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Proteus mirabilis and Urinary Tract Infections
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Proteus mirabilis is a Gram-negative bacterium and is well known for its ability to robustly swarm across surfaces in a striking bulls’-eye pattern. Clinically, this organism is most frequently a pathogen of the urinary tract, particularly in patients undergoing long-term catheterization. This review covers P. mirabilis with a focus on urinary tract infections (UTI), including disease models, vaccine development efforts, and clinical perspectives. Flagella-mediated motility, both swimming and swarming, is a central facet of this organism. The regulation of this complex process and its contribution to virulence is discussed, along with the type VI-secretion system-dependent intra-strain competition, which occurs during swarming.P. mirabilis uses a diverse set of virulence factors to access and colonize the host urinary tract, including urease and stone formation, fimbriae and other adhesins, iron and zinc acquisition, proteases and toxins, biofilm formation, and regulation of pathogenesis. While significant advances in this field have been made, challenges remain to combatting complicated UTI and deciphering P. mirabilis pathogenesis.
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- Schaffer, J. N., & Pearson, M. M.
- Venue
- Microbiology Spectrum
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- Published
- 2015-09-04
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 5
- ISSN
- 2165-0497 (ISSN-L)
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- W2412166435
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- 399
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 10.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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