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  Phlogistic properties of peptidoglycan-polysaccharide polymers from cell walls of pathogenic and normal-flora bacteria which colonize humans.

  J H Schwab
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  Organization of two invariant surface glycoproteins in the surface coat of Trypanosoma brucei.

  K Ziegelbauer, P Overath
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  Limited diversity of the protein D gene (hpd) among encapsulated and nonencapsulated Haemophilus influenzae strains.

  H Janson, M Ruan, A Forsgren
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  High levels of interleukin-8 in the blood and alveolar spaces of patients with pneumonia and adult respiratory distress syndrome.

  S Chollet-Martin, P Montravers, C Gibert, C Elbim, J M Desmonts, J Y Fagon, M A Gougerot-Pocidalo
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  Mechanisms of adherence of Candida albicans to cultured human epidermal keratinocytes.

  M W Ollert, R Söhnchen, H C Korting, U Ollert, S Bräutigam, W Bräutigam
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  Epithelial cells secrete the chemokine interleukin-8 in response to bacterial entry.

  L Eckmann, M F Kagnoff, J Fierer
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  Antigenic variation of immunoglobulin A1 proteases among sequential isolates of Haemophilus influenzae from healthy children and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

  H Lomholt, L van Alphen, M Kilian
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  Novel antigens expressed by Aeromonas salmonicida grown in vivo.

  J C Thornton, R A Garduño, S J Carlos, W W Kay
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  A protein fragment of streptococcal cell surface antigen I/II which prevents adhesion of Streptococcus mutans.

  G H Munro, P Evans, S Todryk, P Buckett, C G Kelly, T Lehner
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  Identification and cloning of a fur homolog from Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

  S A Berish, S Subbarao, C Y Chen, D L Trees, S A Morse
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  Local immunity in lung-associated lymph nodes in a murine model of pulmonary histoplasmosis.

  M F Fojtasek, M R Sherman, T Garringer, R Blair, L J Wheat, C T Schnizlein-Bick
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  Genetic control of resistance to Mycoplasma pulmonis infection in mice.

  W C Lai, G Linton, M Bennett, S P Pakes
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  Expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 in human inflamed gingival tissues.

  X Yu, H N Antoniades, D T Graves
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  Development of mucosal protection against the heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) of Escherichia coli by oral immunization with a genetic fusion delivered by a bacterial vector.

  L Cárdenas, J D Clements
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  Enhancing effect of cholera toxin on interleukin-6 secretion by IEC-6 intestinal epithelial cells: mode of action and augmenting effect of inflammatory cytokines.

  D W McGee, C O Elson, J R McGhee
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  Bacterial cell wall polymers (peptidoglycan-polysaccharide) cause reactivation of arthritis.

  S N Lichtman, S Bachmann, S R Munoz, J H Schwab, D E Bender, R B Sartor, J J Lemasters
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  The eae gene of Citrobacter freundii biotype 4280 is necessary for colonization in transmissible murine colonic hyperplasia.

  D B Schauer, S Falkow
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  Increased sensitivity of gonococcal pilA mutants to bactericidal activity of normal human serum.

  M K Taha
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  Characterization of neuraminidases produced by various serotypes of Pasteurella haemolytica.

  D C Straus, W L Jolley, C W Purdy
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  Analysis of mannoproteins from blastoconidia and hyphae of Candida albicans with a common epitope recognized by anti-complement receptor type 2 antibodies.

  E Wadsworth, S C Prasad, R Calderone
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  Three contiguous lipoprotein genes in Pasteurella haemolytica A1 which are homologous to a lipoprotein gene in Haemophilus influenzae type b.

  B J Cooney, R Y Lo
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  Inhibition of glucosyltransferase activities of Streptococcus mutans by a monoclonal antibody to a subsequence peptide.

  J S Chia, R H Lin, S W Lin, J Y Chen, C S Yang
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  Passive immunizing activity of sera from mice infected with Borrelia burgdorferi.

  S W Barthold, L K Bockenstedt
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  Proliferative and cytokine responses to a major surface glycoprotein of Pneumocystis carinii.

  S A Theus, M J Linke, R P Andrews, P D Walzer
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  The Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin is a long-lived superagonist of guanylin.

  B W Carpick, J Gariépy
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  Cloning, molecular characterization, and functional activity of Schistosoma japonicum glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, a putative vaccine candidate against schistosomiasis japonica.

  G J Waine, M Becker, W Yang, B Kalinna, D P McManus
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  Molecular characterization of the 98-kilodalton iron-regulated outer membrane protein of Neisseria meningitidis.

  A Pettersson, P van der Ley, J T Poolman, J Tommassen
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  Humoral immune response to the class 3 outer membrane protein during the course of meningococcal disease.

  H K Guttormsen, L M Wetzler, A Naess
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  Pathology of congenital syphilis in rabbits.

  M K Froberg, T J Fitzgerald, T R Hamilton, B Hamilton, M Zarabi
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  Cytokine profiles associated with induction of the anticryptococcal cell-mediated immune response.

  J W Murphy
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  Stimulation of protective antibodies against type Ia and Ib group B streptococci by a type Ia polysaccharide-tetanus toxoid conjugate vaccine.

  M R Wessels, L C Paoletti, A K Rodewald, F Michon, J DiFabio, H J Jennings, D L Kasper
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  An 88-kilodalton antigen secreted by Aspergillus fumigatus.

