Table of Contents

Articles

• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Transient and persistent experimental infection of nonhuman primates with Helicobacter pylori: implications for human disease.

  A Dubois, D E Berg, E T Incecik, N Fiala, L M Heman-Ackah, G I Perez-Perez, M J Blaser
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Plasmodium falciparum stimuli for human gammadelta T cells are related to phosphorylated antigens of mycobacteria.

  C Behr, R Poupot, M A Peyrat, Y Poquet, P Constant, P Dubois, M Bonneville, J J Fournie
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Capsular polysaccharide of Cryptococcus neoformans induces proinflammatory cytokine release by human neutrophils.

  C Retini, A Vecchiarelli, C Monari, C Tascini, F Bistoni, T R Kozel
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  The major surface protein complex of Treponema denticola depolarizes and induces ion channels in HeLa cell membranes.

  D A Mathers, W K Leung, J C Fenno, Y Hong, B C McBride
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Identification of a transferrin-binding protein from Borrelia burgdorferi.

  J A Carroll, D W Dorward, F C Gherardini
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Epidermal growth factor-binding protein in Mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a possible role in the mechanism of infection.

  L E Bermudez, M Petrofsky, K Shelton
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  The Bcg/Ity/Lsh locus: genetic transfer of resistance to infections in C57BL/6J mice transgenic for the Nramp1 Gly169 allele.

  G Govoni, S Vidal, S Gauthier, E Skamene, D Malo, P Gros
• Comparative Study | Journal Article

  Specific induction of fibronectin binding activity by hemoglobin in Candida albicans grown in defined media.

  S Yan, E Nègre, J A Cashel, N Guo, C A Lyman, T J Walsh, D D Roberts
• Comparative Study | Journal Article

  Induction of an extracellular esterase from Candida albicans and some of its properties.

  R Tsuboi, H Komatsuzaki, H Ogawa
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Role of gamma interferon in a neonatal mouse model of group B streptococcal disease.

  V Cusumano, G Mancuso, F Genovese, D Delfino, C Beninati, E Losi, G Teti
• Case Reports | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Miller-Fisher syndrome associated with Campylobacter jejuni bearing lipopolysaccharide molecules that mimic human ganglioside GD3.

  S Salloway, L A Mermel, M Seamans, G O Aspinall, J E Nam Shin, L A Kurjanczyk, J L Penner
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Antibody-independent effector mechanisms in resistance to the intestinal nematode parasite Trichuris muris.

  K J Else, R K Grencis
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Immunity against Yersinia enterocolitica by vaccination with Yersinia HSP60 immunostimulating complexes or Yersinia HSP60 plus interleukin-12.

  A Noll, AutenriethIB
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Th1-like antifilarial immune responses predominate in antigen-negative persons.

  K A Dimock, M L Eberhard, P J Lammie
• Journal Article

  Mechanism of membrane damage by El Tor hemolysin of Vibrio cholerae O1.

  H Ikigai, A Akatsuka, H Tsujiyama, T Nakae, T Shimamura
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Selective killing of human monocytes and cytokine release provoked by sphingomyelinase (beta-toxin) of Staphylococcus aureus.

  I Walev, U Weller, S Strauch, T Foster, S Bhakdi
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Identification and characterization of the Yersinia enterocolitica gsrA gene, which protectively responds to intracellular stress induced by macrophage phagocytosis and to extracellular environmental stress.

  T Yamamoto, T Hanawa, S Ogata, S Kamiya
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Invasion of epithelial cells by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans: a dynamic, multistep process.

  D H Meyer, J E Lippmann, P M Fives-Taylor
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Invasion of primary nasopharyngeal epithelial cells by Neisseria meningitidis is controlled by phase variation of multiple surface antigens.

  F P de Vries, A van Der Ende, J P van Putten, J Dankert
• Comparative Study | Journal Article

  Mitogenic activities of amino acid substitution mutants of staphylococcal enterotoxin B in human and mouse lymphocyte cultures.

  R J Neill, M Jett, R Crane, J Wootres, C Welch, D Hoover, P Gemski
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Cytokine production by human epithelial and endothelial cells following exposure to oral viridans streptococci involves lectin interactions between bacteria and cell surface receptors.

