Acquisition of Klebsiella aerogenes by neonates.

abstract：:Experiments were performed to determine whether a modern flow cytometer could be used to study bacterial populations in suspension, with particular reference to their morphological characteristics and their responses to antibiotics. The FACScan, a commercial benchtop flow cytometer fitted with an air-cooled laser, des...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Gant VA,Warnes G,Phillips I,Savidge GF

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of the present study were to evaluate in vitro the production of antagonistic compounds against Gardnerella vaginalis by Lactobacillus strains isolated from women with or without bacterial vaginosis (BV), and to select one of the better Lactobacillus producers of such a substance to be tested in vivo us...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Teixeira GS,Carvalho FP,Arantes RME,Nunes AC,Moreira JLS,Mendonça M,Almeida RB,Farias LM,Carvalho MAR,Nicoli JR

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:A collection of 820 isolates of streptococci and aerococci from human blood or internal organs was classified by means of a set of cultural and biochemical tests. Of these, 719 (712 streptococci and 7 aerococci) were from patients believed to be suffering from a systemic infection: endocarditis 317; a purulent lesion ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Parker MT,Ball LC

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction. Differences between the genomic and virulence profile of Bordetella pertussis circulating strains and vaccine strains are considered as one of the important reasons for the resurgence of whooping cough (pertussis) in the world. Genetically inactivated B. pertussis is one of the new strategies to generate...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Nikbin VS,Keramati M,Noofeli M,Tayebzadeh F,Kahali B,Shahcheraghi F

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A provisional serotyping scheme for Bacillus cereus has been developed. Eighteen selected cultures of B. cereus isolated from foods and clinical specimens were used to prepare agglutinating sera against the flagellar antigen. There were no significant cross-reactions between the sera. The sera were used to type 137 is...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Taylor AJ,Gilbert RJ

更新日期：1975-11-01 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：:The response of Legionella pneumophila to antibiotics that inhibit cell-wall, protein and DNA synthesis was examined by electronmicroscopy, MIC estimations and viable counts. Ampicillin, cefotaxime, methicillin, erythromycin, rifampicin and ciprofloxacin, each used separately at 20 times their respective MIC values, s...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Rodgers FG,Tzianabos AO,Elliott TS

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrolysis mass spectrometry (PyMS), a highly discriminatory method for comparison of isolates, was used to assess the homogeneity of colonies taken from apparently pure cultures of Escherichia coli in 10 urine specimens. Ten randomly selected colonies were subcultured from each urine for comparison. For six urines, th...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Freeman R,Sisson PR,Burdess D

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased prevalence of oral candidosis associated with HIV infection must be intrinsically related to immunological changes in the host, but might also involve alterations to the infecting strains of yeast. This study aimed to determine if strains of Candida albicans isolated from asymptomatic HIV-infected indivi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sweet SP,Cookson S,Challacombe SJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic and ultimately fatal lung disease. One of the risk factors involved in the acquisition of IPF is viral infections, especially respiratory viruses. In the present study, we investigated the detection of respiratory viruses and the possible relationship betwee...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Keyvani H,Moghoofei M,Bokharaei-Salim F,Mostafaei S,Javad Mousavi SA,Monavari SH,Esghaei M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Infections associated with Acinetobacter baumannii represent an increasing threat in healthcare settings. Therefore, we investigated the epidemiological relationship between clinical isolates of A. baumannii obtained from patients in a university hospital in Bandar Abbas in southern Iran. METHODOLOGY:Sixty-fou...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Saffari F,Monsen T,Karmostaji A,Azimabad FB,Widerström M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ELISA technique was shown to be group-specific for the detection of IgM antibodies against coxsackie B viruses, and probably against a wider range of enteroviruses. No evidence was obtained that recent coxsackie B-virus infection predisposes to myocardial infarction. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hannington G,Booth JC,Bowes RJ,Stern H

更新日期：1986-06-01 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：: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：: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：:Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an important agent of diarrhoeal diseases worldwide. The role of EAEC virulence factors in the clinical outcome of infection is not completely defined. This case-control study investigated the prevalence of EAEC, its virulence genes and the antimicrobial resistance profile ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bafandeh S,Haghi F,Zeighami H

