A comparison of chloramphenicol and ampicillin as bactericidal agents for Haemophilus influenzae type B.

abstract：:Ruminants are a major reservoir of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), which cause acute gastroenteritis in humans with potentially life-threatening sequelae. The mechanisms underlying EHEC persistence in ruminant hosts are poorly understood. EHEC produce several cytotoxins that inhibit the proliferation of bo...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Menge C,Stamm I,van Diemen PM,Sopp P,Baljer G,Wallis TS,Stevens MP

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium botulinum type A toxin is the most prevalent cause of naturally occurring outbreaks of human botulism in the world. The active dichain neurotoxin molecule is composed of a heavy chain (H-chain) of ~100 kDa with the carboxy-terminal end consisting of a receptor-binding (HC) domain, while the amino-terminal ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Jones RGA,Marks JD

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Listeria monocytogenes is a genetically heterogeneous species, which is divided into evolutionary lineages and clonal complexes (CCs). Not all L. monocytogenes isolates are equally likely to cause disease, with CC1, and in particular sequence type (ST) 1, being the most prevalent complex in human and ruminant i...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rupp S,Bärtschi M,Frey J,Oevermann A

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the predominant strains of Bordetella pertussis in Greece during 2010-2015. METHODOLOGY:Infants and children (n=1150) (15 days to 14 years) of Greek, Roma and immigrant origin with different vaccination statuses were hospitalized in Athens, Greece with suspected pertussis infection. IS481/IS1001 r...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Petridou E,Jensen CB,Arvanitidis A,Giannaki-Psinaki M,Michos A,Krogfelt KA,Petersen RF

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mouse enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) infection model was developed with a combination of germ-free (GF) mice and hyper-toxigenic EHEC (HT-EHEC) O157:H7 strain 6. The HT-EHEC strain 6 produced both Shiga-like toxin (SLT)-1 1.0 microg/mI and SLT-2 8.2 microg/ml in vitro. Eight-week-old germ-free mice were ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Taguchi H,Takahashi M,Yamaguchi H,Osaki T,Komatsu A,Fujioka Y,Kamiya S

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay with oligonucleotide primers homologous to a portion of the urease C gene of Helicobacter pylori was evaluated for specificity with pure DNA and biopsy material. The assay was used to test for the presence of the organism in dental plaque. The species specificity of detection wa...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bickley J,Owen RJ,Fraser AG,Pounder RE

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An evaluation of five ELISA methods for the diagnosis of acute toxoplasmosis was undertaken by comparing a laboratory-produced ELISA employing two recombinant Toxoplasma gondii polypeptides as antigen with a laboratory-produced ELISA and three commercially available ELISAs employing traditional parasite antigen prepar...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Johnson AM,Roberts H,Tenter AM

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Providencia alcalifaciens is an invasive enteric pathogen. The present study determined the prevalence of invasive ability in P. alcalifaciens strains isolated in São Paulo, Brazil, mainly from patients with diarrhoea. Invasion of HeLa cells was found in 17 (42%) of 41 strains studied. Most (88%) of the invasive strai...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Guth BE,Perrella E

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of severe community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia (CAP) admitted to our hospital within 24 h are described, both in young males. These two cases illustrate the usefulness of the British Thoracic Society severity criteria and serve to emphasize the importance of early recognition of adverse physiology in cr...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kelly MG,Sharkey RA,Moles KW,Daly JG

更新日期：2004-01-01 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 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：: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：:Production of a meningococcal vaccine capable of generating long-lasting immunity in all age groups is still a high priority worldwide. Iron-regulated outer-membrane proteins have attracted considerable attention in recent years and it has become increasingly evident that the meningococcal transferrin-binding proteins...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ala'Aldeen DA

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterially-driven mucosal inflammation and the development of periimplantitis can lead to oral implant failure. In this study, initial bacterial adhesion after 2 h, and biofilm formation after 1 day and 3 days, were analysed in situ on novel 3 mol % yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystal samples, as well a...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Al-Ahmad A,Karygianni L,Schulze Wartenhorst M,Bächle M,Hellwig E,Follo M,Vach K,Han JS

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to a 36-kDa extracellular metalloprotease (PSCP) from Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) cepacia were found to react with thermolysin, Pseudomonas aeruginosa elastase, alkaline protease (Apr) and LasA, Serratia marcescens protease (SMP), Aeromonas hydrophila protease (AhP), and both the lethal...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kooi C,Sokol PA

