Differential Expression of Putative Ornithodoros turicata Defensins Mediated by Tick Feeding.

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：: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

abstract：:Background: Several studies suggested an important role of the gut microbiota in the pathophysiology of neurological disorders, implying that alteration of the gut microbiota might serve as a treatment strategy. Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is currently the most effective gut microbiota intervention and an a...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Vendrik KEW,Ooijevaar RE,de Jong PRC,Laman JD,van Oosten BW,van Hilten JJ,Ducarmon QR,Keller JJ,Kuijper EJ,Contarino MF

更新日期：2020-03-24 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：: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：:Protein secretion systems are vital for prokaryotic life, as they enable bacteria to acquire nutrients, communicate with other species, defend against biological and chemical agents, and facilitate disease through the delivery of virulence factors. In this review, we will focus on the recently discovered type IX secre...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Lasica AM,Ksiazek M,Madej M,Potempa J

更新日期：2017-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) represents the etiological agent for several human malignancies, including Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), primary effusion lymphoma (PEL), and multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD), which are mostly seen in immunocompromised patients. In fact, KSHV has developed many strategies ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Barrett L,Chen J,Dai L,Plaisance-Bonstaff K,Del Valle L,Qin Z

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic fungi have developed many strategies to evade the host immune system. Multiple escape mechanisms appear to function together to inhibit attack by the various stages of both the adaptive and the innate immune response. Thus, after entering the host, such pathogens fight to overcome the immune system to allow...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Marcos CM,de Oliveira HC,de Melo WC,da Silva JF,Assato PA,Scorzoni L,Rossi SA,de Paula E Silva AC,Mendes-Giannini MJ,Fusco-Almeida AM

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Background:Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes severe chronic respiratory diseases and is associated with recalcitrant chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). P. aeruginosa exoproteins contain virulence factors and play important roles in the pathogenicity of P. aeruginosa, however their role in CRS pathophysiology remains unknown. M...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Li J,Ramezanpour M,Fong SA,Cooksley C,Murphy J,Suzuki M,Psaltis AJ,Wormald PJ,Vreugde S

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonellae are facultative intracellular pathogens that cause globally distributed diseases with massive morbidity and mortality in humans and animals. In the past decades, numerous studies were focused on host defenses against Salmonella infection. Autophagy has been demonstrated to be an important defense mechanism...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Wang L,Yan J,Niu H,Huang R,Wu S

更新日期：2018-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation enteritis (RE) is a common complication in cancer patients receiving radiotherapy. Although studies have shown the changes of this disease at clinical, pathological and other levels, the dynamic characteristics of local microbiome and metabolomics are hitherto unknown. We aimed to examine the multi-omics fea...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Li Y,Yan H,Zhang Y,Li Q,Yu L,Li Q,Liu C,Xie Y,Chen K,Ye F,Wang K,Chen L,Ding Y

更新日期：2020-10-21 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：: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：:Intracellular bacterial pathogens have evolved distinct lifestyles inside eukaryotic cells. Some pathogens coexist with the infected cell in an obligate intracellular state, whereas others transit between the extracellular and intracellular environment. Adaptation to these intracellular lifestyles is regulated in both...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Ortega AD,Quereda JJ,Pucciarelli MG,García-del Portillo F

更新日期：2014-11-12 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：:Syf1 is a tetratricopeptide repeat (TPR) protein implicated in transcription elongation, spliceosome conformation, mRNA nuclear-cytoplasmic export and transcription-coupled DNA repair. Recently, we identified the spliceosomal components of the human parasite Entamoeba histolytica, among them is EhSyf. Molecular predic...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Torres-Cifuentes DM,Galindo-Rosales JM,Saucedo-Cárdenas O,Valdés J

更新日期：2018-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium is an important genus of plant pathogenic fungi, and is widely distributed in soil and associated with plants worldwide. The diversity of mycoviruses in Fusarium is increasing continuously due to the development and extensive use of state-of-the-art RNA deep sequencing techniques. To date, fully-sequenced myc...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Li P,Bhattacharjee P,Wang S,Zhang L,Ahmed I,Guo L

更新日期：2019-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is the leading etiologic agent of orthopedic implant infections. Here a ribocluster of 27 S. aureus strains underwent further molecular characterization and subtyping by multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and spa-typing. This cluster had been detected by automated ribotyping (with the EcoRI restri...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Montanaro L,Ravaioli S,Ruppitsch W,Campoccia D,Pietrocola G,Visai L,Speziale P,Allerberger F,Arciola CR

