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  Polysaccharide antigens of the capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans.

  R Cherniak, J B Sundstrom
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  Conserved sequence homology of cysteine-rich regions in genes encoding glycoprotein A in Pneumocystis carinii derived from different host species.

  T W Wright, P J Simpson-Haidaris, F Gigliotti, A G Harmsen, C G Haidaris
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  CD14 and CD11b mediate serum-independent binding to human monocytes of an acylpolygalactoside isolated from Klebsiella pneumoniae.

  Z Hmama, A Mey, G Normier, H Binz, J P Revillard
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  Ureaplasma diversum infection in vitro alters prostaglandin E2 and prostaglandin F2a production by bovine endometrial cells without affecting cell viability.

  J J Kim, P A Quinn, M A Fortier
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  Tumor necrosis factor alpha augments nitric oxide-dependent macrophage cytotoxicity against Entamoeba histolytica by enhanced expression of the nitric oxide synthase gene.

  J Y Lin, R Seguin, K Keller, K Chadee
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  Preservation of surface lipids and determination of ultrastructure of Mycobacterium kansasii by freeze-substitution.

  T R Paul, T J Beveridge
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  Protein phosphorylation in murine peritoneal macrophages induced by infection with Salmonella species.

  S Saito, H Shinomiya, M Nakano
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  Pathological significance and molecular characterization of the vacuolating toxin gene of Helicobacter pylori.

  S H Phadnis, D Ilver, L Janzon, S Normark, T U Westblom
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  Meningococcal group A lipooligosaccharides (LOS): preliminary structural studies and characterization of serotype-associated and conserved LOS epitopes.

  J J Kim, N J Phillips, B W Gibson, J M Griffiss, R Yamasaki
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  Antibody recognition of a neutralization epitope on the major outer membrane protein of Chlamydia trachomatis.

  G Zhong, J Berry, R C Brunham
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  Adherence characteristics of attaching and effacing strains of Escherichia coli from rabbits.

  R M Robins-Browne, A M Tokhi, L M Adams, V Bennett-Wood, A V Moisidis, E O Krejany, L E O'Gorman
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  Functional activity of antibodies to the group B polysaccharide of group B streptococci elicited by a polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccine.

  M B Marques, D L Kasper, A Shroff, F Michon, H J Jennings, M R Wessels
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  Characterization of mutations that inactivate the diphtheria toxin repressor gene (dtxR).

  Z Wang, M P Schmitt, R K Holmes
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  Regulation of major histocompatibility complex class II expression by Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin.

  H P Hughes, M Campos, L McDougall, T K Beskorwayne, A A Potter, L A Babiuk
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  Microtiter plate adherence assay and receptor analogs for Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae.

  Q Zhang, T F Young, R F Ross
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  Salmonella typhimurium loci involved in survival within macrophages.

  A J Bäumler, J G Kusters, I Stojiljkovic, F Heffron
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  Molecular analysis of urease genes from a newly identified uncultured species of Helicobacter.

  J V Solnick, J O'Rourke, A Lee, L S Tompkins
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  Interleukin-12 enhances murine survival against acute toxoplasmosis.

  I A Khan, T Matsuura, L H Kasper
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  Antigens shared by Leishmania species and Trypanosoma cruzi: immunological comparison of the acidic ribosomal P0 proteins.

  Y A Skeiky, D R Benson, M Elwasila, R Badaro, J M Burns, S G Reed
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  Systemic and mucosal immune responses in mice orally immunized with avirulent Salmonella typhimurium expressing a cloned Porphyromonas gingivalis hemagglutinin.

  D M Dusek, A Progulske-Fox, T A Brown
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  Transgene-encoded antiphosphorylcholine (T15+) antibodies protect CBA/N (xid) mice against infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae but not Trichinella spiralis.

  P L Lim, W F Choy, S T Chan, D T Leung, S S Ng
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  Evidence for adhesin activity in the acid-stable moiety of the phosphomannoprotein cell wall complex of Candida albicans.

  T Kanbe, J E Cutler
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  Hybrid hepatitis B virus core-pre-S proteins synthesized in avirulent Salmonella typhimurium and Salmonella typhi for oral vaccination.

