Table of Contents

Articles

• Journal Article

  Plasmodium falciparum AARP1, a giant protein containing repeated motifs rich in asparagine and aspartate residues, is associated with the infected erythrocyte membrane.

  J C Barale, D Candelle, G Attal-Bonnefoy, P Dehoux, S Bonnefoy, R Ridley, L Pereira da Silva, G Langsley
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Diphosphoryl lipid A from Rhodobacter sphaeroides inhibits complexes that form in vitro between lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-binding protein, soluble CD14, and spectrally pure LPS.

  B W Jarvis, H Lichenstein, N Qureshi
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Complement-mediated lysis of Plasmodium falciparum gametes by malaria-immune human sera is associated with antibodies to the gamete surface antigen Pfs230.

  J Healer, D McGuinness, P Hopcroft, S Haley, R Carter, E Riley
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Characterization of human T- and B-cell epitopes in the C terminus of Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 1: evidence for poor T-cell recognition of polypeptides with numerous disulfide bonds.

  A Egan, M Waterfall, M Pinder, A Holder, E Riley
• Comparative Study | Journal Article

  Comparison of protection induced by immunization with recombinant proteins from different regions of merozoite surface protein 1 of Plasmodium yoelii.

  J H Tian, S Kumar, D C Kaslow, L H Miller
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  B7-1 and B7-2 monoclonal antibodies modulate the severity of murine Lyme arthritis.

  J Anguita, R Roth, S Samanta, R J Gee, S W Barthold, M Mamula, E Fikrig
• Journal Article

  Dipeptidyl-peptidase IV secreted by Aspergillus fumigatus, a fungus pathogenic to humans.

  A Beauvais, M Monod, J Wyniger, J P Debeaupuis, E Grouzmann, N Brakch, J Svab, A G Hovanessian, J P Latgé
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Attenuation and vaccine potential of aroQ mutants of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis.

  C P Simmons, A L Hodgson, R A Strugnell
• Journal Article

  Genetic control of antibody responses induced by recombinant Mycobacterium bovis BCG expressing a foreign antigen.

  M Lagranderie, R Lo-Man, E Dériaud, B Gicquel, M Gheorghiu, C Leclerc
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Mouse strain-dependent variation in the course and outcome of chlamydial genital tract infection is associated with differences in host response.

  T Darville, C W Andrews, K K Laffoon, W Shymasani, L R Kishen, R G Rank
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Gut intraepithelial lymphocytes induce immunity against Cryptosporidium infection through a mechanism involving gamma interferon production.

  R J Culshaw, G J Bancroft, V McDonald
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Genetic diversity among clinical and environmental isolates of Aspergillus fumigatus.

  J P Debeaupuis, J Sarfati, V Chazalet, J P Latgé
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Contribution of proteases and LasR to the virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa during corneal infections.

  M J Preston, P C Seed, D S Toder, B H Iglewski, D E Ohman, J K Gustin, J B Goldberg, G B Pier
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  The anthrax toxin activator gene atxA is associated with CO2-enhanced non-toxin gene expression in Bacillus anthracis.

  A R Hoffmaster, T M Koehler
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Effects of Ixodes scapularis and Borrelia burgdorferi on modulation of the host immune response: induction of a TH2 cytokine response in Lyme disease-susceptible (C3H/HeJ) mice but not in disease-resistant (BALB/c) mice.

  N Zeidner, M L Mbow, M Dolan, R Massung, E Baca, J Piesman
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  T-helper-cell cytokines in the early evolution of murine Lyme arthritis.

  I Kang, S W Barthold, D H Persing, L K Bockenstedt
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Cloning, characterization, and chromosomal mapping of a phospholipase (lecithinase) produced by Vibrio cholerae.

  A E Fiore, J M Michalski, R G Russell, C L Sears, J B Kaper
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Oral immunization with attenuated vaccine strains of Vibrio cholerae expressing a dodecapeptide repeat of the serine-rich Entamoeba histolytica protein fused to the cholera toxin B subunit induces systemic and mucosal antiamebic and anti-V. cholerae antibody responses in mice.

