The DNA-binding domain of CaNdt80p is required to activate CDR1 involved in drug resistance in Candida albicans.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The present study evaluated the possible synergistic antimycobacterial interactions of Juniperus communis and Helichrysum italicum essential oils (EO). METHODS:Antimycobacterial potential was tested against Mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium intracellulare using broth and water dilution method and checker...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Peruč D,Tićac B,Abram M,Broznić D,Štifter S,Staver MM,Gobin I

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibilities of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans cultures, grown as 1- or 3-day-old biofilms or as planktonic suspensions, to concentrations of chlorhexidine digluconate, cetylpyridinium chloride or triclosan used in commercial mouthwashes were compared. Three-day biofilms were the most resistant form of t...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Thrower Y,Pinney RJ,Wilson M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study attempted to determine whether cefuroxime was superior to cephalothin as a surrogate marker for cefpodoxime among urinary tract isolates. The MicroScan system (Siemens) was used to determine susceptibility for cephalothin and cefuroxime on consecutive cultures with a colony count of ≥50 000 organisms. Simul...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bookstaver DA,Bland CM,Woodberry MW,Mansell KB

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analysed the characteristics and genetic similarity of recent Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC-2)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from Korea. Recent laboratory surveillance detected an increase in carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Korea. A total of 6 KPC-2-producing K. pneumonia...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Yoo JS,Kim HM,Yoo JI,Yang JW,Kim HS,Chung GT,Lee YS

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori infection represents a key factor in the aetiology of various gastrointestinal diseases. H. pylori infection diagnosis is generally achieved using both invasive (e.g. biopsy of the gastric epithelium) and non-invasive methods. Therefore, cultivation on a growth medium becomes complex. Trypsin is a ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Peretz A,Paritsky M,Pastukh N,Koifman A,Brodsky D,Glyatman T,On A

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsia rickettsii has limited adverse effects on its arthropod vector, but causes severe disease in man. To model differences in host-parasite interaction, R. rickettsii growth and protein expression were examined at temperatures reflective of host environment in the tick cell lines DALBE3 and IDE2, the human endo...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Policastro PF,Munderloh UG,Fischer ER,Hackstadt T

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last 30 years, Serratia marcescens has become an important cause of nosocomial infection. There have been many reports concerning the identification, antibiotic susceptibility, pathogenicity, epidemiological investigations and typing of this organism. Accurate identification is important in defining outbreaks...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hejazi A,Falkiner FR

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study aimed to explore daptomycin combined with fosfomycin or rifampin against the planktonic and adherent linezolid-resistant isolates of Enterococcus faecalis. METHODOLOGY:Four linezolid-resistant and four linezolid-sensitive isolates of E. faecalis which formed biofilms were collected for this study. B...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Zheng JX,Sun X,Lin ZW,Qi GB,Tu HP,Wu Y,Jiang SB,Chen Z,Deng QW,Qu D,Yu ZJ

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leifsonia aquatica is an aquatic coryneform rod that is capable of forming biofilms in environmental water sources. It has rarely been associated with human infections and its pathogenicity and clinical significance are uncertain. We describe a case of catheter-related bloodstream infection in a haemodialysis patient....

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Porte L,Soto A,Andrighetti D,Dabanch J,Braun S,Saldivia A,Flores JC,Wozniak A,García P,Weitzel T

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is suitable for high-throughput and rapid microbial diagnosis at relatively low cost and can be considered an alternative to conventional biochemical and molecular identification systems in clinical microbiological laboratories...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Jamal WY,Shahin M,Rotimi VO

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gardnerella vaginalis is an important component of the human vaginal microflora. It is proposed to play a key role in the pathogenesis of bacterial vaginosis (BV), the most common vaginal condition. Here we describe the development, validation and comparative analysis of a novel molecular approach capable of G. vagina...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Balashov SV,Mordechai E,Adelson ME,Gygax SE

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：: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：PURPOSE:Diabetic patients seem to be predisposed to cutaneous candidiasis. In this study, we evaluated the interference of diabetic conditions in alloxan-induced diabetic mice in relation to the development of C. albicans infection, density of M1 and M2 macrophages, distribution of collagen type I and III and anti-infl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Pupim ACE,Campois TG,Araújo EJA,Svidizinski TIE,Felipe I

