Prevalence and virulence characteristics of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli in a case-control study among patients from Iran.

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to assess the biotope of the Cryptococcus neoformans/Cryptococcus gattii species complex from Ivory Coast, and clarify the possible epidemiological relationship between environmental and clinical strains. METHODOLOGY:Samples from Eucalyptus camaldulensis (n=136), Mangifera indica (n=1...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kassi FK,Bellet V,Drakulovski P,Krasteva D,Roger F,Valérie BA,Aboubakar T,Doumbia A,Kouakou GA,Delaporte E,Reynes J,Yavo W,Menan HIE,Bertout S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to develop novel host/pathogen real-time PCR assays for routine diagnostic use, early gene expression patterns from both Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and Raji cells were examined after inducing the lytic life cycle using 12-O-tetradecanoyl-13-phorbol ester and sodium butyrate. Real-time PCR identified several hig...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Auburn H,Zuckerman M,Smith M

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entero-invasive Escherichia coli (EIEC) and shigellae were tested for contact-haemolysin (CH) with red blood cells (RBCs) of guinea-pig, rabbit, rat, mouse, monkey, man, sheep and chicken; all bacteria showed the best lysis with guinea-pig RBCs. The best culture medium for CH activity of shigellae was tryptic soy brot...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Haider K,Albert MJ,Hossain A,Nahar S

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmid profiles, and their association with antimicrobial resistance, of 60 strains of Aeromonas hydrophila isolated from fish, shellfish and water were investigated. Only two strains were susceptible to all the antimicrobial agents tested; the highest incidences of resistance were to tetracycline (96.7%), prysta...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Borrego JJ,Moriñigo MA,Martinez-Manzanares E,Bosca M,Castro D,Barja JL,Toranzo AE

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis consists of a complex spectrum of infectious diseases with worldwide distribution of which visceral leishmaniasis or kala-azar caused by Leishmania donovani is the most devastating. In the absence of vaccines, chemotherapy remains the mainstay for the control of leishmaniasis. The drugs of choice are exp...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Islamuddin M,Sahal D,Afrin F

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Fifty-eight isolates of Shigella sonnei from three outbreaks in school children and eight control isolates from epidemiologically unrelated sporadic clinical infections in Taiwan were compared by antibiotic susceptibility testing and molecular typing. Antibiotic susceptibility testing showed that all strains except on...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lee TM,Chang LL,Chang CY,Wang JC,Pan TM,Wang TK,Chang SF

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia are Gram-negative obligate bacteria that cause a wide range of diseases in humans and animals. To assess the risk of zoonosis posed by pigs, a total of 920 serum samples were collected from pigs in 11 administrative cities in Jiangxi province, south-eastern China, and the seroprevalence of Chlamydia antibodi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Jiang HH,Huang SY,Zhang WB,Zhao L,Xu CM,Deng SZ,Zhu XQ

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Non-host-adapted Salmonella serovars, including the common human food-borne pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium), are opportunistic pathogens that can colonize food-producing animals without causing overt disease. Interventions against Salmonella are needed to enhance food safety, p...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bearson BL,Bearson SMD,Brunelle BW,Bayles DO,Lee IS,Kich JD

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosocomial infections with enterococci are an increasing problem in modern medical practice due to the development of resistance to a wide range of antibiotics, including the glycopeptides vancomycin and teicoplanin. An increasing number of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) have been cultured from clinical specim...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mackenzie CR,Hucke C,MÜller D,Seidel K,Takikawa O,DÄubener W

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute dental abscess is frequently underestimated in terms of its morbidity and mortality. The risk of potential serious consequences arising from the spread of a dental abscess is still relevant today with many hospital admissions for dental sepsis. The acute dental abscess is usually polymicrobial comprising fac...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Robertson D,Smith AJ

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the diversity and composition of the intestinal microbiota of elderly subjects using a combination of culture-dependent techniques and 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. The study was performed as part of the ELDERMET project, in which 368 faecal samples were assessed for viabl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lakshminarayanan B,Harris HMB,Coakley M,O'Sullivan Ó,Stanton C,Pruteanu M,Shanahan F,O'Toole PW,Ross RP,On Behalf Of The Eldermet Consortium

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis has been recognized as the causative agent of tularaemia for almost a century. Since its discovery in 1911, it has been shown to infect a wide range of hosts, including humans. As early as the 1920s it was suggested to be an intracellular pathogen, but it has proven to be an enigmatic organism, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Oyston PCF

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of tuberculosis (TB) infection in humans depends on the mycobacterial strain and the human host, and is multigenically controlled in both. ATP ligation of P2X(7) receptors expressed on human macrophages infected with mycobacteria induces cell death and subsequent loss of intracellular bacterial viabili...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mokrousov I,Sapozhnikova N,Narvskaya O

