Borderline oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (BORSA) - a more common problem than expected?

abstract：:Two carbapenem-non-susceptible Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates, Z2554 and Z2110, were collected from a hospital in China and analysed by PFGE. K. pneumoniae Z2554 and Z2110 were genetically unrelated and showed resistance to ertapenem, and reduced susceptibility to imipenem and meropenem. Analysis of their beta-lactama...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Wang XD,Cai JC,Zhou HW,Zhang R,Chen GX

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) N-59 and RU-1 were produced by immunisation of mice with streptokinase secreted by Streptococcus group A, type 12, strain A374 isolated from a patient with post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis (PSGN) and were characterised by Western blot analysis. MAb N-59 recognised antigenic determinan...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ohkuni H,Todome Y,Yoshimura K,Yamamoto T,Suzuki H,Yokomuro K,Johnston KH,Zabriskie JB

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat was evaluated as an experimental model for disseminated candidosis by quantitating blood clearance and initial organ localisation of 3H-leucine-labelled Candida albicans after intravenous injection into the tail or portal vein. Viable or formalin-killed blastoconidia or viable blastoconidia with germ tubes wer...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Katz S,Grosfeld JL,Folkening WJ,Rosenthal RS,Merkel GJ

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of three sulphonamides and trimethoprim against strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa have been studied. Sulphadiazine had most activity, sulphadimidine had little, and the activity of sulphamethoxazole was intermediate. According to their sensitivity to sulphamethoxazole, strains were divided into two grou...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Grey D,Hamilton-Miller JM

更新日期：1977-08-01 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：:Intratracheal administration of purified Pseudomonas aeruginosa exoenzyme S elicited extensive, grossly observable damage in the rat lung within 2 h. Light and electronmicroscopy revealed injury and necrosis of bronchial epithelium, type I pneumocytes and capillary endothelial cells after 1 h; associated haemorrhage, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Woods DE,Hwang WS,Shahrabadi MS,Que JU

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Neisseria gonorrhoeae can use haem as the sole exogenous iron source for growth in vitro, the mechanism of haem-iron uptake in the gonococcus is unknown. Two haemin-binding proteins (HmBPs) of 97 and 44 Kda were isolated by batch ligand affinity-chromatography from whole cells or total membranes of gonococci ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lee BC

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of 19 samples of pus which showed red fluorescence with ultraviolet light were screened for the presence of porphyrins by absorption spectrophotometry. All those which showed spectra typical of metal-free porphyrins were analysed by high performance liquid chromatography to identify the porphyrins present. Th...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Brazier JS

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The family of leptospiral immunoglobulin-like (lig) genes comprises ligA, ligB and ligC. This study used PCR to demonstrate the presence of lig genes among serovars from a collection of leptospiral strains and clinical isolates. Whilst ligA and ligC appeared to be present in a limited number of pathogenic serovars, th...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Cerqueira GM,McBride AJA,Picardeau M,Ribeiro SG,Moreira ÂN,Morel V,Reis MG,Ko AI,Dellagostin OA

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:This study was designed to investigate the molecular epidemiology and antibiotic-resistance characteristics of 11 carbapenem-resistant clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii obtained in Norway between 2004 and 2009. Interestingly, all the isolates were linked with recent hospitalization outside Norway. The epide...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Karah N,Haldorsen B,Hermansen NO,Tveten Y,Ragnhildstveit E,Skutlaberg DH,Tofteland S,Sundsfjord A,Samuelsen Ø

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence and genotype of Shiga-like toxins (SLTs) in Escherichia coli (O)157 strains from patients in Germany with haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) were investigated. This was done by PCR amplification of the B-subunit genes with two primer pairs--one complementary to slt-IB, and the other homologous to both sl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rüssmann H,Schmidt H,Heesemann J,Caprioli A,Karch H

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-reactivity in a delayed-type hypersensitivity (DH) response was studied in mice immunised with live Salmonella typhi, S. paratyphi A and S. paratyphi B. Extensive cross-reactions outside the serogroup limits were observed. The ability of DH cross-reacting and non-cross-reacting sonicates to generate activated ma...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Tiwari H,Kamat RS

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten recent clinical isolates of Salmonella serotype Typhimurium from man that were tested for their invasiveness in rabbit ileal explants in vitro, were compared with Typhimurium strain TML, a well-characterised invasive strain isolated from a case of human gastro-enteritis. Nine of the 10 strains showed invasiveness ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bolton AJ,Martin GD,Osborne MP,Wallis TS,Stephen J

