Cytolethal distending toxin (CDT):
Prevalence of Cytolethal Distending Toxin Production in Periodontopathogenic Bacteria
... 2003 Cytolethal distending toxin (CDT) is a newly identified virulence factor produced by several pathogenic bacteria implicated in chronic ...the toxin varied considerably among these ...
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Shiga Toxin, Cytolethal Distending Toxin, and Hemolysin Repertoires in Clinical Escherichia coli O91 Isolates
... Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains of serogroup O91 are the most common human pathogenic eae-negative STEC ...encoding cytolethal distending toxin V; the toxin ...
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Sensitization of radio-resistant prostate cancer cells with a unique cytolethal distending toxin
... A recent study has suggested that c-Myc expression is required to activate ATM-dependent DNA damage checkpoint responses when cells are exposed to IR or CDT [23]. We therefore tested whether c-Myc plays a critical role ...
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Cytolethal Distending Toxin Genes inCampylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coliIsolates: Detection and Analysis by PCR
... Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0298 2 Received 21 July 1998/Returned for modification 28 September 1998/Accepted 5 February 1999 ...
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Prediction of CTL epitope, in silico modeling and functional analysis of cytolethal distending toxin (CDT) protein of Campylobacter jejuni
... Methods: In this study, homology modeling, epitope prediction and identification of ligand binding sites has been explored. Further attempt to generate strapping 3D model of cytolethal distending ...
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Association of Cytolethal Distending Toxin Locus cdtB with Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Isolated from Patients with Acute Diarrhea in Calcutta, India
... University, Osaka, 3 and Jissen Women’s College, Tokyo, 4 Japan; and International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh 5 Received 19 February 2003/Returned for modification 5 June 2003/Accepted 20 ...
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Evolution of a Self-Inducible Cytolethal Distending Toxin Type V-Encoding Bacteriophage from Escherichia coli O157:H7 to Shigella sonnei
... encoding cytolethal distending toxin type V gene induced from nonclini- cal Escherichia coli ...encoding cytolethal distending toxin (Cdt-I) and a type III effector protein in ...
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Characterization of the cytolethal distending toxin (typhoid toxin) in non-typhoidal Salmonella serovars
... the cytolethal distending toxin B (CdtB), pertussis‑like toxin A (PltA), and pertussis‑like toxin B (PltB) is present in a dozen NTS serovars and that these proteins have a high level ...
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Characterization of Cytolethal Distending Toxin of Campylobacter Species Isolated from Captive Macaque Monkeys
... of cytolethal distending toxin was confirmed on the basis of characteristic morphological changes in HeLa cells incubated with filter-sterilized whole-cell lysates of reference and monkey ...
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The cytolethal distending toxin from the chancroid bacterium Haemophilus ducreyi induces cell cycle arrest in the G2 phase
... potent cytolethal distending toxin produced by Haemophilus ducreyi is a putative virulence factor in the pathogenesis of ...other cytolethal distend- ing toxins, these cells accumulated in the ...
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The Cytolethal Distending Toxin Produced by Nontyphoidal Salmonella Serotypes Javiana, Montevideo, Oranienburg, and Mississippi Induces DNA Damage in a Manner Similar to That of Serotype Typhi
... a toxin-neutralizing antibody abol- ished the cell cycle arrest of cells coincubated with cell-free super- natants containing S-CDT from previous infections ...
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Production of Cytolethal Distending Toxins by Pathogenic Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from Human and Animal Sources: Establishment of the Existence of a New cdt Variant (Type IV)
... The CDT-producing extraintestinal strains belonged to a wide variety of serogroups, including O2, O6, O75, and O170. In conclusion, we have developed a new PCR typing system for CDT able to detect a new CDT variant ...
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Toxin Inactivation in Toxin/Antitoxin Systems
... of toxin production) to inactivate toxins of TAs and allow the cells to resume growth, when toxin production is not ...the toxin gene itself [27-29] ...
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Toxin yet not toxic: Botulinum toxin in dentistry
... Abstract Paracelsus contrasted poisons from nonpoisons, stating that ‘‘All things are poisons, and there is nothing that is harmless; the dose alone decides that something is a poison ”. Living organ- isms, such as ...
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Inadvertent Administration of Positive End-Distending Pressure During Nasal Cannula Flow
... Improvements in breathing patterns, specifically improvement in TAM synchrony, in infants with res- piratory insufficiency may occur related to a multi- factorial interaction of chest wa[r] ...
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Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and Lung Rupture in Hyaline Membrane Disease: Influence of Continuous Distending Pressure
... patients treated with IPPB alone (36.2%), probably related to the enhanced ability to rapidly reduce inspired oxygen concentrations. It is postulated that unequal time constants with sub[r] ...
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New Players in the Toxin Field: Polymorphic Toxin Systems in Bacteria
... Polymorphic toxin systems (PTS), recently identified by bioinformatics in all major bacterial lineages, correspond to such a system primarily in- volved in conflict between related bacterial ...multidomain ...
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YOUR TOXIN IQ GUIDE REDUCE TOXIN EXPOSURE TODAY
... WHAT ARE TOXINS Simply put a toxin is a harmful substance that can do the body harm. Basically a toxin is anything that damages the body. The body is amazing. It is self-defending, self-repairing and ...
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Identification of Toxin A Negative, Toxin B Positive Clostridium difficile by PCR
... differentiate toxin A-negative, toxin B-positive (toxin A 2 , toxin B 1 ) strains from both toxin-positive (toxin A 1 , toxin B 1 ) strains and both toxin-negative ...
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Toxin-deficient mutants from a toxin-sensitive transformant of Cochliobolus heterostrophus.
... When inocula were taken from colonies growing on Fries medium, which encourages high production of T-toxin, one strain (ctm45) caused no detectable halo while the other ei[r] ...
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