of Exoprotein Gene Expression by the Staphylococcus aureus cvfB Gene
Yasuhiko Matsumoto, Chikara Kaito, Daisuke Morishita, Kenji Kurokawa, and Kazuhisa Sekimizu
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1964-1972; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01552-06
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New Tick Defensin Isoform and Antimicrobial Gene Expression in Response to Rickettsia montanensis Challenge
Shane M. Ceraul, Sheila M. Dreher-Lesnick, Joseph J. Gillespie, M. Sayeedur Rahman, and Abdu F. Azad
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 1973-1983; published ahead of print January 29, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01815-06
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A UspA2H-Negative Variant of Moraxella catarrhalis Strain O46E Has a Deletion in a Homopolymeric Nucleotide Repeat Common to uspA2H Genes
Wei Wang, Melanie M. Pearson, Ahmed S. Attia, Robert J. Blick, and Eric J. Hansen
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 2035-2045; published ahead of print January 12, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.00609-06
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The Putative Glycosyltransferase-Encoding Gene cylJ and the Group B Streptococcus (GBS)-Specific Gene cylK Modulate Hemolysin Production and Virulence of GBS
Marie-Pierre Forquin, Asmae Tazi, Manuel Rosa-Fraile, Claire Poyart, Patrick Trieu-Cuot, and Shaynoor Dramsi
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 2063-2066; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01565-06
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Pneumolysin, PspA, and PspC Contribute to Pneumococcal Evasion of Early Innate Immune Responses during Bacteremia in Mice
Lisa R. Quin, Quincy C. Moore, III, and Larry S. McDaniel
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 2067-2070; published ahead of print January 12, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01727-06
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The rag Locus of Porphyromonas gingivalis Contributes to Virulence in a Murine Model of Soft Tissue Destruction
Xiaoju Shi, Shirley A. Hanley, Marie-Claire Faray-Kele, Stuart C. Fawell, Joseph Aduse-Opoku, Robert A. Whiley, Michael A. Curtis, and Lucinda M. C. Hall
Infect. Immun. April 2007 75: 2071-2074; published ahead of print February 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/IAI.01785-06
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