The Steroid Catabolic Pathway of the Intracellular Pathogen Rhodococcus equi Is Important for Pathogenesis and a Target for Vaccine Development

Characterization of the Role of the Pathogenicity Island and vapG in the Virulence of the Intracellular Actinomycete Pathogen Rhodococcus equi

(2010) G. B. Coulson et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Rhodococcus equi infection

(2010) Alexandra V Yamshchikov et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Cholesterol utilization in mycobacteria is controlled by two TetR-type transcriptional regulators: kstR and kstR2

(2010) S. L. Kendall et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Vaccination of Mice with Salmonella Expressing VapA: Mucosal and Systemic Th1 Responses Provide Protection against Rhodococcus equi Infection

(2010) Aline F. Oliveira et al.   PLoS One

The Genome of a Pathogenic Rhodococcus: Cooptive Virulence Underpinned by Key Gene Acquisitions

(2010) Michal Letek et al.   PLoS Genetics

Rhodococcus equi Virulence-Associated Protein A Is Required for Diversion of Phagosome Biogenesis but Not for Cytotoxicity

(2009) K. von Bargen et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

3-Ketosteroid 9α-hydroxylase is an essential factor in the pathogenesis ofMycobacterium tuberculosis

(2009) Yanmin Hu et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Beta-Androstenes and Resistance to Viral and Bacterial Infections

(2009) Roger M. Loria   NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION

The Pfam protein families database

(2009) Robert D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Current understanding of the equine immune response to Rhodococcus equi. An immunological review of R. equi pneumonia

(2009) Tamsin R.M.Y. Dawson et al.   VETERINARY IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY

Studies of a Ring-Cleaving Dioxygenase Illuminate the Role of Cholesterol Metabolism in the Pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

(2009) Katherine C. Yam et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Rhodococcus equi pulmonary–central nervous system syndrome: brain abscess in a patient on high-dose steroids—a case report and review of the literature

(2008) Ricardo Horacio Roda et al.   DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Evolution of the Rhodococcus equi vap Pathogenicity Island Seen through Comparison of Host-Associated vapA and vapB Virulence Plasmids

(2008) M. Letek et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The Actinobacterialmce4Locus Encodes a Steroid Transporter

(2008) William W. Mohn et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A novel method to generate unmarked gene deletions in the intracellular pathogen Rhodococcus equi using 5-fluorocytosine conditional lethality

(2008) R. van der Geize et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Mycobacterial persistence requires the utilization of host cholesterol

(2008) A. K. Pandey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chimeric vapA/groEL2 DNA vaccines enhance clearance of Rhodococcus equi in aerosol challenged C3H/He mice

(2008) Tongted Phumoonna et al.   VACCINE

Safety and immunogenicity of a live-attenuated auxotrophic candidate vaccine against the intracellular pathogen Rhodococcus equi

(2007) A.M. Lopez et al.   VACCINE