Neisseriae 1990 : : Proceedings of the Seventh International Pathogenic Neisseriae Conference, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, September 9–14, 1990 / / ed. by Andrea Seiler, Burghard Thiesen, Christian Marchal, Giovanna Morelli, Mark Achtman, Peter Kohl.

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• HerausgeberIn: Achtman, Mark,; Kohl, Peter,; Marchal, Christian,; Morelli, Giovanna,; Seiler, Andrea,; Thiesen, Burghard,
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Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Epidemiology and Vaccines -- Epidemiology and vaccines -- Properties and epidemiology of 2 epidemic clones of serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis associated with African epidemics since 1980 -- Serotyping of N. meningitidis group B strains in China with monoclonal antibodies by whole cell ELISA -- Group A meningococcus: Epidemiology and development of a protein polysaccharide conjugate vaccine -- The Resolution of Clonal Types of Neisseria meningitidis by Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis -- A three-year survey of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Mexico -- Genetic structure and epidemiology of serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis -- Two epidemiological types of meningococcal infection incidence caused by serogroup B meningococci -- Prevalence of group A (Clone II-2) Neisseria meningitidis in Scotland -- The use of restriction fragment length polymorphisms for typing Neisseria meningitidis -- Recent meningococcal epidemiology in Norway. Eight years of serotyping for strain characterization -- Meningococcal meningitis Cairo - Egypt November 1983 - October 1989 -- Heterogeneity amongst B15P1-7.16 meningococci -- Meningococcal disease in South Australia: 1971 through 1989 -- Epidemiology of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated in London -- Changes of the age structure of meningococcal diseases in the Czech Republic -- Multilocus genotypes determined by enzyme electrophoresis in Neisseria meningitidis strains isolated from meningitis patients in a nonepidemic situation in the Czech Republic -- Nucleotide sequences and genetic diversity of the penA genes from penicillin sensitive and moderately penicillin resistant strains of Neisseria lactamica -- Epidemiological markers of relatively penicillin G-resistant N. meningitidis isolated from patients in Spain (1985-1989) -- The Role of Respiratory Infections in Epidemic Group A Meningococcal Meningitis -- The utility of serological, biological and molecular typing schemes to differentiate N. gonorrhoeae isolates requiring proline, citrulline and uracil (PCU) for growth -- Improving the early control of outbreaks of meningococcal disease -- Meningococcal Infection in a Group of Canadian Travellers -- Efficacy evaluation of the Cuban vaccine VA-MENGOC-BC® against disease caused by serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis -- Epidemiological behaviour of meningococcal disease in Cuba -- Clonal and antigenic analyses of Neisseria meningitidis bacteria belonging to the ET37 complex isolated from Mali and elsewhere -- Comparison of monoclonal antibodies for serotyping and subtyping of Neisseria meningitidis -- Epitopes on the Meningococcal Class 1 Protein. -- The clonal population structure and serosubtypes of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A isolated in China -- Epidemiological features of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis in China -- Immunogenicity and Vaccine Development -- Vaccine development -- Human and Animal Immune Response to Homologous and Heterologous Meningococcal 70 Kilodalton Iron Regulated Outer Membrane Protein. -- Specificity of Antibody response to Group C meningococcal Polysaccharide among vaccinees and carriers -- Immunological Properties of Monoclonal Antibodies to the N-Propionyl Derivative of Group B Meningococcal Polysaccharide -- Sequence Comparisons of Class 1 Genes from Neisseria meningitidis and a Folding Model of the Class 1 Protein -- Antigenic homology between the 65kDa heat shock protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, GroEL of E. coli, and proteins of