From the Current Issue: September 2008; volume 76, issue 9 [Table of Contents]

Vitamin D Signaling, Infectious Diseases, and Regulation of Innate Immunity

John H. White
Infect. Immun. 2008. 76:3837-3843. [HTML] [PDF]

From Past Issues:

Bacteria in the Intestine, Helpful Residents or Enemies from Within?

Geraldine O. Canny and Beth A. McCormick
Infect. Immun. 2008. 76:3360-3373. [HTML] [PDF]

Multiple Roles of Phospholipase A₂ during Lung Infection and Inflammation

Bryan P. Hurley and Beth A. McCormick
Infect. Immun. 2008. 76:2259-2272. [HTML] [PDF]

Interaction between Yersinia pestis and the Host Immune System

Bei Li and Ruifu Yang
Infect. Immun. 2008. 76:1804-1811. [HTML] [PDF]

Recognition of Bacterial Surface Polysaccharides by Lectins of the Innate Immune System and Its Contribution to Defense against Infection: the Case of Pulmonary Pathogens

Hany Sahly, Yona Keisari, Erika Crouch, Nathan Sharon, and Itzhak Ofek
Infect. Immun. 2008. 76:1322-1332. [HTML] [PDF]

Toll-Like Receptors and Leishmaniasis

Felipe F. Tuon, Valdir S. Amato, Helio A. Bacha, Tariq AlMusawi, Maria I. Duarte, and Vicente Amato Neto
Infect. Immun. 2008. 76:866-872. [HTML] [PDF]

Cross-Species Immunity in Malaria Vaccine Development: Two, Three, or Even Four for the Price of One?

Bruno Douradinha, Maria M. Mota, Adrian J. F. Luty, and Robert W. Sauerwein
Infect. Immun. 2008. 76:873-878. [HTML] [PDF]

Sensing Gram-Negative Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides: a Human Disease Determinant?

Robert S. Munford
Infect. Immun. 2008. 76:454-465. [HTML] [PDF]

Intestinal Immune Response to Human Cryptosporidium sp. Infection

Birte Pantenburg, Sara M. Dann, Heuy-Ching Wang, Prema Robinson, Alejandro Castellanos-Gonzalez, Dorothy E. Lewis, and A. Clinton White Jr.
Infect. Immun. 2008. 76:23-29. [HTML] [PDF]

Regulatory Networks Controlling Vibrio cholerae Virulence Gene Expression

Jyl S. Matson, Jeffrey H. Withey, and Victor J. DiRita
Infect. Immun. 2007. 75:5542-5549. [HTML] [PDF]

MARTX, Multifunctional Autoprocessing Repeats-in-Toxin Toxins

Karla J. Fullner Satchell
Infect. Immun. 2007. 75:5079-5084. [HTML] [PDF]

Anticandidal Immunity and Vaginitis: Novel Opportunities for Immune Intervention

Antonio Cassone, Flavia De Bernardis, and Giorgio Santoni
Infect. Immun. 2007. 75:4675-4686. [HTML] [PDF]

Effect of Host Lactate on Gonococci and Meningococci: New Concepts on the Role of Metabolites in Pathogenicity

Harry Smith, Christoph M. Tang, and Rachel M. Exley
Infect. Immun. 2007. 75:4190-4198. [HTML] [PDF]

Enteropathogenic and Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Virulence Gene Regulation

Jay L. Mellies, Alex M. S. Barron, and Anna M. Carmona
Infect. Immun. 2007. 75:4199-4210. [HTML] [PDF]

Mellowing Out: Adaptation to Commensalism by Escherichia coli Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Strain 83972

Per Klemm, Viktoria Hancock, and Mark A. Schembri
Infect. Immun. 2007. 75:3688-3695. [HTML] [PDF]

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Bioinformatics Resource Centers: New Assets for Pathogen Informatics

