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  Bacterial antigenic variation, host immune response, and pathogen-host coevolution.

  R C Brunham, F A Plummer, R S Stephens
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  Role of M protein in pharyngeal colonization by group A streptococci in rats.

  S K Hollingshead, J W Simecka, S M Michalek
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  Susceptibility to chronic infection with Toxoplasma gondii does not correlate with susceptibility to acute infection in mice.

  Y Suzuki, M A Orellana, S Y Wong, F K Conley, J S Remington
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  Protective anti-idiotype antibodies in the primate model of pyelonephritis.

  M B Kaack, L N Martin, S B Svenson, G Baskin, R H Steele, J A Roberts
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  Development of a trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate model which explains cord formation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

  C A Behling, B Bennett, K Takayama, R L Hunter
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  Immunocompromise in gnotobiotic pigs induced by verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (O111:NM).

  J Christopher-Hennings, J A Willgohs, D H Francis, U A Raman, R A Moxley, D J Hurley
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  Local and systemic immune responses in murine Helicobacter felis active chronic gastritis.

  J G Fox, M Blanco, J C Murphy, N S Taylor, A Lee, Z Kabok, J Pappo
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  Characterization of pertussis toxin analogs containing mutations in B-oligomer subunits.

  S Loosmore, G Zealey, S Cockle, H Boux, P Chong, R Yacoob, M Klein
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  Dissociation of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-inducible gene expression in murine macrophages pretreated with smooth LPS versus monophosphoryl lipid A.

  B E Henricson, C L Manthey, P Y Perera, T A Hamilton, S N Vogel
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  Mechanism of fibronectin enhancement of group B streptococcal phagocytosis by human neutrophils and culture-derived macrophages.

  H R Hill, N H Augustine, P A Williams, E J Brown, J F Bohnsack
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  Adhesion of Yersinia enterocolitica to purified rabbit and human intestinal mucin.

  M Mantle, S D Husar
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  Characterization and immunolocalization of a Cryptosporidium protein containing repeated amino acid motifs.

  L Ranucci, H M Müller, G La Rosa, I Reckmann, M A Morales, F Spano, E Pozio, A Crisanti
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  Evidence for possible involvement of an elastolytic serine protease in aspergillosis.

  P E Kolattukudy, J D Lee, L M Rogers, P Zimmerman, S Ceselski, B Fox, B Stein, E A Copelan
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  Purification and characterization of a protease from Porphyromonas gingivalis capable of degrading salt-solubilized collagen.

  H T Sojar, J Y Lee, G S Bedi, R J Genco
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  Cloning and expression of a cDNA encoding epitopes shared by 15- and 60-kilodalton proteins of Cryptosporidium parvum sporozoites.

  M C Jenkins, R Fayer, M Tilley, S J Upton
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  Synthesis of DNA, rRNA, and protein by Rickettsia prowazekii growing in untreated or gamma interferon-treated mouse L929 cells.

  Q Gao, J Turco, H H Winkler
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  Immunogenicity and efficacy of oral or intranasal Shigella flexneri 2a and Shigella sonnei proteosome-lipopolysaccharide vaccines in animal models.

  N Orr, G Robin, D Cohen, R Arnon, G H Lowell
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  Rapid dissemination by the agent of Lyme disease in hosts that permit fulminating infection.

  C M Shih, S R Telford, R J Pollack, A Spielman
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  Immunoglobulin class and subclass distribution of antibodies reactive with the immunodominant antigen of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans serotype b.

  H Lu, J V Califano, H A Schenkein, J G Tew
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  Identification of B-cell epitopes on the S4 subunit of pertussis toxin.

  P H Ibsen, A Holm, J W Petersen, C E Olsen, I Heron
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  Inhibition of human neutrophil migration in vitro by low-molecular-mass products of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae.

  D R Cundell, G W Taylor, K Kanthakumar, M Wilks, S Tabaqchali, E Dorey, J L Devalia, D E Roberts, R J Davies, R Wilson
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  Natural antibody responses against the non-repeat-sequence-based B-cell epitopes of the Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein.

  Y P Shi, V Udhayakumar, M P Alpers, M M Povoa, A J Oloo, T K Ruebush, A A Lal
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  Characterization of a novel chromosomal virulence locus involved in expression of a major surface flagellar sheath antigen of the fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum.

