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ReviewCurrent topics in microbiology and immunology2016

Inflammasome Activation Can Mediate Tissue-Specific Pathogenesis or Protection in Staphylococcus aureus Infection.

Jason H Melehani, Joseph A Duncan

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Review in Current topics in microbiology and immunology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Staphylococcus aureus-vascular endothelium interactions: Mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2026
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  3. The virulence toolkit of Staphylococcus aureus: a comprehensive review of toxin diversity, molecular mechanisms, and clinical implications.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2025
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  9. World journal of clinical cases · 2022
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  13. Orchestration of human macrophage NLRP3 inflammasome activation byProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  14. The Role of Macrophages inFrontiers in immunology · 2020
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  18. Control ofInfection and immunity · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jason H MelehaniDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Joseph A DuncanDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. jaduncan@med.unc.edu.

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008719 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DARVILLE, TONI, DESHMUKH, MOHANISH P · 1999 to 2023
$15.1M
PREDOCTORAL TRAINING IN PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIST32GM007040 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI NICHOLAS, ROBERT A · 1985 to 2019
$6.0M
Regulation of the physiologic and pathologic activation of the NLRP3-inflammasomeR01AI088255 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DUNCAN, JOSEPH A · 2010 to 2020
$3.9M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI088255NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007040NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008719
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive coccus that interacts with human hosts on a spectrum from quiet commensal to deadly pathogen. S. aureus is capable of infecting nearly every tissue in the body resulting in cellulitis, pneumonia, osteomyelitis, endocarditis, brain abscesses, bacteremia, and more. S. aureus has a wide range of factors that promote infection, and each site of infection triggers a different response in the human host. In particular, the different patterns of inflammasome activation mediate tissue-specific pathogenesis or protection in S. aureus infection. Although still a nascent field, understanding the unique host-pathogen interactions in each infection and the role of inflammasomes in mediating pathogenesis may lead to novel strategies for treating S. aureus infections. Reviews addressing S. aureus virulence and pathogenesis (Thammavongsa et al. 2015), as well as epidemiology and pathophysiology (Tong et al. 2015), have recently been published. This review will focus on S. aureus factors that activate inflammasomes and their impact on innate immune signaling and bacterial survival.

Indexed as

AnimalsHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansInflammasomesStaphylococcal InfectionsStaphylococcus aureusVirulenceInflammasomesHemolysinHost–pathogen interactionInnate immuneLeukotoxinMacrophageMonocyteNeutrophilPathogenesisS. aureusVirulence

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PMID27460814
PMCPMC5145311

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