Figure 1. Attachment and ingestion phases of phagocyto Escherichia coli, which have been
opsonized with human ant tosed by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes. A: A bacte …

Peritrophic membranes are secretion products of the midgut. For long they have been
related only to insects, but they occur widely in the animal kingdom. They effect a part of the …

Type IV pili are long, flexible filaments that extend from the surface of Gram-negative
bacteria and are formed by the polymerization of pilin subunits. This review focuses on the …

Microbial adherence to epithelial cell surfaces has been implicated as the first step in the
initiation of several infectious diseases. Subinhibitory concentrations of antibiotics affect the …

Bacterial virulence is the result of many different attributes, which often contribute to different
steps in the complicated series of events we recognize as infection. With the use of selected …

Studies on Gonococcus Infection Page 1 INFECTION AND IMMUNITY, June 1975, p. 1352-1361
Copyright 0 1975 American Society for Microbiology Vol. 11, No. Printed in USA Studies on …

Simple in vitro tests for bacterial adhesion can indeed identify the various adhesive
mechanisms of bacteria on an immunologic, physicochemical, biochemical, and genetic …

The surface charge and hydrophobicity of Salmonella typhimurium, Escherichiu coli and
Neisseriu gonorrhoem bacteria have been compared with their tendency to associate in …

Bactericidal and opsonic actrvttres in convalescent-phase sera from patients with
disseminated gonococcal infection (DCI) were analyzed with use of the patients' infecting …

The colonization of mucosal cells in the oral cavity of newborn infants was studied at various
intervals after birth in an attempt to define the nature of the epithelial binding sites for group …