pertussis Fimbriae Adherence Griffith Lee; Kaohsiung Chang Gung Mem. Hosp., Kaohsiung, Taiwan. B-1325 Lee; Kaohsiung Chang Gung Mem. Hosp., Kaohsiung, Taiwan. B-1326 Griffith

143 TUESDAY SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS Final Program B-1316 Potential New Staphylococcal Chromosome Cassette SCC and New LPXTG-Surface Protein Associated with the Transfer of Human Staphylococcus aureus CC8 to Cattle

G. Resch

1 , M. Stojanov 1 , O. Sakwinska 2 , P. Moreillon 1 ; 1 Univ. of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2 Nestlé Res. Ctr., Lausanne, Switzerland. B-1317 Alpha-Toxin Expression in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococ- cus aureus MRSA is Not Associated with Cytotoxicity Following Invasion of Human Osteoblasts by MRSA J. Ranfaing 1 , J. P. Rasigade 2,1 , S. Trouillet 1 , J. Etienne 2,1 , F. Vandenesch 2,1 , F. Laurent 2,1 ; 1 Inserm U851, Lyon, France, 2 Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France. B-1318 Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm Formation Depends on MLST Lineage in Bone and Joint Infections G. G. Aubin . 1,2 , C. Lasserre 1,2 , N. Caroff 2 , D. Lepelletier 1,2 , A. Reynaud 1,2 , J. Lavigne 3 , S. Corvec 1 ; 1 Nantes Univ. Hosp., Nantes, France, 2 Med. Sch., Nantes, France, 3 Montpellier Univ., Nîmes, France. B-1319 Intra-Osteoblastic Persistence of Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus MSSA: An Adaptative Mechanism of Bone and Joint Infections BJI Chronicity F. Valour, J. Rasigade, S. Trouillet, J. Gagnaire, A. Bouaziz, M. Bès, H. Meugnier, S. Lustig, F. Vandenesch, T. Ferry, F. Laurent; Hospices Civils de Lyon - INSERM U851, Lyon, France. B-1320 Increased Likelihood of Infective Endocarditis in Humans but Attenuated Virulence of Clonal Complex 30 Genotype in Staphylococcus aureus is Associated with Distinct Genomic Archi- tecture of its Genome

B. K. Sharma-Kuinkel

1 , V. G. Fowler, Jr. 1 , S. Ahn 1 , T. H. Rude 1 , E. F. Mongodin 2 , S. R. Gill 3 ; 1 Duke Univ., Durham, NC, 2 Univ. of Maryland Sch. of Med. - IGS, Baltimore, 3 Univ. of Rochester Sch. of Med. and Dentistry, Rochester, NY. B-1321 Antibiotic Resistance Due to Target Gene Mutations Affect- ing Virulence in Klebsiella pneumoniae Y. Tsai, L. Siu; Natl. Inst. of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, Natl. Hlth. Res. Inst., Miaoli, Taiwan. B-1322 Pertussis Fimbrial Proteins Mediate Adherence to Primary Human Airway Epithelial Cells: A Model to Study

B. pertussis Fimbriae Adherence

C. P. Guevara 1 , T. Starner 1 , P. B. McCray, Jr 1 , J. Zabner 1 , F. R. Mooi 2 , D. P. Greenberg 3 , M. D. Decker 4 , O. G. Gomez-Duarte 4 ; 1 Univ. of Iowa Coll. of Med., Iowa City, IA, 2 Ctr. for Infectious Disease Control, Bilthoven, Neth- erlands, 3 Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med., Pittsburgh, PA, 4 Vanderbilt Univ. Sch. of Med., Nashville, TN. B-1323 Delineating the Magnitude of Virulence in KPC + Organ- isms

M. Griffith

1,2 , M. Malczynski 2 , G. Barajas 2 , C. Qi 2,3 , M. Scheetz 1,2 ; 1 Mid- western Univ., Downers Grove, IL, 2 Northwestern Mem. Hosp., Chicago, IL, 3 Northwestern Univ., Chicago, IL. B-1324 Sodium Salicylate Inhibited Hyper-Mucosity of Klebsiellae Pneumoniae and Enhanced Leukocyte Phagocytosis and Bacteri- cidal Activity

C. Lee; Kaohsiung Chang Gung Mem. Hosp., Kaohsiung, Taiwan. B-1325

Sialic Acid Involved in Hypermucoviscosity Phenotype and Resistance to Phagocytosis of Klebsiella pneumoniae by Neutro- phils

C. Lee; Kaohsiung Chang Gung Mem. Hosp., Kaohsiung, Taiwan. B-1326

Comparative Virulence of KPC + and KPC - Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Galleria mellonella Model

M. Griffith

1,2 , M. Advincula 1 , M. Malczynski 2 , G. Barajas 2 , C. Qi 2,3 , M. Scheetz 1,2 ; 1 Midwestern Univ., Downers Grove, IL, 2 Northwestern Mem. Hosp., Chicago, IL, 3 Northwestern Univ., Chicago, IL. B-1327 Relationship Between Resistance Mechanisms and Potential Virulence in Acinetobacter spp. Strains Using the Caenorhabditis elegans Model

P. Espinal