Localisation of the mitogenic epitope of staphylococcal enterotoxin B.

abstract：:Bacterial invasion of host epithelial cells plays an important role in the pathogenesis of periodontal diseases; however, the interactions between subgingival species and the gingival crevice cells are not fully understood. This study determined the prevalence of a group of oral bacterial species on or in epithelial c...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Colombo AV,Silva CM,Haffajee A,Colombo APV

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli isolates (n=2629) were collected between 1996 and 2000 from 2100 Thai children less than 12 years of age with acute diarrhoea. Enterotoxigenic (ETEC), enteroinvasive (EIEC), Shiga-toxin-producing (STEC), enteropathogenic (EPEC) and enteroaggregative (EAEC) E. coli were identified by their virulence ma...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ratchtrachenchai OA,Subpasu S,Hayashi H,Ba-Thein W

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral malodour is thought to be caused mainly by the production of volatile sulfide compounds (VSCs) by anaerobic Gram-negative oral bacteria. Previous studies have shown that these bacteria are susceptible to blue light (400-500 nm wavelength). In the present study, we tested the effect of blue light in the presence o...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sterer N,Jeffet U,Dadoun A,Greenstein RB,Kohavi D

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with AIDS frequently develop diarrhoeal illness. In this randomized, controlled study, 260 patients were screened for those who had not had diarrhoea in the preceding 3 months and who had received a stable highly active antiretroviral therapy regimen for at least 6 weeks prior to the study enrollment. A total...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Huang DB,Zhou J

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs) are among the most common hospital-acquired infections. We aimed to survey methicillin resistance, biofilm production and susceptibility to vancomycin, linezolid and other antibiotics for staphylococci isolated from CRBSIs. METHODOLOGY:Fifty-eight isolates [20 S...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hashem AA,Abd El Fadeal NM,Shehata AS

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were vaccinated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Leptospira interrogans serovar pomona or hardjo, or with the polysaccharide (PS) fraction of the LPS, or with an immunoconjugate of PS and diphtheria toxoid (DT). Maximum agglutinin titres were found 6-10 weeks after vaccination with LPS or PS-DT conjugate; the l...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Midwinter A,Faine S,Adler B

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxin (CTX) production in 34 human and 22 animal strains of Campylobacter jejuni isolated in Japan and other countries was studied by three assay systems described previously. Furthermore, cholera-like enterotoxin production by these strains was tested by reversed passive latex agglutination (RPLA). CTX titres in ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Misawa N,Ohnishi T,Itoh K,Takahashi E

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, several PCR assays based on 16S rRNA and virulence-associated genes are available for detection of Legionella pneumophila. So far, no genotyping method has been published that can discriminate between serogroups and monoclonal subgroups of the most common L. pneumophila serogroup 1. Our first approach was t...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Thürmer A,Helbig JH,Jacobs E,Lück PC

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catechin, a constituent of tea, possesses various bioactivities. In particular, the most abundant catechin in tea is epigallocatechin gallate (EGCg), which has an anti-inflammatory effect. In the present study, the usability of EGCg for osteomyelitis treatment was examined. Osteomyelitis is a difficult disease to cure...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ishida I,Kohda C,Yanagawa Y,Miyaoka H,Shimamura T

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most hospital bacteriologists have divided staphylococci into two groups: Staphylococcus aureus and the coagulase-negative staphylococci of which the novobiocin-resistant varieties are termed S. saprophyticus. The identification of S. aureus has been easy but that of the other staphylococci has provided some difficult...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Reuther JW

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characterization and tracking of pathogenic micro-organisms in the clinical laboratory and public health environment demand schemes that are easy to standardize and use, are automated and high-throughput, and provide portable data. A combined genomarkers approach for Salmonella enterica based on comparative sequen...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bishop C,Honisch C,Goldman T,Mosko M,Keng S,Arnold C,Gharbia S

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following characterisation by phenotypic tests and amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis (ARDRA), 50 tetracycline-resistant (MIC > or = 16 mg/L) Acinetobacter strains from clinical (n = 35) and aquatic (n = 15) samples were analysed by PCR for tetracycline resistance (Tet) determinants of classes A-E. All the c...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Guardabassi L,Dijkshoorn L,Collard JM,Olsen JE,Dalsgaard A

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine the frequency and distribution of human verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) O157 and non-O157 in the Republic of Ireland, and also to examine the presence of virulence genes in these isolates. This genetic information combined with phenotypic tests was used to produce a compl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Carroll AM,Gibson A,McNamara EB

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of toxins A and B by Clostridium difficile was greatly enhanced under biotin-limited conditions, in which a 140-kDa protein was expressed strongly. Gene cloning revealed that this protein was a homologue of formylglycinamidine ribonucleotide synthetase (FGAM synthetase, EC 6.3.5.3), which is known as Pu...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Maegawa T,Karasawa T,Ohta T,Wang X,Kato H,Hayashi H,Nakamura S

