In-vitro susceptibility of Giardia lamblia to albendazole, mebendazole and other chemotherapeutic agents.

abstract：:Introduction. In May-June 2018, an outbreak of campylobacteriosis involved students and school staff from kindergartens and primary schools in Pescara, southern Italy.Aim. We present details of the epidemiological and microbiological investigation, and the findings of the analytical study, as well as the implemented c...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sorgentone S,Busani L,Calistri P,Robuffo G,Bellino S,Acciari V,Ferri M,Graziani C,Antoci S,Lodi F,Alfonsi V,Cammà C,Fazii P,Andrianou X,Cito F,Lombardi G,Centorotola G,D'Amario M,D'Alterio N,Savini V,De Massis F,

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of a meningococcal vaccine capable of generating long-lasting immunity in all age groups is still a high priority worldwide. Iron-regulated outer-membrane proteins have attracted considerable attention in recent years and it has become increasingly evident that the meningococcal transferrin-binding proteins...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ala'Aldeen DA

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the first quarter of 1996, a major outbreak of clinical infection caused by multiresistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (MRKP) occurred in the neonatal ward of the 'Maternité Wassila Bourguiba' in Tunis, Tunisia. In total, 32 isolates of MRKP, comprising 23 clinical isolates and nine surveillance isolates, were recove...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ben-Hamouda T,Foulon T,Ben-Cheikh-Masmoudi A,Fendri C,Belhadj O,Ben-Mahrez K

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 90 non-replicate imipenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (IRPA) Malaysian isolates collected between October 2005 and March 2008 were subjected to a screening test for detection of the integron and the gene cassette. Class 1 integrons were detected in 54 IRPA clinical isolates, whilst three isolates c...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Khosravi Y,Tay ST,Vadivelu J

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmid profiles, and their association with antimicrobial resistance, of 60 strains of Aeromonas hydrophila isolated from fish, shellfish and water were investigated. Only two strains were susceptible to all the antimicrobial agents tested; the highest incidences of resistance were to tetracycline (96.7%), prysta...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Borrego JJ,Moriñigo MA,Martinez-Manzanares E,Bosca M,Castro D,Barja JL,Toranzo AE

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pro-Pro-Glu (PPE) protein family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis includes 69 glycine-rich proteins with a conserved N-terminal domain. Their role in tuberculosis is unknown, but it has been speculated that they may have an important immunological significance. In this investigation, the immunogenicity of the ppe44 (...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bonanni D,Rindi L,Lari N,Garzelli C

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synergy between fluvastatin, at clinically unachievable concentrations, and fluconazole against Candida albicans has been reported. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the in-vitro activity of fluconazole alone and in combination with clinically achievable concentrations of pravastatin and fluvastatin aga...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Nash JD,Burgess DS,Talbert RL

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eikenella corrodens, a commensal of the human oral cavity, is generally associated with bite wounds and head and neck infections. Neonatal infections are rare. We report two cases of premature birth associated with maternofetal E. corrodens infection. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Garnier F,Masson G,Bedu A,Masson P,Decroisette E,Guigonis V,Fermeaux V,De Barbentane MC,Denis F,Ploy MC

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:The determinant responsible for the ability of Bacteroides spp. to inhibit polymorph phagocytic killing of aerobic organisms has not yet been identified. Therefore, the roles of lipopolysaccharide and capsular polysaccharide of B. fragilis were investigated. Serum-resistant and serum-sensitive strains of Proteus mirab...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Connolly JC,McLean C,Tabaqchali S

更新日期：1984-06-01 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：:Breakthrough contamination of tuberculosis (TB) cultures is a problem in that it allows the overgrowth of another bacterium present in the sputum specimen, which can potentially mask the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The aim of this study was to isolate and characterize the bacterial organisms responsible fo...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： McClean M,Stanley T,Stanley S,Maeda Y,Goldsmith CE,Shepherd R,Millar BC,Dooley JS,Moore JE

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction of human polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNL) and influenza virus (IFV) was studied in vitro. At 0 degree C, the viral particles were bound extensively to the surface of the PMNL membrane with a ratio of about 1000 virus particles to a single PMNL. The binding was sensitive to neuraminidase, suggesting atta...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Yamamoto K,Suzuki K,Suzuki K,Mizuno S

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic alternatives available for use against ciprofloxacin-resistant enteric fever isolates in an endemic area are limited. The antibiotics currently available are the quinolones, third-generation cephalosporins and conventional first-line drugs. In this study, the MICs of various newer drugs were determined...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Capoor MR,Rawat D,Nair D,Hasan AS,Deb M,Aggarwal P,Pillai P

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Mexico, there is a lack of up-to-date published data that show viruses to be the main cause of acute respiratory infection (ARI). The objective of this study was to estimate the comparative viral frequency between children under the age of 5 years with and without ARI (n = 179 in each group) in a suburban community...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Manjarrez ME,Rosete DP,Rincón M,Villalba J,Cravioto A,Cabrera R

