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  Cloning and expression of a species-specific early immunogenic 36-kilodalton protein of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae in Escherichia coli.

  M Strasser, J Frey, G Bestetti, M Kobisch, J Nicolet
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  Binding kinetics of Clostridium difficile toxins A and B to intestinal brush border membranes from infant and adult hamsters.

  R D Rolfe
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  Distribution of protein D, an immunoglobulin D-binding protein, in Haemophilus strains.

  M Akkoyunlu, M Ruan, A Forsgren
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  Molecular characterization of the Enterococcus faecalis cytolysin activator.

  R A Segarra, M C Booth, D A Morales, M M Huycke, M S Gilmore
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  Protective immunity induced in Aotus monkeys by recombinant SERA proteins of Plasmodium falciparum.

  J Inselburg, D J Bzik, W B Li, K M Green, J Kansopon, B K Hahm, I C Bathurst, P J Barr, R N Rossan
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  Protection of immunosuppressed mice against infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa by recombinant P. aeruginosa lipoprotein I and lipoprotein I-specific monoclonal antibodies.

  M Finke, G Muth, T Reichhelm, M Thoma, M Duchêne, K D Hungerer, H Domdey, B U von Specht
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  A novel mouse model to study the virulence of and host response to Porphyromonas (Bacteroides) gingivalis.

  C A Genco, C W Cutler, D Kapczynski, K Maloney, R R Arnold
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  Effect of urease on HeLa cell vacuolation induced by Helicobacter pylori cytotoxin.

  T L Cover, W Puryear, G I Perez-Perez, M J Blaser
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  Cross-protection against four species of chicken coccidia with a single recombinant antigen.

  M S Crane, B Goggin, R M Pellegrino, O J Ravino, C Lange, Y D Karkhanis, K E Kirk, P R Chakraborty
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  Strain-specific and immunodominant surface epitopes of the P2 porin protein of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae.

  E M Haase, A A Campagnari, J Sarwar, M Shero, M Wirth, C U Cumming, T F Murphy
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  A 43-kilodalton pneumococcal surface protein, PspA: isolation, protective abilities, and structural analysis of the amino-terminal sequence.

  D F Talkington, D L Crimmins, D C Voellinger, J Yother, D E Briles
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  New adhesive factor (antigen 8786) on a human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli O117:H4 strain isolated in Africa.

  D Aubel, A Darfeuille-Michaud, B Joly
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  Physicochemical and biological properties of purified Escherichia coli Shiga-like toxin II variant.

  D L MacLeod, C L Gyles, A Valdivieso-Garcia, R C Clarke
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  Adhesion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pilin-deficient mutants to mucin.

  R Ramphal, L Koo, K S Ishimoto, P A Totten, J C Lara, S Lory
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  Cell walls of normal and lysozyme-damaged blastoconidia of Candida albicans: localization of surface factor 4 antigen and vicinal-glycol staining.

  G Marquis, S Garzon, H Strykowski, P Auger
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  Human antibody response to the major merozoite surface antigen of Plasmodium falciparum is strain specific and short-lived.

  K Früh, O Doumbo, H M Müller, O Koita, J McBride, A Crisanti, Y Touré, H Bujard
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  Loss of capsule expression by Haemophilus influenzae type b results in enhanced adherence to and invasion of human cells.

  J W St Geme, S Falkow
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  Isolate and epitope variability in susceptibility of Giardia lamblia to intestinal proteases.

  T E Nash, J W Merritt, J T Conrad
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  Adherence of cell surface mutants of Candida albicans to buccal epithelial cells and analyses of the cell surface proteins of the mutants.

  M Fukayama, R A Calderone
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  Susceptibility to reinfection after a primary chlamydial genital infection is associated with a decrease of antigen-specific T cells in the genital tract.

  J U Igietseme, R G Rank
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  Pathophysiology of Citrobacter diversus neonatal meningitis: comparative studies in an infant mouse model.

  A L Soriano, R G Russell, D Johnson, R Lagos, I Sechter, J G Morris
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  Antimicrobial activity of rabbit leukocyte defensins against Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum.

  L A Borenstein, M E Selsted, R I Lehrer, J N Miller
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  Contribution of rabbit leukocyte defensins to the host response in experimental syphilis.

  L A Borenstein, T Ganz, S Sell, R I Lehrer, J N Miller
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  Ammonium decreases human polymorphonuclear leukocyte cytoskeletal actin.

  B Brunkhorst, R Niederman
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  Recombinant derivatives of Pasteurella multocida toxin: candidates for a vaccine against progressive atrophic rhinitis.

  S K Petersen, N T Foged, A Bording, J P Nielsen, H K Riemann, P L Frandsen
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  Regulation of leukotoxin in leukotoxic and nonleukotoxic strains of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans.

  J Spitznagel, E Kraig, D Kolodrubetz
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  Identification of linear B-cell determinants of pertussis toxin associated with the receptor recognition site of the S3 subunit.

  M A Schmidt, B Raupach, M Szulczynski, J Marzillier
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  Characterization of a glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol-anchored membrane protein from Trypanosoma cruzi.

