The effect of lincomycin on exoprotein production by Vibrio cholerae.

abstract：:Rickettsia conorii is endemic in Greece, though only a few cases of infection have been published to date. The case of a 58-year-old man from northern Greece with a severe form of Mediterranean spotted fever and rapid neurological deterioration is presented here. The patient received antibiotic treatment with doxycycl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Tzavella K,Hatzizisis IS,Vakali A,Mandraveli K,Zioutas D,Alexiou-Daniel S

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:Different aspects of the terms strain, clone and species are discussed. The term strain is commonly used to denote a pure culture - here called 'the strain in the taxonomic sense' - but does also refer to a natural concept closely related to the clone. The term clone on the other hand is used both in a general and in ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Dijkshoorn L,Ursing BM,Ursing JB

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcosis causes disseminated disease in AIDS patients. In contrast to what occurs in laboratory conditions, a large capsule is produced by Cryptococcus neoformans in vivo during infection. The aim of this study was to compare the in vitro activity of different antifungal agents against 34 clinical isolates of C....

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Vitale RG,Pascuccelli V,Afeltra J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition of Klebsiella aerogenes by neonates born in hospital has been studied by sero- and klebecin typing. This organism was more commonly carried in the bowel of breast-fed babies than of bottle-fed babies. Only very rarely did babies acquire strains of K. aerogenes from their mothers. K. aerogenes was widel...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Shinebaum R,Cooke EM,Brayson JC

更新日期：1979-05-01 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：:The purpose of this review is to discuss the scientific literature on waterborne healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) published from 1990 to 2012. The review focuses on aquatic bacteria and describes both outbreaks and single cases in relation to patient characteristics, the settings and contaminated sources. An o...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ferranti G,Marchesi I,Favale M,Borella P,Bargellini A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Mexico, there is a lack of up-to-date published data that show viruses to be the main cause of acute respiratory infection (ARI). The objective of this study was to estimate the comparative viral frequency between children under the age of 5 years with and without ARI (n = 179 in each group) in a suburban community...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Manjarrez ME,Rosete DP,Rincón M,Villalba J,Cravioto A,Cabrera R

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new 1,8-naphthyridine quinolone antimicrobial, PD131628, was found to be as, or more active than ciprofloxacin or ofloxacin against Escherichia coli and considerably more active than the two 4-quinolone agents against staphylococci in terms of both MIC and OBC (the optimum bactericidal concentration, at which the ra...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lewin CS

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional culture and drug susceptibility testing (DST) methods for Mycobacterium tuberculosis are laborious and time consuming. For this reason alternative rapid culture and DST techniques are urgently needed to shorten the time for drug-resistance detection. A total of 222 smear-positive sputum samples were evalu...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Imperiale BR,Morcillo NS,Palomino JC,Vandamme P,Martin A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-one isolates of Candida albicans were tested for their phospholipase activity and this parameter was correlated with pathogenicity in albino mice. Of the isolates tested, 57 (93%) showed appreciable phospholipase activity and of these, 55 (90%) were pathogenic to mice. A significant correlation was found between...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kothavade RJ,Panthaki MH

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：:Chickens were immunised with a preparation of purified 14-kDa fimbriae of Salmonella serotype Enteritidis (SEF 14) to raise egg-yolk antibodies for protection trials in mice against subsequent challenge-exposure with the homologous strain of Enteritidis. A pronounced specificity of egg-yolk antibodies against the 14-k...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Peralta RC,Yokoyama H,Ikemori Y,Kuroki M,Kodama Y

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of various haem- and non-haem-iron-containing compounds to support the growth of iron-limited cultures of Haemophilus ducreyi was assessed in a plate bioassay. Only haemin or the haem-containing proteins, bovine haemoglobin, human haemoglobin and bovine catalase, but not equine cytochrome C111, were capabl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lee BC

