Susceptibilities of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans biofilms to oral antiseptics.

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：:The antifungal effects of cinnamaldehyde, 4-hydroxy-3-methoxycinnamaldehyde (coniferyl aldehyde) and 3,5-dimethoxy-4-hydroxycinnamaldehyde (sinapaldehyde) were investigated against 65 strains of Candida (six standard, 39 fluconazole-sensitive and 20 fluconazole-resistant). MICs of cinnamaldehyde, coniferyl aldehyde an...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Shreaz S,Bhatia R,Khan N,Muralidhar S,Manzoor N,Khan LA

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus can invade epithelial cells, and the host-cell receptor α(5)β(1) integrin is thought to mediate this process. The aim of this study was to investigate S. aureus invasion of epithelial cell lines derived from oral (H357), skin (UP) and nasopharyngeal (Detroit 562) sites and to determine whether an...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ridley RA,Douglas I,Whawell SA

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to develop a model for the study of gastric spiral bacteria, and based on the observation that Wistar rats do not carry urease-positive spiral bacteria in their gastric mucosa, mucus from a pig naturally colonised by 'Gastrospirillum suis' (an organism with I6S rDNA 99.5% similar to that of 'G. hominis' type ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mendes EN,Queiroz DM,Coimbra RS,Moura SB,Barbosa AJ,Rocha GA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid identification of the causative bacteria of sepsis in patients can contribute to the selection of appropriate antibiotics and improvement of patients' prognosis. Genotypic identification is an emerging technology that may provide an alternative method to, or complement, established phenotypic identification proc...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Motoshima M,Yanagihara K,Morinaga Y,Matsuda J,Hasegawa H,Kohno S,Kamihira S

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we examined the roles of natural killer T (NKT) cells in host defence against Legionella pneumophila in a mouse model. The survival rate of NKT cell-deficient Jalpha281 knock-out (KO) mice was significantly higher than that of wild-type mice. There was no bacterial overgrowth in the lungs, but Ja...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hayakawa K,Tateda K,Fuse ET,Matsumoto T,Akasaka Y,Ishii T,Nakayama T,Taniguchi M,Kaku M,Standiford TJ,Yamaguchi K

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opsonic requirements of Helicobacter pylori were investigated in a series of experiments with human polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNL). Pre-incubation of H. pylori with pooled normal human serum (NHS) in concentrations of 5-20% significantly increased the uptake of radiolabelled bacteria by PMNL. Treatment of the...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： McKinlay AW,Young A,Russell RI,Gemmell CG

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs) are among the most common hospital-acquired infections. We aimed to survey methicillin resistance, biofilm production and susceptibility to vancomycin, linezolid and other antibiotics for staphylococci isolated from CRBSIs. METHODOLOGY:Fifty-eight isolates [20 S...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hashem AA,Abd El Fadeal NM,Shehata AS

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competition, competitive exclusion and displacement of eight strains of Escherichia coli and Salmonella spp. by Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG and Lactobacillus casei Shirota from adhesion on human intestinal mucus glycoproteins and Caco-2 cell surfaces were studied. Lactobacilli were able to compete with, exclude and dis...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lee YK,Puong KY,Ouwehand AC,Salminen S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) causing human infectious disease have become increasingly common. Rapid and accurate identification to the species level is, therefore, critical. The Speed-Oligo Mycobacteria assay is an oligochromatographic method that was made available recently for the identification and differenti...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ramis IB,Cnockaert M,Von Groll A,Mathys V,Simon A,Tortoli E,Palomino JC,Almeida da Silva PE,Vandamme P,Andre E,Martin A

更新日期：2015-03-01 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

abstract：:Fifty-eight isolates of Shigella sonnei from three outbreaks in school children and eight control isolates from epidemiologically unrelated sporadic clinical infections in Taiwan were compared by antibiotic susceptibility testing and molecular typing. Antibiotic susceptibility testing showed that all strains except on...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Lee TM,Chang LL,Chang CY,Wang JC,Pan TM,Wang TK,Chang SF

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucocyte-egested material was harvested after the quantitative in-vitro phagocytosis of Neisseria meningitidis by rabbit or mouse polymorphonuclear leucocytes. The egested material was injected subcutaneously into rabbits and followed 24 h later with an intravenous injection of what would by itself have been a non-le...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： DeVoe IW,Gilka F

