Prospective evaluation of BDProbeTec strand displacement amplification (SDA) system for diagnosis of tuberculosis in non-respiratory and respiratory samples.

abstract：:Rhodococcus equi is an opportunistic human pathogen associated with immunosuppressed people. While the interaction of R. equi with macrophages has been comprehensively studied, little is known about its interactions with non-phagocytic cells. Here, we characterized the entry process of this bacterium into human lung e...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Remuzgo-Martínez S,Pilares-Ortega L,Álvarez-Rodríguez L,Aranzamendi-Zaldunbide M,Padilla D,Icardo JM,Ramos-Vivas J

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive infections caused by Brevundimonas vesicularis are very rare in humans. We experienced an unusual case of liver abscess due to B. vesicularis in an immunocompetent young male. The patient was successfully treated by liver abscess drainage and with antimicrobial therapy of ceftriaxone followed by ampicillin/su...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Yoo SH,Kim MJ,Roh KH,Kim SH,Park DW,Sohn JW,Yoon YK

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A down-flow immunoassay has been developed to detect serum mannan antigens, and the test was recently marketed as the Unimedi Candida monotest. Using 251 serum samples from 105 patients with candidaemia, a comparison of the Unimedi Candida monotest with the Cand-Tec latex agglutination test and 2 microplate enzyme imm...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Fujita SI,Takamura T,Nagahara M,Hashimoto T

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early detection of aetiological agents is pivotal for adequate therapy for bacterial infections. Although culture is still considered the mainstay for laboratory diagnosis, it often lacks sensitivity, especially in patients already treated with antibiotics. The present study investigated the potential clinical utility...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mencacci A,Leli C,Cardaccia A,Montagna P,Moretti A,Bietolini C,Meucci M,Perito S,Cenci E,Bistoni F

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：: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：:Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an important agent of diarrhoeal diseases worldwide. The role of EAEC virulence factors in the clinical outcome of infection is not completely defined. This case-control study investigated the prevalence of EAEC, its virulence genes and the antimicrobial resistance profile ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bafandeh S,Haghi F,Zeighami H

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of cefotaxime, ciprofloxacin, piperacillin and tobramycin to cause release of endotoxin was examined in vitro with cultures of Enterobacter cloacae and Escherichia coli. Endotoxin was measured by a quantitative limulus amoebocyte lysate assay and its presence was confirmed by silver staining of the lipopol...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Crosby HA,Bion JF,Penn CW,Elliott TS

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive aspergillosis is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality within at-risk groups. Directed antifungal chemotherapy, guided by effective screening algorithms that incorporate reliable and validated molecular assays, reduces the morbidity associated with empirical administration and allows earlier diagnosi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Perry MD,White PL,Barnes RA

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida parapsilosis is the second most frequent Candida species isolated from blood cultures. Since 2005, C. parapsilosis has been divided into three distinct species based on genetic traits: Candida parapsilosis, Candida metapsilosis and Candida orthopsilosis. The aim of this study was to develop a rapid real-time P...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hays C,Duhamel C,Cattoir V,Bonhomme J

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional culture and drug susceptibility testing (DST) methods for Mycobacterium tuberculosis are laborious and time consuming. For this reason alternative rapid culture and DST techniques are urgently needed to shorten the time for drug-resistance detection. A total of 222 smear-positive sputum samples were evalu...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Imperiale BR,Morcillo NS,Palomino JC,Vandamme P,Martin A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolide antibiotics are frequently administered to treat mycoplasmal pneumonia. However, macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae has recently been isolated from clinical specimens in Japan. Clarithromycin (CAM) is a 14-membered-ring macrolide that has host immunomodulatory activity. Here, we established a gnotobio...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kurata S,Taguchi H,Sasaki T,Fujioka Y,Kamiya S

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), a neglected tropical disease, is reported to be prevalent in tribal villages located in the Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve forests of Western Ghats, Kerala state, India. We carried out an investigation to characterize the species of Leishmania parasites involved in these infections preval...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kumar NP,Srinivasan R,Anish TS,Nandakumar G,Jambulingam P

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Extracellular protein toxins contribute to the pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus infections. The present study compared the effects of iclaprim and trimethoprim - two folic acid synthesis inhibitors - with nafcillin and vancomycin on production of Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL), alpha haemolysin (AH) and...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bryant AE,Gomi S,Katahira E,Huang DB,Stevens DL

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus is a major public health concern, and methicillin-resistant S. aureus has emerged as an important pathogen. We characterized S. aureus isolates from monomicrobial and polymicrobial wound infections from 200 diabetic individuals with foot ulcers to understand their underly...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Shettigar K,Jain S,Bhat DV,Acharya R,Ramachandra L,Satyamoorthy K,Murali TS

