In-vitro proteinase production by oral Candida albicans isolates from individuals with and without HIV infection and its attenuation by antimycotic agents.

abstract：PURPOSE:This study aimed to evaluate the effect of two types of stress, cold and nutritional, on the viability and the in vitro virulence of the foodborne pathogenic bacteria Listeria monocytogenes. METHODOLOGY:Ten diverse isolates were kept in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) at optimal (37 °C) or at refrigeration tem...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Araujo V,Neves E,Silva AC,Martins APL,Brito LC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib) vaccines have reduced the amount of invasive Hib disease in immunised infants. However, Hib disease remains in unvaccinated infants and adults and non-capsulate H. influenzae (NCHi) still causes infections, including outbreaks of respiratory disease. Characterisation of strains ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Leaves NI,Sisson PR,Freeman R,Jordens JZ

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bactericidal activity of compound DR-3355, an optically active isomer of ofloxacin, was measured against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and S. epidermidis, in nutrient broth and in phosphate-buffered saline. DR-3355 was found to be approximately twice as active as ofloxacin in terms of the concentration a...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lewin CS,Amyes SG

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：:Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is commonly part of the normal microflora of the human upper respiratory tract. It has been implicated in periodontal disease and various infections, particularly endocarditis. We report here what we believe to be the first case of recurrent infective endocarditis due to A. actino...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Potron A,Mainardi JL,Podglajen I,Meunier F,Sanson-le Pors MJ,Berçot B

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Conventional laboratory detection methods for gastrointestinal parasites are time consuming, require considerable technical expertise and may suffer from poor analytical sensitivity. This study sought to evaluate the automated BD MAX Enteric Parasite Panel (EPP) for the detection of Cryptosporidium parvum/homin...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Perry MD,Corden SA,Lewis White P

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and 13 other species of mycobacteria were examined for susceptibility to 26 strains of viridans streptococci. Susceptibility was detected by the simultaneous antagonism technique, but not by tests of deferred antagonism. It is concluded that in-vitro inhibition of mycobacte...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Allen BW

更新日期：1985-04-01 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：:The prevalence of chlamydial DNA determined by PCR and in-situ hybridisation (ISH) in fresh tissue specimens (endometrium, fallopian tube and ovary) was investigated in 33 women presenting with ectopic pregnancy (EP), 14 women with tubal factor infertility (TFI) and 50 control patients from the UK and the West Indies....

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Barlow REL,Cooke ID,Odukoya O,Heatley MK,Jenkins J,Narayansingh G,Ramsewak SS,Eley A

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic loss of protein A production was tested in six methicillin-resistant (McR) Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates and their isogenic methicillin-sensitive (McS) variants by a radiolabelled IgG-binding assay with washed cells and by Western blotting of supernates prepared from lysed washed cells. Genomic DNA ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Poston SM,Glancey GR,Wyatt JE,Hogan T,Foster TJ

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms are colonies of microbial cells encased in a self-produced organic polymeric matrix and represent a common mode of microbial growth. Microbes growing as biofilm are highly resistant to commonly used antimicrobial drugs. We aimed to screen and characterize biofilm formation by different isolates of Candida on ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Zahran KM,Agban MN,Ahmed SH,Hassan EA,Sabet MA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous injection of eight human strains of Campylobacter fetus ss fetus and Campylobacter jejuni into mice at various stages of pregnancy demonstrated significant strain differences in ability to affect implantation of the fertilised ovum and to cause resorption of the mouse fetus. Implantation was significantly ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： O'Sullivan AM,Doré CJ,Coid CR

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical characteristics, enterotoxigenicity and susceptibility to antibiotics are reported for 22 strains of Aeromonas species isolated from clinical specimens in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia. Aeromonas caviae was the species most frequently observed; a high proportion of these strains fermented lactose,...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Gosling PJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-five randomly selected Staphylococcus aureus strains were examined for fatty acid modifying enzyme (FAME) production. Of these, 20.4% did not elaborate the enzyme. Amongst the remaining strains, the lowest level produced in culture was 0.1 unit/10(9) cocci and the maximum was 2.01 U/10(9) cocci; the median level...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kapral FA,Smith S,Lal D

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 200 isolates of Vibrio mimicus screened, one from water (N-57) agglutinated with V. cholerae O139 polyclonal antiserum (absorbed with a rough strain of V. cholerae only) and not with O139 polyclonal diagnostic antiserum (absorbed with the rough strain and V. cholerae O22 and O155). The antigenic relationship betwee...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ansaruzzaman M,Shimada T,Bhuiyan NA,Nahar S,Alam K,Islam MS,Albert MJ

