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Fungal and Parasitic Infections

• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Induction of Capsule Growth in Cryptococcus neoformans by Mammalian Serum and CO₂

  Oscar Zaragoza, Bettina C. Fries, Arturo Casadevall
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  Differential Production of Macrophage Inflammatory Protein 1γ (MIP-1γ), Lymphotactin, and MIP-2 by CD4⁺ Th Subsets Polarized In Vitro and In Vivo

  Kerstin Müller, Susanne Bischof, Frank Sommer, Michael Lohoff, Werner Solbach, Tamás Laskay
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Infection by Trypanosoma cruzi Metacyclic Forms Deficient in gp82 but Expressing a Related Surface Molecule, gp30

  Mauro Cortez, Ivan Neira, Daniele Ferreira, Alejandro O. Luquetti, Anis Rassi, Vanessa D. Atayde, Nobuko Yoshida
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Therapeutic Activity of an Engineered Synthetic Killer Antiidiotypic Antibody Fragment against Experimental Mucosal and Systemic Candidiasis

  Luciano Polonelli, Walter Magliani, Stefania Conti, Luisa Bracci, Luisa Lozzi, Paolo Neri, Daniela Adriani, Flavia De Bernardis, Antonio Cassone
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Absence of the Macrophage Mannose Receptor in Mice Does Not Increase Susceptibility to Pneumocystis carinii Infection In Vivo

  Steve D. Swain, Sena J. Lee, Michel C. Nussenzweig, Allen G. Harmsen
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  The MIC3 Gene of Toxoplasma gondii Is a Novel Potent Vaccine Candidate against Toxoplasmosis

  Alaa Bassuny Ismael, Dalila Sekkai, Christine Collin, Daniel Bout, Marie-Noëlle Mévélec
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum Rifin Proteins Are Associated with Rapid Parasite Clearance and Asymptomatic Infections

  Mohamed S. Abdel-Latif, Klaus Dietz, Saadou Issifou, Peter G. Kremsner, Mo-Quen Klinkert
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Pathogenic Acanthamoeba spp. Secrete a Mannose-Induced Cytolytic Protein That Correlates with the Ability To Cause Disease

  Michael Hurt, Sudha Neelam, Jerry Niederkorn, Hassan Alizadeh
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  DNA Immunization with the Gene Encoding P4 Nuclease of Leishmania amazonensis Protects Mice against Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

  Kimberly Campbell, Hong Diao, Jiaxiang Ji, Lynn Soong
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  New Rat Model of Pneumocystis Pneumonia Induced by Anti-CD4⁺ T-Lymphocyte Antibodies

  Timothy D. Thullen, Alan D. Ashbaugh, Kieran R. Daly, Michael J. Linke, Paul E. Steele, Peter D. Walzer
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  PPE Antigen Rv2430c of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Induces a Strong B-Cell Response

  Rakesh Kumar Choudhary, Sangita Mukhopadhyay, Prachee Chakhaiyar, Naresh Sharma, K. J. R. Murthy, V. M. Katoch, Seyed E. Hasnain
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Plasma Interleukin-12 in Malaria-Tolerant Papua New Guineans: Inverse Correlation with Plasmodium falciparum Parasitemia and Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity

  Craig S. Boutlis, Moses Lagog, Sujittra Chaisavaneeyakorn, Mary A. Misukonis, Moses J. Bockarie, Charles S. Mgone, Zhiqiang Wang, Grant Morahan, J. Brice Weinberg, Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, Nicholas M. Anstey
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Role of Cytokines and Major Histocompatibility Complex Restriction in Mouse Resistance to Infection with a Natural Recombinant Strain (Type I-III) of Toxoplasma gondii

  Blima Fux, Cibele V. Rodrigues, Ricardo W. Portela, Neide M. Silva, Chunlei Su, David Sibley, Ricardo W. A. Vitor, Ricardo T. Gazzinelli
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Inhibition of the Complement Membrane Attack Complex by Schistosoma mansoni Paramyosin

  Jiusheng Deng, Daniel Gold, Philip T. LoVerde, Zvi Fishelson
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Modulation of T-Cell Costimulation as Immunotherapy or Immunochemotherapy in Experimental Visceral Leishmaniasis

