Method for inducing experimental pneumococcal meningitis in outbred mice (2004)
Chiavolini, Damiana, Tripodi, Sergio, Parigi, Riccardo, Oggioni, Marco R, Blasi, Elisabetta, Cintorino, Marcella, ...
Abstract Background Streptococcus pneumoniae is the leading cause of bacterial meningitis. Pneumococcal meningitis is associated with the highest mortality among bacterial meningitis and it may also...
Ricci, Susanna, Macchia, Giovanni, Ruggiero, Paolo, Maggi, Tiziana, Bossù, Paola, Xu, Li, ...
Abstract Background Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is a cytokine involved in the initiation and amplification of the defence response in infectious and inflammatory diseases. IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra)...
Janulczyk, Robert, Ricci, Susanna, Björck, Lars
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Ricci, Susanna, Janulczyk, Robert, Björck, Lars
Ferric uptake regulator (Fur) and Fur-like proteins form an important family of transcriptional regulators in many bacterial species. In this work we have characterized a Fur-like protein, the...
Ricci, Susanna, Medaglini, Donata, Rush, Catherine M., Marcello, Alessandro, Peppoloni, Samuele, Manganelli, Riccardo, ...
The B monomer of the Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin (LTB) was expressed on the surface of the human oral commensal bacterium Streptococcus gordonii. Recombinant bacteria expressing LTB were used...
Ricci, Susanna, Janulczyk, Robert, Björck, Lars
Ferric uptake regulator (Fur) and Fur-like proteins form an important family of transcriptional regulators in many bacterial species. In this work we have characterized a Fur-like protein, the...
Janulczyk, Robert, Ricci, Susanna, Björck, Lars
MtsABC is a Streptococcus pyogenes ABC transporter which was previously shown to be involved in iron and zinc accumulation. In this study, we showed that an mtsABC mutant has impaired growth,...
Pneumococcal Surface Protein C Contributes to Sepsis Caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in Mice
Iannelli, Francesco, Chiavolini, Damiana, Ricci, Susanna, Oggioni, Marco Rinaldo, Pozzi, Gianni
The role of pneumococcal surface protein C (PspC; also called SpsA, CbpA, and Hic) in sepsis by Streptococcus pneumoniae was investigated in a murine infection model. The pspC gene was deleted in...
Method for inducing experimental pneumococcal meningitis in outbred mice
Chiavolini, Damiana, Tripodi, Sergio, Parigi, Riccardo, Oggioni, Marco R, Blasi, Elisabetta, Cintorino, Marcella, ...
Oggioni, Marco R., Iannelli, Francesco, Ricci, Susanna, Chiavolini, Damiana, Parigi, Riccardo, Trappetti, Claudia, ...
Streptococcus pneumoniae, a major cause of human disease, produces a 17-mer autoinducer peptide pheromone (competence-stimulating peptide [CSP]) for the control of competence for genetic...
Medaglini, Donata, Ciabattini, Annalisa, Cuppone, Anna Maria, Costa, Caterina, Ricci, Susanna, Costalonga, Massimo, ...
The antigen-specific primary activation of CD4+ T cells was studied in vivo by adoptive transfer of ovalbumin-specific transgenic T cells (KJ1-26+ CD4+) following intranasal immunization with...
Switch from planktonic to sessile life: a major event in pneumococcal pathogenesis
Oggioni, Marco R, Trappetti, Claudia, Kadioglu, Aras, Cassone, Marco, Iannelli, Francesco, Ricci, Susanna, ...
Two main patterns of gene expression of Streptococcus pneumoniae were observed during infection in the host by quantitative real time RT-PCR; one was characteristic of bacteria in blood and one of...
Ricci, Susanna, Medaglini, Donata, Rush, Catherine M., Marcello, Alessandro, Peppoloni, Samuele, Manganelli, Riccardo, ...
The B monomer of the Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin (LTB) was expressed on the surface of the human oral commensal bacterium Streptococcus gordonii. Recombinant bacteria expressing LTB were used...
Ricci, Susanna, Janulczyk, Robert, Björck, Lars
Ferric uptake regulator (Fur) and Fur-like proteins form an important family of transcriptional regulators in many bacterial species. In this work we have characterized a Fur-like protein, the...
Janulczyk, Robert, Ricci, Susanna, Björck, Lars
MtsABC is a Streptococcus pyogenes ABC transporter which was previously shown to be involved in iron and zinc accumulation. In this study, we showed that an mtsABC mutant has impaired growth,...
Pneumococcal Surface Protein C Contributes to Sepsis Caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in Mice
Iannelli, Francesco, Chiavolini, Damiana, Ricci, Susanna, Oggioni, Marco Rinaldo, Pozzi, Gianni
The role of pneumococcal surface protein C (PspC; also called SpsA, CbpA, and Hic) in sepsis by Streptococcus pneumoniae was investigated in a murine infection model. The pspC gene was deleted in...
Method for inducing experimental pneumococcal meningitis in outbred mice
Chiavolini, Damiana, Tripodi, Sergio, Parigi, Riccardo, Oggioni, Marco R, Blasi, Elisabetta, Cintorino, Marcella, ...
Oggioni, Marco R., Iannelli, Francesco, Ricci, Susanna, Chiavolini, Damiana, Parigi, Riccardo, Trappetti, Claudia, ...
Streptococcus pneumoniae, a major cause of human disease, produces a 17-mer autoinducer peptide pheromone (competence-stimulating peptide [CSP]) for the control of competence for genetic...
Medaglini, Donata, Ciabattini, Annalisa, Cuppone, Anna Maria, Costa, Caterina, Ricci, Susanna, Costalonga, Massimo, ...
The antigen-specific primary activation of CD4+ T cells was studied in vivo by adoptive transfer of ovalbumin-specific transgenic T cells (KJ1-26+ CD4+) following intranasal immunization with...
Switch from planktonic to sessile life: a major event in pneumococcal pathogenesis
Oggioni, Marco R, Trappetti, Claudia, Kadioglu, Aras, Cassone, Marco, Iannelli, Francesco, Ricci, Susanna, ...
Two main patterns of gene expression of Streptococcus pneumoniae were observed during infection in the host by quantitative real time RT-PCR; one was characteristic of bacteria in blood and one of...
Animal Models of Streptococcus pneumoniae Disease
Chiavolini, Damiana, Pozzi, Gianni, Ricci, Susanna
Summary: Streptococcus pneumoniae is a colonizer of human nasopharynx, but it is also an important pathogen responsible for high morbidity, high mortality, numerous disabilities, and high health...