<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><OAI-PMH xmlns="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/OAI-PMH.xsd"><responseDate>2026-10-01T04:12:01Z</responseDate><request verb="GetRecord" metadataPrefix="oai_dc" identifier="oai:10442/0497">https://phdtheses.ekt.gr/eadd_oai/request</request><GetRecord><record><header><identifier>oai:10442/0497</identifier><datestamp>2024-07-12T22:22:14Z</datestamp><setSpec>hdl_10442_2</setSpec></header><metadata><oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:description xmlns:lang="en">THE FIRST CASE OF A HEAVILY MUCOID STRAIN (MS) OR PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA BACTEREMIA IS REPORTED IN A HOSPITALIZED 78-YR-OLD WOMAN WITH DRUG-INDUCED HEPATITIS DUE TO ANTITUBERCULOUS THERAPY. A REVERTANT NON MUCOID VARIANT (RNMV) FROM THE PARENTAL MS WAS OBTAINED BY SERIAL PASSAGE ON TRYPTICASE SOY AGAR. THE EXTRACELLULAR MATERIAL (SLIME) FROM BOTH STRAINS WAS EXTRACTED BY METHODS AS FOR THE EXTRACTION OF GLYCOLIPOPROTEIN (GLP). GROSS CHEMICAL ANALYSES OF THE MS'S AND RNMV'S SLIME FOR URONIC ACIDS, CARBOHYDRATES, PROTEINS AND LIPIDS WERE 65%, 5.5%, 1.0%, 0.9% AND 16%, 48%, 11% AND 2% OF DRY WEIGHT, RESPECTIVELY. ANTIBODIES TO THE EXTRACELLULAR MATERIAL OF BOTH STRAINS WERE RAISED IN NEW ZEALAND WHITE RABBITS AND CROSS REACTIVITY IN HIGH TITERS AMONG THEM WAS SHOWN BY PASSIVE HEMAGGLUTINATION. ALSO, IT WAS SHOWN THAT THE EXTRACELLULAR MATERIAL OF THE RNMV EXERTED MITOGENIC ACTIVITY ON HUMAN PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTES WHILE THE MS'S EXTRACELLULAR MATERIAL WAS NOT MITOGENIC. THE MAJOR COMPONENT OF THE MS'S SLIME WAS ISOLATED BY ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY (IEC) AND GEL FILTRATION. IT WAS CHARACTERIZED, BY GELATINIZATION WITH CACL2, VISCOCITY MEASUREMENTS AND INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY, AS ALGINATE OF HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT, SIMILAR TO THAT PRODUCED BY MUCOID P.AERUGINOSA STRAINS FROM CYSTIC FIBROSIS. UNDER THE SAME CONDITIONS, IEC OF THE RNMV'S MATERIAL REVEALED TWO MAJOR PEAKS OF WHICH THE FIRST WAS COMPOSED OF NEUTRAL SUGARS (NS) AND PROTEIN IN ABOUT 5:1 RATIO, AND THE SECOND WAS CONSISTEDOF BOTH NS AND URONIC ACIDS. THIS URONIC ACID WAS SEPARATED FROM THE NS MOIETYBY PRECIPITATION WITH CACL2 AND WAS ALSO CHARACTERIZED AS ALGINATE BY INFRAREDSPECTROSCOPY. UREA -SDS- POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS SHOWED THAT THE CELLS OF BOTH MUCOID AND NON MUCOID P.AERUGINOSA STRAINS CONTAIN SMOOTH LIPOPOLYSACCHARID THE RNMV'S SLIME DID NOT BEHAVE AS LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE AS SHOWN BY UREA-SDS POLYACRYLAMIDE ELECTROPHORESIS AND BY LIMULUS AMOEBOCYTE LYSATE PYROTEST.</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:lang="el">ΑΝΑΦΕΡΕΤΑΙ ΓΙΑ ΠΡΩΤΗ ΦΟΡΑ ΣΤΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ Η ΑΠΟΜΟΝΩΣΗ ΠΟΛΥ ΒΛΕΝΝΩΔΟΥΣ ΣΤΕΛΕΧΟΥΣ PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA ΑΠΟ ΚΑΛΛΙΕΡΓΕΙΕΣ ΑΙΜΑΤΟΣ. Η ΕΞΩΚΥΤΤΑΡΙΑ ΟΥΣΙΑ (SLIME) ΤΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΙΚΟΥ ΒΛΕΝΝΩΔΟΥΣ ΣΤΕΛΕΧΟΥΣ (ΜΒΣ) ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΙΣΘΗΚΕ ΩΣ ΑΛΓΙΝΙΚΟ ΥΨΗΛΟΥ ΜΟΡΙΑΚΟΥ ΒΑΡΟΥΣ . ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΜΒΣ ΠΑΡΑΛΗΦΘΗΚΕ ΜΕΤΑ ΑΠΟ ΣΥΝΕΧΕΙΣ IN VITRO ΑΝΑΚΑΛΛΙΕΡΓΕΙΕΣ ΘΥΓΑΤΡΙΚΟ ΜΗ ΒΛΕΝΝΩΔΕΣ ΣΤΕΛΕΧΟΣ (ΘΜΒΣ) ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΟΠΟΙΟ ΑΠΟΜΟΝΩΘΗΚΕ ΕΞΩΚΥΤΤΑΡΙΑ ΟΥΣΙΑ Η ΟΠΟΙΑ ΑΠΟΤΕΛΕΙΤΟ ΑΠΟ ΟΥΡΟΝΙΚΑ ΟΞΕΑ (16%), ΥΔΑΤΑΝΘΡΑΚΕΣ (48%), ΠΡΩΤΕΙΝΗ (11%) ΚΑΙ ΛΙΠΗ (2%). Η ΕΞΩΚΥΤΤΑΡΙΑ ΟΥΣΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΘΜΒΣ ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΙΣΘΗΚΕ ΩΣ ΑΝΑΛΟΓΗ ΤΗΣ ΓΛΥΚΟΛΙΠΟΠΡΩΤΕΙΝΗΣ (GLP) ΤΟΥ SLIME ΠΟΥ ΑΠΟΜΟΝΩΝΕΤΑΙ ΚΑΙ ΑΠΟ ΤΟΥΣ ΕΠΤΑ ΑΝΟΣΟΤΥΠΟΥΣΤΟΥ FISHER. Η ΕΞΩΚΥΤΤΑΡΙΑ ΟΥΣΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΜΒΣ ΔΕΝ ΕΞΑΣΚΕΙ ΜΙΤΟΓΟΝΟ ΔΡΑΣΗ ΣΕ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΙΝΑ ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΙΚΑ ΛΕΜΦΟΚΥΤΤΑΡΑ, ΥΠΑΡΧΟΥΝ ΔΙΑΣΤΑΥΡΟΥΜΕΝΕΣ ΑΝΟΣΟΛΟΓΙΚΕΣ ΑΝΤΙΔΡΑΣΕΙΣ ΜΕΤΑΞΥ ΤΩΝ ΕΞΩΚΥΤΤΑΡΙΩΝ ΟΥΣΙΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΜΒΣ ΚΑΙ ΘΜΒΣ ΕΝΩ ΚΑΙ ΤΑ ΔΥΟ ΣΤΕΛΕΧΗ ΑΠΟΤΕΛΟΥΝΤΑΙ ΑΠΟ SMOOTH ΤΥΠΟ ΛΙΠΟΠΟΛΥΣΑΚΧΑΡΙΤΗ. Η ΕΞΩΚΥΤΤΑΡΙΑ ΟΥΣΙΑ (GLP) ΤΟΥ ΘΜΒΣ ΠΕΡΙΕΧΕΙ ΜΙΚΡΑ ΠΟΣΑ ΑΛΓΙΝΙΚΟΥ.</dc:description><dc:title xmlns:lang="el">ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΙΣΜΟ ΤΗΣ ΕΞΩΚΥΤΤΑΡΙΑΣ ΟΥΣΙΑΣ (SLIME) ΒΑΚΤΗΡΙΑΙΜΙΚΟΥ ΒΛΕΝΝΩΔΟΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΘΥΓΑΤΡΙΚΟΥ ΜΗ ΒΛΕΝΝΩΔΟΥΣ ΣΤΕΛΕΧΟΥΣ PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA</dc:title><dc:title xmlns:lang="en">CHARACTERIZATION OF THE EXTRACELLULAR MATERIAL (SLIME) OF A HEAVILY MUCOID STRAIN OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA ISOLATED FROM BLOOD CULTURES AND OF ITS REVERTANT NONMUCOID VARIANT</dc:title><dc:creator xmlns:lang="en">Anastassiou, Evangelos</dc:creator><dc:creator xmlns:lang="el">Αναστασίου,  Ευάγγελος</dc:creator><dc:date>1987</dc:date><dc:language>gre</dc:language><dc:subject xmlns:lang="el">ΑΛΓΙΝΙΚΟ</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:lang="el">Βακτηριαιμίες</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:lang="el">ΒΛΕΝΝΩΔΕΣ ΣΤΕΛΕΧΟΣ</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:lang="el">Γλυκολιποπρωτεϊνη</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:lang="el">ΕΞΟΚΥΤΤΑΡΙΑ ΟΥΣΙΑ</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:lang="el">ΛΙΠΟΠΟΛΥΣΑΚΧΑΡΙΤΕΣ</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:lang="en">Alginate</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:lang="en">Bacteremia</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:lang="en">GLYCOLIPOPROTEIN GLP</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:lang="en">LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:lang="en">MUCOID STRAIN</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:lang="en">Pseudomonas aeruginosa</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:lang="en">Slime</dc:subject><dc:publisher xmlns:lang="en">University of Patras</dc:publisher><dc:publisher xmlns:lang="el">Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών</dc:publisher><dc:subject xmlns:lang="el">Ιατρική και Επιστήμες Υγείας</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:lang="el">Κλινική Ιατρική</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:lang="en">Medical and Health Sciences</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:lang="en">Clinical Medicine</dc:subject><dc:fathernamelatin>D.</dc:fathernamelatin><dc:identifier>10.12681/eadd/0497</dc:identifier><dc:identifier>http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/0497</dc:identifier><dc:type>PhD Thesis</dc:type></oai_dc:dc></metadata></record></GetRecord></OAI-PMH>