  F Schödel, S M Kelly, D L Peterson, D R Milich, R Curtiss
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  Serum immunoglobulin G subclass concentrations in periodontally healthy and diseased individuals.

  H Lu, M Wang, J C Gunsolley, H A Schenkein, J G Tew
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  Evolution of CD4 T-cell subsets following infection of naive and memory immune mice with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

  J P Griffin, I M Orme
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  Infection dynamics and clinical features of cryptosporidiosis in SCID mice.

  J R Mead, N Ilksoy, X You, Y Belenkaya, M J Arrowood, M T Fallon, R F Schinazi
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  Construction and characterization of a fimA mutant of Porphyromonas gingivalis.

  N Hamada, K Watanabe, C Sasakawa, M Yoshikawa, F Yoshimura, T Umemoto
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  Free hydroxyl groups are not required for endotoxic activity of lipid A.

  K Tanamoto
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  Synergistic effect of adenovirus type 1 and nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae in a chinchilla model of experimental otitis media.

  K Suzuki, L O Bakaletz
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  Role of the sar locus of Staphylococcus aureus in induction of endocarditis in rabbits.

  A L Cheung, M R Yeaman, P M Sullam, M D Witt, A S Bayer
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  Structural and functional characterization of the human formyl peptide receptor ligand-binding region.

  S J Radel, R J Genco, E De Nardin
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  Cell-mediated responses of immunized vervet monkeys to defined Leishmania T-cell epitopes.

  A J Curry, A Jardim, J O Olobo, R W Olafson
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  Identification, purification, and characterization of a thiol-activated hemolysin (suilysin) of Streptococcus suis.

  A A Jacobs, P L Loeffen, A J van den Berg, P K Storm
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  Characterization of fibrinolytic activities of Treponema denticola.

  G Rosen, R Naor, S Kutner, M N Sela
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  Analysis of C3 deposition and degradation on Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

  G A Jarvis
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  Reduced replication of Toxoplasma gondii is necessary for induction of bradyzoite-specific antigens: a possible role for nitric oxide in triggering stage conversion.

  W Bohne, J Heesemann, U Gross
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  Evidence that the A2 fragment of Shiga-like toxin type I is required for holotoxin integrity.

  P R Austin, P E Jablonski, G A Bohach, A K Dunker, C J Hovde
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  Variable region sequences and idiotypic expression of a protective human immunoglobulin M antibody to capsular polysaccharides of Neisseria meningitidis group B and Escherichia coli K1.

  F H Azmi, A H Lucas, H V Raff, D M Granoff
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  Differences in the interactions of Nocardia asteroides with macrophage, endothelial, and astrocytoma cell lines.

  L Beaman, B L Beaman
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  Modulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa adherence to the corneal surface by mucus.

  S M Fleiszig, T S Zaidi, R Ramphal, G B Pier
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  Binding of Streptococcus mutans SR protein to human monocytes: production of tumor necrosis factor, interleukin 1, and interleukin 6.

  M Soell, F Holveck, M Schöller, R D Wachsmann, J P Klein
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  Effect of genetic switching of capsular type on virulence of Streptococcus pneumoniae.

  T Kelly, J P Dillard, J Yother
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  Depletion of T-cell subpopulations results in exacerbation of myocarditis and parasitism in experimental Chagas' disease.

  R L Tarleton, J Sun, L Zhang, M Postan
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  Formaldehyde treatment of proteins can constrain presentation to T cells by limiting antigen processing.

  A di Tommaso, M T de Magistris, M Bugnoli, I Marsili, R Rappuoli, S Abrignani
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  Characterization of the C-terminal domains of intimin-like proteins of enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, Citrobacter freundii, and Hafnia alvei.

  G Frankel, D C Candy, P Everest, G Dougan
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  Site-directed mutagenesis of the alpha-toxin gene of Staphylococcus aureus: role of histidines in toxin activity in vitro and in a murine model.

  B E Menzies, D S Kernodle
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  Immunoglobulin G antibody responses to polyvalent pneumococcal vaccine in children in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

  W S Pomat, D Lehmann, R C Sanders, D J Lewis, J Wilson, S Rogers, T Dyke, M P Alpers
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  Streptococcus uberis resists the bactericidal action of bovine neutrophils despite the presence of bound immunoglobulin.