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary differentiation of Leptospira interrogans serovars hardjo and balcanica can be made with antisera that are collected from hamsters after experimental infection with serovar hardjo and selected for high homologous and low or nil heterologous titres, as measured by the microscopic agglutination test. Rabbit ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ris DR,Hamel KL

更新日期：1978-08-01 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：: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：:Spondylodiscitis caused by Aggregatibacter aphrophilus, formerly known as Haemophilus paraphrophilus, is an unusual condition and can be very difficult to diagnose. We report a case of cervical spondylodiscitis complicated by spinal epidural abscess in a 63-year-old woman, without underlying predisposing conditions. T...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Pasqualini L,Mencacci A,Scarponi AM,Leli C,Fabbriciani G,Callarelli L,Schillaci G,Bistoni F,Mannarino E

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In this study, we aimed to investigate the genomic characteristics and evolution of pathogenicity islands of an enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strain, and to obtain a transcriptional profile of EPEC under different concentrations of ciprofloxacin using microarray analysis. METHODOLOGY:The complete EP...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Chen Z,Cheng H,Pan W,Zheng J,Li D,Lin F,Yu Z,Deng Q

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum opacity factor of Streptococcus suis (OFS) has recently been identified as a virulence determinant of an S. suis strain. In this study, we investigated the prevalence and variations of the ofs gene among 108 S. suis isolates from diseased and healthy pigs, and human patients. PCR screening and sequencing analysi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Takamatsu D,Osaki M,Tharavichitkul P,Takai S,Sekizaki T

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to analyse mutations in the gyrA and gyrB genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and define the possible correlation between these mutations and resistance to levofloxacin (LVX), moxifloxacin (MFX) and gatifloxacin (GAT), based on their MICs. One hundred and forty-two M. tuberculosis ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Nosova EY,Bukatina AA,Isaeva YD,Makarova MV,Galkina KY,Moroz AM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Persister cells, a subpopulation of tolerant cells within the bacterial culture, are commonly thought to be responsible for antibiotic therapy failure and infection recurrence. Klebsiella pneumoniae is a notorious human pathogen for its increasing resistance to antibiotics and wide involvement in severe infecti...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Li Y,Zhang L,Zhou Y,Zhang Z,Zhang X

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：:In tests of bactericidal action against H. influenzae type b strains isolated from patients with meningitis, chloramphenicol was found to be far more reliable than ampicillin in dealing with large inocula, and more rapidly effective against both large and relatively small inocula. These findings provide a laboratory e...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Turk DC

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A partially-purified neuraminidase from the mucinase complex of Vibrio cholerae was used to prepare a specific anti-neuraminidase antiserum in rabbits. When the neutralising potency of this serum against V. cholerae neuraminidase was assessed in conventional tests, the enzymic activity, as measured by thiobarbituric a...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Stewart-Tull DE,Ollar RA

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoblotting sera from cases of Streptococcus mutans or S. sobrinus endocarditis against an extract from S. sobrinus strain MUCOB 263 had identified three immunodominant antigenic bands at 190, 200 and 220 kDa. A lambda ZAPII DNA library was produced from the sheared genomic DNA of S. sobrinus MUCOB 263 and six iden...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Brooks W,Burnie JP

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pandoraea species have emerged as opportunistic pathogens among cystic fibrosis (CF) and non-CF patients. Pandoraea pulmonicola is the predominant Pandoraea species among Irish CF patients. The objective of this study was to investigate the pathogenicity and potential mechanisms of virulence of Irish P. pulmonicola is...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Costello A,Herbert G,Fabunmi L,Schaffer K,Kavanagh KA,Caraher EM,Callaghan M,McClean S

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：: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：:To analyse the characteristics of infections caused by Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis, clinical isolates (n=145) were collected at 11 medical institutions between September 2003 and October 2005. These isolates belonged to Lancefield group A (n=5), group C (n=18) or group G (n=122). Among all isolates, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sunaoshi K,Murayama SY,Adachi K,Yagoshi M,Okuzumi K,Chiba N,Morozumi M,Ubukata K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunodiffusion analysis of Mycobacterium lepraemurium indicated the presence of at lease six antigens. Comparative analysis of the M. lepraemurium antigen-antibody system with similar systems established for other mycobacterial species, showed that M. lepraemurium shared up to two antigens with other species. Althoug...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Navalkar RG,Dalvi RR,Patel PJ

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00