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  Choice of bacteria in animal models of sepsis.

  A S Cross, S M Opal, J C Sadoff, P Gemski
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  Contribution of Proteus mirabilis urease to persistence, urolithiasis, and acute pyelonephritis in a mouse model of ascending urinary tract infection.

  D E Johnson, R G Russell, C V Lockatell, J C Zulty, J W Warren, H L Mobley
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  Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli decreases the transepithelial electrical resistance of polarized epithelial monolayers.

  C Canil, I Rosenshine, S Ruschkowski, M S Donnenberg, J B Kaper, B B Finlay
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  Pathogenesis of tuberculosis: interaction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with macrophages.

  K A McDonough, Y Kress, B R Bloom
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  Association of treatment-resistant chronic Lyme arthritis with HLA-DR4 and antibody reactivity to OspA and OspB of Borrelia burgdorferi.

  R A Kalish, J M Leong, A C Steere
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  Identification of a carbohydrate recognition domain in filamentous hemagglutinin from Bordetella pertussis.

  S M Prasad, Y Yin, E Rodzinski, E I Tuomanen, H R Masure
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  An anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody protects mice against a lethal infection with Listeria monocytogenes through induction of endogenous cytokines.

  A Nakane, M Okamoto, M Asano, M Kohanawa, T Minagawa
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  Localization of the ActA polypeptide of Listeria monocytogenes in infected tissue culture cell lines: ActA is not associated with actin "comets".

  K Niebuhr, T Chakraborty, M Rohde, T Gazlig, B Jansen, P Köllner, J Wehland
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  Hypoexpression of major histocompatibility complex molecules on Legionella pneumophila phagosomes and phagolysosomes.

  D L Clemens, M A Horwitz
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  Cloning and sequencing of the gene encoding a 31-kilodalton antigen of Haemophilus somnus.

  J Won, R W Griffith
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  Mapping of immunoreactive sites of pneumococcal pneumolysin by use of synthetic peptides.

  P Salo, A Närvänen, M Leinonen
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  Primary structure of and immunoglobulin E response to the repeat subunit of gp15/400 from human lymphatic filarial parasites.

  W A Paxton, M Yazdanbakhsh, A Kurniawan, F Partono, R M Maizels, M E Selkirk
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  Enhancement of interleukin-4 production by pertussis toxin.

  H H Mu, W A Sewell
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  Cytokine response of T-cell subsets from Brucella abortus-infected mice to soluble Brucella proteins.

  Y Zhan, J Yang, C Cheers
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  Mechanisms of action of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pyocyanin on human ciliary beat in vitro.

  K Kanthakumar, G Taylor, K W Tsang, D R Cundell, A Rutman, S Smith, P K Jeffery, P J Cole, R Wilson
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  Characterization of cellular infiltrates and cytokine production during the expression phase of the anticryptococcal delayed-type hypersensitivity response.

  K L Buchanan, J W Murphy
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  Capsular polysaccharide regulates neutrophil complement receptor interactions with type III group B streptococci.

  M S Edwards, M R Wessels, C J Baker
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  Endogenous gamma interferon is essential in granuloma formation induced by glycolipid-containing mycolic acid in mice.

  M Asano, A Nakane, T Minagawa
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  Specificity of Cryptococcus neoformans factor sera determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and dot enzyme assay.

  T Belay, R Cherniak, T Shinoda
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  Pneumocystis carinii is not universally transmissible between mammalian species.

  F Gigliotti, A G Harmsen, C G Haidaris, P J Haidaris
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  Investigation of the influences of puberty, genetics, and environment on the composition of subgingival periodontal floras.

  W E Moore, J A Burmeister, C N Brooks, R R Ranney, K H Hinkelmann, R M Schieken, L V Moore
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  Antigenicity and immunogenicity of a synthetic peptide derived from a glucan-binding domain of mutans streptococcal glucosyltransferase.

  D J Smith, M A Taubman, C F Holmberg, J Eastcott, W F King, P Ali-Salaam
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  The RTX cytotoxin-related FrpA protein of Neisseria meningitidis is secreted extracellularly by meningococci and by HlyBD+ Escherichia coli.

  S A Thompson, P F Sparling
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  Purification and characterization of alpha-toxin produced by Clostridium novyi type A.

  D W Ball, R L Van Tassell, M D Roberts, P E Hahn, D M Lyerly, T D Wilkins
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  The intracellular bacterium Rhodococcus equi requires Mac-1 to bind to mammalian cells.

  M K Hondalus, M S Diamond, L A Rosenthal, T A Springer, D M Mosser
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  A Campylobacter jejuni homolog of the LcrD/FlbF family of proteins is necessary for flagellar biogenesis.

  S Miller, E C Pesci, C L Pickett
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  Variant cysteine-rich surface proteins of Giardia isolates from human and animal sources.

