In vitro activity of recombinant lysostaphin against Staphylococcus aureus isolates from hospitals in Beijing, China.

abstract：:Propionibacterium acnes, a commensal of human skin, is also an opportunistic pathogen of common acne and certain infectious diseases. However, it is still not obvious which strain is pathogenic for a certain infectious disease, and investigations to characterize pathogenic strains using molecular typing methods such a...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Dekio I,Rajendram D,Morita E,Gharbia S,Shah HN

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine optimal criteria for microbiology laboratory screening of endotracheal tube (ETT) specimens submitted for bacterial culture from adult patients. ETT specimens from adult patients that were received by two microbiology laboratories were prospectively evaluated and subdivided i...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Walkty A,Lagacé-Wiens PRS,Manickam K,Adam H,Pieroni P,Alfa M,Karlowsky JA

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In an increasing number of cases the last therapeutic option for treatment of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae is colistin. As the detection of colistin resistance is problematic and time-consuming, it is desirable to find a rapid and reliable test. The rapid polymyxin NP test developed by Nordmann et al...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Belda-Orlowski A,Pfennigwerth N,Gatermann SG,Korte-Berwanger M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of K1, K5 and O antigens was examined in 500 clinical strains of Escherichia coli. Of 400 strains from urine, 52% belonged to serogroups O1, O2, O4, O6, O7, O8, O9, O18, O25 and O75; 34% were non-typable (NT) and 14% were autoagglutinable (AA). Antigen K1 was carried by 17% of these strains, and K5 by...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Devine DA,Robinson L,Roberts AP

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chickens were immunised with a preparation of purified 14-kDa fimbriae of Salmonella serotype Enteritidis (SEF 14) to raise egg-yolk antibodies for protection trials in mice against subsequent challenge-exposure with the homologous strain of Enteritidis. A pronounced specificity of egg-yolk antibodies against the 14-k...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Peralta RC,Yokoyama H,Ikemori Y,Kuroki M,Kodama Y

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Burkholderia cepacia complex are important bacterial pathogens in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. The B. cepacia complex currently consists of nine genetic subgroups (genomovars) of different epidemiological relevance and possibly of different pathogenic potential in humans. In this study, a new approach...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Vonberg RP,Häußler S,Vandamme P,Steinmetz I

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical characteristics, enterotoxigenicity and susceptibility to antibiotics are reported for 22 strains of Aeromonas species isolated from clinical specimens in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia. Aeromonas caviae was the species most frequently observed; a high proportion of these strains fermented lactose,...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Gosling PJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leclercia adecarboxylata is a rarely reported human pathogen, most commonly affecting immunocompromised individuals. In reported cases of immunocompetent patients infected with this organism, it is seen exclusively in the context of polymicrobial infections. We report here the case of an abscess in an immunocompetent ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hess B,Burchett A,Huntington MK

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study investigates the virulence and antimicrobial resistance in association with common clonal complexes (CCs) of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) isolated from Bangladesh. The aim was to determine whether specific CCs were more likely to be associated with putative virulence genes and/or antimic...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Chattaway MA,Day M,Mtwale J,White E,Rogers J,Day M,Powell D,Ahmad M,Harris R,Talukder KA,Wain J,Jenkins C,Cravioto A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strain P2200 of porcine origin possessed eight possibly plasmid-determined characters (K88+ Raf+ Hly+ Col+ Smr Tcr Su(r) STa+) and six plasmid DNA bands of 4.2-93 kb. Analysis of the spontaneous loss of characters and the results of matings with other E. coli strains revealed th...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bertin A

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera, caused by Vibrio cholerae, results in significant morbidity and mortality worldwide, including Thailand. Representative V. cholerae strains associated with endemic cholera (n = 32), including strains (n = 3) from surface water sources, in Khon Kaen, Thailand (2003-2011), were subjected to microbiological, mol...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Chomvarin C,Johura FT,Mannan SB,Jumroenjit W,Kanoktippornchai B,Tangkanakul W,Tantisuwichwong N,Huttayananont S,Watanabe H,Hasan NA,Huq A,Cravioto A,Colwell RR,Alam M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 118 meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and 140 meticillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) isolates from different patients in the same time period were comprehensively searched using a multiplex PCR for the classical and recently described superantigenic toxin gene family comprising the staphylo...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hu DL,Omoe K,Inoue F,Kasai T,Yasujima M,Shinagawa K,Nakane A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is a frequent cause of severe, recurrent, post-antibiotic diarrhoea and pseudomembranous colitis. Its pathogenicity is mediated mainly by two toxins, TcdA and TcdB. However, different adhesins have also been described as important colonization factors which are implicated in the first step of the...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Barketi-Klai A,Hoys S,Lambert-Bordes S,Collignon A,Kansau I

