Highly individual patterns of virus-immune IgG effector responses in humans.

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：: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：: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 presence of Borna disease virus (BDV)-specific RNA was traced by the reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction in conjunctival fluid, nasal secretions and saliva of horses which were seropositive but did not have any history of clinical Borna disease. Positive reactions encompassed sequences encoding the p24...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Richt JA,Herzog S,Haberzettl K,Rott R

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody to recombinant hepatitis C virus (HCV) protein C100 (anti-C100) was measured for a period of 6 months by enzyme immunoassay in nine prospectively followed non A-nonB (NANBH) cases which occurred after cardiac surgery at a hospital in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). At least seven cases were infected with HCV; four o...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Yoshida CF,Soares OA,Schatzmayr HG,Uy A,Gerlich WH

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different culture conditions, devitalizing treatments, and preservation procedures were tested for the production of protein A-bearing cells of Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 12598. Native cells with the highest IgG-binding activity were obtained after cultivation at 37 degrees C for 24-48 h in enriched media. Devitalizat...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Ansorg RA,Zarifoglu FI

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:EBV-associated polypeptides induced in different Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)-producing cell lines by the tumor promotor TPA, and from purified EBV particles derived from the same lines were radioactivity labeled and analyzed by immunoprecipitation with human VCA+MA+ sera. In virus-producing cells no significant differenc...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Georg-Fries B,Mueller-Lantzsch N

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus adsorption and uptake of human rhinovirus 14 (HRV14) were studied with HeLa cells and baby hamster kidney (BHK) cells which were transfected with the HRV14 receptor intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1). Transmission electron microscopy of HeLa cells revealed that HRV14 was internalized via clathrin-coated ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Grunert HP,Wolf KU,Langner KD,Sawitzky D,Habermehl KO,Zeichhardt H

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：:The effect of red blood cell age on the susceptibility towards NDV- induced hemolysis has been investigated. It was found that young sheep red blood cells (SRBC), although more resistant to hypotonic hemolysis, are more susceptible towards viral hemolysis than older cells. This may be because young red blood cells hav...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Sziegoleit A,Füssle R,Wellensiek HJ

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：:Illness and death of mice infected by intracerebral inoculation with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus are pathologic immune phenomena, and mice thus infected were protected when immunosuppressed with cyclosporin A (CSA), although the virus multiplied extensively in all major organs. Concentrations remained high as l...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Löliger C,Lehmann-Grube F

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:TT virus (TTV) is a newly discovered virus from a patient with post-transfusion hepatitis. We investigated the frequency and pathogenesis of TTV infection in children. A semi-nested PCR assay was used to amplify TTV-DNA in serum samples from 254 ambulatory children without liver disease, 20 with hepatitis of unknown e...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Iriyama M,Kimura H,Nishikawa K,Yoshioka K,Wakita T,Nishimura N,Shibata M,Ozaki T,Morishima T

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 603 serum samples obtained from 12 different patient and control groups, including potentially cross-reactive sera, were tested for the presence of antibodies against Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV, HHV-8). The assays used were an inhouse immunofluorescence test (IFT) employing latent KSHV an...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Preiser W,Szép NI,Lang D,Doerr HW,Rabenau HF

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The propagation of hepatitis A virus (HAV) is shown in a rapidly growing fetal rhesus monkey kidney cell line (Frhk-4/R). In the course of ten passages through Frhk-4/R cells the HAV, which was released in the supernatants of the cell cultures, was adapted to these cells. In the tenth passage 6 days after infection, i...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Flehmig B

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of 12 rapid biochemical tests--lysinedecarboxylase, ornithinedecarboxylase, beta-galactosidase, urease, hydrogensulphide, indole, acetoin, deoxyribonuclease, esculin, mannitol, raffinose and sorbitol--were selected from an original set of 13 tests and were found to give 98% accurate reactions within 4 hrs of inc...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Nord C-E,Linberg AA,Dahlbäck A

更新日期：1975-09-19 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：: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：: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：: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