  J A Leigh, T R Field
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  Protein expression by the protozoan Hartmannella vermiformis upon contact with its bacterial parasite Legionella pneumophila.

  Y abu Kwaik, B S Fields, N C Engleberg
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  Molecular characterization and phylogenetic distribution of the streptococcal superantigen gene (ssa) from Streptococcus pyogenes.

  K B Reda, V Kapur, J A Mollick, J G Lamphear, J M Musser, R R Rich
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  Genotypic heterogeneity within Giardia lamblia isolates demonstrated by M13 DNA fingerprinting.

  S Carnaby, P H Katelaris, A Naeem, M J Farthing
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  Antigen-specific T-cell responses during primary and secondary Listeria monocytogenes infection.

  S Daugelat, C H Ladel, B Schoel, S H Kaufmann
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  Diversity of cultivable and uncultivable oral spirochetes from a patient with severe destructive periodontitis.

  B K Choi, B J Paster, F E Dewhirst, U B Göbel
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  Pseudomonas aeruginosa outer membrane adhesins for human respiratory mucus glycoproteins.

  C Carnoy, A Scharfman, E Van Brussel, G Lamblin, R Ramphal, P Roussel
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  Cloning and characterization of a potentially protective chitinase-like recombinant antigen from Wuchereria bancrofti.

  N Raghavan, D O Freedman, P C Fitzgerald, T R Unnasch, E A Ottesen, T B Nutman
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  Specific immune responses are required to control parasitemia in Babesia equi infection.

  D P Knowles, L S Kappmeyer, L E Perryman
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  Isolation and characterization of Pseudomonas pseudomallei flagellin proteins.

  P J Brett, D C Mah, D E Woods
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  Protection of C3H/HeN mice from challenge with Borrelia burgdorferi through active immunization with OspA, OspB, or OspC, but not with OspD or the 83-kilodalton antigen.

  W S Probert, R B LeFebvre
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  Bovine antibody against Cryptosporidium parvum elicits a circumsporozoite precipitate-like reaction and has immunotherapeutic effect against persistent cryptosporidiosis in SCID mice.

  M W Riggs, V A Cama, H L Leary, C R Sterling
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  Antihistoplasma effect of activated mouse splenic macrophages involves production of reactive nitrogen intermediates.

  T E Lane, B A Wu-Hsieh, D H Howard
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  Search for the molecular basis of morphological variation in Mycobacterium avium.

  S Prinzis, B Rivoire, P J Brennan
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  Depletion of gamma interferon and tumor necrosis factor alpha in mice with Rickettsia conorii-infected endothelium: impairment of rickettsicidal nitric oxide production resulting in fatal, overwhelming rickettsial disease.

  H M Feng, V L Popov, D H Walker
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  Altered antigen-presenting capacity of human monocytes after phagocytosis of bacteria.

  J Pryjma, J Baran, M Ernst, M Woloszyn, H D Flad
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  Localization of immunoglobulin A-binding sites within M or M-like proteins of group A streptococci.

  D E Bessen
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  Production of tumor necrosis factor alpha in human leukocytes stimulated by Cryptococcus neoformans.

  S M Levitz, A Tabuni, H Kornfeld, C C Reardon, D T Golenbock
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  Characterization and pathological significance of monoclonal DNA-binding antibodies from mice with experimental malaria infection.

  C M Lloyd, I Collins, A J Belcher, N Manuelpillai, A O Wozencraft, N A Staines
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  Proteus mirabilis fimbriae: identification, isolation, and characterization of a new ambient-temperature fimbria.

  G Massad, F K Bahrani, H L Mobley
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  Mitogen- and antigen-specific proliferation of T cells in murine toxoplasmosis is inhibited by reactive nitrogen intermediates.

  E Candolfi, C A Hunter, J S Remington
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  Role of fimbriae expressed by nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae in pathogenesis of and protection against otitis media and relatedness of the fimbrin subunit to outer membrane protein A.

  T Sirakova, P E Kolattukudy, D Murwin, J Billy, E Leake, D Lim, T DeMaria, L Bakaletz
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  Factors affecting invasion of HT-29 and HEp-2 epithelial cells by organisms of the Mycobacterium avium complex.

  L E Bermudez, L S Young
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  Virulent Salmonella typhimurium-induced lymphocyte depletion and immunosuppression in chickens.

