Title: Constitutional resistance to infection /
Authors: Verduin, Cees M., 1961-
Publisher: Springer-Verlag ; R.G. Landes,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Immunity, Innate; Natural immunity; Bacteria immunology; Viruses immunology; Parasites immunology
Contents: 1. Lectin-Mediated Interaction of Microorganisms with Host Cells: Implications for Innate Immunity / David A. Watson and Daniel M. Musher -- 2. Factors Controlling Host Range and Pathogenesis of Group A Streptococcal Infections / Dennis L. Stevens, Amy E. Bryant, Sizhung Yan and Sean Hackett -- 3. Complement Resistance in Moraxella (Branhamella) Catarrhalis is Species-Restricted and Mediated by the Binding of Human Vitronectin / Cees M. Verduin, Cees Hol, Margriet Jansze, Etienne E. M. van Dijke and Hans van Dijk -- 4. Group B Streptococcal C5a-ase is Restricted in Its Ability to Inactivate C5a from Different Animal Species / John F. Bohnsack, Ju-Kay Chang and Harry R. Hill -- 5. Constitutional Resistance to Mycobacterial Infection: Role of Genetic Factors in Resistance to Infection / Ellen Buschman, Erwin Schurr and Emil Skamene -- 6. Nonspecific Host Resistance Mechanisms Against Primary Murine Listeriosis / J. Wayne Conlan -- 7. The Simian Immunodeficiency Virus-Suppressing Lymphokine (ISL) of the African Green Monkey / Reinhard Kurth and Albrecht Werner -- 8. The Cotton-Top Tamarin: A New World Primate with Unusual Susceptibility to Viral Infections, Ulcerative Colitis, and Adenocarcinoma of the Colon / David T. Evans and David I. Watkins -- 9. Entamoeba histolytica Resistance to Lysis by the Complement Membrane Attack Complex / William A. Petri, Jr. and Peter J. Sims -- 10. Innate Resistance to Human Malaria / Mats Wahlgren, Johan Carlson and Gerard B. Nash