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  Immunity to tuberculosis from the perspective of pathogenesis.

  E Wiegeshaus, V Balasubramanian, D W Smith
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  Reassessment of the role of splenic leukocyte oxidative activity and macrophage activation in expression of immunity to malaria.

  L A Cavacini, M Guidotti, L A Parke, J Melancon-Kaplan, W P Weidanz
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  Endotoxicosis induced by Coxiella burnetii lipopolysaccharide stimulates a ribosomal protein S6 kinase: some properties of the partially purified enzyme.

  W D Picking, T Hackstadt, D Paretsky
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  Analysis of human antibody epitopes on the 65-kilodalton protein of Mycobacterium leprae by using synthetic peptides.

  H C Meeker, D L Williams, D C Anderson, T P Gillis, G Schuller-Levis, W R Levis
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  Transcriptional mapping and nucleotide sequence of the Listeria monocytogenes hlyA region reveal structural features that may be involved in regulation.

  J Mengaud, M F Vicente, P Cossart
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  A human salivary protein which promotes adhesion of Streptococcus mutans serotype c strains to hydroxyapatite.

  E Kishimoto, D I Hay, R J Gibbons
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  Molecular cloning and characterization of the 15-kilodalton major immunogen of Treponema pallidum.

  B K Purcell, N R Chamberlain, M S Goldberg, L P Andrews, E J Robinson, M V Norgard, J D Radolf
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  Molecular epidemiologic analysis of the type A streptococcal exotoxin (erythrogenic toxin) gene (speA) in clinical Streptococcus pyogenes strains.

  C E Yu, J J Ferretti
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  Characterization of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa pilus adhesin: confirmation that the pilin structural protein subunit contains a human epithelial cell-binding domain.

  R T Irvin, P Doig, K K Lee, P A Sastry, W Paranchych, T Todd, R S Hodges
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  Adhesion of colonization factor antigen II-positive enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains to human enterocytelike differentiated HT-29 cells: a basis for host-pathogen interactions in the gut.

  J R Neeser, A Chambaz, M Golliard, H Link-Amster, V Fryder, E Kolodziejczyk
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  Binding of staphylococci to mucus in vivo and in vitro.

  B A Sanford, V L Thomas, M A Ramsay
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  In vivo formation of hybrid toxins comprising Shiga toxin and the Shiga-like toxins and role of the B subunit in localization and cytotoxic activity.

  D L Weinstein, M P Jackson, L P Perera, R K Holmes, A D O'Brien
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  Strain variation in antiphagocytic activity of capsular polysaccharides from Cryptococcus neoformans serotype A.

  J M Small, T G Mitchell
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  Lethal infection by Bordetella pertussis mutants in the infant mouse model.

  A A Weiss, M S Goodwin
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  Development of the human immune response against the major surface protein (gp190) of Plasmodium falciparum.

  H M Müller, K Früh, A von Brunn, F Esposito, S Lombardi, A Crisanti, H Bujard
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  Amastigote stage-specific monoclonal antibodies against Leishmania major.

  C L Jaffe, N Rachamim
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  Reduction of capsular polysaccharide production in Klebsiella pneumoniae by sodium salicylate.

  P Domenico, S Schwartz, B A Cunha
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  Degradation of basement membranes by Pseudomonas aeruginosa elastase.

  P A Bejarano, J P Langeveld, B G Hudson, M E Noelken
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  Relative susceptibilities of inbred mouse strains C57BL/6 and A/J to infection with Histoplasma capsulatum.

  B Wu-Hsieh
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  Pseudomonas aeruginosa elastase does not inactivate alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor in the presence of leukocyte elastase.

  M Padrines, J G Bieth
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  A rabbit model for study of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis infection.

  A H Mokresh, C J Czuprynski, D G Butler
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  Cloning and characterization of Treponema hyodysenteriae antigens and protection in a CF-1 mouse model by immunization with a cloned endoflagellar antigen.

  D A Boyden, F G Albert, C S Robinson
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  A high-molecular-weight fraction of smooth lipopolysaccharide in Klebsiella serotype O1:K20 contains a unique O-antigen epitope and determines resistance to nonspecific serum killing.

