Effects of genetic resistance against Herpes simplex virus in vaginally infected mice.

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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Roizman's definition of herpesviral latency, which applies also to cytomegaloviruses (CMVs), demands maintenance of reactivation-competent viral genomes after clearance of productive infection. It is more recent understanding that failure to complete the productive viral cycle for virus assembly and release does not i...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Renzaho A,Schmiedeke JK,Griessl M,Kühnapfel B,Seckert CK,Lemmermann NAW

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：: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：: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 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

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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Phosphorylcholine (ChoP) is covalently incorporated into bacterial surface structures, contributing to host mimicry and promoting adhesion to surfaces. Our aims were to determine the frequency of ChoP display among Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans strains, to clarify which surface structures bear ChoP, and whethe...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Ihalin R,Zhong D,Karched M,Chen C,Asikainen S

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：:A new way of measuring indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) of microscopic bacterial slide preparations by videocamera and an image processing system is presented. This method is compared with the conventional method of reading the slides by eye. The advantages of this new approach are objective reading, greater accuracy...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Apperloo-Renkema HZ,Wilkinson MH,Oenema DG,van der Waaij D

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：: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：:9 antigen distribution and sensitivity to the bactericidal effect of normal human serum were determined in 485 Proteus strains isolated from urine, blood, wounds, and feces. Of all strains, 62% could be grouped according to 25 0 antigens. The most frequent one, 0 3, appeared in 13% of all the strains. In blood culture...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Larsson P,Olling S

更新日期：1977-07-18 00:00:00