Leptospira and leptospirosis

B Adler, A de la Peña Moctezuma - Veterinary microbiology, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Leptospirosis is the most wide spread zoonosis worldwide; it is present in all continents
except Antarctica and evidence for the carriage of Leptospira has been found in virtually all …

Leptospirosis: a zoonotic disease of global importance

AR Bharti, JE Nally, JN Ricaldi, MA Matthias… - The Lancet infectious …, 2003‏ - thelancet.com
In the past decade, leptospirosis has emerged as a globally important infectious disease. It
occurs in urban environments of industrialised and develo** countries, as well as in rural …

Leptospira: the dawn of the molecular genetics era for an emerging zoonotic pathogen

AI Ko, C Goarant, M Picardeau - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2009‏ - nature.com
Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease that has emerged as an important cause of morbidity
and mortality among impoverished populations. One hundred years after the discovery of …

Waterborne Leptospirosis: Survival and Preservation of the Virulence of Pathogenic Leptospira spp. in Fresh Water

G Andre-Fontaine, F Aviat, C Thorin - Current microbiology, 2015‏ - Springer
Many studies have implicated fresh water as a source of leptospirosis outbreaks. To
estimate the survival and the preservation of the virulence of pathogenic Leptospira spp …

Outer membrane proteins of pathogenic spirochetes

PA Cullen, DA Haake, B Adler - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2004‏ - academic.oup.com
Pathogenic spirochetes are the causative agents of several important diseases including
syphilis, Lyme disease, leptospirosis, swine dysentery, periodontal disease and some forms …

Pathogenesis of leptospirosis: the influence of genomics

B Adler, M Lo, T Seemann, GL Murray - Veterinary microbiology, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Leptospirosis is the most widespread zoonosis worldwide and is caused by serovars of
pathogenic Leptospira species. The understanding of leptospiral pathogenesis lags far …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the world of membrane proteins: techniques and methods for understanding structure, function, and dynamics

I Boulos, J Jabbour, S Khoury, N Mikhael, V Tishkova… - Molecules, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
In eukaryotic cells, membrane proteins play a crucial role. They fall into three categories:
intrinsic proteins, extrinsic proteins, and proteins that are essential to the human genome …

Leptospirosis: pathogenesis, immunity, and diagnosis

RUM Palaniappan, S Ramanujam… - Current opinion in …, 2007‏ - journals.lww.com
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Surfaceome of Leptospira spp

PA Cullen, X Xu, J Matsunaga, Y Sanchez… - Infection and …, 2005‏ - journals.asm.org
The identification of the subset of outer membrane proteins exposed on the surface of a
bacterial cell (the surfaceome) is critical to understanding the interactions of bacteria with …

Characterization of the leptospiral outer membrane and description of three novel leptospiral membrane proteins

DA Haake, J Matsunaga - Infection and immunity, 2002‏ - journals.asm.org
The outer membrane (OM) of the mammalian pathogen Leptospira kirschneri was isolated in
the form of membrane vesicles by alkaline plasmolysis and separated from the protoplasmic …