Identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae and other Mitis streptococci: importance of molecular methods

E Sadowy, W Hryniewicz - European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & …, 2020 - Springer
… Neutropenic cancer patients have an increased risk of developing VGS bacteremia, mostly
associated with Streptococcus mitis, which in a significant number of cases results in serious …

Mutations in cdsA and pgsA Correlate with Daptomycin Resistance in Streptococcus mitis and S. oralis

TT Tran, NN Mishra, R Seepersaud… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
… with infections caused by viridans group streptococci (VGS) is … caused by β-lactam-resistant
Streptococcus mitis/S. oralis strains. … by a different group, thereby confirming our findings (8). …

Influence of Streptococcus mitis and Streptococcus sanguinis on virulence of Candida albicans: in vitro and in vivo studies

AL do Rosário Palma, N Domingues, PP de Barros… - Folia microbiologica, 2019 - Springer
… The aim was to evaluate in vitro possible interactions, gene expression, and biofilm formation
in species of Candida albicans, Streptococcus mitis, and Streptococcus sanguinis and …

Genomic relatedness and clinical significance of Streptococcus mitis strains isolated from the urogenital tract of sexual partners

CR Mores, TK Price, B Wolff… - Microbial …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
… a high abundance of Streptococcus mitis was observed post-coitus. We isolated and
sequenced S. mitis from both sexual partners finding that: (i) the S. mitis isolates from the female …

Population genomics of Streptococcus mitis in UK and Ireland bloodstream infection and infective endocarditis cases

A Kalizang'oma, D Richard… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Streptococcus mitis is a leading cause of infective endocarditis (… mitis is hampered by low
IE incidence. Here we use whole … Streptococcus mitis, is a leading cause of IE 8 , although it is …

Intranasal Immunization with the Commensal Streptococcus mitis Confers Protective Immunity against Pneumococcal Lung Infection

S Shekhar, R Khan, K Schenck… - Applied and …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a bacterial pathogen that … to evaluate the potential of
Streptococcus mitis, a commensal that … mitis against lung infection by S. pneumoniae strains D39 (…

PcsB Expression Diversity Influences on Streptococcus mitis Phenotypes Associated With Host Persistence and Virulence

EN Harth-Chu, LA Alves, JD Theobaldo… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
… into the Mitis group along with Streptococcus oralis and Streptococcus pneumoniae (Facklam,
2002), S. mitis typically co-inhabits mucosal niches of streptococcal pathogens including …

… pneumoniae serotypes that frequently colonise the human nasopharynx are common recipients of penicillin-binding protein gene fragments from Streptococcus mitis

A Kalizang'oma, C Chaguza, A Gori… - Microbial …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
… The transfer of genetic material from Streptococcus mitis to the pneumococcus at genes
that confer resistance to penicillin has contributed to pneumococcal antimicrobial resistance. …

Novel Multilocus Sequence Typing and Global Sequence Clustering Schemes for Characterizing the Population Diversity of Streptococcus mitis

A Kalizang'oma, B Kwambana-Adams… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Streptococcus mitis is a common oral commensal and an … compared to other pathogenic
streptococcal species. Effective and … mitis are not currently available. We therefore developed a …

Metabolic changes associated with adaptive resistance to daptomycin in Streptococcus mitis-oralis

A Parrett, JM Reed, SG Gardner, NN Mishra, AS Bayer… - BMC microbiology, 2020 - Springer
… Viridans group streptococci of the Streptococcus mitis-oralis subgroup are important
endovascular pathogens. They can rapidly develop high-level and durable non-susceptibility to …