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  Consequences of microbial attachment: directing host cell functions with adhesins.

  A I Hoepelman, E I Tuomanen
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  Characterization of a neutralizing monoclonal antibody to Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin.

  D G Gerbig, M R Cameron, D K Struck, R N Moore
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  Toxicity of pneumolysin to pulmonary endothelial cells in vitro.

  J B Rubins, P G Duane, D Charboneau, E N Janoff
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  Specific binding of human fibrinogen fragment D to Aspergillus fumigatus conidia.

  V Annaix, J P Bouchara, G Larcher, D Chabasse, G Tronchin
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  Effects of endotoxin-associated protein on hematopoiesis.

  R Porat, M Yanoov, M A Johns, S Shibolet, R Michalevicz
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  Hemagglutination activity of Treponema denticola grown in serum-free medium in continuous culture.

  F H Mikx, R A Keulers
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  Separation of T-cell-stimulating activity from streptococcal M protein.

  B Fleischer, K H Schmidt, D Gerlach, W Köhler
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  Monoclonal antibody against Klebsiella capsular polysaccharide reduces severity and hematogenic spread of experimental Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia.

  T K Held, M Trautmann, M E Mielke, H Neudeck, S J Cryz, A S Cross
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  Bacterial metabolism of human polymorphonuclear leukocyte-derived arachidonic acid.

  T C Sorrell, M Muller, K Sztelma
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  Monoclonal secretory immunoglobulin A protects mice against oral challenge with the invasive pathogen Salmonella typhimurium.

  P Michetti, M J Mahan, J M Slauch, J J Mekalanos, M R Neutra
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  Anaerobic growth of gonococci does not alter their Opa-mediated interactions with human neutrophils.

  J V Frangipane, R F Rest
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  Adherence of Nocardia asteroides within the murine brain.

  S A Ogata, B L Beaman
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  Immunoglobulin G subclass response of localized juvenile periodontitis patients to Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans Y4 lipopolysaccharide.

  M E Wilson, R G Hamilton
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  Listeria monocytogenes activation of human peripheral blood lymphocytes: induction of non-major histocompatibility complex-restricted cytotoxic activity and cytokine production.

  Y Guo, D W Niesel, H K Ziegler, G R Klimpel
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  Antigenic role of stress-induced catalase of Salmonella typhimurium in cell-mediated immunity.

  K Kagaya, Y Miyakawa, K Watanabe, Y Fukazawa
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  Synthetic trimer and tetramer of 3-beta-D-ribose-(1-1)-D-ribitol-5-phosphate conjugated to protein induce antibody responses to Haemophilus influenzae type b capsular polysaccharide in mice and monkeys.

  C C Peeters, D Evenberg, P Hoogerhout, H Käyhty, L Saarinen, C A van Boeckel, G A van der Marel, J H van Boom, J T Poolman
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  Safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy of a Plasmodium falciparum vaccine comprising a circumsporozoite protein repeat region peptide conjugated to Pseudomonas aeruginosa toxin A.

  L F Fries, D M Gordon, I Schneider, J C Beier, G W Long, M Gross, J U Que, S J Cryz, J C Sadoff
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  Vaccination of mice with a soluble protein fraction of Mycobacterium leprae provides consistent and long-term protection against M. leprae infection.

  R H Gelber, L Murray, P Siu, M Tsang
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  Heterogeneity of outer membrane proteins in Borrelia burgdorferi: comparison of osp operons of three isolates of different geographic origins.

  M Jonsson, L Noppa, A G Barbour, S Bergström
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  Inactivation of human serum bactericidal activity by a trypsinlike protease isolated from Porphyromonas gingivalis.

  D Grenier
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  Further evidence of the toxic effect of ammonia produced by Helicobacter pylori urease on human epithelial cells.

  F Mégraud, V Neman-Simha, D Brügmann
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  Nucleotide sequence of the ospAB operon of a Borrelia burgdorferi strain expressing OspA but not OspB.

  H Eiffert, A Ohlenbusch, W Fehling, H Lotter, R Thomssen
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  Virulence, serotype, and molecular characteristics of environmental strains of Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii.

