Streptococcus gordonii pheromone s.g.cAM373 may influence the reservoir of antibiotic resistance determinants of Enterococcus faecalis origin in the oral metagenome.

abstract：:Rickettsia conorii is endemic in Greece, though only a few cases of infection have been published to date. The case of a 58-year-old man from northern Greece with a severe form of Mediterranean spotted fever and rapid neurological deterioration is presented here. The patient received antibiotic treatment with doxycycl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Tzavella K,Hatzizisis IS,Vakali A,Mandraveli K,Zioutas D,Alexiou-Daniel S

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last 30 years, Serratia marcescens has become an important cause of nosocomial infection. There have been many reports concerning the identification, antibiotic susceptibility, pathogenicity, epidemiological investigations and typing of this organism. Accurate identification is important in defining outbreaks...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hejazi A,Falkiner FR

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic mice were significantly more susceptible than normal mice to bladder infection with Enterobacter cloacae or Serratia marcescens but not to intraperitoneal infection. Normal urine inhibited the growth of E. cloacae and S. marcescens, whereas urine from diabetic mice permitted multiplication. The addition of ur...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Obana Y,Nishino T

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In serological typing of Klebsiella pneumoniae strains from human, equine and environmental sources, the capsular identity of many isolates could not be determined because of serological cross-reactivity. A panel of 91 bacteriophages able to lyse each of the 77 capsular serotypes of K. pneumoniae was isolated and test...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Pieroni P,Rennie RP,Ziola B,Deneer HG

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a leading aetiologic agent of nosocomial- and community-acquired infectious diseases worldwide. The public health concern regarding staphylococcal infections is inflated by the increasing occurrence of multidrug-resistant strains, e.g. multidrug- and meticillin-resistant S.aureus (MDR MRSA). T...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sarkar P,Acharyya S,Banerjee A,Patra A,Thankamani K,Koley H,Bag PK

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:The adhesion of bovine and a human isolate of Escherichia coli to epithelial cells from the teat and lactiferous sinuses of the udder was examined. Adhesion was detected with bacterial suspensions that produced mannose-sensitive agglutination of guinea-pig red cells. Adhesion to epithelial cells could be inhibited by ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Harper M,Turvey A,Bramley AJ

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, several plasmids harbouring genes encoding phosphoethanolamine transferases conferring colistin resistance have been described in multiple Enterobacteriaceae species. Avian Pathogenic E. coli (APEC) causes colibacillosis and is responsible for a considerable proportion of the disease burden in commerc...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hornsey M,Betts JW,Mehat JW,Wareham DW,van Vliet AHM,Woodward MJ,La Ragione RM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to develop a model for the study of gastric spiral bacteria, and based on the observation that Wistar rats do not carry urease-positive spiral bacteria in their gastric mucosa, mucus from a pig naturally colonised by 'Gastrospirillum suis' (an organism with I6S rDNA 99.5% similar to that of 'G. hominis' type ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mendes EN,Queiroz DM,Coimbra RS,Moura SB,Barbosa AJ,Rocha GA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes cells are ingested by protozoa such as Acanthamoeba sp. or Tetrahymena pyriformis. However, they are not killed, but survive within the protozoa and may multiply intracellularly. The protozoa are lysed within about 8 days, releasing viable L. monocytogenes. No co-existence was observed between L...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ly TM,Müller HE

更新日期：1990-09-01 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：:The rapid identification of pathogenic yeasts is a crucial step in ensuring that effective antifungal treatment is started as early as possible. CandiSelect 4 (CS4; Bio-Rad) is a new chromogenic medium for the isolation of fungi, the direct identification of Candida albicans and the presumptive identification of the m...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sendid B,François N,Standaert A,Dehecq E,Zerimech F,Camus D,Poulain D

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast identification and in vitro susceptibility testing provide helpful information for appropriate administration of antifungal treatments; however, few reports from the Latin American region have been published. The aim of this study was to identify the species present in isolates from bloodstream infections diagno...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bustamante B,Martins MA,Bonfietti LX,Szeszs MW,Jacobs J,Garcia C,Melhem MSC

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1878 non-duplicate clinical Escherichia coli isolates (comprising 1711 urinary isolates and 167 blood-culture isolates), which were collected from multiple centres in Hong Kong during 1996-2008, were used to investigate the prevalence and molecular epidemiology of plasmid-mediated fosfomycin (fos) resistanc...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ho PL,Chan J,Lo WU,Lai EL,Cheung YY,Lau TCK,Chow KH

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Strains of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to gentamicin and methicillin first appeared in Dublin hospitals in 1976, and rapidly became widely disseminated. The number of patients infected or colonised increased throughout the period of study, especially in 1979 and 1980. Most isolates were from burns, surgical wounds...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Cafferkey MT,Hone R,Falkiner FR,Keane CT,Pomeroy H

