The relative pathogenicity of Candida krusei and C. albicans in the rat oral mucosa.

abstract：:Catechin, a constituent of tea, possesses various bioactivities. In particular, the most abundant catechin in tea is epigallocatechin gallate (EGCg), which has an anti-inflammatory effect. In the present study, the usability of EGCg for osteomyelitis treatment was examined. Osteomyelitis is a difficult disease to cure...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ishida I,Kohda C,Yanagawa Y,Miyaoka H,Shimamura T

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The faecal flora and mucosa-associated flora (MAF) of rectal biopsy material from 12 patients with active Crohn's disease were studied before and during treatment with a combination of metronidazole and cotrimoxazole given orally for at least 2 weeks. The total faecal flora was greater than the MAF although the propor...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hudson MJ,Hill MJ,Elliott PR,Berghouse LM,Burnham WR,Lennard-Jones JE

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori infection represents a key factor in the aetiology of various gastrointestinal diseases. H. pylori infection diagnosis is generally achieved using both invasive (e.g. biopsy of the gastric epithelium) and non-invasive methods. Therefore, cultivation on a growth medium becomes complex. Trypsin is a ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Peretz A,Paritsky M,Pastukh N,Koifman A,Brodsky D,Glyatman T,On A

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial invasion of host epithelial cells plays an important role in the pathogenesis of periodontal diseases; however, the interactions between subgingival species and the gingival crevice cells are not fully understood. This study determined the prevalence of a group of oral bacterial species on or in epithelial c...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Colombo AV,Silva CM,Haffajee A,Colombo APV

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：: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

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：: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：PURPOSE:Leptospira interrogans serogroup Icterohaemorrhagiae strains have been described as causing disease in both humans and animals and as being present worldwide. Icterohaemorrhagiae and Copenhageni serovars are known to cause severe disease in their hosts, and zoonotic outbreaks have been described. The genetic si...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Jaeger LH,Pestana CP,Carvalho-Costa FA,Medeiros MA,Lilenbaum W

更新日期：2018-09-01 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 toxic effects of the haemorrhagic toxin of Clostridium sporogenes were studied in mice, rats, guinea-pigs and rabbits, and in various cultured cells. In rabbits, but not in the other animals, intradermal injection with crude toxin and its injection into a ligated intestinal loop caused haemorrhage in both the skin...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hara-Kudo Y,Ogura A,Noguchi Y,Kumagai S

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strain P2200 of porcine origin possessed eight possibly plasmid-determined characters (K88+ Raf+ Hly+ Col+ Smr Tcr Su(r) STa+) and six plasmid DNA bands of 4.2-93 kb. Analysis of the spontaneous loss of characters and the results of matings with other E. coli strains revealed th...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Bertin A

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ELISA was developed and evaluated as a method for detecting antibodies against glycosylated and deglycosylated histoplasmin (HMIN). Sera from patients with histoplasmosis, paracoccidioidomycosis, sporotrichosis, coccidioidomycosis, aspergillosis, cryptococcosis and healthy donors were tested by ELISA against purifi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Guimarães AJ,Pizzini CV,de Matos Guedes HL,Albuquerque PC,Peralta JM,Hamilton AJ,Zancopé-Oliveira RM

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical specimens unfit for laboratory processing represent missed opportunities for diagnosing tuberculosis. Poor-quality cough specimens (n=61) from presumptive tuberculosis cases were cultured and GeneXpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) successfully performed on samples transferred by flocked swab into PrimeStore molecular tran...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mboneni TA,Eales OO,Mosina NL,Fourie PB

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study aimed to detect and identify staphylococcal enterotoxin (SE) genes in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius (MRSP) strains from different sources, and to investigate the relationship between their sequence types (STs) and SE gene patterns. METHODOLOGY:The profiles of 17 SE genes in 9...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Phumthanakorn N,Fungwithaya P,Chanchaithong P,Prapasarakul N