  T Bruderer, P Papanastasiou, R Castro, P Köhler
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  Cytoadhesins of Mycoplasma hominis.

  B Henrich, R C Feldmann, U Hadding
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  Immune responses associated with susceptibility of C57BL/10 mice to Leishmania amazonensis.

  L C Afonso, P Scott
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  Reactivity profile of human anti-82-kilodalton rhoptry protein antibodies generated during natural infection with Plasmodium falciparum.

  R F Howard, J B Jensen, H L Franklin
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  Effects of strain variation, serotype, and structural modification on kinetics for activation and binding of C3 to Cryptococcus neoformans.

  B J Young, T R Kozel
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  Purification of exfoliative toxin produced by Staphylococcus hyicus and its antigenicity.

  T Tanabe, H Sato, M Kuramoto, H Saito
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  Mechanisms of action on Escherichia coli of cecropin P1 and PR-39, two antibacterial peptides from pig intestine.

  H G Boman, B Agerberth, A Boman
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  In utero transmission of Mycoplasma pulmonis in experimentally infected Sprague-Dawley rats.

  D A Steiner, E W Uhl, M B Brown
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  Selective inhibition of microbial serine proteases by eNAP-2, an antimicrobial peptide from equine neutrophils.

  M A Couto, S S Harwig, R I Lehrer
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  Bovine polymorphonuclear leukocyte killing of Tritrichomonas foetus.

  M K Aydintug, P R Widders, R W Leid
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  Isotype responses to candidate vaccine antigens in protective sera obtained from mice vaccinated with irradiated cercariae of Schistosoma mansoni.

  D Richter, R N Incani, D A Harn
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  Contact of lymphocytes with Helicobacter pylori augments natural killer cell activity and induces production of gamma interferon.

  J Tarkkanen, T U Kosunen, E Saksela
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  Mechanism of protective immunity induced by porin-lipopolysaccharide against murine salmonellosis.

  S Muthukkumar, V R Muthukkaruppan
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  Protein D of Haemophilus influenzae is not a universal immunoglobulin D-binding protein.

  K Sasaki, R S Munson
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  Nucleotide sequence encoding the mannose-fucose-resistant hemagglutinin of Vibrio cholerae O1 and construction of a mutant.

  V L Franzon, A Barker, P A Manning
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  Antimicrobial proteins of murine macrophages.

  P S Hiemstra, P B Eisenhauer, S S Harwig, M T van den Barselaar, R van Furth, R I Lehrer
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  Early and early disseminated phases of Lyme disease in the rhesus monkey: a model for infection in humans.

  M T Philipp, M K Aydintug, R P Bohm, F B Cogswell, V A Dennis, H N Lanners, R C Lowrie, E D Roberts, M D Conway, M Karaçorlu
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  Differential expression of interleukin-6, intracellular adhesion molecule 1, and major histocompatibility complex class II molecules in renal carcinoma cells stimulated with S fimbriae of uropathogenic Escherichia coli.

  B Kreft, S Bohnet, O Carstensen, J Hacker, R Marre
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  Presentation of T-cell epitopes assembled as multiple-antigen peptides to murine and human T lymphocytes.

  D Grillot, D Valmori, P H Lambert, G Corradin, G Del Giudice
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  Multiplication of Listeria monocytogenes in a murine hepatocyte cell line.

  S Wood, N Maroushek, C J Czuprynski
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  Detection of a prfA-independent promoter responsible for listeriolysin gene expression in mutant Listeria monocytogenes strains lacking the PrfA regulator.

  E Domann, J Wehland, K Niebuhr, C Haffner, M Leimeister-Wächter, T Chakraborty
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  Species of alpha-hemolytic streptococci possessing a C-polysaccharide phosphorylcholine-containing antigen.

  S H Gillespie, P H McWhinney, S Patel, J G Raynes, K P McAdam, R A Whiley, J M Hardie
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  Lack of allelic polymorphism for the major outer membrane protein gene of the agent of guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis (Chlamydia psittaci).

  Q Zhao, J Schachter, R S Stephens
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  Antimicrobial activity of two bactenecins against spirochetes.

  M Scocchi, D Romeo, M Cinco
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  Osmolarity and growth phase overlap in regulation of Salmonella typhi adherence to and invasion of human intestinal cells.

  C Tartera, E S Metcalf
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  Amino-terminal sequence analysis of the Coccidioides immitis chitinase/immunodiffusion-complement fixation protein.

  S M Johnson, C R Zimmermann, D Pappagianis
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  Infection with Mycobacterium avium induces production of interleukin-10 (IL-10), and administration of anti-IL-10 antibody is associated with enhanced resistance to infection in mice.

  L E Bermudez, J Champsi
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  Inhibition of T-cell responsiveness during experimental infections with Trypanosoma brucei: active involvement of endogenous gamma interferon.

  A Darji, M Sileghem, H Heremans, L Brys, P De Baetselier