Molecular analysis of Shigella sonnei isolated from three well-documented outbreaks in school children.

abstract：:A novel combination of culturing and DNA-based terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP) analysis was used to investigate the effect of probiotics on antibiotic-induced gut microbiota alterations to determine if a probiotic preparation containing bifidobacteria and lactobacilli, taken during and after ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Engelbrektson A,Korzenik JR,Pittler A,Sanders ME,Klaenhammer TR,Leyer G,Kitts CL

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 178 strains of Escherichia coli, highly resistant to trimethoprim, isolated from hospital patients and patients in the community between 1979 and 1983, was examined for the presence of Tn7 on a plasmid or on the chromosome only, by transposition to RP4 and restriction endonuclease digestion with Hind III. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kraft CA,Timbury MC,Platt DJ

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalase (KatA) is known to play an important role in oxidative stress resistance in many bacterial species and a homologue exists in Helicobacter hepaticus, a member of the enterohepatic Helicobacter species. Here, a katA mutant was constructed by insertional mutagenesis and its oxidative stress phenotype was investi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hong Y,Wang G,Maier RJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to develop a model for the study of gastric spiral bacteria, and based on the observation that Wistar rats do not carry urease-positive spiral bacteria in their gastric mucosa, mucus from a pig naturally colonised by 'Gastrospirillum suis' (an organism with I6S rDNA 99.5% similar to that of 'G. hominis' type ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mendes EN,Queiroz DM,Coimbra RS,Moura SB,Barbosa AJ,Rocha GA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report focuses on the molecular characterization of 22 extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli isolates collected in a German university hospital during a period of 9 months in 2006. Relationship analysis of clinical isolates was done via PFGE, multilocus sequence typing, plasmid profiling and...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Cullik A,Pfeifer Y,Prager R,von Baum H,Witte W

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An affinity procedure with purified, biotinylated human transferrin and streptavidin-agarose was used to identify the transferrin-binding proteins in strains of Haemophilus influenzae. Proteins of 58 and 98 Kda were isolated from total membranes prepared from iron-deficient but not iron-sufficient H. influenzae KC548 ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Schryvers AB

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing incidence of reported scabies in Trinidad, from 24.2/100,000 population in 1984 to 59.5/100,000 in 1985, led to a careful monitoring in 1986 of all patients with post-streptococcal acute glomerulonephritis (PSAGN). There were 181 cases of PSAGN; 84 beta-haemolytic streptococcal isolates from 72 patients...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Reid HF,Bassett DC,Gaworzewska E,Colman G,Poon-King T

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of next-generation sequencing technology has revolutionized the field of prokaryotic genetics and genomics by allowing interrogation of entire genomes, transcriptomes and global transcription factor binding profiles. As more studies employing these techniques have been performed, the state of the art regard...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Valli RXE,Lyng M,Kirkpatrick CL

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of 19 samples of pus which showed red fluorescence with ultraviolet light were screened for the presence of porphyrins by absorption spectrophotometry. All those which showed spectra typical of metal-free porphyrins were analysed by high performance liquid chromatography to identify the porphyrins present. Th...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Brazier JS

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Sporothrix brasiliensis, a member of the Sporothrix schenckii complex, is a major cause of epidemic outbreaks of sporotrichosis due to its greater virulence and ability to evade the immune system. The absence of studies about this species led to this study, with the aim to evaluate the importance of Toll-like r...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rossato L,Silvana Dos Santos S,Ferreira LG,Rogério de Almeida S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of septicaemia with prolonged, refractory hypotension related to Moraxella osloensis isolated in a non-immunocompromised paediatric patient. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Dien Bard J,Lewinski M,Summanen PH,Deville JG

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunodiffusion analysis of Mycobacterium lepraemurium indicated the presence of at lease six antigens. Comparative analysis of the M. lepraemurium antigen-antibody system with similar systems established for other mycobacterial species, showed that M. lepraemurium shared up to two antigens with other species. Althoug...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Navalkar RG,Dalvi RR,Patel PJ

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacteria are dominant in the gut of full-term infants, although colonisation by them is often delayed in preterm neonates. Bifidobacteria are recognised to have beneficial effects on digestive disorders and they might prevent neonatal necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), a gastrointestinal disease that predominantly...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Catala I,Butel MJ,Bensaada M,Popot F,Tessedre AC,Rimbault A,Szylit O

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of Aeromonas spp. with travellers' diarrhoea was studied among 978 Finnish tourists travelling to Morocco in winter (n = 398) and autumn (n = 580) in 1989. Fifty-five isolates from diarrhoeal patients with (n = 16) or without (n = 39) a recent travelling history in a developing country were also includ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hänninen ML,Salmi S,Mattila L,Taipalinen R,Siitonen A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of hospital-acquired (HA) and community-acquired (CA) infections worldwide. Recently, S. aureus strains resistant to meticillin (MRSA) have become established within both communities. We isolated 314 isolates of MRSA from hospitalized patients in a referral hospital (HA isolate...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rahimi F,Katouli M,Pourshafie MR

