Binding of alpha2-laminins by pathogenic and non-pathogenic mycobacteria and adherence to Schwann cells.

abstract：:The PCR was used to detect the presence of Helicobacter pylori in subgingival plaque samples from patients with adult periodontitis. Primers based upon the 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequence of H. pylori were used in a single round of PCR to amplify a 295-bp DNA fragment and the identity of the amplified products ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Riggio MP,Lennon A

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：:Bacteraemia in children is a potentially life-threatening condition. The objective of this study was to determine trends in the aetiology of bacteraemia in children aged 1 month-15 years in England and Wales by collecting data voluntarily reported by National Health Service hospital microbiology laboratories. Over the...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Henderson KL,Johnson AP,Muller-Pebody B,Charlett A,Gilbert R,Sharland M

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2002, a Scottish bat conservationist developed a rabies-like disease and subsequently died. This was caused by infection with European bat lyssavirus 2 (EBLV-2), a virus closely related to Rabies virus (RABV). The source of this infection and the means of transmission have not yet been confirmed. In this study, the...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Johnson N,Phillpotts R,Fooks AR

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is an emerging multidrug-resistant pathogen and very little information is available regarding its imipenem resistance in Latin American countries such as Bolivia. This study investigated the antimicrobial resistance profile of 46 clinical strains from different hospitals in Cochabamba, Bolivia...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sevillano E,Fernández E,Bustamante Z,Zabalaga S,Rosales I,Umaran A,Gallego L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We examined evidence for transmission of Pandorea apista among cystic fibrosis (CF) patients attending paediatric and adult services in one city who had previously been found to harbour related isolates by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). METHODOLOGY:The whole-genome sequences of 18 isolates from this ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kenna DTD,Coward A,Perry C,Pike R,Schaefer U,Turton J,Green H,Jones AM,Bright-Thomas RJ,Burns P,Narayan O,Wilkinson S,Turton JF

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to investigate the antimicrobial susceptibility of the organisms isolated from the nasopharynx of children who presented with acute otitis media (AOM) or otitis media that recurred after amoxicillin therapy. Nasopharyngeal cultures obtained from 72 patients, 40 with AOM and 32 with recu...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Brook I,Gober AE

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Experiments were performed to determine whether a modern flow cytometer could be used to study bacterial populations in suspension, with particular reference to their morphological characteristics and their responses to antibiotics. The FACScan, a commercial benchtop flow cytometer fitted with an air-cooled laser, des...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Gant VA,Warnes G,Phillips I,Savidge GF

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, hospitals in southeastern Europe have faced dramatically high rates of antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. We analysed the evolution of resistance among clinical isolates of A. baumannii group obtained from nine tertiary hospitals throughout Greece over 6 years (2010-2015). Identification an...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Dafopoulou K,Tsakris A,Pournaras S

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A severe case of reptile-associated salmonellosis which caused septicaemia and meningitis in a 2-month-old baby is reported. The infrequent serotype Salmonella enterica subsp.(I) enterica serotype Abony (4,5 : b : enx) was detected in the human sample as well as in the pet turtle's faeces. The importance of regulation...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Van Meervenne E,Botteldoorn N,Lokietek S,Vatlet M,Cupa A,Naranjo M,Dierick K,Bertrand S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terminal restriction fragment-length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis was applied to characterize oral bacterial flora in saliva from 18 healthy subjects and 18 patients with periodontitis. The 16S rRNA genes (rDNAs) of oral bacteria and spirochaetes in saliva were amplified by PCR with a 6'carboxy-fluorescein (6-FAM)-l...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sakamoto M,Takeuchi Y,Umeda M,Ishikawa I,Benno Y

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The locus responsible for mucoid colony morphology in five independent clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from cystic fibrosis patients have been transferred by means of pM060-mediated conjugation to the genetically characterised strain P. aeruginosa PAO. Genetic mapping has shown that in all five strains the...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： MacGeorge J,Korolik V,Morgan AF,Asche V,Holloway BW

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of a strain of Giardia lamblia to benzimidazole carbamates, 5-nitroimidazoles, nitrofurans and other drugs was studied in vitro. Albendazole was the most active compound, with a 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 0.01 mg/L and a minimal lethal concentration (MLC) of less than 0.04 mg/L; the IC50...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Cedillo-Rivera R,Muñoz O

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sorbitol-MacConkey medium has become widely used for the isolation of verotoxigenic (VT+) Escherichia coli O157. However, many organisms other than VT+ E. coli O157, especially other serogroups of E. coli and Proteus spp., may not ferment sorbitol, and thus may be confused initially with VT+ E. coli O157. Rhamnose is ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Chapman PA,Siddons CA,Zadik PM,Jewes L