  K L McCallum, G Schoenhals, D Laakso, B Clarke, C Whitfield
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  Comparative immunogenicities of Vi polysaccharide-protein conjugates composed of cholera toxin or its B subunit as a carrier bound to high- or lower-molecular-weight Vi.

  S C Szu, X R Li, R Schneerson, J H Vickers, D Bryla, J B Robbins
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  Inhibition of pertussis toxin binding to model receptors by antipeptide antibodies directed at an antigenic domain of the S2 subunit.

  M A Schmidt, W Schmidt
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  Purification of a Streptococcus mutans protein that binds to heart tissue and glycosaminoglycans.

  S H Choi, M W Stinson
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  Pseudomonas aeruginosa pili as ligands for nonopsonic phagocytosis by fibronectin-stimulated macrophages.

  N M Kelly, J L Kluftinger, B L Pasloske, W Paranchych, R E Hancock
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  A method for allelic replacement that uses the conjugative transposon Tn916: deletion of the emm6.1 allele in Streptococcus pyogenes JRS4.

  M Norgren, M G Caparon, J R Scott
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  Isolation and characterization of a human monoclonal antibody that recognizes epitopes shared by Pseudomonas aeruginosa immunotype 1, 3, 4, and 6 lipopolysaccharides.

  A B Lang, E Fürer, J W Larrick, S J Cryz
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  Reaction of staphylococcal alpha-toxin with peptide-induced antibodies.

  S Harshman, J E Alouf, O Siffert, F Baleux
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  Construction and characterization of a Vi-positive variant of the Salmonella typhi live oral vaccine strain Ty21a.

  S J Cryz, E Fürer, L S Baron, K F Noon, F A Rubin, D J Kopecko
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  Resistance of highly pathogenic Naegleria fowleri amoebae to complement-mediated lysis.

  L Y Whiteman, F Marciano-Cabral
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  Environmental alteration and phenotypic regulation of Candida albicans adhesion to plastic.

  M J Kennedy, A L Rogers, R J Yancey
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  Characterization of Cryptococcus neoformans capsular glucuronoxylomannan polysaccharide with monoclonal antibodies.

  F Todaro-Luck, E Reiss, R Cherniak, L Kaufman
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  Purification of Shiga toxin and Shiga-like toxins I and II by receptor analog affinity chromatography with immobilized P1 glycoprotein and production of cross-reactive monoclonal antibodies.

  A Donohue-Rolfe, D W Acheson, A V Kane, G T Keusch
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  O antigen and lipid A phosphoryl groups in resistance of Salmonella typhimurium LT-2 to nonoxidative killing in human polymorphonuclear neutrophils.

  P Stinavage, L E Martin, J K Spitznagel
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  Structures and sugar compositions of lipopolysaccharides isolated from seven Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae serotypes.

  W Byrd, S Kadis
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  Cloning and expression of the Pasteurella multocida toxin gene, toxA, in Escherichia coli.

  S K Petersen, N T Foged
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  Effect of Clostridium difficile enterotoxin A on ultrastructure of Chinese hamster ovary cells.

  V M Kushnaryov, J J Sedmak
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  Interrelationships between digestive proteolytic activities and production and quantitation of toxins in pseudomembranous colitis induced by Clostridium difficile in gnotobiotic mice.

  G Corthier, M C Muller, G W Elmer, F Lucas, F Dubos-Ramaré
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  Purification and characterization of two Listeria ivanovii cytolysins, a sphingomyelinase C and a thiol-activated toxin (ivanolysin O).

  J A Vazquez-Boland, L Dominguez, E F Rodriguez-Ferri, G Suarez
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  Human recombinant tumor necrosis factor alpha protects susceptible A/J mice against lethal Plasmodium chabaudi AS infection.

  M M Stevenson, E Ghadirian
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  Bacteroides loeschei PK1295 cells express two distinct adhesins simultaneously.

  J London, A R Hand, E I Weiss, J Allen
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  Spontaneous switching of the sucrose-promoted colony phenotype in Streptococcus sanguis.

  G Tardif, M C Sulavik, G W Jones, D B Clewell