  J O Hassan, R Curtiss
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  A bactericidal antibody to Borrelia burgdorferi is directed against a variable region of the OspB protein.

  A Sadziene, M Jonsson, S Bergström, R K Bright, R C Kennedy, A G Barbour
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  Noradrenaline inhibits lipopolysaccharide-induced tumor necrosis factor and interleukin 6 production in human whole blood.

  T van der Poll, J Jansen, E Endert, H P Sauerwein, S J van Deventer
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  Characterization of a linear epitope on Chlamydia trachomatis serovar L2 DnaK-like protein.

  S Birkelund, B Larsen, A Holm, A G Lundemose, G Christiansen
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  Cloning and B-cell-epitope mapping of MPT64 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv.

  T Oettinger, A B Andersen
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  Roles of tumor necrosis factor alpha, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, platelet-activating factor, and arachidonic acid metabolites in interleukin-1-induced resistance to infection in neutropenic mice.

  M T Vogels, C C Hermsen, H L Huys, W M Eling, J W van der Meer
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  Assignment of functional domains involved in ADP-ribosylation and B-oligomer binding within the carboxyl terminus of the S1 subunit of pertussis toxin.

  K M Krueger, J T Barbieri
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  Partial destruction of Borrelia burgdorferi within ticks that engorged on OspE- or OspF-immunized mice.

  T P Nguyen, T T Lam, S W Barthold, S R Telford, R A Flavell, E Fikrig
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  Effect of growth factors on Escherichia coli alpha-hemolysin-induced mediator release from human inflammatory cells: involvement of the signal transduction pathway.

  B König, W König
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  Intravaginal inoculation of mice with the Chlamydia trachomatis mouse pneumonitis biovar results in infertility.

  L M de la Maza, S Pal, A Khamesipour, E M Peterson
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  Monoclonal antibodies to the circumsporozoite protein repeats of a Plasmodium vivax-like human malaria parasite and Plasmodium simiovale.

  V Udhayakumar, S H Qari, P Patterson, W E Collins, A A Lal
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  Penner's serotype 4 of Campylobacter jejuni has a lipopolysaccharide that bears a GM1 ganglioside epitope as well as one that bears a GD1 a epitope.

  N Yuki, T Taki, M Takahashi, K Saito, T Tai, T Miyatake, S Handa
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  Identification of two functional forms of immunoglobulin G3-binding protein expressed by group A streptococci.

  T D Pack, R A Otten, R H Raeder, M D Boyle
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  Vibrio cholerae O139 synonym bengal is closely related to Vibrio cholerae El Tor but has important differences.

  J A Johnson, C A Salles, P Panigrahi, M J Albert, A C Wright, R J Johnson, J G Morris
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  Cytotoxicity of extracellular Legionella pneumophila.

  L K Husmann, W Johnson
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  Mouse sialoadhesin is not responsible for Candida albicans yeast cell binding to splenic marginal zone macrophages.

  Y Han, S Kelm, M H Riesselman, P R Crocker, J E Cutler
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  Differential expression of the cytotoxic and hemolytic activities of the ApxIIA toxin from Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae.

  A H Tu, C Hausler, R Young, D K Struck
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  Lipopolysaccharides from Campylobacter jejuni associated with Guillain-Barré syndrome patients mimic human gangliosides in structure.

  G O Aspinall, S Fujimoto, A G McDonald, H Pang, L A Kurjanczyk, J L Penner
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  Patient cytokine response in transfusion-associated sepsis.

  S K McAllister, L A Bland, M J Arduino, S M Aguero, P N Wenger, W R Jarvis
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  Colonization of the murine oral cavity by Streptococcus gordonii.

  D M Loach, H F Jenkinson, G W Tannock
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  Bacterial translocation from the gastrointestinal tract to various segments of the mesenteric lymph node complex.

  M D Gautreaux, E A Deitch, R D Berg
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  Inhibition of nitric oxide synthesis leads to reduced parasitemia in murine Trypanosoma brucei infection.

  J Sternberg, N Mabbott, I Sutherland, F Y Liew
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  Variation in hydrogen peroxide sensitivity between different strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae is dependent on factors in addition to catalase activity.

  T M Alcorn, H Y Zheng, M R Gunther, D J Hassett, M S Cohen