Isolation of Gordonia terrae from a patient with catheter-related bacteraemia.

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：:Helicobacter pylori and Proteus mirabilis ureases are nickel-requiring metallo-enzymes that hydrolyse urea to NH3 and CO2. In both H. pylori and in an Escherichia coli model of H. pylori urease activity, a high affinity nickel transporter, NixA, is required for optimal urease activity, whereas the urea-dependent UreR ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： McGEE DJ,Coker C,Testerman TL,Harro JM,Gibson SV,Mobley HLT

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to gentamicin and methicillin first appeared in Dublin hospitals in 1976, and rapidly became widely disseminated. The number of patients infected or colonised increased throughout the period of study, especially in 1979 and 1980. Most isolates were from burns, surgical wounds...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Cafferkey MT,Hone R,Falkiner FR,Keane CT,Pomeroy H

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacteria are dominant in the gut of full-term infants, although colonisation by them is often delayed in preterm neonates. Bifidobacteria are recognised to have beneficial effects on digestive disorders and they might prevent neonatal necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), a gastrointestinal disease that predominantly...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Catala I,Butel MJ,Bensaada M,Popot F,Tessedre AC,Rimbault A,Szylit O

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of five species of Bacteroides in four anaerobic culture media was continuously monitored turbidimetrically. Interspecies differences were observed in the growth of Bacteroides spp. in the various media, but growth in Brain Heart Infusion broth supplemented with yeast extract, haemin and menadione, was cons...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Eley A,Greenwood D,O'Grady F

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial infection in patients who have undergone liver transplantation is a major complication of the procedure. Leuconostoc spp. are important pathogenic bacteria in individuals with poor immune function, especially transplant patients. In this report, we describe the case of a 45-year-old Asian male liver transpla...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Deng Y,Zhang Z,Xie Y,Xiao Y,Kang M,Fan H

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:Fusobacterium necrophorum, a Gram-negative anaerobe, causes a variety of necrotic infections in humans and animals. There are two subspecies: subsp. necrophorum and subsp. funduliforme. In cattle, subsp. necrophorum is more prevalent and production of leukotoxin is a major virulence factor. The leukotoxin operon (lktB...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Tadepalli S,Stewart GC,Nagaraja TG,Narayanan SK

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes among Egyptian patients positive for anti-HCV was determined and their influence, when combined with neu-oncoprotein overexpression, on the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was examined. The study groups included asymptomatic carriers (ASC) and patient...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Zekri AN,Bahnassy AA,Shaarawy SM,Mansour OA,Maduar MA,Khaled HM,El-Ahmadi O

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of Candida albicans biofilms and production of extracellular matrix were monitored by dry weight, colorimetric and radioisotope assays, and by scanning electron microscopy. Under static incubation conditions synthesis of matrix material was minimal, but increased dramatically when developing biofilms were subje...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hawser SP,Baillie GS,Douglas LJ

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outer-membrane protein (OMP) was isolated from a clinical strain of Bacteroides distasonis. Changes in growth media did not appreciably affect the appearance of this protein in crude outer-membrane preparations examined by SDS-PAGE. However, the proportion of the protein relative to other OMPs was greater in 24-h c...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Wexler HM,Getty C,Fisher G

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a Clostridium difficile glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) immunoassay and a sensitive C. difficile toxin A/B immunoassay, human stool specimens from patients with diarrhoea (n = 1085) were classified as either GDH positive/toxin negative, or GDH positive/toxin positive. Overall, 528/725 (73%) of the GDH-positive/tox...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Fairley DJ,McKenna JP,Stevenson M,Weaver J,Gilliland C,Watt A,Coyle PV

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 36 Escherichia coli and 31 enterococci isolates were recovered from 42 common buzzard faecal samples. The E. coli isolates showed high levels of resistance to streptomycin and tetracycline. The following resistance genes were detected: bla(TEM) (20 of 22 ampicillin-resistant isolates), tet(A) and/or tet(B) ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Radhouani H,Poeta P,Gonçalves A,Pacheco R,Sargo R,Igrejas G

