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  Alterations in murine macrophage arachidonic acid metabolism following ingestion of nonviable Histoplasma capsulatum.

  J E Wolf, S E Massof, S P Peters
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  An 80-kilodalton antigen from Histoplasma capsulatum that has homology to heat shock protein 70 induces cell-mediated immune responses and protection in mice.

  F J Gomez, A M Gomez, G S Deepe
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  Expression of receptors for enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli during enterocytic differentiation of human polarized intestinal epithelial cells in culture.

  S Kernéis, G Chauvière, A Darfeuille-Michaud, D Aubel, M H Coconnier, B Joly, A L Servin
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  In vivo inhibition of lipopolysaccharide-induced lethality and tumor necrosis factor synthesis by Rhodobacter sphaeroides diphosphoryl lipid A is dependent on corticosterone induction.

  S H Zuckerman, N Qureshi
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  The coccidioidal complement fixation and immunodiffusion-complement fixation antigen is a chitinase.

  S M Johnson, D Pappagianis
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  Oral ingestion of egg yolk immunoglobulin from hens immunized with an enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strain prevents diarrhea in rabbits challenged with the same strain.

  C O'Farrelly, D Branton, C A Wanke
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  Inhibition of Porphyromonas gingivalis adhesion to Streptococcus gordonii by human submandibular-sublingual saliva.

  M W Stinson, G G Haraszthy, X L Zhang, M J Levine
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  Antibody-secreting cells in human peripheral blood after oral immunization with an inactivated enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli vaccine.

  C Wennerås, A M Svennerholm, C Ahrén, C Czerkinsky
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  Induction of tumor necrosis factor and interleukin-1 by purified staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 requires the presence of both monocytes and T lymphocytes.

  R H See, W W Kum, A H Chang, S H Goh, A W Chow
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  Lactoferrin-binding proteins in Shigella flexneri.

  Z Tigyi, A R Kishore, J A Maeland, A Forsgren, A S Naidu
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  An arthroconidial-spherule antigen of Coccidioides immitis: differential expression during in vitro fungal development and evidence for humoral response in humans after infection or vaccination.

  J N Galgiani, S H Sun, K O Dugger, N M Ampel, G G Grace, J Harrison, M A Wieden
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  Murine model of cutaneous infection with gram-positive cocci.

  C Bunce, L Wheeler, G Reed, J Musser, N Barg
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  In vivo effects of the antiglucocorticoid RU 486 on glucocorticoid and cytokine responses to Escherichia coli endotoxin.

  A S Hawes, C S Rock, C V Keogh, S F Lowry, S E Calvano
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  pap-and pil-related DNA sequences and other virulence determinants associated with Escherichia coli isolated from septicemic chickens and turkeys.

  C M Dozois, J M Fairbrother, J Harel, M Bossé
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  Purification of recombinant Helicobacter pylori urease apoenzyme encoded by ureA and ureB.

  L T Hu, P A Foxall, R Russell, H L Mobley
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  Isolation and antigenicity of a 45-kilodalton Paracoccidioides brasiliensis immunodominant antigen.

  M F Ferreira-da-Cruz, B Galvão-Castro, C Daniel-Ribeiro
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  Sera of patients with high titers of immunoglobulin G against Toxoplasma gondii induce secretion of tumor necrosis factor alpha by human monocytes.

  H Pelloux, B F Chumpitazi, F Santoro, B Polack, J P Vuillez, P Ambroise-Thomas
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  Immunoglobulin G2 confers protection against Borrelia burgdorferi infection in LSH hamsters.

  J L Schmitz, R F Schell, S M Callister, S D Lovrich, S P Day, J E Coe
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  Inhibition of murine macrophage protein kinase C activity by nonviable Histoplasma capsulatum.

  J E Wolf, S E Massof, J R Sherwin, R V Considine
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  Mapping of a visceral leishmaniasis-specific immunodominant B-cell epitope of Leishmania donovani Hsp70.

  G R Wallace, A E Ball, J MacFarlane, S H el Safi, M A Miles, J M Kelly
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  Structural features that influence the ability of lipid A and its analogs to abolish expression of suppressor T cell activity.

  P J Baker, T Hraba, C E Taylor, K R Myers, K Takayama, N Qureshi, P Stuetz, S Kusumoto, A Hasegawa
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  Oral vaccination of weaned rabbits against enteropathogenic Escherichia coli-like E. coli O103 infection: use of heterologous strains harboring lipopolysaccharide or adhesin of pathogenic strains.

