Evaluation of internal transcribed spacer 2-RFLP analysis for the identification of dermatophytes.

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

abstract：:Several imipenem-susceptible and -resistant Aeromonas veronii biovar sobria isolates with different morphologies and antimicrobial susceptibilities recovered from bile samples of a patient with cholangitis were analysed. These isolates belonged to the same clone and the imipenem-resistant strains showed overexpression...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sánchez-Céspedes J,Figueras MJ,Aspiroz C,Aldea MJ,Toledo M,Alperí A,Marco F,Vila J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction. Rapid identification of the causative agent of sepsis is crucial for patient outcomes.Aim. The Sepsityper sample preparation method enables direct microbial identification of positive blood culture samples via matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization/time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS).Hyp...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Cordovana M,Zignoli A,Ambretti S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum opacity factor of Streptococcus suis (OFS) has recently been identified as a virulence determinant of an S. suis strain. In this study, we investigated the prevalence and variations of the ofs gene among 108 S. suis isolates from diseased and healthy pigs, and human patients. PCR screening and sequencing analysi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Takamatsu D,Osaki M,Tharavichitkul P,Takai S,Sekizaki T

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abilities of six strains of Salmonella typhimurium to associate with rabbit ileal mucosa have been measured in vitro. Two were "virulent" strains (TML and W118 which are invasive and inducers of fluid secretion in rabbit ileal loops); four were "avirulent" (LT7, M206 and SL1027 which are invasive but induce neglig...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Worton KJ,Candy DC,Wallis TS,Clarke GJ,Osborne MP,Haddon SJ,Stephen J

更新日期：1989-08-01 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：:Eighty-one bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) specimens obtained from 26 HIV-infected, 45 non-HIV immunosuppressed and 10 immunocompetent patients with primary pulmonary diseases were analysed for the presence of Pneumocystis carinii by staining and by P. carinii 5S rDNA determined by PCR. P. carinii was observed by stainin...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Takahashi T,Goto M,Endo T,Nakamura T,Yusa N,Sato N,Iwamoto A

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of 72 strains of catalase-negative gram-positive, -negative and -variable cocco-bacilli isolated from samples of vaginal discharge from women with non-specific vaginal infection was examined in an attempt to develop an identification system for Gardnerella vaginalis that could be used in a diagnostic labo...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Taylor E,Phillips I

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoglycoside-resistant variants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PAO1 were readily selected by culturing the organism in medium containing increasing concentrations of gentamicin, tobramycin or amikacin until the strains were growing in a concentration of drug 128-fold greater than the minimal inhibitory concentrati...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Gilleland LB,Gilleland HE,Gibson JA,Champlin FR

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a major public-health problem, because treatment is complicated and patients remain infectious for months or years, despite receiving the best available therapy. To gain better understanding of MDR-TB, a retrospective study was initiated to determine the level of drug resi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Dam T,Isa M,Bose M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Conventional laboratory detection methods for gastrointestinal parasites are time consuming, require considerable technical expertise and may suffer from poor analytical sensitivity. This study sought to evaluate the automated BD MAX Enteric Parasite Panel (EPP) for the detection of Cryptosporidium parvum/homin...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Perry MD,Corden SA,Lewis White P

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:The intrathecal synthesis of IgM and IgG antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi sonicate, to recombinant flagellin (41 kDa) and to a tryptic peptide of the flagellin (14-kDa fragment) was determined by ELISA in paired cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum samples from 35 patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) and in 10 p...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kaiser R,Rasiah C,Gassmann G,Vogt A,Lücking CH

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its discovery at the end of the nineteenth century, Moraxella (Branhamella) catarrhalis has undergone several changes of nomenclature and periodic changes in its perceived status as either a commensal or a pathogen. Molecular analysis based on DNA hybridisation or 16S rDNA sequence comparisons has established it...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Enright MC,McKenzie H

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The agglutination of 218 clinical isolates and three ATCC type strains of "Streptococcus milleri" was tested with 25 different lectins from plants and fungi. An agglutination reaction with one or more lectins was observed with 42 isolates when the cells were untreated. After trypsinisation of the bacteria, 109 strains...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kellens JT,Jacobs JA,Peumans WJ,Stobberingh EE

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike their parent strains, zidovudine-resistant derivatives of Escherichia coli KL16 and Salmonella typhimurium NCTC 5710 were found to be incapable of incorporating radiolabelled thymidine into their chromosomal DNA. Since incorporation was still prevented in the presence of EDTA, resistance to zidovudine was not a...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lewin CS,Allen RA,Amyes SG

