Genes and Proteins Underlying Microbial Urinary Tract Virulence

Keynote Lectures: Urinary Tract Infection: From Basic Science to Clinical Application; J. Hacker. Innate Defences and Resistance to Gram Negative Mucosal Infection; G. Godaly, et al. Session I: Genetic Information, Synthesis, Assembly, and Activation Processes in Virulence Mechanisms: Pathogenicity Islands of Uropathogenic E. coli and Evolution of Virulence; G. Blum-Oehler, et al. Iron Transport in Escherichia coli; V. Braun, et al. The Cytotoxic Necrotizing Factor 1 (CNF1) from Uropathogenic Escherichia coli; P. Boquet. Genetic Characterization of the Uropathogenic E. coli Strain 536 - A Subtractive Hybridization Analysis; B. Janke, et al. Analysis of the Hemolysin Determinants of the Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Strain 536; G. Nagy, et al. Functional Variability of Type 1 Fimbriae of Escherichia coli. R. Pouttu, et al. HPI of High-Virulant Yersinia si Found in E. coli Strains Causing Urinary Tract Infection; S. Schubert, et al. Aggregation Substance of Enterococcus faecalis: Multifunctional Adhesin; A. Muscholl-Silberhorn, et al. Session II: Regulation and Expression of Virulence Genes: A Role for the Subunit of RNA Polymerase in the Regulation of Bacterial Virulence; R. Hengge-Aronis. Transcriptional Organization and Regulation of E. coli. Group 2 Capsule Expression; I.S. Roberts. Molecular Basis of Catheter Associated Infections by Staphylococci; F. Götz, et al. Control Mechanisms in the Pap-Pili System; B.E. Uhlin, et al. Transcriptional Analysis of the SFA and PAP Determinants of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains; C. Balsalobre, et al. Structural and Functional Studies of theFimbrial Adhesin Gene Regulator PAPB from Uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Y. Xia, et al. Interaction of the Nucleoid-Associated Proteins HHA and H-NS to Modulate Expression of the Hemolysin Operon in Escherichia coli; A. Juárez, et al. Use of the OMPS-Display System to Localize the Receptor-Binding Region in the PAPG Adhesin of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli; H. Lång, et al. The Role of the AirS Two-Component System in the Uropathogenic Escherichia coli; A.-K. Pernestig, et al. Examination of Regulatory Cross-talk between the Decay Accelerating Factor-binding Fimbrial/Afimbrial Adhesins and Type I Fimbriae; N. Holden, et al. Modulation of the Polysaccharide Intercellular Adhesin (PIA) Expression in Biofilm Forming Staphylococcus epidermidis; W. Ziebuhr, et al. Induction of Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilm Formation by Environmental Factors: The Possible Involvement of the Alternative Transcription Factor SIGB; S. Rachid, et al. Expression of Virulence Genes in Candida albicans; P. Staib, et al. Effect of Spontaneous and Induced Mutations on Outer Membrane Proteins and Lipolysaccharides of Proteus penneri Strain 357; I. Kustos, et al. Session III: Host-Parasite Interactions: Role of Bacterial Lectins in Urinary Tract Infections; I. Ofek, et al. Adherence of Enteric Bacteria onto the Mammalian Extracellular Matrix; T.K. Korhonen. Interrelationship between Virulence Properties of Uropathogenic E. coli and Blood Group Phenotype of Patients with Chronic Urinary Tract Infections; R. Füstück, et al. Additional Articles. List of Contributors.