Objective quantitation of serum antibody titres against Enterobacteriaceae using indirect immunofluorescence, read by videocamera and image processing system.

abstract：:The influenza surveillance in Lower Saxony is based mainly on laboratory investigations, and especially those which involve the isolation of influenza viruses throughout the year. These investigations have provided information on the circulation of influenza viruses and of the antigenic drift during the Hong Kong peri...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Willers H,Höpken W

更新日期：1979-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation of Borrelia burgdorferi in the vector and vertebrate host is mediated by mechanisms that regulate differential expression of outer surface lipoproteins (Osps). In this study, real time PCR was applied to quantify tissue-specific expression of four linear plasmid (lp54)-encoded (ospA, zs7.a36, zs7.a66 zs7.a6...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Lederer S,Brenner C,Stehle T,Gern L,Wallich R,Simon MM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei, a gram-negative intracellular bacterium, is a causative agent of melioidosis. The bacterium has been shown to induce the innate immune response, particularly pro-inflammatory cytokine production in several of both mouse and human cell types. In the present study, we investigate host immune r...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Kulsantiwong P,Pudla M,Boondit J,Wikraiphat C,Dunachie SJ,Chantratita N,Utaisincharoen P

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:The endogenous danger signal bradykinin was recently found implicated in the development of immunity against parasites via dendritic cells. We here report an essential role of the B(2) (B(2)R) bradykinin receptor in the early immune response against Listeria infection. Mice deficient in B(2)R (B(2)R(-/-) mice) were sh...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Kaman WE,Wolterink AF,Bader M,Boele LC,van der Kleij D

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:A sentinel surveillance system of the public health service for acute respiratory diseases (ARD), especially influenza, has been realized in the Free State of Saxony of Germany for 25 years. The epidemiological sentinel is based on weekly registration of morbidity and mathematical-statistical calculations. For a micro...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Bigl S,Briem I,Drechsler R,Kluge D,Müller L,Nowotnik G

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：:The pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus from local infection to systemic dissemination involves a range of virulence factors including structural and secreted products. Among various control mechanisms, small noncoding RNAs are involved in the regulation of multiple pathogenicity factors in S. aureus. The sRNA SprX ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Kathirvel M,Buchad H,Nair M

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：: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：:Earlier we reported that vaccination of leprosy patients with Mycobacterium w induces an immune response directed predominantly against low molecular weight antigens. One of these antigens, with a molecular mass of 30-kDa, was recognized by a majority of the vaccinated subjects as well as the tuberculoid leprosy patie...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Yadava A,Mukherjee R

更新日期：1993-11-01 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：: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：: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：:Mastitis, which is generally described as an inflammation of breast tissue, is a common and debilitating disease which frequently results in the cessation of exclusive breastfeeding and affects up to 33% of lactating women. The condition is a primary cause of decreased milk production and results in organoleptic and n...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Angelopoulou A,Field D,Ryan CA,Stanton C,Hill C,Ross RP

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of thermolabile (LT) enterotoxin was compared in a defined medium reported by Staples et al. (SAG medium) for the production of thermostable (ST) enterotoxin and the Casamino acids-Yeast extract (CAYE) medium. Aliquots were drawn frum cultures of an enterotoxigenic (LT+, ST+) E. coli in both media at di...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Fontes CF,Ricci LC,Oliveira MS,Gatti MS,Pestana de Castro AF

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The new QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus employs modified peptides optimized to elicit an IFNγ response from CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes in addition to CD4+ T cells. With a view to improve the difficult identification of TB cases, we assessed the combination of two specific immunological markers comprising IFNγ secretion and...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Sauzullo I,Mengoni F,Mascia C,Pavone P,Savelloni G,Massetti AP,Lichtner M,Vullo V,Mastroianni CM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to take the conditions of natural Herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection into consideration, the genetic resistance of C57-Bl mice, which was established by intraperitoneal HSV-1 infection [Lopez, 1975], was investigated in vaginally infected mice. The course of infection in the mucous membranes did not differ ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Schneweis KE,Olbrich M,Saftig V,Scholz R

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The prophylactic intranasal medication with a new antiviral compound, 1-phenyl-3-(4 phenyl-2-thiazolyl) guanidine (CL 88,277) was evaluated in humans against rhinovirus 44 challenge. One ml containing 250 mg of CL 88,277 was administered to 10 seronegative volunteers three times a day plus one dose prior to the rhinov...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Togo Y,Durr FE,Laurenzana DA

更新日期：1977-05-18 00:00:00