Haemolysin produced by Vibrio cholerae non-O1 is not enterotoxic.

abstract：:Spirochaetes were demonstrated in material from patients with Lyme disease by short-time high-concentrate silver impregnation after treatment with amylase. Removal of mucoid material was essential to visualise Borrelia burgdorferi. Lyme spirochaetes were demonstrated in material from 23 patients with Lyme disease--ery...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： De Koning J,Bosma RB,Hoogkamp-Korstanje JA

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the comparative performance of the Amplicor assay and an in-house semi-automated, multiplex real-time PCR for the diagnosis of genital chlamydial infection. Four different assays, the COBAS Amplicor CT test (Amplicor PCR), in-house real-time PCR (IHRT-PCR), in-house nested cryptic plasmid PCR a...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Jalal H,Al-Suwaine A,Stephen H,Carne C,Sonnex C

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rosacea is a chronic inflammatory condition that affects the skin of the face and the eyes. The aetiology of rosacea is not clearly established but increasing evidence suggests a potential role for bacteria in the induction of the condition. A role for Bacillus oleronius, originally isolated from within a Demodex foll...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Jarmuda S,McMahon F,Żaba R,O'Reilly N,Jakubowicz O,Holland A,Szkaradkiewicz A,Kavanagh K

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of anti-Helicobacter pylori specific IgG antibodies in specimens of oral fluid. Antral biopsy specimens, serum and oral fluid samples were collected from 81 patients attending for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. The ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Marshall B,Howat AJ,Wright PA

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel bunyavirus associated with fever, thrombocytopenia and leukopenia syndrome (FTLS) was discovered in Henan Province, China. Here, we report the development of an assay for this novel bunyavirus based on real-time reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR). The assay exhibited high sensitivity and specificity without cr...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Huang X,Liu L,Du Y,Ma H,Mu Y,Pengzhi Wang,Ma H,Tang X,Wang H,Kang K,Zhang S,Wu W,Chen H,Liu G,Yang Y,Yongqiangj,Jiang,Xu B,Chen W

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of next-generation sequencing technology has revolutionized the field of prokaryotic genetics and genomics by allowing interrogation of entire genomes, transcriptomes and global transcription factor binding profiles. As more studies employing these techniques have been performed, the state of the art regard...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Valli RXE,Lyng M,Kirkpatrick CL

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine lactoferricin, a pepsin-generated antimicrobial peptide from bovine lactoferrin active against a wide range of bacteria, was tested for its ability to influence the adhesion and invasion of Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in HEp-2 cells. The addition of non-cytotoxic and non-bactericidal...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Di Biase AM,Tinari A,Pietrantoni A,Antonini G,Valenti P,Conte MP,Superti F

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional culture and drug susceptibility testing (DST) methods for Mycobacterium tuberculosis are laborious and time consuming. For this reason alternative rapid culture and DST techniques are urgently needed to shorten the time for drug-resistance detection. A total of 222 smear-positive sputum samples were evalu...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Imperiale BR,Morcillo NS,Palomino JC,Vandamme P,Martin A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil specimens collected from a site around the home of patients with food-borne type E. botulism probably caused by neurotoxigenic Clostridium butyricum in Guanyun, Jiangsu province, China, were examined for the presence of neurotoxigenic C. butyricum. Five lakeside sites of Weishan lake, in an area near to the sites...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Meng X,Yamakawa K,Zou K,Wang X,Kuang X,Lu C,Wang C,Karasawa T,Nakamura S

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter fetus causes severe infections in humans and can be isolated from various mammals and reptiles. However, although poultry are considered to be the main reservoir of Campylobacter jejuni, little is known about the presence of C. fetus in poultry. Thus, specific pathogen-free chickens were experimentally i...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kempf I,Dufour-Gesbert F,Hellard G,Prouzet-Mauléon V,Mégraud F

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study aimed to explore daptomycin combined with fosfomycin or rifampin against the planktonic and adherent linezolid-resistant isolates of Enterococcus faecalis. METHODOLOGY:Four linezolid-resistant and four linezolid-sensitive isolates of E. faecalis which formed biofilms were collected for this study. B...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Zheng JX,Sun X,Lin ZW,Qi GB,Tu HP,Wu Y,Jiang SB,Chen Z,Deng QW,Qu D,Yu ZJ

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus type-1 (HSV-1) induces Fc- and C3b(i)-receptors on infected cells. The role of these receptors in bacterial superinfection was studied by comparing the adherence of non-opsonised and opsonised bacteria to HSV-infected and non-infected HEp-2 cells. A flow cytometric adherence assay, based on the fl...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： De Graaf-Miltenburg LA,Van Vliet KE,Ten Hagen TL,Verhoef J,Van Strijp JA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The object of this study was to develop and characterize experimental Burkholderia mallei aerosol infection in BALB/c mice. Sixty-five mice were infected with 5000 [approx. 2.5 median lethal doses (MLD)] B. mallei strain ATCC 23344(T) bacteria by the aerosol route. Bacterial counts within lung, liver, spleen, brain, k...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lever MS,Nelson M,Ireland PI,Stagg AJ,Beedham RJ,Hall GA,Knight G,Titball RW

