Thursday, 11th October The 2nd Prato Conference on the Pathogenesis of Bacterial Diseases of Animals 2012
Session 5: Mechanisms of Pathogenesis
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Thursday, 11th October
Salone Grollo
Chair: Joachim Frey
Sponsored by:
- Rhodococcus equi virulence: not all is the plasmid's fault - Jose Vazquez-Boland
- Single-cell measurement of F1651 and Pap fimbrial phase variation in real-time - Josée Harel
- Sequence diversity and cytotoxicity of the leukotoxin of Mannheimia species isolated from cases of ovine mastitis - Joanne L Allen
Tea/Coffee Break
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Thursday, 11th October
Sala Billiardo, Sala Specchi & Main Bar
Session 5 (continued)
11:00AM - 12:40PM
Thursday, 11th October
Salone Grollo
Chair: Robert Moore
- The surfaceome of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae displays an extensive population of multifunctional endoproteolytic cleavage fragments derived from the P97 and P102 adhesin families - Steven P Djordjevic
- Polyamines are required for virulence and expression of virulence loci in Salmonella Typhimurium - Lotte Jelsbak
- The siderophore esterases Fes and IroD contribute to virulence of avian extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli - Charles M. Dozois
- Identification of redundant metabolic pathways essential for virulence of Salmonella enterica and their potential as targets for antimicrobial therapy - John E Olsen
Lunch at Venue
12:40PM - 2:00PM
Thursday, 11th October
Sala Billiardo, Sala Specchi & Main Bar
Session 5 (continued)
2:00PM - 3:40PM
Thursday, 11th October
Salone Grollo
Chair: Richard Zuerner
Sponsored by:
- Regulation of Burkholderia pseudomallei motility and virulence by a novel two-component signal transduction system - John D Boyce
- Identification of virulence factors of fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum using a gnotobiotic model system - Ingeborg Frans
- Identification and functional analysis of a bacitracin resistance locus from Clostridium perfringens - Xiaoyan Han
- F17-like fimbriae are important for full virulence in Gallibacterium anatis - Anders M Bojesen
Tea/Coffee Break
3:40PM - 4:10PM
Thursday, 11th October
Sala Billiardo, Sala Specchi & Main Bar
Session 5 (continued)
4:10PM - 5:00PM
Thursday, 11th October
Salone Grollo
Chair: Duncan Maskell
Sponsored by:
Poster Session
5:00PM - 6:30PM
Thursday, 11th October
Sala Veneziana
- An investigation regarding eradication and diagnosis of Dichelobacter nodosus and the presence of Fusobacterium necrophorum in footrot affected herds - Øystein Angen
- Influence of ymoA gene mutations on enterotoxin Yst production by Yersinia enterocolitica - Agata Bancerz-Kisiel
- Primary investigations on the sero-reactivity of various animal species to major serogroups of Leptospira interrogans in Morocco - Abdelali Benkirane
- Survivability of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae on dry surfaces and dust - Christopher Browne
- Nucleases and And Nucleotide Transport Operons of Pathogenic Mycoplasmas - Glenn F Browning
- Correlation between clinical manifestations of footrot in Swedish sheep flocks and Dichelobacter nodosus strains - Sara Frosth
- Effect of human intestinal microbiota and Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron on Escherichia coli O157:H7 transcriptomic response: multiple aspects of EHEC adaptation. - Josee Harel
- Screening of phytogenics against Lawsonia intracellularis with a flow cytometric viability assay - Andreas Köstelbauer
- Seroprevalence of Leptospira spp. infections in cattle seropositive to Brucella abortus in oficial diagnostics tests - Anna Lima
- Brucella spp. DNA in the semen of seronegative bulls by polymerase chain reaction - Anna M.C. Lima-Ribeiro
- A clonal outbreak of upper respiratory disease in horses caused by Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus - Susanne Lindahl
- Successful transformation of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae strains with self-replicating plasmids and optimisation of transformation conditions - Gareth Maglennon
- PCR-RFLP analysis of Bordetella bronchiseptica isolates from different animal species to detect the possible signs of host-adaptation - Tibor Magyar
- Environmental reservoirs of the footrot pathogen Dichelobacter nodosus and transmission dynamics of the disease - Mohd Muzafar
- Genetic diversity and epizootiology of chlamydiae prevalent among the domestic and feral avian species in Russia. - Alexander N. Panin
- Complete sequence of two virulence-associated plasmids from necrotic enteritis isolates Clostridium perfringens type A and comparison with C. perfringens plasmids - Valeria Parreira
- Clonal relationships between human and equine Streptococcus equi ssp. zooepidemicus isolates - Sinikka Pelkonen
- Aeromonas salmonicida subsp salmonicida genomic diversity analysis: identification of two novel genetic elements potentially related to virulence - Katherine H. Tanaka
- Studies on virulence-associated proteins of the horse pathogen Rhodococcus Equi. - Jean L. Whittingham