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Table of Contents | November 2005

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Neutrophil engulfing Bacillus anthracis

Neutrophils are the most abundant white blood cell and the first line of defense against invading microbes. This scanning electron micrograph shows a neutrophil (yellow) engulfing rods of Bacillus anthracis (orange), the etiological agent of anthrax (see Mayer-Scholl et al).

Image Credit: The micrograph was taken by Volker Brinkmann with a Leo 1550 scanning electron microscope.

 
 

Opinion

Can Specialized Pathogens Colonize Distantly Related Hosts? Schistosome Evolution as a Case Study

Sara V Brant, Eric S Loker

 

Research Articles

Molecular Identification of a Malaria Merozoite Surface Sheddase

Philippa K Harris, Sharon Yeoh, Anton R Dluzewski, Rebecca A O'Donnell, Chrislaine Withers-Martinez, Fiona Hackett, Lawrence H Bannister, Graham H Mitchell, Michael J Blackman

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Comparative Signature-Tagged Mutagenesis Identifies Pseudomonas Factors Conferring Resistance to the Pulmonary Collectin SP-A

Shiping Zhang, Yi Chen, Eric Potvin, Francois Sanschagrin, Roger C Levesque, Francis X McCormack, Gee W Lau

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Mycobacterial Mutants with Defective Control of Phagosomal Acidification

Graham R Stewart, Janisha Patel, Brian D Robertson, Aaron Rae, Douglas B Young

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NOD2 and Toll-Like Receptors Are Nonredundant Recognition Systems of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Gerben Ferwerda, Stephen E Girardin, Bart-Jan Kullberg, Lionel Le Bourhis, Dirk J. de Jong, Dennis M. L Langenberg, Reinout van Crevel, Gosse J Adema, Tom H. M Ottenhoff, Jos W. M. Van der Meer, Mihai G Netea

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Disruption of Toxoplasma gondii Parasitophorous Vacuoles by the Mouse p47-Resistance GTPases

Sascha Martens, Iana Parvanova, Jens Zerrahn, Gareth Griffiths, Gudrun Schell, Gaby Reichmann, Jonathan C Howard

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Plasmodium falciparum Variant Surface Antigen Expression Patterns during Malaria

Peter C Bull, Matthew Berriman, Sue Kyes, Michael A Quail, Neil Hall, Moses M Kortok, Kevin Marsh, Chris I Newbold

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Mechanisms of Assembly and Cellular Interactions for the Bacterial Genotoxin CDT

Dragana Nesic, C. Erec Stebbins

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Aspergillus fumigatus Triggers Inflammatory Responses by Stage-Specific β-Glucan Display

Tobias M Hohl, Heather L. Van Epps, Amariliz Rivera, Laura A Morgan, Patrick L Chen, Marta Feldmesser, Eric G Pamer

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Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 2 Is Expressed Prior to Penetrating the Intestine

Nat F Brown, Bruce A Vallance, Brian K Coombes, Yanet Valdez, Bryan A Coburn, B. Brett Finlay

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The Cell Cycle Independence of HIV Infections Is Not Determined by Known Karyophilic Viral Elements

Masahiro Yamashita, Michael Emerman

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Human Neutrophils Kill Bacillus anthracis

Anne Mayer-Scholl, Robert Hurwitz, Volker Brinkmann, Monika Schmid, Peter Jungblut, Yvette Weinrauch, Arturo Zychlinsky

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Expression of Procyclin mRNAs during Cyclical Transmission of Trypanosoma brucei

Simon Urwyler, Erik Vassella, Jan Van Den Abbeele, Christina Kunz Renggli, Pat Blundell, J. David Barry, Isabel Roditi

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