Isolation of a 33-kDa protein antigen from delipidified Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv.

abstract：:A skim-milk fraction and a whey-protein concentrate (WPC) fraction were prepared from the cows that had been immunized with E. coli isolated from the mouse intestine. The antibacterial effect of these fractions against E. coli was examined. They contained antibody with a high affinity for E. coli strain 48, a represen...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Nomoto K,Matsuoka Y,Hayakawa K,Ohwaki M,Kan T,Yoshikai Y,Nomoto K

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Various strains of Helicobacter pylori were able to lyse erythrocytes from sheep, horse, and human when grown on blood agar. The hemolysis did not depend on the production of the vacuolating cytotoxin VacA as demonstrated by the hemolytic behavior of an isogenic vacA-negative mutant strain. The hemolytic activity coul...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Bereswill S,Fassbinder F,Völzing C,Covacci A,Haas R,Kist M

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the dynamics of transmission of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) have not been clarified yet, we assessed a possible change in HCMV seroprevalence in Frankfurt am Main, Germany during the past twenty years and tried to detect variables with an impact on epidemiology. Between 1/1/1988 and 10/15/2008, a total of 54443...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Lübeck PR,Doerr HW,Rabenau HF

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:IgG responses are fundamental to adaptive immunity and document immunological memory of previous pathogen encounter. While specific antigen recognition is mediated by the variable F(ab')2 domain of IgG, various effector functions become activated via the constant Fcγ part bridging IgG-opsonized targets to FcγR-express...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Corrales-Aguilar E,Trilling M,Reinhard H,Falcone V,Zimmermann A,Adams O,Santibanez S,Hengel H

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：: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：: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 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 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

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：:High titered Clostridium sordellii lethal toxin antiserum, cross-reactive with C. difficile cytotoxin B (ToxB), was used to isolate toxB fragments from a C. difficile expression library. Recombinant clones containing toxB fragments of the 5' and 3' end were isolate. A 2.5-kb HincII fragment of chromosomal DNA overlaps...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： von Eichel-Streiber C,Laufenberg-Feldmann R,Sartingen S,Schulze J,Sauerborn M

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:A microcytoxicity assay with 3H-proline prelabeled target cells was used for the detection of sensitized lymphoid spleen cells from STU inbred mice inoculated with Moloney sarcoma virus (MSV-M) or ascitic MSV-M tumor cells. The target cell line was derived from ascitic MSV-M tumor cells. With regard to the specificity...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Weiland E,Mussgay M

更新日期：1976-06-01 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