C. pneumoniae
Immunohistostaining Assays for Detection of Chlamydia pneumoniae in Atherosclerotic Arteries Indicate Cross Reactions with Nonchlamydial Plaque Constituents
... general, C. pneumoniae antigens are more frequently detected than ...C. pneumoniae DNA, or, as stated in other terms, immunohistostaining procedures yield more positive re- sults for ...
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Chlamydophila pneumoniae induces a sustained airway hyperresponsiveness and inflammation in mice
... Atypical pathogen persistent infection may participate in airway inflammation. Chlamydial infection activates a cytokine response including basic fibroblast growth factor [38] by smooth muscle cells, and TNF-α secretion ...
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Characterization of the Humoral Immune Response to Chlamydia Outer Membrane Protein 2 in Chlamydial Infection
... Patients. The study population comprised eight different groups of patients (Table 1). The first group included 93 patients (age range, 13 to 60 years; median, 20 years) from The Gambia, a trachoma-endemic region. Of ...
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The upper respiratory tract microbiome of hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumonia of unknown aetiology: a pilot study
... "!#*$#-M-S$ "-$*?Ex*#>x # k! # *# $x jx $ " S. pneumoniae <x $"L. pneumophila$EHx$ -*"#"ky *y j*y E * y ) y E y > y j ! !! # _'+q` '+q ) x 3![ [( ' q % k3![ +x Dx $ -* " X ! # ...
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Schneider, Cornelia (2007): Einfluß der GTPasen Rab5a und Rab7 auf die Einschlußkörperentwicklung von Chlamydia trachomatis und Chlamydophila pneumoniae. Dissertation, LMU München: Medizinische Fakultät
... und C. trachomatis bzw. C. pneumoniae war der Einschlußkörper ausnahmslos in der perinukleären Region lokalisiert, unabhängig davon, ob die Wirtszelle mit dem Wildtyp, der dominant-aktiven oder ...
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Detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in Khartoum State Hospitals: A cross-sectional Study
... Results: Of the four hundred patients enrolled in this study, 242(60.5%) were males and 158(39.5%) females. The mean age of the patients was 42.1 years. The disease was more prevalent among males than females, however ...
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Atypical bacterial pneumonia in the HIV-infected population
... HIV-associated C. pneumoniae pneumo- nia is reliant on serology and ...the C. pneumoniae-specific antibody response, requires either single or convalescent serum samples to differen- tiate ...
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Epidemiology and associations with climatic conditions of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Chlamydophila pneumoniae infections among Chinese children hospitalized with acute respiratory infections
... M. pneumoniae and C. pneumoniae infections with regard to white blood cell count, C-reactive protein, percentage of neutrophils, platelets, or radiographic data ...M. pneumoniae and ...
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Molecular Diagnosis of Chlamydia pneumoniae Infection
... Cardiovascular infection. PCR is commonly used, alone or in combination with other diagnostic methods, for the detec- tion of C. pneumoniae in the cardiovascular system. C. pneu- moniae DNA has been ...
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The Genetic Transformation of Chlamydia pneumoniae
... in C. pneumoniae CV-6 and expresses ...pRSGFPCAT-Cpn-transformed C. pneumoniae was subcultured in HEp-2 cells with and without chloram- phenicol every 2 to 3 ...pRSGFPCAT-Cpn-transformed ...
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Verification of the ProPneumo-1 assay for the simultaneous detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Chlamydophila pneumoniae in clinical respiratory specimens
... advances at their time, they were often plagued by require- ments for up-front research and development, quality assurance, and laboratory accreditation issues [10,11]. As a result, past molecular diagnostics for the ...
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In vitro response of host cell to Chlamydia pneumoniae infection, an ultra structure investigation
... Although clinical persistence is a key concept in chlamydial pathogenesis, microbial persistence is a state of infection during which the host immune response does not eliminate the pathogen, thereby resulting in ...
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Interkingdom Signaling Induces Streptococcus pneumoniae Biofilm Dispersion and Transition from Asymptomatic Colonization to Disease
... S. pneumoniae undergoes phase variation, alternating between a transparent phase with low capsule expression and high cell wall teichoic acid expression and an opaque phase with high capsule expression and low ...
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Parallel Evolution of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus mitis to Pathogenic and Mutualistic Lifestyles
... One factor in the coevolution of obligate symbionts of humans that has so far received little attention is the impact of the suscep- tible host population size. This factor is of particular importance in pathogenic ...
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Clinically Relevant Plasmid Host Interactions Indicate that Transcriptional and Not Genomic Modifications Ameliorate Fitness Costs of Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase Carrying Plasmids
... 30, and 22°C were used; for ST258 strains, temperatures of 37 and 30°C were used. Data were analyzed using Student’s t test, and differences represented by P values of ⬍ 0.05 were considered significant. ...
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Characterisation of Treg and Th17 cells in Nasopharynx-associated lymphoid tissue and their association with pneumococcal carriage in children and adults
... microorganism (Kadioglu & Andrew 2004). Opsonophagocytosis by macrophages and neutrophils and inflammation induction both result from deposition of complement components on the surface of foreign antigens and ...
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Detection of C polysaccharide in Streptococcus pneumoniae in the sputa of pneumonia patients by an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay
... The seven positive sputum samples, representing seven patients with pneumonia of unknown etiology Table 1, originated from patients with no potentially pathogenic bacteria isolated in bl[r] ...
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Recombination in Streptococcus pneumoniae Lineages Increase with Carriage Duration and Size of the Polysaccharide Capsule
... ABSTRACT Streptococcus pneumoniae causes a high burden of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) globally, especially in chil- dren from resource-poor settings. Like many bacteria, the pneumococcus can import DNA ...
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Mapping the Evolution of Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae
... Klebsiella pneumoniae infections have recently emerged, resulting in pyogenic liver ...K. pneumoniae (hvKP) isolates primarily of capsule serotype K1 or ...K. pneumoniae isolates to charac- terize ...
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Whole-Genome Sequencing of Human Clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates Reveals Misidentification and Misunderstandings of Klebsiella pneumoniae, Klebsiella variicola, and Klebsiella quasipneumoniae
... Stockholm, Sweden, suggests that these organisms may be an underrecognized cause of bacteremia, including fatal infections (23). Among patients at our health care system, K. variicola and K. quasipneumoniae strains ...
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