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Staphylococcus Aureus Sara Regulates Inflammation And Colonization During Central Nervous System Biofilm Formation, Jessica N. Snowden, Matthew K. Beaver, Karen Beenken, Alexander R. Horswill, Tammy L. Kielian

Journal Articles: Pediatrics

Infection is a frequent and serious complication following the treatment of hydrocephalus with CSF shunts, with limited therapeutic options because of biofilm formation along the catheter surface. Here we evaluated the possibility that the sarA regulatory locus engenders S. aureus more resistant to immune recognition in the central nervous system (CNS) based on its reported ability to regulate biofilm formation. We utilized our established model of CNS catheter-associated infection, similar to CSF shunt infections seen in humans, to compare the kinetics of bacterial titers, cytokine production and inflammatory cell influx elicited by wild type S. aureus versus an isogenic sarA …