Correlation between susceptibility to chloramphenicol, tetracycline and clindamycin, and serogroups of Clostridium difficile.

abstract：:The administration of drugs to inhibit metabolic pathways not only reduces the risk of obesity-induced diseases in humans but may also hamper the replication of different viral pathogens. In order to investigate the value of the US Food and Drug Administration-approved anti-obesity drug orlistat in view of its anti-vi...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Ammer E,Nietzsche S,Rien C,Kühnl A,Mader T,Heller R,Sauerbrei A,Henke A

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomized, placebo-controlled trial in Ghana, 67 onchocerciasis patients received 200-mg/day doxycycline for 4-6 weeks, followed by ivermectin (IVM) after 6 months. After 6-27 months, efficacy was evaluated by onchocercoma histology, PCR and microfilariae determination. Administration of doxycycline resulted in ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Hoerauf A,Specht S,Büttner M,Pfarr K,Mand S,Fimmers R,Marfo-Debrekyei Y,Konadu P,Debrah AY,Bandi C,Brattig N,Albers A,Larbi J,Batsa L,Taylor MJ,Adjei O,Büttner DW

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In resource-limited or point-of-care settings, rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), that aim to simultaneously detect HIV antibodies and p24 capsid (p24CA) antigen with high sensitivity, can pose important alternatives to screen for early infections. We evaluated the performance of the antibody and antigen components of the...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Wratil PR,Rabenau HF,Eberle J,Stern M,Münchhoff M,Friedrichs I,Stürmer M,Berger A,Kuttner-May S,Münstermann D,Lucht A,Meixenberger K,Bannert N,Keppler OT

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NFR nude (nu/nu) and euthymic (+/nu) littermates were infected with coxsackievirus B3 (CBV-3) and assayed for virus persistence in the heart, pancreas and spleen, for development of myocarditis and for antibody production. The virus grew to higher titer and persisted longer in hearts of nu/nu mice. In both types of mi...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Schnurr DP,Schmidt NJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of sheep anti-murine recombinant tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) on resistance to Listeria monocytogenes infection were studied in T cell-deficient nu/nu mice. The sheep anti-TNF-alpha antibody preparation was specific for TNF since it neutralized 300 U of recombinant murine TNF-alpha in vitro at a...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Hauser T,Frei K,Zinkernagel RM,Leist TP

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to determine whether tumor induction by 3-methylcholanthrene (MC), a carcinogenic hydrocarbon, can be inhibited by oral administration of Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota (LC). C3H/HeN mice were divided into four groups and assigned to the following treatments: treated with MC and give...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Takagi A,Matsuzaki T,Sato M,Nomoto K,Morotomi M,Yokokura T

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern have shown a high prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks. A total of 17 B. burgdorferi sensu lato strains were isolated from ticks and investigated by Western blots (immunoblot) with eight monoclonal anti-bodies against different epitopes of the outer surfac...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Lottmann H,Wilske B,Herrmann H

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The improved Auxotab Enteric I System was re-evaluated and found to correlate 98% with conventional methods for the identification of Enterobacteriaceae. Possible Reasons for previous poor results with this system are discussed. ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Braune LM,Kocka FE

更新日期：1975-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombi formation was demonstrated in mesenteric microcirculation of guinea pigs inoculated with Fusobacterium necrophorum and the bacterial hemagglutinin (HA). The thrombi were initially observed in venules and later, in arterioles. Immunofluorescence study revealed that the HA bound to the thrombi in the microcircul...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Kanoe M,Yamanaka M,Inoue M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon infection of human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I)-carrying human T-cell lines such as MT-4, HTLV-III, a probable etiologic agent of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) caused fast and strong cytopathic effects leading ultimately to the death of the cells. Such effects were preceded by the rapid indu...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakashima H,Koyanagi Y,Harada S,Yamamoto N

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic effects of a leukocidin from Fusobacterium necrophorum were demonstrated on bovine hepatic cells. The cytotoxic response was dose-dependent and could be inhibited by homologous antiserum. Scanning electron microscopy revealed damaged hepatic cell surface. These findings indicated a pathogenic role of the leu...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Ishii T,Kanoe M,Inoue T,Kai K,Blobel H

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic vaccination for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B has thus far been unsatisfactory. In this review, we discuss potential new therapeutic vaccination strategies and other immunotherapeutic approaches that aim to achieve efficient restoration of HBV immunity in chronically infected patients. ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Koh S,Bertoletti A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection modulates the host cell cycle to create an environment that is optimal for viral gene expression, DNA replication, and production of infectious virus. The virus mostly infects quiescent cells and thus must push the cell into G1 phase of the cell cycle to co-opt the cellular mecha...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Spector DH

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both aging and treated human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection are characterized by low-level chronic inflammation and immune activation which contribute to the development of age-related diseases, frailty, and early mortality. Chronic cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is highly prevalent in older adults and HIV-in...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Tavenier J,Margolick JB,Leng SX

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation of Borrelia burgdorferi in the vector and vertebrate host is mediated by mechanisms that regulate differential expression of outer surface lipoproteins (Osps). In this study, real time PCR was applied to quantify tissue-specific expression of four linear plasmid (lp54)-encoded (ospA, zs7.a36, zs7.a66 zs7.a6...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Lederer S,Brenner C,Stehle T,Gern L,Wallich R,Simon MM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) has long been implicated as a triggering agent in Crohn's disease (CD). In this study, we investigated the growth/persistence of both M. avium subsp. hominissuis (MAH) and MAP, in macrophages from healthy controls (HC), CD and ulcerative colitis patients. For viability...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Nazareth N,Magro F,Appelberg R,Silva J,Gracio D,Coelho R,Cabral JM,Abreu C,Macedo G,Bull TJ,Sarmento A

