The humoral immune response in viral heart disease: characterization and pathophysiological significance of antibodies.

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：:A 33-kDa protein (TB33) was isolated from a delipidated cell sonicate (CS) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv (grown in Middlebrook 7H9 broth supplemented with glucose) using immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC) on a nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid (Ni-NTA) column. TB33 could not be isolated from the culture...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Deshpande RG,Khan MB,Bhat DA,Navalkar RG

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In resource-limited or point-of-care settings, rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), that aim to simultaneously detect HIV antibodies and p24 capsid (p24CA) antigen with high sensitivity, can pose important alternatives to screen for early infections. We evaluated the performance of the antibody and antigen components of the...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Wratil PR,Rabenau HF,Eberle J,Stern M,Münchhoff M,Friedrichs I,Stürmer M,Berger A,Kuttner-May S,Münstermann D,Lucht A,Meixenberger K,Bannert N,Keppler OT

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:A total of 114 Clostridium difficile strains were analysed for a possible correlation between serological susceptibility to chloramphenicol, tetracycline and clindamycin, and serogrouping. All 17 chloramphenicol-resistant strains belonged to serovar I, while none of 32 tetracycline-resistant strains belonged to serova...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakamura S,Yamakawa K,Nakashio S,Kamiya S,Nishida S

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of immune bovine lactoserum (BLS) antipolyvalent enteropathogenic Escherichia coli on bacterial growth, viability and bacteria-induced fluid accumulation was examined in rabbit ileal loops. Human enteropathogenic E. coli strains 0125:K70 (B15), 0111:K58 (B4) and 055:K59 (B5) (1-3 X 10(9) per inoculum) induc...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Zinkernagel RM,Colombini A

更新日期：1975-12-30 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：:Varicella during pregnancy can be associated with severe illnesses for both the mother and her neonate. Varicella pneumonia must be regarded as a medical emergency, since pregnant women are at risk of life-threatening ventilatory compromise and death. After maternal chickenpox in the first and second trimesters, conge...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Sauerbrei A,Wutzler P

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：: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：:The essential protein lysyl-tRNA synthetase (LysRS) exists in two unrelated forms, a class I and a class II-type aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase. Comparative genome sequence analysis revealed that Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the etiological agent of Lyme disease, contains a class I-type LysRS, whereas its tick and mamm...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Mejlhede N,Monthán A,Theisen M,Ibba M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterocytozoon bieneusi is emerging as an important cause of chronic diarrhoea in AIDS patients. Its reservoirs and transmission patterns are unknown. In this study, we have examined E. bieneusi sequences from four Rhesus macaques of different origin, which were kept at one animal facility. The sequences were identica...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Drosten C,Laabs J,Kuhn EM,Schottelius J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The avirulent Salmonella typhimurium galE strain G30, following oral feeding to mice, developed a state of immunity to a secondary oral challenge with virulent Salmonella typhimurium. This immunity was concommitant with the development of intestinal and serum antibodies and delayed-type hyepersensitivity (DTH) to Salm...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Moser I,Hohmann A,Schmidt G,Rowley D

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IFN-γ release assays (IGRAs) often present false-negative or indeterminate results in children with tuberculosis. HIV co-infection may contribute to decreased sensitivity of IGRAs by impairing T-cell IFN-γ expression. Measurement of alternative cytokines in QuantiFERON® (QFT) supernatants can circumvent the IFN-γ-depe...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Lundtoft C,Awuah AA,Nausch N,Enimil A,Mayatepek E,Owusu-Dabo E,Jacobsen M

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis, a periodontal pathogen, is epidemiologically associated with oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP9) which degrades the extracellular matrix and basement membrane components has been implicated in invasion and metastasis of tumor cells. We previously reported th...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Inaba H,Amano A,Lamont RJ,Murakami Y