John M. Greene, Frank Collins, Elliot J. Lefkowitz, David Roos, Richard H. Scheuermann, Bruno Sobral, Rick Stevens, Owen White, and Valentina Di Francesco
Infect. Immun. 2007. 75:3212-3219. [HTML] [PDF]

Haemophilus influenzae Type a Infection and Its Prevention

Zhigang Jin, Sandra Romero-Steiner, George M. Carlone, John B. Robbins, and Rachel Schneerson
Infect. Immun. 2007. 75:2650-2654. [HTML] [PDF]

Immunity to Microbes: Lessons from Primary Immunodeficiencies

Magda Carneiro-Sampaio and Antonio Coutinho
Infect. Immun. 2007. 75:1545-1555. [HTML] [PDF]

Adipocyte, Adipose Tissue, and Infectious Disease

Mahalia S. Desruisseaux, Nagajyothi, Maria E. Trujillo, Herbert B. Tanowitz, and Philipp E. Scherer
Infect. Immun. 2007. 75:1066-1078. [HTML] [PDF]

How Flagellin and Toll-Like Receptor 5 Contribute to Enteric Infection

Theodore S. Steiner
Infect. Immun. 2007. 75:545-552. [HTML] [PDF]

Should We Inhibit Type I Interferons in Sepsis?

Tina Mahieu and Claude Libert
Infect. Immun. 2007. 75:22-29. [HTML] [PDF]

Ganglioside Molecular Mimicry and Its Pathological Roles in Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Related Diseases

Robert K. Yu, Seigo Usuki, and Toshio Ariga
Infect. Immun. 2006. 74:6517-6527. [HTML] [PDF]

Intestinal Microvascular Endothelium and Innate Immunity in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: a Second Line of Defense?

Jan Heidemann, Wolfram Domschke, Torsten Kucharzik, and Christian Maaser
Infect. Immun. 2006. 74:5425-5432. [HTML] [PDF]

Stress Wars: the Direct Role of Host and Bacterial Molecular Chaperones in Bacterial Infection

Brian Henderson, Elaine Allan, and Anthony R. M. Coates
Infect. Immun. 2006. 74:3693-3706. [HTML] [PDF]

Interaction of Neonatal Phagocytes with Group B Streptococcus: Recognition and Response

Philipp Henneke and Reinhard Berner
Infect. Immun. 2006. 74:3085-3095. [HTML] [PDF]

How the Bacterial Pathogen Listeria monocytogenes Mediates the Switch from Environmental Dr. Jekyll to Pathogenic Mr. Hyde

Michael J. Gray, Nancy E. Freitag, and Kathryn J. Boor
Infect. Immun. 2006. 74:2505-2512. [HTML] [PDF]

Neonatal Innate Immunity to Infectious Agents

Laszlo Marodi
Infect. Immun. 2006. 74:1999-2006. [HTML] [PDF]

Chemotactic Factors in Cerebrospinal Fluid during Bacterial Meningitis

Petra J. G. Zwijnenburg, Tom van der Poll, John J. Roord, and A. Marceline van Furth
Infect. Immun. 2006. 74:1445-1451. [HTML] [PDF]

Do CD1-Restricted T Cells Contribute to Antibody-Mediated Immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis?

Mark L. Lang and Aharona Glatman-Freedman
Infect. Immun. 2006. 74:803-809. [HTML] [PDF]

Capsule-Mediated Immune Evasion: a New Hypothesis Explaining Aspects of Typhoid Fever Pathogenesis

Manuela Raffatellu, Daniela Chessa, R. Paul Wilson, Cagla Tukel, Mustafa Akcelik, and Andreas J. Baumler
Infect. Immun. 2006. 74:19-27. [HTML] [PDF]

Role of Sphingolipids in Microbial Pathogenesis

Lena J. Heung, Chiara Luberto, and Maurizio Del Poeta
Infect. Immun. 2006. 74:28-39. [HTML] [PDF]

Membrane Cholesterol: a Crucial Molecule Affecting Interactions of Microbial Pathogens with Mammalian Cells