  A Milon, J Esslinger, R Camguilhem
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  Capacity of listeriolysin O, streptolysin O, and perfringolysin O to mediate growth of Bacillus subtilis within mammalian cells.

  D A Portnoy, R K Tweten, M Kehoe, J Bielecki
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  Immunological characterization of the lipooligosaccharide B band of Bordetella pertussis.

  D Martin, M S Peppler, B R Brodeur
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  Molecular cloning and expression of ptxA, the gene encoding the 120-kilodalton cytotoxin of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae serotype 2.

  J MacDonald, A N Rycroft
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  Penetration of host cells by Rickettsia rickettsii appears to be mediated by a phospholipase of rickettsial origin.

  D J Silverman, L A Santucci, N Meyers, Z Sekeyova
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  Characterization of the Shigella serotype D (S. sonnei) O polysaccharide and the enterobacterial R1 lipopolysaccharide core by use of mouse monoclonal antibodies.

  J F Viret, U Bruderer, A B Lang
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  Role of T-lymphocyte subsets in Rhodococcus equi infection.

  P Nordmann, E Ronco, C Nauciel
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  Opportunist mycobacteria express ligands that stimulate production of human V gamma 9V delta 2 T lymphocytes.

  G Häcker, S Kromer, K Heeg, J Ivanyi, H Wagner, K Pfeffer
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  Salmonella choleraesuis and Salmonella typhimurium associated with liver cells after intravenous inoculation of rats are localized mainly in Kupffer cells and multiply intracellularly.

  N A Nnalue, A Shnyra, K Hultenby, A A Lindberg
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  Legionella pneumophila lipopolysaccharide activates the classical complement pathway.

  C S Mintz, D R Schultz, P I Arnold, W Johnson
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  Cross-reacting serum opsonins in patients with meningococcal disease.

  H K Guttormsen, R Bjerknes, A Naess, V Lehmann, A Halstensen, S Sørnes, C O Solberg
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  Alterations in protein expression and complement resistance of pathogenic Naegleria amoebae.

  D M Toney, F Marciano-Cabral
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  Epitope mapping of hemagglutinating adhesion HA-Ag2 of Bacteroides (Porphyromonas) gingivalis.

  M Deslauriers, C Mouton
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  Role of aerobactin in systemic spread of an opportunistic strain of Escherichia coli from the intestinal tract of gnotobiotic lambs.

  M Der Vartanian, B Jaffeux, M Contrepois, M Chavarot, J P Girardeau, Y Bertin, C Martin
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  Comparison of adherence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to respiratory epithelial cells from cystic fibrosis patients and healthy subjects.

  L Saiman, G Cacalano, D Gruenert, A Prince
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  Expression of Streptococcus mutans gtf genes in Streptococcus milleri.

  K Fukushima, T Ikeda, H K Kuramitsu
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  Construction of a recombinant oral vaccine against Salmonella typhi and Salmonella typhimurium.

  Y Cao, Z Wen, D Lu
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  Passive protection of suckling infant mice against F41-positive enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains by intravenous inoculation of the dams with monoclonal antibodies against F41.

  M Duchet-Suchaux, P Menanteau, F G van Zijderveld
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  Interleukin-8 in sepsis: relation to shock and inflammatory mediators.

  C E Hack, M Hart, R J van Schijndel, A J Eerenberg, J H Nuijens, L G Thijs, L A Aarden
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  Mycobacterial induction of activated killer cells: possible role of tyrosine kinase activity in interleukin-2 receptor alpha expression.

  D K Blanchard, S McMillen, S L Hoffman, J Y Djeu
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  Role of the bacterial cell wall in middle ear inflammation caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae.

  B D Carlsen, M Kawana, C Kawana, A Tomasz, G S Giebink
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  Humoral and cell-mediated immunity in mice to a 17-kilodalton lipoprotein of Francisella tularensis expressed by Salmonella typhimurium.

  A Sjöstedt, G Sandström, A Tärnvik
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  Construction of Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase deletion mutants of Brucella abortus: analysis of survival in vitro in epithelial and phagocytic cells and in vivo in mice.

  F M Tatum, P G Detilleux, J M Sacks, S M Halling
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  Binding of class II Escherichia coli enterotoxins to mouse Y1 and intestinal cells.

  S T Donta, T Tomicic, R K Holmes
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  Cholera toxin as a mucosal adjuvant: effects of H-2 major histocompatibility complex and lps genes.

  C O Elson
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  Spleen cell cytokine secretion in Mycobacterium bovis BCG-infected mice.

