Campylobacters and impaired fetal development in mice.

abstract：:Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is considered to be an aetiological agent in various forms of periodontitis, with serotype b-specific carbohydrate being the immunodominant antigen of A. actinomycetemcomitans Y4 in high-responder patients. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of the organism may also be an important antigen. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Nakashima K,Usui C,Koseki T,Nishihara T,Ishikawa I

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：:Clinical isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae harbouring resistance (R) plasmids of mol. wts 4.4 x 10(6) (Asian) or 3.2 x 10(6) (African) were grown in prolonged glucose-limited continuous culture to determine the segregation efficiency of each type of plasmid and their expression of penicillinase activity in the absence...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Keevil CW,Spillane BJ,Major NC

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to investigate the synergistic interaction between amphotericin B (AmB) and acteoside, isolated from the aerial parts of the shrub Colebrookea oppositifolia (Lamiaceae). Acteoside alone exhibited no intrinsic antifungal activity but showed a potent synergism in combination with AmB against se...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ali I,Sharma P,Suri KA,Satti NK,Dutt P,Afrin F,Khan IA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR has proved superior to conventional blood culture for diagnosing bacteraemia in the presence of antibiotics. Nevertheless, even PCR might yield false-negative results if the template DNA were to be cleaved by serum DNAases after antibiotics had induced bacterial death. To evaluate the cleavage of bacterial templat...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Heininger A,Ulrich M,Priebe G,Unertl K,Müller-Schauenburg A,Botzenhart K,Döring G

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：:Campylobacter strains isolated from the same stool sample were characterised by determination of biochemical properties and both heat-labile (Lior) and heat-stable (Lauwers) serotypes. In six of 60 campylobacter-infected stools, two or three strains differing in Lior-serotype were isolated from the same stool. In four...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Zöllner B,Wuthe HH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxins (Stx1 and Stx2) are responsible for initiating haemolytic uraemic syndrome, a serious extraintestinal complication caused by enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 : H7 infection in humans. Shiga toxins are classical AB(5)-type exotoxins, consisting of a globotriaosylceramide (Gb(3))-binding B subunit p...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Griener TP,Mulvey GL,Marcato P,Armstrong GD

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucosal immunity in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is a primary defence against GI pathogens. We hypothesise that a mucosal response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS), especially to the common (core) determinants of GI pathogenic Escherichia coli strains, is protective. The aims of this study were to investigate the specif...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Currie CG,McCALLUM K,Poxton IR

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of chicks to enteritis caused by Campylobacter jejuni was studied. Three-day-old chicks did not develop enteritis after oral infection but chicks infected within 12 h of hatching developed gastroenteritis. The incubation period correlated with the inoculum size. Initially, infected chicks developed ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Welkos SL

更新日期：1984-10-01 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：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：:This study investigated the influence of the carbon source of the growth medium, strains of Candida albicans and source of epithelial cells, and the influence of smoking and gender, on the adhesion of C. albicans to epithelial cells from insulin-using diabetic patients. Adhesion was determined by an autologous adhesio...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Willis AM,Coulter WA,Hayes JR,Bell P,Lamey PJ

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevotella intermedia and the newly described P. nigrescens cannot be reliably distinguished by phenotypic tests. In this study, restriction endonuclease digestion of amplified 16S rDNA (16S rDNA PCR-RFLP) was used to generate restriction profiles of the type strains of P. intermedia and P. nigrescens and 43 fresh iso...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Milsom SE,Sprague SV,Dymock D,Weightman AJ,Wade WG

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A colony hybridisation method with enzyme-labelled oligonucleotide probes was developed to detect the gene for toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (tst). For rapid identification, bacterial colonies were transferred from agar plates directly on to nylon membranes. These procedures took only 3 h. Results obtained by this test...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Shimaoka M,Yoh M,Takarada Y,Yamamoto K,Honda T

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Strains of type emm89 Streptococcus pyogenes have recently increased in frequency as a cause of human infections in several countries in Europe and North America. This increase has been molecular epidemiologically linked with the emergence of a new genetically distinct clone, designated clade 3. We sought to ex...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Beres SB,Olsen RJ,Ojeda Saavedra M,Ure R,Reynolds A,Lindsay DSJ,Smith AJ,Musser JM

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and 13 other species of mycobacteria were examined for susceptibility to 26 strains of viridans streptococci. Susceptibility was detected by the simultaneous antagonism technique, but not by tests of deferred antagonism. It is concluded that in-vitro inhibition of mycobacte...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Allen BW

