Annals ofImmunoinfectology

Volume: 4 - Number: 27 - August 15, 2004

Outstanding

Distribution and Kinetics of Lipoprotein-Bound Lipoteichoic Acid

Helicobacter pylori Supernatants Cause Epithelial Cytoskeletal Disruption That Is Bacterial Strain and Epithelial Cell Line Dependent but Not Toxin VacA Dependent

Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Quantitation of Human Antibodies to Pneumococcal Polysaccharides

Effect of Clarithromycin on Inflammatory Markers in Patients with Atherosclerosis

Antibodies and Mediators of the Immunity

Efficiency of a Pneumococcal Opsonophagocytic Killing Assay Improved by Multiplexing and by Coloring Colonies

Bacterial Infections

Drosophila melanogaster Is a Genetically Tractable Model Host for Mycobacterium marinum

Experimental Validation of Low Virulence in Field Strains of Listeria monocytogenes

Cellular Immunology

Endothelial Cells Are Main Producers of Interleukin 8 through Toll-Like Receptor 2 and 4 Signaling during Bacterial Infection in Leukopenic Cancer Patients

Infection with Mycobacterium bovis BCG Diverts Traffic of Myelin Oligodendroglial Glycoprotein Autoantigen-Specific T Cells Away from the Central Nervous System and Ameliorates Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis

Cellular microbiology: Pathogen-host cell molecular interactions

Intracellular Replication of Mycobacterium marinum within Dictyostelium discoideum: Efficient Replication in the Absence of Host Coronin

Experimental clinical investigation

Effect of Clarithromycin on Inflammatory Markers in Patients with Atherosclerosis

Inflammation and Host Response

Gamma Interferon Augments the Intracellular Pathway for Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) Recognition in Human Intestinal Epithelial Cells through Coordinated Up-Regulation of LPS Uptake and Expression of the Intracellular Toll-Like Receptor 4-MD-2 Complex

Helicobacter pylori Activates Toll-Like Receptor 4 Expression in Gastrointestinal Epithelial Cells

Helicobacter-Induced Chronic Active Lymphoid Aggregates Have Characteristics of Tertiary Lymphoid Tissue

Host Susceptibility to the Attaching and Effacing Bacterial Pathogen Citrobacter rodentium

Inhibition of Interleukin-17 Prevents the Development of Arthritis in Vaccinated Mice Challenged with Borrelia burgdorferi

Involvement of Beta Interferon in Enhancing Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Production and Antimicrobial Activity of Burkholderia pseudomallei-Infected Macrophages

Involvement of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Controlling Chlamydia pneumoniae Growth in Epithelial HEp-2 Cells

Lipopolysaccharide-Mimetic Activities of a Toll-Like Receptor 2-Stimulatory Substance(s) in Enterobacterial Lipopolysaccharide Preparations

Microbial Immunology

Epitope Mapping of the Brucella melitensis BP26 Immunogenic Protein: Usefulness for Diagnosis of Sheep Brucellosis

Expression of the Nucleoprotein of the Puumala Virus from the Recombinant Semliki Forest Virus Replicon: Characterization and Use as a Potential Diagnostic Tool

Gamma Interferon Responses Induced by a Panel of Recombinant and Purified Mycobacterial Antigens in Healthy, Non-Mycobacterium bovis BCG-Vaccinated Malawian Young Adults

Hepatitis B Virus DNA in Sera of Blood Donors and of Patients Infected with Hepatitis C Virus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus

High-Level Expression of Truncated Surface Antigen P50 of Babesia gibsoni in Insect Cells by Baculovirus and Evaluation of Its Immunogenicity and Antigenicity

Immune Responses against Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis Infection in Virally Immunosuppressed Chickens

Infection by Gram-Negative Organisms via the Biliary Route Results in Greater Mortality than Portal Venous Infection

Levels of Macrophage Inflammatory Protein 1 (MIP-1) and MIP-1ß in Intervillous Blood Plasma Samples from Women with Placental Malaria and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

Molecular Genomic

Global Analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi Genes Regulated by Mammalian Host-Specific Signals

Molecular Pathogenesis

Distribution and Kinetics of Lipoprotein-Bound Lipoteichoic Acid

Examination of Diverse Toxin-Coregulated Pilus-Positive Vibrio cholerae Strains Fails To Demonstrate Evidence for Vibrio Pathogenicity Island Phage

Helicobacter pylori Infection Induces Interleukin-8 Receptor Expression in the Human Gastric Epithelium

Helicobacter pylori Supernatants Cause Epithelial Cytoskeletal Disruption That Is Bacterial Strain and Epithelial Cell Line Dependent but Not Toxin VacA Dependent

Immunity Profiles of Wild-Type and Recombinant Shiga-Like Toxin-Encoding Bacteriophages and Characterization of Novel Double Lysogens

Isolation and Characterization of Mini-Tn5Km2 Insertion Mutants of Brucella abortus Deficient in Internalization and Intracellular Growth in HeLa Cells

Mycological and Parasitology Infections

Expression of Multiple CPB Genes Encoding Cysteine Proteases Is Required for Leishmania mexicana Virulence In Vivo

Genetic Diversity and Antigenic Polymorphism in Plasmodium falciparum: Extensive Serological Cross-Reactivity between Allelic Variants of Merozoite Surface Protein 2

Humoral and Cellular Immune Responses to Trypanosoma cruzi-Derived Paraflagellar Rod Proteins in Patients with Chagas' Disease

Interleukin-12 p40 Secretion by Cutaneous CD11c+ and F4/80+ Cells Is a Major Feature of the Innate Immune Response in Mice That Develop Th1-Mediated Protective Immunity to Schistosoma mansoni

Killing of Aspergillus fumigatus by Alveolar Macrophages Is Mediated by Reactive Oxidant Intermediates

Killing of Candida albicans by Human Salivary Histatin 5 Is Modulated, but Not Determined, by the Potassium Channel TOK1

Review

Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Quantitation of Human Antibodies to Pneumococcal Polysaccharides

Extracellular Enzymes with Immunomodulating Activities: Variations on a Theme in Streptococcus pyogenes

Immunological Methods for Detection and Identification of Infectious Disease and Biological Warfare Agents

Veterinary Immunology

Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay To Differentiate the Antibody Responses of Animals Infected with Brucella Species from Those of Animals Infected with Yersinia enterocolitica O9