Interaction between Clostridium difficile and polymorphonuclear leucocytes from the elderly and post-operative cancer patients: phagocytosis and bactericidal function.

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 effects of gentamicin on cellular physiology were studied in a total of 9 mammalian cell lines, using the following parameters: cell morphology and viability (cytotoxicity), proliferation, culture medium acidification, lactic acid production, lactate dehydrogenase release, virus susceptibility, and effects on kary...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Fischer AB

更新日期：1975-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Oral candidiasis (OC) is a frequent oral manifestation of HIV infection, is a marker disease and occurs as a pseudomembranous, erythematous or rarely hyperplastic variant; angular cheilitis is also seen. Candida albicans is frequently isolated but other species such as C. krusei and C. dublienensis are emerging. Resis...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Reichart PA

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:Gangliosides are known to influence cell growth and differentiation. The neolacto series ganglioside IV3NeuAc-nLc4 (2-->3-sialosylparagloboside) is present in members of the monocyte/granulocyte lineage, but is not found in cells that belong to the lymphocyte lineage. In this study we demonstrated that IV3NeuAc-nLc4 i...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Schaade L,Kleines M,Walter R,Thomssen R,Ritter K

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:The DNAs of two kinds of microorganisms from human leprosy lesion, Mycobacterium leprae and Corynebacterium tuberculostearicum (also known as "leprosy-derived corynebacterium" or LDC), have been analysed and compared with the genomes of reference bacteria of the CMN group (genera Corynebacterium, Mycobacterium and Noc...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Hottat F,Coene M,Cocito C

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Lactoferrin (Lf) is an iron-binding protein which plays an important role in the host defense systems of different mucosal surfaces including the intestinal mucosa. In the present research the role of apo-Lf and iron-saturated Lf in the invasion process of enteroinvasive bacteria, grown in iron stress or excess, was i...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Longhi C,Conte MP,Seganti L,Polidoro M,Alfsen A,Valenti P

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Presence of point mutations within the drug resistance determining regions of Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae) genome confers molecular basis of drug resistance to dapsone, rifampin and ofloxacin in leprosy. This study is focused on the identification of mutations within the rpoB gene region of M. leprae that are spec...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Vedithi SC,Lavania M,Kumar M,Kaur P,Turankar RP,Singh I,Nigam A,Sengupta U

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Immunodominant proteins are variable in molecular and antigenic structure among different genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. We have recently developed an immunoblot using five recombinant antigens: the chromosomal-encoded B. burgdorferi proteins p100, the flagellin and an internal flagellin fragment ther...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Wilske B,Fingerle V,Preac-Mursic V,Jauris-Heipke S,Hofmann A,Loy H,Pfister HW,Rössler D,Soutschek E

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The essential protein lysyl-tRNA synthetase (LysRS) exists in two unrelated forms, a class I and a class II-type aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase. Comparative genome sequence analysis revealed that Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the etiological agent of Lyme disease, contains a class I-type LysRS, whereas its tick and mamm...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Mejlhede N,Monthán A,Theisen M,Ibba M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we presented the construction of a library of expression clones for the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) proteome and subcellular localization map of HSV-1 proteins in living cells using yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) fusion proteins. As a result, 21 proteins showed cytoplasmic or subcytoplasmic lo...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Xing J,Wang S,Li Y,Guo H,Zhao L,Pan W,Lin F,Zhu H,Wang L,Li M,Wang L,Zheng C

更新日期：2011-02-01 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 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 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：:Vaccination has proven to be one of the best weapons protecting the mankind against infectious diseases. Along with the huge progress in microbiology, numerous highly efficacious and safe vaccines have been produced by conventional technology (cultivation), by the use of molecular biology (genetic modification), or by...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Doerr HW,Berger A

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00