P. Goluszko and B. Nowicki
Infect. Immun. 2005. 73:7791-7796. [HTML] [PDF]

Insight into a Conserved Lifestyle: Protein-Carbohydrate Adhesion Strategies of Vector-Borne Pathogens

Rhoel R. Dinglasan and Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena
Infect. Immun. 2005. 73:7797-7807. [HTML] [PDF]

Role of Lymphotoxin in Experimental Models of Infectious Diseases: Potential Benefits and Risks of a Therapeutic Inhibition of the Lymphotoxin-ß Receptor Pathway

Thomas W. Spahn, Hans-Pietro Eugster, Adriano Fontana, Wolfram Domschke, and Torsten Kucharzik
Infect. Immun. 2005. 73:7077-7088. [HTML] [PDF]

Expression Library Immunization: a Road Map for Discovery of Vaccines against Infectious Diseases

Adel M. Talaat and Katherine Stemke-Hale
Infect. Immun. 2005. 73:7089-7098. [HTML] [PDF]

Cholesterol-Dependent Cytolysins, a Family of Versatile Pore-Forming Toxins

Rodney K. Tweten
Infect. Immun. 2005. 73:6199-6209. [HTML] [PDF]

Worms and Flies as Genetically Tractable Animal Models To Study Host-Pathogen Interactions

Eleftherios Mylonakis and Alejandro Aballay
Infect. Immun. 2005. 73:3833-3841. [HTML] [PDF]

Bacterial Cell-to-Cell Signaling in the Gastrointestinal Tract

James B. Kaper and Vanessa Sperandio
Infect. Immun. 2005. 73:3197-3209. [HTML] [PDF]

Enteropathogenic and Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Infections: Translocation, Translocation, Translocation

Junkal Garmendia, Gad Frankel, and Valerie F. Crepin
Infect. Immun. 2005. 73:2573-2585. [HTML] [PDF]

Apoptosis, Pyroptosis, and Necrosis: Mechanistic Description of Dead and Dying Eukaryotic Cells

Susan L. Fink and Brad T. Cookson
Infect. Immun. 2005. 73:1907-1916. [HTML] [PDF]

Anti-Inflammatory and Antimicrobial Roles of Secretory Leukocyte Protease Inhibitor

Stergios Doumas, Alexandros Kolokotronis, and Panagiotis Stefanopoulos
Infect. Immun. 2005. 73:1271-1274. [HTML] [PDF]

Antibody-Mediated Immunomodulation: a Strategy To Improve Host Responses against Microbial Antigens

L. Jeannine Brady
Infect. Immun. 2005. 73:671-678. [HTML] [PDF]

Adherence of Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli Strains to Epithelial Cells

Alfredo G. Torres, Xin Zhou, and James B. Kaper
Infect. Immun. 2005. 73:18-29. [HTML] [PDF]

ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters Are Targets for the Development of Antibacterial Vaccines and Therapies

Helen S. Garmory and Richard W. Titball
Infect. Immun. 2004. 72:6757-6763. [HTML] [PDF]

New Concepts in Antibody-Mediated Immunity

Arturo Casadevall and Liise-anne Pirofski
Infect. Immun. 2004. 72:6191-6196. [HTML] [PDF]

Enteric Pathogens as Vaccine Vectors for Foreign Antigen Delivery

Camille N. Kotton and Elizabeth L. Hohmann
Infect. Immun. 2004. 72:5535-5547. [HTML] [PDF]

Role of Xanthine Oxidoreductase as an Antimicrobial Agent

Hannah M. Martin, John T. Hancock, Vyv Salisbury, and Roger Harrison
Infect. Immun. 2004. 72:4933-4939. [HTML] [PDF]

Modulation and Utilization of Host Cell Phosphoinositides by Salmonella spp.