  K J Kwon-Chung, B L Wickes, L Stockman, G D Roberts, D Ellis, D H Howard
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  Protective immunity and granuloma formation are mediated by two distinct tumor necrosis factor alpha- and gamma interferon-dependent T cell-phagocyte interactions in murine listeriosis: dissociation on the basis of phagocyte adhesion mechanisms.

  M E Mielke, H Rosen, S Brocke, C Peters, H Hahn
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  Characterization of Helicobacter pylori urease mutants.

  E D Segal, J Shon, L S Tompkins
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  Evidence consistent with horizontal transfer of the gene (emm12) encoding serotype M12 protein between group A and group G pathogenic streptococci.

  W J Simpson, J M Musser, P P Cleary
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  Detoxified exoantigens and phosphatidylinositol derivatives inhibit tumor necrosis factor induction by malarial exoantigens.

  C A Bate, J Taverne, J H Playfair
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  Delivery and expression of a heterologous antigen on the surface of streptococci.

  G Pozzi, M Contorni, M R Oggioni, R Manganelli, M Tommasino, F Cavalieri, V A Fischetti
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  Penicillin treatment accelerates middle ear inflammation in experimental pneumococcal otitis media.

  M Kawana, C Kawana, G S Giebink
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  Interactions between conidia of Aspergillus fumigatus and human complement component C3.

  J E Sturtevant, J P Latgé
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  Identification and characterization of B-cell epitopes of IpaC, an invasion-associated protein of Shigella flexneri.

  A Phalipon, J Arondel, F Nato, S Rouyre, J C Mazie, P J Sansonetti
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  Effect of in vivo administration of recombinant murine gamma interferon on in vitro lymphoproliferative responses following immunization with Candida albicans.

  R E Garner, U Kuruganti, L A al-Hussaini, C W Czarniecki, J E Domer
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  Cyclic AMP inhibition of lipopolysaccharide-induced restriction of Legionella pneumophila growth in macrophage cultures.

  K Egawa, T W Klein, Y Yamamoto, C A Newton, H Friedman
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  Colchicine prevents tumor necrosis factor-induced toxicity in vivo.

  G Tiegs, M A Freudenberg, C Galanos, A Wendel
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  Identification and purification of a cpn60 heat shock protein homolog from Helicobacter pylori.

  B E Dunn, R M Roop, C C Sung, S A Sharma, G I Perez-Perez, M J Blaser
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  Aspergillus antigen-induced eosinophil differentiation in a murine model.

  P S Murali, G Dai, A Kumar, J N Fink, V P Kurup
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  Mouse antibody to phosphocholine can protect mice from infection with mouse-virulent human isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae.

  D E Briles, C Forman, M Crain
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  Characterization of F107 fimbriae of Escherichia coli 107/86, which causes edema disease in pigs, and nucleotide sequence of the F107 major fimbrial subunit gene, fedA.

  H Imberechts, H De Greve, C Schlicker, H Bouchet, P Pohl, G Charlier, H Bertschinger, P Wild, J Vandekerckhove, J Van Damme
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  Evidence that Candida albicans binds via a unique adhesion system on phagocytic cells in the marginal zone of the mouse spleen.

  T Kanbe, M A Jutila, J E Cutler
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  A protective role for endogenous tumor necrosis factor in Toxoplasma gondii infection.

  L L Johnson
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  Interleukin-3 induces antimicrobial activity against Leishmania amazonensis and Trypanosoma cruzi and tumoricidal activity in human peripheral blood-derived macrophages.

  J L Ho, S G Reed, J Sobel, S Arruda, S H He, E A Wick, K H Grabstein
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  Gamma interferon mediates Propionibacterium acnes-induced hypersensitivity to lipopolysaccharide in mice.

  T Katschinski, C Galanos, A Coumbos, M A Freudenberg
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  Fimbriation of Pseudomonas cepacia.

  M Kuehn, K Lent, J Haas, J Hagenzieker, M Cervin, A L Smith
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  Staphylococcus aureus and derived exotoxins induce nuclear factor kappa B-like activity in murine bone marrow macrophages.

