Potential virulence factors of Proteus bacilli.
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...…Proteus spp., Providencia spp., Morganella morganii (all three collectively referred to as the Proteeae tribe), Serratia spp., Edwardsiella tarda and Burkholderia cepacia complex (Muyembe et al., 1973; Rozalski et al., 1997; Loutet and Valvano, 2011; Biswas et al., 2012; Samonis et al., 2014)....
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...…Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia cepacia complex Vaara et al., 1981; Boll et al., 1994; Nummila et al., 1995; Helander et al., 1996; Rozalski et al., 1997; Trent et al., 2001b; Moskowitz et al., 2004; Yan et al., 2007; Loutet and Valvano, 2011; Lin et al., 2014 Modification of the…...
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...mirabilis strains are still pathogenic in the urinary tract (201, 213, 331)....
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...Proteus CPSs tend to be acidic due to the presence of uronic acid, pyruvate, or phosphate groups, thus enabling this structure to bind to metal cations such as Ca(2) and Mg(2) (331)....
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...Proteus CPSs tend to be acidic due to the presence of uronic acid, pyruvate, or phosphate groups, thus enabling this structure to bind to metal cations such as Ca2 and Mg2 (331)....
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...In most Proteus strains, the general structure of the O-specific polysaccharides has been found to be acidic due to the presence of uronic acids and various noncarbohydrate acidic components, including phosphate groups (187, 331)....
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...It is produced during swarmer cell differentiation and is stimulated by divalent cations (Ca2 Mg2 ) (433)....
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...In particular, OmpA is effective as an immunomodulator of the immune response to LPS, greatly enhancing the level of O-specific IgG (125, 127, 199)....
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...This results in a disorganization of the outer and inner membranes of gram-negative bacteria (290, 292)....
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...Biologically, LPS are endotoxins, well-known pathogenic factors of gram-negative bacteria, which cause a broad spectrum of pathophysiological effects such as fever, hypotension, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and lethal shock (231)....
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...Common bacterial properties involved in the infection process include adhesion to epithelial surfaces, invasion (penetration) of host cells, intracellular multiplication of the pathogen, colonization of the cell tissue or transmission to a new susceptible host, production of enzymes which damage the host defense system, and synthesis of toxins (91, 110)....
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