Enterotoxin gene profile of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius isolates from dogs, humans and the environment.

abstract：:Introduction. Current testing practices for yersiniosis mean that its true incidence and epidemiology are not well understood. In mid-2016, the introduction of testing via a multiplex gastrointestinal PCR panel at Portsmouth hospital laboratory in Hampshire, UK, resulted in a marked increase in the number of Yersinia ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Clarke M,Dabke G,Strakova L,Jenkins C,Saavedra-Campos M,McManus O,Paranthaman K

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid identification of isolates in positive blood cultures are of great importance to secure correct treatment of septicaemic patients. As antimicrobial resistance is increasing, rapid detection of resistance is crucial. Carbapenem resistance in Bacteroides fragilis associated with cfiA-encoded class B metallo-beta-l...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Johansson Å,Nagy E,Sóki J

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major nosocomial pathogen in Pakistan and is emerging in the community. This is one of the first reports of the prevalent genotypes of MRSA in both hospital and community settings in Pakistan. Isolates collected in 2006-2007 were characterized by PFGE, staphylococ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Zafar A,Stone M,Ibrahim S,Parveen Z,Hasan Z,Khan E,Hasan R,Wain J,Bamford K

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer of an Hly plasmid determining production of alpha haemolysin to a non-haemolytic strain of Escherichia coli increased the virulence of the strain for mice. Injections of non-toxic amounts of alpha haemolysin, phenylhydrazine, haemoglobin, iron or manganese salts simulated the effect of the Hly plasmid by stim...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Linggood MA,Ingram PL

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electronmicrographs of sections show that the L-phases of Bacillus licheniformis var. endoparasiticus (Benedek) simulate the various types of micro-organism described by previous workers as associated with ostensibly noninfective conditions, notably cancer and arthritis; e.g., mycoplasmas, mycobacteria, corynebacteria...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bisset KA,Tallack J,Bartlett R

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria sicca is rarely associated with clinical infections and to the authors' knowledge this organism has not been reported as a causative agent of infected biloma (liver abscess). A case of a diabetic man with infected biloma due to N. sicca after repeated transcatheter arterial embolization for hepatocellular ca...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Chung HC,Teng LJ,Hsueh PR

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five strains of mice (C3H, CBA, BALB/c, TO and ICR) were inoculated intra-vaginally with Neisseria gonorrhoeae in an attempt to produce an animal model of gonorrhoea. Of a total of 68 mice inoculated, only three (4.4%) were culture-positive after 3 days. Histological examination of both the genital mucosa of inoculate...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Johnson AP,Tuffrey M,Taylor-Robinson D

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency distribution of plasmids in a representative collection of Escherichia coli and other enterobacteria was compared with the frequencies predicted by the Poisson distribution. The distribution of E. coli plasmids did not differ significantly (p greater than 0.2) whereas the difference between observed and ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Platt DJ

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adhesion of Helicobacter pylori to gastric carcinoma cells (MKN45, KatoIII and MKN28) and Intestine-407 cells was tested by flow cytometric analysis. The mean adhesion rates of H. pylori strains to MKN45, KatoIII and Intestine-407 cells were 90.5, 42.7 and 15.1%, respectively. There was no statistical correlation ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Osaki T,Yamaguchi H,Taguchi H,Kumada J,Ogata S,Kamiya S

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of human and animal melioidosis. The role of quorum sensing (QS) in the in vivo pathogenicity of B. pseudomallei via inhalational exposure of BALB/c mice and intraperitoneal challenge of Syrian hamsters has not been reported. This investigation demonstrates that B. pseu...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ulrich RL,DeShazer D,Brueggemann EE,Hines HB,Oyston PC,Jeddeloh JA

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carriage on skin lesions, on healthy skin and in the nose, of micro-organisms that produce antibiotics active against Staphylococcus aureus has been studied. About 5% of sites (10% of all patients) yielded such organisms. No evidence could be found that the presence of producer organisms in skin lesions had a prot...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Noble WC,Willie JA

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of alkaline phosphatase fusion methodology to identify Helicobacter pylori exported proteins enabled the identification of an open reading frame (ORF) encoding a highly immunogenic, previously uncharacterised exported protein. The predicted aminoacid sequence displays a typical N-terminal signal peptide and co...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Oliaro J,Johnson RD,Chen W,Chadwick VS,Murray A

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbiota of the human oropharynx plays an important role in health through involvement in the aetiology of infection and the carriage of adventitious pathogens. Despite this, there are few models available for the preclinical assessment of novel antimicrobials directed to the human throat. We have profiled bacte...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Humphreys GJ,McBain AJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Membrane fluidity to a large extent is governed by the presence of branched-chain fatty acids (BCFAs). Branched-chain α-keto acid dehydrogenase (BKD) is the key enzyme in BCFA synthesis. A Staphylococcus aureus BKD-deficient strain still produced substantial levels of BCFAs. Pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) with st...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Singh VK,Sirobhushanam S,Ring RP,Singh S,Gatto C,Wilkinson BJ