  E T Ryan, J R Butterton, T Zhang, M A Baker, S L Stanley, S B Calderwood
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Inflammatory bowel disease: an immunity-mediated condition triggered by bacterial infection with Helicobacter hepaticus.

  R J Cahill, C J Foltz, J G Fox, C A Dangler, F Powrie, D B Schauer
• Journal Article

  Identification and characterization of a metalloprotease activity from Helicobacter pylori.

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

  Protective immunity against Plasmodium yoelii malaria induced by immunization with particulate blood-stage antigens.

  J M Burns, P D Dunn, D M Russo
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  OspA antibodies inhibit the acquisition of Borrelia burgdorferi by Ixodes ticks.

  A M de Silva, D Fish, T R Burkot, Y Zhang, E Fikrig
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Structurally defined epitopes of Haemophilus ducreyi lipooligosaccharides recognized by monoclonal antibodies.

  H J Ahmed, A Frisk, J E Månsson, E K Schweda, T Lagergård
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Active sites of salivary proline-rich protein for binding to Porphyromonas gingivalis fimbriae.

  K Kataoka, A Amano, M Kuboniwa, H Horie, H Nagata, S Shizukuishi
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Nonspecific immune responses and mechanisms of resistance to Eimeria papillata infections in mice.

  M L Schito, J R Barta
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Binding of pulmonary surfactant proteins A and D to Aspergillus fumigatus conidia enhances phagocytosis and killing by human neutrophils and alveolar macrophages.

  T Madan, P Eggleton, U Kishore, P Strong, S S Aggrawal, P U Sarma, K B Reid
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Glycosphingolipid-binding protein of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato.

  K Kaneda, T Masuzawa, K Yasugami, T Suzuki, Y Suzuki, Y Yanagihara
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Intracellular Salmonella dublin induces substantial secretion of the 40-kilodalton subunit of interleukin-12 (IL-12) but minimal secretion of IL-12 as a 70-kilodalton protein in murine macrophages.

  K L Bost, J D Clements
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Evaluation of bacterial survival and phagocyte function with a fluorescence-based microplate assay.

  M U Shiloh, J Ruan, C Nathan
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Activation of the interleukin-1beta precursor by Treponema denticola: a potential role in chronic inflammatory periodontal diseases.

  A Beauséjour, N Deslauriers, D Grenier
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Neisserial porins may provide critical second signals to polysaccharide-activated murine B cells for induction of immunoglobulin secretion.

  C M Snapper, F R Rosas, M R Kehry, J J Mond, L M Wetzler
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Interaction of Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin B with cultured human intestinal epithelial cells.

  K L Chao, L A Dreyfus
• Journal Article

  Mechanisms involved in Helicobacter pylori-induced interleukin-8 production by a gastric cancer cell line, MKN45.

  M Aihara, D Tsuchimoto, H Takizawa, A Azuma, H Wakebe, Y Ohmoto, K Imagawa, M Kikuchi, N Mukaida, K Matsushima
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Successful therapy of chronic, nonhealing murine cutaneous leishmaniasis with sodium stibogluconate and gamma interferon depends on continued interleukin-12 production.

  J Li, S Sutterwala, J P Farrell
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Cystalysin, a 46-kilodalton cysteine desulfhydrase from Treponema denticola, with hemolytic and hemoxidative activities.

  L Chu, J L Ebersole, G P Kurzban, S C Holt
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Lipopolysaccharide and monophosphoryl lipid A differentially regulate interleukin-12, gamma interferon, and interleukin-10 mRNA production in murine macrophages.

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

  Effects of Porphyromonas gingivalis and Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharides on mononuclear phagocytes.

  F A Roberts, G J Richardson, S M Michalek
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Coexistence of CD14-dependent and independent pathways for stimulation of human monocytes by gram-positive bacteria.

