Advances in Yersinia Research (eBook)

Evolutionary dynamics of the Yersinia enterocolitica.- Gains and losses in Yersinia enterocolitica subsp. palearctica genomes.- Consequences of Missense Mutations in Yersinia pestis: Efficient flow of Metabolic Carbon versus Virulence.- Diversity and adaptive evolution of major porin gene (ompF) in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.- Biochemical and Genetic Peculiarities and the Phylogenetic Relationship of the Non-main Subspecies in the General Scheme of the Plague Agent Evolution.- The molecular phylogeny of gyrB gene: a molecular marker for systematic of Yersinia.- Preliminary survey regarding Yersiniosis in Ireland.- Pseudotuberculosis in Russian Federation.- Plague in Brazil: now and then.- Factors Affecting the Spread and Maintenance of Plague.- Isolation of enteropathogenic Yersinia from non-human sources.- Yersiniosis by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis o iii causes diarrhea in Brazilian cattle.- Prevalence, Serotype, Virulence characteristics, Clonality and Antibiotic susceptibility of pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica from swine feces.- Characterization of Yersinia enterocolitica 4/O:3 isolated from swine in slaughterhouses and pork in State of São Paulo.- Bacteriophages capable of lysing Yersinia pestis and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis: efficiency of plating tests and identification of receptors in Escherichia coli K-12.- Field and clinical applications of advanced bacteriophage-based detection of Yersinia pestis.- Plague diagnosis STNPCR and M-PCR kits assembly, reaction reproducibility and reagent stability.- Innate immune responses during infection with Yersinia pestis.- The life stage of Yersinia pestis in the flea vector confers resistance to host polymorphonuclear leukocyte phagocytosis and killing.- Phagocytes and humoral immunity to pneumonic plague.- In vitro evaluation of antiplague cellular immunity by quantitative analysis of IFN-γ synthesis and appearance of activation molecules on the surface of T-helpers.- Cytotoxic necrotizing factor is an effective immunogen in a Yersinia pseudotuberculosis aerosol mouse model.- Fimbrial polyadhesins: anti-immune armament of Yersinia.- Yop effector proteins from Yersinia pseudotuberculosis impair dendritic cells activation.- Impact on the host of the Yersinia pestis specific virulence set and contribution of the Pla surface protease.- Virulence of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in aerosol models.- Pathogenic potential of Yersinia massiliensis species.- Modulation of host cell death pathways by Yersinia and the type three secretion effector YopK.- Biofilm-dependent and biofilm-independent mechanisms of transmission of Yersinia pestis by fleas.- YopM and Plague.- Substrates of the plasminogen activator protease of Yersinia pestis.- Variability of the functional domains of the Rho-modifying toxins of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.- Yersinia pestis transition metal divalent cation transporters.- Unique virulence properties of Yersinia enterocolitica O:3.- Yersinia pestis autoagglutination is mediated by hcp-like protein and siderophore Yersiniachelin.- Yersinia surface structures and bacteriophages.- Global discovery of small non-coding rnas in pathogenic Yersinia species.- Regulation of virulence gene expression by regulatory RNA elements in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.- OmpR, a central integrator of several cellular responses in Yersinia enterocolitica.- Bacteriophage therapy of experimental bubonic plague in mice.- Preliminary pharmacokinetics of the bacterial virulence inhibitor N'-(3,5-dibromo-2-hydroxy-benzylidenene)-nicotinic acid hydrazide.- Small molecule screening for inhibitors of the YopH phosphatase of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.