Stephen A Klotz

..albicans and in spent growth medium. All four antibodies reacted with authentic ADH. The possible significance of these results in relation to C. albicans adherence is discussed...

..Infrequently, cat-scratch disease may present in a more disseminated form with hepatosplenomegaly or meningoencephalitis, or with bacillary angiomatosis in patients with AIDS...

..Thus, based on our observations, we do not believe that T. protracta and T. rubida pose an imminent risk for transmission of Chagas disease to residents of the southwestern United States...

..In resource-poor settings where the primary goal is to initiate HAART, IRIS may go unrecognized and have fatal consequences...

..This finding may have treatment implications for clinicians...

..The various opportunistic infections seen in this resource-poor clinic setting is likely to be a pattern of presentation of HIV-infected Vietnamese for some time to come...

..cerevisiae also mediated these mixed microbial interactions. Thus the Als adhesins are potentially important for the co-adhesion of mixed microbial communities in biofilms and on mucus surfaces...

..albicans adherence to the peptide-coated PEG beads. This dual property of Fn/23, i.e., inhibition of adherence and killing of C. albicans, may provide important adjuvant effects in the treatment of disease caused by this fungus...

..A degenerate recognition system provides the fungi with the potential of adhering to a multitude of proteins and peptides, an advantage for any microorganism attempting to establish a commensal or pathogenic relationship with a host...

..Thus, Ala1/Als5p recognizes patches of certain amino acids, which must be accessible before adherence will occur...

..The proposed interactions in SRS adherence have striking similarities with those of the molecular chaperone Hsp70, which specifically binds to non-native proteins and resists denaturation...

..The absence of a vertebrate bite or scratch does not preclude infection with Bartonella henselae...

..This article describes the findings of autopsy patients with postmortem candidaemia and it compares them with findings in autopsy patients with antemortem candidaemia...

..Document errors and the nuisance factor inherent in the informational exchange that occurs with the outsourcing of laboratory and radiology examinations...

..Pathologists played a critical role in the diagnosis of these presentations by recognizing spherules in tissue. In only 2 of the cases were Coccidioides species cultured...

..Despite these facts, there is mounting evidence that timely diagnosis and treatment of HIV in older adults leads to improved outcomes, similar to younger patients. This review evaluates the literature focusing on HIV and older adults...

..These results suggest a model for Als5p-mediated aggregation in which an adhesion-triggered change in the conformation of Als5p propagates around the cell surface, forming ordered aggregation-competent regions...

..Thus, the TR region of Als5p modulated the structure of the Ig-T region, augmented cell adhesion activity through increased binding to mammalian ligands, and simultaneously promoted fungal cell-cell interactions...