更新日期：1985-04-01 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：:Small numbers of bacteria capable of growing on agar supplemented with amoxycillin 40 mg/L were isolated from the saliva of 9 out of 20 adult volunteers in a previous study. All the bacteria were identified as Streptococcus sanguis although no strains produced dextran in conventional tests. However, using a specific a...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Marsh PD,West AA,Keevil CW

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid detection of micro-organisms from blood is one of the most critical functions of a diagnostic microbiology laboratory. Automated blood-culture systems reduce the time needed to detect positive cultures, and reduce specimen handling. The false-positive rate of such systems is 1-10%. In this study, the presence of...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Karahan ZC,Mumcuoglu I,Guriz H,Tamer D,Balaban N,Aysev D,Akar N

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outer-membrane protein (OMP) was isolated from a clinical strain of Bacteroides distasonis. Changes in growth media did not appreciably affect the appearance of this protein in crude outer-membrane preparations examined by SDS-PAGE. However, the proportion of the protein relative to other OMPs was greater in 24-h c...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Wexler HM,Getty C,Fisher G

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical specimens unfit for laboratory processing represent missed opportunities for diagnosing tuberculosis. Poor-quality cough specimens (n=61) from presumptive tuberculosis cases were cultured and GeneXpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) successfully performed on samples transferred by flocked swab into PrimeStore molecular tran...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mboneni TA,Eales OO,Mosina NL,Fourie PB

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary isolates of Escherichia coli that were resistant to trimethoprim were collected in Glasgow Royal Infirmary during 1979 and 1980. Eighty-eight were resistant to trimethoprim 1024 micrograms/ml and 80 (92%) were also resistant to sulphamethoxazole 1024 micrograms/ml; 73% were multiresistant. Plasmids were detect...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kraft CA,Platt DJ,Timbury MC

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter fetus subsp. fetus infection can occur in female sheep, causing infertility or abortion. Despite extensive research on the effect of these bacteria on female fertility, little research has been done on the influence of C. fetus subsp. fetus on the male factor. Our objective was to examine the influence o...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Zan Bar T,Yehuda R,Hacham T,Krupnik S,Bartoov B

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active efflux has an important role in the antimicrobial resistance of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli. The effects of two putative efflux pump inhibitors (EPIs), phenylalanine-arginine β-naphthylamide and 1-(1-naphthylmethyl)-piperazine, and the effects of inactivation of the cmeB,cmeF and cmeR genes on r...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mavri A,Smole Možina S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of ethyleneglycoltetra-acetic acid (EGTA) and EGTA + magnesium (MgEGTA) on the viable counts of 10 strains of Escherichia coli O6 have been studied in normal human serum (NHS), heat-inactivated serum (HIS) and in culture media with and without the addition of a beta-lactam antibiotic. The addition of EGTA ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Roberts AP,Phillips R

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 456 non-repetitive Escherichia coli isolates from human clinical specimens (urinary, n=134; cervix, vagina and prostate, n=52; blood, pus and wounds, n=45), healthy animals (cattle, n=45; poultry, n=20) and diseased animals (cattle, n=53; swine, n=64; poultry, n=43) obtained in Lithuania during the period 2...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Šeputienė V,Povilonis J,Ružauskas M,Pavilonis A,Sužiedėlienė E

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium piliforme is an obligate intracellular bacterium that causes enterohepatic disease in many animal species. C. piliforme infections are commonly subclinical in laboratory rats and mice, and little is known about host regulation of disease or of the effects of C. piliforme infections on investigations that u...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： VAN Andel RA,Franklin CL,Besch-Williford CL,Hook RR,Riley LK

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasal polyp cells in primary culture from cystic fibrosis (CF) and non-CF patients were compared for the ability to bind Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells and for the presence of sulphated glycoconjugates at the epithelial cell surface. Quantitation of bacterial adhesion, by scanning electronmicroscopy, showed no significa...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Plotkowski MC,Chevillard M,Pierrot D,Altemayer D,Puchelle E

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) biofilm formation in humans is of serious clinical concern. Previous in vitro studies have been performed with biofilms grown only on inorganic substrates; therefore, we investigated the vancomycin (VCM) resistance of MRSA biofilms grown on skin tissue. METHODO...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Jimi S,Miyazaki M,Takata T,Ohjimi H,Akita S,Hara S

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00