Toward a structural understanding of Clostridium difficile toxins A and B.

abstract：:Sepsis is a life-threatening health condition caused by infectious pathogens of the respiratory tract, and accounts for 28-50% of annual deaths in the US alone. Current treatment regimen advocates the use of corticosteroids as adjunct treatment with antibiotics, for their broad inhibitory effect on the activity and pr...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Ngo Ndjom CG,Kantor LV,Jones HP

更新日期：2017-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:LeuO is a conserved and pleiotropic transcription regulator, antagonist of the nucleoid-associated silencer protein H-NS, and important for pathogenicity and multidrug resistance in Enterobacteriaceae. Regulation of transcription of the leuO gene is complex. It is silenced by H-NS and its paralog StpA, and it is autor...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Breddermann H,Schnetz K

更新日期：2016-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:ESKAPE (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumanni, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter species) pathogens have characteristic multiple-drug resistance and cause an increasing number of nosocomial infections worldwide. Peptide-based therapeutics to treat ESKAPE infe...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Du H,Puri S,McCall A,Norris HL,Russo T,Edgerton M

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Melioidosis is a neglected tropical disease with high mortality rate. It is caused by the Gram-negative, CDC category B select agent Burkholderia pseudomallei (B. ps) that is intrinsically resistant to first-line antibiotics. An antibody-based vaccine is likely to be the most effective control measure. Previous studie...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Chaichana P,Kronsteiner B,Rongkard P,Teparrukkul P,Limmathurotsakul D,Chantratita N,Day NPJ,Fletcher HA,Dunachie SJ

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Prompt and effective elicitation of protective immunity is highly relevant for cases of rapidly deteriorating fatal diseases, such as plague, which is caused by Yersinia pestis. Here, we assessed the potential of a live vaccine to induce rapid protection against this infection. We demonstrated that the Y. pestis EV76 ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Zauberman A,Vagima Y,Tidhar A,Aftalion M,Gur D,Rotem S,Chitlaru T,Levy Y,Mamroud E

更新日期：2017-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M. hyopneumoniae) is the causative agent of pandemic pneumonia among pigs, namely, swine enzootic pneumonia. Although M. hyopneumoniae was first identified in 1965, little is known regarding its metabolic pathways, which might play a pivotal role during disease pathogenesis. Lipoate is an ess...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Zhu K,Chen H,Jin J,Wang N,Ma G,Huang J,Feng Y,Xin J,Zhang H,Liu H

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: The emergence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, especially Klebsiella pneumoniae, has become a major concern in clinic settings. Combination therapy is gaining momentum to counter the secondary resistance and potential suboptimal efficacy of monotherapy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Yu W,Zhou K,Guo L,Ji J,Niu T,Xiao T,Shen P,Xiao Y

更新日期：2017-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Platycodin D, extract from the root of Platycodon grandiflorum, is one of the most important monomers of the Qinbaiqingfei pellets (Qinbai) that has already been approved as the first Traditional Chinese Medicine for clinic use as an anti-M. pneumoniae agent. Qinbai constituents Scutellaria baicalensis and Platycodon ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Meng Y,Yang Y,Lu W,Wang Y,Qian F,Wang X,Zhang Z,Wang W

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi is the etiological agent of Chagas disease. In immunosuppressed individuals, as it occurs in the coinfection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the central nervous system may be affected. In this regard, reactivation of Chagas disease is severe and often lethal, and it accounts fo...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Urquiza JM,Burgos JM,Ojeda DS,Pascuale CA,Leguizamón MS,Quarleri JF

更新日期：2017-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecium is a clinically important pathogen associated with opportunistic infection and multi-drug resistance. E. faecium has been shown to produce membrane vesicles (MVs), but MV production by E. faecium under antibiotic stress conditions and the pathogenic traits thereof have yet to be determined. This s...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Kim MH,Kim SY,Son JH,Kim SI,Lee H,Kim S,Shin M,Lee JC

