Five toxigenic strains of Clostridium botulinum types C and D were incubated at 37 degrees C for 7 days in 15 ml of the following media: LYG medium, cooked-meat medium, egg meat medium, and N-Z-amine medium. The supernatants of these cultures were tested for hemagglutinin production with 1% erythrocytes obtained from mice, guinea pigs, chickens, sheep, monkeys, and humans. Four toxigenic strain...

Pertussis re-emerged in Sweden with a cumulative incidence of about 60% during the first 10 years of life, when the locally produced cellular vaccine lost its efficacy around 1970 and general vaccination was discontinued in 1979. The epidemiology, clinical features, and immunology of pertussis and a monocomponent pertussis toxoid vaccine were studied in Göteborg, Sweden. After phase 1 and 2 stu...

abstract background and aims: influenza a(h5n1) viruses  circulating in animals might evolve and acquire the ability to spread from  human to human and thus start a pandemic. hemagglutinin (ha) has been shown to play a major role in binding of influenza virus to its target cell and the main neutralizing antibody responses elicit against this region. recent studies have shown that glycosylation ...

background and aims: influenza a(h5n1) viruses  circulating in animals might evolve and acquire the ability to spread from  human to human and thus start a pandemic. hemagglutinin (ha) has been shown to play a major role in binding of influenza virus to its target cell and the main neutralizing antibody responses elicit against this region. recent studies have shown that glycosylation of ha is ...

results significant differences were observed in the results of co-culture of nematodes larva and fungi after seven days. the most effective fungi against the nematodes larvae were cladosporium sp., trichoderma sp., fusarium equisetti, after seven days of incubation. materials and methods sheep feces were employed to provide the required third stage larvae source for the experiments. the nemato...

Antigenic determinants of influenza virus hemagglutinin were expressed in Escherichia coli. DNA coding for presequences of hemagglutinin were removed and an ATG codon was placed before DNA coding for mature hemagglutinin. A number of expression plasmids were constructed in which various segments of this reconstructed hemagglutinin DNA were fused to DNA coding for bacterial beta-galactosidase. T...

Neuraminidase treatment of human peripheral blood lymphocytes uncovers cell surface receptors that bind purified A hemagglutinin from the snail Helix pomatia. No hemagglutinin was bound to untreated lymphocytes. Binding studies with (125)I-labeled hemagglutinin suggested that the number of receptors on neuraminidase-treated lymphocytes was approximately 1.10(6)/cell. The apparent association co...