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Virulence factors of Bordetella pertussis

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, 1988
Clearly, B. pertussis has evolved very elaborate mechanisms to maintain itself in the human host. Three different proteins (FHA, pertussis toxin and fimbriae) have been implicated in adherence. Furthermore, a number of toxins are produced (pertussis toxin, adenylate cyclase, dermonecrotic toxin, and tracheal cytotoxin) which destroy the clearance ...
Frits R Mooi
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Bordetella PlrSR regulatory system controls BvgAS activity and virulence in the lower respiratory tract [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017
Bordetella spp. includes Bordetella pertussis, the causal agent of whooping cough. The Bordetella virulence gene (BvgAS) two-component regulatory system (TCS) is considered the “master virulence regulator” in Bordetella, as it controls expression of all ...
Peggy Cotter, Scott Stibitz, Erich V Scheller   +2 more
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Virulence Factors of Bordetella Pertussis

Annual Review of Microbiology, 1986
E L Hewlett, A A Weiss
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Differential Regulation of Bordetella pertussis Virulence Factors

Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, 1993
Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of whooping cough, regulates its virulence factors coordinately according to environmental parameters such as temperature and certain chemicals. A regulatory locus has been characterized which is essential for this regulation.
R, Gross, N H, Carbonetti
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Environmental regulation of virulence factors in Bordetella species

BioEssays, 1993
AbstractMany bacteria respond in a coordinate manner to environmental changes. External stimuli, sensed by receptors, are transduced to regulatory proteins which participate in well defined pathways of gene expression by varying their structure and mode of action. The network of environmental signal transduction is responsible for a fine and continuous
Scarlato V., Arico B., Domenighini M., Rappuoli R.   +3 more
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Bordetella adenylate cyclase is a virulence associated factor and an immunoprotective antigen

Microbial Pathogenesis, 1989
Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis are both causative agents of whooping cough outbreaks. Although not expressing the pertussis toxin, B. parapertussis induces, in a murine model, an acute hemorrhagic edematous alveolitis, similar to that observed with B. pertussis.
N, Guiso, M, Rocancourt, M, Szatanik, J M, Alonso   +3 more
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Structure of Bordetella pertussis virulence factor P.69 pertactin

Nature, 1996
A new generation of whooping-cough vaccines contain P.69 pertactin, a surface-exposed domain of an outer membrane protein expressed by the virulent bacterium Bordetella pertussis. This protein is a virulence factor that mediates adhesion to target mammalian cells, a reaction that is in part mediated by an RGD sequence.
P, Emsley, I G, Charles, N F, Fairweather, N W, Isaacs   +3 more
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Pertussis Toxin and Extracytoplasmic Adenylate Cyclase as Virulence Factors of Bordetella pertussis

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1984
A wild-type strain of Bordetella pertussis and a series of transposon Tn5-induced mutants deficient in the production of various factors believed to play a role in pertussis (whooping cough) were tested for virulence in infant mice. The 50% lethal dose of the wild-type strain in these animals was 2 X 10(3) bacteria. A mutant deficient in the production
A A, Weiss, E L, Hewlett, G A, Myers, S, Falkow   +3 more
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The Virulence Factors of Bordetella pertussis: Talented Modulators of Host Immune Response

Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis, 2013
Approximately 40 million whooping cough cases and between 200,000 and 400,000 pertussis-linked deaths are recorded each year. Although several types of vaccines are licensed and widely used, Bordetella pertussis continues to circulate in populations with high vaccine coverage of infants and children due to the waning of protection induced by the ...
Giorgio, Fedele, Manuela, Bianco, Clara Maria, Ausiello   +2 more
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Tracheal colonization factor: a Bordetella pertussis secreted virulence determinant

Molecular Microbiology, 1995
SummaryWe report here the identification of a virulence‐associated factor, Tcf, (tracheal colonization factor), produced by strains of Bordetella pertussis but not Bordetella parapertussis or Bordetella bronchiseptica. This protein is encoded by the tcfA gene. When a strain of B.
T M, Finn, L A, Stevens
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