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  Effects of eliminating a disulfide bridge within domain II of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A.

  I H Madshus, R J Collier
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  Intestinal intraepithelial and splenic natural killer cell responses to eimerian infections in inbred chickens.

  H S Lillehoj
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  Secretory immunoglobulin A response to Shiga toxin in rabbits: kinetics of the initial mucosal immune response and inhibition of toxicity in vitro and in vivo.

  D F Keren, J E Brown, R A McDonald, J S Wassef
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  Production of interleukin-1 but not tumor necrosis factor by human monocytes stimulated with pneumococcal cell surface components.

  I Riesenfeld-Orn, S Wolpe, J F Garcia-Bustos, M K Hoffmann, E Tuomanen
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  Participation of yeast cell surface hydrophobicity in adherence of Candida albicans to human epithelial cells.

  K C Hazen
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  Effect of chemical modification of histidine and tyrosine residues in toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 on the serologic and mitogenic activities of the toxin.

  N P Kokan-Moore, M S Bergdoll
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  Molecular and immunochemical characterization of recombinant Escherichia coli containing the spaA gene region of Streptococcus sobrinus.

  J O Ogundipe, R G Holt
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  Induction of tumor necrosis factor alpha by spherules of Coccidioides immitis.

  D C Slagle, R A Cox, U Kuruganti
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  Activation and binding of opsonic fragments of C3 on encapsulated Cryptococcus neoformans by using an alternative complement pathway reconstituted from six isolated proteins.

  T R Kozel, M A Wilson, G S Pfrommer, A M Schlageter
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  Invasive potential of noncytotoxic enteropathogenic Escherichia coli in an in vitro Henle 407 cell model.

  M D Miliotis, H J Koornhof, J I Phillips
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  Monoclonal antibody-mediated protection and neutralization of motility in experimental Proteus mirabilis infection.

  R C Harmon, R L Rutherford, H M Wu, M S Collins
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  Comparison of the reactivities and immunogenicities of procholeragenoid and the B subunit of cholera toxin in Thai volunteers.

  S Migasena, P Pitisuttitham, P Suntharasamai, B Prayurahong, W Supanaranond, V Desakorn, R E Black
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  Clearance of Cryptococcus neoformans from immunologically suppressed mice.

  J W Murphy
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  Optimal induction of tumor necrosis factor production in human monocytes requires complete S-form lipopolysaccharide.

  D N Männel, W Falk
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  Trypanosoma cruzi expresses diverse repetitive protein antigens.

  D F Hoft, K S Kim, K Otsu, D R Moser, W J Yost, J H Blumin, J E Donelson, L V Kirchhoff
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  Transformation of fluoride resistance genes in Streptococcus mutans.

  P E Chansley, T A Kral
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  Antigenic evidence for simultaneous expression of two different lipooligosaccharides by some strains of Haemophilus influenzae type b.

  C C Patrick, S E Pelzel, E E Miller, E Haanes-Fritz, J D Radolf, P A Gulig, G H McCracken, E J Hansen
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  T-cell recognition of the 18-kilodalton antigen of Mycobacterium leprae.

  H M Dockrell, N G Stoker, S P Lee, M Jackson, K A Grant, N F Jouy, S B Lucas, R Hasan, R Hussain, K P McAdam
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  Influence of surface modulations by enzymes and monoclonal antibodies on alternative complement pathway activation by Yersinia enterocolitica.

  E Wachter, V Brade
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  Murine natural killer cell interactions with a fungal target, Cryptococcus neoformans.

  M R Hidore, J W Murphy
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  Determinants for thermoinducible cell binding and plasmid-encoded cellular penetration detected in the absence of the Yersinia pseudotuberculosis invasin protein.

  R R Isberg
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  Effect of Streptococcus pneumoniae on human respiratory epithelium in vitro.

  C Steinfort, R Wilson, T Mitchell, C Feldman, A Rutman, H Todd, D Sykes, J Walker, K Saunders, P W Andrew
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  Characterization and vaccine potential of a novel recombinant coccidial antigen.

  G A Miller, B S Bhogal, R McCandliss, R L Strausberg, E J Jessee, A C Anderson, C K Fuchs, J Nagle, M H Likel, J M Strasser
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  Purification and antimicrobial properties of three defensins from rat neutrophils.

  P B Eisenhauer, S S Harwig, D Szklarek, T Ganz, M E Selsted, R I Lehrer
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  Modulation of macrophage Ia expression by lipopolysaccharide: stem cell requirements, accessory lymphocyte involvement, and IA-inducing factor production.

  P A Wentworth, H K Ziegler
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  Reduced virulence of a defined pneumolysin-negative mutant of Streptococcus pneumoniae.

  A M Berry, J Yother, D E Briles, D Hansman, J C Paton
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  Effector cells involved in nonspecific and antibody-dependent mechanisms directed against Plasmodium falciparum blood stages in vitro.

  F Lunel, P Druilhe
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  Cloning and expression of a cohemolysin, the CAMP factor of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae.

  J Frey, J Perrin, J Nicolet
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  Selective proliferation of natural killer cells among monocyte-depleted peripheral blood mononuclear cells as a result of stimulation with staphylococcal enterotoxin B.

  P Garcia-Peñarrubia, M P Lennon, F T Koster, R O Kelley, A D Bankhurst
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  Sequence of the structural gene (rmpM) for the class 4 outer membrane protein of Neisseria meningitidis, homology of the protein to gonococcal protein III and Escherichia coli OmpA, and construction of meningococcal strains that lack class 4 protein.

