Search Results - "LETICIA ZARANTONELLI, Maria"
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Transgenic Mice Expressing Human Transferrin as a Model for Meningococcal Infection
Published in Infection and Immunity (01-12-2007)“…The pathogenesis of meningococcal disease is poorly understood due to the lack of a relevant animal model. Moreover, the use of animal models is not optimal as…”
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Influenza A Virus Neuraminidase Enhances Meningococcal Adhesion to Epithelial Cells through Interaction with Sialic Acid-Containing Meningococcal Capsules
Published in Infection and Immunity (01-09-2009)“…Classifications Services IAI Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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Target Gene Sequencing To Characterize the Penicillin G Susceptibility of Neisseria meningitidis
Published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (01-08-2007)“…Classifications Services AAC Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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Penicillin Resistance Compromises Nod1-Dependent Proinflammatory Activity and Virulence Fitness of Neisseria meningitidis
Published in Cell host & microbe (12-06-2013)“…Neisseria meningitidis is a life-threatening human bacterial pathogen responsible for pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis. Meningococcal strains with reduced…”
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Penicillin binding proteins as danger signals: meningococcal penicillin binding protein 2 activates dendritic cells through Toll-like receptor 4
Published in PloS one (27-10-2011)“…Neisseria meningitidis is a human pathogen responsible for life-threatening inflammatory diseases. Meningococcal penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) and…”
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Differential Role of Lipooligosaccharide of Neisseria meningitidis in Virulence and Inflammatory Response during Respiratory Infection in Mice
Published in Infection and Immunity (01-10-2006)“…Meningococcal lipooligosaccharide (LOS) induces a strong proinflammatory response in humans during meningococcal infection. We analyzed the role of LOS in the…”
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Rifampin-resistant Neisseria meningitidis
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Neisseria meningitidis pili induce type‐IIA phospholipase A2 expression in alveolar macrophages
Published in FEBS letters (12-09-2005)“…Induction of type‐IIA secreted phospholipase A2 (sPLA2‐IIA) expression by bacterial components other than lipopolysaccharide has not been previously…”
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Interlaboratory Comparison of PCR-Based Methods for Detection of Penicillin G Susceptibility in Neisseria meningitidis
Published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (01-03-2006)“…Classifications Services AAC Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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Phosphorylcholine−Carbohydrate− Protein Conjugates Efficiently Induce Hapten-Specific Antibodies Which Recognize Both Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis: A Potential Multitarget Vaccine against Respiratory Infections
Published in Journal of medicinal chemistry (29-07-2004)“…Phosphorylcholine (ChoP) is commonly expressed at the surface of pathogens of the respiratory tract, including Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria…”
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Use of available outer membrane vesicle vaccines to control serogroup B meningococcal outbreaks
Published in Vaccine (30-03-2007)“…P1.7,16) and the same sequence-type clustering them into the clone complex ET-5/ST-32. [...]porA sequencing further showed that these isolates shared the same…”
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The duality of virulence and transmissibility in Neisseria meningitidis
Published in Trends in Microbiology (01-08-2002)“…Neisseria meningitidis is a commensal bacterium of the human nasopharynx that occasionally provokes invasive disease. Carriage strains of N. meningitidis are…”
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Immunogenicity of meningococcal PBP2 during natural infection and protective activity of anti-PBP2 antibodies against meningococcal bacteraemia in mice
Published in Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy (01-05-2006)“…Objective: To evaluate the immunogenicity of the meningococcal penicillin-binding protein 2 (PBP2) and its potential as a vaccine candidate. Methods: The…”
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A model of meningococcal bacteremia after respiratory superinfection in influenza A virus-infected mice
Published in FEMS microbiology letters (16-05-2003)“…We developed a model of sequential influenza A virus (IAV)– Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C (Nm) infection in BALB/c mice. Mice infected intranasally with a…”
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Neisseria meningitidis pili induce type-IIA phospholipase A 2 expression in alveolar macrophages
Published in FEBS letters (12-09-2005)“…Induction of type-IIA secreted phospholipase A 2 (sPLA 2-IIA) expression by bacterial components other than lipopolysaccharide has not been previously…”
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Phosphorylcholine−Carbohydrate− Protein Conjugates Efficiently Induce Hapten-Specific Antibodies Which Recognize Both Streptococcus p neumoniae and Neisseria m eningitidis: A Potential Multitarget Vaccine against Respiratory Infections
Published in Journal of medicinal chemistry (29-07-2004)“…Phosphorylcholine (ChoP) is commonly expressed at the surface of pathogens of the respiratory tract, including Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria…”
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Insertional inactivation of the lpxA gene involved in the biosynthesis of lipid A in Neisseria meningitidis resulted in lpxA/lpxA::aph-3′ heterodiploids
Published in FEMS microbiology letters (01-09-2003)“…The lpxA gene is known to be involved in the biosynthesis of lipid A in Gram-negative bacteria and thought to be an essential gene. However, viable…”
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