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and bacteriological findings in seven cases of urinary tract infection with cysteine-requiring strains of Klebsiella are described. The organisms were isolated from patients with long-standing urinary tract abnormalities and grew as small (c. 1 mm) colonies on MacConkey agar. The organisms failed to grow in a...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： McIver CJ,Tapsall JW

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteraemia in children is a potentially life-threatening condition. The objective of this study was to determine trends in the aetiology of bacteraemia in children aged 1 month-15 years in England and Wales by collecting data voluntarily reported by National Health Service hospital microbiology laboratories. Over the...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Henderson KL,Johnson AP,Muller-Pebody B,Charlett A,Gilbert R,Sharland M

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsia conorii infection is endemic in the Mediterranean basin, where it is known as Mediterranean spotted fever, also known as Boutonneuse fever and Marseilles fever. We report the case of a 66-year-old diabetic man who presented a severe form of the disease, complicated by acute renal failure, thrombocytopenia a...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Aliaga L,Sánchez-Blázquez P,Rodríguez-Granger J,Sampedro A,Orozco M,Pastor J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose. In this study, we differentiated between tuberculosis (TB) and infections caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) or Nocardia in a tertiary general hospital in China. Differences in clinical manifestations and factors between respiratory infections associated with these organisms were also investigated.Me...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Dong G,Chu P,Guo J,Xie Y,Lu J

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:The results of this study demonstrate that saline extracted surface-associated material (SAM) of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans and Eikenella corrodens stimulates bone resorption at picomolar concentrations. Various inhibitors of known osteolytic mediators--indomethacin, interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Meghji S,Wilson M,Barber P,Henderson B

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CaNdt80p, the Candida albicans homologue of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae transcription factor ScNdt80p, has been identified as a positive regulator of CDR1, which encodes an efflux pump involved in drug resistance in C. albicans. To investigate the involvement of the putative DNA-binding domain of CaNdt80p in drug res...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Wang JS,Yang YL,Wu CJ,Ouyang KJ,Tseng KY,Chen CG,Wang H,Lo HJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:Sorbarod biofilms were investigated for their suitability in establishing continuous culture biofilms for the study of bacterial vaginosis. Two important organisms in the condition, Gardnerella vaginalis and Lactobacillus acidophilus, were studied. In contrast to growth in broth culture, both organisms were maintained...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Muli FW,Struthers JK

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formalin-killed cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain M-24 elicited an antibody-independent protective effect against P. aeruginosa infection in mice. The effect was observed as early as 6 h after administration and 100% protection was obtained by 48 h. The protective effect could not be attributed to the production ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Fujimura T,Suzuki T,Mitsuyama M,Saito H,Nomoto K

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monospecific polyclonal antiserum, prepared against Bacteroides fragilis common polysaccharide antigen purified by polyacrylamide gel immunoblot detected B. fragilis, B. thetaiotaomicron, B. ovatus and Prevotella melaninogenica in pus samples from various anatomical sites by immunofluorescence microscopy of the pus....

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Patrick S,Stewart LD,Damani N,Wilson KG,Lutton DA,Larkin MJ,Poxton I,Brown R

更新日期：1995-08-01 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：:The lipopolysaccharides (LPS) of the 10 species of the genus Bacteroides (sensu stricto) were extracted by the proteinase K method and their resolution compared by several methods of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE). These included sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS)-PAGE with and without urea, polyacrylamide gradi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Maskell JP

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human enterovirus 68 (HEV-68) is an enterovirus associated with respiratory illness. In China, no information about HEV-68 is available for children yet. This study aimed to investigate the presence of HEV-68 in mainland China between 2009 and 2012 and to explore the migration events of HEV-68 across the world. Among ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lu QB,Wo Y,Wang HY,Wei MT,Zhang L,Yang H,Liu EM,Li TY,Zhao ZT,Liu W,Cao WC

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-three Staphylococcus aureus strains (40 from clinical sources and 23 from food sources) were examined for toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1) using PCR, phage typed using the international phage set (IPS) and tested for their susceptibility to antibiotics. Only three strains (all from clinical sources) were po...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： El-Ghodban A,Ghenghesh KS,Márialigeti K,Esahli H,Tawil A

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strains of Acinetobacter baumannii are being reported worldwide, and they are associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. These strains are considered to be the highest priority for the development of new antibacterial agents. Therefore, we aimed to develop an effective ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Wintachai P,Naknaen A,Pomwised R,Voravuthikunchai SP,Smith DR

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00