  K Busam, C Gieringer, M Freudenberg, H P Hohmann
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  Neonatal, urogenital isolates of biotype 4 nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae express a variant P6 outer membrane protein molecule.

  T F Murphy, C Kirkham, D J Sikkema
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  Indirect measurement of intestinal immune responses to an orally administered attenuated bacterial vaccine.

  B D Forrest
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  Characterization of rickettsial attachment to host cells by flow cytometry.

  H Li, D H Walker
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  Maternal immunization with gametocyte antigens as a means of providing protective immunity against Eimeria maxima in chickens.

  M Wallach, A Halabi, G Pillemer, O Sar-Shalom, D Mencher, M Gilad, U Bendheim, H D Danforth, P C Augustine
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  Demonstration of chlamydial RNA and DNA during a culture-negative state.

  S M Holland, A P Hudson, L Bobo, J A Whittum-Hudson, R P Viscidi, T C Quinn, H R Taylor
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  Parallel induction by glucose of adherence and a polysaccharide antigen specific for plastic-adherent Staphylococcus epidermidis: evidence for functional relation to intercellular adhesion.

  D Mack, N Siemssen, R Laufs
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  Characterization, cloning, and binding properties of the major 53-kilodalton Treponema denticola surface antigen.

  M Haapasalo, K H Müller, V J Uitto, W K Leung, B C McBride
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  Characterization of the major membrane protein of virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

  B Y Lee, S A Hefta, P J Brennan
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  Structural and pathogenic properties of Aeromonas schubertii.

  R P Kokka, D Lindquist, S L Abbott, J M Janda
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  Ability of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli strains to adhere in vitro to human intestinal mucosa.

  S Knutton, R K Shaw, M K Bhan, H R Smith, M M McConnell, T Cheasty, P H Williams, T J Baldwin
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  Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli strains secrete a heat-labile toxin antigenically related to E. coli hemolysin.

  T J Baldwin, S Knutton, L Sellers, H A Hernandez, A Aitken, P H Williams
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  Fate of conidia of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis after ingestion by resident macrophages or cytokine-treated macrophages.

  L E Cano, E Brummer, D A Stevens, A Restrepo
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  Bordetella pertussis induces respiratory burst activity in human polymorphonuclear leukocytes.

  L L Steed, E T Akporiaye, R L Friedman
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  Evidence for oligomannosyl residues containing both beta-1,2 and alpha-1,2 linkages as a serotype A-specific epitope(s) in mannans of Candida albicans.

  H Kobayashi, N Shibata, S Suzuki
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  Mapping of functional regions of Clostridium perfringens type A enterotoxin.

  P C Hanna, E U Wieckowski, T A Mietzner, B A McClane
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  Inhibition of expression of major histocompatibility complex class II molecules in macrophages infected with Leishmania donovani occurs at the level of gene transcription via a cyclic AMP-independent mechanism.

  W C Kwan, W R McMaster, N Wong, N E Reiner
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  Ultrastructural study of Helicobacter pylori adherence properties in gnotobiotic piglets.

  D G Rudmann, K A Eaton, S Krakowka
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  Urease-associated heat shock protein of Helicobacter pylori.

  D J Evans, D G Evans, L Engstrand, D Y Graham
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  Significant role of an exocellular protease in utilization of heme by Vibrio vulnificus.

  Y Nishina, S Miyoshi, A Nagase, S Shinoda
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  A specific sequence of stimulation is required to induce synthesis of the antimicrobial molecule nitric oxide by mouse macrophages.

  R B Lorsbach, S W Russell
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  Sodium dodecyl sulfate- and salt-extracted antigens from various Brucella species induce proliferation of bovine lymphocytes.

  B M Brooks-Worrell, G A Splitter
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  Association of the RTX proteins of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae with hemolytic, CAMP, and neutrophil-cytotoxic activities.

  J Devenish, J E Brown, S Rosendal
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  Human T-lymphocyte proliferation, lymphokine production, and amebicidal activity elicited by the galactose-inhibitable adherence protein of Entamoeba histolytica.

  D C Schain, R A Salata, J I Ravdin