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility to teicoplanin, vancomycin and linezolid of 30 clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecium was tested by Vitek 2, Phoenix, Etest, broth microdilution and disc diffusion tests. The vanA and vanB resistance genes and the 23S rRNA gene G2576T mutation were detected by PCR and PCR-RFLP, respectively. Resi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Raponi G,Ghezzi MC,Gherardi G,Lorino G,Dicuonzo G

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxic effects of the haemorrhagic toxin of Clostridium sporogenes were studied in mice, rats, guinea-pigs and rabbits, and in various cultured cells. In rabbits, but not in the other animals, intradermal injection with crude toxin and its injection into a ligated intestinal loop caused haemorrhage in both the skin...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hara-Kudo Y,Ogura A,Noguchi Y,Kumagai S

更新日期：1997-04-01 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：:The competition for glucose as a growth-limiting substrate between Candida albicans and a mixed community of oral bacteria was investigated. A chemostat was operated under glucose-limiting and glucose excess conditions at a dilution rate of 0.05/h. A mixed population of oral bacteria was established and after a steady...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Basson NJ

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lincomycin has a differential effect on exoprotein production by Vibrio cholerae. The production of some proteins, such as cholera toxin and deoxyribonuclease, is stimulated by low concentrations of the drug while production of other proteins, such as protease and alkaline phosphatase, is unaffected. Possible mechanis...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Young DB,Broadbent DA

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 287 Acinetobacter isolates belonging to DNA groups 2 (A. baumannii) and 13TU was collected consecutively from 46 hospitals and typed by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprinting with primers DAF-4 and ERIC-2. With a similarity coefficient of >/=72% as a cut-off value, 37 clusters of genotypically si...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Spence RP,Towner KJ,Henwood CJ,James D,Woodford N,Livermore DM

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Platelet concentrates are at risk of transfusion-related sepsis. The microbial detection methods currently available have reached their limits, as they do not completely prevent transfusion-related bacterial contamination.The aim of this study was to develop a new strategy to detect the risk of platelet transfu...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Chetouane Y,Dubourg G,Gallian P,Delerce J,Levasseur A,Flaudrops C,Chabrière E,Chiaroni J,Raoult D,Camoin-Jau L

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus oralis has emerged as one of the most important organisms of the viridans streptococcus group in terms of infections and is recognised as an agent of infective endocarditis and, in immunocompromised patients, septicaemia. The mechanisms by which this organism proliferates in vivo are unknown. However, ho...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Byers HL,Homer KA,Tarelli E,Beighton D

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

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：:Rickettsia conorii infection is endemic in the Mediterranean basin, where it is known as Mediterranean spotted fever, also known as Boutonneuse fever and Marseilles fever. We report the case of a 66-year-old diabetic man who presented a severe form of the disease, complicated by acute renal failure, thrombocytopenia a...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Aliaga L,Sánchez-Blázquez P,Rodríguez-Granger J,Sampedro A,Orozco M,Pastor J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many micro-organisms cause important diseases of the female genital tract. Because systematic vaccination does not usually provide a good immune response at mucosal sites, commensal lactobacilli from the female genital tract were developed as vehicles to deliver continued doses of foreign antigen directly to the genit...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rush CM,Hafner LM,Timms P

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the diversity and composition of the intestinal microbiota of elderly subjects using a combination of culture-dependent techniques and 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. The study was performed as part of the ELDERMET project, in which 368 faecal samples were assessed for viabl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lakshminarayanan B,Harris HMB,Coakley M,O'Sullivan Ó,Stanton C,Pruteanu M,Shanahan F,O'Toole PW,Ross RP,On Behalf Of The Eldermet Consortium

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens has been reported as the cause of up to 15% of cases of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea (AAD) and may be diagnosed by detection of enterotoxin (CPEnt) in faeces. The performance of a commercial ELISA method for CPEnt, with culture and PCR methods to confirm the presence of enterotoxigenic C. pe...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Asha NJ,Wilcox MH

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolates of Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor serotype Inaba associated with an outbreak of cholera in Trivandrum, southern India, were characterized. PCR testing revealed that all five isolates examined carried the TCP pathogenicity island, the CTX genetic element and the RTX toxin, and produced cholera toxin (CT). R...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mohapatra SS,Ramachandran D,Mantri CK,Singh DV

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:Prior to the advent of the Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine, invasive infections due to H. influenzae type f were rarely described. However, the epidemiology of H. influenzae is changing. While the incidence of invasive infections due to H. influenzae is declining in children, such infections are becoming more co...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Suarez CJ,Glover WA,Cowan J,Smith A,Clarridge JE

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid diagnosis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is essential for the prompt initiation of effective second-line therapy to improve treatment outcome and limit transmission of this obstinate disease. A variety of molecular methods that enable the rapid detection of mutations implicated in MDR-TB have been ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bang H,Park S,Hwang J,Jin H,Cho E,Kim DY,Song T,Shamputa IC,Via LE,Barry CE,Cho SN,Lee H

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00