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is the species most frequently isolated from oral specimens, but the recovery of other Candida species such as Candida dubliniensis is increasing. Differentiation of C. dubliniensis from C. albicans requires special tests and both species are misidentified in some studies. CHROM-Pal (CH-P) is a novel ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sahand IH,Maza JL,Eraso E,Montejo M,Moragues MD,Aguirre JM,Quindós G,Pontón J

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacilli of the genus Aeromonas are widespread in aquatic environments and can be responsible for human infections. Although Aeromonas extraintestinal and systemic infections have been reported with growing frequency in recent years, Aeromonas septicaemia remains an uncommon finding, often associated with...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mencacci A,Cenci E,Mazzolla R,Farinelli S,D'Alò F,Vitali M,Bistoni F

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to investigate the antimicrobial susceptibility of the organisms isolated from the nasopharynx of children who presented with acute otitis media (AOM) or otitis media that recurred after amoxicillin therapy. Nasopharyngeal cultures obtained from 72 patients, 40 with AOM and 32 with recu...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Brook I,Gober AE

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal absorption of arbutin (p-hydroxyphenyl-beta-glucoside), a non-metabolised analogue of d-glucose, and net flux of water out of the small intestinal lumen were found to be decreased in vitro in rats fed with Candida albicans. In rats on a protein-deficient diet and fed C. albicans there was net secretion of w...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Burke V,Gracey M

更新日期：1980-02-01 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：:Soil specimens collected from a site around the home of patients with food-borne type E. botulism probably caused by neurotoxigenic Clostridium butyricum in Guanyun, Jiangsu province, China, were examined for the presence of neurotoxigenic C. butyricum. Five lakeside sites of Weishan lake, in an area near to the sites...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Meng X,Yamakawa K,Zou K,Wang X,Kuang X,Lu C,Wang C,Karasawa T,Nakamura S

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid identification of pathogenic yeasts is a crucial step in ensuring that effective antifungal treatment is started as early as possible. CandiSelect 4 (CS4; Bio-Rad) is a new chromogenic medium for the isolation of fungi, the direct identification of Candida albicans and the presumptive identification of the m...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sendid B,François N,Standaert A,Dehecq E,Zerimech F,Camus D,Poulain D

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the case of a graft versus host disease (GvHD) patient, in whom Hafnia alvei was cultured as a single organism, and at high bacterial counts from stool samples, from the onset of the disease until its resolution. This case is a further example of the contentious role of this species in causing human intest...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Savini V,Di Bartolomeo E,Catavitello C,Talia M,Manna A,Febbo F,Balbinot A,Di Bonaventura G,Di Bartolomeo P,Piccolomini R,D'Antonio D

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cystic fibrosis (CF) airways are colonized by polymicrobial communities with high bacterial load and are influenced by frequent antibiotic exposures. This community includes diverse streptococci, some of which have been directly or indirectly associated with pulmonary exacerbations. As many streptococci are natura...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Thornton CS,Grinwis ME,Sibley CD,Parkins MD,Rabin HR,Surette MG

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The objective of the present study is to investigate the diverse resistance determinants, their association with insertion sequence mobile elements and predilection of a particular clone for such associations in Acinetobacter baumannii. METHODOLOGY:Fifty-four consecutive isolates collected during 2011-2012 fro...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Saranathan R,Kumari R,Kalaivani R,Suresh S,Rani A,Purty S,Prashanth K

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of passive immunotherapy with antisera against heat-killed Pseudomonas aeruginosa and three of its exo-enzymes (elastase, alkaline protease and exotoxin A) in gut-derived P. aeruginosa sepsis was evaluated. Mice were given a suspension of P. aeruginosa strain D4 in their drinking water, together with ampici...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Matsumoto T,Furuya N,Tateda K,Miyazaki S,Ohno A,Ishii Y,Hirakata Y,Yamaguchi K

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 28 isolates of Vibrio cholerae non-O1 (10 from diarrhoeal patients and 18 from environmental sources) examined for haemolytic activity and its correlation, if any, with enterotoxic activity, 24 showed haemolysis. The four non-haemolytic isolates showed haemolysis after consecutive passages through rabbit ileal loop...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Singh DV,Shukla BN,Sanyal SC

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea (CDAD) is the most common hospital-acquired diarrhoea, and is a major type of gastroenteritis infection in nursing homes and facilities for the elderly. In this study the antimicrobial activity of the two-component lantibiotic, lacticin 3,147, against a range of genetically d...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rea MC,Clayton E,O'Connor PM,Shanahan F,Kiely B,Ross RP,Hill C

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

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