Streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin B causes mitochondria damage to polymorphonuclear cells preventing phagocytosis of group A streptococcus.

abstract：:Due to its ability to attach to polymeric surfaces Staphylococcus epidermidis is a common pathogen in chronic, medical device-associated infections. Attached S. epidermidis displays reduced susceptibility against a variety of antimicrobial substances, and little correlation between standard susceptibility test results...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Knobloch JK,Von Osten H,Horstkotte MA,Rohde H,Mack D

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the incidence of enterotoxigenic and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strains associated with infant diarrhoeal disease in Galicia (North-west Spain). During a period of 9 months we isolated heat-labile enterotoxin-positive strains in 2.1% of children with diarrhoea examined, whereas the production of...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Blanco J,González EA,Bernárdez I,Varela BR

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：: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：:Almost 4000 sera from seven African states were examined for antibodies to ATLV/HTLV-1. Between 1% and 8% of healthy people from sub-Saharan Africa have such antibodies. The highest frequency was observed in Gabon. There were considerable variations between villages. The percentage of seropositives and the mean titre ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Hunsmann G,Bayer H,Schneider J,Schmitz H,Kern P,Dietrich M,Büttner DW,Goudeau AM,Kulkarni G,Fleming AF

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is the most common virus infection in the developing fetus. A fraction of infants infected in utero develop significant life-threatening and organ-threatening disease with over 90% of infected infants exhibiting no clinical evidence of infection in the newborn period. However, about 10% of...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Britt W

更新日期：2015-06-01 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 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：: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：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that utilizes the quorum-sensing (QS) process to regulate the production of different virulence factors and biofilm. N-3-oxo-dodecanoyl-L-homoserine lactone (C12) is a key QS molecule of P. aeruginosa which interacts with the mammalian immune cells and modulates thei...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Singh PK,Yadav VK,Kalia M,Sharma D,Pandey D,Agarwal V

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：: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：:Virus-induced antigens were isolated from MDV and HVT-infected cells by salt extraction with 3M KCl and purified by Con.A chromatography and isoelectric focusing. Electrophoretic analysis of 35S-methionine, 3H-fucose and 32P-orthophosphate labeled antigens revealed 7 different polypeptides, two of them containing labe...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Kaaden OR

更新日期：1977-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pyogenes is a human pathogen which causes a spectrum of diseases ranging from pharyngitis to rheumatic fever, necrotising fasciitis and toxic shock syndrome. Development of a vaccine for S. pyogenes has been confounded both by the diversity of the disease-causing serotypes and the spectre of inadvertentl...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Radcliff FJ,Fraser JD,Proft T

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various strains of Helicobacter pylori were able to lyse erythrocytes from sheep, horse, and human when grown on blood agar. The hemolysis did not depend on the production of the vacuolating cytotoxin VacA as demonstrated by the hemolytic behavior of an isogenic vacA-negative mutant strain. The hemolytic activity coul...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Bereswill S,Fassbinder F,Völzing C,Covacci A,Haas R,Kist M

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomized, placebo-controlled trial in Ghana, 67 onchocerciasis patients received 200-mg/day doxycycline for 4-6 weeks, followed by ivermectin (IVM) after 6 months. After 6-27 months, efficacy was evaluated by onchocercoma histology, PCR and microfilariae determination. Administration of doxycycline resulted in ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Hoerauf A,Specht S,Büttner M,Pfarr K,Mand S,Fimmers R,Marfo-Debrekyei Y,Konadu P,Debrah AY,Bandi C,Brattig N,Albers A,Larbi J,Batsa L,Taylor MJ,Adjei O,Büttner DW

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:The present study describes the respiratory immune response of mice to locally administered antigen, and the modulation of this response by systemic immunization. Intranasal immunization of mice with the A/PR/8/34 strain of influenza virus evoked local antibody response of the IgA type. The titer of the IgA antibodies...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Zakay-Rones Z,Hadas O,Levy R

更新日期：1978-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study analyses the susceptibility of human bladder-derived cells (HT-1376) to the infection by herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) and Chlamydia trachomatis, as well as to the adhesiveness of uropathogenic bacteria. HT-1376 cells were efficiently infected by HSV-2 strain 333, as demonstrated by immunofluor...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Superti F,Longhi C,Di Biase AM,Tinari A,Marchetti M,Pisani S,Gallinelli C,Chiarini F,Seganti L

更新日期：2001-09-01 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：: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：:Serum-starved human foreskin fibroblasts were infected by human cytomegalovirus (Towne strain) that is thought to induce DNA replication in host cells during lytic infection. At various times postinfection, the cultures were pulse labeled with either 3H-thymidine or 14C-thymidine and 3H-lysine to examine DNA synthesis...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Radsak K,Schmitz B

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of enterotoxigenic E coli (ETEC) as a pathogenic agent of diarrhoea in the Tel-Aviv (Israel) area was determined, and the isolated E. coli strains characterized. During three periods (summer 1977, summer 1978, and summer 1979), a total of 335 specimens were tested for the presence of E. coli producing L...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Goldhar J,Peri R,Zilberberg R,Lahav M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BALB/c male mice infected with the H3 variant of coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3) develop fulminant myocarditis. Age-matched female mice show little myocarditis due to decreased virus receptor expression on cardiac cells. TNFalpha and IL-1beta levels were increased in males by 3 days after infection. IFNgamma levels increased...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Huber SA

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNs) from elderly healthy subjects and post-operative cancer patients to ingest and kill Clostridium difficile was studied. The percentage of phagocytosis in clinically healthy subjects aged 69-82 years ranged from 20.2 +/- 3.2 (mean +/- SD) to 34.1 +/- 4.2, depending on t...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Bassaris HP,Lianou PE,Legakis NJ,Papavassiliou JT

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactoferrin (Lf) is an iron-binding protein which plays an important role in the host defense systems of different mucosal surfaces including the intestinal mucosa. In the present research the role of apo-Lf and iron-saturated Lf in the invasion process of enteroinvasive bacteria, grown in iron stress or excess, was i...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Longhi C,Conte MP,Seganti L,Polidoro M,Alfsen A,Valenti P

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgG immune response to CagA was evaluated by enzyme-linked imunosorbent assay (ELISA) using a recombinant fragment of CagA as antigen in 171 patients with gastric cancer and 298 blood donors to determine whether it could be related to the ABO(H) blood group phenotype, stage of cancer or tumor morphology. The CagA-ELIS...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Klaamas K,Kurtenkov O,Covacci A,Lipping A,Wadström T

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As enteroviruses are mainly transmitted by the fecal-oral route, this study was initiated to investigate the nature of the binding of enteroviruses to human skin. Using poliovirus 1, Mahoney, we investigated the overall effectiveness of soap and water hand-washing of 1 and 5 min duration. The virus-skin interaction wa...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Schürmann W,Eggers HJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 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

abstract：:Monoclonal antibody (MAb) 2c, specific for glycoprotein B of herpes simplex virus (HSV), had been shown to mediate clearance of infection from the mucous membranes of mice, thereby completely inhibiting mucocutaneous inflammation and lethality, even in mice depleted of both CD4(+) and CD8(+) cells. Additionally, gangl...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Däumer MP,Schneider B,Giesen DM,Aziz S,Kaiser R,Kupfer B,Schneweis KE,Schneider-Mergener J,Reineke U,Matz B,Eis-Hübinger AM

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00