Characteristics of toxicity and haemorrhagic toxin produced by Clostridium sporogenes in various animals and cultured cells.

abstract：:Escherichia coli isolates (n=2629) were collected between 1996 and 2000 from 2100 Thai children less than 12 years of age with acute diarrhoea. Enterotoxigenic (ETEC), enteroinvasive (EIEC), Shiga-toxin-producing (STEC), enteropathogenic (EPEC) and enteroaggregative (EAEC) E. coli were identified by their virulence ma...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ratchtrachenchai OA,Subpasu S,Hayashi H,Ba-Thein W

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first report, to our knowledge, of two temporally and geographically related nosocomial Asaia lannensis infections in a paediatric setting. Two patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy awaiting cardiac transplantation developed bacteraemia during their hospital stay. The physical location of both pa...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Juretschko S,Beavers-May TK,Stovall SH

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study between February 2003 and June 2004, stool specimens of children less than 2 years of age with diarrhoea (n=218) and without diarrhoea (n=86), living in Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil, were examined for the presence of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli. E. coli isolates were tested by colony blot...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Spano LC,Sadovsky ADI,Segui PN,Saick KW,Kitagawa SMS,Pereira FEL,Fagundes-Neto U,Scaletsky ICA

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial infection in patients who have undergone liver transplantation is a major complication of the procedure. Leuconostoc spp. are important pathogenic bacteria in individuals with poor immune function, especially transplant patients. In this report, we describe the case of a 45-year-old Asian male liver transpla...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Deng Y,Zhang Z,Xie Y,Xiao Y,Kang M,Fan H

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptolysin O (SLO) is a potent cytolytic toxin produced by almost all strains of group A streptococci and is considered an important virulence factor for this organism. In this study we investigated the effect of allicin and aqueous garlic extracts on the haemolytic activity of SLO. All tested materials potentially ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Arzanlou M,Bohlooli S

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of candidaemia among immunocompromised patients in Malaysia is increasing at an alarming rate. Isolation of clinical strains that are resistant to fluconazole has also risen markedly. We report here the repeated isolation of Candida tropicalis from the blood of a neonatal patient with Hirschsprung's dise...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Chong PP,Chieng DC,Low LY,Hafeez A,Shamsudin MN,Seow HF,Ng KP

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An evaluation of five ELISA methods for the diagnosis of acute toxoplasmosis was undertaken by comparing a laboratory-produced ELISA employing two recombinant Toxoplasma gondii polypeptides as antigen with a laboratory-produced ELISA and three commercially available ELISAs employing traditional parasite antigen prepar...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Johnson AM,Roberts H,Tenter AM

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacteria are dominant in the gut of full-term infants, although colonisation by them is often delayed in preterm neonates. Bifidobacteria are recognised to have beneficial effects on digestive disorders and they might prevent neonatal necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), a gastrointestinal disease that predominantly...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Catala I,Butel MJ,Bensaada M,Popot F,Tessedre AC,Rimbault A,Szylit O

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:An affinity procedure with purified, biotinylated human transferrin and streptavidin-agarose was used to identify the transferrin-binding proteins in strains of Haemophilus influenzae. Proteins of 58 and 98 Kda were isolated from total membranes prepared from iron-deficient but not iron-sufficient H. influenzae KC548 ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Schryvers AB

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction.Serratia marcescens is a bacterial pathogen that causes ventilator-associated pneumonia and ocular infections. The FlhD and FlhC proteins complex to form a heteromeric transcription factor whose regulon, in S. marcescens, regulates genes for the production of flagellum, phospholipase A and the cytolysin S...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Stella NA,Brothers KM,Shanks RMQ

更新日期：2020-12-10 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：:Strains of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to gentamicin and methicillin first appeared in Dublin hospitals in 1976, and rapidly became widely disseminated. The number of patients infected or colonised increased throughout the period of study, especially in 1979 and 1980. Most isolates were from burns, surgical wounds...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Cafferkey MT,Hone R,Falkiner FR,Keane CT,Pomeroy H

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to develop novel host/pathogen real-time PCR assays for routine diagnostic use, early gene expression patterns from both Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and Raji cells were examined after inducing the lytic life cycle using 12-O-tetradecanoyl-13-phorbol ester and sodium butyrate. Real-time PCR identified several hig...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Auburn H,Zuckerman M,Smith M

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gingival sulcus is the shallow crevice around the tooth, and its epithelium is a gateway for initial bacterial infection in periodontal disease. Recent studies have shown that Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans invades an epithelial cell line, KB cells, in vitro. The aim of the present study was to clarify the c...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kato S,Nakashima K,Inoue M,Tomioka J,Nonaka K,Nishihara T,Kowashi Y