  A Norqvist, H Wolf-Watz
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  Concomitant loss of conformation and superantigenic activity of staphylococcal enterotoxin B deletion mutant proteins.

  B Metzroth, T Marx, M Linnig, B Fleischer
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  Structure and copy number analyses of pap-, sfa-, and afa-related gene clusters in F165-positive bovine and porcine Escherichia coli isolates.

  S N Maiti, J Harel, J M Fairbrother
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  A recombinant 15-kilodalton carboxyl-terminal fragment of Plasmodium yoelii yoelii 17XL merozoite surface protein 1 induces a protective immune response in mice.

  T M Daly, C A Long
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  In vivo production of exotoxin A and its role in endogenous Pseudomonas aeruginosa septicemia in mice.

  Y Hirakata, N Furuya, K Tateda, M Kaku, K Yamaguchi
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  Receptor affinity purification of a lipid-binding adhesin from Helicobacter pylori.

  C A Lingwood, G Wasfy, H Han, M Huesca
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  Identification of a Staphylococcus aureus extracellular matrix-binding protein with broad specificity.

  M H McGavin, D Krajewska-Pietrasik, C Rydén, M Höök
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  Attaching and effacing locus of a Citrobacter freundii biotype that causes transmissible murine colonic hyperplasia.

  D B Schauer, S Falkow
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  Monoclonal antibodies of three different immunoglobulin G isotypes produced by immunization with a synthetic peptide or native protein protect mice against challenge with Plasmodium yoelii sporozoites.

  M Ak, J H Bower, S L Hoffman, M Sedegah, A Lees, M Carter, R L Beaudoin, Y Charoenvit
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  The putative arthritogenic cationic 19-kilodalton antigen of Yersinia enterocolitica is a urease beta-subunit.

  M Skurnik, S Batsford, A Mertz, E Schiltz, P Toivanen
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  Genetic analysis of the gene cluster encoding nonfimbrial adhesin I from an Escherichia coli uropathogen.

  R Ahrens, M Ott, A Ritter, H Hoschützky, T Bühler, F Lottspeich, G J Boulnois, K Jann, J Hacker
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  Outer membrane protein YadA of enteropathogenic yersiniae mediates specific binding to cellular but not plasma fibronectin.

  H Schulze-Koops, H Burkhardt, J Heesemann, T Kirsch, B Swoboda, C Bull, S Goodman, F Emmrich
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  Effect of abrogation of natural killer cell activity on the course of candidiasis induced by intraperitoneal administration and gastrointestinal candidiasis in mice with severe combined immunodeficiency.

  R A Greenfield, V L Abrams, D L Crawford, T L Kuhls
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  Piglet ileal mucus contains protein and glycolipid (galactosylceramide) receptors specific for Escherichia coli K88 fimbriae.

  L Blomberg, H C Krivan, P S Cohen, P L Conway
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  Facilitation of complement-dependent killing of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, by specific immunoglobulin G Fab antibody fragments.

  S K Kochi, R C Johnson, A P Dalmasso
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  Regulation of the prfA transcriptional activator of Listeria monocytogenes: multiple promoter elements contribute to intracellular growth and cell-to-cell spread.

  N E Freitag, L Rong, D A Portnoy
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  Effects of Listeria monocytogenes and Yersinia enterocolitica on cytokine gene expression and release from human polymorphonuclear granulocytes and epithelial (HEp-2) cells.

  R Arnold, J Scheffer, B König, W König
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  OspA vaccination of mice with established Borrelia burgdorferi infection alters disease but not infection.

  E Fikrig, S W Barthold, R A Flavell
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  Specific antibody to Haemophilus somnus in the bovine uterus following intramuscular immunization.

  B M Butt, T E Besser, P L Senger, P R Widders
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  Expression of catalytically active recombinant Helicobacter pylori urease at wild-type levels in Escherichia coli.

  L T Hu, H L Mobley
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  Proteus mirabilis urease: histidine 320 of UreC is essential for urea hydrolysis and nickel ion binding within the native enzyme.

  B Sriwanthana, H L Mobley
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  Evidence that mannans of Candida albicans are responsible for adherence of yeast forms to spleen and lymph node tissue.

  T Kanbe, Y Han, B Redgrave, M H Riesselman, J E Cutler
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  Experimental Yersinia enterocolitica infection in euthymic and T-cell-deficient athymic nude C57BL/6 mice: comparison of time course, histomorphology, and immune response.

