Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

Miyasaki KT, Wilson ME, Brunetti AJ, Genco RJ (1986) Oxidative and nonoxidative killing of actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans by human neutrophils. Infect Immun 53(1) 154—160 Moore K (1999) CeU biology of chronic wounds the role of inflammation. J Wound Care 8(7) 345-348 Moses MA (1997) The regulation of neovascularization of matrix metaUoproteinases and their inhibitors. Stem Cells 15(3) 180-189... 

Nao S, Yoshio N, Yasuo Y et al (2002) Guanosine diphosphate-4-keto-6-deoxy-D-mannose reductase in the pathway for the synthesis of GDP-6-deoxy-D-talose in Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. Eur J Biochem 269 5963-5971... 

Nakano, Y., Suzuki, N., Yoshida, Y., Nezu, T., Yamashita, Y., Koga, T. Thymidine diphosphate-6-deoxy-l-lyxo-4-hexulose reductase synthesizing dTDP-6-deoxy-l-talose from Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. J Biol Chem 275 (2000) 6806-6812. 

Pristinamycin (rlNN) is a synergistic combination of streptogramin A (pristinamycin llA) and streptogramin B (pristinamycin IB). It is active against the main bacteria that cause respiratory tract infections and could be useful in the treatment of acute or recurrent sinusitis, community-acquired pneumonia, or periodontal infection with Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans (1-5). 

Note Cases are defined clinically as definite if they fulfill two major criteria, one major criterion plus three minor criteria, or five minor criteria they are defined as possible if they fulfill one major and one minor criterion or three minor criteria. HACEK denotes Haemophilus species (H. parainfiuenzae, H. aphrophilus, H. paraphrophilus, Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, Cardiobacterium hominis, Eikenella corrodens, and Kingella kingae). 

D-Fucose, in the furanose or pyranose form, has been identified in bacteria. Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans strains, of all serotypes, commonly produce polysaccharide antigens consisting of 6-deoxyhexoses. In fact, the serotype b-specific polysaccharide antigen from A. actinomycetemcomitans Y4 consists of the following disaccharide repeating-unit -3)-a-D-Fuc/4 I 2)-a-i.-Rha/u( I. l92 On the other hand, serotype a consists solely of 6-deoxy-D-talose and serotype c is a polysaccharide of the l enantiomer.175... 

K. Amano, T. Nishihara, N. Shibuya, T. Noguchi, and T. Koga, Immunochemical and structural characterization of a serotype-specific polysaccharide antigen from Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans Y4 (serotype b), Infect. Immun., 57 (1989) 2942-2946. 

B. Dogan, A.S. Kipalev, E. Okie, N. Sultan, S.E. Asikainen, Consisent intrafamil-ial transmission of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans despite clonal diversity, J. Periodontol. 79 (2008) 307-315. 

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