Dan Drecktrah, Leigh A. Knodler, and Olivia Steele-Mortimer
Infect. Immun. 2004. 72:4331-4335. [HTML] [PDF]

Role of Type III Effector Secretion during Bacterial Pathogenesis in Another Kingdom

James R. Bretz and Steven W. Hutcheson
Infect. Immun. 2004. 72:3697-3705. [HTML] [PDF]

Model for Immune Responses to Mycobacterium avium Subspecies paratuberculosis in Cattle

Paul M. Coussens
Infect. Immun. 2004. 72:3089-3096. [HTML] [PDF]

Haemophilus influenzae: Genetic Variability and Natural Selection To Identify Virulence Factors

Janet R. Gilsdorf, Carl F. Marrs, and Betsy Foxman
Infect. Immun. 2004. 72:2457-2461. [HTML] [PDF]

Chlamydial Persistence: beyond the Biphasic Paradigm

Richard J. Hogan, Sarah A. Mathews, Sanghamitra Mukhopadhyay, James T. Summersgill, and Peter Timms
Infect. Immun. 2004. 72:1843-1855. [HTML] [PDF]

Regulation of Granulomatous Inflammation in Experimental Models of Schistosomiasis

Abram B. Stavitsky
Infect. Immun. 2004. 72:1-12. [HTML] [PDF]

Hepcidin: the Missing Link between Hemochromatosis and Infections

Houman Ashrafian
Infect. Immun. 2003. 71:6693-6700. [HTML] [PDF]

Apoptosis and the Balance of Homeostatic and Pathologic Responses to Protozoan Infection

L. Cristina Gavrilescu and Eric Y. Denkers
Infect. Immun. 2003. 71:6109-6115. [HTML] [PDF]

Role of CD1d-Restricted NKT Cells in Microbial Immunity

Markus Skold and Samuel M. Behar
Infect. Immun. 2003. 71:5447-5455. [HTML] [PDF]

Interleukin-10 and Inhibition of Innate Immunity to Yersiniae: Roles of Yops and LcrV (V Antigen)

Robert R. Brubaker
Infect. Immun. 2003. 71:3673-3681. [HTML] [PDF]

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

Mattias Collin and Arne Olsen
Infect. Immun. 2003. 71:2983-2992. [HTML] [PDF]

Molecular Genetic and Genomic Approaches to the Study of Medically Important Fungi

P. T. Magee, Cheryl Gale, Judith Berman, and Dana Davis
Infect. Immun. 2003. 71:2299-2309. [HTML] [PDF]

On the Use of DNA Vaccines for the Prophylaxis of Mycobacterial Diseases

Kris Huygen
Infect. Immun. 2003. 71:1613-1621. [HTML] [PDF]

Archaea and Their Potential Role in Human Disease

Paul B. Eckburg, Paul W. Lepp, and David A. Relman
Infect. Immun. 2003. 71:591-596. [HTML] [PDF]

Molecular Pathogenesis of Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhimurium-Induced Diarrhea

Shuping Zhang, Robert A. Kingsley, Renato L. Santos, Helene Andrews-Polymenis, Manuela Raffatellu, Josely Figueiredo, Jairo Nunes, Renee M. Tsolis, L. Garry Adams, and Andreas J. Baumler
Infect. Immun. 2003. 71:1-12. [HTML] [PDF]

In Vivo Expression Technology

Michael J. Angelichio and Andrew Camilli
Infect. Immun. 2002. 70:6518-6523. [HTML] [PDF]

Bacteriophage Control of Bacterial Virulence

Patrick L. Wagner and Matthew K. Waldor
Infect. Immun. 2002. 70:3985-3993. [HTML] [PDF]

Host-Pathogen Interactions: Subversion and Utilization of the NF-B Pathway during Infection

C. M. Tato and C. A. Hunter
Infect. Immun. 2002. 70:3311-3317. [HTML] [PDF]

Immunity to Murine Chlamydial Genital Infection

Richard P. Morrison and Harlan D. Caldwell
Infect. Immun. 2002. 70:2741-2751. [HTML] [PDF]

Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhimurium and Its Host-Adapted Variants