  A Vernier, M Diab, M Soell, G Haan-Archipoff, A Beretz, D Wachsmann, J P Klein
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Iron uptake and iron-repressible polypeptides in Yersinia pestis.

  T S Lucier, J D Fetherston, R R Brubaker, R D Perry
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Identification of surface-exposed B-cell epitopes on high molecular-weight adhesion proteins of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae.

  S J Barenkam, J W St Geme
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Novel insights into the genetics, biochemistry, and immunocytochemistry of the 30-kilodalton major extracellular protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

  G Harth, B Y Lee, J Wang, D L Clemens, M A Horwitz
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Localization of a yeast-phase-specific gene product to the cell wall in Histoplasma capsulatum.

  C H Weaver, K C Sheehan, E J Keath
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Engineered deltaguaB-A deltavirG Shigella flexneri 2a strain CVD 1205: construction, safety, immunogenicity, and potential efficacy as a mucosal vaccine.

  F R Noriega, G Losonsky, C Lauderbaugh, F M Liao, J Y Wang, M M Levine
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Induction of cytokine granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and chemokine macrophage inflammatory protein 2 mRNAs in macrophages by Legionella pneumophila or Salmonella typhimurium attachment requires different ligand-receptor systems.

  Y Yamamoto, T W Klein, H Friedman
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Experimental immunization of rats with a Streptococcus mutans 59-kilodalton glucan-binding protein protects against dental caries.

  D J Smith, M A Taubman
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Counterprotective effect of erythrocytes in experimental bacterial peritonitis is due to scavenging of nitric oxide and reactive oxygen intermediates.

  Y M Kim, S J Hong, T R Billiar, R L Simmons
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Escherichia coli hemolysin mutants with altered target cell specificity.

  S Pellett, R A Welch
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Intact immune defenses are required for mice to resist the ts-4 vaccine strain of Toxoplasma gondii.

  P C Sayles, L L Johnson
• Journal Article

  Intermedilysin, a novel cytotoxin specific for human cells secreted by Streptococcus intermedius UNS46 isolated from a human liver abscess.

  H Nagamune, C Ohnishi, A Katsuura, K Fushitani, R A Whiley, A Tsuji, Y Matsuda
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Purification and characterization of an extracellular secretogenic non-membrane-damaging cytotoxin produced by clinical strains of Vibrio cholerae non-O1.

  P K Saha, H Koley, G B Nair
• Journal Article

  Brucella abortus as a potential vaccine candidate: induction of interleukin-12 secretion and enhanced B7.1 and B7.2 and intercellular adhesion molecule 1 surface expression in elutriated human monocytes stimulated by heat-inactivated B. abortus.

  M Zaitseva, H Golding, J Manischewitz, D Webb, B Golding
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Escherichia coli cellulitis in broiler chickens: clonal relationships among strains and analysis of virulence-associated factors of isolates from diseased birds.

  M Ngeleka, J K Kwaga, D G White, T S Whittam, C Riddell, R Goodhope, A A Potter, B Allan
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Peroxynitrite contributes to the candidacidal activity of nitric oxide-producing macrophages.

  A Vazquez-Torres, J Jones-Carson, E Balish
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Cloning of a DNA fragment encoding a heme-repressible hemoglobin-binding outer membrane protein from Haemophilus influenzae.

  H Jin, Z Ren, J M Pozsgay, C Elkins, P W Whitby, D J Morton, T L Stull
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Influence of agr on fibrinogen binding in Staphylococcus aureus Newman.

  C Wolz, D McDevitt, T J Foster, A L Cheung
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Neurotoxicity of glia activated by gram-positive bacterial products depends on nitric oxide production.

  Y S Kim, M G Täuber
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Characterization of elastase-deficient clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

  A N Hamood, J Griswold, J Colmer
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Cloning, sequencing, expression, and protective capacity of the oma87 gene encoding the Pasteurella multocida 87-kilodalton outer membrane antigen.

  C G Ruffolo, B Adler
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Immune response in mice following immunization with DNA encoding fragment C of tetanus toxin.

