In vitro antifungal activities of amphotericin B in combination with acteoside, a phenylethanoid glycoside from Colebrookea oppositifolia.

abstract：:The genetic diversity between major meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) lineages was probed using fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism (FAFLP) as a random genome sampling tool. Genomic DNA was digested with endonucleases BglII and Csp6I and a subset of the restricted fragments were amplifie...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Desai D,Ellington MJ,Arnold C,Desai M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevotella intermedia and the newly described P. nigrescens cannot be reliably distinguished by phenotypic tests. In this study, restriction endonuclease digestion of amplified 16S rDNA (16S rDNA PCR-RFLP) was used to generate restriction profiles of the type strains of P. intermedia and P. nigrescens and 43 fresh iso...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Milsom SE,Sprague SV,Dymock D,Weightman AJ,Wade WG

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laribacter hongkongensis is a food-borne bacterium associated with community-acquired gastroenteritis and diarrhoea. Quinolone resistance was recently reported in bacterial isolates from aquatic products, but the molecular mechanisms for resistance were still unknown. In this study, a total of 157 L. hongkongensis str...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Chen DQ,Yang L,Luo YT,Mao MJ,Lin YP,Wu AW

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited digestion of staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) with trypsin resulted in the generation of a 12-Kda amino-terminal fragment and a 17-Kda carboxy-terminal fragment which were isolated by preparative iso-electric focusing. The carboxy-terminal fragment exhibited significant mitogenic activity for murine splenocy...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Binek M,Newcomb JR,Rogers CM,Rogers TJ

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the species diversity of staphylococci with inducible resistance to macrolides, lincosamides and streptogramin B (MLSB) isolated from clinical samples, sewage and river water was investigated. Inducible clindamycin resistance was tested using a D-test and macrodilution assays. Inducible cross-resistance...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Heß S,Gallert C

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：: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：:The annual prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Malaysia has been estimated to be 30 % to 40 % of all S. aureus infections. Nevertheless, data on the antimicrobial resistance and genetic diversity of Malaysian MRSAs remain few. In 2009, we collected 318 MRSA strains from various wards of...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Noordin A,Sapri HF,Mohamad Sani NA,Leong SK,Tan XE,Tan TL,Mohamad Zin N,Neoh HM,Hussin S

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:Neisseria sicca is rarely associated with clinical infections and to the authors' knowledge this organism has not been reported as a causative agent of infected biloma (liver abscess). A case of a diabetic man with infected biloma due to N. sicca after repeated transcatheter arterial embolization for hepatocellular ca...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Chung HC,Teng LJ,Hsueh PR

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2007, there has been a re-emergence of cholera outbreaks in northern Vietnam. To understand the molecular epidemiological relatedness and determine the antibiotic susceptibility profiles of responsible V. cholerae O1 outbreak strains, a representative collection of 100 V. cholerae O1 strains was characterized. V...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Tran HD,Alam M,Trung NV,Van Kinh N,Nguyen HH,Pham VC,Ansaruzzaman M,Rashed SM,Bhuiyan NA,Dao TT,Endtz HP,Wertheim HFL

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction.Candida auris is a pathogenic yeast that mainly affects immunosuppressed patients and those with implanted medical devices. This pathogen also displays elevated resistance to common antifungals and high survival and spreading capacities. Since no antifungal breakpoints have yet been defined for this patho...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Romera D,Aguilera-Correa JJ,Gadea I,Viñuela-Sandoval L,García-Rodríguez J,Esteban J

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with AIDS frequently develop diarrhoeal illness. In this randomized, controlled study, 260 patients were screened for those who had not had diarrhoea in the preceding 3 months and who had received a stable highly active antiretroviral therapy regimen for at least 6 weeks prior to the study enrollment. A total...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Huang DB,Zhou J

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is a zoonotic pathogen that causes erysipelas in a variety of animals. In humans, in contrast to the cutaneous form called erysipeloid, which is an occupational disease and common in individuals who handle raw meat and fish, invasive systemic infections are unusual. E. rhusiopathiae expres...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Taguchi Y,Shiraiwa K,Ogawa Y,Oi T,Nakamura S,Okumura J,Shimoji Y

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:Bacterial invasion of host epithelial cells plays an important role in the pathogenesis of periodontal diseases; however, the interactions between subgingival species and the gingival crevice cells are not fully understood. This study determined the prevalence of a group of oral bacterial species on or in epithelial c...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Colombo AV,Silva CM,Haffajee A,Colombo APV

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identity and motility of enterococci isolated as urinary pathogens were compared with those of strains from other sources. The majority of isolates from all sources proved to be Streptococcus faecalis of S. faecium but eight of 117 urinary strains and seven of 127 non-urinary strains belonged to a group intermedia...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bransby RD,Grüneberg RN

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei is isolated frequently from the soil in regions where the disease melioidosis occurs. However, recent surveys in Thailand have shown that the frequency of isolation of the organism from soil samples is not directly related to the incidence of melioidosis in an area. To determine whether strai...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Trakulsomboon S,Dance DA,Smith MD,White NJ,Pitt TL

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell walls from different species of Mycobacterium were purified on a sucrose step gradient. The components derived from these preparations were characterised by sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, followed by staining or by Western blotting. Surface-exposed polypeptide molecules were also iden...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Babu S,Jain NK,Prasad G,Bhattacharya S,Bhattacharya A

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein we describe a real-time quantitative PCR assay for evaluating the adherence of Clostridium difficile to differentiated human intestinal Caco-2 cells. Our investigations demonstrated that the method, employing the C. difficile-specific triose-phosphate isomerase gene, is as reliable but less time-consuming than ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Dingle T,Mulvey GL,Humphries RM,Armstrong GD

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heated spores (80 degrees C, 10 min) of Clostridium butyricum strain CB 1002 isolated from a fatal case of necrotising enterocolitis in a human neonate were inoculated into ligated intestinal loops prepared in young conventional guinea pigs. Necropsy findings 18 h later included congestion, patchy haemorrhage of the i...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Popoff MR,Ravisse P

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunist nosocomial pathogen of world-wide importance and produces severe infections in immunocompromised patients. However, the virulence factors contributing to its pathogenic properties are not well known. The effect of normal human serum against 18 clinical isolates of the most pre...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： García A,Solar H,González C,Zemelman R

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that produces several virulence factors such as lectin A, pyocyanin, elastase and rhamnolipids. These compounds are controlled transcriptionally by three quorum-sensing circuits, two based on the synthesis and detection of N-acyl-homoserine-lactone termed the Las and...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： García-Reyes S,Soberón-Chávez G,Cocotl-Yanez M

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：: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：: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：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence and epidemiology of the anaerobic intestinal spirochaete Brachyspira pilosicoli amongst Indonesians living in rural and urban settings on the island of Bali. Faecal samples (n = 992) were collected on two occasions, 4 months apart, from people living in four ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Margawani KR,Robertson ID,Brooke CJ,Hampson DJ

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：:The heparin-binding properties of six different species of coagulase-negative staphylococci were examined by a particle agglutination assay. Heparin (mol. wt 4000-6000), mildly treated with sodium periodate, was covalently coupled to amino-modified latex beads (0.72 micron diameter). The particle agglutination assay w...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Pascu C,Hirmo S,Ljungh A,Wadström T

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of voriconazole was compared with those of fluconazole and itraconazole against 270 clinical isolates of yeasts from the mouths of patients receiving palliative care for advanced cancer. A broth micro-dilution assay as described by the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards was empl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bagg J,Sweeney MP,Davies AN,Jackson MS,Brailsford S

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00