Depletion of lymphocytes, but not neutrophils, via apoptosis in a murine model of Vibrio vulnificus infection.

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：:Many clinically relevant biofilms are polymicrobial. Examining the effect of antimicrobials in a multispecies biofilm consortium is of great clinical importance. The goal of this study was to investigate the effect of different honey types against bacterial wound pathogens grown in multispecies biofilm and to test the...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sojka M,Valachova I,Bucekova M,Majtan J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to desiccation and to skin fatty acids was measured in three groups of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains and a group of control strains. Organisms from a large outbreak on a special care baby unit (SCBU), where MRSA had been isolated from staff hands but not from the environment, we...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Farrington M,Brenwald N,Haines D,Walpole E

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of incorporating a real-time PCR for amplification and detection of 16S rRNA gene signatures directly from clinical samples was assessed as a tool for diagnostics. Universal PCR primers spanning short variable regions (~500 bp) were optimized for real-time PCR and tested in comparison with a longer fragm...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Edwards KJ,Logan JMJ,Langham S,Swift C,Gharbia SE

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (SDSE) isolates are the most common group C streptococci in humans and reports of invasive infections associated with SDSE have been increasing. Molecular epidemiology studies are an important strategy to trace the emergence and spread of possible well-fit bacterial pathog...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Silva LG,Genteluci GL,Corrêa de Mattos M,Glatthardt T,Sá Figueiredo AM,Ferreira-Carvalho BT

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rabbit was immunised with a heat-killed vaccine prepared from strain 1142 of Staphylococcus epidermidis. The HA titres of the antisera against a surface-polysaccharide antigen extracted from the homologous strain were highest in the 2nd-4th weeks after immunisation and subsequently declined. Only a minor amount of 2...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Yoshida K,Ichiman Y

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction. Ocular microsporidiosis is a significant emerging infectious disease reported in immunocompromised patients and immunocompetent persons throughout the world.Aim. To identify the pathogens responsible for human keratitis, via corneal scrapings.Methodology. Thirty-three hospitalized patients with epithelia...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sanpool O,Thanathanee O,Laummuanwai P,Maleewong W,Intapan PM

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：: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：:The family of leptospiral immunoglobulin-like (lig) genes comprises ligA, ligB and ligC. This study used PCR to demonstrate the presence of lig genes among serovars from a collection of leptospiral strains and clinical isolates. Whilst ligA and ligC appeared to be present in a limited number of pathogenic serovars, th...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Cerqueira GM,McBride AJA,Picardeau M,Ribeiro SG,Moreira ÂN,Morel V,Reis MG,Ko AI,Dellagostin OA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of oestradiol to three strains of female mice induced the oestrous phase of the reproductive cycle in which there are few or no polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNL) in vaginal smears. This treatment rendered the mice susceptible to genital tract colonisation by serotype 8 of Ureaplasma urealyticum, inocu...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Furr PM,Taylor-Robinson D

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred and twenty-seven Escherichia coli isolates from 427 cases of infantile diarrhoea in Poland, belonging to serogroups O18, O26, O44, O86, O126 and O127 and 150 E. coli isolates from 52 healthy children were examined for selected virulence properties. The presence of the plasmid pAA, a plasmid encoding enter...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Paciorek J

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is a frequent cause of infectious diarrhoea and is increasingly recognized as a trigger for late-onset complications. The poor standardization of commonly used serological tests might explain the conflicting results regarding the frequency of antecedent C. jejuni infections in defined patient grou...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Schmidt-Ott R,Brass F,Scholz C,Werner C,Groß U

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adhesion of Helicobacter pylori to gastric carcinoma cells (MKN45, KatoIII and MKN28) and Intestine-407 cells was tested by flow cytometric analysis. The mean adhesion rates of H. pylori strains to MKN45, KatoIII and Intestine-407 cells were 90.5, 42.7 and 15.1%, respectively. There was no statistical correlation ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Osaki T,Yamaguchi H,Taguchi H,Kumada J,Ogata S,Kamiya S

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The last few years have seen the emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) Gram-negative infections, which are associated with high morbidity and mortality. The indiscriminate use of colistin has led to the development of resistance, which can be diagnosed effectively by broth microdilution. Studies from Ind...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kaza P,Mahindroo J,Veeraraghavan B,Mavuduru RS,Mohan B,Taneja N

