Annals ofInfectology

Volume: 2 - Number: 24 - December 15, 2002

Outstanding

Shear Stress Prevents Fibronectin Binding Protein-Mediated Staphylococcus aureus Adhesion to Resting Endothelial Cells

Visualizing Pneumococcal Infections in the Lungs of Live Mice Using Bioluminescent Streptococcus pneumoniae Transformed with a Novel Gram-Positive lux Transposon

Treatment of Primary Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection with Potent Antiretroviral Therapy Reduces Frequency of Rapid Progression to AIDS

Survival of Patients with AIDS, after Diagnosis of Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia, in the United States

Bacterial Infections

Salmonella enterica Serovar-Host Specificity Does Not Correlate with the Magnitude of Intestinal Invasion in Sheep

Shear Stress Prevents Fibronectin Binding Protein-Mediated Staphylococcus aureus Adhesion to Resting Endothelial Cells

Visualizing Pneumococcal Infections in the Lungs of Live Mice Using Bioluminescent Streptococcus pneumoniae Transformed with a Novel Gram-Positive lux Transposon

Cellular Microbiology: Pathogens and Host Interactions

Stable Transfection of the Bovine NRAMP1 Gene into Murine RAW264.7 Cells: Effect on Brucella abortus Survival

Staphylococcus aureus Fibronectin Binding Proteins Are Essential for Internalization by Osteoblasts but Do Not Account for Differences in Intracellular Levels of Bacteria

Inflammation and Host Response

Shigella Infection in a SCID Mouse-Human Intestinal Xenograft Model: Role for Neutrophils in Containing Bacterial Dissemination in Human Intestine

Upregulation of Toll-Like Receptor 2 Gene Expression in Macrophage Response to Peptidoglycan and High Concentration of Lipopolysaccharide Is Involved in NF-B Activation

Microbial Immunity and Vaccines

Search for Correlates of Protective Immunity Conferred by Anthrax Vaccine

Specific Antibodies to Porphyromonas gingivalis Lys-Gingipain by DNA Vaccination Inhibit Bacterial Binding to Hemoglobin and Protect Mice from Infection

Terminal Invariable Domain of VlsE Is Immunodominant but Its Antigenicity Is Scarcely Conserved among Strains of Lyme Disease Spirochetes

Vaccination against the Intracellular Pathogens Leishmania major and L. amazonensis by Directing CD40 Ligand to Macrophages

Molecular Pathogenesis

Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi Possesses a Unique Repertoire of Fimbrial Gene Sequences

Sequence and Antigenic Variability of the Helicobacter mustelae Surface Ring Protein Hsr

Spa Contributes to the Virulence of Type 18 Group A Streptococci

Subinhibitory Clindamycin Differentially Inhibits Transcription of Exoprotein Genes in Staphylococcus aureus

Mycological and Parasitology Infections

Role of Mannoprotein in Induction and Regulation of Immunity to Cryptococcus neoformans

Specificity of the Protective Antibody Response to Apical Membrane Antigen 2

Principal's Articles

Safety and Immunogenicity of a Canarypox-Vectored Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Vaccine with or without gp120: A Phase 2 Study in Higher- and Lower-Risk Volunteers

Secretion of the Virulence-Associated Campylobacter Invasion Antigens from Campylobacter jejuni Requires a Stimulatory Signal

Treatment of Primary Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection with Potent Antiretroviral Therapy Reduces Frequency of Rapid Progression to AIDS

Use of Drug Resistance Sequence Data for the Systematic Detection of Non-B Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Subtypes: How to Create a Sentinel Site for Monitoring the Genetic Diversity of HIV-1 at a Country Scale

Shorts Communication's

Self-Replicative RNA Vaccines Elicit Protection against Influenza A Virus, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, and a Tickborne Encephalitis Virus

Survival of Patients with AIDS, after Diagnosis of Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia, in the United States

The Relationships between Ethnicity, Sex, Risk Group, and Virus Load in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Antiretroviral-Naive Patients

Tissue Cytokine Responses in Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis

Vertical Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) and Continued Evolution of Drug Resistance in an HIV-1 Infected Infant