  H Kobayashi, J P Debeaupuis, J P Bouchara, J P Latge
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  Plasmodium falciparum varies in its ability to induce tumor necrosis factor.

  R J Allan, A Rowe, D Kwiatkowski
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  A guinea pig model for Lyme disease.

  S W Sonnesyn, J C Manivel, R C Johnson, J L Goodman
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  Virulence of capsulated and noncapsulated isolates of Pasteurella multocida and their adherence to porcine respiratory tract cells and mucus.

  M Jacques, M Kobisch, M Bélanger, F Dugal
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  Regulation of mycobacterial growth by the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis: differential responses of Mycobacterium bovis BCG-resistant and -susceptible mice.

  D H Brown, J Sheridan, D Pearl, B S Zwilling
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  Genetic stability and diversity of Pneumocystis carinii infecting rat colonies.

  M T Cushion, M Kaselis, S L Stringer, J R Stringer
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  Antibodies against active-site peptides common to glucosyltransferases of mutans streptococci.

  P A Cope, G Mooser
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  Expression of the murine interleukin-4 gene in an attenuated aroA strain of Salmonella typhimurium: persistence and immune response in BALB/c mice and susceptibility to macrophage killing.

  K Denich, P Börlin, P D O'Hanley, M Howard, A W Heath
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  Mechanism of interaction of the 85B secreted protein of Mycobacterium bovis with fibronectin.

  P Peake, A Gooley, W J Britton
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  Effect of type III group B streptococcal capsular polysaccharide on invasion of respiratory epithelial cells.

  M L Hulse, S Smith, E Y Chi, A Pham, C E Rubens
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  Characterization of Candida albicans cell wall antigens with monoclonal antibodies.

  J Ponton, A Marot-Leblond, P A Ezkurra, B Barturen, R Robert, J M Senet
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  Compartmentalization of defined epitopes expressed in Escherichia coli has only a minor influence on efficiency of phagocytic processing for presentation by class I and class II major histocompatibility complex molecules to T cells.

  M J Wick, J D Pfeifer, K A Findlay, C V Harding, S J Normark
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  Phase variation of slime production in Staphylococcus aureus: implications in colonization and virulence.

  R Baselga, I Albizu, M De La Cruz, E Del Cacho, M Barberan, B Amorena
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  T-cell recognition of a cross-reactive antigen(s) in erythrocyte stages of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium yoelii: inhibition of parasitemia by this antigen(s).

  B Lucas, A Engels, D Camus, A Haque
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  Prevention of corticosteroid-induced suppression of human polymorphonuclear leukocyte-induced damage of Aspergillus fumigatus hyphae by granulocyte colony-stimulating factor and gamma interferon.

  E Roilides, K Uhlig, D Venzon, P A Pizzo, T J Walsh
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  Association of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans leukotoxin with nucleic acids on the bacterial cell surface.

  H Ohta, H Hara, K Fukui, H Kurihara, Y Murayama, K Kato
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  Roles of leukotriene B4, prostaglandin E2, and cyclic AMP in Campylobacter jejuni-induced intestinal fluid secretion.

  P H Everest, A T Cole, C J Hawkey, S Knutton, H Goossens, J P Butzler, J M Ketley, P H Williams
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  Microtubule inhibitors block Cryptosporidium parvum infection of a human enterocyte cell line.

  P M Wiest, J H Johnson, T P Flanigan
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  Effect of mannose-binding protein on binding of Cryptococcus neoformans to human phagocytes.

  S M Levitz, A Tabuni, C Treseler
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  Virulence determinants in nontoxinogenic Escherichia coli O157 strains that cause infantile diarrhea.

  H Schmidt, H Rüssmann, H Karch
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  Endogenous gamma interferon mediates resistance to Brucella abortus infection.

  Y Zhan, C Cheers
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  P1-antigen-containing avian egg whites as inhibitors of P adhesins among wild-type Escherichia coli strains from patients with urosepsis.

  J R Johnson, A E Ross
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  Effect of orally administered monoclonal antibody on persistent Cryptosporidium parvum infection in scid mice.

  L E Perryman, K A Kegerris, P H Mason
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  Isolation and nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding cytotoxic necrotizing factor 1 of Escherichia coli.

  V Falbo, T Pace, L Picci, E Pizzi, A Caprioli
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  The 39-kilodalton outer membrane protein of Proteus mirabilis is an OmpA protein and mitogen for murine B lymphocytes.

  A Korn, H P Kroll, H P Berger, A Kahler, R Hessler, J Brauburger, K P Müller, K Nixdorff
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  Effect of cholera toxin on vaccine-induced immunity and infection in murine schistosomiasis mansoni.

  A A Akhiani, L A Nilsson, O Ouchterlony
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  An Fc gamma RII-, Fc gamma RIII-specific monoclonal antibody (2.4G2) decreases acute Trypanosoma cruzi infection in mice.

  T Araujo-Jorge, M T Rivera, A el Bouhdidi, M Daëron, Y Carlier
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  Failure of pulmonary clearance of Rhodococcus equi infection in CD4+ T-lymphocyte-deficient transgenic mice.

  S T Kanaly, S A Hines, G H Palmer
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  Evidence that extracellular components function in adherence of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans to epithelial cells.

  D H Meyer, P M Fives-Taylor
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  Interleukin 10 protects mice against staphylococcal enterotoxin B-induced lethal shock.

  A G Bean, R A Freiberg, S Andrade, S Menon, A Zlotnik