L A Actis
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Perez A, Merino M, Rumbo-Feal S, Alvarez-Fraga L, Vallejo J, Beceiro A, et al.
Virulence
. 2016 Nov;
8(6):959-974.
PMID: 27858524
Acinetobacter baumannii is a hospital-acquired pathogen that shows an extraordinary capacity to stay in the hospital environment. Adherence of the bacteria to eukaryotic cells or to abiotic surfaces is the...
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Rodriguez-Bano J, Marti S, Soto S, Fernandez-Cuenca F, Cisneros J, Pachon J, et al.
Clin Microbiol Infect
. 2008 Jan;
14(3):276-8.
PMID: 18190568
Biofilm formation in 92 unrelated strains of Acinetobacter baumannii isolated in a multicentre cohort study was investigated using a microtitre plate assay. Fifty-six (63%) isolates formed biofilm. These isolates were...
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Actis L, Rhodes E, Tomaras A
Adv Dent Res
. 2004 May;
17:95-9.
PMID: 15126217
Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans causes periodontitis, a costly chronic infection that affects a large number of patients. The pathogenesis of this dental infection is a multifactorial process that results in a serious...
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Nudel C, Gonzalez R, Castaneda N, Mahler G, Actis L
Microbiol Res
. 2001 Apr;
155(4):263-9.
PMID: 11297356
Acinetobacter calcoaceticus BD413 was examined for production of siderophores and iron-repressible outer membrane proteins following growth in iron-restricted media. The iron-scavenging phenotype was associated with the secretion of iron-repressible catechol...
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Actis L, Smoot J, Barancin C, Findlay R
J Microbiol Methods
. 1999 Dec;
39(1):79-90.
PMID: 10579509
The bacterial enzyme histidine decarboxylase (Hdc) catalyses the conversion of histidine into histamine. This amine is essential for the biosynthesis of iron chelators (siderophores) and is an important cause of...
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Wertheimer A, Verweij W, Chen Q, Crosa L, Nagasawa M, Tolmasky M, et al.
Infect Immun
. 1999 Nov;
67(12):6496-509.
PMID: 10569768
The ability to utilize the iron bound by high-affinity iron-binding proteins in the vertebrate host is an important virulence factor for the marine fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum. Virulence in septicemic...
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Bidinost C, Wilderman P, DORSEY C, Actis L
Plasmid
. 1999 Jul;
42(1):20-30.
PMID: 10413662
Vibrio ordalii is a major cause of vibriosis in wild and cultured marine salmonids and carries pMJ101, a 30-kb cryptic plasmid that replicates in the absence of DNA polymerase I...
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Smoot L, Bell E, Crosa J, Actis L
J Med Microbiol
. 1999 Jul;
48(7):629-636.
PMID: 10403413
The Brazilian purpuric fever (BPF) clone of Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius causes a fatal septicaemic disease, resembling fulminant meningococcal sepsis, in children. When isolate F3031 was grown under iron-limiting conditions,...
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Actis L, Tolmasky M, Crosa J
Front Biosci
. 1999 Jan;
4:D43-62.
PMID: 9872728
Plasmids are self-replicating extrachromosomal DNA molecules found in Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria as well as in some yeast and other fungi. Although most of them are covalently closed circular double-stranded...
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Smoot L, Bell E, Paz R, Corbin K, Hall D, Steenbergen J, et al.
Front Biosci
. 1998 Sep;
3:D989-96.
PMID: 9727086
Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius (H. aegyptius) is the etiological agent of Brazilian purpuric fever (BPF), a recently described pediatric disease that is often fatal. The vascular destruction that occurs in...