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae meningitis has recently become an increasingly common cause of central nervous system infection. The invasion of bacteria within the subarachnoid space stimulates the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, triggering a host immune response. The aim of the present study was to evalu...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Barichello T,Simões LR,Valvassori SS,Generoso JS,Aveline PEDV,Dominguini D,Elias SG,Vilela MC,Quevedo J,Teixeira AL

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：:Competition, competitive exclusion and displacement of eight strains of Escherichia coli and Salmonella spp. by Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG and Lactobacillus casei Shirota from adhesion on human intestinal mucus glycoproteins and Caco-2 cell surfaces were studied. Lactobacilli were able to compete with, exclude and dis...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lee YK,Puong KY,Ouwehand AC,Salminen S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Strains of type emm89 Streptococcus pyogenes have recently increased in frequency as a cause of human infections in several countries in Europe and North America. This increase has been molecular epidemiologically linked with the emergence of a new genetically distinct clone, designated clade 3. We sought to ex...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Beres SB,Olsen RJ,Ojeda Saavedra M,Ure R,Reynolds A,Lindsay DSJ,Smith AJ,Musser JM

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbapenems are first-line agents for the treatment of serious nosocomial infections caused by multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. However, resistance to carbapenems has increased dramatically among Enterobacteriaceae in our hospital. In this study, we report clonal dissemination caused by carbapenem-resistant Ent...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Qin X,Yang Y,Hu F,Zhu D

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical specimens unfit for laboratory processing represent missed opportunities for diagnosing tuberculosis. Poor-quality cough specimens (n=61) from presumptive tuberculosis cases were cultured and GeneXpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) successfully performed on samples transferred by flocked swab into PrimeStore molecular tran...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mboneni TA,Eales OO,Mosina NL,Fourie PB

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal absorption of arbutin (p-hydroxyphenyl-beta-glucoside), a non-metabolised analogue of d-glucose, and net flux of water out of the small intestinal lumen were found to be decreased in vitro in rats fed with Candida albicans. In rats on a protein-deficient diet and fed C. albicans there was net secretion of w...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Burke V,Gracey M

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxic effects of the haemorrhagic toxin of Clostridium sporogenes were studied in mice, rats, guinea-pigs and rabbits, and in various cultured cells. In rabbits, but not in the other animals, intradermal injection with crude toxin and its injection into a ligated intestinal loop caused haemorrhage in both the skin...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hara-Kudo Y,Ogura A,Noguchi Y,Kumagai S

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five strains of mice (C3H, CBA, BALB/c, TO and ICR) were inoculated intra-vaginally with Neisseria gonorrhoeae in an attempt to produce an animal model of gonorrhoea. Of a total of 68 mice inoculated, only three (4.4%) were culture-positive after 3 days. Histological examination of both the genital mucosa of inoculate...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Johnson AP,Tuffrey M,Taylor-Robinson D

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast identification and in vitro susceptibility testing provide helpful information for appropriate administration of antifungal treatments; however, few reports from the Latin American region have been published. The aim of this study was to identify the species present in isolates from bloodstream infections diagno...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bustamante B,Martins MA,Bonfietti LX,Szeszs MW,Jacobs J,Garcia C,Melhem MSC

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucosal immunity in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is a primary defence against GI pathogens. We hypothesise that a mucosal response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS), especially to the common (core) determinants of GI pathogenic Escherichia coli strains, is protective. The aims of this study were to investigate the specif...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Currie CG,McCALLUM K,Poxton IR

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterovirus 71 (EV71) and coxsackievirus A16 (CVA16) are members of the species Human enterovirus A, and are both major and independent aetiological agents of hand-foot-and-mouth disease. The human enterovirus (HEV) 5' untranslated region (UTR) is fundamentally important for efficient virus replication and for virulen...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Zhou F,Kong F,Wang B,McPhie K,Gilbert GL,Dwyer DE

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00