Wolfgang Rabsch, Helene L. Andrews, Robert A. Kingsley, Rita Prager, Helmut Tschape, L. Garry Adams, and Andreas J. Baumler
Infect. Immun. 2002. 70:2249-2255. [HTML] [PDF]

Immunopathogenesis of Haemophilus ducreyi Infection (Chancroid)

Stanley M. Spinola, Margaret E. Bauer, and Robert S. Munson Jr.
Infect. Immun. 2002. 70:1667-1676. [HTML] [PDF]

Toll Receptors: a Central Element in Innate Immune Responses

Thierry Vasselon and Patricia A. Detmers
Infect. Immun. 2002. 70:1033-1041. [HTML] [PDF]

Immunology of Parasitic Helminth Infections

Andrew S. MacDonald, Maria Ilma Araujo, and Edward J. Pearce
Infect. Immun. 2002. 70:427-433. [HTML] [PDF]

Type IV Pilus-Dependent Motility and Its Possible Role in Bacterial Pathogenesis

Wenyuan Shi and Hong Sun
Infect. Immun. 2002. 70:1-4. [HTML] [PDF]

Roles of DNA Adenine Methylation in Regulating Bacterial Gene Expression and Virulence

David A. Low, Nathan J. Weyand, and Michael J. Mahan
Infect. Immun. 2001. 69:7197-7204. [HTML] [PDF]

Lactate Stimulation of Gonococcal Metabolism in Media Containing Glucose: Mechanism, Impact on Pathogenicity, and Wider Implications for Other Pathogens

Harry Smith, Edwin A. Yates, Jeff A. Cole, and Nicholas J. Parsons
Infect. Immun. 2001. 69:6565-6572. [HTML] [PDF]

Molecular Basis of the Intracellular Spreading of Shigella

Toshihiko Suzuki and Chihiro Sasakawa
Infect. Immun. 2001. 69:5959-5966. [HTML] [PDF]

Escherichia coli Translocation at the Blood-Brain Barrier

Kwang Sik Kim
Infect. Immun. 2001. 69:5217-5222. [HTML] [PDF]

Dendritic Cells: Immune Saviors or Achilles' Heel?

Christopher W. Cutler, Ravi Jotwani, and Bali Pulendran
Infect. Immun. 2001. 69:4703-4708. [HTML] [PDF]

Tuberculosis: Latency and Reactivation

JoAnne L. Flynn and John Chan
Infect. Immun. 2001. 69:4195-4201. [HTML] [PDF]

Type II Secretion and Pathogenesis

Maria Sandkvist
Infect. Immun. 2001. 69:3523-3535. [HTML] [PDF]

Virulence Functions of Autotransporter Proteins

Ian R. Henderson and James P. Nataro
Infect. Immun. 2001. 69:1231-1243. [HTML] [PDF]

Genetics of Surface Antigen Expression in Pneumocystis carinii

James R. Stringer and Scott P. Keely
Infect. Immun. 2001. 69:627-639. [Abstract] [HTML] [PDF]

Ups and Downs of Mucosal Cellular Immunity against Protozoan Parasites

Lloyd H. Kasper and Dominique Buzoni-Gatel
Infect. Immun. 2001. 69:1-8. [HTML] [PDF]

Host-Pathogen Interactions: Basic Concepts of Microbial Commensalism, Colonization, Infection, and Disease

Arturo Casadevall and Liise-anne Pirofski
Infect. Immun. 2000. 68:6511-6518. [HTML] [PDF]

Genetic Manipulation of Rickettsiae: a Preview

David O. Wood and Abdu F. Azad
Infect. Immun. 2000. 68:6091-6093. [HTML] [PDF]

Genome Sequencing and Our Understanding of Chlamydiae

Daniel D. Rockey, Jennifer Lenart, and Richard S. Stephens
Infect. Immun. 2000. 68:5473-5479. [HTML] [PDF]

