Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 3 - Number: 24 - January 15, 2004

Outstanding

Association between Larger Thymic Size and Higher Thymic Output in Human Immunodeficiency VirusInfected Patients Receiving Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

A Comparison of Group A Streptococci from Invasive and Uncomplicated Infections: Are Virulent Clones Responsible for Serious Streptococcal Infections?

Correlation of Local Interleukin-8 with Immunoglobulin A against Gardnerella vaginalis Hemolysin and with Prolidase and Sialidase Levels in Women with Bacterial Vaginosis

Effect of Macrolide Antibiotics on Human Endothelial Cells Activated by Chlamydia pneumoniae Infection and Tumor Necrosis Factor

Concise Communication

Primary Induction of Human CD8+ Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes and Interferon-Producing T Cells after Smallpox Vaccination

Characterization of Human Metapneumoviruses Isolated from Patients in North America

Human Papillomavirus DNA Is Found in the Vas Deferens

Relative Infectivity of Hepatitis A Virus by the Oral and Intravenous Routes in 2 Species of Nonhuman Primates

Relationship between the Size of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Reservoir in Peripheral Blood CD4+ T Cells and CD4+ : CD8+ T Cell Ratios in Aviremic HIV-1Infected Individuals Receiving Long-Term Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

Maternal Antibody against Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin1 May Protect Infants Younger than 6 Months of Age from Developing Kawasaki Syndrome

Natural History of Enteroaggregative and Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Infection among US Travelers to Guadalajara, Mexico

IFNGR1 Gene Promoter Polymorphisms and Susceptibility to Cerebral Malaria

Plasmodium falciparum Infections Are Associated with Agglutinating Antibodies to Parasite-Infected Erythrocyte Surface Antigens among Healthy Kenyan Children

Major Articles

Associations between Human Leukocyte Antigen Homozygosity and Antibody Levels to Measles Vaccine

The Replication of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 in Macrophages Is Enhanced after Phagocytosis of Apoptotic Cells

Increased CD4 and CCR5 Expression and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Entry in CD40 LigandStimulated Macrophages

Association between Larger Thymic Size and Higher Thymic Output in Human Immunodeficiency VirusInfected Patients Receiving Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

A Comparison of Group A Streptococci from Invasive and Uncomplicated Infections: Are Virulent Clones Responsible for Serious Streptococcal Infections?

Outbreak of W135 Meningococcal Disease in 2000: Not Emergence of a New W135 Strain but Clonal Expansion within the Electophoretic Type37 Complex

Effect of Menstrual Status on Antibacterial Activity and Secretory Leukocyte Protease Inhibitor Production by Human Uterine Epithelial Cells in Culture

Correlation of Local Interleukin-8 with Immunoglobulin A against Gardnerella vaginalis Hemolysin and with Prolidase and Sialidase Levels in Women with Bacterial Vaginosis

Chlamydia pneumoniae Infection of Endothelial Cells Induces Transcriptional Activation of Platelet-Derived Growth FactorB: A Potential Link to Intimal Thickening in a Rabbit Model of Atherosclerosis

Effect of Macrolide Antibiotics on Human Endothelial Cells Activated by Chlamydia pneumoniae Infection and Tumor Necrosis Factor

The Molecular Basis of Sulfonamide Resistance in Toxoplasma gondii and Implications for the Clinical Management of Toxoplasmosis

Population-Based Differences in Schistosoma mansoni and Hepatitis CInduced Disease

Soluble Egg Antigens from Schistosoma mansoni Induce Angiogenesis-Related Processes by Up-Regulating Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Human Endothelial Cells

Microbial Immunity and Vaccines

Mechanisms of Monophosphoryl Lipid A Augmentation of Host Responses to Recombinant HagB from Porphyromonas gingivalis

Improved Tuberculosis DNA Vaccines by Formulation in Cationic Lipids

Effect of O Acetylation of Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup A Capsular Polysaccharide on Development of Functional Immune Responses

Molecular Genomic

Proteome Analysis of Secreted Proteins of the Gastric Pathogen Helicobacter pylori