Hospital clonal dissemination of Enterobacter aerogenes producing carbapenemase KPC-2 in a Chinese teaching hospital.

abstract：:Different aspects of the terms strain, clone and species are discussed. The term strain is commonly used to denote a pure culture - here called 'the strain in the taxonomic sense' - but does also refer to a natural concept closely related to the clone. The term clone on the other hand is used both in a general and in ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Dijkshoorn L,Ursing BM,Ursing JB

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to verify whether the presence of any of the Helicobacter pylori cagPAI genes or segments--cagA, cagA promoter, cagE, cagM, tnpB, tnpA, cagT and the left end of the cag II (LEC) region--would be a useful marker for the risk of peptic ulcer disease development. H. pylori DNA extracted from...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mattar R,Marques SB,Monteiro MDS,Dos Santos AF,Iriya K,Carrilho FJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The family Adenoviridae consists of five genera of which the genus Mastadenovirus includes human viruses classified into 57 serotypes clustered into seven subgroups (A-G). Serotypes 40 and 41 (subgroup F) are specifically associated with childhood gastroenteritis and are the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Arcangeletti MC,Germini D,Martorana D,Rodighiero I,De Conto F,Medici MC,Chezzi C,Calderaro A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 95 isolates, belonging to 33 species of five dermatophyte genera, i.e. Arthroderma (15 species), Chrysosporium (two), Epidermophyton (one), Microsporum (three) and Trichophyton (12), were studied using internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2)-PCR-RFLP analysis (ITS2-RFLP), consisting of amplification of the ITS...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： De Baere T,Summerbell R,Theelen B,Boekhout T,Vaneechoutte M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most hospital bacteriologists have divided staphylococci into two groups: Staphylococcus aureus and the coagulase-negative staphylococci of which the novobiocin-resistant varieties are termed S. saprophyticus. The identification of S. aureus has been easy but that of the other staphylococci has provided some difficult...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Reuther JW

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 2003, Vibrio cholerae O1 Ogawa was the predominant serotype among diarrhoeal patients admitted to different hospitals in India. With the exception of 3 strains from Kolkata, none of 172 strains examined exhibited resistance to tetracycline, but 45.7 % showed reduced susceptibility to ciprofloxacin. Extensive mo...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Chatterjee S,Ghosh K,Raychoudhuri A,Pan A,Bhattacharya MK,Mukhopadhyay AK,Ramamurthy T,Bhattacharya SK,Nandy RK

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were performed to determine whether a modern flow cytometer could be used to study bacterial populations in suspension, with particular reference to their morphological characteristics and their responses to antibiotics. The FACScan, a commercial benchtop flow cytometer fitted with an air-cooled laser, des...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Gant VA,Warnes G,Phillips I,Savidge GF

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brachyspira pilosicoli is a potentially zoonotic anaerobic intestinal spirochaete that is one of several species causing avian intestinal spirochaetosis. The aim of this study was to develop a reproducible model of infection in point-of-lay chickens and compare the virulence of two strains of B. pilosicoli in a model ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mappley LJ,Tchórzewska MA,Nunez A,Woodward MJ,La Ragione RM

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a survey of 3302 people in an area of central Sweden, tinea versicolor was diagnosed in 0.5% of males and 0.3% of females; all those infected were adults. Tinea versicolor is much less common in Sweden than in the tropics. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hellgren L,Vincent J

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pseudotuberculosis was examined for its haemagglutinating activity and adherence to cultured epithelial cells (HEp-2) in relation to possession of a virulence (VW) plasmid and to growth conditions. VW-lacking (VW-) bacteria were isolated from ten VW+ strains of each serovar which, after they were grown on CFA...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kawaoka Y,Mitani T,Hoshina K,Otsuki K,Tsubokura M

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptolysin O (SLO) is a potent cytolytic toxin produced by almost all strains of group A streptococci and is considered an important virulence factor for this organism. In this study we investigated the effect of allicin and aqueous garlic extracts on the haemolytic activity of SLO. All tested materials potentially ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Arzanlou M,Bohlooli S

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the presence and prevalence of multidrug antibacterial resistance in Helicobacter pylori in Bulgaria from 2005 to 2008. The resistance in 828 untreated adults, 124 treated adults and 105 untreated children was, respectively, 26.5, 50.8 and 16.2% for metronidazole; 18.4, 45.2 and 1...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Boyanova L

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleolar accumulation of Semliki Forest Virus (SFV) C protein was examined as a function of intact microtubules, intact microfilaments and accessible intermediate filaments. The cytoskeletal components do not seem to play a role in directing C protein to the nucleolus but nucleolar accumulation is energy-dependen...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Jakob R