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Since the dynamics of transmission of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) have not been clarified yet, we assessed a possible change in HCMV seroprevalence in Frankfurt am Main, Germany during the past twenty years and tried to detect variables with an impact on epidemiology. Between 1/1/1988 and 10/15/2008, a total of 54443...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Lübeck PR,Doerr HW,Rabenau HF

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunodominant proteins are variable in molecular and antigenic structure among different genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. We have recently developed an immunoblot using five recombinant antigens: the chromosomal-encoded B. burgdorferi proteins p100, the flagellin and an internal flagellin fragment ther...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Wilske B,Fingerle V,Preac-Mursic V,Jauris-Heipke S,Hofmann A,Loy H,Pfister HW,Rössler D,Soutschek E

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gliosis of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) associated astrocytes is considered to be one of the hallmarks of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). In the present study, remarkable GFAP-PrP(Sc) or GFAP-PrP(C) complexes were separately detected in the brain homogenates of 263 K (Scrapie)-infected or n...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Dong CF,Wang XF,Wang X,Shi S,Wang GR,Shan B,An R,Li XL,Zhang BY,Han J,Dong XP

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetraspanin (TSPAN) protein family forms a family of transmembrane proteins that act as organizers/scaffold for other proteins. TSPANs are primarily present on plasma membranes although they are also found in other biological membranes. They are organized in tetraspanin-enriched microdomains (TEMs), which allow spatio...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Perot BP,Ménager MM

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：: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：: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 stimulatory effect of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on human macrophages was found to be neutralized by the detergent octylglucoside (OG). Both macrophage stimulation and reactivity in a limulus amebocyte lysate test were suppressed by suspension of LPS in OG at concentrations between 0.25 and 2.5 mM, whereas other sti...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Henrich B,Guadarrama R,Zähringer U,MacKenzie CR

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Enders strain of mumps virus grown in ovo was purified by differential and equilibrium sucrose gradient sedimentation. Purified virus contained seven polypeptides of mol. wts 68,000, 66,000, 61,000, 54,000, 52,000, 49,000, 47,000. Nucleocapsids isolated from DOC-treated virus contained two polypeptides of mol. wts...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Huppertz HI,Hall WW,ter Meulen V

更新日期：1977-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern have shown a high prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks. A total of 17 B. burgdorferi sensu lato strains were isolated from ticks and investigated by Western blots (immunoblot) with eight monoclonal anti-bodies against different epitopes of the outer surfac...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Lottmann H,Wilske B,Herrmann H

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) have recently been discovered as a central part of antimicrobial innate immunity. In the meanwhile, evidence accumulated that NETs are also generated upon non-infectious stimuli in various clinical settings. In acute or chronic inflammatory disorders aberrantly enhanced NET format...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Lögters T,Margraf S,Altrichter J,Cinatl J,Mitzner S,Windolf J,Scholz M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequencing of Leishmania major Friedlin chromosome 1 (Chr1), Chr3, and Chr4 has been completed. and several other chromosomes are well underway. The complete genome sequence should be available by 2003. Over 1,000 full-length new genes have been identified, with the majority (approximately 75%) having unknown func...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Myler PJ,Beverley SM,Cruz AK,Dobson DE,Ivens AC,McDonagh PD,Madhubala R,Martinez-Calvillo S,Ruiz JC,Saxena A,Sisk E,Sunkin SM,Worthey E,Yan S,Stuart KD

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies against the human coronavirus OC43 in human sera were measured by haemagglutination inhibition (HI), complement fixation (CF), and radial diffusion-haemolysis in gel (HIG) techniques. The apparent HI titres in a fraction of sera with no antibodies detectable by the two other methods were found to be reduced...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Hovi T

更新日期：1978-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The infant rat model is widely used to study the pathogenesis of meningitis caused by a variety of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. However, the interpretation of published results concerning meningitis is difficult in many records because the fact that blood contamination of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) can...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Vogel U,Steinmetz I,Frosch M

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00