Streptococcus iniae virulence is associated with a distinct genetic profile

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1994-2000

  Fuller, J D ^a   Bast, D J ^a   Nizet, V ^a   Low, D E ^a   De Azavedo, J C S ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL DAMAGE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS INIAE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CELL LINE; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED HRS; STREPTOCOCCUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0035086370     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.4.1994-2000.2001     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Degradation of C3 by Streptococcus pneumoniae
2. Immunization with bacterial antigens: Infections with streptococci and related organisms
3. Reduced virulence of group A streptococcal Tn916 mutants that do not produce streptolysin S.
4. In vitro phagocytosis and survival of Streptococcus suis capsular type 2 inside murine macrophages
5. Streptococcus suis serotype 2 interactions with human brain microvascular endothelial cells
6. A study of phagocytosis of radio-labeled Staphylococcus epidermidis and on structural events during intracellular degradation
7. Streptococcus shiloi and Streptococcus difficile: Two new streptococcal species causing a meningoencephalitis in fish
8. Experimental streptococcal meningo-encephalitis in cultured fish
9. Streptococcus shiloi, the name for an agent causing septicemic infection in fish, is a junior synonym of Streptococcus iniae
10. Comparison of the invasion strategies used by Salmonella cholerae-suis. Shigella flexneri and Yersinia enterocolitica to enter cultured animal cells: Endosome acidification is not required for bacterial invasion or intracellular replication
11. Cytoskeletal composition of attaching and effacing lesions associated with enteropathogenic Escherichia coli adherence to HeLa cells
12. Streptococcal M protein: Molecular design and biological behavior
13. Group B streptococcal beta-hemolysin promotes injury of lung microvascular endothelial cells
14. Invasion of cultured human cells by Streptococcus pyogenes
15. Properties of high and low density subpopulations of group B streptococci: Enhanced virulence of the low density variant
16. Influence of polysaccaride capsule and ionic strength on buoyant density of group B streptococci
17. Serotypic variations among virulent pneumococci in deposition and degradation of covalently bound C3b: Implications for phagocytosis and antibody production
18. Epizootic caused by beta-hemolytic Streptococcus species in cultured freshwater fish
19. Bacterial fish diseases in marineculture in Japan with special emphasis on streptococcosis
20. Current knowledge of the type-specifec M antigens of group A streptococci
21. Group A streptococci efficiently invade human respiratory epithelial cells
22. Genetic inactivation of an extracellular cysteine protease (SpeB) expressed by Streptococcus pyogenes decreases resistance to phagocytosis and dissemination to organs
23. A monoclonal antibody identifies a protective C-protein alpha-antigen epitope in group B streptococci
24. The effect of type-specific polysaccharide capsule on the clearance of group B streptococci from the lungs of infant and adult rats
25. Group B streptococcal beta-hemolysin expression is associated with injury of lung epithelial cells
26. Invasion of brain microvascular endothelial cells by group B streptococci
27. Streptococcus iniae sp. nov., a beta-hemolytic streptococcus isolated from an Amazon freshwater dolphin, Inia geoffrensis
28. Isolation and characterization of a second isolate of Streptococcus iniae
29. Streptococcus iniae associated with mortality, of Tilapia nilotica × T. aurea hybrids
30. Pneumococcal trafficking across the blood-brain barrier. Molecular analysis of a novel bidirectional pathway
31. Respiratory epithelial cell invasion by group B streptococci
32. Hyaluronic acid capsule and the role of streptococcal entry into keratinocytes in invasive skin infection
33. Electrotransformation of Streptococcus pyogenes with plasmid and linear DNA
34. Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of a typical Lactococcus garvieae strains isolated from water buffalos with subclinical mastitis and confirmation of L. garvieae as a senior subjective synonym of Enterococcus seriolicida
35. Invasive infections due to a fish pathogen, Streptococcus iniae. S. iniae Study Group
36. Type III capsule and virulence of group B streptococci
37. Hyaluronate capsule prevents attachment of group A streptococci to mouse peritoneal macrophages