  R Anderson, X M Gao, A Papakonstantinopoulou, M Roberts, G Dougan
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Target organs of infection in guinea pigs with acquired congenital syphilis.

  K Wicher, F Abbruscato, V Wicher, R Baughn, G T Noordhoek
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Outer surface lipoproteins of Borrelia burgdorferi activate vascular endothelium in vitro.

  T J Sellati, L D Abrescia, J D Radolf, M B Furie
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Induction of cytokine gene expression by listeriolysin O and roles of macrophages and NK cells.

  T Nishibori, H Xiong, I Kawamura, M Arakawa, M Mitsuyama
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Polysaccharide side chains are not required for attaching and effacing adhesion of Escherichia coli O157:H7.

  F Cockerill, G Beebakhee, R Soni, P Sherman
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Naturally acquired Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in gene disruption mutant mice: roles of distinct T-cell populations in infection.

  R Hanano, K Reifenberg, S H Kaufmann
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  The (alpha2-->8)-linked polysialic acid capsule of group B Neisseria meningitidis modifies multiple steps during interaction with human macrophages.

  R C Read, S Zimmerli, C Broaddus, D A Sanan, D S Stephens, J D Ernst
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Pathogenicity island evaluation in Escherichia coli K1 by crossing with laboratory strain K-12.

  C A Bloch, C K Rode
• Journal Article

  Involvement of reactive oxygen intermediates in tumor necrosis factor alpha-dependent bacteriostasis of Mycobacterium avium.

  A Sarmento, R Appelberg
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Interleukin-6 is required for a protective immune response to systemic Escherichia coli infection.

  S A Dalrymple, R Slattery, D M Aud, M Krishna, L A Lucian, R Murray
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Roles for tumor necrosis factor alpha and nitric oxide in resistance of rat alveolar macrophages to Legionella pneumophila.

  S J Skerrett, T R Martin
• Comparative Study | Journal Article

  Characterization of echinocandin-resistant mutants of Candida albicans: genetic, biochemical, and virulence studies.

  M B Kurtz, G Abruzzo, A Flattery, K Bartizal, J A Marrinan, W Li, J Milligan, K Nollstadt, C M Douglas
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Role of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lipase in inflammatory mediator release from human inflammatory effector cells (platelets, granulocytes, and monocytes.

  B König, K E Jaeger, A E Sage, M L Vasil, W König
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Biochemical and molecular analysis of phospholipase C and phospholipase D activity in mycobacteria.

  K A Johansen, R E Gill, M L Vasil
• Journal Article

  Proteins of 30 and 36 kilodaltons, membrane constituents of the Staphylococcus aureus L form, induce production of tumor necrosis factor alpha and activate the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 long terminal repeat.

  A Akashi, S Ono, K Kuwano, S Arai
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Evidence for a predominant proinflammatory conjunctival cytokine response in individuals with trachoma.

  L Bobo, N Novak, H Mkocha, S Vitale, S West, T C Quinn
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Increased susceptibility to primary infection with Listeria monocytogenes in germfree mice may be due to lack of accumulation of L-selectin+ CD44+ T cells in sites of inflammation.

  H Inagaki, T Suzuki, K Nomoto, Y Yoshikai
• Comparative Study | Journal Article

  Minimal requirements for murine resistance to infection with Francisella tularensis LVS.

  K L Elkins, T R Rhinehart-Jones, S J Culkin, D Yee, R K Winegar
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Translocation of Shiga toxin across polarized intestinal cells in tissue culture.

  D W Acheson, R Moore, S De Breucker, L Lincicome, M Jacewicz, E Skutelsky, G T Keusch
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Regulated expression of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin in naturally cpe-negative type A, B, and C isolates of C. perfringens.

  J R Czeczulin, R E Collie, B A McClane
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Protective immune responses to apical membrane antigen 1 of Plasmodium chabaudi involve recognition of strain-specific epitopes.

  P E Crewther, M L Matthew, R H Flegg, R F Anders
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Influence of lipoteichoic acid structure on recognition by the macrophage scavenger receptor.

  J W Greenberg, W Fischer, K A Joiner
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  The Cu,Zn superoxide dismutases of Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus nidulans, and Aspergillus terreus: purification and biochemical comparison with the Aspergillus fumigatus Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase.