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：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：:Saksenaea erythrospora is a species of the order Mucorales recently described and reported as a cause of human mucormycosis. We report a case of S. erythrospora in a man involved in a serious sailing accident causing deep skin and soft tissue contamination with soil and water. Direct microscopic examination of the cli...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Relloso S,Romano V,Landaburu MF,Herrera F,Smayevsky J,Veciño C,Mujica MT

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction. The emergence of novel strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor biotype has gained attention due to causing several epidemics around the world. Variant strains have evolved as a result of the acquisition of genes that confer extended virulence and pathogenicity.Aim. This study aimed to determine the presence...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mohanraj RS,Samanta P,Mukhopadhyay AK,Mandal J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusobacterium necrophorum, a Gram-negative anaerobe, causes a variety of necrotic infections in humans and animals. There are two subspecies: subsp. necrophorum and subsp. funduliforme. In cattle, subsp. necrophorum is more prevalent and production of leukotoxin is a major virulence factor. The leukotoxin operon (lktB...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Tadepalli S,Stewart GC,Nagaraja TG,Narayanan SK

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:The genetic characteristics of Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains isolated in 2004 and 2005 in Mozambique were assessed in this study to determine whether the pandemic clone of V. parahaemolyticus O3 : K6 and O4 : K68 serotypes has spread to Mozambique. Fifty-eight V. parahaemolyticus strains isolated from hospitalized d...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ansaruzzaman M,Chowdhury A,Bhuiyan NA,Sultana M,Safa A,Lucas M,von Seidlein L,Barreto A,Chaignat CL,Sack DA,Clemens JD,Nair GB,Choi SY,Jeon YS,Lee JH,Lee HR,Chun J,Kim DW

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two carbapenem-non-susceptible Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates, Z2554 and Z2110, were collected from a hospital in China and analysed by PFGE. K. pneumoniae Z2554 and Z2110 were genetically unrelated and showed resistance to ertapenem, and reduced susceptibility to imipenem and meropenem. Analysis of their beta-lactama...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Wang XD,Cai JC,Zhou HW,Zhang R,Chen GX

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevotella intermedia and the newly described P. nigrescens cannot be reliably distinguished by phenotypic tests. In this study, restriction endonuclease digestion of amplified 16S rDNA (16S rDNA PCR-RFLP) was used to generate restriction profiles of the type strains of P. intermedia and P. nigrescens and 43 fresh iso...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Milsom SE,Sprague SV,Dymock D,Weightman AJ,Wade WG

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood cultures are sometimes obtained from intravascular catheters for convenience. However, there is controversy regarding this practice. The authors compared the diagnostic test characteristics of blood cultures obtained from intravascular catheters and peripheral veins. Relevant studies for inclusion in this review...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Falagas ME,Kazantzi MS,Bliziotis IA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This paper aims to evaluate the antimicrobial resistance of Esherichia coli isolates from children under 5 years old, with and without diarrhoea, who were hospital outpatients in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. It also looks at the antimicrobial activity of fruit extracts against selected multidrug-resistant (MDR) E...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Uribe-Beltrán MJ,Ahumada-Santos YP,Díaz-Camacho SP,Eslava-Campos CA,Reyes-Valenzuela JE,Báez-Flores ME,Osuna-Ramírez I,Delgado-Vargas F

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that produces several virulence factors such as lectin A, pyocyanin, elastase and rhamnolipids. These compounds are controlled transcriptionally by three quorum-sensing circuits, two based on the synthesis and detection of N-acyl-homoserine-lactone termed the Las and...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： García-Reyes S,Soberón-Chávez G,Cocotl-Yanez M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study between February 2003 and June 2004, stool specimens of children less than 2 years of age with diarrhoea (n=218) and without diarrhoea (n=86), living in Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil, were examined for the presence of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli. E. coli isolates were tested by colony blot...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Spano LC,Sadovsky ADI,Segui PN,Saick KW,Kitagawa SMS,Pereira FEL,Fagundes-Neto U,Scaletsky ICA

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The move towards pathology networks and hub-and-spoke models of medical laboratory service provision has significantly changed the flow of samples, and the impact of results on patients, over recent years. At the same time advances in technology, including rapid, simple to use molecular platforms, are changing the way...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rabinowicz S,O'Hare M,Moore LSP,Mughal N

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae meningitis has recently become an increasingly common cause of central nervous system infection. The invasion of bacteria within the subarachnoid space stimulates the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, triggering a host immune response. The aim of the present study was to evalu...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Barichello T,Simões LR,Valvassori SS,Generoso JS,Aveline PEDV,Dominguini D,Elias SG,Vilela MC,Quevedo J,Teixeira AL

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00