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ArticleNature communications2025

Vaccination with Acinetobacter baumannii adhesin Abp2D provides protection against catheter-associated urinary tract infection.

Morgan R Timm, Kevin O Tamadonfar, Taylor M Nye, Jesús Bazán Villicaña, Jerome S Pinkner, Karen W Dodson, Ali H Ellebedy, Scott J Hultgren

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Morgan R TimmDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Center for Women's Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2947-9508
Kevin O TamadonfarDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Center for Women's Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Taylor M NyeDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Center for Women's Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4695-0485
Jesús Bazán VillicañaDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Center for Women's Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8724-3213
Jerome S PinknerDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Center for Women's Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Karen W DodsonDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Center for Women's Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Ali H EllebedyDepartment of Pathology and Immunology, Center for Vaccines and Immunity to Microbial Pathogens, and The Andrew M. and Jane M. Bursky Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6129-2532
Scott J HultgrenDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Center for Women's Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. hultgren@wustl.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8785-564X

Funding

Rational design and synthesis of small molecule inhibitors targeting unique pathogenic mechanisms in Gram- and Gram+ bacteria important in UTIU19AI157797 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI CAPARON, MICHAEL G. · 2021 to 2025
$11.4M
Pathogenic Fiber Formation in Bacteria: Structural BasisR37AI048689 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI SCOTT J. HULTGREN · 2021 to 2026
$2.9M
Novel therapeutics for treatment of catheter-associated UTI and depletion of the vaginal reservoirF30DK135390 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI TIMM, MORGAN ROSE WILT · 2023 to 2025
$123k
NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI048689NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI157797NIDDK NIH HHS F30 DK135390U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases) RO1 DK051406
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) contribute greatly to the burden of healthcare-associated infections. Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative bacterium with high levels of antibiotic resistance that is of increasing concern as a CAUTI pathogen. A. baumannii expresses fibrinogen-binding adhesins (Abp1D and Abp2D) that mediate biofilm formation on catheters, which become coated with fibrinogen upon insertion. Here we develop a protein subunit vaccine against the Abp1D and Abp2D receptor binding domains (RBD) and show that vaccination significantly reduces bacterial titers in a female mouse model of CAUTI. We further demonstrate that immunity to Abp2D

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Acinetobacter baumanniiAcinetobacter InfectionsAdhesins, BacterialBacterial VaccinesCatheter-Related InfectionsUrinary Tract InfectionsAnimalsBiofilmsDisease Models, AnimalFemaleFibrinogenHumansImmunization, PassiveMiceVaccinationAdhesins, BacterialBacterial VaccinesFibrinogen

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PMCPMC12335481

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