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stenotrophomonas maltophilia KH has two acid beta-lactamases with isoelectric points (pIs) of 4.6 and 5.4, and several basic beta-lactamases (pIs >7.0) that produce a ladder-shaped pattern by IEF. An isogenic L2 mutant, KHL2(xylE), was constructed by gene replacement. From IEF and native PAGE zymograms of strains KH a...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hu RM,Chiang KH,Chang YC,Yang TC

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Effects of four mucopolysaccharides and dextran sulphate on penicillin-induced lysis of Staphylococcus aureus FDA 209P were studied. Heparin and dextran sulphate inhibited lysis, whereas hyaluronic acid enhanced it. Chondroitin sulphates A and C had no effect. Incubation of S. aureus suspended in 0.03 M phosphate buff...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kiriyama T,Miyake Y,Sugai M,Kobayashi K,Yoshiga K,Takada K,Suginaka H

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Burkholderia cepacia complex are important bacterial pathogens in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. The B. cepacia complex currently consists of nine genetic subgroups (genomovars) of different epidemiological relevance and possibly of different pathogenic potential in humans. In this study, a new approach...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Vonberg RP,Häußler S,Vandamme P,Steinmetz I

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolates of Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor serotype Inaba associated with an outbreak of cholera in Trivandrum, southern India, were characterized. PCR testing revealed that all five isolates examined carried the TCP pathogenicity island, the CTX genetic element and the RTX toxin, and produced cholera toxin (CT). R...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mohapatra SS,Ramachandran D,Mantri CK,Singh DV

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：PURPOSE:We aimed to evaluate a PCR-based technique for the diagnosis of mucormycosis and the identification of fungi from fresh tissue specimens in patients with rhino-orbito-cerebral-mucormycosis (ROCM). METHODOLOGY:Fifty cases of ROCM were included in the study. Conventional identification was performed using micros...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Zaman K,Rudramurthy SM,Das A,Panda N,Honnavar P,Kaur H,Chakrabarti A

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Candida biofilm infections are frequently linked to the use of biomaterials and are of clinical significance because they are commonly resistant to antifungals. Clioquinol is an antiseptic drug and is effective against multidrug-resistant Candida. We investigated the effect of clioquinol and two other 8-hydroxy...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Pippi B,Machado GDRM,Bergamo VZ,Alves RJ,Andrade SF,Fuentefria AM

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to evaluate the role of biofilm morphology, matrix content and surface hydrophobicity in the biofilm-forming capacity of Candida albicans and non-albicans Candida (NAC) spp. Biofilm formation was determined by microtitre plate assay and bright-field and scanning electron microscopy. The matrix ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kumari A,Mankotia S,Chaubey B,Luthra M,Singh R

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:Trichoderma longibrachiatum is an emerging pathogen in immunocompromised patients. We report a case of Trichoderma post-operative mediastinitis and peritonitis in a child with complex congenital cardiac disease and functional asplenia. The patient was treated unsuccessfully, initially with caspofungin alone followed b...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Santillan Salas CF,Joshi AY,Dhiman N,Banerjee R,Huskins WC,Wengenack NL,Henry NK

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspiration of oropharyngeal bacteria and fungi is occasionally suspected in patients with pneumonia. A patient with oral carcinoma underwent chemoradioimmunotherapy and, about 4 weeks from the start of the therapy, the patient suffered from severe oral mucositis induced by chemoradiotherapy, and candidal pneumonia was...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Yamamoto T,Ueta E,Kamatani T,Osaki T

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that Providencia alcalifaciens is a diarrhoeal pathogen. It may cause diarrhoea by an invasive mechanism, as it invades cultured mammalian cells in vitro and intestinal epithelial cells of experimentally inoculated rabbits in vivo. To locate the gene(s) involved in invasion, TnphoA mutants of...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rahman M,Monira S,Nahar S,Ansaruzzaman M,Alam K,Alam M,Albert MJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characterization of integrons and their promoters in 156 antibiotic-resistant clinical isolates of the important zoonotic pathogens Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovars Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) and Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) from Norwegian hospitals were performed. Integrons were found in 64 of 66 S....

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lindstedt BA,Heir E,Nygård I,Kapperud G

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative pathogenicity of Candida krusei and C. albicans was investigated by assessing their colonisation and infectivity of the Sprague-Dawley rat oral mucosa. During an initial 21-week period with intermittent oral inoculation, both Candida spp. demonstrated variable surface colonisation of the oral mucosa. Afte...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Samaranayake YH,Wu PC,Samaranayake LP,Ho PL

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00