Volume 3, Issue 2 (2007) | American Journal of Infectious Diseases

Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus Types Among Mexican Women with Intraepithelial Lesions and Cervical Cancer: Detection with MY09/MY011 and GP5+/GP6+ Primer Systems

Gloria Fernández-Tilapa — 2007-06-30

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 30 June 2007; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2007.62.67

Squamous cervical carcinoma (SCC) is the most common cancer found in Mexican women. Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a prerequisite for this disease. In Mexico little is known about the prevale...

Prediction of a Putative Functional Region in the Human Bax Protein by Computational Analysis

María Sánchez-Aguilar — 2007-06-30

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 30 June 2007; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2007.68.75

Structural domains are relevant elements for interactions between Bcl-2 family members to regulate apoptosis and cell survival. Although BH1-BH4 domains can be identified by their sequence and selecti...

The Proteolytic System of Candida dubliniensis

Loaiza-Loeza Salomé — 2007-06-30

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 30 June 2007; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2007.76.83

Proteases of Candida dubliniensis have been scarcely studied, these enzymes may play an important role in nitrogen metabolism, post-translational processing, nutritional stress, dimorphism, virulence,...

Expression of Thioredoxin-Fusion Proteins of α-Gliadin, γ-Gliadin and Low Molecular Weight Glutenin, from Wheat Endosperm and their Domains in Enterobacteria

Claudia G. Benitez-Cardoza — 2007-06-30

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 30 June 2007; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2007.84.91

Wheat seed storage proteins play a determining role in the viscoelastic properties of wheat gluten. The genes encoding α-gliadin, γ-gliadin and Low Molecular Weight glutenin and their N-central-repe...

AFLPs in Warmblood Sporting Horses: Genetic Correlation with Height at the Withers

V. Sanchez — 2007-06-30

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 30 June 2007; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2007.92.97

The Mexican army produces Warmblood horses for jumping proposes. However, breeding is based on phenotype and stallions are selected stepwise until the end of growth, representing a high care and maint...

Vibrio cholerae O1 Strains of Different Ribotypes have Similar hlyA RFLP Patterns but Different Vacuolating Ability

Jorge E. Vidal — 2007-06-30

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 30 June 2007; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2007.98.109

Extensive cytoplasmic vacuolation on Vero and HeLa cells in vitro by the Vibrio cholerae pore forming toxin HlyA, has been previously reported by our group. Vibrio cholerae O1 and non-O1 pathogenic st...

Emetine produce Entamoeba histolytica Death by Inducing a Programmed Cell Death

J.D. Villalba-Magdaleno — 2007-06-30

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 30 June 2007; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2007.110.114

Amoebiasis is a major public health problem in tropical and subtropical countries. Although a number of antiamoebic agents are used for its treatment and the molecular targets of these drugs have been...

A Novel Heat Shock Transcription Factor Family in Entamoeba histolytica

Consuelo G. García — 2007-06-30

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 30 June 2007; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2007.115.122

The HSTF is a master molecule involved in the transcriptional control of several genes during different types of stress. This transcription factor is a very conserved protein identified in different o...