Comparative virulence of staphylococcus epidermidis isolates in a murine catheter model

Pediatric Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 70-74

  Patrick, Christian C ^a   Hetherington, Seth V ^a   Roberson, Paula K ^a   Henwick, Scott ^a   Melisse Sloas, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CATHETER INFECTION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ABSCESS; ANIMAL; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMAN; MICE; PHENOTYPE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0028809316     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-199501000-00014     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Dickinson GM, Bisno AL 1989 Infections associated with indwelling devices: concepts of pathogenesis; infections associated with intravascular devices. Antimi-crob Agents Chemother 33:597-601
2. Haslett TM, Isenberg HD, Hilton E, Tucci V, Kay BG, Vellozzi 1988 Microbiology of indwelling central intravascular catheters. J Clin Microbiol 26:696-701
3. Patrick CC 1990 Coagulase-negative staphylococci: pathogens with increasing clinical significance. J Pediatr 116:497-507
4. Ishak MA, Grbschel DHM, Mandell GL, Wenzel RP 1985 Association of slime with pathogenicity of coagulase-negative staphylococci causing nosocomial septicemia. J Clin Microbiol 22:1025-1029
5. Peterson PK, Matzke G, Keane WF 1987 Current concepts in the management of peritonitis in patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. Rev Infect Dis 9:604-612
6. Press OW, Ramsey PG, Larson EB, Fefer A, Hickman RO 1984 Hickman catheter infections in patients with malignancies. Medicine 63:189-200
7. Sherertz RJ, Raad II, Belani A, Koo LC, Rand KH, Pickett DL, Straub SA, Fauerbach LL 1990 Three-year experience with sonicated vascular catheter cultures in a clinical microbiology laboratory. J Clin Microbiol 28:76-82
8. Schoenbaum SC, Gardner P, Shillito J 1975 Infections of cerebrospinal fluid shunts: epidemiology clinical manifestations, and therapy. J Infect Dis 131:543-552
9. KIoos WE, Lambe DW Jr. 1991 Staphylococcus. In: Balow A, Hausler Jr WJ, Herrmann KL, Isenberg, HD, Shadomy HJ (eds) Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 5th Ed. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC, pp 222-237
10. Baddour LM, Smalley DL, Hill MM, Christensen GD 1988 Proposed virulence factors among coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from two health populations. Can J Microbiol 34:901-905
11. Christensen, GD, Baddour LM, Madison BM, Parisi JT, Abraham SN, Hasty DL, Lowrance JH, Josephs JA, Simpson WA1990 Colonial morphology of staphylococci on Memphis agar: phase variation of slime production, resistance to 6-lactam antibiotics, and virulence. J Infect Dis 161:1153-1169
12. Christensen GD, Baddour LM, Simpson WA 1987 Phenotypic variation of Staphylococcus epidermidis slime production in vitro and in vivo. Infect Immun 55:2870-2877
13. Gemmell CG 1986 Virulence characteristics of Staphylococcus epidermidis. J Med Microbiol 22:287-289
14. Muller E, Hiibner J, Gutierrez N, Takeda S, Goldmann DA, Pier GB 1993 Isolation and characterization of transposon mutants of Staphylococcus epidermidis deficient in capsular polysaccharide/adhesin and slime. Infect Immun 61:551-558
15. Passerini L, Costerson JW, King EG 1992 Biofilms on indwelling vascular catheters. Crit Care Med 20:665-673
16. Shiro H, Muller E, Goldmann D, Pier GB 1993 Virulence in a rabbit model of endocarditis of transposon mutants of Staphylococcus epidermidis deficient in slime and the capsular polysaccharide/adhesin (PS/A) antigen. Infect Dis Soc Am: 5-A(abstr 16)
17. Timmerman CP, Fleer A, Besnier JM, de Graaf L, Cremers R, Verhoef J 1991 Characterization of a proteinaceous adhesion of Staphylococcus epidermidis which mediates attachment to polystyrene. Infect Immun 59:4187-4192
18. Davenport DS, Massanari RM, Pfaller MA, Bale MJ, Streed SA, Hierholzer Jr WT 1986 Usefulness of a test for slime production as a marker for clinically significant infections with coagulase-negative staphylococci. J Infect Dis 153:332-339
19. Kotilaninen P 1990 Association of coagulase-negative staphylococci slime production and adherence with the development and outcome of adult septicemias. J Clin Microbiol 28:2774-2785
20. Christensen GD, Simpson WA, Bisno AL, Beachey EH 1983 Experimental foreign body infections in mice challenged with slime-producing Staphylococcus epidermidis. Infect Immun 40:407-410
21. Patrick CC, Plaunt MR, Hetherington SV, May SM 1992 Role of the Staphylococcus epidermidis slime layer in experimental tunnel tract infections. Infect Immun 60:1363-1367
22. Garner JS, Jarvis WR, Wmori TG, Horan TC, Hughes JM 1988 CDC definitions for nosocomial infections, 1988. Am J Infect Control 16:128-140
23. Christensen GD, Simpson WA, Younger JJ, Baddour LM, Barrett FF, Melton DM, Beachey EH 1985 Adherence of coagulase-negative staphylococci to plastic tissue culture plates: a quantitative model for the adherence of staphylococci to medical devices. J Clin Microbiol 22:996-1006
24. Namavar F, de Graaff J, Veldhuizen R, Verhoef J 1975 Virulence of staphylococci in neonatal mice. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 27:211
25. Gunn BA 1989 Comparative virulence of human isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci tested in an infant mouse weight retardation model. J Clin Microbiol 27:507-511
26. Lambe DW Jr., Ferguson KP, Keplinger JL, Gemmell CG, Kalbfleisch JH 1990 Pathogenicity of Staphylococcus lugdunensis, Staphylococcus schleiferi, and three other coagulase-negative staphylococci in a mouse model and possible virulence factors. Can J Microbiol 36:455-463
27. Baddour LM, Christensen GD, Hester MG, Bisno AL 1984 Production of experimental endocarditis by coagulase-negative staphylococci: viriability in species virulence. J Infect Dis 150:721-727
28. Costerton JW, Cheng KJ, Geesey GG, Ladd TI, Nickel JC, Dasgupta M, Maroye TJ 1987 Bacterial biofilms in nature and disease. Annu Rev Microbiol 41:435-464
29. Sheth NK, Franson TR, Rose HD, Buckmire FLA, Cooper JA, Sohnle PG 1983 Colonization of bacteria on polyvinyl chloride and teflon intravascular catheters in hospitalized patients. J Clin Microbiol 18:1061-1063
30. Mack D, Siemssen N, Laufs R 1992 Parallel induction by glucose of adherence and a polysaccharide antigen specific for plastic-adherent Staphylococcus epidermidis: evidence for functional relation to intercellular adhesion. Infect Immun 60:2048-2057
31. Tojo M, Yamashita N, Goldmann DA, Pier GR 1988 Isolation and characterization of a capsular polysaccharide adhesin from Staphylococcus epidermidis. J Infect Dis 157:713-722
32. Pascual AA, Fleer NAC, Westerdaal C, Verhoef J 1986 Modulation of adherence of coagulase-negative staphylococci to Teflon catheters in vitro. Eur J Clin Microbiol 5:518-522
33. Muller E, Takeda S, Shiro H, Goldmann D, Pier GB 1993 Occurrence of capsular polysaccharide/adhesin among clinical isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci. J Infect Dis 168:1211-1218