  K P Klugman, E C Gotschlich, M S Blake
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  Modulation of endotoxin lethality in mice by hydrazine sulfate.

  R Silverstein, C A Christoffersen, D C Morrison
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  Isolation and characterization of the Streptococcus mutans gtfD gene, coding for primer-dependent soluble glucan synthesis.

  N Hanada, H K Kuramitsu
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  Macrophage activation by an ornithine-containing lipid or a serine-containing lipid.

  Y Kawai, K Akagawa
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  Effect of streptomycin administration on association of enteric pathogens with cecal tissue of mice.

  P Pongpech, D J Hentges, W W Marsh, M E Eberle
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  Phenotypes of infiltrating cells in trehalose dimycolate-induced interstitial pneumonitis.

  Y Sakamoto, M B Goren, C H Kirkpatrick
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  Calcium is required for the expression of anthrax lethal toxin activity in the macrophagelike cell line J774A.1.

  R Bhatnagar, Y Singh, S H Leppla, A M Friedlander
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  Tumor necrosis factor alpha potentiates neutrophil antimicrobial activity: increased fungicidal activity against Torulopsis glabrata and Candida albicans and associated increases in oxygen radical production and lysosomal enzyme release.

  A Ferrante
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  Relationship between levels of Clostridium difficile toxin A and toxin B and cecal lesions in gnotobiotic mice.

  A Vernet, G Corthier, F Dubos-Ramaré, A L Parodi
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  In vivo selection of populations of Plasmodium chabaudi chabaudi AS resistant to a monoclonal antibody that reacts with the precursor to the major merozoite surface antigen.

  J C Wood, J C Sales de Aguiar, W Jarra, S A Ogun, G Snounou, K N Brown
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  Characterization of porin and ompR mutants of a virulent strain of Salmonella typhimurium: ompR mutants are attenuated in vivo.

  C J Dorman, S Chatfield, C F Higgins, C Hayward, G Dougan
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  General method for site-directed mutagenesis in Escherichia coli O18ac:K1:H7: deletion of the inducible superoxide dismutase gene, sodA, does not diminish bacteremia in neonatal rats.

  C A Bloch, G M Thorne, F M Ausubel
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  Identification and isolation of a major cell surface glycoprotein of Pneumocystis carinii.

  J A Radding, M Y Armstrong, E Ullu, F F Richards
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  Adherence of Tritrichomonas foetus to bovine vaginal epithelial cells.

  L B Corbeil, J L Hodgson, D W Jones, R R Corbeil, P R Widders, L R Stephens
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  Cloning and sequencing of a Treponema pallidum gene encoding a 31.3-kilodalton endoflagellar subunit (FlaB2).

  L Pallesen, P Hindersson
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  Oxidant stress in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: adaptation and effects on L-(+)-lactate dehydrogenase activity.

  H S Fu, D J Hassett, M S Cohen
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  Characterization of cell surface carbohydrate receptors for Entamoeba histolytica adherence lectin.

  J I Ravdin, P Stanley, C F Murphy, W A Petri
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  Induction of inflammatory mediators (histamine and leukotrienes) from rat peritoneal mast cells and human granulocytes by Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from burn patients.

  U Bergmann, J Scheffer, M Köller, W Schönfeld, G Erbs, F E Müller, W König
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  Relationship between neutrophil-mediated oxidative injury during acute experimental pyelonephritis and chronic renal scarring.

  P R Meylan, M Markert, J Bille, M P Glauser
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  Characterization of integral membrane proteins of Leishmania major by Triton X-114 fractionation and analysis of vaccination effects in mice.

  P J Murray, T W Spithill, E Handman
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  Glucan-binding domain of a glucosyltransferase from Streptococcus sobrinus: isolation of a 55-kilodalton peptide from a trypsin digest of glucosyltransferase prebound to insoluble glucan.

  S Kobayashi, K Koga, O Hayashida, Y Nakano, Y Hasegawa
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  Cellular events and intracellular survival of Campylobacter jejuni during infection of HEp-2 cells.

  M A De Melo, G Gabbiani, J C Pechère
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  Biological activities and chemical composition of purified tracheal cytotoxin of Bordetella pertussis.

  B T Cookson, H L Cho, L A Herwaldt, W E Goldman
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  Identification of functional antigenic segments of toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 by differential immunoreactivity and by differential mitogenic responses of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells, using active toxin fragments.

  C Edwin, E H Kass
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  Inhibition of endotoxin-induced activation of human monocytes by human lipoproteins.

  W A Flegel, A Wölpl, D N Männel, H Northoff
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  Development of resistance to Trypanosoma cruzi in mice depends on a viable population of L3T4+ (CD4+) T lymphocytes.

  F G Araujo
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  Conservation of the biologically active portions of staphylococcal enterotoxins C1 and C2.

  G A Bohach, P M Schlievert
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  Specific immunological unresponsiveness to bacterial lipopolysaccharides develops in a cyclic manner.

  K L Elkins, P W Stashak, P J Baker
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  Binding of Escherichia coli S fimbriae to cultured human endothelial cells.

  J Parkkinen, A Ristimäki, B Westerlund
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  In vitro and in vivo toxicity of T-2 toxin, a Fusarium mycotoxin, to mouse peritoneal macrophages.

  D Vidal, S Mavet