Chloroxylenol at environmental concentrations can promote conjugative transfer of antibiotic resistance genes by multiple mechanisms

Y Guo, J Gao, Y Cui, Z Wang, Z Li, W Duan… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The intergeneric conjugative transfer of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is recognized as
an important way to the dissemination of antibiotic resistance. However, it is unknown …

Pathogenesis insights from an ancient and ubiquitous spirochete

J Coburn, M Picardeau, CW Woods, T Veldman… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Leptospirosis is a ubiquitous zoonotic infection caused by bacterial spirochetes that are
equally adapted to life in the aqueous environment as they are to infection of their eucaryotic …

Leptospira interrogans biofilm transcriptome highlights adaption to starvation and general stress while maintaining virulence

G Davignon, N Pietrosemoli, N Benaroudj… - npj Biofilms and …, 2024 - nature.com
Life-threatening Leptospira interrogans navigate a dual existence: surviving in the
environment and infecting mammalian hosts. Biofilm formation is presumably an important …

Inter-species Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals a Constitutive Adaptation Against Oxidative Stress for the Highly Virulent Leptospira Species

A Giraud-Gatineau, G Ayachit, C Nieves… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Transcriptomic analyses across large scales of evolutionary distance have great potential to
shed light on regulatory evolution but are complicated by difficulties in establishing orthology …

The Arsenal of Leptospira Species against Oxidants

SG Huete, N Benaroudj - Antioxidants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are byproducts of oxygen metabolism produced by virtually
all organisms living in an oxic environment. ROS are also produced by phagocytic cells in …

Mechanisms of Escherichia coli inactivation during solar-driven photothermal disinfection

Y Hong, W Shi, H Wang, D Ma, Y Ren… - Environmental …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Traditional solar water disinfection has low efficiency. Solar-to-heat converting
nanomaterials enable the synergy of solar radiation and heat to kill water-borne bacteria …

Leptospira interrogans encodes a canonical BamA and three novel noNterm Omp85 outer membrane protein paralogs

EB Bettin, AA Grassmann, OA Dellagostin… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The Omp85 family of outer membrane proteins are ubiquitously distributed among diderm
bacteria and play essential roles in outer membrane (OM) biogenesis. The majority of …

Clinical characteristics and prognosis of patient with leptospirosis: A multicenter retrospective analysis in south of China

D Li, H Liang, R Yi, Q Xiao, Y Zhu, Q Chang… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Purpose Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease caused by pathogenic spirochetes of the genus
Leptospira. However, there is currently no consensual definition or diagnostic criteria for …

Leptospira

C Goarant, B Adler… - … of Bacterial Infections …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The genus Leptospira now contains numerous species classified as either pathogenic or
saprophytic based on genome analyses. The genome of the intermediate pathogen …

Investigating the role of the carbon storage regulator A (CsrA) in Leptospira spp.

T Phoka, L Fule, JP Da Fonseca, T Cokelaer… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Carbon Storage Regulator A (CsrA) is a well-characterized post-transcriptional global
regulator that plays a critical role in response to environmental changes in many bacteria …