Genes and Proteins Underlying Microbial Urinary Tract Virulence

Keynote Lectures.- Urinary Tract Infection: From Basic Science to Clinical Application.- Innate Defences and Resistance to Gram Negative Mucosal Infection.- Genetic Imformation, Synthesis, Assembly, and Activation Processes in Virulence Mechanisms.- Pathogenicity Islands of Uropathogence E. Coli and Evolution of Virulence.- Iron Transport In Escherichia coli.- The Cytotoxic Necrotizing Factor 1 (CNF1) from Uropathogenic Escherichia coli.- Genetic Characterization of the Uropathogenic E. coli Strain 536 — A Subtractive Hybridization Analysis.- Analysis of the Hemolysin Determinants of the Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Strain 536.- Functional Variability of Type 1 Fimbriae of Escherichia coli.- HPI of High-Virulent Yersinia is Found in E. coli Strains Causing Urinary Tract Infection.- Aggregation Substance of Enterococcus Faecalis: A Multifunctional Adhesin.- Regulation and Expression of Virulence Genes.- A Role for the ?s Subunit of RNA Polymerase in the Regulation of Bacterial Virulence.- Transcriptional Organisation and Regulation of E. coli Group 2 Capsule Expression.- Molecular Basis of Catheter Associated Infections by Staphylococci.- Control Mechanisms in the Pap-pili System.- Transcriptional Analysis of the Sfa and Pap Determinants of Uropathogenic Escherichia Coli Strains.- Structural and Functional Studies of the Fimbrial Adhesin Gene Regulator papB from Uropathogenic Escherichia coli.- Interaction of the Nucleoid-Associated Proteins HAA and H-NS to Modulated Expression of the Hemolysin Operon in Escherichia coli.- Use of the OmpS-display-system to Localize Thereceptor-bindingregion in the PapG Adhesin of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli.- The Role of the Airs Two-component System in Uropathogenic Escherichia Coli.- Examination of Regulatory Cross-talk Betweenthe Decay Accelerating Factor-binding Fimbrial/Afimbrial Adhesins and Type I Fimbriae.- Modulation of the Polysaccharide Intercellular Adhesin (PIA) Expression in Biofilm Forming Staphylococcus Epidermidis.- Induction of Staphylococcus Epidermidis Biofilm Formation by Environmental Factors: The Possible Involvement of the Alternative Transcription Factor SigB.- Expression of Virulence Genes in Candida Albicans.- Effect of Spontaneous and Induced Mutations on Outer Membrane Proteins and Lipopolysaccharides of Proteus Penneri Strain 357.- Host-parasite Interactions.- Role of Bacterial Lectins in Urinary Tract Infections.- Adherence of Enteric Bacteria Onto the Mammalian Extracellular Matrix.- Interrelationship Between Virulence Properties of Uropathogenic E. coli and Blood Group Phenotype of Patients with Chronic Urinary Tract Infection.- Glycolipid Receptors of F1C Fimbrial Adhesin of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli.- Thin Aggregative Fimbriae on Urinary Escherichia coli Isolates.- Type 1 Plili of Citrobacter freundii Mediate Invasion into Host Cells.- Serotypes, Siderophore Synthesis, and Serum Resistance of Uropathogenic Klebsiella Isolates.- Epitope Specificity of Polyclonal Rabbit Antisera Against Proteus Vulgaris O-Antigens.- Virulence Factors of Eescherichia coli Isolated from Urine of Diabetic Women with Asymptomatic Bacteriuria.- Cytokine Secretion is Impaired in Women with Diabetes Mellitus.- Characterisation and Adherence Mechanisms of Escherichia coli Strains Causing Infections in Patients with a Reconstructed Bladder.- Immunodominant Proteins in Human Sepsis Caused by Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.- Applications: Diagnosis, Therapy and Prevention.- Modern Concept of Antibiotic Therapy of Urinary Tractinfections.- The Role of Anaerobic Bacteria in Prostatitis.- Urinary Tract Infection in Dogs.- Detection of Virulence Factors in Uropathogenic Escherichia Coli Isolated from Humans, Dogs and Cats in Portugal.- Asymptomatic Bacteriuria can be Considered a Diabetic Complication in Women with Diabetes Mellitus.- Determination of Genetic Diversity of Proteus Penneri Strains Using Rep-PCR.- Use of Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) Analysis for Identification of Proteuspenneri.- Overview on the Clinical Studies with Urostim Immunostimulator Against Urogenital Infections.- Porcine Postweaning Diarrhea Isolates of Escherichia Coli with Uropathogenic Characters.- Virulence Markers of Human Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains Isolated in Hungary.- New Serogroups of the Genus Proteus Consisting of Proteus Penneri Strains only.- The Role of Chlamydia trachomatis in Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Urogential Infections.