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is a major nosocomial pathogen and frequent cause of hospital-acquired pneumonia, surgical wound infections and sepsis. As very little is known of the endotoxic potential of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) with respect to human cells or of its ability to stimulate inflammatory signalling via human Toll-like receptors (TLRs), the biological activity of these endotoxins was investigated in human monocytic THP-1 cells and in TLR-deficient HEK-293 cells transfected with human TLR2 and TLR4 constructs. Endotoxins derived from five clinical isolates of and one of ‘genomospecies 9’ showed high potency, which was comparable to that of strain R1 NCTC 13114 LPS, in the induction of the Limulus amoebocyte reaction and interleukin 8 and tumour necrosis factor alpha release from THP-1 cells. Whole UV-killed cells of and ‘genomospecies 9’ stimulated both TLR2- and TLR4-dependent signalling, whereas pure endotoxins of all investigated strains induced signalling via TLR4, but not TLR2.

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