Identification of a functional capsule locus in Streptococcus mitis

HV Rukke, IK Hegna… - Molecular oral …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Streptococcus mitis is also one of the most common oral streptococci associated with …
pneumoniae are thought to have evolved from a common ancestor that closely resembled the …

Sequencing and comparative genome analysis of streptococcus sanguinis and streptococcus gordonii/Zheng Wenning

W Zheng - 2017 - studentsrepo.um.edu.my
… sanguinis and their biology, evolution, genomics and … of 6 species of Mitis group oral
streptococci that were isolated from … streptococci Mitis group into the same cluster. This cluster of …

A predatory mechanism dramatically increases the efficiency of lateral gene transfer in Streptococcus pneumoniae and related commensal species

O Johnsborg, V Eldholm, ML Bjørnstad… - Molecular …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… and their commensal relatives Streptococcus mitis and Streptococcus oralis, take up … is
co-regulated with natural transformation, it has been speculated that it evolved to facilitate …

Molecular characterization of disease-associated streptococci of the mitis group that are optochin susceptible

L Balsalobre, A Hernández-Madrid, D Llull… - Journal of clinical …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
… pneumoniae, Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus oralis, and Streptococcus … s isolates
corresponded to streptococci of the mitis group. Besides, the Opt s streptococci were negative by a …

Highly Variable Streptococcus oralis Strains Are Common among Viridans Streptococci Isolated from Primates

D Dalia, M Rieger, K Sophie, B Reinhold, O Irma… - mSphere, 2016 - search.proquest.com
streptococci, which consist of commensal symbionts, such as the close relatives Streptococcus
mitis … tree of viridans streptococci appears to parallel the evolution of primates. Obviously, …

Antibodies Reactive to Commensal Streptococcus mitis Show Cross-Reactivity With Virulent Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotypes

S Shekhar, R Khan, DM Ferreira, E Mitsi… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
… Reactivity of rabbit antiserum raised against Streptococcus pneumoniae with Streptococcus
mitis. (A) Reactivity of a rabbit antiserum raised against a pool of S. pneumoniae serotypes (1…

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
… In this study, we used two experimental approaches to evaluate the potential of Streptococcus
mitis, a commensal that exhibits immune cross-reactivity with S. pneumoniae, to confer …

Phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis in mitis group streptococci via host metabolite scavenging

LR Joyce, Z Guan, KL Palmer - Journal of bacteriology, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
… The mitis group streptococci include the major human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae
and the opportunistic pathogens Streptococcus mitis and Streptococcus oralis, which are …

Simultaneous Detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae, S. mitis, and S. oralis by a Novel Multiplex PCR Assay Targeting the gyrB Gene

W Kim, HK Park, WJ Hwang… - Journal of clinical …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
… gyrB gene in Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus mitis, and Streptococcus oralis, and
… oralis might become evolved from the pathogenic S. pneumoniae by genomic reduction, …

Increasing competence in the genus Streptococcus

LS Håvarstein - Molecular microbiology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… competence development in streptococci is that ComRS represents an ancestral system that
during evolution has been replaced by ComCDE in the mitis and anginosus groups. If this is …