Trichomonas vaginalisvirulence factors: an integrative overview
| Autor: | Robert P. Hirt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Virulence Factors
Trichomonas Virulence Human pathogen Genomics Review Dermatology Computational biology Biology medicine.disease_cause 03 medical and health sciences ADHERENCE Trichomonas vaginalis medicine Humans TRICHOMONAS Pathogen 030304 developmental biology 0303 health sciences 030306 microbiology VAGINAL MICROBIOLOGY PARASITOLOGY Human microbiome HIV biology.organism_classification 3. Good health Infectious Diseases Immunology Microbial Interactions Medical literature |
| Zdroj: | Sexually Transmitted Infections |
| ISSN: | 1472-3263 1368-4973 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051105 |
| Popis: | The elusive nature of Trichomonas vaginalis, the most common, non-viral, sexually transmitted pathogen has hampered our knowledge of its significance for human health for over 150 years. The combination of epidemiology, molecular cell biology, immunology and more recently genomics and other allied omics data, are all contributing at shedding new light onto what is increasingly recognised as a significant human pathogen leading to important health sequelae due to multifaceted interactions with its human host, the human microbiota, bacterial pathogens and viruses. The integrations of these various data are contributing in important ways to refining our understanding of the parasite pathobiology and virulent factors. Indeed, it is increasingly recognised that to rationalise the development of effective prophylactic and therapeutic treatments for human pathogens it is important to integrate the broadest possible spectrum of human-microbial-parasite-virus interactions in relation to qualitative and quantitative variations in the human innate and adaptive defence responses. This short review aims at providing an integrative overview of T vaginalis virulent factors by taking into account the importance of the human-microbiota-parasite-virus interplay in human health. It also highlights selected cellular characteristics of the parasite often overlooked in the biological and medical literature. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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