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Impact of MgtC on the Fitness of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

  • Peng Li,
  • Hengtai Wang,
  • Wei Sun and
  • Jiabo Ding

8 December 2023

Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is an extracellular foodborne pathogen and usually causes self-limiting diarrhea in healthy humans. MgtC is known as a key subversion factor that contributes to intramacrophage adaptation and intracellular survival in cert...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,129 Views
21 Pages

Molecular Characterization and Antimicrobial Susceptibilities of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis Isolated from Caseous Lymphadenitis of Smallholder Sheep and Goats

  • Hend M. El Damaty,
  • Azza S. El-Demerdash,
  • Norhan K. Abd El-Aziz,
  • Sarah G. Yousef,
  • Ahmed A. Hefny,
  • Etab M. Abo Remela,
  • Asmaa Shaker and
  • Ibrahim Elsohaby

18 July 2023

Caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) is a bacterial infection caused by Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis (C. pseudotuberculosis) that affects sheep and goats, leading to abscess formation in their lymph nodes. The present study aimed to isolate and identify...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,262 Views
14 Pages

31 December 2019

d-glycero-α-d-manno-heptose-1-phosphate guanylyltransferase (HddC) is the fourth enzyme synthesizing a building component of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of Gram-negative bacteria. Since HddC is a potential new target to develop antibiotics, the an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
229 Views
14 Pages

Caseous lymphadenitis (CLA), an infectious disease caused by Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis (C. pseudotuberculosis), poses a significant economic burden to the global small ruminant industry. This study aimed to investigate genetic variations in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,320 Views
18 Pages

23 November 2022

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is an important animal pathogen, which is also able to infect humans. An optimal treatment of infections with this pathogen is not available today and consequently, more research is necessary to understand the infec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,093 Views
21 Pages

Caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) is a worldwide disease of small ruminants caused by Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis, a facultative intracellular pathogen that is able to survive and multiply in certain white blood cells of the host. In this study, 33...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,318 Views
15 Pages

Pseudotuberculosis in humans until the 1950s was found in different countries of the world as a rare sporadic disease that occurred in the form of acute appendicitis and mesenteric lymphadenitis. In Russia and Japan, the Yersinia pseudotuberculosis (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,335 Views
18 Pages

Isolation and Molecular Characterization of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis: Association with Proinflammatory Cytokines in Caseous Lymphadenitis Pyogranulomas

  • Helmy A. Torky,
  • Hebatallah M. Saad,
  • Samy A. Khaliel,
  • Asmaa T. Kassih,
  • Jean-Marc Sabatier,
  • Gaber El-Saber Batiha,
  • Helal F. Hetta,
  • Eman M. Elghazaly and
  • Michel De Waard

14 January 2023

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis (C. pseudotuberculosis) is a causative agent of numerous chronic diseases, including caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) in sheep and goats, which has a zoonotic potential in humans in addition to a poor therapeutic respons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,553 Views
13 Pages

28 August 2024

Sheep caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) causes significant economic losses in the livestock sector by causing a loss in the quantity and quality of animal products and a loss in the breeding value of animals. Although the primary agent in CLA’s etiol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,902 Views
14 Pages

Molecular Characterization of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis Isolated over a 15-Year Period in Switzerland

  • Jessica Schlicher,
  • Sarah Schmitt,
  • Marc J. A. Stevens,
  • Roger Stephan and
  • Giovanni Ghielmetti

30 July 2021

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis biovar Ovis is the etiological agent of the contagious and chronic disease caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) in sheep and goats. The economic impact of CLA in Switzerland remains largely unknown, and the transmission...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,099 Views
12 Pages

The Association of Bacterin and Recombinant Proteins Induces a Humoral Response in Sheep against Caseous Lymphadenitis

  • Luan Santana Moreira,
  • Natália da Rocha Lopes,
  • Vitor Cordeiro Pereira,
  • Caio Lopes Borges Andrade,
  • Alex José Leite Torres,
  • Marcos Borges Ribeiro,
  • Songeli Menezes Freire,
  • Ramon Mendes dos Santos,
  • Milena D’ávila and
  • Silvana Beutinger Marchioro
  • + 1 author

