Uncultivable Pathogenic Treponemes

C 2015

Uncultivable Pathogenic Treponemes

ŠMAJS, David and Michal STROUHAL

Basic information

Original name

Uncultivable Pathogenic Treponemes

Authors

ŠMAJS, David (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Michal STROUHAL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

2nd ed. Amsterdam, Molecular Medical Microbiology. Vol. 3, p. 1421-1436, 16 pp. 2015

Publisher

Elsevier Science Ltd.

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14110/15:00080615

Organization unit

Faculty of Medicine

ISBN

978-0-12-397169-2

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-397169-2.00079-2

Keywords in English

bejel; endemic treponematoses; pinta; syphilis; Treponema carateum; Treponema pallidum subsp. endemicum; T. pallidum subsp. pallidum; T. pallidum subsp. pertenue; T. paraluiscuniculi; yaws

Abstract

V originále

Uncultivable pathogenic treponemes represent bacterial species and subspecies that are obligate pathogens of humans and animals. Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum causes sexually transmitted syphilis, a multistage disease characterized in humans by localized, disseminated, and chronic forms of infection. Causative agents of endemic treponematoses comprise Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue (agent of yaws), Treponema pallidum subsp. endemicum (agent of bejel) and T. carateum (agent of pinta) causing milder, non-venereal transmitted diseases affecting skin, bones and joints. Closely related treponemes, simian Treponema Fribourg-Blanc and T. paraluiscuniculi, cause infections in non-human primates and rabbits, respectively. T. paraluiscuniculi is not pathogenic to humans, whereas simian Treponema Fribourg-Blanc has been shown to cause experimental human infections. All human treponematoses share remarkable similarities in pathogenesis and clinical manifestations, consistent with the high genetic and antigenic relatedness of their aetiological agents. Pathogenic treponemes are characterized by low toxicity, high invasiveness, and high immuno-evasiveness. Moreover, treponemes are pathogens able to infect almost any type of human tissues, i.e. showing broad tissue tropism. All these pathogenic treponemes cannot be continuously cultivated under in vitro conditions. All uncultivable pathogenic treponemes have a reduced genome (~1.14 Mb) and represent clonal bacteria with identical genome structure having only minimal genetic differences in their genomic sequences.

Links

EE2.3.30.0009, research and development project

Name: Zaměstnáním čerstvých absolventů doktorského studia k vědecké excelenci

GA310/07/0321, research and development project

Name: Komparativní genomové sekvencování patogenních treponem a transkriptomová analýza T. pallidum ssp. pallidum

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

NT11159, research and development project

Name: Mapování výskytu makrolidové rezistence původce syfilis v ČR a molekulární typizace jednotlivých syfilitických kmenů

Investor: Ministry of Health of the CR

Citovat

ŠMAJS, David and Michal STROUHAL. Uncultivable Pathogenic Treponemes. In Yi-Wei Tang, Max Sussman, Dongyou Liu, Ian Poxton, Joseph Schwartzman. Molecular Medical Microbiology. Vol. 3. 2nd ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Ltd., 2015, p. 1421-1436. ISBN 978-0-12-397169-2. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-397169-2.00079-2.

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ŠMAJS, David and Michal STROUHAL. Uncultivable Pathogenic Treponemes. In Yi-Wei Tang, Max Sussman, Dongyou Liu, Ian Poxton, Joseph Schwartzman. \textit{Molecular Medical Microbiology. Vol. 3}. 2nd ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Ltd., 2015, p.~1421-1436. ISBN~978-0-12-397169-2. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-397169-2.00079-2.

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