  A Cauwels, E Wan, M Leismann, E Tuomanen
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Infection with Salmonella typhimurium modulates the immune response to Schistosoma mansoni glutathione-S-transferase.

  E E Comoy, C Vendeville, A Capron, G Thyphronitis
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  The baboon as a nonhuman primate model for assessing the effects of maternal immunization with Haemophilus influenzae type b polysaccharide vaccines.

  M H Shearer, A H Lucas, P W Anderson, K D Carey, H B Jenson, T C Chanh, J R Stanley, R C Kennedy
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Prognostic value of anti-Plasmodium falciparum-specific immunoglobulin G3, cytokines, and their soluble receptors in West African patients with severe malaria.

  J L Sarthou, G Angel, G Aribot, C Rogier, A Dieye, A Toure Balde, B Diatta, P Seignot, C Roussilhon
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Activation of host cell protein kinase C by enteropathogenic Escherichia coli.

  J K Crane, J S Oh
• Journal Article

  Complement fragment C5a and inflammatory cytokines in neutrophil recruitment during intramammary infection with Escherichia coli.

  D E Shuster, M E Kehrli, P Rainard, M Paape
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Phenotypic resistance to thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein in vitro is correlated with enhanced virulence in experimental endocarditis due to Staphylococcus aureus.

  V K Dhawan, M R Yeaman, A L Cheung, E Kim, P M Sullam, A S Bayer
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Potential role of autoantibodies in the regulation of cytokine responses during bacterial infections.

  M Bakhiet, A Diab, Mahamustafa, Jiezhu, L Lindqvist, H Link
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Ecto-ADP-ribosyltransferase activity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exoenzyme S.

  D A Knight, J T Barbieri
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  The endotoxin of Helicobacter pylori is a modulator of host-dependent gastritis.

  T Sakagami, J Vella, M F Dixon, J O'Rourke, F Radcliff, P Sutton, T Shimoyama, K Beagley, A Lee
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Pathogenesis of tuberculosis in mice exposed to low and high doses of an environmental mycobacterial saprophyte before infection.

  R Hernandez-Pando, L Pavön, K Arriaga, H Orozco, V Madrid-Marina, G Rook
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Human papillomavirus type 16 virus-like particles expressed in attenuated Salmonella typhimurium elicit mucosal and systemic neutralizing antibodies in mice.

  D Nardelli-Haefliger, R B Roden, J Benyacoub, R Sahli, J P Kraehenbuhl, J T Schiller, P Lachat, A Potts, P De Grandi
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Sensitization of human umbilical vein endothelial cells to Shiga toxin: involvement of protein kinase C and NF-kappaB.

  C B Louise, M C Tran, T G Obrig
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Colonization of congenitally immunodeficient mice with probiotic bacteria.

  R D Wagner, T Warner, L Roberts, J Farmer, E Balish
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Immunologic and genetic analyses of VmpA of a neurotropic strain of Borrelia turicatae.

  D Cadavid, P M Pennington, T A Kerentseva, S Bergström, A G Barbour
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Immunization with an acellular vaccine consisting of the outer membrane complex of Chlamydia trachomatis induces protection against a genital challenge.

  S Pal, I Theodor, E M Peterson, L M de la Maza
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  A role for PACE4 in the proteolytic activation of anthrax toxin protective antigen.

  V M Gordon, A Rehemtulla, S H Leppla
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Identification of a Coccidioides immitis antigen 2 domain that expresses B-cell-reactive epitopes.

  Y Zhu, V Tryon, D M Magee, R A Cox
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Safety and immunogenicity in humans of an attenuated Salmonella typhi vaccine vector strain expressing plasmid-encoded hepatitis B antigens stabilized by the Asd-balanced lethal vector system.

  C O Tacket, S M Kelly, F Schödel, G Losonsky, J P Nataro, R Edelman, M M Levine, R Curtiss
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Borrelia burgdorferi-pulsed dendritic cells induce a protective immune response against tick-transmitted spirochetes.

