Immunomodulatory properties of Brucella melitensis lipopolysaccharide determinants on mouse dendritic cells in vitro and in vivo.

abstract：:The exploration of epidemic dynamics on dynamically evolving ("adaptive") networks poses nontrivial challenges to the modeler, such as the determination of a small number of informative statistics of the detailed network state (that is, a few "good observables") that usefully summarize the overall (macroscopic, system...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Kattis AA,Holiday A,Stoica AA,Kevrekidis IG

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drugs such as linezolid that inhibit bacterial protein synthesis may be beneficial in treating infections caused by toxigenic Staphylococcus aureus. As protein synthesis inhibitors have no effect on preformed toxins, neutralization of pathogenic exotoxins with anti-toxin antibodies may be beneficial in conjunction wit...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Karau MJ,Tilahun ME,Krogman A,Osborne BA,Goldsby RA,David CS,Mandrekar JN,Patel R,Rajagopalan G

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Particle size dictates where aerosolized pathogens deposit in the respiratory tract, thereafter the pathogens potential to cause disease is influenced by tissue tropism, clearance kinetics and the host immunological response. This interplay brings pathogens into contact with a range of tissues spanning the respiratory...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Thomas RJ

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Golden hamsters were inoculated with Schistosoma haematobium cercariae to examine histological lesions at different time points over an 18 month period of infection. Hamsters were sacrificed 26 weeks and 82 weeks after inoculation. The parasite was found in the blood and in the liver of infected animals as was expecte...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Botelho MC,Oliveira PA,Vieira P,Delgado Mde L,Lourenço L,Lopes C,Machado JC,da Costa JM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, is a zoonotic pathogen that is relatively common throughout the world and may cause life threatening diseases in animals and humans. There are many PCR-based assays in use for the detection of B. anthracis. While most of the developed assays rely on unique markers pr...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Ågren J,Hamidjaja RA,Hansen T,Ruuls R,Thierry S,Vigre H,Janse I,Sundström A,Segerman B,Koene M,Löfström C,Van Rotterdam B,Derzelle S

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthrax toxins and capsule are the major virulence factors of Bacillus anthracis. They are encoded by genes located on the plasmids pXO1 and pXO2, respectively. The vaccine strain Pasteur II was produced from high temperature subcultures of B. anthracis, which resulted in virulence attenuation through the loss of the ...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Liang X,Zhang H,Zhang E,Wei J,Li W,Wang B,Dong S,Zhu J

更新日期：2016-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroquine (CQ) was the best and most heavily used drug in the fight against malaria. However, the effectiveness of CQ has declined with the emergence and spread of CQ-resistant (CQR) Plasmodium falciparum parasites. The primary determinant of CQ resistance in P. falciparum is mutations in the parasite's 'chloroquine...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Summers RL,Martin RE

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of abundant mobile genetic elements called retrotransposons reverse transcribe RNA to generate DNA for insertion into eukaryotic genomes. Non-long-terminal repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons represent a major class of retrotransposons, and transposons that move by target-primed reverse transcription lack LTRs ...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Jiang J,Zhao L,Yan L,Zhang L,Cao Y,Wang Y,Jiang Y,Yan T,Cao Y

更新日期：2014-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease, is widely distributed throughout natural and artificial water systems and can replicate in macrophages and amoebae. Amoebae are the natural hosts of L. pneumophila, whereas macrophages are incidentally infected. The life cycle of L. pneumophila comp...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Mou Q,Leung PHM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis remains a common, serious, and heterogeneous clinical entity that is difficult to define adequately. Despite its importance as a public health problem, efforts to develop and gain regulatory approval for a specific therapeutic agent for the adjuvant treatment of sepsis have been remarkably unsuccessful. One ste...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Fink MP

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae(hvKp) is an increasingly important pathogen. Tracking its epidemiology and evolving antimicrobial resistance will facilitate care. METHODS:A retrospective study was conducted in two hospitals. We collected the clinical data. Antimicrobial and virulence-associated phenotyp...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Liu C,Du P,Xiao N,Ji F,Russo TA,Guo J

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of multiresistant Gram-negative bacteria requires new therapies for combating bacterial infections. Targeting the biogenesis of virulence factors could be an alternative strategy instead of killing bacteria with antibiotics. The outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria acts as a physical barrier. At...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Weirich J,Bräutigam C,Mühlenkamp M,Franz-Wachtel M,Macek B,Meuskens I,Skurnik M,Leskinen K,Bohn E,Autenrieth I,Schütz M

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria interact with their host through protein secretion systems and surface structures. Pathogenic bacteria encode protein secretion systems that promote the invasion of the host's tissue, the evasion of the host's immune response, the thwarting microbial competitors, and ultimately survival within the host. For m...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Troxell B

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial eukaryotic-like serine threonine kinases (eSTKs) and serine threonine phosphatases (eSTPs) have emerged as important signaling elements that are indispensable for pathogenesis. Differing considerably from their histidine kinase counterparts, few eSTK genes are encoded within the average bacterial genome, and...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Wright DP,Ulijasz AT

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, epithelial cells have been a largely ignored component of host responses to microbes. However, this has been largely overturned over the last decade as an ever increasing number of studies have highlighted the key role that these cells play in many of our interactions with our microbiota and pathogens....

