Analysis of mutations in the gyrA and gyrB genes and their association with the resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to levofloxacin, moxifloxacin and gatifloxacin.

abstract：:Infection of humans by Abiotrophia defectiva, a nutritionally variant streptococcus, most commonly takes the form of endocarditis, though a variety of other manifestations ranging from central nervous system abscesses to orthopaedic infections have been seen. We report here what we believe is the first case of bullous...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Anderson HM,Miller C,Kemp E,Huntington MK

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：:The aim of this study was to improve the identification of Mycobacterium species in the context of a UK teaching hospital. Real-time PCR assays were established to enable the rapid differentiation between Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) complex and Mycobacterium species other than tuberculosis (MOTT), followed by 16S...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Williams KJ,Ling CL,Jenkins C,Gillespie SH,McHugh TD

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythrocyte-sensitising antigens (AE) were prepared from Vibrio cholerae serotypes, from EL-Tor vibrio, Escherichia coli and Salmonella enteritidis by digesting the organisms with NaOH followed by precipitation with alcohol. When AE was used in indirect haemagglutination (IHA) tests, the results in a number of cases w...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Garabedian GA,Barsumian EL,Malakian A

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The object of this study was to develop and characterize experimental Burkholderia mallei aerosol infection in BALB/c mice. Sixty-five mice were infected with 5000 [approx. 2.5 median lethal doses (MLD)] B. mallei strain ATCC 23344(T) bacteria by the aerosol route. Bacterial counts within lung, liver, spleen, brain, k...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lever MS,Nelson M,Ireland PI,Stagg AJ,Beedham RJ,Hall GA,Knight G,Titball RW

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of next-generation sequencing technology has revolutionized the field of prokaryotic genetics and genomics by allowing interrogation of entire genomes, transcriptomes and global transcription factor binding profiles. As more studies employing these techniques have been performed, the state of the art regard...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Valli RXE,Lyng M,Kirkpatrick CL

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:Lactulose exerts a beneficial effect on hepatic encephalopathy by decreasing toxic short-chain (iC4-nC6) fatty acid (isobutyrate, butyrate, isovalerate, valerate, isocaproate and caproate) production. However, the precise mechanism by which lactulose exerts this effect remains uncertain. This study investigated the ef...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ito Y,Moriwaki H,Muto Y,Kato N,Watanabe K,Ueno K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased prevalence of oral candidosis associated with HIV infection must be intrinsically related to immunological changes in the host, but might also involve alterations to the infecting strains of yeast. This study aimed to determine if strains of Candida albicans isolated from asymptomatic HIV-infected indivi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sweet SP,Cookson S,Challacombe SJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is an important nutritional requirement for bacteria due to its conserved role in many essential metabolic processes. As a consequence of the lack of freely available iron in the mammalian host, bacteria upregulate a range of virulence factors during infection. Transcriptional analysis of Francisella tularensis s...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Milne TS,Michell SL,Diaper H,Wikström P,Svensson K,Oyston PCF,Titball RW

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs) are among the most common hospital-acquired infections. We aimed to survey methicillin resistance, biofilm production and susceptibility to vancomycin, linezolid and other antibiotics for staphylococci isolated from CRBSIs. METHODOLOGY:Fifty-eight isolates [20 S...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hashem AA,Abd El Fadeal NM,Shehata AS

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction. Differences between the genomic and virulence profile of Bordetella pertussis circulating strains and vaccine strains are considered as one of the important reasons for the resurgence of whooping cough (pertussis) in the world. Genetically inactivated B. pertussis is one of the new strategies to generate...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Nikbin VS,Keramati M,Noofeli M,Tayebzadeh F,Kahali B,Shahcheraghi F

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to evaluate the role of biofilm morphology, matrix content and surface hydrophobicity in the biofilm-forming capacity of Candida albicans and non-albicans Candida (NAC) spp. Biofilm formation was determined by microtitre plate assay and bright-field and scanning electron microscopy. The matrix ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kumari A,Mankotia S,Chaubey B,Luthra M,Singh R

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates were recovered from 28 patients from various sites in an intensive care unit in Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, China, over a 6 month period. PFGE analysis indicated that the 40 strains were all closely related. The MICs of carbapenems varied from 16 to ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Zhang R,Wang XD,Cai JC,Zhou HW,Lv HX,Hu QF,Chen GX