27 August 2022

In this study, we investigated the capacity of the recombinant proteins SpaC, NanH, SodC, and PLD of C. pseudotuberculosis to trigger protective humoral and cellular immune responses against experimentally induced C. pseudotuberculosis infection in s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,002 Views
17 Pages

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis Infections in Alpacas (Vicugna pacos)

  • Reinhard Sting,
  • Claudia Geiger,
  • Wolfram Rietschel,
  • Birgit Blazey,
  • Ingo Schwabe,
  • Jörg Rau and
  • Lisa Schneider-Bühl

22 June 2022

Alpacas are the major camelid species in Europe held for hobbies, animal-aided therapy, and commercial reasons. As a result, health-related issues associated with alpacas are of growing significance. This especially holds true for one of the most ser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,588 Views
16 Pages

First Trial of a Novel Caseous Lymphadenitis Inactivated Vaccine in South Korea: Experimental Evaluation across Various Animal Models

  • Gyeong-Seo Park,
  • Somin Lee,
  • Min A Jeong,
  • So Young Lee,
  • Dong-Geun Cho,
  • WonIl Cho,
  • Seung-Chai Kim,
  • Hwan-Ju Kim,
  • Taek Geun Lee and
  • Chonghan Kim
  • + 5 authors

28 August 2024

Caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) is a chronic and subclinical bacterial disease of ruminants caused by Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis (C. pseudotuberculosis) infection. Until 2014, there were no reports of CLA outbreaks in South Korea; however, the pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,042 Views
17 Pages

Co-Expression Networks for Causal Gene Identification Based on RNA-Seq Data of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis

  • Edian F. Franco,
  • Pratip Rana,
  • Ana Lidia Queiroz Cavalcante,
  • Artur Luiz da Silva,
  • Anne Cybelle Pinto Gomide,
  • Adriana R. Carneiro Folador,
  • Vasco Azevedo,
  • Preetam Ghosh and
  • Rommel T. J. Ramos

14 July 2020

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is a Gram-positive bacterium that causes caseous lymphadenitis, a disease that predominantly affects sheep, goat, cattle, buffalo, and horses, but has also been recognized in other animals. This bacterium generates...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,363 Views
10 Pages

First Report of Caseous Lymphadenitis by Corynebacterium pseudotubercolosis and Pulmonary Verminosis in a Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus Linnaeus, 1758) in Italy

  • Alessandra Di Donato,
  • Lorenzo Gambi,
  • Valentina Ravaioli,
  • Simona Perulli,
  • Letizia Cirasella,
  • Rachele Rossini,
  • Andrea Luppi,
  • Giovanni Tosi and
  • Laura Fiorentini

8 February 2024

Caseous lymphadenitis is a chronic debilitating disease typical of small ruminants, but it is also noted in several other domestic and wild species. In this report, we present the first documented case in Italy of pseudotuberculosis in a roe deer (Ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,265 Views
13 Pages

Risk Factors and Seroprevalence of Infection by Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis in Goats from Espírito Santo State, Southeastern Brazil

  • Letícia Pereira Pedrini Vicentini,
  • Thiago Doria Barral,
  • Marcus Alexandre Vaillant Beltrame,
  • Luiz Filippe Simão Soares,
  • Ricardo Wagner Portela and
  • Blima Fux

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is the causative agent of caseous lymphadenitis, a significant infectious disease that affects small ruminants and poses economic challenges to livestock production. This study aimed to assess the seroprevalence of...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
650 Views
10 Pages

3 December 2025

Caseous lymphadenitis (CL), caused by Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis, typically affects small ruminants but is rarely reported in cattle. This case report describes an outbreak of CL in a dairy herd in southern Portugal, where 55 of 500 animals (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,093 Views
6 Pages

21 February 2022

Yersinia enterocolitica and Y. pseudotuberculosis are important causes of enteric illness worldwide. Rapid response to suspected foodborne outbreaks is hampered by the widespread use of cold enrichment methods that require incubation periods of 10&nd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,190 Views
14 Pages

