Malassezia Yeasts in Veterinary Dermatology: An Updated Overview.

abstract：:Nosocomial pathogens that develop multidrug resistance present an increasing problem for healthcare facilities. Due to its rapid rise in antibiotic resistance, Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most concerning gram-negative species. A. baumannii typically infects immune compromised individuals resulting in a varie...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Waack U,Johnson TL,Chedid K,Xi C,Simmons LA,Mobley HLT,Sandkvist M

更新日期：2017-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The spread of microorganisms in hospitals is an important public health threat, and yet few studies have assessed how human microbial communities (microbiota) evolve in the hospital setting. Studies conducted so far have mainly focused on a limited number of bacterial species, mostly pathogenic ones and primarily duri...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Lazarevic V,Gaïa N,Emonet S,Girard M,Renzi G,Despres L,Wozniak H,Yugueros Marcos J,Veyrieras JB,Chatellier S,van Belkum A,Pugin J,Schrenzel J

更新日期：2014-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans can cause life-threatening infections in immune compromised individuals. This pathogen is typically acquired via inhalation, and enters the respiratory tract. Innate immune cells such as macrophages and dendritic cells (DCs) are the first host cells that encounter C. neoform...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Nelson BN,Hawkins AN,Wozniak KL

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In this original study, we retrospectively reviewed the cases of nocardiosis diagnosed through culture and next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods between 2014 and 2018 in Huashan Hospital and found out that the latter way can not only improve the detection rate of Nocardia spp. but also greatly reduce the turnaround...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Weng SS,Zhang HY,Ai JW,Gao Y,Liu YY,Xu B,Zhang WH

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of granulomas is associated with the resolution of Q fever, a zoonosis due to Coxiella burnetii; however the molecular mechanisms of granuloma formation remain poorly understood. We generated human granulomas with peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and beads coated with C. burnetii, using BCG ext...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Faugaret D,Ben Amara A,Alingrin J,Daumas A,Delaby A,Lépolard C,Raoult D,Textoris J,Mège JL

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cold shock-domain family proteins (Csps) are highly conserved nucleic acid binding proteins regulating the expression of various genes including those involved in stress resistance and virulence in bacteria. We show here that Csps are involved in virulence, cell aggregation and flagella-based extracellular motility of...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Eshwar AK,Guldimann C,Oevermann A,Tasara T

更新日期：2017-10-26 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：:Meningitis, the inflammation of the protective membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord (known as meninges), is a condition associated with high mortality rates and permanent neurological sequelae in a significant proportion of survivors. The opportunistic pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae (SPN/pneumococcus) is ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Anil A,Banerjee A

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2019, the United States Food and Drug Administration accorded restricted approval to Sanofi Pasteur's Dengvaxia, a live attenuated vaccine (LAV) for dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral disease, caused by four antigenically distinct dengue virus serotypes (DENV 1-4). The reason for this limited approval is the conc...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Shukla R,Ramasamy V,Shanmugam RK,Ahuja R,Khanna N

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten bacteriophages were isolated from faeces and their lytic effects assayed on 103 pathogenic and non-pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae. Two phages (DT1 and DT6) were selected based on their host ranges, and their lytic effects on pathogenic E. coli strains inoculated on pieces of beef were determined. We evaluated the r...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Tomat D,Migliore L,Aquili V,Quiberoni A,Balagué C

更新日期：2013-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic species of Leptospira cause leptospirosis, a bacterial zoonotic disease with a global distribution affecting over one million people annually. Reservoir hosts of leptospirosis, including rodents, dogs, and cattle, exhibit little to no signs of disease but shed large numbers of organisms in their urine. Tran...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Nally JE,Grassmann AA,Planchon S,Sergeant K,Renaut J,Seshu J,McBride AJ,Caimano MJ

更新日期：2017-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pyogenes is a significant pathogen of humans, annually causing over 700,000,000 infections and 500,000 deaths. Virulence in S. pyogenes is closely linked to mobile genetic elements like phages and chromosomal islands (CI). S. pyogenes phage-like chromosomal islands (SpyCI) confer a complex mutator phenot...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Nguyen SV,McShan WM

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Genital tract infections with Chlamydia trachomatis (C. trachomatis) are the most frequent sexually transmitted disease worldwide. Severe clinical sequelae such as pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), tubal occlusion, and tubal infertility are linked to inflammatory processes of chronically infected tissues. The oxygen ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Jerchel S,Kaufhold I,Schuchardt L,Shima K,Rupp J

