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'Vaginal seeding' after a caesarean section provides benefits to newborn children: AGAINST: Vaginal microbiome transfer - a medical procedure with clear risks and uncertain benefits

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

A Counterselectable Sucrose Sensitivity Marker Permits Efficient and Flexible Mutagenesis in Streptococcus agalactiae

scientific article published on 22 March 2019

Activation of NF-kappaB by adherent Pseudomonas aeruginosa in normal and cystic fibrosis respiratory epithelial cells

scientific article published on June 1998

Antibody-based detection and inhibition of vaginolysin, the Gardnerella vaginalis cytolysin

scientific article

Antibody-enhanced pneumococcal adherence requires IgA1 protease.

scholarly article

Arcanolysin is a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin of the human pathogen Arcanobacterium haemolyticum.

scientific article

Attitudes towards microbicide use for bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy

scientific article published on September 2014

CD59 signaling and membrane pores drive Syk-dependent erythrocyte necroptosis

scientific article published on 28 May 2015

Capsule enhances pneumococcal colonization by limiting mucus-mediated clearance.

scientific article published on 6 November 2006

Cat scratch disease presenting as orbital abscess and osteomyelitis

scientific article published on August 2003

Cigarette Smoke Extract-Exposed Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Regulates Leukocyte Function for Pulmonary Persistence.

scientific article published on 2 June 2016

Cigarette smoke increases Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation via oxidative stress.

scientific article published on 13 August 2012

Cigarette smoke inhibits airway epithelial cell innate immune responses to bacteria

scientific article

Citrobacter mediastinitis following cardiac surgery in a neonate

scientific article published in January 2002

Clinical Guideline Highlights for the Hospitalist: Diagnosis and Management of Measles

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Complete Genome Sequence of Streptococcus agalactiae CNCTC 10/84, a Hypervirulent Sequence Type 26 Strain

scientific article

Congenital Parvovirus B19 Infection: Persistent Viremia and Red Blood Cell Aplasia

scientific article

Crystal structures of respiratory pathogen neuraminidases

scientific article

Cystic fibrosis pathogens activate Ca2+-dependent mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathways in airway epithelial cells

scientific article published on 8 March 2001

DNase inhibits Gardnerella vaginalis biofilms in vitro and in vivo

scientific article published on 19 February 2013

Decidual stromal cell-derived PGE2 regulates macrophage responses to microbial threat

article

Decline in varicella-related ambulatory visits and hospitalizations in the United States since routine immunization against varicella.

scientific article

Distribution of Late-Onset Neonatal Sepsis Pathogens Differs in Inpatient and Outpatient Settings

scientific article published on 14 December 2018

Emergence of Vaccine-Related Pneumococcal Serotypes as a Cause of Bacteremia

scientific article published on 27 February 2006

Emergence of the epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain USA300 coincides with horizontal transfer of the arginine catabolic mobile element and speG-mediated adaptations for survival on skin

scientific article

Enhanced Postnatal Acquisition of Hypervirulent Group B Streptococcus

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Environmental pH modulates inerolysin activity via post-binding blockade.

scientific article

Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in Gaborone, Botswana

scientific article

Epithelial cells are sensitive detectors of bacterial pore-forming toxins

scientific article

Functional and phylogenetic characterization of Vaginolysin, the human-specific cytolysin from Gardnerella vaginalis

scientific article

Gardnerella and Prevotella: Co-conspirators in the Pathogenesis of Bacterial Vaginosis

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Genome Sequence of Bacterial Interference Strain Staphylococcus aureus 502A.

scientific article published on 10 April 2014

Genome Sequence of the Human Abscess Isolate Streptococcus intermedius BA1.

scientific article published on 31 January 2013

Genome-Wide fitness analysis of group B Streptococcus in human amniotic fluid reveals a transcription factor that controls multiple virulence traits

scientific article published in 2021

Group B Streptococcal Infections

scientific article published on 01 June 2017

Group B Streptococcus and the Vaginal Microbiota

scientific article

Group B Streptococcus vaccine development: present status and future considerations, with emphasis on perspectives for low and middle income countries

scientific article

Group B Streptococcus β-hemolysin/cytolysin breaches maternal-fetal barriers to cause preterm birth and intrauterine fetal demise in vivo

scientific article

High Rate of Serotype V Streptococcus agalactiae Carriage in Pregnant Women in Botswana

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

High prevalence of Group B Streptococcus colonization among pregnant women in Amman, Jordan

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

Higher levels of a cytotoxic protein, vaginolysin, in Lactobacillus-deficient community state types at the vaginal mucosa.

scientific article published on 5 December 2017

Hospital-acquired viral pathogens in the neonatal intensive care unit.

scientific article

Host-bacterial interactions in the initiation of inflammation.

scientific article

Human alpha-defensins inhibit hemolysis mediated by cholesterol-dependent cytolysins

scientific article published on 6 July 2009

Human-specific bacterial pore-forming toxins induce programmed necrosis in erythrocytes

scientific article

Hyperglycemic Conditions Prime Cells for RIP1-dependent Necroptosis.

scientific article published on 29 April 2016

Improving the Sensitivity of Real-time PCR Detection of Group B Streptococcus Using Consensus Sequence-Derived Oligonucleotides

Inerolysin, a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin produced by Lactobacillus iners

scientific article

Inhibition of NADPH oxidase 2 (NOX2) prevents sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy by improving calcium handling and mitochondrial function.

