The Leishmania genome project: new insights into gene organization and function.

abstract：:198 strains of Propionibacterium acnes, P. avidum, and P. granulosum were tested for their immunostimulatory potency using splenomegaly as index of stimulation, the activity differed widely from strain to strain. The antitumor and antimetastatic properties of six strains with differing stimulation activities were care...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Ko HL,Roszkowski W,Jeljaszewicz J,Pulverer G

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quorum sensing system is a cell-to-cell communication system that plays a pivotal role in virulence expression in bacteria. Recent advances have demonstrated that the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing molecule, N-3-oxododecanoyl homoserine lactone (3OC(12)-HSL), exerts effects on mammalian cells and modulates host...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Li H,Wang L,Ye L,Mao Y,Xie X,Xia C,Chen J,Lu Z,Song J

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Convulsions and encephalopathy are common complications of Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Shigella and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli infections. In previous studies, we demonstrated that Stx and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) act in concert to enhance mice sensitivity to pentylenetetrazole (PTZ)-induced seizures via mecha...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Yuhas Y,Nofech-Mozes Y,Weizman A,Ashkenazi S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pteridine derivatives neopterin and 7,8-dihydroneopterin are produced by human macrophages and dendritic cells upon stimulation with interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and therefore become detectable in increased amounts in humans during cell-mediated (Th1-type) immune response. Compounds produced upon influence of cytokine...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Bratslavska O,Platace D,Miklasevics E,Fuchs D,Martinsons A

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：: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：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection modulates the host cell cycle to create an environment that is optimal for viral gene expression, DNA replication, and production of infectious virus. The virus mostly infects quiescent cells and thus must push the cell into G1 phase of the cell cycle to co-opt the cellular mecha...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Spector DH

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Killer cell immunoglobulin like receptors (KIRs) have a principal role in regulating the effector functions of NK cells, particularly in viral infections. The major ligands for KIRs are human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I molecules. The aim of this study is to investigate the possible association of KIR genes, their...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Shah-Hosseini A,Jafari M,Mohammadi A,Sanaei R,Alavian SM,Doosti-Irani A,Nooradeh Keykavousi M,Tajik N

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty out of sixty-five isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci displayed a positive CAMP-reaction due to synergism of an extracellular toxin with S. aureus beta-toxin on sheep erythrocytes. Of the CAMP-positive isolates, 40 were identified as S. epidermidis, 8 as S. hemolyticus, and 2 each as S. hominis and S. s...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Bhakdi S

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:Interaction of the nucleocapsid (NP) and V proteins of human parainfluenza type 2 virus (HPIV-2) was investigated using a transient expression system. When the NP proteins were co-expressed with the V proteins, some of the NP proteins were translocated into the nuclei. These findings suggest that the NP protein intera...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Watanabe N,Kawano M,Tsurudome M,Nishio M,Ito M,Ohgimoto S,Suga S,Komada H,Ito Y

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that the P and V proteins of human parainfluenza virus type 2 (hPIV-2) bind to genomic RNA by using Northwestern blot analysis. To identify the RNA-binding regions on the P and V proteins, we used a set of deletion mutants produced in Escherichia coli. One region required for the RNA-binding was found in...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Nishio M,Tsurudome M,Ito M,Ito Y

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined 118 oral squamous cell carcinomas, 72 oral leukoplakias, 12 cases of cheilitis and 65 of oral lichen planus for the presence of human papillomavirus (HPV) 6/11, 16 and 18 DNA by PCR/Southern blot hybridization. HPV DNA were found in 51/118 carcinomas (43.2%), in 16/72 (22.2%) leukoplakias, 3/12 (25.0%...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Ostwald C,Rutsatz K,Schweder J,Schmidt W,Gundlach K,Barten M

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic effects of a leukocidin from Fusobacterium necrophorum were demonstrated on bovine hepatic cells. The cytotoxic response was dose-dependent and could be inhibited by homologous antiserum. Scanning electron microscopy revealed damaged hepatic cell surface. These findings indicated a pathogenic role of the leu...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Ishii T,Kanoe M,Inoue T,Kai K,Blobel H

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A skim-milk fraction and a whey-protein concentrate (WPC) fraction were prepared from the cows that had been immunized with E. coli isolated from the mouse intestine. The antibacterial effect of these fractions against E. coli was examined. They contained antibody with a high affinity for E. coli strain 48, a represen...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Nomoto K,Matsuoka Y,Hayakawa K,Ohwaki M,Kan T,Yoshikai Y,Nomoto K

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：:Several lines of evidence suggest a viral infection as the initiating event for the development of myocarditis (MC). Especially enteroviruses like coxsackie B3 virus have been shown to induce MC in humans and strains of MC-prone mice after an infection. The further course of the disease is, however, determined not onl...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Schwimmbeck PL,Bigalke B,Schulze K,Pauschinger M,Kühl U,Schultheiss HP

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：:It is known that tetraspanin proteins are involved in many physiological somatic cell mechanisms. Additionally, research has indicated they also have a role in various infectious diseases and cancers. This review focuses on the molecular interactions underlying the tetraspanin web formation in gametes. Primarily, tetr...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Jankovičová J,Neuerová Z,Sečová P,Bartóková M,Bubeníčková F,Komrsková K,Postlerová P,Antalíková J

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During normal interpandemic influenza seasons, immune responses to vaccines are quite predictable and meet the licensing criteria of the European Union (EU) Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products (CPMP). In a pandemic situation, large sections, if not all of the community will be immunologically naïve and theref...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Wood JM,Nicholson KG,Stephenson I,Zambon M,Newman RW,Major DL,Podda A

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of rodent Plasmodium strains expressing fluorescent proteins in all life cycle stages has had a big impact on malaria research. With this tool in hand, for the first time it was possible to follow in real time by in vivo microscopy the infection route of Plasmodium sporozoites transmitted to the mammali...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Sturm A,Heussler V

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NFR nude (nu/nu) and euthymic (+/nu) littermates were infected with coxsackievirus B3 (CBV-3) and assayed for virus persistence in the heart, pancreas and spleen, for development of myocarditis and for antibody production. The virus grew to higher titer and persisted longer in hearts of nu/nu mice. In both types of mi...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Schnurr DP,Schmidt NJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Upon infection of human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I)-carrying human T-cell lines such as MT-4, HTLV-III, a probable etiologic agent of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) caused fast and strong cytopathic effects leading ultimately to the death of the cells. Such effects were preceded by the rapid indu...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakashima H,Koyanagi Y,Harada S,Yamamoto N

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:Tests were made on 169 sera from children up to 10 years of age for rotavirus antibodies by indirect immunofluorescence and complement fixation tests. The simian strain SA 11 served as a substitute antigen for the human rotavirus. Furthermore, the SA 11 complement-fixing antigen was compared with a commercial antigen ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Brade L,Schmidt WA

更新日期：1979-03-13 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：:To characterize the role of specific lymphocyte subsets in Chlamydia trachomatis infection, we established a murine model using the mouse pneumonitis agent (MoPn) of C. trachomatis and C.B-17 scid/scid (SCID) mice which lack functional B and T cells. After intraperitoneal inoculation with the bacteria, SCID mice devel...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Thoma-Uszynski S,Simnacher U,Marre R,Essig A

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：:Homeostasis underpins at a systems level the regulatory control of immunity and metabolism. While physiologically these systems are often viewed as independent, there is increasing evidence showing a tight coupling between immune and metabolic functions. Critically upon infection, the homeostatic regulation for both i...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Kotzamanis K,Angulo A,Ghazal P

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00