更新日期：2014-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica is a protozoan parasite and a major cause of dysentery and diarrheal disease in developing countries. Disease transmission from one host to another occurs via cysts which can survive in environmental extremes and are transmitted through contaminated food and water. Recent studies in our lab ident...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Manna D,Lozano-Amado D,Ehrenkaufer G,Singh U

更新日期：2020-07-17 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

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：:Escherichia coli carrying prophage with genes that encode for Shiga toxins are categorized as Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) pathotype. Illnesses caused by STEC in humans, which are often foodborne, range from mild to bloody diarrhea with life-threatening complications of renal failure and hemolytic uremic syndr...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Ludwig JB,Shi X,Shridhar PB,Roberts EL,DebRoy C,Phebus RK,Bai J,Nagaraja TG

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Compounds with novel modes of action are urgently needed to develop effective combination therapies for the treatment of tuberculosis. In this study, a series of compounds was evaluated for activity against replicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Vero cell line toxicity. Fourteen of the compounds with in vitro acti...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Chengalroyen MD,Jordaan A,Seldon R,Ioerger T,Franzblau SG,Nasr M,Warner DF,Mizrahi V

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella is the major cause of bacillary dysentery world-wide. It is divided into four species, named S. flexneri, S. sonnei, S. dysenteriae, and S. boydii, which are distinct genomically and in their ability to cause disease. Shigellosis, the clinical presentation of Shigella infection, is characterized by watery dia...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Mattock E,Blocker AJ

更新日期：2017-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are the standard therapy for gastroesophageal reflux disease. In adults, PPI treatment is associated with Clostridium difficile infections (CDI). In contrast to adults the microbiome of infants develops from sterility at birth toward an adult-like profile in the first years of life. The e...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Castellani C,Singer G,Kashofer K,Huber-Zeyringer A,Flucher C,Kaiser M,Till H

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is a severe syndrome that arises when the host response to an insult is exacerbated, leading to organ failure and frequently to death. How a chronic infection that causes a prolonged Th1 expansion affects the course of sepsis is unknown. In this study, we showed that mice chronically infected with Toxoplasma go...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Souza MC,Fonseca DM,Kanashiro A,Benevides L,Medina TS,Dias MS,Andrade WA,Bonfá G,Silva MAB,Gozzi A,Borges MC,Gazzinelli RT,Alves-Filho JC,Cunha FQ,Silva JS

更新日期：2017-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decade it has become clear that, similarly to nucleated cells, enucleated red blood cells (RBCs) are susceptible to programmed apoptotic cell death. Erythrocytic apoptosis seems to play a role in physiological clearance of aged RBCs, but it may also be implicated in anemia of different etiological sources ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Totino PR,Daniel-Ribeiro CT,Ferreira-da-Cruz MF

更新日期：2016-12-09 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：:Vaccination has had a major impact on the control of infectious diseases. However, there are still many infectious diseases for which the development of an effective vaccine has been elusive. In many cases the failure to devise vaccines is a consequence of the inability of vaccine candidates to evoke appropriate immun...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Gregory AE,Titball R,Williamson D

更新日期：2013-03-25 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：:Most strains of Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis possess a strong restriction barrier that hinders exchange of DNA. Recently, major advances have been made in identifying and characterizing the restriction-modification (RM) systems involved. In particular a novel type IV restriction enzyme that rec...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Monk IR,Foster TJ

更新日期：2012-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:With major advances in experimental techniques to track antigen-specific immune responses many basic questions on the kinetics of virus-specific immunity in humans remain unanswered. To gain insights into kinetics of T and B cell responses in human volunteers we combined mathematical models and experimental data from ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Le D,Miller JD,Ganusov VV

更新日期：2015-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis can bypass and suppress host immune responses, even to the point of manipulating immune cell phenotypes and intercellular inflammatory networks. Strengthening these responses such that immune cells more readily identify and destroy the bacteria is likely to become a viable (and perhaps necessary...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Gillette DD,Tridandapani S,Butchar JP

更新日期：2014-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the opportunistic pathogen, Staphylococcus aureus, to form biofilms is increasingly being viewed as an important contributor to chronic infections. In vitro methods for analyzing S. aureus biofilm formation have focused on bacterial attachment and accumulation on abiotic surfaces, such as in microtiter ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Walker JN,Horswill AR

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The endosymbiotic origin of eukaryotes brought together two disparate genomes in the cell. Additionally, eukaryotic natural history has included other endosymbiotic events, phagotrophic consumption of organisms, and intimate interactions with viruses and endoparasites. These phenomena facilitated large-scale lateral g...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Aravind L,Anantharaman V,Zhang D,de Souza RF,Iyer LM

更新日期：2012-06-29 00:00:00