Rapid differentiation of Prevotella intermedia and P. nigrescens by 16S rDNA PCR-RFLP.

abstract：:The substrates inositol, rhamnose, d-tartrate and m-tartrate used in fermentation tests with 338 cultures of Salmonella paratyphi B differentiated strains in some phage types to give information that could be used in epidemiological investigations. Xylose in Bitter's medium, the fifth substrate by which 13 of a potent...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Barker RM,Kearney GM,Nicholson P,Blair AL,Porter RC,Crichton PB

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of rabbits to clear an intraperitoneal injection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the presence or absence of a surgically implanted peritoneal device was investigated. Sham-operated rabbits without an implant eliminated a P. aeruginosa challenge of 5 x 10(6) cfu/ml; lavage fluid and peritoneal tissues became c...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ward KH,Olson ME,Lam K,Costerton JW

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was undertaken to quantify the expression of prostaglandin (PG) receptors and find the effect of gestational age on expression of PG receptor genes in Chlamydia trachomatis-infected recurrent spontaneous aborters (RSA). Endometrial curettage tissue (ECT) was collected from 130 RSA (Group I) and 100 age-matched...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Singh N,Prasad P,Singh LC,Das B,Rastogi S

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel drug delivery system for osteomyelitis was developed in which a porous hydroxyapatite block (HAB) is loaded with antibiotic by a centrifugation method. In this study, implantation of HABs loaded with the aminoglycoside antibiotic, arbekacin, were tested in established Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis in the...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Itokazu M,Ohno T,Tanemori T,Wada E,Kato N,Watanabe K

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The determinant responsible for the ability of Bacteroides spp. to inhibit polymorph phagocytic killing of aerobic organisms has not yet been identified. Therefore, the roles of lipopolysaccharide and capsular polysaccharide of B. fragilis were investigated. Serum-resistant and serum-sensitive strains of Proteus mirab...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Connolly JC,McLean C,Tabaqchali S

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most past studies of cross-infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa among cystic fibrosis (CF) patients in the UK suggest that it is a rare occurrence. However, two recent reports of highly transmissible strains in patients in regional centres in England (Liverpool and Manchester) have raised questions as to the extent o...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Scott FW,Pitt TL

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Neisseria gonorrhoeae can use haem as the sole exogenous iron source for growth in vitro, the mechanism of haem-iron uptake in the gonococcus is unknown. Two haemin-binding proteins (HmBPs) of 97 and 44 Kda were isolated by batch ligand affinity-chromatography from whole cells or total membranes of gonococci ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lee BC

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 36 Escherichia coli and 31 enterococci isolates were recovered from 42 common buzzard faecal samples. The E. coli isolates showed high levels of resistance to streptomycin and tetracycline. The following resistance genes were detected: bla(TEM) (20 of 22 ampicillin-resistant isolates), tet(A) and/or tet(B) ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Radhouani H,Poeta P,Gonçalves A,Pacheco R,Sargo R,Igrejas G

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2007, there has been a re-emergence of cholera outbreaks in northern Vietnam. To understand the molecular epidemiological relatedness and determine the antibiotic susceptibility profiles of responsible V. cholerae O1 outbreak strains, a representative collection of 100 V. cholerae O1 strains was characterized. V...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Tran HD,Alam M,Trung NV,Van Kinh N,Nguyen HH,Pham VC,Ansaruzzaman M,Rashed SM,Bhuiyan NA,Dao TT,Endtz HP,Wertheim HFL

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To obtain monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) directed preferentially against the pathogenic phase of Candida albicans, mice were immunised with germ tubes of C. albicans serotype A, strain VW.32, killed by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) irradiation. Fusions were performed either by the standard chemical procedure with polyeth...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Fortier B,Hopwood V,Poulain D

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and simple method for counting viable bacteria is described. The technique involves the use of a semi-automatic micropipette and disposable glass-capillary tubes. Viable counts obtained by this method were not significantly different from those obtained by the Miles, Misra and Irwin method or by a pour-plate m...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Slack MP,Wheldon DB

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carnobacterium species have been isolated from the environment and are not regarded as human pathogens, although they are known to cause disease in fish. Only two reports describing isolation of Carnobacterium species from human pus were found in the literature. We report what we believe to be the first isolation of C...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hoenigl M,Grisold AJ,Valentin T,Leitner E,Zarfel G,Renner H,Krause R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice immunised by the oral or intraperitoneal route with a live aromatic-dependent strain of Salmonella typhimurium exhibited significantly less protection against oral challenge with 50 LD50 of an ovine isolate of S. typhimurium (12313) than when a bovine isolate with the same O antigens and phage-type as strain 1231...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mukkur TK,McDowell GH,Stocker BA,Lascelles AK

