Displacement of bacterial pathogens from mucus and Caco-2 cell surface by lactobacilli.

abstract：:The effect of various energy sources and metabolic intermediates on the attachment of Treponema pallidum to baby rabbit genital organ (BRGO) cells in culture was examined. Pyruvate and glucose enhanced the motility of T. pallidum in vitro. Pyruvate increased significantly the attachment of treponemes to BRGO cells whe...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Wong GH,Steiner BM

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subtractive hybridisation was used to screen for and identify conserved DNA sequences associated with clinical, clonal populations of Staphylococcus aureus. DNA from S. aureus strain ISP8 (a clinical isolate) was digested with TaqI and hybridised with randomly fragmented pooled DNA from 10 non-clinical (community) iso...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： el-Adhami WA,Stewart PR,Matthaei KI

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Leptospira interrogans serogroup Icterohaemorrhagiae strains have been described as causing disease in both humans and animals and as being present worldwide. Icterohaemorrhagiae and Copenhageni serovars are known to cause severe disease in their hosts, and zoonotic outbreaks have been described. The genetic si...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Jaeger LH,Pestana CP,Carvalho-Costa FA,Medeiros MA,Lilenbaum W

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cornyeform bacterium was isolated from a blood culture from a 24-year-old man with familial hypertrophic non-obstructive cardiomyopathy, chronic abuse of anabolic steroids and prior admission to hospital because of clinical signs of sepsis. 16S rRNA gene analysis unambiguously identified Gordonia terrae. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Grisold AJ,Roll P,Hoenigl M,Feierl G,Vicenzi-Moser R,Marth E

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zygomycosis, a relatively uncommon infection, usually occurs among immunocompromised individuals. It has been reported only rarely in trauma patients. A fatal case is reported of pulmonary and rapidly progressive cutaneous zygomycosis in a young, otherwise healthy farmer, with multiple bone fractures, wounds and soft ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kontogiorgi M,Floros I,Koroneos A,Vamvouka C,Paniara O,Roussos C,Routsi C

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrolysis mass spectrometry (PyMS), a highly discriminatory method for comparison of isolates, was used to assess the homogeneity of colonies taken from apparently pure cultures of Escherichia coli in 10 urine specimens. Ten randomly selected colonies were subcultured from each urine for comparison. For six urines, th...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Freeman R,Sisson PR,Burdess D

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EDTA-released outer-membrane antigen complexes were prepared from 172 laboratory and reference strains and 43 fresh clinical or faecal isolates representing 20 species or subspecies of Bacteroides, together with 13 species of other genera. These antigens were titrated against antisera to whole, live cells of 21 specie...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Poxton IR,Brown R,Collee JG

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method is described for testing milk specimens from nursing mothers for the presence of RNA-dependent DNA-polymerase activity. Positive results were obtained in five of 137 women (3.6%) without a family history of breast cancer, and in six of 31 women (19.3%) with a family history of breast cancer. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： McFarlane ES,Ryan SM,Mann E

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosocomial infections with enterococci are an increasing problem in modern medical practice due to the development of resistance to a wide range of antibiotics, including the glycopeptides vancomycin and teicoplanin. An increasing number of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) have been cultured from clinical specim...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mackenzie CR,Hucke C,MÜller D,Seidel K,Takikawa O,DÄubener W

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small round viruses (SRV) were isolated from the faeces of diarrhoeic calves from three farms. All three SRV preparations caused diarrhoea experimentally in gnotobiotic calves. Each preparation contained viral particles of two morphological types, "astrovirus-like" and "calicivirus-like", and from one preparation the ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Woode GN,Bridger JC

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea (CDAD) is the most common hospital-acquired diarrhoea, and is a major type of gastroenteritis infection in nursing homes and facilities for the elderly. In this study the antimicrobial activity of the two-component lantibiotic, lacticin 3,147, against a range of genetically d...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rea MC,Clayton E,O'Connor PM,Shanahan F,Kiely B,Ross RP,Hill C

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several imipenem-susceptible and -resistant Aeromonas veronii biovar sobria isolates with different morphologies and antimicrobial susceptibilities recovered from bile samples of a patient with cholangitis were analysed. These isolates belonged to the same clone and the imipenem-resistant strains showed overexpression...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sánchez-Céspedes J,Figueras MJ,Aspiroz C,Aldea MJ,Toledo M,Alperí A,Marco F,Vila J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 287 Acinetobacter isolates belonging to DNA groups 2 (A. baumannii) and 13TU was collected consecutively from 46 hospitals and typed by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprinting with primers DAF-4 and ERIC-2. With a similarity coefficient of >/=72% as a cut-off value, 37 clusters of genotypically si...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Spence RP,Towner KJ,Henwood CJ,James D,Woodford N,Livermore DM

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence variations located at the signal sequence and mid-region within the vacA gene, the 3'-end of the cagA gene, the indel motifs at the 3'-end of the cag pathogenicity island and the regions upstream of the vacA and ribA genes were determined by PCR in 19 paired antral or antrum and corpus Helicobacter pylori iso...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Carroll IM,Ahmed N,Beesley SM,Khan AA,Ghousunnissa S,Moráin CAÓ,Habibullah CM,Smyth CJ