  C Hernández-Munaín, M A Fernández, A Alcina, M Fresno
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  Purification and immunological characterization of a GroEL-like protein from Bordetella pertussis.

  D L Burns, J L Gould-Kostka, M Kessel, J L Arciniega
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  T cell-mediated immunity in the lung: a Cryptococcus neoformans pulmonary infection model using SCID and athymic nude mice.

  G B Huffnagle, J L Yates, M F Lipscomb
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  Association between the 65-kilodalton heat shock protein, Streptococcus sanguis, and the corresponding antibodies in Behçet's syndrome.

  T Lehner, E Lavery, R Smith, R van der Zee, Y Mizushima, T Shinnick
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  Evidence that a 16-kilodalton integral membrane protein antigen from Schistosoma japonicum adult worms is a type A2 phospholipase.

  M V Rogers, K J Henkle, V Herrmann, D J McLaren, G F Mitchell
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  Virulence of Campylobacter jejuni for chicken embryos is associated with decreased bloodstream clearance and resistance to phagocytosis.

  L H Field, J L Underwood, S M Payne, L J Berry
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  Mapping of B-cell epitopes on the outer membrane P2 porin protein of Haemophilus influenzae by using recombinant proteins and synthetic peptides.

  D Martin, R Munson, S Grass, P Chong, J Hamel, G Zobrist, M Klein, B R Brodeur
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  Induction of antibody response to Chlamydia trachomatis in the genital tract by oral immunization.

  Z D Cui, D Tristram, L J LaScolea, T Kwiatkowski, S Kopti, P L Ogra
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  Antibodies to outer membrane proteins but not to lipopolysaccharide inhibit pulmonary proliferation of Pasteurella multocida in mice.

  Y S Lu, H N Aguila, W C Lai, S P Pakes
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  Binding interactions of murine natural killer cells with the fungal target Cryptococcus neoformans.

  J W Murphy, M R Hidore, N Nabavi
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  Responses of murine natural killer cells to binding of the fungal target Cryptococcus neoformans.

  M R Hidore, T W Mislan, J W Murphy
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  Passive immunization of Aotus monkeys with human antibodies to the Plasmodium falciparum antigen Pf155/RESA.

  K Berzins, H Perlmann, B Wåhlin, H P Ekre, B Högh, E Petersen, B Wellde, M Schoenbechler, J Williams, J Chulay
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  Hafnia alvei, a probable cause of diarrhea in humans.

  M J Albert, K Alam, M Islam, J Montanaro, A S Rahaman, K Haider, M A Hossain, A K Kibriya, S Tzipori
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  Morphological and immunohistochemical studies of the lungs and bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue in a rat model of chronic pulmonary infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

  M Iwata, A Sato
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  Molecular cloning and characterization of a 35.5-kilodalton lipoprotein of Treponema pallidum.

  C L Hubbard, F C Gherardini, P J Bassford, L V Stamm
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  Effect of adoptive transfer of cloned Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans-specific T helper cells on periodontal disease.

  K Yamashita, J W Eastcott, M A Taubman, D J Smith, D S Cox
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  Repeated DNA sequence involved in mutations affecting transport of sucrose into Streptococcus mutans V403 via the phosphoenolpyruvate phosphotransferase system.

  F L Macrina, K R Jones, C A Alpert, B M Chassy, S M Michalek
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  Evidence that the serotype b antigenic determinant of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans Y4 resides in the polysaccharide moiety of lipopolysaccharide.

  M E Wilson, R E Schifferle
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  Activation of particulate guanylate cyclase by Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin is regulated by adenine nucleotides.

  H Gazzano, H I Wu, S A Waldman
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  T-cell proliferative response to antigens secreted by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

  P Andersen, D Askgaard, L Ljungqvist, M W Bentzon, I Heron
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  Isolation, expression, and nucleotide sequence of the sod gene from Porphyromonas gingivalis.

  J I Choi, N Takahashi, T Kato, H K Kuramitsu
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  Expression of Escherichia coli F-18 type 1 fimbriae in the streptomycin-treated mouse large intestine.

  K A Krogfelt, B A McCormick, R L Burghoff, D C Laux, P S Cohen
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  Escherichia coli O128 strains from infants with diarrhea commonly show localized adhesion and positivity in the fluorescent-actin staining test but do not hybridize with an enteropathogenic E. coli adherence factor probe.

  S M Scotland, H R Smith, B Rowe
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  Heat shock response of spirochetes.

  L V Stamm, F C Gherardini, E A Parrish, C R Moomaw
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  Effect of challenge with Candida albicans strains with different levels of virulence on plasma proteins in burned mice.

  A N Neely, C M Childress, I A Holder
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  Direct sequence evaluation of the major outer membrane protein gene variant regions of Chlamydia trachomatis subtypes D', I', and L2'.

  D Dean, M Patton, R S Stephens
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  Effects of in vivo T-cell depletion on immunity to Eimeria falciformis.

  K T HayGlass