  K Huygen, D Abramowicz, P Vandenbussche, F Jacobs, J De Bruyn, A Kentos, A Drowart, J P Van Vooren, M Goldman
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  Immunogenicity and antigenic heterogeneity of a human transferrin-binding protein in Neisseria meningitidis.

  L Ferron, C M Ferreiros, M T Criado, M Pintor
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  Inhibition of adhesion of S-fimbriated Escherichia coli to buccal epithelial cells by human milk fat globule membrane components: a novel aspect of the protective function of mucins in the nonimmunoglobulin fraction.

  H Schroten, F G Hanisch, R Plogmann, J Hacker, G Uhlenbruck, R Nobis-Bosch, V Wahn
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  Rational attenuation of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis: potential cheesy gland vaccine and live delivery vehicle.

  A L Hodgson, J Krywult, L A Corner, J S Rothel, A J Radford
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  Localization and biochemical characterization of the ORF6 gene product of the Mycoplasma pneumoniae P1 operon.

  G Layh-Schmitt, R Herrmann
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  Interaction of Mycoplasma dispar with bovine alveolar macrophages.

  R A Almeida, M J Wannemuehler, R F Rosenbusch
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  Cloning and DNA sequence analysis of a Serpulina (Treponema) hyodysenteriae gene encoding a periplasmic flagellar sheath protein.

  M B Koopman, O S de Leeuw, B M van der Zeijst, J G Kusters
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  Immunization with Porphyromonas (Bacteroides) gingivalis fimbriae protects against periodontal destruction.

  R T Evans, B Klausen, H T Sojar, G S Bedi, C Sfintescu, N S Ramamurthy, L M Golub, R J Genco
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  Infection-induced airway fibrosis in two rat strains with differential susceptibility.

  J C McIntosh, J W Simecka, S E Ross, J K Davis, E J Miller, G H Cassell
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  Phenotypic phase variation in Haemophilus somnus lipooligosaccharide during bovine pneumonia and after in vitro passage.

  T J Inzana, R P Gogolewski, L B Corbeil
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  Effects of iron limitation on production of a siderophore, outer membrane proteins, and hemolysin and on hydrophobicity, cell adherence, and lethality for mice of Vibrio parahaemolyticus.

  J H Dai, Y S Lee, H C Wong
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  Propionate induces polymorphonuclear leukocyte activation and inhibits formylmethionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine-stimulated activation.

  B A Brunkhorst, E Kraus, M Coppi, M Budnick, R Niederman
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  Effects of staphylococcal enterotoxin B on rodent mast cells.

  J Komisar, J Rivera, A Vega, J Tseng
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  Histopathological and serological progression of experimental Staphylococcus aureus arthritis.

  T Bremell, A Abdelnour, A Tarkowski
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  Evidence for in vivo expression of transferrin-binding proteins in Haemophilus influenzae type b.

  J Holland, P R Langford, K J Towner, P Williams
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  Interaction of ruminant transferrins with transferrin receptors in bovine isolates of Pasteurella haemolytica and Haemophilus somnus.

  R H Yu, S D Gray-Owen, J Ogunnariwo, A B Schryvers
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  Virulence-associated 15- to 17-kilodalton antigens in Rhodococcus equi: temperature-dependent expression and location of the antigens.

  S Takai, M Iie, Y Watanabe, S Tsubaki, T Sekizaki
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  Phosphate starvation enhances expression of the immunodominant 38-kilodalton protein antigen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: demonstration by immunogold electron microscopy.

  C Espitia, M Elinos, R Hernández-Pando, R Mancilla
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  Morphological and biochemical study of cytoskeletal changes in cultured cells after extracellular application of Clostridium novyi alpha-toxin.

  A Oksche, R Nakov, E Habermann
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  Morphological changes of cultured endothelial cells after microinjection of toxins that act on the cytoskeleton.

  H Müller, C von Eichel-Streiber, E Habermann
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  Survival of virulent and attenuated strains of Brucella abortus in normal and gamma interferon-activated murine peritoneal macrophages.

  S M Jones, A J Winter
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  Characterization of GP110, a neutrophil surface protein.

  S C Tripathi, T E Van Dyke
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  Further antigenic similarities of Neisseria gonorrhoeae lipooligosaccharides and human glycosphingolipids.

  R E Mandrell
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  Adhesion protein YadA of Yersinia species mediates binding of bacteria to fibronectin.

  R Tertti, M Skurnik, T Vartio, P Kuusela