The detergent octylglucoside neutralizes lipopolysaccharide in a specific manner.

abstract：:The aroB gene from Helicobacter pylori strain P1 was cloned and further characterized by sequence analysis and by functional complementation of the aroB mutation in Escherichia coli. The aroB gene encodes the enzyme 3-dehydroquinate synthase which catalyzes one of the early steps in the shikimate pathway. This pathway...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Bereswill S,Fassbinder F,Völzing C,Haas R,Reuter K,Ficner R,Kist M

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen-day-old cultures of dissociated newborn mouse brain cells were infected separately with different strains of vaccinia virus and a strain of measles virus. Using the indirect immunofluorescence technique we found that under the experimental conditions in these cultures both measles and the neurotropic strain o...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Beranek CF,Schäfer R,Bologa L,Herschkowitz N

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Turkey is seeing a steady rise in rates of HIV infection in the country. The number of individuals with HIV/AIDS was greater than 7000 in 2014 according to data released by the Ministry of Health, and heterosexual contacts were reported to be the main transmission routes. Istanbul has the highest number of reported ca...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Köksal MO,Beka H,Lübke N,Verheyen J,Eraksoy H,Cagatay A,Kaiser R,Akgül B,Agacfidan A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface proteins of nine Campylobacter jejuni strains belonging to three different serovia were extracted with lysozyme/ethylenediamine-tetraacetic acid. The preparations bound to isolated murine small intestinal cells and to a membrane fraction (MF) of isolated brush borders obtained by detergent treatment with Trito...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Moser I,Hellmann E

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiviral activity of mouse fibroblast interferon against vesicular stomatitis virus was investigated in L-929 mouse fibroblasts and the ganglioside-deficient L-929 mutant cells (ATCC clone NCTC 2071). Although it has been widely reported that gangliosides serve as primary receptors for interferon at the cellular ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Schiffmann D,Koschel K

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbapenems are important last-line antibiotics for the treatment of hospital infections. Enterobacteriaceae (such as Klebsiella pneumoniae or Escherichia coli) expressing the "New Delhi Metallo-β-lactamase" gene bla(NDM-1) are resistant to carbapenems and were predicted to become a major global health problem. To cop...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Krüttgen A,Razavi S,Imöhl M,Ritter K

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently we demonstrated that lack of mecA transcription was responsible for the decreased methicillin resistance phenotype of strongly slime-negative Staphylococcus epidermidis phase variants [Mempel M, Feucht H, Ziehbuhr W, Endres M, Laufs R, Grüter L (1994) Antimicrob Agents Chemother 38: 1251-1255]. In the present...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Mempel M,Müller E,Hoffmann R,Feucht H,Laufs R,Grüter L

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin B (SpeB) is known to be involved in group A streptococcus (GAS) survival in blood, but the detailed mechanism is not clear. For clarification of this issue, speB isogenic mutants of strains M6 and M49 were constructed by using an integrational plasmid and confirmed by Southern blot...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Chiang-Ni C,Wang CH,Tsai PJ,Chuang WJ,Lin YS,Lin MT,Liu CC,Wu JJ

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections affect 71 million people worldwide, often resulting in severe liver damage. Since 2014 highly efficient therapies based on directly acting antivirals (DAAs) are available, offering cure rates of almost 100%, if the infection is diagnosed in time. It took more than a decade to...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Lohmann V

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pertussis Toxin (PTx) is one of the most important virulence factors of Bordetella pertussis, the cause of whooping cough. Therefore, the inactivated toxin is an obligatory constituent of acellular pertussis vaccines. It is described in the literature that both native PTx and recombinant Pertussis Toxin (PTg) activate...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Bache C,Spreitzer I,Becker B,Loeschner B,Rosskopf U,Hanschmann KM,Schwanig M,Schneider CK,Lieb B,Montag T

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Head and neck cancers constitute a multifactorial global disease burden and are associated with human papilloma virus (HPV) as a possible risk factor. The aim of the study is to understand the relationship between HPV and the development of head and neck lesions in Indian patients. To this end, frequency of HPV was as...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Sarkar S,Alam N,Chakraborty J,Biswas J,Mandal SS,Roychoudhury S,Panda CK

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spleen T lymphocytes from mice undergoing acute infection with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCM virus) were negatively selected by treatment with anti-Lyt or anti-L3T4 antibodies and complement. The subsets thus obtained were tested for their potential to lyse LCM virus-infected target cells in vitro and to con...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Assmann-Wischer U,Simon MM,Lehmann-Grube F

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two antigens were isolated from the culture filtrates of H37Ra Mycobacterium tuberculosis by immunoabsorbent affinity chromatography, M. tuberculosis antigen 5 and immunoabsorbent affinity column-purified antigen (IAP). The potential application of these two mycobacterial antigens in the laboratory diagnosis of tuberc...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Krishnan VV,Mathai A

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. Previous studies have demonstrated that the difference among clinical forms of leprosy can be associated with the immune response of patients, mainly by T helper (Th) and regulatory T cells (Tregs). Then, aiming at clarifying the immune response, ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Azevedo MCS,Marques H,Binelli LS,Malange MSV,Devides AC,Silva EA,Fachin LRV,Ghidella CC,Soares CT,Garlet GP,Rosa PS,Belone AFF,Trombone APF