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：: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：:The recently-introduced semi-automated bacterial identification system, the Quantum II BID, is designed to identify fermentative and non-fermentative gram-negative bacilli in 4-5 h. The system was evaluated independently by the two participating laboratories. Inter-laboratory reproducibility was determined by testing ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Stevens M,Henrichsen C,Smith M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between Streptococcus constellatus, one of the species of the "Streptococcus milleri group", and Prevotella intermedia was studied in a model of pneumonia in mice and in vitro to elucidate mechanisms of pathogenicity in "S. milleri group"-associated pulmonary infection. Acute pneumonia with or without...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Shinzato T,Saito A

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this retrospective study was to determine the clinical spectrum of group B streptococcal (GBS) bacteraemia in patients over 70 years old. Sixty-six adults with GBS bacteraemia were reviewed over a 5-year period. Disease characteristics, clinical diagnoses and underlying disease were compared in 33 older pat...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Trivalle C,Martin E,Martel P,Jacque B,Menard JF,Lemeland JF

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shanson's medium, a MacConkey-type agar containing added inhibitors, was compared with deoxycholate-citrate agar for the examination of faeces. The isolation rate of samonellae on the two media was similar, but Shanson's medium was the more selective; this meant that the amount of work required to produce a result was...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Davies JR

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae is a common nosocomial pathogen that plays an important role in ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). This study aimed to define the clonal relatedness of K. pneumoniae strains isolated from paediatric VAP in addition to those isolated from environmental samples. METH...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mohamed ER,Aly SA,Halby HM,Ahmed SH,Zakaria AM,El-Asheer OM

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have emerged from the widespread use of antibiotics worldwide and have prompted the search for new sources of antimicrobial substances. Pinus spp. contain several bioactive compounds consisting mainly of terpenes, terpenoids and some other aromatic and aliphatic constituents. These compou...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Leandro LF,Cardoso MJO,Silva SDC,Souza MGM,Veneziani RCS,Ambrosio SR,Martins CHG

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active efflux has an important role in the antimicrobial resistance of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli. The effects of two putative efflux pump inhibitors (EPIs), phenylalanine-arginine β-naphthylamide and 1-(1-naphthylmethyl)-piperazine, and the effects of inactivation of the cmeB,cmeF and cmeR genes on r...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mavri A,Smole Možina S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition of Klebsiella aerogenes by neonates born in hospital has been studied by sero- and klebecin typing. This organism was more commonly carried in the bowel of breast-fed babies than of bottle-fed babies. Only very rarely did babies acquire strains of K. aerogenes from their mothers. K. aerogenes was widel...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Shinebaum R,Cooke EM,Brayson JC

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rabbit was immunised with a heat-killed vaccine prepared from strain 1142 of Staphylococcus epidermidis. The HA titres of the antisera against a surface-polysaccharide antigen extracted from the homologous strain were highest in the 2nd-4th weeks after immunisation and subsequently declined. Only a minor amount of 2...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Yoshida K,Ichiman Y

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 118 meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and 140 meticillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) isolates from different patients in the same time period were comprehensively searched using a multiplex PCR for the classical and recently described superantigenic toxin gene family comprising the staphylo...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hu DL,Omoe K,Inoue F,Kasai T,Yasujima M,Shinagawa K,Nakane A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of humans by Abiotrophia defectiva, a nutritionally variant streptococcus, most commonly takes the form of endocarditis, though a variety of other manifestations ranging from central nervous system abscesses to orthopaedic infections have been seen. We report here what we believe is the first case of bullous...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Anderson HM,Miller C,Kemp E,Huntington MK

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：:Mycoplasma fermentans has attracted much interest both as a cofactor for the progression of AIDS and as a pathogenic agent in non-AIDS related diseases. Previous studies with serological and genetic techniques suggest that M. fermentans represents a homogeneous group of organisms, with no significant differences ident...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hannan PC,Kearns AM,Sisson PR,Freeman R

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00