Journal of Bacteriology & Parasitology

International Congress on Bacteriology & Infectious Diseases

November 20-22, 2013 DoubleTree by Hilton Baltimore-BWI Airport, MD, USA

Scientific Tracks Abstracts

• Antivirulence agents against bacterial pathogens

  Menachem Shoham

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• Towards a mechanistic understanding of the roles of HipA and HipB in bacterial multidrug tolerance and persistence

  Richard G. Brennan, Maria A. Schumacher and Kim Lewis

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• Contribution of host thrombosis and fibrinolytic cascades to the pathogenesis of grampositive infections

  Peter Panizzi

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• Mycobacterial manipulation of the host innate immune response

  Cory M. Robinson

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• A new paradigm for genus Mycobacterium population structure

  Paul Jeffrey Freidlin

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• Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: A world wide emerging multiple drug resistant opportunistic pathogen

  Joanna S. Brooke

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• Hydrogen-stimulated carbon catabolism in enteric pathogens Salmonella and Shigella

  Robert J. Maier, Reena Lamicchane-Khadka and Mykeshia McNorton

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• FOXA2 inactivation by bacterial pathogens and excessive mucus in chronic airway diseases

  Gee W. Lau

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• Phenotypic and immunologic characteristics of Salmonella lacking RNA modification enzymes

  Amin A. Fadl

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• Physiological role of the mycobacterial Pup-proteasome degradation pathway and its relation to virulence

  Eyal Gur

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• Modulation of immunization via cholinergic nervous system using HI-6

  Miroslav Pohanka

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• Identification and characterization of a putative mega polysaccharide gene cluster in Enterococcus faecium

  Turkan Sakınc

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• Carbon monoxide: A bactericidal molecule

  B. Y. Chin

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• From environment to man: Is Aeromonas infection an accident or a stopover on the adaptation road?

  Brigitte Lamy

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• Antibody orientation at bacterial surfaces has implications for both mild and severe infections

  Pontus Nordenfelt

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• T-helper 1, T-helper 2, pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in tuberculosis

  Abu Salim Mustafa

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• Role of the polyscaccharide capsule in Bordetella pertussis virulence: A novel capsulemediated virulence mechanism in a bacterial pathogen

  Sylvie Alonso

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• The use of different laboratory methods in diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection: A comparative study

  Nermin H. Ibrahim, Azza Abdulazim Gomaa, Mohamed Ahmed Abu-Sief, Tamer M. Hifnawy and Mervat Abd El-Baseer Tohamy

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• Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Diabetes Mellitus and Tuberculosis a challenging scenario

  Amer Hayat Khan

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• Investigating the role of natural killer cells during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection by using a mouse model of subcutaneous infection of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG)

  Min Fang

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• Microbial cell wall glycoconjugates as elicitors and suppressors of eukaryotic innate immunity

  Antonio Molinaro

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• Gut microbiota regulation of host cell response as revealed using functional metagenomics

  Herve M. Blottiere

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• Transmembrane signaling through a heme/hemophore receptor

  Nadia Izadi-Pruneyre

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• Intercellular and intracellular signaling systems of the rice pathogenic bacterium Burkholderia glumae

  Jong Hyun Ham

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• Emerging superbugs: Are ESBLs and CREs the new MRSA?

  Wanda C. Reygaert

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• Myeloid KLF2 regulate host response to infection

  Ganapati H. Mahabaleshwar

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• Understanding crosstalk between acidic phospholipids present in bacterial membranes and DnaA, the initiator of Escherichia coli chromosomal replication

  Rahul Saxena

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• Genetic variation in Clostridium botulinum, types of botulism in France

  Michal R. Popoff

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• Bacterial microbe associated molecular patterns (MAMPs) elicitors of plant innate immunity: Recognition and signal transduction in arabidopsis

  Mari-Anne Newman, Gitte Erbs and Thomas Sundelin

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• Fluorescence labeling of proteins involved in pyoverdine-dependent iron uptake pathway in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  Laurent Guillon

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• New frontiers in bacteriology 2013: Biofilms, the international language of infectious diseases

  John G. Thomas

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• The DNABII family of proteins: Diagnostic markers and therapeutic targets of bacterial biofilms

  Steven D. Goodman

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• Microbiological environment in the lower airway of the infants and young child with cystic fibrosis