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human gastric epithelial immortalized GES-1 cells were infected with spiral and coccoid Helicobacter pylori. Scanning electron microscopy was used to determine the ability of the two forms of H. pylori to adhere to GES-1 cells. GES-1 cell apoptosis induced by coccoid and spiral H. pylori was analysed using flow cytome...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Liu ZF,Chen CY,Tang W,Zhang JY,Gong YQ,Jia JH

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case report describes a case of nuclear bilateral Bell's palsy and ageusia associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. Magnetic resonance imaging evidenced T2-weighted hyper-intense protuberantial lesions. Such topography leading to a nuclear palsy contrasts with previously reported infectious diplegia invol...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Trad S,Ghosn J,Dormont D,Stankoff B,Bricaire F,Caumes E

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The presence of alginate-overproducing (Alg+) strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis patients is indicative of chronic infection. The Alg+ phenotype is generally due to a mutation in the mucA gene, encoding an innermembrane protein that sequesters AlgT/U, the alginate-specific sigma factor. AlgT/U...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Pandey S,Delgado C,Kumari H,Florez L,Mathee K

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of oestradiol to three strains of female mice induced the oestrous phase of the reproductive cycle in which there are few or no polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNL) in vaginal smears. This treatment rendered the mice susceptible to genital tract colonisation by serotype 8 of Ureaplasma urealyticum, inocu...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Furr PM,Taylor-Robinson D

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrapartum chemoprophylaxis for pregnant group B streptococcus (GBS) carriers reduces vertical transmission, with a resultant decrease in neonatal as well as maternal morbidity from invasive GBS infection. Current Australian guidelines recommend penicillin for intrapartum prophylaxis of GBS carriers, with erythromyci...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Garland SM,Cottrill E,Markowski L,Pearce C,Clifford V,Ndisang D,Kelly N,Daley AJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report what we believe is the first reported case of Streptococcus mutans endocarditis complicated by vertebral discitis. The case is particularly interesting and topical as it occurred in a patient with pre-existing cardiac valvular disease who had recently had a dental procedure without antibiotic prophylaxis fol...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Biswas S,Bowler ICJW,Bunch C,Prendergast B,Webster DP

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophages in different stages of maturation were found in thin sections of a clinical isolate of Helicobacter (Campylobacter) pylori. Mature phage heads measured 70 x 60 nm and the tail at least 120 nm. Lysogeny was maintained during subculture on blood agar for more than 3 months after isolation from a gastric b...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Schmid EN,von Recklinghausen G,Ansorg R

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male patient of 32 years was referred for surgical drainage and orchidectomy of the right testis following a cycling injury. A Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) test was requested by the surgery department to rule out secondary syphilis. Although serum samples gave a negative result in the VDRL test, quali...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Purwar S,Metgud SC,Gokale SK

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (SDSE) isolates are the most common group C streptococci in humans and reports of invasive infections associated with SDSE have been increasing. Molecular epidemiology studies are an important strategy to trace the emergence and spread of possible well-fit bacterial pathog...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Silva LG,Genteluci GL,Corrêa de Mattos M,Glatthardt T,Sá Figueiredo AM,Ferreira-Carvalho BT

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of the present study were to evaluate in vitro the production of antagonistic compounds against Gardnerella vaginalis by Lactobacillus strains isolated from women with or without bacterial vaginosis (BV), and to select one of the better Lactobacillus producers of such a substance to be tested in vivo us...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Teixeira GS,Carvalho FP,Arantes RME,Nunes AC,Moreira JLS,Mendonça M,Almeida RB,Farias LM,Carvalho MAR,Nicoli JR

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gingival sulcus is the shallow crevice around the tooth, and its epithelium is a gateway for initial bacterial infection in periodontal disease. Recent studies have shown that Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans invades an epithelial cell line, KB cells, in vitro. The aim of the present study was to clarify the c...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kato S,Nakashima K,Inoue M,Tomioka J,Nonaka K,Nishihara T,Kowashi Y

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borderline oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (BORSA) represents a quite poorly understood and inadequately defined phenotype of methicillin resistance. BORSA strains show low, borderline resistance to penicillinase-resistant penicillins (PRPs), with oxacillin MICs typically equal to 1-8 µg ml-1, and in contras...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hryniewicz MM,Garbacz K

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and simple method for counting viable bacteria is described. The technique involves the use of a semi-automatic micropipette and disposable glass-capillary tubes. Viable counts obtained by this method were not significantly different from those obtained by the Miles, Misra and Irwin method or by a pour-plate m...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Slack MP,Wheldon DB

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary differentiation of Leptospira interrogans serovars hardjo and balcanica can be made with antisera that are collected from hamsters after experimental infection with serovar hardjo and selected for high homologous and low or nil heterologous titres, as measured by the microscopic agglutination test. Rabbit ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ris DR,Hamel KL

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The current study has been designed to delineate the efficacy of geraniol (GE) on biofilm formation in Staphylococcus epidermidis as well as the effect of subinhibitory concentrations of GE on the development of adaptive resistance. METHODOLOGY:Biofilm biomass quantification assay was performed to evaluate the...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kannappan A,Sivaranjani M,Srinivasan R,Rathna J,Pandian SK,Ravi AV

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00