Differential Expression of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis General Porin Genes during Short- and Long-Term Antibiotic Stresses

  • Evgeniya Bystritskaya,
  • Nadezhda Chernysheva,
  • Anna Stenkova,
  • Konstantin Guzev,
  • Alexander Rakin and
  • Marina Isaeva

28 June 2021

Here, we investigated general porin regulation in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis 488, the causative agent of Far Eastern scarlet-like fever, in response to sublethal concentrations of antibiotics. We chose four antibiotics of different classes and measu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,622 Views
9 Pages

A Seroepidemiological Survey of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis Infection in South Tyrol, Italy

  • Astrid Bettini,
  • Marzia Mancin,
  • Matteo Mazzucato,
  • Angelica Schanung,
  • Stefano Colorio and
  • Alexander Tavella

9 November 2022

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is the causative agent of caseous lymphadenitis, a bacterial infection that can affect livestock. This infection can cause low growth rates and milk yields and reproductive failure, along with the infection of human...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,350 Views
14 Pages

Properties of Two Broad Host Range Phages of Yersinia enterocolitica Isolated from Wild Animals

  • Jens A. Hammerl,
  • Andrea Barac,
  • Philipp Erben,
  • Julius Fuhrmann,
  • Ashish Gadicherla,
  • Franziska Kumsteller,
  • Anne Lauckner,
  • Felix Müller and
  • Stefan Hertwig

21 October 2021

Yersinia (Y.) enterocolitica and Y. pseudotuberculosis are important zoonotic agents which can infect both humans and animals. To combat these pathogens, the application of strictly lytic phages may be a promising tool. Since only few Yersinia phages...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,730 Views
16 Pages

The Transcriptional Regulatory Network of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis

  • Doglas Parise,
  • Mariana Teixeira Dornelles Parise,
  • Anne Cybelle Pinto Gomide,
  • Flávia Figueira Aburjaile,
  • Rodrigo Bentes Kato,
  • Marisol Salgado-Albarrán,
  • Andreas Tauch,
  • Vasco Ariston de Carvalho Azevedo and
  • Jan Baumbach

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is a Gram-positive, facultative intracellular, pathogenic bacterium that infects several different hosts, yielding serious economic losses in livestock farming. It causes several diseases including oedematous skin d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,594 Views
14 Pages

Combined Transcriptomic and Proteomic of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis Infection in the Spleen of Dairy Goats

  • Mingzhe Fu,
  • Xiaolong Xu,
  • Zefang Cheng,
  • Junru Zhu,
  • Ao Sun,
  • Ganggang Xu and
  • Xiaopeng An

24 November 2022

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis (C. pseudotuberculosis) is a zoonotic chronic infectious disease. It mainly occurs in dairy goats reared in herds, and once it invades the dairy goats, it is difficult to completely remove it, causing great harm to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,469 Views
15 Pages

Newly Isolated Animal Pathogen Corynebacterium silvaticum Is Cytotoxic to Human Epithelial Cells

  • Jens Möller,
  • Anne Busch,
  • Christian Berens,
  • Helmut Hotzel and
  • Andreas Burkovski

Corynebacterium silvaticum is a newly identified animal pathogen of forest animals such as roe deer and wild boars. The species is closely related to the emerging human pathogen Corynebacterium ulcerans and the widely distributed animal pathogen Cory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,932 Views
13 Pages

Synthesis of Novel Symmetrical 1,4-Disubstituted 1,2,3-Bistriazole Derivatives via ‘Click Chemistry’ and Their Biological Evaluation

  • Esra Düğdü,
  • Dilek Ünlüer,
  • Fatih Çelik,
  • Kemal Sancak,
  • Şengül Alpay Karaoğlu and
  • Arzu Özel

A series of symmetric bis-1,2,3-triazole compounds 2–5(a–f) were synthesized as potential antioxidant agents via click chemistry. Their structures were confirmed by 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR. All of the synthesized compounds were subjected to antioxidant an...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,925 Views
14 Pages

