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Cell biology of canine parvovirus entry
2003
Sanna Suikkasen väitöskirjatyössä havaittiin, että koiran parvovirus tarvitsee solun tarjoamaa kuljetuskoneistoa edetäkseen sen sisällä ja happamia olosuhteita pystyäkseen lisääntymään. Tulokset antavat kehykset viruksen ja sen läheisten sukulaisten solunsisäisen reitin tarkemmalle tutkimukselle ja luovat pohjaa viruslääkkeiden suunnitteluun. Mielenkiintoa parvoviruksien tutkimukseen lisää tutkijan mielestä myös kiinnostus parvopartikkeleiden geeniterapiasovellutuksiin. Koiran parvovirus eriytyi kissan panleukopeniaviruksesta 1970-luvun lopulla ja levisi nopeasti ympäri maailmaa. Se aiheuttaa aikuisille koirille ankaraa ripulia ja pennuille tappavia sydänlihastulehduksia. Parvovirukset aihe…
Systematic Comparison of Epidemic and Non-Epidemic Carbapenem Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Strains
2021
Over the past few decades, extensively drug resistant (XDR) resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae has become a notable burden to healthcare all over the world. Especially carbapenemase-producing strains are problematic due to their capability to withstand even last resort antibiotics. Some sequence types (STs) of K. pneumoniae are significantly more prevalent in hospital settings in comparison to other equally resistant strains. This provokes the question whether or not there are phenotypic characteristics that may render certain K. pneumoniae more suitable for epidemic dispersal between patients, hospitals, and different environments. In this study, we selected seven epidemic and non-epidemic ca…
Multispecies coinfections and presence of antibiotics shape resistance and fitness costs in a pathogenic bacterium
2023
Increasing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a challenge for treatment of bacterial diseases. In real life, bacterial infections are typically embedded within complex multispecies communities and influenced by the environment, which can shape costs and benefits of AMR. However, knowledge of such interactions and their implications for AMR in vivo is limited. To address this knowledge gap, we investigated fitness-related traits of a pathogenic bacterium (Flavobacterium columnare) in its fish host, capturing the effects of bacterial antibiotic resistance, coinfections between bacterial strains and metazoan parasites (fluke Diplostomum pseudospathaceum) and antibiotic exposure. We quantifie…
CHARACTERIZATION OF ATYPICAL CLAVIBACTER MICHIGANENSIS subsp. MICHIGANENSIS POPULATIONS IN GREENHOUSE TOMATOES IN ITALY
2012
The quarantine bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis (Cmm) is the agent of tomato bacterial canker (TBC), one of the most destructive bacterial diseases of this crop, that causes severe economic losses worldwide. During a recent outbreak of TBC in Sicily (insular Italy), it was impossible to amplify the pat-1 gene by PCR with CMM5/CMM6 primers from affected greenhouse-grown plants from three farms, although Cmm-like colonies were consistently isolated. Microlog metabolic profile, 16S rDNA sequencing and the positive amplification of other Cmm DNA targets supported the identification of the strains as Cmm, suggesting the occurrence of a population lacking the virulence gen…
Spatiotemporal and gender‐specific parasitism in two species of gobiid fish
2018
Abstract Parasitism is considered a major selective force in natural host populations. Infections can decrease host condition and vigour, and potentially influence, for example, host population dynamics and behavior such as mate choice. We studied parasite infections of two common marine fish species, the sand goby (Pomatoschistus minutus) and the common goby (Pomatoschistus microps), in the brackish water Northern Baltic Sea. We were particularly interested in the occurrence of parasite taxa located in central sensory organs, such as eyes, potentially affecting fish behavior and mate choice. We found that both fish species harbored parasite communities dominated by taxa transmitted to fish…
Atgremotāju un vides Listeria innocua izolātu ģenētiskais raksturojums un invāzijas izvērtējums in vitro.
2021
Silva Gradovska (2021): Atgremotāju klīniskā materiāla un vides Listeria innocua izolātu ģenētiskais raksturojums un invāzijas izvērtējums in vitro. Listeria ģints baktērijas ir vidē plaši sastopami mikroorganismi, no kuriem Listeria monocytogenes un L. ivanovii spēj ierosināt listeriozi. Patogenitātes ziņā mazāk pētītā L. innocua ir Gram-pozitīva vides baktērija, kas ir radniecīga L. monocytogenes. Darba mērķis bija novērtēt L. innocua izplatību vidē un raksturot to kā iespējamo patogēnu, analizējot L. innocua izolātus, kas iegūti no 27 saimniecības fermu vides un atgremotāju abortiem, genoma līmenī. Darbā visiem L. innocua izolātiem ir identificēta atsevišķu virulences gēnu klātbūtne un n…
Data from: Impact of host nutritional status on infection dynamics and parasite virulence in a bird-malaria system
2013
1. Host resources can drive the optimal parasite exploitation strategy by offering a good or a poor environment to pathogens. Hosts living in resource-rich habitats might offer a favourable environment to developing parasites because they provide a wealth of resources. However, hosts living in resource-rich habitats might afford a higher investment into costly immune defences providing an effective barrier against infection. Understanding how parasites can adapt to hosts living in habitats of different quality is a major challenge in the light of the current human-driven environmental changes. 2. We studied the role of nutritional resources as a source of phenotypic variation in host exploi…
Characterizing the bacterial fish pathogen Flavobacterium columnare, and some factors affecting its pathogenicity
2010
Flavobacterium columnare is a bacterial pathogen of fresh water fish causing lethal columnaris disease worldwide. At Finnish fish farms, columnaris disease has occurred since the early 1980s, and is a serious problem in salmonid farming in Finland. Currently, the only effective treatment is with antibiotics. Factors related to the pathogenicity of F. columnare, transmission of columnaris disease and the immunity of salmonids to columnaris infections are poorly known. F. columnare strains isolated from Finnish fish farms were characterized geno- and phenotypically, virulence and transmission experiments were conducted, and the efficacy of two immunostimulants against columnaris infections in…
Iron and virulence in the zoonotic pathogen Vibrio vulnificus
2014
Vibrio vulnificus es un patógeno humano emergente que es autóctono de ecosistemas acuáticos salobres de climas templados, tropicales y subtropicales. La especie se subdivide en 3 biotipos (Bt), de los cuales el Bt2 contiene un grupo de cepas que, además de poder infectar al hombre, pueden causar infecciones en peces. Este grupo es un complejo clonal serológicamente homogéneo que denominamos serovar E o serovar zoonótica (VvBt2SerE). Como patógeno humano, VvBt2SerE causa casos esporádicos de infecciones graves en heridas que pueden derivar en septicemia secundaria en pacientes inmunocomprometidos y como patógeno de peces, brotes o epizootias de una septicemia hemorrágica conocida como vibrio…
Virus influenzali H1N1pdm e riassortanti isolati dal suino
2011
Sin dai primi giorni della circolazione del virus pandemico H1N1-2009 nella popolazione, è stata segnalata la trasmissione del virus dall’uomo a specie animali diverse (suino, tacchino, cane, gatto). La trasmissione di virus influenzali dall’uomo agli animali non rappresenta solo un problema limitato al settore zootecnico, ma un problema di sanità pubblica per il ruolo di “serbatoio” dei virus influenzali rappresentato da tali specie. Il suino non ha sinora dimostrato un ruolo epidemiologico importante nella diffusione di (H1N1)pdm all’uomo; tuttavia ciò non esclude, che a seguito dell’evoluzione virale, o di fenomeni di riassortimento, da tale specie emergano e si trasmettano all’uomo viru…