  Henry W. Murray, Cristina M. Lu, Elaine B. Brooks, Richard E. Fichtl, Jennifer L. DeVecchio, Frederick P. Heinzel
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Lung Epithelial Cells and Extracellular Matrix Components Induce Expression of Pneumocystis carinii STE20, a Gene Complementing the Mating and Pseudohyphal Growth Defects of ste20 Mutant Yeast

  Theodore J. Kottom, Julia R. Köhler, Charles F. Thomas, Gerald R. Fink, Andrew H. Limper
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Human Phagocytic Cell Responses to Scedosporium apiospermum (Pseudallescheria boydii): Variable Susceptibility to Oxidative Injury

  Cristina Gil-Lamaignere, Emmanuel Roilides, Caron A. Lyman, Maria Simitsopoulou, Theodouli Stergiopoulou, Avgi Maloukou, Thomas J. Walsh
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Recombinant Leishmania major Secreting Biologically Active Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor Survives Poorly in Macrophages In Vitro and Delays Disease Development in Mice

  Carole Dumas, Anthony Muyombwe, Gaétan Roy, Claudine Matte, Marc Ouellette, Martin Olivier, Barbara Papadopoulou
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Characterization of gp70 and Anti-gp70 Monoclonal Antibodies in Paracoccidioides brasiliensis Pathogenesis

  Daniela de Mattos Grosso, Sandro Rogério de Almeida, Mario Mariano, Jose Daniel Lopes
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Inhibition of Platelet Adherence to Brain Microvasculature Protects against Severe Plasmodium berghei Malaria

  Guang Sun, Wun-Ling Chang, Jie Li, Seth Mark Berney, Donald Kimpel, Henri C. van der Heyde
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  The Leishmania infantum Acidic Ribosomal Protein P0 Administered as a DNA Vaccine Confers Protective Immunity to Leishmania major Infection in BALB/c Mice

  Salvador Iborra, Manuel Soto, Javier Carrión, Ana Nieto, Edgar Fernández, Carlos Alonso, Jose M. Requena
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Vaccination with Toxoplasma gondii SAG-1 Protein Is Protective against Congenital Toxoplasmosis in BALB/c Mice but Not in CBA/J Mice

  Valerie Letscher-Bru, Alexander W. Pfaff, Ahmed Abou-Bacar, Denis Filisetti, Elisabeth Antoni, Odile Villard, Jean-Paul Klein, Ermanno Candolfi
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Antibodies That Inhibit Plasmodium falciparum Adhesion to Chondroitin Sulfate A Are Associated with Increased Birth Weight and the Gestational Age of Newborns

  Patrick E. Duffy, Michal Fried
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Simultaneous Variation of the Immunodominant Outer Membrane Proteins, MSP2 and MSP3, during Anaplasma marginale Persistence In Vivo

  Kelly A. Brayton, Patrick F. M. Meeus, Anthony F. Barbet, Guy H. Palmer
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Mice Deficient in Nuclear Factor of Activated T-Cell Transcription Factor c2 Mount Increased Th2 Responses after Infection with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis and Decreased Th1 Responses after Mycobacterial Infection

  Klaus J. Erb, Thomas Twardzik, Alois Palmetshofer, Gisela Wohlleben, Ursula Tatsch, Edgar Serfling
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Novel Role for Albumin in Innate Immunity: Serum Albumin Inhibits the Growth of Blastomyces dermatitidis Yeast Form In Vitro

  Steven Giles, Charles Czuprynski
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Increased Density of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Coreceptors CCR5 and CXCR4 on the Surfaces of CD4⁺ T Cells and Monocytes of Patients with Schistosoma mansoni Infection

  W. Evan Secor, Amil Shah, Pauline M. N. Mwinzi, Bryson A. Ndenga, Caroline O. Watta, Diana M. S. Karanja
• Fungal and Parasitic Infections

  Legionella pneumophila Suppresses Macrophage Interleukin-12 Production by Activating the p42/44 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascade

  Kazuto Matsunaga, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Thomas W. Klein, Herman Friedman, Yoshimasa Yamamoto