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A tetraspecific VHH-based neutralizing antibody modifies disease outcome in three animal models of Clostridium difficile infection [PDF]

, 2016
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), a leading cause of nosocomial infection, is a serious disease in North America, Europe, and Asia. CDI varies greatly from asymptomatic carriage to life-threatening diarrhea, toxic megacolon, and toxemia.
Beamer, Gillian, Curiel, David T, Debatis, Michele, Dmitriev, Igor P, Kashentseva, Elena A, Kim, Hyeun Bum, Schmidt, Diane J, Shoemaker, Charles B, Steele, Jennifer A, Sun, Xingmin, Tremblay, Jacqueline M, Tzipori, Saul, Wang, Yaunkai   +12 more
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A Drosophila Model for Clostridium difficile Toxin CDT Reveals Interactions with Multiple Effector Pathways. [PDF]

, 2020
Clostridium difficile infections (CDIs) cause severe and occasionally life-threatening diarrhea. Hyper-virulent strains produce CDT, a toxin that ADP-ribosylates actin monomers and inhibits actin polymerization.
Bier, Ethan, Franc, Nathalie C, Guichard, Annabel, Roy, Sitara, Schwartz, Ruth   +4 more
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Effective antiprotease-antibiotic treatment of experimental anthrax [PDF]

, 2005
BACKGROUND: Inhalation anthrax is characterized by a systemic spread of the challenge agent, Bacillus anthracis. It causes severe damage, including multiple hemorrhagic lesions, to host tissues and organs.
Alibek, Ken, Bailey, Charles, Chandhoke, Vikas, Fryxell, Karl J, Hopkins, Svetlana, MacAfee, Rebecca, Popov, Serguei G, Popova, Taissia G, Weinstein, Raymond S   +8 more
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Current understanding of Bacillus anthracis toxin molecules organization and approaches for blocking their cytotoxic action

Инфекция и иммунитет, 2020
Here, we review the data on mechanisms inhibiting cytotoxic effect of anthrax toxin on the immune system cells. Various disease forms, immunopathogenesis and contemporary methods for anthrax treatment are discussed.
V. V. Firstova, I. G. Shemyakin, I. A. Dyatlov   +2 more
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Anthrax oedema toxin induces anthrax toxin receptor expression in monocyte‐derived cells [PDF]

Molecular Microbiology, 2006
Summary Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, secretes two bipartite toxins that help the bacterium evade the immune system and contribute directly to pathogenesis. Both toxin catalytic moieties, lethal factor (LF) and oedema factor (OF), are internalized into the host‐cell cytosol by a third factor, protective antigen (PA), which binds ...
Benhur Lee, Jonathan Fulcher, Francisco J. Maldonado-Arocho, Kenneth A. Bradley   +3 more
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Pinpointing anthrax-toxin inhibitors [PDF]

Nature Biotechnology, 2002
Anthrax toxin consists of three components: protective antigen (PA), lethal factor (LF), and edema factor (EF). Individually, they are nontoxic.
Glick, Meir, Grant, Guy H., Richards, W. Graham   +2 more
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The AIM2 inflammasome is critical for innate immunity to Francisella tularensis. [PDF]

, 2010
Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia, infects host macrophages, which triggers production of the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin 1beta (IL-1beta) and IL-18. We elucidate here how host macrophages recognize F.
Alnemri, Emad S, Datta, Pinaki, Eisenlohr, Laurence, Fernandes-Alnemri, Teresa, Huang, Lan, Juliana, Christine, Kang, Seokwon, Landel, Carlisle P, McCormick, Margaret, McDermott, Erin, Solorzano, Leobaldo, Wu, Jianghong, Yu, Je-Wook   +12 more
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Membrane translocation by anthrax toxin [PDF]

Molecular Aspects of Medicine, 2009
Much attention has been focused on anthrax toxin recently, both because of its central role in the pathogenesis of Bacillus anthracis and because it has proven to be one of the most tractable toxins for studying how enzymic moieties of intracellularly acting toxins traverse membranes.
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Development of a multiple-antigen protein fusion vaccine candidate that confers protection against Bacillus anthracis and Yersinia pestis.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
Bacillus anthracis and Yersinia pestis are zoonotic bacteria capable of causing severe and sometimes fatal infections in animals and humans. Although considered as diseases of antiquity in industrialized countries due to animal and public health ...
Theresa B Gallagher, Gabriela Mellado-Sanchez, Ana L Jorgensen, Stephen Moore, James P Nataro, Marcela F Pasetti, Les W Baillie   +6 more
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A pragmatic harm reduction approach to manage a large outbreak of wound botulism in people who inject drugs, Scotland 2015 [PDF]

, 2018
Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are at an increased risk of wound botulism, a potentially fatal acute paralytic illness. During the first 6 months of 2015, a large outbreak of wound botulism was confirmed among PWID in Scotland, which resulted ...
Amanda Weir, Andrew McAuley, CC McGuigan, CN Ramsay, Corinne Amar, D Akbulut, DJ Passaro, E MacDonald, E Tweed, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Gauri Godbole, Gillian Penrice, GY Chang, Health Protection Scotland, Information Services Division (ISD), J McLauchlin, J Sobel, J Strang, JA Jones, JA Stoltz, K Alpers, K Dunleavy, Kathie Grant, Kirsten M. A. Trayner, Kirsty Roy, M Desai, M Harris, M Ragonnet-Cronin, M Schroeter, MG Booth, N Markwick, National Records of Scotland, NE Palmateer, Public Health England, Health Protection Scotland, Public Health Wales, and Public Health Agency Northern Ireland, RJ Gordon, SB Werner, Scottish Government, Scottish Health Protection Network, SJ Hahné, SR Offerman, TN Wenham, VD Hope, VD Hope, Y Soukup-Baljak   +43 more
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