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mcr-1 gene encodes a phosphoethanolamine transferase, which confers resistance to colistin by transferring phosphoethanolamine to lipid A. This study describes the emergence of a colistin- and carbapenem-resistant clinical isolate of Escherichia coli harbouring mcr-1 and blaNDM-5 genes, located on 90 and 150 Kb pl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Uchida H,Tada T,Sugahara Y,Kato A,Miyairi I,Kirikae T

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In serological typing of Klebsiella pneumoniae strains from human, equine and environmental sources, the capsular identity of many isolates could not be determined because of serological cross-reactivity. A panel of 91 bacteriophages able to lyse each of the 77 capsular serotypes of K. pneumoniae was isolated and test...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Pieroni P,Rennie RP,Ziola B,Deneer HG

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important opportunistic bacterial pathogen. Despite its metabolic and virulence versatility, it has not been shown to infect articular joints, which are areas that are rarely infected with bacteria in general. We hypothesized that articular joints possess antimicrobial activity that limits...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mahmood F,Hakimiyan A,Jayaraman V,Wood S,Sivaramakrishnan G,Rehman T,Reuhs BL,Chubinskaya S,Shafikhani SH

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on the occurrence and epidemiology of Aspergillus spp. in laying hens farms are scant. With the aims of determining levels of airborne contamination in laying hen farms and evaluating the potential risk of infection for workers and animals, 57 air samples from 19 sheds (Group I), 69 from faeces (Group II), 19 fro...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Cafarchia C,Camarda A,Iatta R,Danesi P,Favuzzi V,Di Paola G,Pugliese N,Caroli A,Montagna MT,Otranto D

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:In the present study, the adhesion of bacteriocin-producing probiotic strains of Lactobacillus plantarum onto extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins such as collagen and mucin and their potential to prevent pathogen invasion onto the ECM was ascertained. Fluorescence-based in vitro assays indicated that L. plantarum stra...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mukherjee S,Ramesh A

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:The antifungal effects of cinnamaldehyde, 4-hydroxy-3-methoxycinnamaldehyde (coniferyl aldehyde) and 3,5-dimethoxy-4-hydroxycinnamaldehyde (sinapaldehyde) were investigated against 65 strains of Candida (six standard, 39 fluconazole-sensitive and 20 fluconazole-resistant). MICs of cinnamaldehyde, coniferyl aldehyde an...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Shreaz S,Bhatia R,Khan N,Muralidhar S,Manzoor N,Khan LA

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we describe four cases of laboratory-confirmed Legionella infection. Case 1 was a culture-confirmed case of Legionella infection in a patient with liver cirrhosis. Following this, three other liver cirrhosis cases (cases 2-4) were diagnosed with Legionella infection as confirmed by quantitative real-time PCR. Th...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Qin T,Xia J,Ren H,Zhou H,Tang B,Shao Z

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 2458 isolates of Haemophilus influenzae examined in a recent British survey, 42 were resistant to chloramphenicol. Two resistant isolates were of type b and 40 were non-capsulate. Spectrophotometric assay showed that all the resistant isolates produced chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT). CAT activity did not i...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Powell M,Livermore DM

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 110 clinical isolates of Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor serotype Ogawa isolated in a recent outbreak from different districts of Teheran, Iran, was subjected to 99 carbon source utilisation tests, ribotyping and toxinogenotyping. PCR showed that the genes encoding cholera toxin (ctxA), toxin co-regulated...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Pourshafie MR,Grimont F,Saifi M,Grimont PAD

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between vaginal carriage and subsequent neonatal acquisition of Clostridium difficile was investigated. Vaginal carriage of C. difficile was detected in 11% of women attending the Department of Genital Medicine Clinic. C. difficile was isolated from the vagina in 18% of 50 mothers before delivery, and...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Tabaqchali S,O'Farrell S,Nash JQ,Wilks M

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice immunised by the oral or intraperitoneal route with a live aromatic-dependent strain of Salmonella typhimurium exhibited significantly less protection against oral challenge with 50 LD50 of an ovine isolate of S. typhimurium (12313) than when a bovine isolate with the same O antigens and phage-type as strain 1231...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mukkur TK,McDowell GH,Stocker BA,Lascelles AK

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two isogenic sets of Yersinia pestis strains were generated, composed of wild-type strains 231 and I-1996, their non-polar pH 6(-) mutants with deletions in the psaA gene that codes for its structural subunit or the whole operon, as well as strains with restored ability for temperature- and pH-dependent synthesis of a...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Anisimov AP,Bakhteeva IV,Panfertsev EA,Svetoch TE,Kravchenko TB,Platonov ME,Titareva GM,Kombarova TI,Ivanov SA,Rakin AV,Amoako KK,Dentovskaya SV

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00