Bone resorbing activity of surface-associated material from Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans and Eikenella corrodens.

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that poses a threat in clinical settings due to its intrinsic and acquired resistance to a wide spectrum of antibiotics. Additionally, the presence of a subpopulation of cells surviving high concentrations of antibiotics, called persisters, makes it virtually impossi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： De Groote VN,Fauvart M,Kint CI,Verstraeten N,Jans A,Cornelis P,Michiels J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CaNdt80p, the Candida albicans homologue of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae transcription factor ScNdt80p, has been identified as a positive regulator of CDR1, which encodes an efflux pump involved in drug resistance in C. albicans. To investigate the involvement of the putative DNA-binding domain of CaNdt80p in drug res...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Wang JS,Yang YL,Wu CJ,Ouyang KJ,Tseng KY,Chen CG,Wang H,Lo HJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 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 activities of three sulphonamides and trimethoprim against strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa have been studied. Sulphadiazine had most activity, sulphadimidine had little, and the activity of sulphamethoxazole was intermediate. According to their sensitivity to sulphamethoxazole, strains were divided into two grou...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Grey D,Hamilton-Miller JM

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of cryptic plasmids among 123 isolates of Providencia stuarti from a hospital ward during a prospective epidemiological study is reported. Two closely related stable plasmids (34 Kb and 36 Kb) were identified by restriction endonuclease digest analysis of plasmid DNA. One or other of these cryptic pla...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hawkey PM,Bennett PM,Hawkey CA

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xanthomonas maltophilia produces two inducible beta-lactamases, L1 and L2, and resists the antimicrobial activity of beta-lactam antibiotics, including carbapenems. L1 is a zinc-metaloenzyme with carbapenemase activity; L2 is an unusual cephalosporinase. Mutant strains with high- and low-level constitutive expression ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Akova M,Bonfiglio G,Livermore DM

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the predominant strains of Bordetella pertussis in Greece during 2010-2015. METHODOLOGY:Infants and children (n=1150) (15 days to 14 years) of Greek, Roma and immigrant origin with different vaccination statuses were hospitalized in Athens, Greece with suspected pertussis infection. IS481/IS1001 r...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Petridou E,Jensen CB,Arvanitidis A,Giannaki-Psinaki M,Michos A,Krogfelt KA,Petersen RF

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report focuses on the molecular characterization of 22 extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli isolates collected in a German university hospital during a period of 9 months in 2006. Relationship analysis of clinical isolates was done via PFGE, multilocus sequence typing, plasmid profiling and...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Cullik A,Pfeifer Y,Prager R,von Baum H,Witte W

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cosmid DNA library had been constructed previously from 40-kb fragments of genomic DNA from a virulent invasive strain of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium (TML) in an avirulent hypo-invasive Typhimurium strain (LT7). Selection of invasive clones from the library was attempted by iterative passage through a r...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Robey M,Morgan E,Lodge JM,Bolton AJ,Martin GD,Brown NL,Stephen J

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance patterns and carbapenemase gene presence among Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from the University General Hospital of Patras, Greece during a ten-year period were analysed under a surveillance programme for multi-drug-resistant bacteria. From 2005 to 2014, K. pneumoniae isolates from clinically significant ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Spyropoulou A,Papadimitriou-Olivgeris M,Bartzavali C,Vamvakopoulou S,Marangos M,Spiliopoulou I,Anastassiou ED,Christofidou M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii infection in humans is routinely assessed by serological means. Here, the authors attempted to compare the response of different Toxoplasma strains to serological tests and to evaluate the antigenic profiles of the RH and RH Ankara (TRH) strains with Western blotting. Anti-Toxoplasma IgG antibodies o...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Delibas SB,Ertabaklar H,Ertug S

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heated spores (80 degrees C, 10 min) of Clostridium butyricum strain CB 1002 isolated from a fatal case of necrotising enterocolitis in a human neonate were inoculated into ligated intestinal loops prepared in young conventional guinea pigs. Necropsy findings 18 h later included congestion, patchy haemorrhage of the i...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Popoff MR,Ravisse P

更新日期：1985-06-01 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：:Unlike their parent strains, zidovudine-resistant derivatives of Escherichia coli KL16 and Salmonella typhimurium NCTC 5710 were found to be incapable of incorporating radiolabelled thymidine into their chromosomal DNA. Since incorporation was still prevented in the presence of EDTA, resistance to zidovudine was not a...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lewin CS,Allen RA,Amyes SG

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine changes in the systemic immune response during the incubation period and following the onset of clinical swine dysentery, including the recovery period. Ten healthy conventional pigs were inoculated with Brachyspira hyodysenteriae. Blood was sampled at pre-inoculation, at days 4 an...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Jonasson R,Andersson M,Råsbäck T,Johannisson A,Jensen-Waern M

