Characteristics of antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli in the rectum of healthy school-children.

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：:Antigen participating in cell-mediated immunity was isolated from a sonic extract of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv. The purified antigen had a mol. wt 150 000-200 000, based upon its Rf in 7.5% polyacrylamide gel in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulphate. In simple agarose gel electrophoresis it had an Rf of 0.85....

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hattikudur S,Kamat RS

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) causing human infectious disease have become increasingly common. Rapid and accurate identification to the species level is, therefore, critical. The Speed-Oligo Mycobacteria assay is an oligochromatographic method that was made available recently for the identification and differenti...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ramis IB,Cnockaert M,Von Groll A,Mathys V,Simon A,Tortoli E,Palomino JC,Almeida da Silva PE,Vandamme P,Andre E,Martin A

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：: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：:The production of toxins A and B by Clostridium difficile was greatly enhanced under biotin-limited conditions, in which a 140-kDa protein was expressed strongly. Gene cloning revealed that this protein was a homologue of formylglycinamidine ribonucleotide synthetase (FGAM synthetase, EC 6.3.5.3), which is known as Pu...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Maegawa T,Karasawa T,Ohta T,Wang X,Kato H,Hayashi H,Nakamura S

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：: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：:An ammonium chloride procedure was used to prepare a bacterial pellet from positive blood cultures, which was used for direct inoculation of VITEK 2 cards. Correct identification reached 99% for Enterobacteriaceae and 74% for staphylococci. For antibiotic susceptibility testing, very major and major errors were 0.1 an...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Prod'hom G,Durussel C,Greub G

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have emerged from the widespread use of antibiotics worldwide and have prompted the search for new sources of antimicrobial substances. Pinus spp. contain several bioactive compounds consisting mainly of terpenes, terpenoids and some other aromatic and aliphatic constituents. These compou...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Leandro LF,Cardoso MJO,Silva SDC,Souza MGM,Veneziani RCS,Ambrosio SR,Martins CHG

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This paper aims to evaluate the antimicrobial resistance of Esherichia coli isolates from children under 5 years old, with and without diarrhoea, who were hospital outpatients in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. It also looks at the antimicrobial activity of fruit extracts against selected multidrug-resistant (MDR) E...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Uribe-Beltrán MJ,Ahumada-Santos YP,Díaz-Camacho SP,Eslava-Campos CA,Reyes-Valenzuela JE,Báez-Flores ME,Osuna-Ramírez I,Delgado-Vargas F

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitory effect of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) proteinase inhibitors amprenavir and saquinavir and antifungal agents terbinafine, ketoconazole, amphotericin B and ciclopiroxolamine on aspartyl proteinases (Saps) secreted by Candida albicans was tested in an in vitro spectophotometric assay. As expected, b...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Schaller M,Krnjaic N,Niewerth M,Hamm G,Hube B,Korting HC

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Conventional laboratory detection methods for gastrointestinal parasites are time consuming, require considerable technical expertise and may suffer from poor analytical sensitivity. This study sought to evaluate the automated BD MAX Enteric Parasite Panel (EPP) for the detection of Cryptosporidium parvum/homin...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Perry MD,Corden SA,Lewis White P

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction.Serratia marcescens is a bacterial pathogen that causes ventilator-associated pneumonia and ocular infections. The FlhD and FlhC proteins complex to form a heteromeric transcription factor whose regulon, in S. marcescens, regulates genes for the production of flagellum, phospholipase A and the cytolysin S...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Stella NA,Brothers KM,Shanks RMQ

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Early detection of aetiological agents is pivotal for adequate therapy for bacterial infections. Although culture is still considered the mainstay for laboratory diagnosis, it often lacks sensitivity, especially in patients already treated with antibiotics. The present study investigated the potential clinical utility...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mencacci A,Leli C,Cardaccia A,Montagna P,Moretti A,Bietolini C,Meucci M,Perito S,Cenci E,Bistoni F

