2016
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1520255113
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Natural mutations in a Staphylococcus aureus virulence regulator attenuate cytotoxicity but permit bacteremia and abscess formation

Abstract: Staphylococcus aureus is a major bacterial pathogen, which causes severe blood and tissue infections that frequently emerge by autoinfection with asymptomatically carried nose and skin populations. However, recent studies report that bloodstream isolates differ systematically from those found in the nose and skin, exhibiting reduced toxicity toward leukocytes. In two patients, an attenuated toxicity bloodstream infection evolved from an asymptomatically carried high-toxicity nasal strain by loss-of-function mu… Show more

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“…By contrast, studies making use of PMNs from the peripheral blood of human donors report on S . aureus replication within these PMNs (Blättner et al, ; Das et al, ; Voyich et al, ). In neutrophils, S .…”
Section: Staying “In”: S Aureus Resides Within Phagosomes In Professmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…By contrast, studies making use of PMNs from the peripheral blood of human donors report on S . aureus replication within these PMNs (Blättner et al, ; Das et al, ; Voyich et al, ). In neutrophils, S .…”
Section: Staying “In”: S Aureus Resides Within Phagosomes In Professmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, these bacteria were not found to replicate intracellularly. By contrast, studies making use of PMNs from the peripheral blood of human donors report on S. aureus replication within these PMNs (Blättner et al, 2016;Das et al, 2016;Voyich et al, 2005). In neutrophils, S. aureus also was bound by a phagosomal membrane until host cell lysis and only few bacteria were found in the cytosol of murine PMNs (Gresham et al, 2000;Kobayashi et al, 2010) thereby again supporting survival of the bacteria within vesicles of the host cell.…”
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“…Staphylococcus aureus) and -negative bacteria (e.g. Pseudomonas aeruginosa ) [8,18,2326]. However, as most animal models of pathogenesis bypass natural routes of infection, they fail to recapitulate the primary modes of GAS colonization, infection and transmission in and from the human nasopharynx.…”
Section: Defining the Natural History Of Gasmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, sequence analysis of the genomes of 95 colonies of Staphylococcus aureus cultured at one time point from a human patient with a perinephric abscess found an average pairwise distance between the genomes of 7.4 SNPs (61). Similarly, in related work (62)(63)(64), several investigators have studied bacterial genome-scale intrahost evolution over time, but in these studies, generally only a single colony at each time point has been analyzed (65)(66)(67)(68)(69).…”
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