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a summary of the recent work on some glycosidases of sand flies and their Leishmania parasites. Glycosidases catalyze the hydrolysis of complex sugar subunits of polysaccharides into simple sugars. Leishmania major parasites secrete chitinase and N-acetylglucosaminase, which enables them to survive in the gut ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Jacobson RL,Schlein Y,Eisenberger CL

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli isolates of serotype O6:K5 are the most common causative agents of cystitis and pyelonephritis in adults. To answer the question, as to whether strains of this particular serotype represent one special clonal group, out of a collection of 34 serotype O6:K5 isolates [Zingler et al. (1990) Zentralbl. Ba...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Zingler G,Blum G,Falkenhagen U,Orskov I,Orskov F,Hacker J,Ott M

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the antigen structure of yeast cell walls is well known, the immunological cross reactivity of these is often difficult to interpret. The cross reactions of eight yeasts were tested in rabbit hyperimmune sera by the indirect immunofluorescence test. Among the eight species examined were the medically important y...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Müller HL

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgG subclass antibodies to Pseudomonas aeruginosa outer membrane proteins (OMP) were investigated in serum from cystic fibrosis (CF) patients by immunoblotting and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Fifteen patients (eight in good and seven in poor clinical condition) have been followed for an average of 13 ye...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Pressler T,Kronborg G,Shand GH,Mansa B,Høiby N

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fatal inhalation infection caused by Bacillus anthracis results from a complex pathogenic cycle involving release of toxins by bacteria that germinate from spores. Currently available vaccines against anthrax consist of protective antigen (PA), one of the anthrax toxin components. However, these PA-based vaccines ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Sinha K,Bhatnagar R

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low public awareness of cytomegalovirus (CMV) results from the only mild and transient symptoms that it causes in the healthy immunocompetent host, so that primary infection usually goes unnoticed. The virus is not cleared, however, but stays for the lifetime of the host in a non-infectious, replicatively dormant stat...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Seckert CK,Griessl M,Büttner JK,Scheller S,Simon CO,Kropp KA,Renzaho A,Kühnapfel B,Grzimek NK,Reddehase MJ

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to determine whether tumor induction by 3-methylcholanthrene (MC), a carcinogenic hydrocarbon, can be inhibited by oral administration of Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota (LC). C3H/HeN mice were divided into four groups and assigned to the following treatments: treated with MC and give...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Takagi A,Matsuzaki T,Sato M,Nomoto K,Morotomi M,Yokokura T

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for the purification and concentration of Cytomegalovirus nucleocapsids and particles complete with envelope is described. Antibody to either nucleocapsid or envelope antigens can be detected in human sera. In patients with CMV disease the antibodies to the envelope antigen could not be detected before the 3r...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Schmitz H,Doerr HW,Obrig M

更新日期：1975-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Immediate-early (IE) genes are the first genes to be transcribed during the lytic replication cycle of cytomegaloviruses (CMV), and encode nonstructural proteins, which are assumed to have mainly regulatory functions. The IE proteins may play important roles in the pathogenesis of CMV in vivo, for instance during the ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Busche A,Angulo A,Kay-Jackson P,Ghazal P,Messerle M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to characterize antigenic determinants on structural polypeptides of human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2ben). Therefore, three HIV-2-specific monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against the p24 core protein (gag) and one mAb against the gp130 envelope glycoprotein (env) were produced. In ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Faisst AC,Otteken A,Nick S,Hunsmann G

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of gentamicin on cellular physiology were studied in a total of 9 mammalian cell lines, using the following parameters: cell morphology and viability (cytotoxicity), proliferation, culture medium acidification, lactic acid production, lactate dehydrogenase release, virus susceptibility, and effects on kary...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Fischer AB

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:9 antigen distribution and sensitivity to the bactericidal effect of normal human serum were determined in 485 Proteus strains isolated from urine, blood, wounds, and feces. Of all strains, 62% could be grouped according to 25 0 antigens. The most frequent one, 0 3, appeared in 13% of all the strains. In blood culture...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Larsson P,Olling S

更新日期：1977-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to characterize the cytokine secretion patterns of human T helper cells from healthy donors reactive with somatic antigens from various bacteria, the nematode Anisakis and tetanus toxoid. From the peripheral blood of four healthy donors we have established 70 T cell lines reactive with antige...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Schlaak JF,Nieder P,Meyer zum Büschenfelde KH,Fleischer B

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral treatment of mice with a combination of non-absorbable broad spectrum antibiotics at a dose level high enough to sterilize the digestive tract within five days of treatment, has been found to have a significant negative effect on the relative weight of the thymus. From the age of 12 weeks onwards, the mean relati...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： van der Waaij D

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytomegaloviruses (CMVs) are large double-stranded DNA viruses that replicate slowly and cause life-long persisting infections in their hosts. To achieve this, the CMVs had to evolve numerous countermeasures against innate and adaptive immune responses. Induction of programmed cell death is one important host defense ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Handke W,Krause E,Brune W

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Industrial and academic needs for innovation and fundamental research are essential and not widely different. Depending on the industrial setting, research and development (R&D) activities may be more focused on the developmental aspects given the need to ultimately sell useful products. However, one of the biggest di...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： van Belkum A,Pelegrin AC,Datar R,Goyal M,Palmieri M,Mirande C,Chalansonnet V,Orenga S

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00