Neisseria gonorrhoeae expressed during infection. -- Western blot study of Neisseria! antigens reactive with sera from cases and carriers of Neisseria meningitidi -- Human antibody to the class 1 outer membrane protein and H8 lipoprotein of Neisseria meningitidis -- Structural Orientation and Antigenic Analysis of the Class 2 and Class 3 Outer Membrane Proteins of Neisseria meningitidis -- Identification and expression in E.coli of a conserved surface epitope of pathogenic Neisseriae -- Therapeutic efficacy of monoclonal antibodies to Class 1 and Class 2 Proteins against meningococcal infection in infant rats -- Antibody responses in six volunteers immunized with a gonococcal Protein I vaccine -- Immunobiology of Neisseria porin proteins and mapping of epitopes with vaccine potential -- Serological responses in Norwegian adult volunteers to a meningococcal 15:P1.16 outer membrane vesicle vaccine (Phase II studies) -- Identification and Characterization of Conserved Outer Membrane Proteins of Neisseria gonorrhoeae -- Molecular cloning and expression of a 63 kDa gonococcal stress protein in E.coli -- Development of Liposomal Vaccine on the Basis of Neisseria meningitidis Lipooligosaccharide -- Relative bactericidal activity of IgG antibodies against outer membrane complexes from meningococci, as a function of vaccine type, dose and time after vaccination -- Efficacy of Human Monoclonal Antibodies to the Group B Polysaccharide of Neisseria Meningitidis in Experimental Infant Rat Model -- Immunomodulating Complex of Oligopeptide Antigen and Liposomal Form of Neisseria meningitidis Lipooligosaccharide -- Construction of a Defined Auxotrophic Mutant of Neisseria gonorrhoeae for use as a Human Vaccine. I. Cloning, Mapping and Mutagenesis of aroA. -- The use of PCR to study the class 1 outer membrane protein of Neisseria meningitidis -- The class 1 outer membrane protein of Neisseria meningitidis: prediction of topology and construction of a multivalent vaccine strain -- Immunogenicity of meningococcal LPS derived oligosaccharide-protein conjugates using isolated and synthetic oligosaccharides -- The Expression of an Escherichia coli OmpA - Neisseria meningitidis Class 1 Fusion Protein -- Gonococcal Porin Vaccine -- T-cell Recognition of Neisseria Meningitidis Outer Membrane Proteins -- Lipopolysaccharide-related Subjects -- Neisserial lipopolysaccharide -- Protective activity of detoxified lipooligosaccharides of Neisseria meningitidis serogroups A and B in mice -- Restoration of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Serum Resistance by Cytidine 5' Monophospho-N-acetylneuraminic Acid Depends On the Quality of the Lipopolysaccharide -- Pseudomonas pyocin and Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Investigations into the mechanism of gonococcal lipooligosaccharide variant selection -- The surface polysaccharide seen on Neisseria gonorrhoeae after treatment with CMP-NANA contains sialyl groups. -- Relationship of sialylation of lipooligosaccharide (LOS) of N. gonorrhoeae to cleavage of C3 and serum resistance -- LPS phase-variation & its role in the virulence of Haemophilus influenzae -- Gonococci in most urethral exudates are sialylated: neuraminidase changes serum resistance to susceptibility. -- Role of DNA methylatìon in the growth of Neisseria gonorrhoeae -- Pathogenesis and surface antigens shared by Haemophilus ducreyi and Neisseria gonorrhoeae -- Regulation of the addition of 0-side chains on lipooligosaccharide in Neisseria gonorrhoeae -- Some Effects of LOS and Opa on Surface Properties of Gonococci -- Lipopolysaccharides of Haemophilus and Neisseria: Antigenic and structural similarities -- Pili and Iron-inducible Proteins -- The Mechanisms of Genetic Variation of Gonococcal Pili. Iron-Inducible Proteins of Neisseria -- Interaction Between Iron Regulated Outer Membrane Protein Of Neisseria meningitidis and Human Transferrin Binding Activity -- Gonococcal unprocessed prepilin is transported to E.coli inner membrane -- Illegitimate Recombination and Gonococcal Pilin Gene Variation -- Translational Frameshifting in pilC Encoding a Gonococcal Outer Membrane Protein Results in Pili Phase Variation -- Iron and meningococcal disease.