  M L Mbow, N Zeidner, N Panella, R G Titus, J Piesman
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Experimental infection of native human ureteral tissue with Neisseria gonorrhoeae: adhesion, invasion, intracellular fate, exocytosis, and passage through a stratified epithelium.

  I M Mosleh, H J Boxberger, M J Sessler, T F Meyer
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Protective role of antimannan and anti-aspartyl proteinase antibodies in an experimental model of Candida albicans vaginitis in rats.

  F De Bernardis, M Boccanera, D Adriani, E Spreghini, G Santoni, A Cassone
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Expression profile and subcellular location of the plasmid-encoded virulence (Spv) proteins in wild-type Salmonella dublin.

  A El-Gedaily, G Paesold, M Krause
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Invasin-dependent and invasin-independent pathways for translocation of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis across the Peyer's patch intestinal epithelium.

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

  Effects of granulocyte and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factors in a neutropenic murine model of trichosporonosis.

  H Muranaka, M Suga, K Nakagawa, K Sato, Y Gushima, M Ando
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Development of two monoclonal antibodies against Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite surface protein 2 and mapping of B-cell epitopes.

  Y Charoenvit, V Fallarme, W O Rogers, J B Sacci, M Kaur, J C Aguiar, L F Yuan, G Corradin, E Andersen, B Wizel, R A Houghten, A Oloo, P De la Vega, S L Hoffman
• Journal Article

  Local expression of tumor necrosis factor alpha in an experimental model of acute osteomyelitis in rats.

  A J Littlewood-Evans, M R Hattenberger, C Lüscher, A Pataki, O Zak, T O'Reilly
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Synthesis, stability, and subcellular distribution of major histocompatibility complex class II molecules in Langerhans cells infected with Leishmania major.

  S Flohé, T Lang, H Moll
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Role of epithelial interleukin-8 (IL-8) and neutrophil IL-8 receptor A in Escherichia coli-induced transuroepithelial neutrophil migration.

  G Godaly, A E Proudfoot, R E Offord, C Svanborg, W W Agace
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Mice lacking the gamma interferon receptor have an impaired granulomatous reaction to Schistosoma mansoni infection.

  S A Rezende, V R Oliveira, A M Silva, J B Alves, A M Goes, L F Reis
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Role of vacuolating cytotoxin in gastritis due to Helicobacter pylori in gnotobiotic piglets.

  K A Eaton, T L Cover, M K Tummuru, M J Blaser, S Krakowka
• Journal Article

  Characterization of a recombinant fragment that contains a carbohydrate recognition domain of the filamentous hemagglutinin.

  D F Liu, E Phillips, T M Wizemann, M M Siegel, K Tabei, J L Cowell, E Tuomanen
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Phase variation affects long-term survival of Bordetella bronchiseptica in professional phagocytes.

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

  Adherence of Vibrio cholerae to cultured differentiated human intestinal cells: an in vitro colonization model.

  J A Bénitez, R G Spelbrink, A Silva, T E Phillips, C M Stanley, M Boesman-Finkelstein, R A Finkelstein
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  A novel cryohemagglutinin associated with adherence of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli.

  T Yamamoto, N Wakisaka, T Nakae
• Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

  Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin lacks superantigenic activity but induces an interleukin-6 response from human peripheral blood mononuclear cells.

  T Krakauer, B Fleischer, D L Stevens, B A McClane, B G Stiles
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Site-specific mutagenesis of Clostridium perfringens alpha-toxin: replacement of Asp-56, Asp-130, or Glu-152 causes loss of enzymatic and hemolytic activities.

  M Nagahama, T Nakayama, K Michiue, J Sakurai
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Effect of thermal injury on the adherence of Candida albicans to murine splenic tissue.

  A N Neely, M M Orloff, I A Holder, D P Healy
• Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

  Purification and identification of Haemophilus ducreyi cytotoxin by use of a neutralizing monoclonal antibody.

  M Purvén, A Frisk, I Lönnroth, T Lagergard