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

Interleukin-8 secretion in response to aferric enterobactin is potentiated by siderocalin

scientific article published on 9 April 2007

Klebsiella pneumoniae K1 Liver Abscess and Septic Endophthalmitis in a U.S. Resident

scientific article published on January 9, 2013

Lactobacillus crispatus dominant vaginal microbiome is associated with inhibitory activity of female genital tract secretions against Escherichia coli

scientific article

Microbiota of the upper and lower genital tract

scientific article published on 14 September 2011

Mucosal vaccination promotes clearance of Streptococcus agalactiae vaginal colonization

scientific article published on 2 February 2017

Murine nasal septa for respiratory epithelial air-liquid interface cultures

article

Neonatal Herpes Infection Associated With Direct Orogenital Suction During Ritual Jewish Circumcision.

scientific article published on 24 April 2015

New Systems for Studying Intercellular Interactions in Bacterial Vaginosis

scientific article

Nod1 mediates cytoplasmic sensing of combinations of extracellular bacteria

scientific article published on May 2007

Nod1 signaling overcomes resistance of S. pneumoniae to opsonophagocytic killing

scientific article

Nosocomial Rotavirus in a Pediatric Hospital

scientific article published on 01 May 2001

Notes from the Field: Multistate Coccidioidomycosis Outbreak in U.S. Residents Returning from Community Service Trips to Baja California, Mexico - July-August 2018

scientific article published on 12 April 2019

PLESIOMONAS SHIGELLOIDES SEPSIS AND SPLENIC ABSCESS IN AN ADOLESCENT WITH SICKLE-CELL DISEASE

scientific article published on 01 December 2001

Phosphatase-dependent regulation of epithelial mitogen-activated protein kinase responses to toxin-induced membrane pores

scientific article

Pore-forming toxins in bacterial infections: targets for novel drugs

scientific article published in January 2014

Predictors of Staphylococcus aureus Rectovaginal Colonization in Pregnant Women and Risk for Maternal and Neonatal Infections.

scientific article published on March 2012

Pregnancy-specific association of vitamin D deficiency and bacterial vaginosis

scientific article

Pregnant women's attitudes about topical microbicides for the prevention and treatment of bacterial vaginosis during pregnancy

scientific article

Proton Pump Inhibitors Alter Specific Taxa in the Human Gastrointestinal Microbiome: A Crossover Trial.

scientific article

Pseudomonas aeruginosa induction of apoptosis in respiratory epithelial cells: analysis of the effects of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator dysfunction and bacterial virulence factors

scientific article published on September 2000

Rational manipulation of mRNA folding free energy allows rheostat control of pneumolysin production by Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article

Real-time PCR-based serotyping of Streptococcus agalactiae

scientific article published on 02 December 2016

Retrocyclin inhibits Gardnerella vaginalis biofilm formation and toxin activity

scientific article

Role of pore-forming toxins in bacterial infectious diseases

scientific article

S. aureus Toxins Join the DARC Side

scientific article published on 01 September 2015

Scalp Lesions in a Pediatric Patient with Hyper IgM Syndrome: Clinical and Histologic Mimicry of Cryptococcus neoformans Infection.

scientific article published on 28 September 2017

Storage Primes Erythrocytes for Necroptosis and Clearance

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Streptococcus pneumoniae DNA initiates type I interferon signaling in the respiratory tract

scientific article

Structural Basis for Receptor Recognition by the Human CD59-Responsive Cholesterol-Dependent Cytolysins

scientific article

Synergistic proinflammatory responses induced by polymicrobial colonization of epithelial surfaces

scientific article

The NanA neuraminidase of Streptococcus pneumoniae is involved in biofilm formation

scientific article published on 29 June 2009

The Ngal reporter mouse detects the response of the kidney to injury in real time

scientific article

The Streptococcus agalactiae Stringent Response Enhances Virulence and Persistence in Human Blood

scientific article published on 6 November 2017

The essential genome of Streptococcus agalactiae

scientific article

The impact of circulating antibody on Group B Streptococcus intestinal colonization and invasive disease

scientific article published on 19 October 2020

The role of innate immune responses in the outcome of interspecies competition for colonization of mucosal surfaces

scientific article published in September 2005

Trends in Invasive Pneumococcal Disease—Associated Hospitalizations

scientific article published on 23 November 2005

Trends in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus anovaginal colonization in pregnant women in 2005 versus 2009

scientific article

Vaginal co-colonization with multiple Group B Streptococcus serotypes

scholarly article by Ameneh Khatami et al published 14 January 2019 in Vaccine

Vaginolysin drives epithelial ultrastructural responses to Gardnerella vaginalis

scientific article published on 30 September 2013

Varicella-related hospitalizations in the vaccine era.

scientific article published in October 2002

Whole-Genome Sequences of Bacteremia Isolates of Bordetella holmesii

scientific article published on 28 September 2017

α-Intercalated cells defend the urinary system from bacterial infection

scientific article

β-Hemolysin/cytolysin of Group B Streptococcus enhances host inflammation but is dispensable for establishment of urinary tract infection

scientific article