Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Gastrointestinal Infections
- E. coli
- EHEC
- 0157:H7, Gram -ve rod,
facultative anaerobe
- Bacteriophage-derived Shiga toxins
(Stx1/Stx2)
- AB5
- Bind to glycolipid Gb3
(globotriacylceramide),
many in renal
epithelium
- RNA N-glycosidase, ie
cleaves nucleobases
from ribosomal RNA &
inhibits protein synthesis
- Haemolysin causes
Haemolytic Uraemic
Syndrome (HUS), Renal
failure
- Incubation: 2-6
days, Infection: 1
week
- Identification: MALDITOF,
serology, selective culture
medium, Lactose/Sorbitol
fermentor
- Burgers!!
- Type III secretion
system- see
EPEC
- ETEC
- Heat-labile or Stable Toxin
- AB5, acitvates adenyl cyclase, cAMP,
activates CFTR, K+/Na+/Cl- ions enter
cell, water flows out, diarrhoea!
- CFA1 fimbriae
- Type I pilus
- Regulated expression, ie Phase Variation
- Environmental signal, fimS (invertible,
cis, promoter), fimB (off switch), fimE
(on switch), express fimA (pilus
rod)/fimC (chaperone)/fimD (OM usher)
- New findings: HibF another fimS
inverter, on switch
- Signals: pH, temp,
osmolarity, nutrient
availability
- Highly immunogenic
- Motility
- (a)EPEC
- "Attaching & Effacing", localised
(EPEC) vs diffuse (aEPEC)
- Pedestal Formation
- Encoded on LEE
(Locus of Enterocyte
Effacement)
- Pathogenicity Island
- EHEC, EPEC, aEPEC
- Type III Secretion
System injects effector proteins
- E.g. Injects Tir into membrane, Centre binds
intimin, N+C cytoplasmic, phosphorylated
by kinases, WASP cascade, actin
polymerisation
- E.g. EspB (homologous to
YopD), binds alpha1 antitrypsin,
alpha catenin (disrupting
adherence junctions),
myosin-1c (inhibiting
phagocytosis)
- Functional redundancy,
e.g. EspH+EspJ
antagonise (opsono-)
phagocytosis
- E.g. NleH,
anti-apoptotic
factor
- Acquired via HGT,
located on tRNA
- Subverts cell
processes to
colonise/multiply
- EAF plasmid (EPEC Adherence
Factor), encodes bundle-forming
pilus (not in aEPEC)
- Case Study: Germany
Outbreak 2011
- E.coli 0104:H4
- EHEC with virulence
genes from EAEC
- Diagnostics unsuitable, bias
for 0157 (no 0157
agglutination, ferments
sorbital)
- Suggested diagnostics: Selective agar
(Cefuxime tellurite sorbitol MacConkey
agar) --> pink colonies, PCR (intimin
target)
- Future diagnostics:
multiplex PCR, microarray
- Campylobacter
- C. jejuni
- Gram -ve,
curved/spiral/s-shaped
- Motile (1-2 flagella)
- Oxidase +ve
- Non-fermentor
- Incubation: 2-10 days,
infection: 1 week
- Autoimmune response possible-
similar motif to host proteins-->
reactive arthritis or Guillan-Barre
Syndrome (myelin, demyelination,
paralysis, 019)
- Zipper vs Trigger model of cell
entry. CapF, CiaB, Type III secretion
system?
- C. upsaliensis
- C. coli
- C. lari
- C. fetus
- C. rectus
- Mostly poultry
- Pathogenesis
- No
suitable non-primate
models
- Capsular Polysaccharide:
GI/Cell Invasion
- LOS: adhesion, protection
from complement
- Potential Vaccine
- Against Serotype HS15
- Multivalent, CPS
- CPS-CRM conjugate
- Ab response in mice but no
challenge experiments
- LuxS Operon
- Newly Found
Virulence Factors
- Salmonella
- Enteritis
- S. enterica serovar typhimurium
- S. enterica serovar enteritidis
- G-ve, bacillus,
facultative anaerobe
- Non-fermentor,
oxidase -ve
- Pathogenicity
- Pathogenicity Islands
- spv locus,
pSLT plasmid
- SPI1, inv genes
- Type III Secretion System
- Injects Effector
Proteins for Membrane Ruffling
- SptP (tyrosine
phosphatase, mimics
signal transduction)
- SipA (binds actin,
prevents
depolymerisation)
- SopE (activates
Rac/Cdc42 for actin
polymerisation)
- 103-106 infectious
dose (high)
- M cells in lamia propia engulfs
bacterium, to present to B+T cells
BUT survives/multiplies &
stimulates inflammatory response
(incl. cAMP)
- Fimbriae
- Type 1 and/or
3 (fim genes)
- Plasmid
encoded (pef
genes)
- Long polar
(lpf genes)
- Thin
aggregative
(agf genes)
- OMP Porins
- Complement
evasion
- Rck, adhesion
factor, inhibits
MAC
- Pgte, protease,
cleaves C3, C4
& C5
- Shigella
- S. flexneri
- S. sonnei
- S. dysenteriae
- S. boydii
- Usually water
contamination
- Pathogenesis
- OspF (MAPK phosphothreonine
lyase), inactivates MAPK-->
dampens inflammatory response
- Targets Ubiquitin
- OspI, deaminates Ubc13
(ubiquitin conjugating
enzyme 13)--> dampens
NF-KB response
- IpaH (ubiquitin
ligase)
- Ubiquitin Function: label
proteins for destruction or
other cell functions, e.g
INFLAMMATORY
RESPONSE
- Peak (outbreak?)
in 1992
- Low infectious dose,
only 10 bacteria can
cause infection!
- Incubation:
16-72hrs, infection:
2 weeks
- Haemolysin
- Rotavirus
- dsRNA virus
- 7 serotypes:
A-G, A most
common
- No effective antiviral
therapy, new targets
researched
- Lipogenesis inhibitors reduce
viral replication, e.g. triacsin C
(fungi) analogues inhibit ACSL,
analogue E=amino-benzinoic
acid ED50=0.1um
- IN VITRO!!
- Damages vili
- Malabsorption of
fluid
- Infection 6hrs-3days
- NSP4,
enterotoxic
effects
- New vaccine introduced in UK:
Rotarix (GSK), attenuated live oral
vaccine, for 6+wks then 4wks later,
since v common in <5yr olds
- Vomiting & diarrhoea
- Norovirus
- RNA virus
- Infection: 24-48hrs
- Vomiting & diarrhoea
- No animal model &
difficult to culture
- Five genogroups:
GI-GV, GI &GII
most common
- Highly contagious