Bacterial Quorum Sensing in Pathogenic Relationships

Teresa R. de Kievit and Barbara H. Iglewski
Infect. Immun. 2000. 68:4839-4849. [HTML] [PDF]

Metabolic Routes as Targets for Immunological Discrimination of Host and Parasite

Helene Sicard and Jean-Jacques Fournie
Infect. Immun. 2000. 68:4375-4377. [HTML] [PDF]

Host-Pathogen Interactions: Redefining the Basic Concepts of Virulence and Pathogenicity

Arturo Casadevall and Liise-anne Pirofski
Infect. Immun. 1999. 67:3703-3713. [HTML] [PDF]

Diversity of Antibody-Mediated Immunity at the Mucosal Barrier

Jean-Pierre Bouvet and Vincent A. Fischetti
Infect. Immun. 1999. 67:2687-2691. [HTML] [PDF]

Antigenic Diversity and Gene Polymorphisms in Haemophilus influenzae

Janet R. Gilsdorf
Infect. Immun. 1998. 66:5053-5059. [HTML] [PDF]

Evolution of Host Adaptation in Salmonella enterica

Andreas J. Baumler, Renee M. Tsolis, Thomas A. Ficht, and L. Garry Adams
Infect. Immun. 1998. 66:4579-4587. [HTML] [PDF]

Counterselectable Markers: Untapped Tools for Bacterial Genetics and Pathogenesis

Jean-Marc Reyrat, Vladimir Pelicic, Brigitte Gicquel, and Rino Rappuoli
Infect. Immun. 1998. 66:4011-4017. [HTML] [PDF]

Bacterial Perturbation of Cytokine Networks

Michael Wilson, Robert Seymour, and Brian Henderson
Infect. Immun. 1998. 66:2401-2409. [HTML] [PDF]

Macrophage Receptors for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Joel D. Ernst
Infect. Immun. 1998. 66:1277-1281. [HTML] [PDF]

From Natural Polyreactive Autoantibodies to À La Carte Monoreactive Antibodies to Infectious Agents: Is It a Small World after All?

Jean-Pierre Bouvet and Guillaume Dighiero
Infect. Immun. 1998. 66:1-4. [HTML] [PDF]

Mast cells in infection and immunity

SN Abraham and R Malaviya
Infect. Immun. 1997. 65:3501-3508. [PDF]

Role of pili in Haemophilus influenzae adherence and colonization

JR Gilsdorf, KW McCrea, and CF Marrs
Infect. Immun. 1997. 65:2997-3002. [PDF]

Microbial adherence to and invasion through proteoglycans

KS Rostand and JD Esko
Infect. Immun. 1997. 65:1-8. [PDF]

Roles of proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in pathophysiology of bacterial meningitis and effect of adjunctive therapy

AM van Furth, JJ Roord, and R van Furth
Infect. Immun. 1996. 64:4883-4890. [PDF]

Immunoregulatory mechanisms of T-cell-dependent shock induced by a bacterial superantigen in mice

S Florquin and M Goldman
Infect. Immun. 1996. 64:3443-3445. [PDF]

Bacterially induced bone destruction: mechanisms and misconceptions

SP Nair, S Meghji, M Wilson, K Reddi, P White, and B Henderson
Infect. Immun. 1996. 64:2371-2380. [Abstract] [PDF]

Bacterial collagenases and collagen-degrading enzymes and their potential role in human disease

DJ Harrington
Infect. Immun. 1996. 64:1885-1891. [PDF]

Immunopathology of tuberculosis: roles of macrophages and monocytes

MJ Fenton and MW Vermeulen
Infect. Immun. 1996. 64:683-690. [PDF]

Antibody immunity and invasive fungal infections

A Casadevall
Infect. Immun. 1995. 63:4211-4218. [PDF]

Thermostable direct hemolysin gene of Vibrio parahaemolyticus: a virulence gene acquired by a marine bacterium

M Nishibuchi and JB Kaper
Infect. Immun. 1995. 63:2093-2099. [PDF]