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleic acid amplification techniques (NAATs) have been demonstrated to make significant improvements in the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB), particularly in the time to diagnosis and the diagnosis of smear-negative TB. The BD ProbeTec strand displacement amplification (SDA) system for the diagnosis of pulmonary and no...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： McHugh TD,Pope CF,Ling CL,Patel S,Billington OJ,Gosling RD,Lipman MC,Gillespie SH

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms are colonies of microbial cells encased in a self-produced organic polymeric matrix and represent a common mode of microbial growth. Microbes growing as biofilm are highly resistant to commonly used antimicrobial drugs. We aimed to screen and characterize biofilm formation by different isolates of Candida on ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Zahran KM,Agban MN,Ahmed SH,Hassan EA,Sabet MA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multiplex PCR was developed to detect 15 serotypes of Streptococcus suis. This multiplex PCR was separated into two reaction sets. The first set identified nine serotypes (serotypes 1/2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 14 and 16) and the second set identified six serotypes (serotypes 5, 8, 10, 19, 23 and 25). This assay correctly...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kerdsin A,Dejsirilert S,Akeda Y,Sekizaki T,Hamada S,Gottschalk M,Oishi K

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is recognised as an important cause of nosocomial infection. The spread of some MRSA epidemic clones is well documented. In Brazil, and more recently in Portugal, a considerable number of hospital infections has been caused by a unique multiresistant MRSA clone design...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Coimbra MVDS,Teixeira LA,Ramos RLB,Predari SC,Castello L,Famiglietti A,Vay C,Klan L,Figueiredo AMS

更新日期：2000-02-01 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

abstract：:Purpose. In this study, we differentiated between tuberculosis (TB) and infections caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) or Nocardia in a tertiary general hospital in China. Differences in clinical manifestations and factors between respiratory infections associated with these organisms were also investigated.Me...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Dong G,Chu P,Guo J,Xie Y,Lu J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus can invade epithelial cells, and the host-cell receptor α(5)β(1) integrin is thought to mediate this process. The aim of this study was to investigate S. aureus invasion of epithelial cell lines derived from oral (H357), skin (UP) and nasopharyngeal (Detroit 562) sites and to determine whether an...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ridley RA,Douglas I,Whawell SA

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitors of trophozoite motility and phagocytosis were used to investigate the mechanism of Naegleria fowleri cytopathogenicity in mouse-embryo (ME)-cell cultures. Amoebae that were immobilised and agglutinated by specific antiserum exhibited no cytopathic activity, although they remained alive and were in constant ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Brown T

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Candida biofilm infections are frequently linked to the use of biomaterials and are of clinical significance because they are commonly resistant to antifungals. Clioquinol is an antiseptic drug and is effective against multidrug-resistant Candida. We investigated the effect of clioquinol and two other 8-hydroxy...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Pippi B,Machado GDRM,Bergamo VZ,Alves RJ,Andrade SF,Fuentefria AM

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotaxis of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNL) in response to cell components of Bacteroides fragilis alone or in combination with Escherichia coli was evaluated. E. coli produced much more powerful chemotactic factors than B. fragilis. The culture filtrate (CF), outer membrane (OM) preparation, and lipopolysacchar...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Namavar F,Verweij-Van Vught AM,Bal M,MacLaren DM

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：:Early diagnosis of leptospirosis is important because severe leptospiral infection can run a fulminant course. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was evaluated for the detection of leptospires in clinical samples from patients with acute leptospiral infection. Blood and urine samples from 71 patients with leptospiros...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Brown PD,Gravekamp C,Carrington DG,van de Kemp H,Hartskeerl RA,Edwards CN,Everard CO,Terpstra WJ,Levett PN

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to a 36-kDa extracellular metalloprotease (PSCP) from Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) cepacia were found to react with thermolysin, Pseudomonas aeruginosa elastase, alkaline protease (Apr) and LasA, Serratia marcescens protease (SMP), Aeromonas hydrophila protease (AhP), and both the lethal...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kooi C,Sokol PA

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of ethyleneglycoltetra-acetic acid (EGTA) and EGTA + magnesium (MgEGTA) on the viable counts of 10 strains of Escherichia coli O6 have been studied in normal human serum (NHS), heat-inactivated serum (HIS) and in culture media with and without the addition of a beta-lactam antibiotic. The addition of EGTA ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Roberts AP,Phillips R

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carnobacterium species have been isolated from the environment and are not regarded as human pathogens, although they are known to cause disease in fish. Only two reports describing isolation of Carnobacterium species from human pus were found in the literature. We report what we believe to be the first isolation of C...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hoenigl M,Grisold AJ,Valentin T,Leitner E,Zarfel G,Renner H,Krause R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00