Corynebacterium silvaticum is a newly described animal pathogen, closely related to the emerging human pathogen Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis, a major pathogen of small ruminants. In this study, proteins of a whole c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,354 Views
18 Pages

Challenges of Diphtheria Toxin Detection

  • Marta Prygiel,
  • Ewa Mosiej,
  • Maciej Polak,
  • Katarzyna Krysztopa-Grzybowska,
  • Karol Wdowiak,
  • Kamila Formińska and
  • Aleksandra A. Zasada

26 May 2024

Diphtheria toxin (DT) is the main virulence factor of Corynebacterium diphtheriae, C. ulcerans and C. pseudotuberculosis. Moreover, new Corynebacterium species with the potential to produce diphtheria toxin have also been described. Therefore, the de...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,728 Views
13 Pages

New Corynebacterium Species with the Potential to Produce Diphtheria Toxin

  • Marta Prygiel,
  • Maciej Polak,
  • Ewa Mosiej,
  • Karol Wdowiak,
  • Kamila Formińska and
  • Aleksandra Anna Zasada

30 October 2022

Only three Corynebacterium species are known to produce a lethal exotoxin called diphtheria toxin. These are C. diphtheriae, C. ulcerans and C. pseudotuberculosis. The diphtheria toxin gene (tox) is carried in a family of closely related corynebacter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,363 Views
10 Pages

Distribution of Corynebacterium Species and Comparative Results of Diagnostic Methods for Identifying Corynebacterium in Experimental Mice in Korea

  • Sehee Park,
  • Hijo Shin,
  • Sangwoon Kim,
  • Teakchang Lee,
  • Haejin Lee,
  • Kihoan Nam,
  • Wonkee Yoon,
  • Hyoungchin Kim,
  • Youngwon Seo and
  • Hyojung Kwon
  • + 1 author

29 June 2022

The genus Corynebacterium, composed of Gram-positive diphtheroid rod-shaped bacteria, induces severe diseases, such as Corynebacterium-associated hyperkeratosis and pseudotuberculosis, in immunodeficient mice. We isolated and identified a total of 16...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,279 Views
22 Pages

Studies on the Structure and Properties of Membrane Phospholipase A1 Inclusion Bodies Formed at Low Growth Temperatures Using GFP Fusion Strategy

  • Svetlana I. Bakholdina,
  • Anna M. Stenkova,
  • Evgenia P. Bystritskaya,
  • Evgeniy V. Sidorin,
  • Natalya Yu. Kim,
  • Ekaterina S. Menchinskaya,
  • Tatiana Yu. Gorpenchenko,
  • Dmitry L. Aminin,
  • Nikita A. Shved and
  • Tamara F. Solov’eva

28 June 2021

The effect of cultivation temperatures (37, 26, and 18 °C) on the conformational quality of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis phospholipase A1 (PldA) in inclusion bodies (IBs) was studied using green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a folding reporter. GFP was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,733 Views
14 Pages

Computational Analysis of the Ligand-Binding Sites of the Molecular Chaperone OppA from Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

  • Mirian Becerril Ramírez,
  • Lucía Soto Urzúa,
  • María de los Ángeles Martínez Martínez and
  • Luis Javier Martínez Morales

16 February 2023

The function of chaperones is to correct or degrade misfolded proteins inside the cell. Classic molecular chaperones such as GroEL and DnaK have not been found in the periplasm of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. Some periplasmic substrate-binding protei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,597 Views
18 Pages

13 February 2021

The Yersinia bacteriophages fPS-2, fPS-65, and fPS-90, isolated from pig stools, have long contractile tails and elongated heads, and they belong to genus Tequatroviruses in the order Caudovirales. The phages exhibited relatively wide host ranges amo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,718 Views
19 Pages

Specific Detection of Yersinia pestis Based on Receptor Binding Proteins of Phages

  • Friederike Born,
  • Peter Braun,
  • Holger C. Scholz and
  • Gregor Grass

The highly pathogenic bacterium Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of plague, a notorious infectious zoonotic disease. When transmitted from person to person as pneumonic plague via droplets, Y. pestis is highly contagious and in most cases is fa...