Pathogenicity and Virulence of

Overview

Journal Virulence

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2022 Oct 22

PMID 36271712

Authors

Nicole M Bzdyl

Clare L Moran

Justine Bendo

Mitali Sarkar-Tyson

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Abstract

The soil saprophyte, , is the causative agent of melioidosis, a disease endemic in South East Asia and northern Australia. Exposure to by either inhalation or inoculation can lead to severe disease. rapidly shifts from an environmental organism to an aggressive intracellular pathogen capable of rapidly spreading around the body. The expression of multiple virulence factors at every stage of intracellular infection allows for rapid progression of infection. Following invasion or phagocytosis, resists host-cell killing mechanisms in the phagosome, followed by escape using the type III secretion system. Several secreted virulence factors manipulate the host cell, while bacterial cells undergo a shift in energy metabolism allowing for overwhelming intracellular replication. Polymerisation of host cell actin into "actin tails" propels to the membranes of host cells where the type VI secretion system fuses host cells into multinucleated giant cells (MNGCs) to facilitate cell-to-cell dissemination. This review describes the various mechanisms used by to survive within cells.

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