Virulence and Resistance

Monday, 8 September 2008 15:30 - 17:00, Halls B, C and D

The virulence gene expression pattern of different clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus is more heterogeneous than expected from the genomic situation
  • Susanne Engelmann, University of Greifswald, Germany
Genotypic determination of virulence factors and evaluation of the resistance profile of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from clinical and surveillance cultures at a Brazilian university hospital
  • Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza Cunha, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Botucatu Institute of Biosciences, São Paulo State University/UNESP, Botucatu, SP., Brazil
TSST-1-producing Staphylococcus aureus among healthy japanese women: Prevalence, strain characterization, and antibodies to TSST-1
  • Richard Goering, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, United States
MRSA with exfoliative toxin A in England and Wales during 2006-7
  • Angela Kearns, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, United Kingdom
Examining specific virulence factors involved in Staphylococcus aureus keratitis
  • Emma Hume, Institute for Eye Research, Australia
Staphylococcal food poisoning outbreaks in Europe: occurrence, investigation and monitoring
  • Jacques-Antoine Hennekinne, AFSSA (French Agency for food Safety), France
Staphylococcal enterotoxin A induces emesis through increasing serotonin release in intestine and endogenous cannabinoid system protects against the emetic response
  • Dong-Liang Hu, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
T cell activation by enterotoxin gene cluster-encoded and ’classical’ Staphylococcus aureus superantigens
  • Dorothee Grumann, University of Greifswald, Germany
Genotype variability of the enterotoxin H-positive Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from patients and foods in the Czech Republic
  • Roman Pantucek, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Inst. of Experimental Biology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Sequencing of staphylococcal toxin genes in coagulase-negative staphylococci
  • Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza Cunha, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Botucatu Institute of Biosciences, Botucatu, São Paulo State University/UNESP, SP., Brazil
Staphylococcal superantigen-like protein 9 (SSL9): a novel complement regulator of S. aureus
  • Nicola Jackson, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Nature, prevalence and spread of fusidic acid resistance in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus
  • Fiona McLaws, Univeristy of Leeds, United Kingdom
Genome scale analysis of the role of superantigens in the pathogenesis of staphylococcal mastitis
  • Caitriona Guinane, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Staphylococcal superantigen-like protein 10: Targeting of host immune defences by Staphylococcus aureus
  • Deepa Patel, University of Auckand, New Zealand
Transcriptomic analysis of a Staphylococcus aureus mutant deficient for the global redox sensing regulator rex
  • Christof von Eiff, Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital of Muenster, Germany
Characterization and functional investigations of a Staphylococcus aureus mutant which is deficient in both hemin biosynthesis and the global redox sensing regulator (rex)
  • Christof von Eiff, Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital of Muenster, Germany
Impact of Staphylococcus aureus ClpC on late-stationary phase events involved in carbon metabolism, oxidative stress response, programmed cell death, and fatty acid metabolism: A combined proteomics and transcriptomics approach
  • Indranil Chatterjee, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Saarland Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany
Identification and characterization of rsr, a novel inhibitor of Staphylococcus aureus virulence
  • Sandeep Tamber, Dartmouth Medical School, United States
Proteolytic regulation of antitoxins in S. aureus by ClpCP
  • Niles Donegan, Dartmouth Medical School, United States
New SEB-encoding Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity island
  • Katsuhiko Omoe, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Japan
Discovery of a novel integrative and potentially conjugative genetic element, ICE6013, in Staphylococcus aureus
  • Ashley Robinson, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA, United States
Characterization of the Staphylococcus aureus defensin resistance factor MprF
  • Dirk Kraus, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Germany
Virulence in mouse kidney shown by Staphylcoccus aureus of different growth stages
  • Keiko Seki, Department of Bacteriology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan
Lactococcus lactis impairs the induction of several staphylococcal virulence factors during mixed cultures
  • Sergine Even, UMR1253 STLO INRA Agrocampus Rennes, France
Insertional inactivation of branched-chain alpha-keto acid dehydrogenase (BKD) in Staphylococcus aureus leads to decreased branched-chain membrane fatty acids content and increased susceptibility to certain stresses
  • Vineet Singh, A.T. Still University of Health Sciences, United States
The Staphylococcus aureus response to long chain fatty acids: characterisation of gene expression, survival mutants and their effect on virulence
  • John Kenny, School of Biological Sciences,University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, United Kingdom
Construction and analysis of an D-serine deaminase mutant of Staphylococcus saprophyticus
  • Türkan Sakinc, Institut für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
UafB, a novel putative adhesin of the uropathogen Staphylococcus saprophyticus
  • Nathan King, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Australia
In vitro production of antimicrobial resistance in a methicillin-sensitive strain of Staphylococcus aureus
  • Jonathan Wood, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Characterization a novel DNA-binding protein that modulates β-lactam resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
  • Nadine McCallum, Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
The native and fusidic acid-resistance roles of the staphylococcal FusB protein
  • Alex O'Neill, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Staphylococcal superantigen-like protein 14 inhibits the human complement cascade
  • Amanda Taylor, Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Occurrence of resistance to chloramphenicol and resistance genes in members of the Staphylococcus sciuri group
  • Stefan Schwarz, Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Friedrich-Loeffler Institute (FLI), Neustadt-Mariensee, Germany
Prevalence of tetracycline resistance and distribution of resistance genes in members of the Staphylococcus sciuri group
  • Stefan Schwarz, Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Friedrich-Loeffler Institute (FLI), Neustadt-Mariensee, Germany
Molecular analysis of tetracycline resistance in Staphylococcus spp. isolates collected in the BfT-GermVet monitoring study
  • Stefan Schwarz, Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (FLI), Höltystr. 10, 31535 Neustadt-Mariensee, Germany, Germany
The determinants of resistance to MLS-B antibiotics in hospital-acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
  • Miroslaw Luczak, Department of Medical Microbiology Medical University of Warsaw Poland, Poland
Biological effect of of vancomycin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
  • Yang Soo Kim, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Korea
Frequency of aminoglycoside resistance and distribution of resistance genes in members of the Staphylococcus sciuri group
  • Stefan Schwarz, Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Friedrich-Loeffler Institute (FLI), Neustadt-Mariensee, Germany
Transduction of antibiotic resistance plasmids in methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains
  • Jiri Doskar, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Inst. of Experimental Biology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Novel maintenance determinant carried by staphylococcal multiresistance plasmids
  • Neville Firth, University of Sydney, Australia
Novel associations of distal amino acid residues in the staphylococcal multidrug resistance protein QacA
  • Melissa Brown, Flinders University, Australia
Bactericidal activity of the food color additive phloxine B against Staphylococcus aureus and other food borne microbial pathogens
  • Reuven Rasooly, United States Department of Agriculture, United States