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus can invade epithelial cells, and the host-cell receptor α(5)β(1) integrin is thought to mediate this process. The aim of this study was to investigate S. aureus invasion of epithelial cell lines derived from oral (H357), skin (UP) and nasopharyngeal (Detroit 562) sites and to determine whether an...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ridley RA,Douglas I,Whawell SA

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibilities of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans cultures, grown as 1- or 3-day-old biofilms or as planktonic suspensions, to concentrations of chlorhexidine digluconate, cetylpyridinium chloride or triclosan used in commercial mouthwashes were compared. Three-day biofilms were the most resistant form of t...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Thrower Y,Pinney RJ,Wilson M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The strains of Proteus species found in significant numbers and as pure cultures in urine from 217 individuals were isolated, identified to species level and typed for proticine production (P type) and proticine sensitivity (S type) to give their P/S type. Urinary-tract infections with Proteus, principally P. mirabili...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Senior BW

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of 820 isolates of streptococci and aerococci from human blood or internal organs was classified by means of a set of cultural and biochemical tests. Of these, 719 (712 streptococci and 7 aerococci) were from patients believed to be suffering from a systemic infection: endocarditis 317; a purulent lesion ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Parker MT,Ball LC

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, hospitals in southeastern Europe have faced dramatically high rates of antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. We analysed the evolution of resistance among clinical isolates of A. baumannii group obtained from nine tertiary hospitals throughout Greece over 6 years (2010-2015). Identification an...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Dafopoulou K,Tsakris A,Pournaras S

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of septicaemia caused by Arcanobacterium haemolyticum in a previously healthy 23-year-old man suffering from acute pharyngotonsillitis, who developed complicated Lemierre's syndrome. Three blood cultures (both aerobic and anaerobic) revealed the exclusive presence of A. haemolyticum. The presence of ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Fernández-Suárez A,Aguilar Benítez JM,López Vidal AM,Díaz Iglesias JM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A down-flow immunoassay has been developed to detect serum mannan antigens, and the test was recently marketed as the Unimedi Candida monotest. Using 251 serum samples from 105 patients with candidaemia, a comparison of the Unimedi Candida monotest with the Cand-Tec latex agglutination test and 2 microplate enzyme imm...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Fujita SI,Takamura T,Nagahara M,Hashimoto T

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to desiccation and to skin fatty acids was measured in three groups of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains and a group of control strains. Organisms from a large outbreak on a special care baby unit (SCBU), where MRSA had been isolated from staff hands but not from the environment, we...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Farrington M,Brenwald N,Haines D,Walpole E

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the most common cause of nosocomial bacterial diarrhoea in the Western world. Diarrhoea and colitis are caused by the actions of toxins A and B released by pathogenic strains of C. difficile. Adaptive immune responses to these toxins influence the outcomes of C. difficile infection (CDI). Symp...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kelly CP,Kyne L

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:The cell-wall characteristics of Gardnerella vaginalis grown in conventional and biofilm systems were studied by electron microscopy. The gram-positive nature of the cell wall was confirmed. Novel cell-wall particles which appeared to be associated with cell division were also identified, particularly in organisms of ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Muli FW,Struthers JK,Tarpey PA

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 166 strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from hospital patients and staff in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 32% were non-typable (NT). The strains were isolated from skin lesions, eye infections, wounds and nasal flora. Isolates from skin lesions or eye and wound infections were more likely to produce protease (95% and 78%...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ako-Nai AK,Ogunniyi AD,Lamikanra A,Torimiro SE

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is a zoonotic pathogen that causes erysipelas in a variety of animals. In humans, in contrast to the cutaneous form called erysipeloid, which is an occupational disease and common in individuals who handle raw meat and fish, invasive systemic infections are unusual. E. rhusiopathiae expres...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Taguchi Y,Shiraiwa K,Ogawa Y,Oi T,Nakamura S,Okumura J,Shimoji Y

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We examined evidence for transmission of Pandorea apista among cystic fibrosis (CF) patients attending paediatric and adult services in one city who had previously been found to harbour related isolates by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). METHODOLOGY:The whole-genome sequences of 18 isolates from this ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kenna DTD,Coward A,Perry C,Pike R,Schaefer U,Turton J,Green H,Jones AM,Bright-Thomas RJ,Burns P,Narayan O,Wilkinson S,Turton JF

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies (Abs) to the protective antigen (PA) component of the anthrax toxins have anti-spore as well as anti-toxin activities. Anti-PA antisera and purified anti-PA Abs enhance the phagocytosis by murine-derived macrophages (MQs) of spores of the Ames and Sterne strains and retard the germination of extracellular s...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Welkos S,Friedlander A,Weeks S,Little S,Mendelson I

更新日期：2002-10-01 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