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to increased travel, climatic, and environmental changes, the incidence of tick-borne disease in both humans and animals is increasing throughout Europe. Therefore, extended surveillance tools are desirable. To accurately screen tick-borne pathogens (TBPs), a large scale epidemiological study was conducted on 7050...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Michelet L,Delannoy S,Devillers E,Umhang G,Aspan A,Juremalm M,Chirico J,van der Wal FJ,Sprong H,Boye Pihl TP,Klitgaard K,Bødker R,Fach P,Moutailler S

更新日期：2014-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the bottlenecks that restrict antigen expression after oral administration of viral-vectored vaccines, we tracked vectors derived from the human adenovirus type 5 at whole body, tissue, and cellular scales throughout the digestive tract in a murine model of oral delivery. After intragastric administration of...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Revaud J,Unterfinger Y,Rol N,Suleman M,Shaw J,Galea S,Gavard F,Lacour SA,Coulpier M,Versillé N,Havenga M,Klonjkowski B,Zanella G,Biacchesi S,Cordonnier N,Corthésy B,Ben Arous J,Richardson JP

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella is a facultative intracellular Gram-negative bacterium, responsible for a wide range of food- and water-borne diseases ranging from gastroenteritis to typhoid fever depending on hosts and serotypes. Salmonella thus represents a major threat to public health. A key step in Salmonella pathogenesis is the inva...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Mambu J,Virlogeux-Payant I,Holbert S,Grépinet O,Velge P,Wiedemann A

更新日期：2017-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia cenocepacia is an opportunistic respiratory pathogen of individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF). Some strains of B. cenocepacia are highly transmissible and resistant to almost all antibiotics. Approximately one-third of B. cenocepacia infected CF patients go on to develop fatal "cepacia syndrome." During t...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Ganesan S,Sajjan US

更新日期：2012-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella is a Gram-negative bacterium that is responsible for shigellosis. Over the years, the study of Shigella has provided a greater understanding of how the host responds to bacterial infection, and how bacteria have evolved to effectively counter the host defenses. In this review, we provide an update on some of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Killackey SA,Sorbara MT,Girardin SE

更新日期：2016-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157:H7 is an enteric pathogen that causes life-threatening disease in humans, with cattle being major natural reservoirs. A group of STEC O157:H7 with a dramatic combination of high virulence potentials and super-shedder bovine origin have been isolated. Here, an ST...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Teng L,Lee S,Park D,Jeong KC

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Hundred-thousands of fungal species are present in our environment, including normal colonizers that constitute part of the human microbiota. The homeostasis of host-fungus interactions encompasses efficient fungal sensing, tolerance at mucosal surfaces, as well as antifungal defenses. Decrease in host immune fitness ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Bourgeois C,Kuchler K

更新日期：2012-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Half of invasive fungal infections lead to death. Amongst pathogenic fungi, the most widespread species belong to the Candida genus and vary in their susceptibility to antifungal drugs. The emergence of antifungal resistance has become a major clinical problem. Therefore, the definition of susceptibility patterns is c...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Delavy M,Dos Santos AR,Heiman CM,Coste AT

更新日期：2019-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The type VI secretion system (T6SS) secretes numerous toxins for bacteria-bacteria competition. TplE is a newly identified trans-kingdom toxin secreted by the T6SS in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, while TplEi neutralizes the toxic effect of TplE to protect bacteria autointoxication. Blocking the interaction of TplE-TplEi co...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Gao X,Mu Z,Qin B,Sun Y,Cui S

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections with parasites of the genus Leishmania lead to a rapid, but transient activation of natural killer (NK) cells. In mice activation of NK cells requires a toll-like-receptor 9-dependent stimulation of dendritic cells (DC) which is followed by the production of IL-12. Although NK cells appear to be non-essenti...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Bogdan C

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Increasing evidence has shown that Helicobacter pylori is associated with coronary heart disease (CHD); however, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Methods: The expression of miR-25 and mRNAs was measured using qRT-PCR. Protein levels were detected using western blotting and exosomes were assessed w...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Li N,Liu SF,Dong K,Zhang GC,Huang J,Wang ZH,Wang TJ

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans cytolethal distending toxin (Cdt) is a heterotrimeric AB2 toxin capable of inducing lymphocytes, and other cell types, to undergo cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. Exposure to Cdt results in binding to the cell surface followed by internalization and translocation of the active...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

authors： Boesze-Battaglia K,Walker LP,Dhingra A,Kandror K,Tang HY,Shenker BJ

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00