Enterotoxigenic and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli in Galicia (north-west Spain).

abstract：:A method for the purification and concentration of Cytomegalovirus nucleocapsids and particles complete with envelope is described. Antibody to either nucleocapsid or envelope antigens can be detected in human sera. In patients with CMV disease the antibodies to the envelope antigen could not be detected before the 3r...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Schmitz H,Doerr HW,Obrig M

更新日期：1975-07-02 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：: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：:In the present study, synthetic peptides (EENVEHDA)2 [(oc)2] and (DDEHVEEPTVA)2 [(un)2] of ring-infected erythrocyte surface antigen (RESA) of Plasmodlium filciparum were linked with palmitic acid and entrapped in immunostimulating complexes (ISCOMs). The immunogenicity of the peptide(s) and mixture of peptides were s...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Chopra N,Biswas S,Thomas B,Sabhnani L,Rao DN

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During normal interpandemic influenza seasons, immune responses to vaccines are quite predictable and meet the licensing criteria of the European Union (EU) Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products (CPMP). In a pandemic situation, large sections, if not all of the community will be immunologically naïve and theref...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Wood JM,Nicholson KG,Stephenson I,Zambon M,Newman RW,Major DL,Podda A

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：: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：:Moraxella catarrhalis is an important pathogen of respiratory and middle ear infections. We previously reported that the attachment of M. catarrhalis to pharyngeal epithelial cells is mediated by ganglioside M2 (GM2). Several sets of adhesins or receptors are involved in such attachment process. In this study, we used...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Ahmed K,Suzuki Y,Miyamoto D,Nagatake T

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：: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：:The avirulent Salmonella typhimurium galE strain G30, following oral feeding to mice, developed a state of immunity to a secondary oral challenge with virulent Salmonella typhimurium. This immunity was concommitant with the development of intestinal and serum antibodies and delayed-type hyepersensitivity (DTH) to Salm...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Moser I,Hohmann A,Schmidt G,Rowley D

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：: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：:Surface proteins of nine Campylobacter jejuni strains belonging to three different serovia were extracted with lysozyme/ethylenediamine-tetraacetic acid. The preparations bound to isolated murine small intestinal cells and to a membrane fraction (MF) of isolated brush borders obtained by detergent treatment with Trito...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Moser I,Hellmann E

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed whether the intracellular bacterium Chlamydia pneumoniae was present in post-mortem brain samples from patients with and without late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), since some indirect evidence seems to suggest that infection with the organism might be associated with the disease. Nucleic acids prepared f...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Balin BJ,Gérard HC,Arking EJ,Appelt DM,Branigan PJ,Abrams JT,Whittum-Hudson JA,Hudson AP

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a summary of the recent work on some glycosidases of sand flies and their Leishmania parasites. Glycosidases catalyze the hydrolysis of complex sugar subunits of polysaccharides into simple sugars. Leishmania major parasites secrete chitinase and N-acetylglucosaminase, which enables them to survive in the gut ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Jacobson RL,Schlein Y,Eisenberger CL

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：: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：:Antibodies against the human coronavirus OC43 in human sera were measured by haemagglutination inhibition (HI), complement fixation (CF), and radial diffusion-haemolysis in gel (HIG) techniques. The apparent HI titres in a fraction of sera with no antibodies detectable by the two other methods were found to be reduced...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Hovi T

更新日期：1978-11-17 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：: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：: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：:Both humoral and cell-mediated immune responses were studied in reactivated toxoplasma infection in mice. The infection was established by immunosuppressing chronically infected animals by thymectomy followed by irradiation. The reactivated infection was confirmed by reappearance of toxoplasma tachyzoites in peritonea...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Goyal M,Ganguly NK,Mahajan RC

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The fatal inhalation infection caused by Bacillus anthracis results from a complex pathogenic cycle involving release of toxins by bacteria that germinate from spores. Currently available vaccines against anthrax consist of protective antigen (PA), one of the anthrax toxin components. However, these PA-based vaccines ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Sinha K,Bhatnagar R

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00