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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Bartonella Henselae Inhibits Cellular Apoptotic Regulators to Ensure Survival

Parker, Jeffery Todd 01 December 2009 (has links)
Human pathogens survive anti-pathogen host immune assault by either circumventing or evading the host immune response. Bartonella henselae, an intracellular pathogen previously shown to disrupt intrinsic apoptotic messengers to enhance its survival, exploits multiple facets of the cellular apoptotic mechanisms. Cellular pathways affected by apoptotic processes were assessed using real-time reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction (rRT-PCR) to measure the effect of B. henselae on cell regulator gene expression (TRADD, FADD, caspase-8 and caspase-3), caspase activity, DNA cell cycle analysis, cell regulator protein expression and overall cell viability and morphology. The presence of B. henselae suppresses overall gene expression for TRADD and FADD and it dramatically suppresses ceramide-induced TRADD and FADD gene expression. The presence of B. henselae has a noticeable effect on ceramide-induced caspase-8 and caspase-3 gene expression. Only caspase-3 enzymatic activity was ceramide-induced and likewise supressed by the presence of B. henselae, whereas caspase-6 and caspase-8 were unaffected and equivalent to controls. The presence of B. henselae inhibits ceramide-induced DNA fragmentation, maintains overall cell morphology and enhances host cell viability. Lastly, B. henselae inhibits the time-dependant ceramide-induction of TRADD protein and suppresses ubiquitous FADD protein expression. We demonstrated that B. henselae inhibits apoptotic induction in a systematic manner following exogenous apoptotic induction. B. henselae protection of microvascular endothelial cells from apoptosis induction begins at the modulation of cell surface receptor-dependent signaling. B. henselae minimizes, but does not completely abrogate, the cytotoxic effect of the apoptogenic shingolipid ceramide on human microvascular endothelial cells (CDC.EU.HMEC-1). Broadening our understanding of the sequence of cell regulator suppression events by intracellular pathogens will provide insight into disease manifestation. Further, understanding how infected cells initiate and conclude apoptosis will open new avenues into the study of disease treatment.
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Untersuchungen zum Vorkommen von Bartonella henselae bei Hauskatzen in Deutschland

Hruschka, Katja 06 May 2005 (has links)
Bartonella henselae ist der Erreger der Katzenkratzkrankheit, einer wenig beachteten, weil meist selbstlimitierend verlaufenden Zoonose. Allerdings kann B. henselae bei Risikogruppen (Kindern, immunsupprimierten Personen) Septikämien, Peliosis hepatis, Bazilläre Angiomatose und andere systemische Erkrankungen verursachen. Mit der vorliegenden Arbeit sollte versucht werden, die Prävalenz von B. henselae in unserer Hauskatzenpopulation abzuschätzen. Dazu wurden 930 EDTA-Katzenblutproben aus dem gesamten Bundesgebiet kulturell untersucht. Die Anzüchtung erfolgte auf doppelt dick gegossenem Hammelblutagar (7,5%) unter mikroaerophilen Bedingungen (5%CO2) über 4 Wochen. Es konnten 15 Stämme isoliert werden (1,61%). Ein Zusammenhang zwischen Alter der Katzen und kulturellem Ergebnis konnte nachgewiesen werden. 302 Katzenseren wurden auf Antikörper untersucht. Die Seroprävalenz betrug 37%. Dieses Ergebnis korreliert mit kulturellem Befund, Haltungsform, Flohbefall und geographischer Herkunft der Katzen. Mit den Isolaten wurden weitere Untersuchungen (PCR, PFGE, SDS-PAGE) zur Charakterisierung durchgeführt. Die Virulenz des Erregers wurde anhand verschiedener Untersuchungen des Referenzstammes untersucht. B. henselae kann nicht ohne schützendes Medium auf dem Fell des Wirtstieres überleben, benötigt bluthaltige Medien zur Isolierung und läßt sich auch nach längerer Aufbewahrung im Kühlschrank oder nach Einfrieren anzüchten. Aufgrund der geringen Anzahl kulturell positiver Befunde ist es schwierig, eine sichere Aussage zum Vorkommen von B. henselae zu treffen. Allerdings läßt die Seroprävalenz von 37% den Schluss zu, dass der Erreger zu einem nicht geringen Anteil unter den Katzen verbreitet ist. Eine Gefährdung gesunder, erwachsener Menschen besteht dabei nicht, aber für Kinder und immunschwache Personen bergen insbesondere verwilderte oder junge Katzen ein gewisses Risiko. Die Infektkette kann allerdings durch konsequente Flohbekämpfung unterbrochen werden.
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Combining Cytomorphology and Serology for the Diagnosis of Cat Scratch Disease

Youssef, Dima, Shams, Wael E., El Abbassi, Adel, Moorman, Jonathan P., Al-Abbadi, Mousa A. 01 March 2011 (has links)
Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a self limited zoonotic disease that presents most commonly as a regional lymphadenopathy. We are reporting a case of a 25-year-old male patient who presented with fever and large right inguinal lymphadenopathy. The diagnosis of cat scratch disease was confirmed based on the characteristic cytopathological features on aspirate smears from the lymph node and the serological titers for Bartonella henselae. This case report emphasizes the importance of combining Bartonella serology, and cytopathology in the diagnostic work-up of febrile lymphadenopathy and suspected CSD since the culture of this organism is arduous.
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Ultrastructure of Cimex lectularius L. (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) salivary glands after a blood meal infected with Bartonella henselae (Hyphomicrobiales: Bartonellaceae)

Sabet, Afsoon 13 May 2022 (has links)
Bed bugs (Hemiptera:Cimicidae) are a common, hematophagous ectoparasite of humans and other animals, and are experiencing an international resurgence. Cimicids have been implicated in the transmission many disease agents, including various Bartonella species, however disease transmission has not yet been confirmed. Bartonella spp. are transmitted by a variety of arthropods, including fleas, lice and sand flies, and it is speculated that bed bugs may also serve as a potential vector. In this study, we used an artificial membrane to feed two groups of adult Cimex lectularius rabbit blood, either infected or uninfected with Bartonella henselae. After two weeks, the presence of Bartonella henselae was assessed via PCR, and salivary glands from infected and uninfected bed bugs were dissected and processed for transmission electron microscopy. We were unable to visually identify Bartonella henselae in the images, and therefore unable to confirm the role of bed bugs in B. henselae transmission.

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