Serum lactoferrin in meningococcal disease patients and controls -- Control of pilin gene expression in Neisseria gonorrhoeae by environmental factors -- Antigen Variation and Transformation-Mediated Horizontal Exchange in the Pathogenic Neisseria -- Structure, Function, and Regulation of the Iron-binding Protein, Fbp -- Heterogeneity of Iron-Regulated Meningococcal 70 kDa and 98 kDa OMPs -- Repeated elements in silent pil sequences found upstream of the class 1 meningococcal pilE gene -- Iron acquisition of systemic and nonsystemic meningococcal isolates -- Analysis of the Pilin Gene Inversion Region of Moraxella lacunata -- Iron Acquisition in Neisseria: Bacterial Receptors for Human Transferrin and Human Lactoferrin in Neisseria meningitidis -- Pilin gene regulator PiLA fulfils a dual role in Neisseria gonorrhoeae -- Molecular Genetics -- The Coding Repeat Region of Gonococcal Opa Genes Forms Unusual DNA Conformations in E. coli -- High Frequency Mobilization of IncQ Plasmids from E. coli to Neisseria -- Mobilization of naturally-occurring gonococcal penicillinase-producing plasmids by different conjugative plasmids -- Molecular Mechanisms of Capsule Expression in Neisseria meningitidis -- Genetic Characterization of Neisserial Restriction / Modification systems -- Genetic transformation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae using electroporation -- Characterization of the 25.2 Mda Tet M-Containing Plasmids -- Class 5 proteins and opa genes in clones IV-1 and III-l of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A -- Specificity in Neisseria gonorrhoeae Transformation: Implications for Cell-surface Variation -- Tn916 Mutagenesis of Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae -- Pathogen-host Interactions -- Pathogen-Host Interactions: An Overview -- Enhancement of the Invasive Ability of Neisseria gonorrhoeae by Contact with HecIB, an Adenocarcinoma Endometrial Cell Line -- Ability of Cells of the Human Fallopian Tube to Act as Antigen Presenting Cells -- Identification of a Human Neutrophil Receptor for Gonococcal Outer Membrane Protein PII -- Pilin variation in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and modulation of cellular adherence -- Evidence for the in vivo modification of the gonococcal Pan 1 protein -- Gerard T. Hoehn and Virginia L. Clark -- Studies on natural local immunity in gonorrhea: ELISA reactivities of female local secretions with outer membranes of Neisseria gonorrhoeae -- A study on meningococcal colonization of epithelium -- The role of Opa in adherence of gonococci to HEC-l-B cells and to human fallopian tube tissues -- Possible Mechanisms of Serum Resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from Disseminating Infections -- Effects of lipopolysaccharide from N. meningitidis on human granulocyte lysis and chemiluminescence -- Antigonococcal Action of Synthetic Peptides from Huaan Proteases Cathepsin G and Granzyme B -- How to Measure Gonococcal Invasion -- Interactions of pathogenic Neisseria with Human endothelial cells in vitro -- Fates of LOS and the Outer Membrane Proteins P.IA and Opa in Early and Late Events of Gonococcal Infection of Epithelial Cells -- Clinical Epidemiology and other Subjects -- Meningococcal Disease in the USSR in Patients with Deficiences in Late Complement Components -- Chemoprophylactic Suppression of Endemic Carriage of Group B Serotype 4 Neisseria meningitidis in a Kibbutz Community -- Antibody Response to Meningococcal Infection in Late Complement Component Deficient Individuals -- Therapeutic application of hyperimmune Gammaglobulin against B meningococcal disease in children -- A clinical-epidemiological study of Neisseria meningitidis isolated from urogenital specimens -- Oxidant Stress, DNA Repair, and Antioxidant Defenses in Neisseria gonorrhoeae -- N. meningitidis infections in South African complement component C6 deficient patients; Studies of methods of prophylaxis and of the organisms isolated -- Colonization of the Interface between the Agar and the Petri Dish by Moraxella bovis: New Variant Expression is Inversely Related to Colonization Rate -- Comparison between Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Bacteroides species. Different Effects of CMP-NANA for Conversion to Resistance to Complement in Serum and Toxicity of CMP -- Maintenance and Functions of Sulfhydryls in Neisseria gonorrhoeae -- Penicillin permeability in Neisseria gonorrhoeae -- Factors Associated with Cellular Invasion of Neisseria gonorrhoeae -- Author Index -- Subject Index