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis is the causative agent of tularemia and a Tier I bioterrorism agent. In the 1900s, several vaccines were developed against tularemia including the killed "Foshay" vaccine, subunit vaccines comprising F. tularensis protein(s) or lipoproteins(s) in an adjuvant formulation, and the F. tularensis Li...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Jia Q,Horwitz MA

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) causes Johne's disease, a chronic granulomatous enteritis in ruminants. Furthermore, infections of humans with MAP have been reported and a possible association with Crohn's disease and diabetes type I is currently discussed. MAP owns large sequence polymorphisms (...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Meißner T,Eckelt E,Basler T,Meens J,Heinzmann J,Suwandi A,Oelemann WM,Trenkamp S,Holst O,Weiss S,Bunk B,Spröer C,Gerlach GF,Goethe R

更新日期：2014-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to efficiently scavenge nutrients in the host is essential for the viability of any pathogen. All catabolic pathways must begin with the transport of substrate from the environment through the cytoplasmic membrane, a role executed by membrane transporters. Although several classes of cytoplasmic membrane t...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Rosa LT,Bianconi ME,Thomas GH,Kelly DJ

更新日期：2018-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation between mitis group streptococci (MGS) bacteria in routine laboratory tests has become important for obtaining accurate epidemiological information on the characteristics of MGS and understanding their clinical significance. The most reliable method of MGS species identification is multilocus sequence ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Imai K,Nemoto R,Kodana M,Tarumoto N,Sakai J,Kawamura T,Ikebuchi K,Mitsutake K,Murakami T,Maesaki S,Fujiwara T,Hayakawa S,Hoshino T,Seki M,Maeda T

更新日期：2020-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Streptococcus or GAS) is a hemolytic human pathogen associated with a wide variety of infections ranging from minor skin and throat infections to life-threatening invasive diseases. The cell wall of GAS consists of peptidoglycan sacculus decorated with a carbohydrate comprising a polyrh...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Edgar RJ,Chen J,Kant S,Rechkina E,Rush JS,Forsberg LS,Jaehrig B,Azadi P,Tchesnokova V,Sokurenko EV,Zhu H,Korotkov KV,Pancholi V,Korotkova N

更新日期：2016-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort study was conducted to evaluate oral microbial diversity among toddlers aged 12-24 months, and to describe the dynamic processes of colonization, development, and stabilization of the oral microflora during tooth eruption using high-throughput sequencing technology. A total of 20 healthy toddlers aged 12 mont...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Li F,Tao D,Feng X,Wong MCM,Lu H

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Anopheles female mosquitoes can transmit Plasmodium, the malaria parasite. During their aquatic life, wild Anopheles mosquito larvae are exposed to a huge diversity of microbes present in their breeding sites. Later, adult females often take successive blood meals that might also carry different micro-organisms, inclu...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Dieme C,Rotureau B,Mitri C

更新日期：2017-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Dozens of Gram negative pathogens use one or more type III secretion systems (T3SS) to disarm host defenses or occupy a beneficial niche during infection of a host organism. While the T3SS represents an attractive drug target and dozens of compounds with T3SS inhibitory activity have been identified, few T3SS inhibito...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Morgan JM,Lam HN,Delgado J,Luu J,Mohammadi S,Isberg RR,Wang H,Auerbuch V

更新日期：2018-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomes, a class of parasitic trematode worms, cause schistosomiasis. Accumulating evidence suggests that microRNAs (miRNAs)-small, non-coding RNAs that are known to play critical regulatory roles in many organisms-may be involved in schistosome development and sexual maturation, as well as the pathogenesis of sc...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Zhu L,Liu J,Cheng G

更新日期：2014-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis is the leading cause of preventable blindness and the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection. Different strains are associated with ocular or urogenital infections, and a proposed mechanism that may explain this tissue tropism is the active tryptophan biosynthesis pathway encoded by...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： O'Neill CE,Skilton RJ,Pearson SA,Filardo S,Andersson P,Clarke IN