更新日期：2017-06-01 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: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：:Competition, competitive exclusion and displacement of eight strains of Escherichia coli and Salmonella spp. by Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG and Lactobacillus casei Shirota from adhesion on human intestinal mucus glycoproteins and Caco-2 cell surfaces were studied. Lactobacilli were able to compete with, exclude and dis...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lee YK,Puong KY,Ouwehand AC,Salminen S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Membrane fluidity to a large extent is governed by the presence of branched-chain fatty acids (BCFAs). Branched-chain α-keto acid dehydrogenase (BKD) is the key enzyme in BCFA synthesis. A Staphylococcus aureus BKD-deficient strain still produced substantial levels of BCFAs. Pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) with st...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Singh VK,Sirobhushanam S,Ring RP,Singh S,Gatto C,Wilkinson BJ

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:With an increase in the numbers of bacterial isolates resistant to first-line antibiotics, there has been a revival in the use of older drugs including fosfomycin with novel mechanisms of action. We aimed to investigate the prevalence and genotypic nature of fosfomycin resistance in Escherichia coli from urinar...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Cottell JL,Webber MA

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of beta-lactamase by 15 strains of Haemophilus influenzae has been investigated. All the strains produce a constitutive beta-lactamase, which readily hydrolyses penicillin G, ampicillin, and cephaloridine. The beta-lactamase produced by these strains is indistinguishable from the type-IIIa enzyme commonly f...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sykes RB,Matthew M,O'Callaghan CH

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of 29 strains of Acinetobacter spp. on semi-solid media was studied; 19 showed surface swarming and 14 produced channels ("ditches") in the agar that do not seem to have been described previously. An attempt was made to define the cultural and physical conditions for the demonstration of these phenomena. Po...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Barker J,Maxted H

更新日期：1975-08-01 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：:Gardnerella vaginalis is a Gram-variable anaerobic bacterium present in 100% of women with bacterial vaginosis (BV). BV is a complex polymicrobial condition with no single causative agent. The current laboratory detection method for BV relies on a Gram-stain Nugent score to estimate the quantity of different bacterial...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Cox C,McKenna JP,Watt AP,Coyle PV

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xanthomonas maltophilia produces two inducible beta-lactamases, L1 and L2, and resists the antimicrobial activity of beta-lactam antibiotics, including carbapenems. L1 is a zinc-metaloenzyme with carbapenemase activity; L2 is an unusual cephalosporinase. Mutant strains with high- and low-level constitutive expression ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Akova M,Bonfiglio G,Livermore DM

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bedaquiline (BDQ) has been proven to be effective in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. We hypothesized that BDQ could be a potential agent to treat nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infection. The objective of this study was to evaluate the in vitro activity of BDQ against rapidly growing mycobacteri...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Aguilar-Ayala DA,Cnockaert M,André E,Andries K,Gonzalez-Y-Merchand JA,Vandamme P,Palomino JC,Martin A

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Group A rotavirus (RVA) is the leading cause of severe gastroenteritis in children younger than 5 years. The most common human G-types are G1-4 and G9. G12 genotype is currently emerging worldwide, becoming the sixth most prevalent RVA G-genotype. In Tunisia, an emergence of G12 RVA strains was observed. To und...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Moussa A,Fredj MBH,BenHamida-Rebaï M,Fodha I,Boujaafar N,Trabelsi A

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) is considered a reliable method for providing insight into the Streptococcus suis population structure, clonal relationships and the potential of particular clones to cause disease. Indeed, MLST has revealed the presence of several clonal complexes (CCs) within the Streptococcus suis ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hatrongjit R,Kerdsin A,Gottschalk M,Hamada S,Oishi K,Akeda Y

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of hospital-acquired (HA) and community-acquired (CA) infections worldwide. Recently, S. aureus strains resistant to meticillin (MRSA) have become established within both communities. We isolated 314 isolates of MRSA from hospitalized patients in a referral hospital (HA isolate...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rahimi F,Katouli M,Pourshafie MR

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen randomly selected nasopharyngeal (NP) swab specimens (culture-negative for influenza A virus) were spiked with influenza A virus and the nucleic acids were extracted and subjected to PCR amplification with Thermus aquaticus (Taq) and T. thermophilus (Tth) DNA polymerases. Products of the expected size, and giv...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Poddar SK,Sawyer MH,Connor JD

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00