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotaxis of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNL) in response to cell components of Bacteroides fragilis alone or in combination with Escherichia coli was evaluated. E. coli produced much more powerful chemotactic factors than B. fragilis. The culture filtrate (CF), outer membrane (OM) preparation, and lipopolysacchar...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Namavar F,Verweij-Van Vught AM,Bal M,MacLaren DM

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As well as conventional methods such as immunodiffusion, ELISA, or agglutination for the detection of toxin production in Staphylococcus aureus, amplification techniques like PCR allow a very sensitive and specific identification of the genes responsible for enterotoxin B and C, and TSST-1 production. These toxins mig...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Schmitz FJ,Steiert M,Hofmann B,Verhoef J,Hadding U,Heinz HP,Köhrer K

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iliopsoas abscess is usually secondary to the spread of infection from a contiguous focus. Primary disease is uncommon, except in children where Staphylococcus aureus is the main pathogen. We report a 60-year-old woman who developed a primary iliopsoas abscess as a result of haematogenous spread of Capnocytophaga sput...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Chan JFW,Wong SSY,Leung SSM,Li IWS,To KKW,Cheng VCC,Yuen KY

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:The ability of various haem- and non-haem-iron-containing compounds to support the growth of iron-limited cultures of Haemophilus ducreyi was assessed in a plate bioassay. Only haemin or the haem-containing proteins, bovine haemoglobin, human haemoglobin and bovine catalase, but not equine cytochrome C111, were capabl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lee BC

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional culture and drug susceptibility testing (DST) methods for Mycobacterium tuberculosis are laborious and time consuming. For this reason alternative rapid culture and DST techniques are urgently needed to shorten the time for drug-resistance detection. A total of 222 smear-positive sputum samples were evalu...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Imperiale BR,Morcillo NS,Palomino JC,Vandamme P,Martin A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain bile acids inhibit the growth in vitro of organisms commonly found in the intestine and, in particular, anaerobic bacteria. As the importance of this effect in vivo has not been demonstrated, we investigated changes in intestinal flora in the rat after diversion of bile to the urinary bladder. Five days after ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Burke V,Stone DE,Beaman J,Gracey M

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the in vitro antifungal effects of itraconazole/voriconazole (ITR/VRC) alone and in combination with tetrandrine (TET) against 23 clinical isolates of A. fumigatus using a chequerboard microdilution method. The dynamic antifungal effects of TET with ITR/VRC against A. fumigatus were asse...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Li SX,Song YJ,Zhang LL,Shi JP,Ma ZL,Guo H,Dong HY,Li YM,Zhang H

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:Resistance against vaginal colonisation by Mycoplasma pulmonis in strain TO mice after exposure to the mycoplasma was investigated. Eighteen mice from which M. pulmonis had been eliminated from the vagina, either naturally or by antibiotic therapy, were resistant to vaginal recolonisation. Specific antibody was measur...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Taylor-Robinson D,Furr PM

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections of the parotid gland with non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are rarely described. Here, we report on an infection of the parotid gland caused by Mycobacterium avium and give a literature-based overview about this entity. In the light of a global increase of mycobacterial infections, unusual manifestations ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Gittinger FS,Raible A,Kempf VAJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine changes in the systemic immune response during the incubation period and following the onset of clinical swine dysentery, including the recovery period. Ten healthy conventional pigs were inoculated with Brachyspira hyodysenteriae. Blood was sampled at pre-inoculation, at days 4 an...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Jonasson R,Andersson M,Råsbäck T,Johannisson A,Jensen-Waern M

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoblotting sera from cases of Streptococcus mutans or S. sobrinus endocarditis against an extract from S. sobrinus strain MUCOB 263 had identified three immunodominant antigenic bands at 190, 200 and 220 kDa. A lambda ZAPII DNA library was produced from the sheared genomic DNA of S. sobrinus MUCOB 263 and six iden...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Brooks W,Burnie JP

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：:Bacterial infection in patients who have undergone liver transplantation is a major complication of the procedure. Leuconostoc spp. are important pathogenic bacteria in individuals with poor immune function, especially transplant patients. In this report, we describe the case of a 45-year-old Asian male liver transpla...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Deng Y,Zhang Z,Xie Y,Xiao Y,Kang M,Fan H

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction. Quantification of bacterial load in tissue homogenates in in vivo pharmacodynamic studies is cumbersome and time-consuming.Aim. We therefore developed a new method for quantifying bacterial load in tissue homogenates of animals treated with a β-lactam and β-lactamase inhibitor using growth curves.Methods...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Georgiou PC,Mouton JW,Pournaras S,Meletiadis J

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00