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The resistance of Balamuthia mandrillaris to physical, chemical and radiological conditions was tested. Following treatments, viability was determined by culturing amoebae on human brain microvascular endothelial cells for up to 12 days. B. mandrillaris cysts were resistant to repeated freeze-thawing (five times), tem...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Siddiqui R,Ortega-Rivas A,Khan NA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intratracheal administration of purified Pseudomonas aeruginosa exoenzyme S elicited extensive, grossly observable damage in the rat lung within 2 h. Light and electronmicroscopy revealed injury and necrosis of bronchial epithelium, type I pneumocytes and capillary endothelial cells after 1 h; associated haemorrhage, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Woods DE,Hwang WS,Shahrabadi MS,Que JU

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single-copy gene, designated TruMDR2, encoding an ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter was cloned and sequenced from the dermatophyte Trichophyton rubrum. The ORF of TruMDR2 was 4048 nt and the deduced amino acid sequence showed high homology with ABC transporters involved in drug efflux in other fungi. The encode...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Fachin AL,Ferreira-Nozawa MS,Maccheroni W,Martinez-Rossi NM

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria sicca is rarely associated with clinical infections and to the authors' knowledge this organism has not been reported as a causative agent of infected biloma (liver abscess). A case of a diabetic man with infected biloma due to N. sicca after repeated transcatheter arterial embolization for hepatocellular ca...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Chung HC,Teng LJ,Hsueh PR

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic diversity between major meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) lineages was probed using fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism (FAFLP) as a random genome sampling tool. Genomic DNA was digested with endonucleases BglII and Csp6I and a subset of the restricted fragments were amplifie...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Desai D,Ellington MJ,Arnold C,Desai M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A commercial method (RAPIDEC ur; bioMérieux UK Ltd, Basingstoke) and an in-house scheme based on conventional tests were compared for the identification of 179 commonly encountered gram-negative urinary pathogens. The methods identified correctly to genus level 97% and 84% of organisms, respectively. RAPIDEC ur was su...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Batchelor BI

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a paucity of information about the factors associated with oral colonization with Candida species and the changes associated with antiretroviral (ARV) therapy. This study investigated the role of ARV therapy and other factors in a study population. Relevant clinical and laboratory information was obtained and...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Owotade FJ,Patel M,Ralephenya TRMD,Vergotine G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possession of any of eight different plasmids by Staphylococcus aureus strain 649--either singly or simultaneously (in no. 649MR)--caused changes in growth kinetics. Six of the plasmids caused an increase in exponential doubling time (by 8-25%), and most also altered the duration of the lag period. Strain 649MR wa...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lacey RW,Chopra I

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbiota of the human oropharynx plays an important role in health through involvement in the aetiology of infection and the carriage of adventitious pathogens. Despite this, there are few models available for the preclinical assessment of novel antimicrobials directed to the human throat. We have profiled bacte...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Humphreys GJ,McBain AJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mouse enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) infection model was developed with a combination of germ-free (GF) mice and hyper-toxigenic EHEC (HT-EHEC) O157:H7 strain 6. The HT-EHEC strain 6 produced both Shiga-like toxin (SLT)-1 1.0 microg/mI and SLT-2 8.2 microg/ml in vitro. Eight-week-old germ-free mice were ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Taguchi H,Takahashi M,Yamaguchi H,Osaki T,Komatsu A,Fujioka Y,Kamiya S

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to gentamicin, tobramycin and kanamycin (GmrTmrKmr) in strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from clinical sources in Australia is mediated by a 4.7 kb transposable element, designated Tn4001. A 2.5 kb HindIII fragment which maps symmetrically within Tn4001, and encompasses the aminoglycoside-resistance...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lyon BR,Gillespie MT,Byrne ME,May JW,Skurray RA

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-2 (IL-2)-activated lymphocytes interact directly with, and inhibit, the growth of Candida albicans hyphae. C. albicans-stimulated natural killer (NK1.1+) lymphocytes were demonstrated to secrete a soluble product capable of directly affecting C. albicans yeast forms. Antibodies specific for interferon-gamm...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mathews HL,Witek-Janusek L

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first report, to our knowledge, of two temporally and geographically related nosocomial Asaia lannensis infections in a paediatric setting. Two patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy awaiting cardiac transplantation developed bacteraemia during their hospital stay. The physical location of both pa...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Juretschko S,Beavers-May TK,Stovall SH

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunist nosocomial pathogen of world-wide importance and produces severe infections in immunocompromised patients. However, the virulence factors contributing to its pathogenic properties are not well known. The effect of normal human serum against 18 clinical isolates of the most pre...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： García A,Solar H,González C,Zemelman R

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the introduction of the dengue-2 (16681) virus by intradermal (i.d.) injection into the footpads of mice, Langerhans cells (LCs) increased in numbers within 24 h at the site of injection and neutralising antibody developed. On comparing the i.d. and intramuscular (i.m.) routes, antibody was produced more rapidly...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Taweechaisupapong S,Sriurairatana S,Angsubhakorn S,Yoksan S,Khin MM,Sahaphong S,Bhamarapravati N

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction. Neonatal infection with Cronobacter sakazakii can cause severe intestinal damage and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). The inflammasome and Toll-like receptors mediate intestinal damage caused by other intestinal pathogens causing NEC, but the exact mechanism is unclear.Aim. We evaluated the molecular mec...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Chen Z,Zhang Y,Lin R,Meng X,Zhao W,Shen W,Fan H

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00