Assessment of the in vitro and in vivo activity of atorvastatin against Candida albicans.

abstract：PURPOSE:From May 2015 to March 2016, an outbreak due to Listeria monocytogenes serotype 1/2a and clinical pulsotype never previously isolated in Europe occurred in central Italy, involving 24 confirmed clinical cases. The article provides a description of the outbreak and the investigation carried out by a multidiscipl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Duranti A,Sabbatucci M,Blasi G,Acciari VA,Ancora M,Bella A,Busani L,Centorame P,Cammà C,Conti F,De Medici D,Di Domenico M,Di Marzio V,Filippini G,Fiore A,Fisichella S,Gattuso A,Gianfranceschi M,Graziani C,Guidi F,

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that produces several virulence factors such as lectin A, pyocyanin, elastase and rhamnolipids. These compounds are controlled transcriptionally by three quorum-sensing circuits, two based on the synthesis and detection of N-acyl-homoserine-lactone termed the Las and...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： García-Reyes S,Soberón-Chávez G,Cocotl-Yanez M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lincomycin has a differential effect on exoprotein production by Vibrio cholerae. The production of some proteins, such as cholera toxin and deoxyribonuclease, is stimulated by low concentrations of the drug while production of other proteins, such as protease and alkaline phosphatase, is unaffected. Possible mechanis...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Young DB,Broadbent DA

更新日期：1986-02-01 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：: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：:Nucleic acid amplification techniques (NAATs) have been demonstrated to make significant improvements in the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB), particularly in the time to diagnosis and the diagnosis of smear-negative TB. The BD ProbeTec strand displacement amplification (SDA) system for the diagnosis of pulmonary and no...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： McHugh TD,Pope CF,Ling CL,Patel S,Billington OJ,Gosling RD,Lipman MC,Gillespie SH

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historically, enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) are a well-known cause of outbreaks of infantile diarrhoea associated with morbidity and mortality in England. The aim of this study was to provide an update on the microbiology and epidemiology of strains of EPEC in England between 2010 and 2012. A wide range of ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sakkejha H,Byrne L,Lawson AJ,Jenkins C

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In an increasing number of cases the last therapeutic option for treatment of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae is colistin. As the detection of colistin resistance is problematic and time-consuming, it is desirable to find a rapid and reliable test. The rapid polymyxin NP test developed by Nordmann et al...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Belda-Orlowski A,Pfennigwerth N,Gatermann SG,Korte-Berwanger M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Micro-organisms isolated from the oral cavity may translocate to the lower airways during mechanical ventilation (MV) leading to ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Changes within the dental plaque microbiome during MV have been documented previously, primarily using culture-based techniques. The aim of this study ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sands KM,Twigg JA,Lewis MAO,Wise MP,Marchesi JR,Smith A,Wilson MJ,Williams DW

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis is a widespread zoonotic disease that affects all mammals in different parts of the world. Though there are many commercial kits available for the diagnosis of systemic leptospirosis, the nature of the antigen has not been described. Therefore, identification of a specific antigen is important. Since ocu...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Priya CG,Bhavani K,Rathinam SR,Muthukkaruppan VR

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

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：: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：: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：:Rickettsia rickettsii has limited adverse effects on its arthropod vector, but causes severe disease in man. To model differences in host-parasite interaction, R. rickettsii growth and protein expression were examined at temperatures reflective of host environment in the tick cell lines DALBE3 and IDE2, the human endo...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Policastro PF,Munderloh UG,Fischer ER,Hackstadt T

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Diabetic patients seem to be predisposed to cutaneous candidiasis. In this study, we evaluated the interference of diabetic conditions in alloxan-induced diabetic mice in relation to the development of C. albicans infection, density of M1 and M2 macrophages, distribution of collagen type I and III and anti-infl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Pupim ACE,Campois TG,Araújo EJA,Svidizinski TIE,Felipe I

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multiplex PCR was developed to detect 15 serotypes of Streptococcus suis. This multiplex PCR was separated into two reaction sets. The first set identified nine serotypes (serotypes 1/2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 14 and 16) and the second set identified six serotypes (serotypes 5, 8, 10, 19, 23 and 25). This assay correctly...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kerdsin A,Dejsirilert S,Akeda Y,Sekizaki T,Hamada S,Gottschalk M,Oishi K