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Turkey is seeing a steady rise in rates of HIV infection in the country. The number of individuals with HIV/AIDS was greater than 7000 in 2014 according to data released by the Ministry of Health, and heterosexual contacts were reported to be the main transmission routes. Istanbul has the highest number of reported ca...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Köksal MO,Beka H,Lübke N,Verheyen J,Eraksoy H,Cagatay A,Kaiser R,Akgül B,Agacfidan A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus adsorption and uptake of human rhinovirus 14 (HRV14) were studied with HeLa cells and baby hamster kidney (BHK) cells which were transfected with the HRV14 receptor intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1). Transmission electron microscopy of HeLa cells revealed that HRV14 was internalized via clathrin-coated ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Grunert HP,Wolf KU,Langner KD,Sawitzky D,Habermehl KO,Zeichhardt H

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylcholine (ChoP) is covalently incorporated into bacterial surface structures, contributing to host mimicry and promoting adhesion to surfaces. Our aims were to determine the frequency of ChoP display among Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans strains, to clarify which surface structures bear ChoP, and whethe...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Ihalin R,Zhong D,Karched M,Chen C,Asikainen S

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibody (MAb) 2c, specific for glycoprotein B of herpes simplex virus (HSV), had been shown to mediate clearance of infection from the mucous membranes of mice, thereby completely inhibiting mucocutaneous inflammation and lethality, even in mice depleted of both CD4(+) and CD8(+) cells. Additionally, gangl...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Däumer MP,Schneider B,Giesen DM,Aziz S,Kaiser R,Kupfer B,Schneweis KE,Schneider-Mergener J,Reineke U,Matz B,Eis-Hübinger AM

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During normal interpandemic influenza seasons, immune responses to vaccines are quite predictable and meet the licensing criteria of the European Union (EU) Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products (CPMP). In a pandemic situation, large sections, if not all of the community will be immunologically naïve and theref...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Wood JM,Nicholson KG,Stephenson I,Zambon M,Newman RW,Major DL,Podda A

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNs) from elderly healthy subjects and post-operative cancer patients to ingest and kill Clostridium difficile was studied. The percentage of phagocytosis in clinically healthy subjects aged 69-82 years ranged from 20.2 +/- 3.2 (mean +/- SD) to 34.1 +/- 4.2, depending on t...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Bassaris HP,Lianou PE,Legakis NJ,Papavassiliou JT

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody to recombinant hepatitis C virus (HCV) protein C100 (anti-C100) was measured for a period of 6 months by enzyme immunoassay in nine prospectively followed non A-nonB (NANBH) cases which occurred after cardiac surgery at a hospital in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). At least seven cases were infected with HCV; four o...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Yoshida CF,Soares OA,Schatzmayr HG,Uy A,Gerlich WH

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid and correct identification of pathogens is of paramount importance for the treatment of patients with invasive infections. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) can speed up the identification of bacteria and fungi and has quickly been embraced by medical...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Hamprecht A,Christ S,Oestreicher T,Plum G,Kempf VA,Göttig S

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Enders strain of mumps virus grown in ovo was purified by differential and equilibrium sucrose gradient sedimentation. Purified virus contained seven polypeptides of mol. wts 68,000, 66,000, 61,000, 54,000, 52,000, 49,000, 47,000. Nucleocapsids isolated from DOC-treated virus contained two polypeptides of mol. wts...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Huppertz HI,Hall WW,ter Meulen V

更新日期：1977-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease, induces in congenitally infected fetuses a strong, adult-like parasite-specific CD8(+) T cell response producing IFN-γ (Hermann et al. in Blood 100:2153-2158, 2002). This suggests that the parasite is able to overcome the immaturity of neonata...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Rodriguez P,Carlier Y,Truyens C

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier we reported that vaccination of leprosy patients with Mycobacterium w induces an immune response directed predominantly against low molecular weight antigens. One of these antigens, with a molecular mass of 30-kDa, was recognized by a majority of the vaccinated subjects as well as the tuberculoid leprosy patie...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Yadava A,Mukherjee R

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of rodent Plasmodium strains expressing fluorescent proteins in all life cycle stages has had a big impact on malaria research. With this tool in hand, for the first time it was possible to follow in real time by in vivo microscopy the infection route of Plasmodium sporozoites transmitted to the mammali...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Sturm A,Heussler V

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical trial was conducted with Alice/R-75 strain live attenuated intranasal influenza A/B vaccine. With double blind control 88 adult volunteers were administered 2 doses of Alice/R-75 vaccine, 93 volunteers received one dose of Alice/R-75 vaccine and one dose placebo solution and 94 subjects were administered 2 ...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Spencer MJ,Cherry JD,Powell KR,Sumaya CV

更新日期：1979-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination has proven to be one of the best weapons protecting the mankind against infectious diseases. Along with the huge progress in microbiology, numerous highly efficacious and safe vaccines have been produced by conventional technology (cultivation), by the use of molecular biology (genetic modification), or by...

journal_title：Medical microbiology and immunology

authors： Doerr HW,Berger A

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00