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to characterize cell damage caused by vaginal Candida albicans isolates from women with different symptomatologies. It was evaluated 12 clinical isolates of C. albicans from vaginal samples: 4 from asymptomatic women (AS), 4 from women with a single episode of vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) and...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Faria DR,Sakita KM,Akimoto-Gunther LS,Kioshima ÉS,Svidzinski TIE,Bonfim-Mendonça PS

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic meningococcaemia is an unusual clinical presentation of Neisseria meningitidis infection. We describe the case of a patient, who presented with total IgA deficiency and partial IgM deficiency with a low switched memory B cells count, suggestive of a borderline form of common variable immunodeficiency (CVID). T...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Theulin A,Rondeau-Lutz M,Kuhnert C,Boileau J,Weber JC

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitors of trophozoite motility and phagocytosis were used to investigate the mechanism of Naegleria fowleri cytopathogenicity in mouse-embryo (ME)-cell cultures. Amoebae that were immobilised and agglutinated by specific antiserum exhibited no cytopathic activity, although they remained alive and were in constant ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Brown T

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcosis causes disseminated disease in AIDS patients. In contrast to what occurs in laboratory conditions, a large capsule is produced by Cryptococcus neoformans in vivo during infection. The aim of this study was to compare the in vitro activity of different antifungal agents against 34 clinical isolates of C....

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Vitale RG,Pascuccelli V,Afeltra J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Urinary tract infection (UTI) can be community-acquired (Com-UTI) or catheter-associated (CAUTI) and may be associated with biofilm-producing organisms. A comparative analysis of biofilm-producing property (BPP), antibiotic-sensitivity and multi-drug resistance (MDR) and their relation with the BPP of isolates ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bardoloi V,Yogeesha Babu KV

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Pertussis remains a public health concern in most countries. Our study aimed to prospectively explore the epidemiology of pertussis in the Tunis area of Tunisia between 2007 and 2016, and to characterize the virulence-associated genes of the collected Bordetella pertussis isolates. METHODOLOGY:Infants and chil...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ben Fraj I,Kechrid A,Guillot S,Bouchez V,Brisse S,Guiso N,Smaoui H

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serology remains the mainstay for diagnosis of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection. This study compared two automated platforms (BioPlex 2200 and Architect i2000SR) to test three EBV serological markers: viral capsid antigen (VCA) immunoglobulins of class M (IgM), VCA immunoglobulins of class G (IgG) and EBV nuclear an...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Al Sidairi H,Binkhamis K,Jackson C,Roberts C,Heinstein C,MacDonald J,Needle R,Hatchette TF,LeBlanc JJ

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces multiple virulence factors and causes different types of infections. Previous clinical studies identified P. aeruginosa isolates that lack individual virulence factors. However, the impact of losing several virulence factors simultaneously on the in vivo virulence of P. aeruginosa is no...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Schaber JA,Carty NL,McDonald NA,Graham ED,Cheluvappa R,Griswold JA,Hamood AN

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea (CDAD) is the most common hospital-acquired diarrhoea, and is a major type of gastroenteritis infection in nursing homes and facilities for the elderly. In this study the antimicrobial activity of the two-component lantibiotic, lacticin 3,147, against a range of genetically d...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rea MC,Clayton E,O'Connor PM,Shanahan F,Kiely B,Ross RP,Hill C

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two chlamydial enzyme immunoassays, Chlamydiazyme and IDEIA, were evaluated in a mouse model of chlamydial genital-tract infection. The Chlamydiazyme assay and the IDEIA were assessed on specimens from 10 and 11 mice, respectively. The animals were infected with Chlamydia trachomatis, strain SA2f, and the results obta...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Taylor-Robinson D,Tuffrey M

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of interleukin-8 (IL-8) from human neutrophils was investigated after their internalisation of the invasive bacteria Listeria monocytogenes and Yersinia enterocolitica. Three pairs of bacterial strains were used to study the influence of listeriolysin O, invasiveness and Yersinia virulence plasmid (pYV)-en...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Arnold R,König W

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella sonnei infection in industrialized countries is often associated with foreign travel. A total of 195 S. sonnei isolates in Japan, isolated from cases associated with foreign travel, were analysed by biotyping and molecular typing using PFGE and multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA); their a...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Izumiya H,Tada Y,Ito K,Morita-Ishihara T,Ohnishi M,Terajima J,Watanabe H

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:The locus responsible for mucoid colony morphology in five independent clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from cystic fibrosis patients have been transferred by means of pM060-mediated conjugation to the genetically characterised strain P. aeruginosa PAO. Genetic mapping has shown that in all five strains the...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： MacGeorge J,Korolik V,Morgan AF,Asche V,Holloway BW

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00