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) is the commonest pathogen causing food-borne disease among humans and animals in Australia. A multiplex PCR-based reverse line blot (mPCR/RLB) system was developed to rapidly identify S. Typhimurium phage types and strains within them. The system comprised 32 bi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Wang Q,Kong F,Jelfs P,Gilbert GL

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we describe four cases of laboratory-confirmed Legionella infection. Case 1 was a culture-confirmed case of Legionella infection in a patient with liver cirrhosis. Following this, three other liver cirrhosis cases (cases 2-4) were diagnosed with Legionella infection as confirmed by quantitative real-time PCR. Th...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Qin T,Xia J,Ren H,Zhou H,Tang B,Shao Z

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, polyphasic analysis [cultivation, combined with the fingerprinting of individual isolates, and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE)] was applied to study whether similar features concerning the diversity and temporal stability of selected bacterial groups could be detected intra-individ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Maukonen J,Mättö J,Suihko ML,Saarela M

更新日期：2008-12-01 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 slide agglutination technique identifying 10 serogroups of Clostridium difficile (A,B,C,D,F,G,H,I,K and X) has been described previously. In this study, we have used the hamster to compare the ability of the 10 serogroup reference strains to colonise and produce disease. Groups of four hamsters were each given a sin...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Delmée M,Avesani V

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the immunoglobulin response to individual viral polypeptides in experimental primary and secondary infection with herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 in mice. After a single footpad inoculation with 10(5.6) pfu of HSV-1, immunoglobulin to proteins mol. wts (10(3)) 44 and 75 appeared on day 7. Antibodies to gB, gC,...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： McKendall RR,Pettit M,Woo W

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is an important aetiological agent of persistent infantile diarrhoea. EPEC pathogenicity is not mediated through known toxins and the role played by outer-membrane proteins (OMPs) in the initial adherence of the bacterium, intimate attachment to epithelial cells and ultimately ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kumar SS,Sankaran K,Haigh R,Williams PH,Balakrishnan A

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of five species of Bacteroides in four anaerobic culture media was continuously monitored turbidimetrically. Interspecies differences were observed in the growth of Bacteroides spp. in the various media, but growth in Brain Heart Infusion broth supplemented with yeast extract, haemin and menadione, was cons...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Eley A,Greenwood D,O'Grady F

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus produces numerous bi-component toxins, e.g., Panton-Valentine leukocidin (Luk-PVL) and gamma-haemolysin, which consist of type S and F proteins. Previous studies showed that Luk-PVL induces inflammatory mediator release from human granulocytes that might reflect the in-vivo effects, e.g., dermone...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： König B,Prévost G,König W

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 2401 isolates of Haemophilus parainfluenzae was isolated from respiratory secretions of 36 healthy adults and 128 patients with chronic bronchitis over a period of 1 year. The isolates were allocated to eight biotypes, by their production of indole, urease and ornithine decarboxylase. Biotypes I and II cons...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Taylor DC,Cripps AW,Clancy RL,Murree-Allen K,Hensley MJ,Saunders NA,Sutherland DC

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serial multiplex PCR approach was reformulated for pneumococcal serotyping to test 153 clinical isolates from children in Mozambique. This approach identified serotypes in 139 (90.8%) of 153 isolates; 126 (82.4%) were identified within two reactions. This approach in developing countries would require minimal traini...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Morais L,Carvalho MDG,Roca A,Flannery B,Mandomando I,Soriano-Gabarró M,Sigauque B,Alonso P,Beall B

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shanson's medium, a MacConkey-type agar containing added inhibitors, was compared with deoxycholate-citrate agar for the examination of faeces. The isolation rate of samonellae on the two media was similar, but Shanson's medium was the more selective; this meant that the amount of work required to produce a result was...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Davies JR

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terminal restriction fragment-length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis was applied to characterize oral bacterial flora in saliva from 18 healthy subjects and 18 patients with periodontitis. The 16S rRNA genes (rDNAs) of oral bacteria and spirochaetes in saliva were amplified by PCR with a 6'carboxy-fluorescein (6-FAM)-l...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sakamoto M,Takeuchi Y,Umeda M,Ishikawa I,Benno Y

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-eight isolates of Shigella sonnei from three outbreaks in school children and eight control isolates from epidemiologically unrelated sporadic clinical infections in Taiwan were compared by antibiotic susceptibility testing and molecular typing. Antibiotic susceptibility testing showed that all strains except on...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lee TM,Chang LL,Chang CY,Wang JC,Pan TM,Wang TK,Chang SF

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00