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 28 isolates of Vibrio cholerae non-O1 (10 from diarrhoeal patients and 18 from environmental sources) examined for haemolytic activity and its correlation, if any, with enterotoxic activity, 24 showed haemolysis. The four non-haemolytic isolates showed haemolysis after consecutive passages through rabbit ileal loop...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Singh DV,Shukla BN,Sanyal SC

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Urinary tract infection (UTI) can be community-acquired (Com-UTI) or catheter-associated (CAUTI) and may be associated with biofilm-producing organisms. A comparative analysis of biofilm-producing property (BPP), antibiotic-sensitivity and multi-drug resistance (MDR) and their relation with the BPP of isolates ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bardoloi V,Yogeesha Babu KV

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 95 isolates, belonging to 33 species of five dermatophyte genera, i.e. Arthroderma (15 species), Chrysosporium (two), Epidermophyton (one), Microsporum (three) and Trichophyton (12), were studied using internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2)-PCR-RFLP analysis (ITS2-RFLP), consisting of amplification of the ITS...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： De Baere T,Summerbell R,Theelen B,Boekhout T,Vaneechoutte M

更新日期：2010-01-01 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 effects of imipenem and meropenem on the transcriptional expression of resistance-related genes oprD, oprM and oprN in Pseudomonas aeruginosa were studied by quantitative real-time PCR. Four strains were examined: the type strain PT5 (PAO1), its derivatives M7 and PT149, and a clinical isolate, PaKT3. The derivati...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kolayli F,Karadenizli A,Savli H,Ergen K,Hatirnaz O,Balikci E,Budak F,Vahaboglu H

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis results in tubal factor infertility in some women. Diagnosis of this tubal infertility is difficult and typically involves laparoscopy or hysterosalpingography to detect the tubal blockages. Numerous serological tests have been developed; however, they are presently not used for diagnosis without...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Menon S,Stansfield SH,Logan B,Hocking JS,Timms P,Rombauts L,Allan JA,Huston WM

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adhesion of bovine and a human isolate of Escherichia coli to epithelial cells from the teat and lactiferous sinuses of the udder was examined. Adhesion was detected with bacterial suspensions that produced mannose-sensitive agglutination of guinea-pig red cells. Adhesion to epithelial cells could be inhibited by ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Harper M,Turvey A,Bramley AJ

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gen-Probe APTIMA Combo 2 assay has previously been reported to have a high sensitivity. The end point of this assay was evaluated using highly purified chlamydial elementary bodies (EBs). The performance of the APTIMA Combo 2 assay was compared with a commercially available PCR kit, AMPLICOR Chlamydia trachomatis....

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ikeda-Dantsuji Y,Konomi I,Nagayama A

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the influence of normal associated microbiota on systemic immunological responses during experimental Chagas' disease, germ-free and conventional NIH Swiss mice were infected with Y strain of Trypanosoma cruzi. Although no statistical differences in mortality and parasitaemia were found, conventional mice sho...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Duarte R,Silva AM,Vieira LQ,Afonso LCC,Nicoli JR

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC), a highly heterogeneous pathotype of E. coli classified as typical and atypical, are an emerging cause of acute and persistent diarrhea. We aimed to investigate whether population living in rural geographic areas, impacts in the heterogeneity, dissemination and antimicrobial s...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Guerrieri CG,Monfardini MV,Silva EA,Bueno de Freitas L,Schuenck RP,Spano LC

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is an important nutritional requirement for bacteria due to its conserved role in many essential metabolic processes. As a consequence of the lack of freely available iron in the mammalian host, bacteria upregulate a range of virulence factors during infection. Transcriptional analysis of Francisella tularensis s...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Milne TS,Michell SL,Diaper H,Wikström P,Svensson K,Oyston PCF,Titball RW

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 69 strains of Escherichia coli from patients in the Taizhou Municipal Hospital, China, were isolated, and 11 strains were identified that were resistant to bacitracin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline and erythromycin. These strains were PCR positive for at least two out of three genes, ybjG, dacC and mdfA, by...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Wang D,Hu E,Chen J,Tao X,Gutierrez K,Qi Y

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:We describe the case of a graft versus host disease (GvHD) patient, in whom Hafnia alvei was cultured as a single organism, and at high bacterial counts from stool samples, from the onset of the disease until its resolution. This case is a further example of the contentious role of this species in causing human intest...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Savini V,Di Bartolomeo E,Catavitello C,Talia M,Manna A,Febbo F,Balbinot A,Di Bonaventura G,Di Bartolomeo P,Piccolomini R,D'Antonio D

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterially-driven mucosal inflammation and the development of periimplantitis can lead to oral implant failure. In this study, initial bacterial adhesion after 2 h, and biofilm formation after 1 day and 3 days, were analysed in situ on novel 3 mol % yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystal samples, as well a...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Al-Ahmad A,Karygianni L,Schulze Wartenhorst M,Bächle M,Hellwig E,Follo M,Vach K,Han JS

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00