Simultaneous analysis of multiple T helper subsets in leprosy reveals distinct patterns of Th1, Th2, Th17 and Tregs markers expression in clinical forms and reactional events.

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：:Influenza remains an important threat for human health, despite the extensive study of influenza viruses and the production of effective vaccines. In contrast to virus genetics determinants, host genetic factors with clinical impact remained unexplored until recently. The association between three single nucleotide po...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Chatzopoulou F,Gioula G,Kioumis I,Chatzidimitriou D,Exindari M

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：: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：:Oral treatment of mice with a combination of non-absorbable broad spectrum antibiotics at a dose level high enough to sterilize the digestive tract within five days of treatment, has been found to have a significant negative effect on the relative weight of the thymus. From the age of 12 weeks onwards, the mean relati...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： van der Waaij D

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Cytomegalovirus vaccine development started in the 1970s with attenuated strains. In the 1980s, one of the strains was shown to be safe and effective in renal transplant patients. Then, attention switched to glycoprotein gB, which was shown to give moderate but transient protection against acquisition of the virus by ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Plotkin S

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：: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：:Therapeutic vaccination for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B has thus far been unsatisfactory. In this review, we discuss potential new therapeutic vaccination strategies and other immunotherapeutic approaches that aim to achieve efficient restoration of HBV immunity in chronically infected patients. ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Koh S,Bertoletti A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the impact of IL-4 and IL-5 deficiency during the fully permissive infection of BALB/c mice with the rodent filaria Litomosoides sigmodontis. IL-5, in contrast to IL-4, is crucial for the containment of adult worms during short- and long-term infections. IL-5 KO mice allowed development of more larvae into...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Volkmann L,Bain O,Saeftel M,Specht S,Fischer K,Brombacher F,Matthaei KI,Hoerauf A

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbapenems are important last-line antibiotics for the treatment of hospital infections. Enterobacteriaceae (such as Klebsiella pneumoniae or Escherichia coli) expressing the "New Delhi Metallo-β-lactamase" gene bla(NDM-1) are resistant to carbapenems and were predicted to become a major global health problem. To cop...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Krüttgen A,Razavi S,Imöhl M,Ritter K

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) has long been implicated as a triggering agent in Crohn's disease (CD). In this study, we investigated the growth/persistence of both M. avium subsp. hominissuis (MAH) and MAP, in macrophages from healthy controls (HC), CD and ulcerative colitis patients. For viability...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Nazareth N,Magro F,Appelberg R,Silva J,Gracio D,Coelho R,Cabral JM,Abreu C,Macedo G,Bull TJ,Sarmento A

更新日期：2015-12-01 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 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：:When P3HR-1 lymphoblastoid cells expressing Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-related antigens at very low frequency were cocultivated with human umbilical cord blood lymphocytes and the cell-free mixed culture fluid was applied to fresh cord lymphocytes, cells morphologically distinct from normal lymphocytes became evident af...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Aya T,Osato T

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microdilution trays (Sensititre) for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Bacteroides fragilis has been compared for accuracy with the standard agar dilution method. The microtrays were found to be reliable for all antimicrobials tested (benzylpenicillin, clindamycin, doxycycline, chloramphenicol, fusidic acid, cef...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Dornbusch K,Lindmark A,Nord CE

更新日期：1978-10-20 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：: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 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：:This study describes the properties of an inactivated subunit antigen preparation from varicella-zoster virus (VZV)-infected MRC-5 cells by treatment with detergent and formaldehyde, ultracentrifugation over sucrose and acetone precipitation. The method preserved the antigenicity of VZV proteins and several VZV-specif...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Davies J,Hallworth JA,McLeish P,Randall S,Martin BA,Buchan A,Skinner GR

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Immediate-early (IE) genes are the first genes to be transcribed during the lytic replication cycle of cytomegaloviruses (CMV), and encode nonstructural proteins, which are assumed to have mainly regulatory functions. The IE proteins may play important roles in the pathogenesis of CMV in vivo, for instance during the ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Busche A,Angulo A,Kay-Jackson P,Ghazal P,Messerle M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical trial was conducted with Alice/R-75 strain live attenuated intranasal influenza A/B vaccine. With double blind control 88 adult volunteers were administered 2 doses of Alice/R-75 vaccine, 93 volunteers received one dose of Alice/R-75 vaccine and one dose placebo solution and 94 subjects were administered 2 ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Spencer MJ,Cherry JD,Powell KR,Sumaya CV

更新日期：1979-03-13 00:00:00