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent molecular studies have led to the recognition of three distinct species within the Candida parapsilosis complex, namely Candida parapsilosis, Candida orthopsilosis and Candida metapsilosis. As currently available yeast identification systems fail to differentiate these species, there is a paucity of information...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Asadzadeh M,Ahmad S,Al-Sweih N,Khan ZU

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into the value of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) core determinants for cross-protective immunisation the serological relationships between six complete (LPS) core types from Enterobacteriaceae were investigated. Hyperimmune sera were raised in mice by repeated immunisation with heat-killed strains of Salmone...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Nnalue NA,Khan GN,Mustafa N

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is suitable for high-throughput and rapid microbial diagnosis at relatively low cost and can be considered an alternative to conventional biochemical and molecular identification systems in clinical microbiological laboratories...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Jamal WY,Shahin M,Rotimi VO

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of three sulphonamides and trimethoprim against strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa have been studied. Sulphadiazine had most activity, sulphadimidine had little, and the activity of sulphamethoxazole was intermediate. According to their sensitivity to sulphamethoxazole, strains were divided into two grou...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Grey D,Hamilton-Miller JM

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nasal carrier-rate of Staphylococcus aureus in 548 Nigerians aged 9-32 years and attending various educational establishments was 56.4%. This rate decreased with increasing age. A significantly greater proportion of females (65.0%) than males (46.5%) were carriers, but the excess in females was apparent only in su...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lamikanra A,Paul BD,Akinwole OB,Paul MO

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CaNdt80p, the Candida albicans homologue of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae transcription factor ScNdt80p, has been identified as a positive regulator of CDR1, which encodes an efflux pump involved in drug resistance in C. albicans. To investigate the involvement of the putative DNA-binding domain of CaNdt80p in drug res...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Wang JS,Yang YL,Wu CJ,Ouyang KJ,Tseng KY,Chen CG,Wang H,Lo HJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As well as conventional methods such as immunodiffusion, ELISA, or agglutination for the detection of toxin production in Staphylococcus aureus, amplification techniques like PCR allow a very sensitive and specific identification of the genes responsible for enterotoxin B and C, and TSST-1 production. These toxins mig...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Schmitz FJ,Steiert M,Hofmann B,Verhoef J,Hadding U,Heinz HP,Köhrer K

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Globally, specific genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis have been shown to dominate in patients, suggesting that these are more successful pathogens. One such genotype, the F15/LAM4/KZN (KZN) family of M. tuberculosis, has predominated in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, since the early 1990s. This strain recently evol...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ashiru OT,Pillay M,Sturm AW

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis typing was performed on a retrospective set of 129 Moraxella catarrhalis isolates obtained over a 20 month period from 70 children admitted to, or presenting at, the Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The mean age of the children (at the end of the study) wa...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hays JP,Eadie K,Verduin CM,Hazelzet J,Verbrugh H,van Belkum A

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptolysin O (SLO) is a potent cytolytic toxin produced by almost all strains of group A streptococci and is considered an important virulence factor for this organism. In this study we investigated the effect of allicin and aqueous garlic extracts on the haemolytic activity of SLO. All tested materials potentially ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Arzanlou M,Bohlooli S

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lincomycin has a differential effect on exoprotein production by Vibrio cholerae. The production of some proteins, such as cholera toxin and deoxyribonuclease, is stimulated by low concentrations of the drug while production of other proteins, such as protease and alkaline phosphatase, is unaffected. Possible mechanis...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Young DB,Broadbent DA

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is of increasing global concern, threatening to undermine recent progress in reducing child and neonatal mortality. Repurposing older antimicrobials is a prominent strategy to combat multidrug-resistant sepsis. A potential agent is fosfomycin, however, there is scarce data regardi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Williams PCM,Waichungo J,Gordon NC,Sharland M,Murunga S,Kamau A,Berkley JA

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel spirochaete was isolated from a case of severe virulent ovine foot rot (SVOFR) by immunomagnetic separation with beads coated with polyclonal anti-treponemal antisera and prolonged anaerobic broth culture. The as yet unnamed treponeme differs considerably from the only other spirochaete isolated from ovine foo...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Demirkan I,Carter SD,Winstanley C,Bruce KD,McNAIR NM,Woodside M,Hart CA

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and twenty consecutive isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from the County of Avon, UK, were examined by auxotyping and penicillin susceptibility testing. Requirements for proline (Pro), arginine (Arg), hypoxanthine (Hyp), uracil (Ura) and methionine (Met) were determined with a modified Heckels' medium. Pro...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Copley CG,Egglestone SI

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that Providencia alcalifaciens is a diarrhoeal pathogen. It may cause diarrhoea by an invasive mechanism, as it invades cultured mammalian cells in vitro and intestinal epithelial cells of experimentally inoculated rabbits in vivo. To locate the gene(s) involved in invasion, TnphoA mutants of...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rahman M,Monira S,Nahar S,Ansaruzzaman M,Alam K,Alam M,Albert MJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00