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In an increasing number of cases the last therapeutic option for treatment of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae is colistin. As the detection of colistin resistance is problematic and time-consuming, it is desirable to find a rapid and reliable test. The rapid polymyxin NP test developed by Nordmann et al...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Belda-Orlowski A,Pfennigwerth N,Gatermann SG,Korte-Berwanger M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two carbapenem-non-susceptible Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates, Z2554 and Z2110, were collected from a hospital in China and analysed by PFGE. K. pneumoniae Z2554 and Z2110 were genetically unrelated and showed resistance to ertapenem, and reduced susceptibility to imipenem and meropenem. Analysis of their beta-lactama...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Wang XD,Cai JC,Zhou HW,Zhang R,Chen GX

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction. The worldwide emergence of carbapenem resistance in Gram-negative bacteria makes the development of simple tests mandatory to identify antimicrobial resistance mechanisms. Enzymatic and membrane barriers are the prominent resistance mechanisms described in these bacteria. Several tests are currently used...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Pinet E,Franceschi C,Collin V,Davin-Regli A,Zambardi G,Pagès JM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to verify whether the presence of any of the Helicobacter pylori cagPAI genes or segments--cagA, cagA promoter, cagE, cagM, tnpB, tnpA, cagT and the left end of the cag II (LEC) region--would be a useful marker for the risk of peptic ulcer disease development. H. pylori DNA extracted from...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mattar R,Marques SB,Monteiro MDS,Dos Santos AF,Iriya K,Carrilho FJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) and Lyme borreliosis (LB) are tick-borne infectious diseases caused by Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species, respectively. In this study, p44/msp2 paralogues specific to A. phagocytophilum and 5S-23S rRNA gene-intergenic spacers specific to B. burg...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Masuzawa T,Kharitonenkov IG,Okamoto Y,Fukui T,Ohashi N

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus gordonii produces a pheromone heptapeptide, s.g.cAM373, which induces a conjugative mating response in Enterococcus faecalis cells carrying the responsive plasmid, pAM373. We investigated the extent of this intergeneric signaling on DNA acquisition by streptococcal species likely to cohabit oral biofilms...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mansfield JM,Herrmann P,Jesionowski AM,Vickerman MM

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha protoxin of Staphylococcus aureus "Wood 46" was activated by trypsin which had been coupled to carboxymethylcellulose, as indicated by the toxin's ability to hydrolyse tosyl-arginine methylester (TAME). A Lineweaver-Burk plot of the degradation of TAME by toxin and trypsin showed that toxin had a greater affinit...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Wiseman GM,Caird JD,Fackrell HB

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 178 strains of Escherichia coli, highly resistant to trimethoprim, isolated from hospital patients and patients in the community between 1979 and 1983, was examined for the presence of Tn7 on a plasmid or on the chromosome only, by transposition to RP4 and restriction endonuclease digestion with Hind III. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kraft CA,Timbury MC,Platt DJ

更新日期：1986-09-01 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：:Accurate susceptibility results on antibiotic-resistant bacteria are essential for proper treatment of infections. In this study, 100 metallo-β-lactamase (MBL)-producing strains and 95 isolates with Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) were tested for carbapenem susceptibility using two automated platforms, the P...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sun J,Xu Y,Yu Y,Ni Y

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male patient of 32 years was referred for surgical drainage and orchidectomy of the right testis following a cycling injury. A Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) test was requested by the surgery department to rule out secondary syphilis. Although serum samples gave a negative result in the VDRL test, quali...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Purwar S,Metgud SC,Gokale SK

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR has proved superior to conventional blood culture for diagnosing bacteraemia in the presence of antibiotics. Nevertheless, even PCR might yield false-negative results if the template DNA were to be cleaved by serum DNAases after antibiotics had induced bacterial death. To evaluate the cleavage of bacterial templat...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Heininger A,Ulrich M,Priebe G,Unertl K,Müller-Schauenburg A,Botzenhart K,Döring G

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid identification of isolates in positive blood cultures are of great importance to secure correct treatment of septicaemic patients. As antimicrobial resistance is increasing, rapid detection of resistance is crucial. Carbapenem resistance in Bacteroides fragilis associated with cfiA-encoded class B metallo-beta-l...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Johansson Å,Nagy E,Sóki J

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:Radiometric selective inhibition tests were developed and evaluated for the rapid differentiation of Mycobacterium spp. Both a p-nitrobenzoic acid (PNB) test and a commercially-prepared p-nitro-alpha-acetylamino-beta-hydroxypropiophenone (NAP) test successfully differentiated M. tuberculosis and M. bovis from "atypica...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Collins T,Levett PN

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cystic fibrosis (CF) airways are colonized by polymicrobial communities with high bacterial load and are influenced by frequent antibiotic exposures. This community includes diverse streptococci, some of which have been directly or indirectly associated with pulmonary exacerbations. As many streptococci are natura...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Thornton CS,Grinwis ME,Sibley CD,Parkins MD,Rabin HR,Surette MG

更新日期：2015-11-01 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