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mcr-1 gene encodes a phosphoethanolamine transferase, which confers resistance to colistin by transferring phosphoethanolamine to lipid A. This study describes the emergence of a colistin- and carbapenem-resistant clinical isolate of Escherichia coli harbouring mcr-1 and blaNDM-5 genes, located on 90 and 150 Kb pl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Uchida H,Tada T,Sugahara Y,Kato A,Miyairi I,Kirikae T

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A colony hybridisation method with enzyme-labelled oligonucleotide probes was developed to detect the gene for toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (tst). For rapid identification, bacterial colonies were transferred from agar plates directly on to nylon membranes. These procedures took only 3 h. Results obtained by this test...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Shimaoka M,Yoh M,Takarada Y,Yamamoto K,Honda T

更新日期：1996-03-01 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：:Two cases of severe community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia (CAP) admitted to our hospital within 24 h are described, both in young males. These two cases illustrate the usefulness of the British Thoracic Society severity criteria and serve to emphasize the importance of early recognition of adverse physiology in cr...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kelly MG,Sharkey RA,Moles KW,Daly JG

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The locus responsible for mucoid colony morphology in five independent clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from cystic fibrosis patients have been transferred by means of pM060-mediated conjugation to the genetically characterised strain P. aeruginosa PAO. Genetic mapping has shown that in all five strains the...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： MacGeorge J,Korolik V,Morgan AF,Asche V,Holloway BW

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalase (KatA) is known to play an important role in oxidative stress resistance in many bacterial species and a homologue exists in Helicobacter hepaticus, a member of the enterohepatic Helicobacter species. Here, a katA mutant was constructed by insertional mutagenesis and its oxidative stress phenotype was investi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hong Y,Wang G,Maier RJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, several PCR assays based on 16S rRNA and virulence-associated genes are available for detection of Legionella pneumophila. So far, no genotyping method has been published that can discriminate between serogroups and monoclonal subgroups of the most common L. pneumophila serogroup 1. Our first approach was t...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Thürmer A,Helbig JH,Jacobs E,Lück PC

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the first quarter of 1996, a major outbreak of clinical infection caused by multiresistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (MRKP) occurred in the neonatal ward of the 'Maternité Wassila Bourguiba' in Tunis, Tunisia. In total, 32 isolates of MRKP, comprising 23 clinical isolates and nine surveillance isolates, were recove...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ben-Hamouda T,Foulon T,Ben-Cheikh-Masmoudi A,Fendri C,Belhadj O,Ben-Mahrez K

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactulose exerts a beneficial effect on hepatic encephalopathy by decreasing toxic short-chain (iC4-nC6) fatty acid (isobutyrate, butyrate, isovalerate, valerate, isocaproate and caproate) production. However, the precise mechanism by which lactulose exerts this effect remains uncertain. This study investigated the ef...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ito Y,Moriwaki H,Muto Y,Kato N,Watanabe K,Ueno K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the species diversity of staphylococci with inducible resistance to macrolides, lincosamides and streptogramin B (MLSB) isolated from clinical samples, sewage and river water was investigated. Inducible clindamycin resistance was tested using a D-test and macrodilution assays. Inducible cross-resistance...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Heß S,Gallert C

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leifsonia aquatica is an aquatic coryneform rod that is capable of forming biofilms in environmental water sources. It has rarely been associated with human infections and its pathogenicity and clinical significance are uncertain. We describe a case of catheter-related bloodstream infection in a haemodialysis patient....

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Porte L,Soto A,Andrighetti D,Dabanch J,Braun S,Saldivia A,Flores JC,Wozniak A,García P,Weitzel T

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of a strain of Giardia lamblia to benzimidazole carbamates, 5-nitroimidazoles, nitrofurans and other drugs was studied in vitro. Albendazole was the most active compound, with a 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 0.01 mg/L and a minimal lethal concentration (MLC) of less than 0.04 mg/L; the IC50...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Cedillo-Rivera R,Muñoz O

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The encapsulated strain M of Staphylococcus aureus and the encapsulated strain 76 of S. simulans survived incubation with bovine neutrophils in media containing heated bovine serum 0.5% v/v or milk whey 10% v/v. With two unencapsulated strains of S. aureus, M12 and M60, less than 5% of the original inoculum survived. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Anderson JC,Williams MR

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used a previously described multiplex PCR-based reverse line blot (mPCR/RLB) assay to assess the prevalence and distribution of 14 urogenital pathogens or putative pathogens, namely Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Mycoplasma genitalium, Mycoplasma hominis, Trichomonas vaginalis, Gardnerella va...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： McKechnie ML,Hillman RJ,Jones R,Lowe PC,Couldwell DL,Davies SC,King F,Kong F,Gilbert GL

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small round viruses (SRV) were isolated from the faeces of diarrhoeic calves from three farms. All three SRV preparations caused diarrhoea experimentally in gnotobiotic calves. Each preparation contained viral particles of two morphological types, "astrovirus-like" and "calicivirus-like", and from one preparation the ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Woode GN,Bridger JC

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00