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many clinically relevant biofilms are polymicrobial. Examining the effect of antimicrobials in a multispecies biofilm consortium is of great clinical importance. The goal of this study was to investigate the effect of different honey types against bacterial wound pathogens grown in multispecies biofilm and to test the...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sojka M,Valachova I,Bucekova M,Majtan J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 69 strains of Escherichia coli from patients in the Taizhou Municipal Hospital, China, were isolated, and 11 strains were identified that were resistant to bacitracin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline and erythromycin. These strains were PCR positive for at least two out of three genes, ybjG, dacC and mdfA, by...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Wang D,Hu E,Chen J,Tao X,Gutierrez K,Qi Y

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteraemia in children is a potentially life-threatening condition. The objective of this study was to determine trends in the aetiology of bacteraemia in children aged 1 month-15 years in England and Wales by collecting data voluntarily reported by National Health Service hospital microbiology laboratories. Over the...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Henderson KL,Johnson AP,Muller-Pebody B,Charlett A,Gilbert R,Sharland M

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrathecal synthesis of IgM and IgG antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi sonicate, to recombinant flagellin (41 kDa) and to a tryptic peptide of the flagellin (14-kDa fragment) was determined by ELISA in paired cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum samples from 35 patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) and in 10 p...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kaiser R,Rasiah C,Gassmann G,Vogt A,Lücking CH

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain bile acids inhibit the growth in vitro of organisms commonly found in the intestine and, in particular, anaerobic bacteria. As the importance of this effect in vivo has not been demonstrated, we investigated changes in intestinal flora in the rat after diversion of bile to the urinary bladder. Five days after ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Burke V,Stone DE,Beaman J,Gracey M

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-seven strains of acinetobacter-like organisms were isolated over a period of 26 months from the ears of 55 patients with acute or chronic otitis media, or otitis externa, and one strain was isolated in a survey of 50 normal ears. After comparison with eight reference strains, 32 of the isolates were identified a...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Dadswell JV

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of a strain of Giardia lamblia to benzimidazole carbamates, 5-nitroimidazoles, nitrofurans and other drugs was studied in vitro. Albendazole was the most active compound, with a 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 0.01 mg/L and a minimal lethal concentration (MLC) of less than 0.04 mg/L; the IC50...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Cedillo-Rivera R,Muñoz O

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：: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：:Many micro-organisms cause important diseases of the female genital tract. Because systematic vaccination does not usually provide a good immune response at mucosal sites, commensal lactobacilli from the female genital tract were developed as vehicles to deliver continued doses of foreign antigen directly to the genit...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rush CM,Hafner LM,Timms P

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Faecal specimens from 843 cases of diarrhoea in the community were tested for the presence of Clostridium difficile cytotoxin and Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin. C. difficile cytotoxin was detected in faecal specimens from 0.6 % of cases aged at least 2 years by using a Vero cell assay. Factors associated with de...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Forward LJ,Tompkins DS,Brett MM

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an opportunist multidrug-resistant pathogen that causes a wide range of nosocomial infections. Various cystic fibrosis (CF) centres have reported an increasing prevalence of S. maltophilia colonization/infection among patients with this disease. The purpose of this study was to assess s...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Vidigal PG,Mosel F,Koehling HL,Mueller KD,Buer J,Rath PM,Steinmann J

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction. Ocular microsporidiosis is a significant emerging infectious disease reported in immunocompromised patients and immunocompetent persons throughout the world.Aim. To identify the pathogens responsible for human keratitis, via corneal scrapings.Methodology. Thirty-three hospitalized patients with epithelia...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sanpool O,Thanathanee O,Laummuanwai P,Maleewong W,Intapan PM

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is recognised as an important cause of nosocomial infection. The spread of some MRSA epidemic clones is well documented. In Brazil, and more recently in Portugal, a considerable number of hospital infections has been caused by a unique multiresistant MRSA clone design...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Coimbra MVDS,Teixeira LA,Ramos RLB,Predari SC,Castello L,Famiglietti A,Vay C,Klan L,Figueiredo AMS

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus type-1 (HSV-1) induces Fc- and C3b(i)-receptors on infected cells. The role of these receptors in bacterial superinfection was studied by comparing the adherence of non-opsonised and opsonised bacteria to HSV-infected and non-infected HEp-2 cells. A flow cytometric adherence assay, based on the fl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： De Graaf-Miltenburg LA,Van Vliet KE,Ten Hagen TL,Verhoef J,Van Strijp JA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00