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Moyes DL,Richardson JP,Naglik JR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Th1-polarized host response, mediated by IFN-γ, has been associated with increased severity of periodontal disease as well as control of periodontal infection. The functional polymorphism TBX21-1993T/C (rs4794067) increases the transcriptional activity of the TBX21 gene (essential for Th1 polarization) resulting in a ...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Cavalla F,Biguetti CC,Colavite PM,Silveira EV,Martins W Jr,Letra A,Trombone AP,Silva RM,Garlet GP

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis is a highly virulent bacterial pathogen that is easily aerosolized and has a low infectious dose. As an intracellular pathogen, entry of Francisella into host cells is critical for its survival and virulence. However, the initial steps of attachment and internalization of Francisella into host c...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Moreau GB,Mann BJ

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucormycosis is an uncommon fungal infection that has been increasingly reported in severely immunocompromised patients receiving Aspergillus-active antifungals. Although clinical studies and pre-clinical animal models have suggested a unique predisposition for breakthrough mucormycoses in patients receiving voriconaz...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Lewis RE,Liao G,Wang W,Prince RA,Kontoyiannis DP

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic bacteria produce virulence factors called effectors, which are important components of the infection process. Effectors aid in pathogenesis by facilitating bacterial attachment, pathogen entry into or exit from the host cell, immunoevasion, and immunosuppression. Effectors also have the ability to subvert h...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Rajamuthiah R,Mylonakis E

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rift Valley fever is a mosquito-borne zoonotic disease affecting ruminants and humans. Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV: family Bunyaviridae, genus Phlebovirus) causes abortions and fetal malformations in ruminants, and hemorrhagic fever, encephalitis, or retinitis in humans. The live-attenuated MP-12 vaccine is conditio...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Nishiyama S,Slack OA,Lokugamage N,Hill TE,Juelich TL,Zhang L,Smith JK,Perez D,Gong B,Freiberg AN,Ikegami T

更新日期：2016-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a young woman with profound anemia whose serum iron studies were incongruous with what we expected from iron deficiency anemia. Her high serum iron was not fully explainable until we examined the patient and noticed a large black tattoo on her left flank area. Apparently iron oxide in the ink used for the ...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Fircanis S,Shields R,Castillo J,Mega A,Schiffman F

更新日期：2012-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori infection can result in non-ulcer dyspepsia (NUD), peptic ulcer disease (PUD), adenocarcinoma, and gastric lymphoma. H. pylori reside within the gastric mucus layer, mainly composed of mucins carrying an array of glycan structures that can serve as bacterial adhesion epitopes. The aim of the presen...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Quintana-Hayashi MP,Rocha R,Padra M,Thorell A,Jin C,Karlsson NG,Roxo-Rosa M,Oleastro M,Lindén SK

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human herpesviruses have latency and lytic replication phases in their lifecycle. Proper regulation of herpesviral lifecycle is essential for the evasion of host immune surveillance and development of their related diseases. Recent advancements indicate a role of a novel class of viral non-coding RNAs, microRNA (miRNA...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Lei X,Bai Z,Ye F,Huang Y,Gao SJ

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-antibiotic drug-resistant (MDR) gram-negative bacilli are becoming a major threat to the standard care of septic patients. Empiric antimicrobial drug regimens to cover likely bacterial pathogens have to be altered in keeping with the spread of MDR pathogens in the health care setting and in the community. Reliab...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Pop-Vicas A,Opal SM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat bite fever (RBF), a worldwide occurring and most likely under-diagnosed zoonosis caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis, represents the most prominent disease of Streptobacillus infections. Recently, novel members have been described, from which a reservoir in rats and other animal species and a zoonotic potential...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Eisenberg T,Ewers C,Rau J,Akimkin V,Nicklas W

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans remains the main etiological agent of candidiasis, as this otherwise normal commensal of humans is capable of causing active infection in immune- and medically-compromised patients. The high morbidity and mortality rates associated with candidiasis, coupled with the emergence of drug resistance demand...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Vila T,Romo JA,Pierce CG,McHardy SF,Saville SP,Lopez-Ribot JL

更新日期：2017-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of resistance requires alternative methods to treat Candida albicans infections. We evaluated efficacy of the efflux pump inhibitor (EPI) verapamil (VER) with fluconazole (FLC) against FLC-resistant (CaR) and -susceptible C. albicans (CaS). The susceptibility of both strains to VER and FLC was determined...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Vega-Chacón Y,de Albuquerque MC,Pavarina AC,Goldman GH,Mima EGO

更新日期：2021-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aeromonas hydrophila (A. hydrophila) can cause a number of diseases in both human and animals. A. hydrophila-related infections in aquaculture cause severe economic losses every year throughout the world. The emergence of antibiotic resistance that is due to the abuse of antibiotics has limited the application of anti...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Dong J,Zhang L,Liu Y,Xu N,Zhou S,Yang Y,Yang Q,Ai X

更新日期：2021-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients undergoing haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) are highly exposed to infectious agents. However, it is not known why certain HSCT recipients rapidly develop severe infections while other, despite similar immunosuppressive conditions, do not. Increasing evidence suggests that such differences may b...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Wójtowicz A,Bochud PY

更新日期：2016-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Daptomycin resistance (DAP(R)) in Staphylococcus aureus is associated with mutations in genes that are also implicated in staphylococcal pathogenesis. Using a laboratory-derived series of DAP exposed strains, we showed a relationship between increasing DAP MIC and reduced virulence in a Galleria mellonella infection m...

journal_title：Virulence

authors： Cameron DR,Mortin LI,Rubio A,Mylonakis E,Moellering RC Jr,Eliopoulos GM,Peleg AY

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00