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：:A novel direct detection system has been developed for eight staphylococcal enterotoxin (SE)-encoding genes (sea, seb, sec, sed, see, seg, seh and sei) in milk. Specific detection by real-time PCR was successful for all SE-encoding genes in the reference strains. Furthermore, a novel DNA-preparation method with good r...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Nakayama A,Okayama A,Hashida M,Yamamoto Y,Takebe H,Ohnaka T,Tanaka T,Imai S

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The faecal flora and mucosa-associated flora (MAF) of rectal biopsy material from 12 patients with active Crohn's disease were studied before and during treatment with a combination of metronidazole and cotrimoxazole given orally for at least 2 weeks. The total faecal flora was greater than the MAF although the propor...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hudson MJ,Hill MJ,Elliott PR,Berghouse LM,Burnham WR,Lennard-Jones JE

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to characterize cell damage caused by vaginal Candida albicans isolates from women with different symptomatologies. It was evaluated 12 clinical isolates of C. albicans from vaginal samples: 4 from asymptomatic women (AS), 4 from women with a single episode of vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) and...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Faria DR,Sakita KM,Akimoto-Gunther LS,Kioshima ÉS,Svidzinski TIE,Bonfim-Mendonça PS

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular typing is an important tool for control and prevention of infection. A suitable molecular typing method for epidemiological investigation must be easy to perform, highly reproducible, inexpensive, rapid and easy to interpret. In this study, two molecular typing methods including the conventional PCR-sequenci...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Fasihi Y,Fooladi S,Mohammadi MA,Emaneini M,Kalantar-Neyestanaki D

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study investigated the efficacy of the essential mineral, selenium (sodium selenite), in reducing the toxin production, spore outgrowth and antibiotic resistance of Clostridium difficile in vitro. METHODOLOGY:Two hypervirulent C. difficile isolates were cultured in brain heart infusion broth with and with...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Pellissery AJ,Vinayamohan PG,Yin HB,Mooyottu S,Venkitanarayanan K

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyacrylamide-agarose gel electrophoresis was used to study polymorphism of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), nucleoside phosphorylase (NSP), phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI), hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase (HBD), adenylate kinase (ADK) and esterases of 44 strains of Streptococcus pyogenes, 25 group G streptococcal strains, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bert F,Picard B,Lambert-Zechovsky N,Goullet P

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characterization and tracking of pathogenic micro-organisms in the clinical laboratory and public health environment demand schemes that are easy to standardize and use, are automated and high-throughput, and provide portable data. A combined genomarkers approach for Salmonella enterica based on comparative sequen...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bishop C,Honisch C,Goldman T,Mosko M,Keng S,Arnold C,Gharbia S

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of 1314 patients with malignancies was made to determine the prevalence of Serratia marcescens in surveillance, diagnostic, and environmental cultures. Sera obtained from a commercial source were used to determine serotypic distributions of the S. marcescens strains isolated during a 51-month period. S. marces...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Young VM,Moody MR,Morris MJ

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three specimens from 111 asymptomatic male partners of infertile couples attending the Department of Urology in Amiens, France, were examined by the PCR COBAS AMPLICOR test (Roche Molecular Diagnostics) for the presence of Chlamydia trachomatis. The specimens analysed were: first void urine (FVU), urine obtained after...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hamdad-Daoudi F,Petit J,Eb F

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrapartum chemoprophylaxis for pregnant group B streptococcus (GBS) carriers reduces vertical transmission, with a resultant decrease in neonatal as well as maternal morbidity from invasive GBS infection. Current Australian guidelines recommend penicillin for intrapartum prophylaxis of GBS carriers, with erythromyci...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Garland SM,Cottrill E,Markowski L,Pearce C,Clifford V,Ndisang D,Kelly N,Daley AJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial invasion of host epithelial cells plays an important role in the pathogenesis of periodontal diseases; however, the interactions between subgingival species and the gingival crevice cells are not fully understood. This study determined the prevalence of a group of oral bacterial species on or in epithelial c...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Colombo AV,Silva CM,Haffajee A,Colombo APV

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspiration of oropharyngeal bacteria and fungi is occasionally suspected in patients with pneumonia. A patient with oral carcinoma underwent chemoradioimmunotherapy and, about 4 weeks from the start of the therapy, the patient suffered from severe oral mucositis induced by chemoradiotherapy, and candidal pneumonia was...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Yamamoto T,Ueta E,Kamatani T,Osaki T

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is a frequent cause of infectious diarrhoea and is increasingly recognized as a trigger for late-onset complications. The poor standardization of commonly used serological tests might explain the conflicting results regarding the frequency of antecedent C. jejuni infections in defined patient grou...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Schmidt-Ott R,Brass F,Scholz C,Werner C,Groß U

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive aspergillosis is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality within at-risk groups. Directed antifungal chemotherapy, guided by effective screening algorithms that incorporate reliable and validated molecular assays, reduces the morbidity associated with empirical administration and allows earlier diagnosi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Perry MD,White PL,Barnes RA

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00