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pro-Pro-Glu (PPE) protein family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis includes 69 glycine-rich proteins with a conserved N-terminal domain. Their role in tuberculosis is unknown, but it has been speculated that they may have an important immunological significance. In this investigation, the immunogenicity of the ppe44 (...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bonanni D,Rindi L,Lari N,Garzelli C

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two isogenic sets of Yersinia pestis strains were generated, composed of wild-type strains 231 and I-1996, their non-polar pH 6(-) mutants with deletions in the psaA gene that codes for its structural subunit or the whole operon, as well as strains with restored ability for temperature- and pH-dependent synthesis of a...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Anisimov AP,Bakhteeva IV,Panfertsev EA,Svetoch TE,Kravchenko TB,Platonov ME,Titareva GM,Kombarova TI,Ivanov SA,Rakin AV,Amoako KK,Dentovskaya SV

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A non-tuberculous mycobacterium was isolated, following a vertebral needle aspiration, from the blood of a patient with severe spondylodiscitis. The strain turned out to be different from any known mycobacterial species and was quite drug-susceptible in vitro. The patient improved markedly following treatment with mer...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Tortoli E,Mantella A,Mariottini A,Mazzarelli G,Pecile P,Rogasi PG,Sterrantino G,Fantoni E,Leoncini F

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of fimbriae, designated aggregative adherence fimbria I and II (AAF/I and AAF/II) have been described in enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) strains. These fimbriae mediate the aggregative pattern of adherence (AA) to epithelial cells. The genes encoding the structural subunit of each fimbria have been...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Elias WP,Suzart S,Trabulsi LR,Nataro JP,Gomes TAT

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gen-Probe APTIMA Combo 2 assay has previously been reported to have a high sensitivity. The end point of this assay was evaluated using highly purified chlamydial elementary bodies (EBs). The performance of the APTIMA Combo 2 assay was compared with a commercially available PCR kit, AMPLICOR Chlamydia trachomatis....

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ikeda-Dantsuji Y,Konomi I,Nagayama A

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EDTA-released outer-membrane antigen complexes were prepared from 172 laboratory and reference strains and 43 fresh clinical or faecal isolates representing 20 species or subspecies of Bacteroides, together with 13 species of other genera. These antigens were titrated against antisera to whole, live cells of 21 specie...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Poxton IR,Brown R,Collee JG

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zygomycosis, a relatively uncommon infection, usually occurs among immunocompromised individuals. It has been reported only rarely in trauma patients. A fatal case is reported of pulmonary and rapidly progressive cutaneous zygomycosis in a young, otherwise healthy farmer, with multiple bone fractures, wounds and soft ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kontogiorgi M,Floros I,Koroneos A,Vamvouka C,Paniara O,Roussos C,Routsi C

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrathecal synthesis of IgM and IgG antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi sonicate, to recombinant flagellin (41 kDa) and to a tryptic peptide of the flagellin (14-kDa fragment) was determined by ELISA in paired cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum samples from 35 patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) and in 10 p...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kaiser R,Rasiah C,Gassmann G,Vogt A,Lücking CH

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study attempted to determine whether cefuroxime was superior to cephalothin as a surrogate marker for cefpodoxime among urinary tract isolates. The MicroScan system (Siemens) was used to determine susceptibility for cephalothin and cefuroxime on consecutive cultures with a colony count of ≥50 000 organisms. Simul...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bookstaver DA,Bland CM,Woodberry MW,Mansell KB

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusobacterium necrophorum, a Gram-negative anaerobe, causes a variety of necrotic infections in humans and animals. There are two subspecies: subsp. necrophorum and subsp. funduliforme. In cattle, subsp. necrophorum is more prevalent and production of leukotoxin is a major virulence factor. The leukotoxin operon (lktB...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Tadepalli S,Stewart GC,Nagaraja TG,Narayanan SK

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid diagnosis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is essential for the prompt initiation of effective second-line therapy to improve treatment outcome and limit transmission of this obstinate disease. A variety of molecular methods that enable the rapid detection of mutations implicated in MDR-TB have been ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bang H,Park S,Hwang J,Jin H,Cho E,Kim DY,Song T,Shamputa IC,Via LE,Barry CE,Cho SN,Lee H

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：: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 role of Bacteroides fragilis in the pathogenesis of acute appendicitis was studied in 135 patients in four patient groups: normal (17); phlegmonous appendicitis (17); gangrenous appendicitis (75); and septic complications of appendicitis (26). Aerobic and anaerobic bacteria were isolated from all groups and member...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Elhag KM,Alwan MH,Al-Adnani MS,Sherif RA

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleolar accumulation of Semliki Forest Virus (SFV) C protein was examined as a function of intact microtubules, intact microfilaments and accessible intermediate filaments. The cytoskeletal components do not seem to play a role in directing C protein to the nucleolus but nucleolar accumulation is energy-dependen...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Jakob R

更新日期：1994-06-01 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：:In the present study, polyphasic analysis [cultivation, combined with the fingerprinting of individual isolates, and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE)] was applied to study whether similar features concerning the diversity and temporal stability of selected bacterial groups could be detected intra-individ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Maukonen J,Mättö J,Suihko ML,Saarela M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00