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：PURPOSE:Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is of increasing global concern, threatening to undermine recent progress in reducing child and neonatal mortality. Repurposing older antimicrobials is a prominent strategy to combat multidrug-resistant sepsis. A potential agent is fosfomycin, however, there is scarce data regardi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Williams PCM,Waichungo J,Gordon NC,Sharland M,Murunga S,Kamau A,Berkley JA

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:Thirty-six closed abcesses in the subcutis of cats were examined. Of 168 bacterial strains isolated, 121(72%) were anaerobes and 47 (28%) were facultative anaerobes. Twenty-six abscesses contained mixtures of facultative anaerobes and anaerobes, six contained anaerobes only and four contained facultative anaerobes onl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Love DN,Jones RF,Bailey M,Johnson RS

更新日期：1979-05-01 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：:Amplification and sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene can be applied to detect and identify bacteria in clinical samples. We examined 75 clinical samples (17 culture-positive, 58 culture-negative) prospectively by two different PCR protocols, amplifying either a single fragment (1343 bp) or two fragments (762/598 b...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Jenkins C,Ling CL,Ciesielczuk HL,Lockwood J,Hopkins S,McHugh TD,Gillespie SH,Kibbler CC

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer of an Hly plasmid determining production of alpha haemolysin to a non-haemolytic strain of Escherichia coli increased the virulence of the strain for mice. Injections of non-toxic amounts of alpha haemolysin, phenylhydrazine, haemoglobin, iron or manganese salts simulated the effect of the Hly plasmid by stim...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Linggood MA,Ingram PL

更新日期：1982-02-01 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：:Electronmicrographs of sections show that the L-phases of Bacillus licheniformis var. endoparasiticus (Benedek) simulate the various types of micro-organism described by previous workers as associated with ostensibly noninfective conditions, notably cancer and arthritis; e.g., mycoplasmas, mycobacteria, corynebacteria...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bisset KA,Tallack J,Bartlett R

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyacrylamide-agarose gel electrophoresis was used to study polymorphism of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), nucleoside phosphorylase (NSP), phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI), hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase (HBD), adenylate kinase (ADK) and esterases of 44 strains of Streptococcus pyogenes, 25 group G streptococcal strains, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bert F,Picard B,Lambert-Zechovsky N,Goullet P

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and 13 other species of mycobacteria were examined for susceptibility to 26 strains of viridans streptococci. Susceptibility was detected by the simultaneous antagonism technique, but not by tests of deferred antagonism. It is concluded that in-vitro inhibition of mycobacte...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Allen BW

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly 1000 sera from children were tested by immunoelectro-osmophoresis against BK virus, and age-specific prevalence rates were estimated from birth until the age of 12 years. Declining rates during the first 12 months showed the waning of passive immunity, which at birth reflects the mother's immune status. The cha...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Dei R,Marmo F,Corte D,Sampietro MG,Franceschini E,Urbano P

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucocyte-egested material was harvested after the quantitative in-vitro phagocytosis of Neisseria meningitidis by rabbit or mouse polymorphonuclear leucocytes. The egested material was injected subcutaneously into rabbits and followed 24 h later with an intravenous injection of what would by itself have been a non-le...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： DeVoe IW,Gilka F

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter fetus causes severe infections in humans and can be isolated from various mammals and reptiles. However, although poultry are considered to be the main reservoir of Campylobacter jejuni, little is known about the presence of C. fetus in poultry. Thus, specific pathogen-free chickens were experimentally i...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kempf I,Dufour-Gesbert F,Hellard G,Prouzet-Mauléon V,Mégraud F

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence and genotype of Shiga-like toxins (SLTs) in Escherichia coli (O)157 strains from patients in Germany with haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) were investigated. This was done by PCR amplification of the B-subunit genes with two primer pairs--one complementary to slt-IB, and the other homologous to both sl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rüssmann H,Schmidt H,Heesemann J,Caprioli A,Karch H

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The analytical performance of the cobas 6800 HIV-1, HBV and HCV assays was verified and evaluated to the COBAS Ampliprep/COBAS TaqMan assays. METHODOLOGY:The precision, limit of detection (LoD), limit of quantification (LoQ) and linearity were verified using pooled residual clinical samples. The analytical spe...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Tan NK,Carrington D,Pope CF

更新日期：2018-12-01 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