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:Coccidioidal pericarditis is a condition found in approximately 1-5% of patients infected by Coccidioides species. It is associated with widely diverse clinical symptoms. This paper reports a case of coccidioidal pericarditis diagnosed by an in-house Coccidioides posadasii antigen and confirmed with mycological and mo...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Brilhante RSN,Cordeiro RA,Rocha MFG,Fechine MAB,Furtado FM,Nagao-Dias AT,Camargo ZP,Sidrim JJC

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important opportunistic bacterial pathogen. Despite its metabolic and virulence versatility, it has not been shown to infect articular joints, which are areas that are rarely infected with bacteria in general. We hypothesized that articular joints possess antimicrobial activity that limits...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mahmood F,Hakimiyan A,Jayaraman V,Wood S,Sivaramakrishnan G,Rehman T,Reuhs BL,Chubinskaya S,Shafikhani SH

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feral pigeons (Columba livia) are commonly infected with Chlamydia psittaci, the agent of psittacosis in humans. To assess the risk of zoonosis posed by feral pigeons in the urban environment, we determined the prevalence of Chlamydia psittaci by detection of the outer-membrane protein A (ompA) gene of this pathogen i...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Geigenfeind I,Vanrompay D,Haag-Wackernagel D

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major nosocomial pathogen in Pakistan and is emerging in the community. This is one of the first reports of the prevalent genotypes of MRSA in both hospital and community settings in Pakistan. Isolates collected in 2006-2007 were characterized by PFGE, staphylococ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Zafar A,Stone M,Ibrahim S,Parveen Z,Hasan Z,Khan E,Hasan R,Wain J,Bamford K

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the genus Actinomyces, Gram-positive, non-spore-forming anaerobic bacteria, are normal inhabitants of the mucosal surfaces of the oral, gastrointestinal and genital tracts. Identification of these bacteria using conventional methods is generally difficult because of their complex transport and growth requir...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kaya D,Demirezen Ş,Hasçelik G,Gülmez Kıvanç D,Beksaç MS

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied in vitro ceftaroline combinations against 61 meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates; 18 of them were also resistant to linezolid, using overlapping E-test method. Daptomycin-ceftaroline combination obtained lower fractional inhibitory concentration values, in comparison with those including van...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： García AB,Candel FJ,López L,Chiarella F,Viñuela-Prieto JM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of the present study were to evaluate in vitro the production of antagonistic compounds against Gardnerella vaginalis by Lactobacillus strains isolated from women with or without bacterial vaginosis (BV), and to select one of the better Lactobacillus producers of such a substance to be tested in vivo us...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Teixeira GS,Carvalho FP,Arantes RME,Nunes AC,Moreira JLS,Mendonça M,Almeida RB,Farias LM,Carvalho MAR,Nicoli JR

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral biofilms are one of the greatest challenges in dental research. The present study aimed to investigate initial bacterial colonization of enamel surfaces in situ using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) over a 12 h period. For this purpose, bovine enamel slabs were fixed on buccal sites of individual splint...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Al-Ahmad A,Follo M,Selzer AC,Hellwig E,Hannig M,Hannig C

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We previously identified an association between CC22 meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bloodstream infection isolates with an elevated vancomycin MIC (V-MIC) in the susceptible range (1.5-2 mg l-1) and endocarditis. This study explores whether these isolates have a specific phenotype consistent ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Marbach H,Boakes E,Lynham S,Ward M,Otter JA,Edgeworth JD

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：:Community-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) have emerged globally and have been associated with more severe disease than healthcare-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA). The purpose of this study was to determine whether laboratory measures of virulence can distinguish dominant CA-MRSA clones from H...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Boakes E,Marbach H,Lynham S,Ward M,Edgeworth JD,Otter JA

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carnobacterium species have been isolated from the environment and are not regarded as human pathogens, although they are known to cause disease in fish. Only two reports describing isolation of Carnobacterium species from human pus were found in the literature. We report what we believe to be the first isolation of C...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hoenigl M,Grisold AJ,Valentin T,Leitner E,Zarfel G,Renner H,Krause R

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:The response of Legionella pneumophila to antibiotics that inhibit cell-wall, protein and DNA synthesis was examined by electronmicroscopy, MIC estimations and viable counts. Ampicillin, cefotaxime, methicillin, erythromycin, rifampicin and ciprofloxacin, each used separately at 20 times their respective MIC values, s...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rodgers FG,Tzianabos AO,Elliott TS

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of 198 clinical isolates of strains belonging to the tribe Proteeae was examined for haemolytic activity on blood agar and in Brain Heart Infusion Broth. The strains were of diverse bacteriocin and O-antigenic types and from a wide variety of sources. They included representatives of all species of Morgan...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Senior BW,Hughes C

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00