  M D Holdom, R J Hay, A J Hamilton
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Evidence for presence in the cell wall of Candida albicans of a protein related to the hsp70 family.

  J L López-Ribot, H M Alloush, B J Masten, W L Chaffin
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Babesia bovis rhoptry-associated protein 1 is immunodominant for T helper cells of immune cattle and contains T-cell epitopes conserved among geographically distant B. bovis strains.

  W C Brown, T F McElwain, B J Ruef, C E Suarez, V Shkap, C G Chitko-McKown, W Tuo, A C Rice-Ficht, G H Palmer
• Journal Article

  Role of nitric oxide in host defense against an extracellular, metazoan parasite, Brugia malayi.

  T V Rajan, P Porte, J A Yates, L Keefer, L D Shultz
• Comparative Study | Journal Article

  Characterization of the murine antibody response to peptides representing the variable domains of the major outer membrane protein of Chlamydia pneumoniae.

  E M Peterson, X Cheng, Z Qu, L M de La Maza
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Distinct characteristics of initiation of the classical and alternative complement pathways by Candida albicans.

  T R Kozel, L C Weinhold, D M Lupan
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Relative significance of mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin and toxin-coregulated pili in colonization of infant mice by Vibrio cholerae El Tor.

  S R Attridge, P A Manning, J Holmgren, G Jonson
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Functional characterization of a sialyltransferase-deficient mutant of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

  M J Gill, D P McQuillen, J P van Putten, L M Wetzler, J Bramley, H Crooke, N J Parsons, J A Cole, H Smith
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Microtubule-disrupting agents inhibit nitric oxide production in murine peritoneal macrophages stimulated with lipopolysaccharide or paclitaxel (Taxol).

  T Kirikae, F Kirikae, Y Oghiso, M Nakano
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  The Salmonella virulence plasmid enhances Salmonella-induced lysis of macrophages and influences inflammatory responses.

  L A Guilloteau, T S Wallis, A V Gautier, S MacIntyre, D J Platt, A J Lax
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Sequence of the toxic shock syndrome toxin gene (tstH) borne by strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from patients with Kawasaki syndrome.

  R L Deresiewicz, J Flaxenburg, K Leng, D L Kasper
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Stimulation of the ceramide pathway partially mimics lipopolysaccharide-induced responses in murine peritoneal macrophages.

  S A Barber, G Detore, R McNally, S N Vogel
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Characterization of PepB, a group B streptococcal oligopeptidase.

  B Lin, W F Averett, J Novak, W W Chatham, S K Hollingshead, J E Coligan, M L Egan, D G Pritchard
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Interleukin-8 gene expression in Staphylococcus aureus-infected endothelial cells.

  L Yao, F D Lowy, J W Berman
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Purification and characterization of the staphylococcal slime-associated antigen and its occurrence among Staphylococcus epidermis clinical isolates.

  L Baldassarri, G Donnelli, A Gelosia, M C Voglino, A W Simpson, G D Christensen
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Adhesion of K88ab to guinea pig erythrocytes: effect on membrane enzyme activities.

  M J Caloca, J Soler, S Suárez
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Pathogenicity of Mycoplasma fermentans and Mycoplasma penetrans in experimentally infected chicken embryos.

  M M Hayes, B J Li, D J Wear, S C Lo
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Ingestion of Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, and Escherichia coli by human peritoneal mesothelial cells.

  C E Visser, J J Brouwer-Steenbergen, I L Schadee-Eestermans, S Meijer, R T Krediet, R H Beelen
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor: involvement in control of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in mice.

  E Olivares Fontt, C Heirman, K Thielemans, B Vray
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Tumor necrosis factor primes neutrophils to kill Staphylococcus aureus by an oxygen-dependent mechanism and Plasmodium falciparum by an oxygen-independent mechanism.

  I C Kowanko, A Ferrante, G Clemente, L M Kumaratilake
• Comparative Study | Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Structural similarities among malaria toxins insulin second messengers, and bacterial endotoxin.

  H N Caro, N A Sheikh, J Taverne, J H Playfair, T W Rademacher