更新日期：2018-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni (CJ) is the most prevalent zoonotic pathogen of chicken meat and related products, which may lead to gastroenteritis and autoimmune diseases in humans. Although controlling this bacterium is important, CJ strains resistance against traditional antibiotic therapy has been increased. Vegetable oils ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Ribeiro LNM,de Paula E,Rossi DA,Martins FA,de Melo RT,Monteiro GP,Breitkreitz MC,Goulart LR,Fonseca BB

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Metagenomic approaches applied to viruses have highlighted their prevalence in almost all microbial ecosystems investigated. In all ecosystems, notably those associated with humans or animals, the viral fraction is dominated by bacteriophages. Whether they contribute to dysbiosis, i.e., the departure from microbiota c...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： De Paepe M,Leclerc M,Tinsley CR,Petit MA

更新日期：2014-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Disseminated histoplasmosis remains a major killer of immunocompromised patients in Latin America. Cytological and histological methods are usually present in most hospitals and may represent a precious diagnostic method. We report 15 years of experience of the department of pathology of the Centre Hospitali...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Drak Alsibai K,Couppié P,Blanchet D,Adenis A,Epelboin L,Blaizot R,Louvel D,Djossou F,Demar M,Nacher M

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatophytoses account for nearly a quarter of all fungal infections worldwide. These difficult to treat infections of the skin, hair, and nails, are growing more resistant to conventional antifungal treatments, and when treatable, often require prolonged therapeutic regimens. For centuries, essential oils have been ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Parrish N,Fisher SL,Gartling A,Craig D,Boire N,Khuvis J,Riedel S,Zhang S

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and Purpose: Early life microbiota plays a crucial role in human health by acting as a barrier from pathogens' invasion and maintaining the intestinal immune homoeostasis. Altered fecal microbiota (FM) ecology was reported in newborns affected by intestinal ischemia. Our purpose was to describe, in these pa...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Romani L,Del Chierico F,Chiriaco M,Foligno S,Reddel S,Salvatori G,Cifaldi C,Faraci S,Finocchi A,Rossi P,Bagolan P,D'Argenio P,Putignani L,Fusaro F

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii can cause chronic infections in most warm-blooded animals, including humans. In the USA, strains belonging to four different Toxoplasma clonal lineages (types 1, 2, 3, and 12) are commonly isolated, whereas strains not belonging to these lineages are predominant in other co...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Arranz-Solís D,Cordeiro C,Young LH,Dardé ML,Commodaro AG,Grigg ME,Saeij JPJ

更新日期：2019-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue virus (DENV) threatens almost 70% of the world's population, with no therapeutic currently available. The severe, potentially lethal forms of DENV disease (dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome) are associated with the production of high level of cytokines, elicited as part of the host antiviral respon...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Giovannoni F,Ladelfa MF,Monte M,Jans DA,Hemmerich P,García C

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic otitis media with effusion (COME) is a common childhood disease characterized by an accumulation of fluid behind the eardrum. COME often requires surgical intervention and can also lead to significant hearing loss and subsequent learning disabilities. Recent characterization of the middle ear fluid (MEF) micro...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Kolbe AR,Castro-Nallar E,Preciado D,Pérez-Losada M

更新日期：2019-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a next-generation sequencing strategy on 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) gene was employed to analyze 70 oral samples from 32 patients with throat cancer, nine patients with vocal cord polyp, and 29 healthy individuals (normal controls). Using this strategy, we demonstrated, for the first time, that the sa...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Wang L,Yin G,Guo Y,Zhao Y,Zhao M,Lai Y,Sui P,Shi T,Guo W,Huang Z

更新日期：2019-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Under unfavorable conditions such as host immune responses and environmental stresses, human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis may acquire the dormancy phenotype characterized by "non-culturability" and a substantial decrease of metabolic activity and global transcription rates. Here, we found that the transition of...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Salina EG,Grigorov AS,Bychenko OS,Skvortsova YV,Mamedov IZ,Azhikina TL,Kaprelyants AS

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00