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is great interest in the use of antimicrobial agents for the prevention and treatment of plaque-related oral diseases and many publications have reported the results of studies in which the minimum inhibitory concentrations of agents for cariogenic and periodontopathogenic bacteria have been determined. However,...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Wilson M

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cornyeform bacterium was isolated from a blood culture from a 24-year-old man with familial hypertrophic non-obstructive cardiomyopathy, chronic abuse of anabolic steroids and prior admission to hospital because of clinical signs of sepsis. 16S rRNA gene analysis unambiguously identified Gordonia terrae. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Grisold AJ,Roll P,Hoenigl M,Feierl G,Vicenzi-Moser R,Marth E

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteroides gracilis is a gram-negative anaerobic bacillus which requires formate and fumarate for growth; it has been implicated in periodontal disease and serious infections of the head and neck. In this study, Bacteroides ureolyticus (NTU) medium was tested for its ability to allow the growth of B. gracilis and oth...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Wade WG,Bishop PA,Slayne MA

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the toxigenic status of circulating strains of Clostridium difficile in a large teaching hospital. Overall 220 isolates were studied of which 199 (90.5 %) produced both large clostridial toxins detected by conventional methods. Ten more strains (4.5 %) had toxin A and B genes dete...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Alonso R,Martín A,Peláez T,Marín M,Rodríguez-Creixéms M,Bouza E

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior to the advent of the Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine, invasive infections due to H. influenzae type f were rarely described. However, the epidemiology of H. influenzae is changing. While the incidence of invasive infections due to H. influenzae is declining in children, such infections are becoming more co...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Suarez CJ,Glover WA,Cowan J,Smith A,Clarridge JE

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the most common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea. Antibiotics are presumed to disturb the normal intestinal microbiota, leading to depletion of the barrier effect and colonization by pathogenic bacteria. This first step of infection includes adherence to epithelial cells. We investigat...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Denève C,Deloménie C,Barc MC,Collignon A,Janoir C

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unpredictable characteristics of meningococcal disease (MD) make outbreaks complicated to monitor and consequently lead to high levels of public anxiety. Traditional molecular techniques have been utilized in order to understand better the epidemiology of MD, but some have disadvantages such as being highly specia...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Diggle MA,Bell CM,Clarke SC

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 456 non-repetitive Escherichia coli isolates from human clinical specimens (urinary, n=134; cervix, vagina and prostate, n=52; blood, pus and wounds, n=45), healthy animals (cattle, n=45; poultry, n=20) and diseased animals (cattle, n=53; swine, n=64; poultry, n=43) obtained in Lithuania during the period 2...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Šeputienė V,Povilonis J,Ružauskas M,Pavilonis A,Sužiedėlienė E

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (SDSE) isolates are the most common group C streptococci in humans and reports of invasive infections associated with SDSE have been increasing. Molecular epidemiology studies are an important strategy to trace the emergence and spread of possible well-fit bacterial pathog...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Silva LG,Genteluci GL,Corrêa de Mattos M,Glatthardt T,Sá Figueiredo AM,Ferreira-Carvalho BT

更新日期：2015-05-01 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 genetic diversity between major meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) lineages was probed using fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism (FAFLP) as a random genome sampling tool. Genomic DNA was digested with endonucleases BglII and Csp6I and a subset of the restricted fragments were amplifie...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Desai D,Ellington MJ,Arnold C,Desai M

更新日期：2012-12-01 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

abstract：PURPOSE:With an increase in the numbers of bacterial isolates resistant to first-line antibiotics, there has been a revival in the use of older drugs including fosfomycin with novel mechanisms of action. We aimed to investigate the prevalence and genotypic nature of fosfomycin resistance in Escherichia coli from urinar...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Cottell JL,Webber MA

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The competition for glucose as a growth-limiting substrate between Candida albicans and a mixed community of oral bacteria was investigated. A chemostat was operated under glucose-limiting and glucose excess conditions at a dilution rate of 0.05/h. A mixed population of oral bacteria was established and after a steady...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Basson NJ

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The family Adenoviridae consists of five genera of which the genus Mastadenovirus includes human viruses classified into 57 serotypes clustered into seven subgroups (A-G). Serotypes 40 and 41 (subgroup F) are specifically associated with childhood gastroenteritis and are the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Arcangeletti MC,Germini D,Martorana D,Rodighiero I,De Conto F,Medici MC,Chezzi C,Calderaro A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00