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opsonic requirements of Helicobacter pylori were investigated in a series of experiments with human polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNL). Pre-incubation of H. pylori with pooled normal human serum (NHS) in concentrations of 5-20% significantly increased the uptake of radiolabelled bacteria by PMNL. Treatment of the...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： McKinlay AW,Young A,Russell RI,Gemmell CG

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is an emerging multidrug-resistant pathogen and very little information is available regarding its imipenem resistance in Latin American countries such as Bolivia. This study investigated the antimicrobial resistance profile of 46 clinical strains from different hospitals in Cochabamba, Bolivia...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sevillano E,Fernández E,Bustamante Z,Zabalaga S,Rosales I,Umaran A,Gallego L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine lactoferricin, a pepsin-generated antimicrobial peptide from bovine lactoferrin active against a wide range of bacteria, was tested for its ability to influence the adhesion and invasion of Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in HEp-2 cells. The addition of non-cytotoxic and non-bactericidal...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Di Biase AM,Tinari A,Pietrantoni A,Antonini G,Valenti P,Conte MP,Superti F

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Streptococcus mutans to produce mutacins, combined with the production of other virulence factors such as lactic acid, may contribute to the pathogenesis of this bacterium. In the present study, the detection of genes encoding mutacin types I/III, II and IV was performed by PCR with specific primers to ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kamiya RU,Napimoga MH,Höfling JF,Gonçalves RB

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The resistance of Balamuthia mandrillaris to physical, chemical and radiological conditions was tested. Following treatments, viability was determined by culturing amoebae on human brain microvascular endothelial cells for up to 12 days. B. mandrillaris cysts were resistant to repeated freeze-thawing (five times), tem...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Siddiqui R,Ortega-Rivas A,Khan NA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Mexico, there is a lack of up-to-date published data that show viruses to be the main cause of acute respiratory infection (ARI). The objective of this study was to estimate the comparative viral frequency between children under the age of 5 years with and without ARI (n = 179 in each group) in a suburban community...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Manjarrez ME,Rosete DP,Rincón M,Villalba J,Cravioto A,Cabrera R

更新日期：2003-07-01 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：: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：:DNA hybridisation of 309 consecutive Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates with oligonucleotide probes specific for genes encoding Panton-Valentine leucocidin (luk-PV) and gamma-haemolysin (hlg) revealed that 99% of randomly selected strains carried the hlg locus whereas only 2% harboured the luk-PV as well as the h...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Prevost G,Couppie P,Prevost P,Gayet S,Petiau P,Cribier B,Monteil H,Piemont Y

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This prospective study investigated whether oral candidal carriage in HIV-infected patients was altered by pentamidine therapy. Repeated oral rinses were taken from 56 HIV-positive patients over a 2-year period. Oral candidal carriage was investigated in two groups of patients, one receiving prophylactic pentamidine t...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Nolan A,Lamey PJ,MacFarlane TW,Aitchison TC,Shaw J,Sirel JY

更新日期：1994-08-01 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：:Three strains of Plesiomonas shigelloides isolated from patients with diarrhoea were agglutinated with Shigella flexneri 6 antiserum in slide and tube tests. All the strains were also agglutinated with a monoclonal antibody to the common group 1 antigen shared between S. flexneri serotypes and S. dysenteriae type 1. F...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Albert MJ,Ansaruzzaman M,Qadri F,Hossain A,Kibriya AK,Haider K,Nahar S,Faruque SM,Alam AN

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The move towards pathology networks and hub-and-spoke models of medical laboratory service provision has significantly changed the flow of samples, and the impact of results on patients, over recent years. At the same time advances in technology, including rapid, simple to use molecular platforms, are changing the way...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rabinowicz S,O'Hare M,Moore LSP,Mughal N

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 250 vaginal samples from patients with vulvovaginal candidosis were inoculated onto two chromogenic media, Albicans ID(2) and Biggy agar, as well as onto Sabouraud chloramphenicol agar, yielding a total of 63 yeast (25.2 %) on all three media. These strains were identified as Candida glabrata in 20 (31....

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ilkit M,Hilmioglu S,Tasbakan M,Aydemir S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of hospital-acquired (HA) and community-acquired (CA) infections worldwide. Recently, S. aureus strains resistant to meticillin (MRSA) have become established within both communities. We isolated 314 isolates of MRSA from hospitalized patients in a referral hospital (HA isolate...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rahimi F,Katouli M,Pourshafie MR

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Group A rotavirus (RVA) is the leading cause of severe gastroenteritis in children younger than 5 years. The most common human G-types are G1-4 and G9. G12 genotype is currently emerging worldwide, becoming the sixth most prevalent RVA G-genotype. In Tunisia, an emergence of G12 RVA strains was observed. To und...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Moussa A,Fredj MBH,BenHamida-Rebaï M,Fodha I,Boujaafar N,Trabelsi A

更新日期：2017-02-01 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