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The periodontopathic bacterium Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans has been implicated in the pathogenesis of periodontal diseases. It has been reported previously that infection with the organism induced apoptosis in the mouse macrophage cell line J774.1. In the present study, the role of caspases during apoptosis i...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Okinaga T,Kasai H,Tsujisawa T,Nishihara T

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：:Nosocomial infections with enterococci are an increasing problem in modern medical practice due to the development of resistance to a wide range of antibiotics, including the glycopeptides vancomycin and teicoplanin. An increasing number of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) have been cultured from clinical specim...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mackenzie CR,Hucke C,MÜller D,Seidel K,Takikawa O,DÄubener W

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：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：:We describe the case of a graft versus host disease (GvHD) patient, in whom Hafnia alvei was cultured as a single organism, and at high bacterial counts from stool samples, from the onset of the disease until its resolution. This case is a further example of the contentious role of this species in causing human intest...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Savini V,Di Bartolomeo E,Catavitello C,Talia M,Manna A,Febbo F,Balbinot A,Di Bonaventura G,Di Bartolomeo P,Piccolomini R,D'Antonio D

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:This study was designed to investigate the molecular epidemiology and antibiotic-resistance characteristics of 11 carbapenem-resistant clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii obtained in Norway between 2004 and 2009. Interestingly, all the isolates were linked with recent hospitalization outside Norway. The epide...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Karah N,Haldorsen B,Hermansen NO,Tveten Y,Ragnhildstveit E,Skutlaberg DH,Tofteland S,Sundsfjord A,Samuelsen Ø

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium jeikeium, a member of the non-diphtheria corynebacteria, has been rarely reported as being responsible for cardiovascular-device infection. Here, we report what is believed to be the first case of C. jeikeium pacemaker infection associated with the presence of proteinase-3 antineutrophil cytoplasmic an...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bechara C,Gousseff M,Passeron A,Podglajen I,Day N,Pouchot J,Lavergne T,Mainardi JL

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori and Proteus mirabilis ureases are nickel-requiring metallo-enzymes that hydrolyse urea to NH3 and CO2. In both H. pylori and in an Escherichia coli model of H. pylori urease activity, a high affinity nickel transporter, NixA, is required for optimal urease activity, whereas the urea-dependent UreR ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： McGEE DJ,Coker C,Testerman TL,Harro JM,Gibson SV,Mobley HLT

更新日期：2002-11-01 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：:Two chlamydial enzyme immunoassays, Chlamydiazyme and IDEIA, were evaluated in a mouse model of chlamydial genital-tract infection. The Chlamydiazyme assay and the IDEIA were assessed on specimens from 10 and 11 mice, respectively. The animals were infected with Chlamydia trachomatis, strain SA2f, and the results obta...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Taylor-Robinson D,Tuffrey M

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently-introduced semi-automated bacterial identification system, the Quantum II BID, is designed to identify fermentative and non-fermentative gram-negative bacilli in 4-5 h. The system was evaluated independently by the two participating laboratories. Inter-laboratory reproducibility was determined by testing ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Stevens M,Henrichsen C,Smith M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the most common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea. Antibiotics are presumed to disturb the normal intestinal microbiota, leading to depletion of the barrier effect and colonization by pathogenic bacteria. This first step of infection includes adherence to epithelial cells. We investigat...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Denève C,Deloménie C,Barc MC,Collignon A,Janoir C

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A porous inorganic material (Anopore) was employed as a microbial culture and microcolony imaging support. Rapid Anopore-based antibiotic sensitivity testing (AST) methods were developed to assess the growth of clinical isolates, with the primary focus on testing the response of the Enterobacteriaceae to trimethoprim,...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ingham CJ,van den Ende M,Wever PC,Schneeberger PM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pseudotuberculosis was examined for its haemagglutinating activity and adherence to cultured epithelial cells (HEp-2) in relation to possession of a virulence (VW) plasmid and to growth conditions. VW-lacking (VW-) bacteria were isolated from ten VW+ strains of each serovar which, after they were grown on CFA...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kawaoka Y,Mitani T,Hoshina K,Otsuki K,Tsubokura M

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00