  I B Autenrieth, U Vogel, S Preger, B Heymer, J Heesemann
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  Release of stress proteins from Mesocestoides corti is a brefeldin A-inhibitable process: evidence for active export of stress proteins.

  F P Ernani, J M Teale
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  Sequence analysis of scrA and scrB from Streptococcus sobrinus 6715.

  Y Y Chen, L N Lee, D J LeBlanc
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  Variability of osp genes and gene products among species of Lyme disease spirochetes.

  R T Marconi, M E Konkel, C F Garon
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  Enhancement of neutrophil-mediated injury to bovine pulmonary endothelial cells by Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin.

  S K Maheswaran, M S Kannan, D J Weiss, K R Reddy, E L Townsend, H S Yoo, B W Lee, L O Whiteley
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  The cellular source of interleukin-6 during Listeria infection.

  Z Liu, C Cheers
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  Helicobacter mustelae and Helicobacter pylori bind to common lipid receptors in vitro.

  B D Gold, M Huesca, P M Sherman, C A Lingwood
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  Immune responses and resistance to Toxoplasma gondii in mice immunized with antigens of the parasite incorporated into immunostimulating complexes.

  A Lundén, K Lövgren, A Uggla, F G Araujo
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  Human submandibular-sublingual saliva promotes adhesion of Candida albicans to polymethylmethacrylate.

  M Edgerton, F A Scannapieco, M S Reddy, M J Levine
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  Immunogenicity of overlapping synthetic peptides covering the entire sequence of Haemophilus influenzae type b outer membrane protein P2.

  P Chong, Y P Yang, R Fahim, P McVerry, C Sia, M Klein
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  Isolation of avirulent clones of Candida albicans with reduced ability to recognize the CR2 ligand C3d.

  S Franzke, R A Calderone, K Schaller
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  Mechanisms of attachment of Mycoplasma arthritidis to host cells in vitro.

  L R Washburn, S Hirsch, L L Voelker
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  A bacterial protease perturbs the paracellular barrier function of transporting epithelial monolayers in culture.

  A O Azghani, L D Gray, A R Johnson
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  Influence of genes from the major histocompatibility complex on the antibody repertoire against culture filtrate antigens in mice infected with live Mycobacterium bovis BCG.

  K Huygen, A Drowart, M Harboe, R ten Berg, J Cogniaux, J P Van Vooren
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  Iron acquisition by Helicobacter pylori: importance of human lactoferrin.

  M O Husson, D Legrand, G Spik, H Leclerc
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  A siderophore production mutant of Bordetella bronchiseptica cannot use lactoferrin as an iron source.

  L A Foster, D W Dyer
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  Leukocyte-mediated lysis of infected hepatocytes during listeriosis occurs in mice depleted of NK cells or CD4+ CD8+ Thy1.2+ T cells.

  J W Conlan, P L Dunn, R J North
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  Expression of contact-dependent cytolytic activity by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and isolation of the genomic locus that encodes the activity.

  C H King, S Mundayoor, J T Crawford, T M Shinnick
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  Kinetics of serum and ocular antibody responses in susceptible mice that received a secondary corneal infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

  M J Preston, K Kernack, R S Berk
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  Relationship between loss of pigmentation and deletion of the chromosomal iron-regulated irp2 gene in Yersinia pestis: evidence for separate but related events.

  I Iteman, A Guiyoule, A M de Almeida, I Guilvout, G Baranton, E Carniel
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  Primary swine intestinal cells as a model for studying Campylobacter jejuni invasiveness.

  F K Babakhani, L A Joens
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  Purification and characterization of streptolysin O secreted by Streptococcus equisimilis (group C).

  D Gerlach, W Köhler, E Günther, K Mann
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  Partial characterization of an external polysaccharide of Helicobacter pylori by using an immunoglobulin M monoclonal antibody.

  E B Drouet, H P De Montclos, M Andujar, M Boude, J A Grimaud, G A Denoyel
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  Production of interleukin-6 by human and murine mononuclear leukocytes stimulated with Plasmodium antigens is enhanced by pentoxifylline, and tumor necrosis factor secretion is reduced.

  J Prada, C Prager, S Neifer, U Bienzle, P G Kremsner