Search Results - "Joseph Hinnebusch, B"
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Yersinia pestis can infect the Pawlowsky glands of human body lice and be transmitted by louse bite
Published in PLoS biology (21-05-2024)“…Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, is a highly lethal vector-borne pathogen responsible for killing large portions of Europe's population during…”
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Silencing urease: A key evolutionary step that facilitated the adaptation of Yersinia pestis to the flea-borne transmission route
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (30-12-2014)“…The arthropod-borne transmission route of Yersinia pestis , the bacterial agent of plague, is a recent evolutionary adaptation. Yersinia pseudotuberculosis ,…”
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Antibody Opsonization Enhances Early Interactions between Yersinia pestis and Neutrophils in the Skin and Draining Lymph Node in a Mouse Model of Bubonic Plague
Published in Infection and immunity (15-12-2020)“…Bubonic plague results when is deposited in the skin via the bite of an infected flea. Bacteria then traffic to the draining lymph node (dLN) where they…”
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Human plague: An old scourge that needs new answers
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (27-08-2020)“…Yersinia pestis, the bacterial causative agent of plague, remains an important threat to human health. Plague is a rodent-borne disease that has historically…”
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Ecological Opportunity, Evolution, and the Emergence of Flea-Borne Plague
Published in Infection and immunity (01-07-2016)“…The plague bacillus Yersinia pestis is unique among the pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae in utilizing an arthropod-borne transmission route. Transmission by…”
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Retracing the Evolutionary Path that Led to Flea-Borne Transmission of Yersinia pestis
Published in Cell host & microbe (14-05-2014)“…Yersinia pestis is an arthropod-borne bacterial pathogen that evolved recently from Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, an enteric pathogen transmitted via the…”
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Comparison of the transmission efficiency and plague progression dynamics associated with two mechanisms by which fleas transmit Yersinia pestis
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-12-2020)“…Yersinia pestis can be transmitted by fleas during the first week after an infectious blood meal, termed early-phase or mass transmission, and again after Y…”
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A Role for Early-Phase Transmission in the Enzootic Maintenance of Plague
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-12-2022)“…Yersinia pestis, the bacterial agent of plague, is enzootic in many parts of the world within wild rodent populations and is transmitted by different flea…”
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Yersinia pestis survival and replication within human neutrophil phagosomes and uptake of infected neutrophils by macrophages
Published in Journal of leukocyte biology (01-03-2014)“…Yersinia pestis survives and replicates within PMNs, which are taken up by macrophages in vitro. Yersinia pestis, the bacterial agent of plague, is transmitted…”
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Dermal neutrophil, macrophage and dendritic cell responses to Yersinia pestis transmitted by fleas
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-03-2015)“…Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, is typically transmitted by the bite of an infected flea. Many aspects of mammalian innate immune response…”
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Reevaluation of the Role of Blocked Oropsylla hirsuta Prairie Dog Fleas (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) in Yersinia pestis (Enterobacterales: Enterobacteriaceae) Transmission
Published in Journal of medical entomology (11-05-2022)“…Prairie dogs in the western United States experience periodic epizootics of plague, caused by the flea-borne bacterial pathogen Yersinia pestis. An early study…”
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Infectious blood source alters early foregut infection and regurgitative transmission of Yersinia pestis by rodent fleas
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-01-2018)“…Fleas can transmit Yersinia pestis by two mechanisms, early-phase transmission (EPT) and biofilm-dependent transmission (BDT). Transmission efficiency varies…”
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Role of the Yersinia pestis phospholipase D (Ymt) in the initial aggregation step of biofilm formation in the flea
Published in mBio (12-06-2024)“…Transmission of by fleas depends on the formation of condensed bacterial aggregates embedded within a gel-like matrix that localizes to the proventricular…”
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Depolymerization of β-1,6-N-Acetyl-d-Glucosamine Disrupts the Integrity of Diverse Bacterial Biofilms
Published in Journal of Bacteriology (01-01-2005)“…Article Usage Stats Services JB Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley…”
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Poor vector competence of the human flea, Pulex irritans, to transmit Yersinia pestis
Published in Parasites & vectors (10-06-2021)“…The human flea, Pulex irritans, is widespread globally and has a long association with humans, one of its principal hosts. Its role in plague transmission is…”
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Structural engineering of a phage lysin that targets Gram-negative pathogens
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (19-06-2012)“…Bacterial pathogens are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. As an alternative therapeutic strategy, phage therapy reagents containing purified…”
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Yersinia pestis Rcs Phosphorelay Inhibits Biofilm Formation by Repressing Transcription of the Diguanylate Cyclase Gene hmsT
Published in Journal of Bacteriology (01-04-2012)“…Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague, forms biofilms in fleas, its insect vectors, as a means to enhance transmission. Biofilm development is…”
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Feeding Behavior Modulates Biofilm-Mediated Transmission of Yersinia pestis by the Cat Flea, Ctenocephalides felis
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (01-02-2016)“…The cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis, is prevalent worldwide, will parasitize animal reservoirs of plague, and is associated with human habitations in known…”
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Acquisition of yersinia murine toxin enabled Yersinia pestis to expand the range of mammalian hosts that sustain flea-borne plague
Published in PLoS pathogens (14-10-2021)“…Yersinia murine toxin (Ymt) is a phospholipase D encoded on a plasmid acquired by Yersinia pestis after its recent divergence from a Yersinia…”
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Molecular and Genetic Mechanisms That Mediate Transmission of Yersinia pestis by Fleas
Published in Biomolecules (Basel, Switzerland) (03-02-2021)“…The ability to cause plague in mammals represents only half of the life history of . It is also able to colonize and produce a transmissible infection in the…”
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