Extracellular DNA within a NontypeableHaemophilus influenzae-Induced Biofilm Binds Human Beta Defensin-3 and Reduces Its Antimicrobial Activity

Dying for a cause: NETosis, mechanisms behind an antimicrobial cell death modality

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Heme Utilization by Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae Is Essential and Dependent on Sap Transporter Function

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Haemophilus influenzae Infections in the H. influenzae Type b Conjugate Vaccine Era

(2011) Aarti Agrawal et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biofilms can be dispersed by focusing the immune system on a common family of bacterial nucleoid-associated proteins

(2011) S D Goodman et al.   Mucosal Immunology

Role of Extracellular DNA in Initial Bacterial Adhesion and Surface Aggregation

(2010) T. Das et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Differential and coordinated expression of defensins and cytokines by gingival epithelial cells and dendritic cells in response to oral bacteria

(2010) Lei Yin et al.   BMC IMMUNOLOGY

NontypeableHaemophilus influenzaeInitiates Formation of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps

(2010) Richard A. Juneau et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Different biofilms, different disease? A clinical outcomes study

(2010) Andrew Foreman et al.   LARYNGOSCOPE

The Multifunctional Host Defense Peptide SPLUNC1 Is Critical for Homeostasis of the Mammalian Upper Airway

(2010) Glen McGillivary et al.   PLoS One

Abrogation of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae Protein D function reduces phosphorylcholine decoration, adherence to airway epithelial cells, and fitness in a chinchilla model of otitis media

(2010) Ryan W. Johnson et al.   VACCINE

Respiratory syncytial virus-induced dysregulation of expression of a mucosal β-defensin augments colonization of the upper airway by non-typeableHaemophilus influenzae

(2009) Glen McGillivary et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Enteric defensins are essential regulators of intestinal microbial ecology

(2009) Nita H Salzman et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Compared to placebo, long-term antibiotics resolve otitis media with effusion (OME) and prevent acute otitis media with perforation (AOMwiP) in a high-risk population: A randomized controlled trial

(2008) Amanda J Leach et al.   BMC Pediatrics

Salivary mucins inhibit antibacterial activity of the cathelicidin-derived LL-37 peptide but not the cationic steroid CSA-13

(2008) R. Bucki et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Capsule polysaccharide is a bacterial decoy for antimicrobial peptides

(2008) E. Llobet et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Extracellular DNA Chelates Cations and Induces Antibiotic Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms

(2008) Heidi Mulcahy et al.   PLoS Pathogens