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Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 The uptake of cholesterol from the host is closely linked to the proliferation of pathogenic fungi and protozoa during infection. For some pathogenic fungi, cholesterol uptake is an important strategy for decreasing susceptibility to antifungals that ...
Michiyo Okamoto +15 more
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Escherichia coli virulence factors [PDF]
Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, 2011 Escherichia coli was described in 1885 by a German pediatrician, Theodor Escherich, in the faeces of a child suffering diarrhoea. In 1893, a Danish veterinarian postulated that the E. coli species comprises different strains, some being pathogens, others not. Today the E.
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Development of ListeriaBase and comparative analysis of Listeria monocytogenes [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Listeria consists of both pathogenic and non-pathogenic species. Reports of similarities between the genomic content between some pathogenic and non-pathogenic species necessitates the investigation of these species at the genomic level to ...
Ang, Mia Yang +9 more
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H. pylori virulence factors [PDF]
British Medical Bulletin, 1998 Among people infected with Helicobacter pylori, the virulence of the infecting strain is a major determinant of who develops disease. Strains producing vacuolating cytotoxin activity are more commonly isolated from people with peptic ulcers than without.
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High sporulation and overexpression of virulence factors in biofilms and reduced susceptibility to vancomycin and linezolid in recurrent Clostridium [Clostridioides] difficile infection isolates [PDF]
, 2019 Clostridium [Clostridioides] difficile infection (CDI) is one of the leading causes of diarrhea associated with medical care worldwide, and up to 60% of patients with CDI can develop a recurrent infection (R-CDI). A multi-species microbiota biofilm model
Baines, Simon +9 more
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Aspergillus fumigatus Fumagillin Contributes to Host Cell Damage
Journal of Fungi, 2021 The activity of fumagillin, a mycotoxin produced by Aspergillus fumigatus, has not been studied in depth. In this study, we used a commercial fumagillin on cultures of two cell types (A549 pneumocytes and RAW 264.7 macrophages).
Xabier Guruceaga +12 more
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Special Issue “Sporothrix and Sporotrichosis 2.0”
Journal of Fungi, 2022 Sporotrichosis is a chronic fungal disease of humans and other mammals that often affects the skin and subcutaneous tissues and, rarely, deep-seated organs (most frequently in immunocompetent hosts) [...]
Héctor M. Mora-Montes
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Molecular Mechanisms Used by Salmonella to Evade the Immune System [PDF]
, 2017 Human and animal pathogens are able to circumvent, at least temporarily, the sophisticated immune defenses of their hosts. Several serovars of the Gram-negative bacterium Salmonella enterica have been used as models for the study of pathogen-host ...
Bernal Bayard, Joaquín +1 more
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Microorganisms, 2021 Streptococcus canis is a common colonizing bacterium of the urogenital tract of cats and dogs that can also cause invasive disease in these animal populations and in humans. Although the virulence mechanisms of S.
Ingrid Cornax +5 more
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Microorganisms, 2021 The Mycobacterium kansasii species comprises six subtypes that were recently classified into six closely related species; Mycobacterium kansasii (formerly M. kansasii subtype 1), Mycobacterium persicum (subtype 2), Mycobacterium pseudokansasii (subtype 3)
Florian Tagini +4 more
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