  Kathryn S. Moffett

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• Fecal transplantation of patients with Clostridium difficile associated disease results in the complete replacement of original distal gut microbiota

  Oleg Paliy

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• A chemical genetic approach to identifying essential functions in non-replicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis

  Sarah Schmidt Grant

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• Two component systems and biofilm lifestyle in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  Sophie de Bentzmann

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• Disseminated BCG-itis in children with primary immunodeficiency

  Daifulah Al Zahrani

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• Occurrence of feco-oral and blood borne hepatitis virus infection among children in north India

  Hitender Gautam, Vikas Manchanda and Neha Sinha

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• The risk factors for and effects of visceral leishmaniasis in graft and renal transplant recipients

  Avelar Alves da Silva

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• An epidemic of Aeromonas hydrophila in catfish: Has an emerging bacterial pathogen been introduced via invasive carp?

  Mohammad Jahangir Hossain

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• Treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis by topical application of honey

  Mahasen Wadi

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• Ethyl alcohol metabolism by oral Streptococcus sp. produces adherence, HPV 16 entry and malignant phenotype changes in oral keratinocytes

  Joel Schwartz

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• Ribosome recycling is catalyzed by RRF which moves inter-subunits space like tRNA using the energy of GTP

  Akira Kaji and Hideko Kaji

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• Autophagy mediated clearance of Burkholderia cenocepacia in cystic fibrosis

  Benjamin T. Kopp

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• Neurological complications to botulinum toxin: A therapy

  Anna Hristova

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• Does the companion diagnostics approach work for antibiotics?

  Philip Onigman

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• The Th17 response triggered by Helicobacter pylori involves the cytokine BAFF

  Marina de Bernard

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• Bacterial ureases and its role in long-lasting human diseases

  Wieslaw Kaca, Iwona Konieczna, Marek Kwinkowski and Zbigniew Kaminski

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• New challenges for IFN therapy

  Ahmed Lasfar

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• From the past to the future: Clofazimine in the treatment of MDR

  Jacques H. Grosset

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• Helicobacter induced colitis is reversed in ?humanized? IL-10 transgenic mice

  Jay H. Bream

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• Appraisal of the current methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) treatment: Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic approach

  Ayman M. Noreddin

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• Development of ELISA and real-time PCR for the diagnosis of strangles in horses

  Sergey C. Artiushin, J. Timoney and U. Balasuriya

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• Staphylococcus aureus and ruminant mastitis: Staphylococcal factors involved in the infection acuteness and ecological factors modulating virulence expression in the mammary context

  Yves Le Loir

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• Isolation of toxigenic Clostridium difficile from raw bovine milk and the environment: A risk for public health?

  Vincenza Romano, Stefano Dumontet, Federico Capuano, Donatella Nava, Anna Giannina Perugini and Vincenzo Pasquale

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• Within host infection dynamics in bacterial immunology and vaccine development

  Pietro Mastroeni

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• Development of vaccines to control Chlamydia infection and disease: Are we making any progress?

  Peter Timms

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• Bacteriophage therapy against antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections

  Mzia Kutateladze

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• Antimicrobial peptides as novel alternative agents for treatment of infectious diseases

  Margit Mahlapuu

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• Structural and functional investigation of MexA/MexB/OprM, a multidrug efflux pump from Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  Martin Picard

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• New face of an old drug: Celecoxib as an antibacterial agent

  Arunasree M. Kalle

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• Surveillance and stewardship sense and sensibility

  Yogandree Ramsamy

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• Genome characteristics of a Campylobacter jejuni 63A isolated from California gull excreta

  Jingrang Lu, Scott P. Keely, Sharon Yelton and Nicholas Ashbolt

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• Impact of next generation sequencing formats on microbial genomics

  Manohar R. Furtado

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• A bacteria strain as a model for screening the antitumor materials

  Xin Mingxiu, Tang SiSi, Wang Qin, Chen Ping and Liu Chong

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• Antimicrobial activity of a newly synthesized methylsulfanyl-triazoloquinazoline derivatives

  Rashad Al-Salahi, Mohamed Marzouk, GhadaAwad, Mohamed Al-Omar and EssamEzzeldin

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• New Paradigm in treatment of biofilm-associated infections: Applications to Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a biofilm model organism

  Walid F. Elkhatib

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