Abstract:
:Virulence and antibiotic resistance are significant determinants of the types of infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus and paediatric groups remain among the most commonly affected populations. The goal of this study was to characterise virulence genes of methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains isolated from a paediatric population of a Colombian University Hospital during 2009. Sixty MSSA and MRSA isolates were obtained from paediatric patients between zero-14 years. We identified the genes encoding virulence factors, which included Panton-Valentine leucocidine (PVL), staphylococcal enterotoxins A-E, exfoliative toxins A and B and toxic shock syndrome toxin 1. Typing of the staphylococcal chromosome cassette mec (SCCmec) was performed in MRSA strains. The virulence genes were more diverse and frequent in MSSA than in MRSA isolates (83% vs. 73%). MRSA strains harboured SCCmec types IVc (60%), I (30%), IVa (7%) and V (3%). SCCmec type IVc isolates frequently carried the PVL encoding genes and harboured virulence determinants resembling susceptible strains while SCCmec type I isolates were often negative. PVL was not exclusive to skin and soft tissue infections. As previously suggested, these differences in the distribution of virulence factor genes may be due to the fitness cost associated with methicillin resistance.
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Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruzjournal_title
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruzauthors
Jiménez JN,Ocampo AM,Vanegas JM,Rodríguez EA,Garcés CG,Patiño LA,Ospina S,Correa MMdoi
10.1590/s0074-02762011000800013subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-12-01 00:00:00pages
980-5issue
8eissn
0074-0276issn
1678-8060pii
S0074-02762011000800013journal_volume
106pub_type
杂志文章abstract::The phlebotomine sand flies Nyssomyia intermedia (Lutz & Neiva, 1912) and Nyssomyia neivai (Pinto, 1926) are very close and may be involved in the transmission of Leishmania spp. Ross, 1903 in Brazil. The biology of the first laboratory-reared generations of these species, descended from insects captured in Além Paraí...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762004000600011
更新日期:2004-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Seasonal variation in container productivity and infestation levels by Aedes aegypti were evaluated in two areas with distinct levels of urbanization degrees in Rio de Janeiro, a slum and a suburban neighborhood. The four most productive containers can generate up to 90% of total pupae. Large and open-mouthed containe...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762007005000056
更新日期:2007-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Aedes albifasciatus is an important common mosquito in Central Argentina. It is a confirmed vector of the Western Equine Encephalitis and is responsible for loss of milk production in dairy cattle during peak populations. This paper reports the flight activity pattern of Ae. albifasciatus for different seasons, in the...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761995000500020
更新日期:1995-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The insect fat body plays major roles in the intermediary metabolism, in the storage and transport of haemolymph compounds and in the innate immunity. Here, the overall structure of the fat body of five species of mosquitoes (Aedes albopictus, Aedes fluviatilis, Culex quinquefasciatus, Anopheles aquasalis and Anophele...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762011000600015
更新日期:2011-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Lutzomyia georgii n. sp. and the female of L. tarapacaensis in the Series infraspinosa of the subgenus Evandromyia are described, from specimens collected in rainforest in the north of the State of Pará, Brazil. The new species was taken together with five other Evandromyia species including L. infraspinosa (sensu str...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762002000200017
更新日期:2002-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Several factors appear to affect vertical HIV-1 transmission, dependent mainly on characteristics of the mother (extent of immunodeficiency, co-infections, risk behaviour, nutritional status, immune response, genetical make-up), but also of the virus (phenotype, tropism) and, possibly, of the child (genetical make-up)...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762001000100001
更新日期:2001-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Chagas cardiomyopathy is the most frequent and most severe manifestation of chronic Chagas disease, and is one of the leading causes of morbidity and death in Latin America. Although the pathogenesis of Chagas cardiomyopathy is incompletely understood, it may involve several mechanisms, including parasite-dependent my...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0074-02760160334
更新日期:2017-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Lymphatic filariasis caused by nematode parasites Wuchereria bancrofti or Brugia malayi is a spectral disease and produces wide range of immune responses and varying levels of microfilaraemia in infected individuals. The relationship between the immune response of host and the developmental stage of the parasite as we...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762006000300007
更新日期:2006-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Since the early 1990s, programs to control Chagas disease in South America have focused on eradicating domiciliary Triatoma infestans, the main vector. Seroprevalence studies of the chagasic infection are included as part of the vector control programs; they are essential to assess the impact of vector contr...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0074-02760160407
更新日期:2017-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::The thymus is a central lymphoid organ, in which T cell precursors differentiate and generate most of the so-called T cell repertoire. Along with a variety of acute infectious diseases, we and others determined important changes in both microenvironmental and lymphoid compartments of the organ. For example, one major ...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761992000900010
更新日期:1992-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::This report describes the development of a SYBR Green I based real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) protocol for detection on the ABI Prism 7000 instrument. Primers targeting the gene encoding the SSU rRNA were designed to amplify with high specificity DNA from Schistosoma mansoni, in a real time quantitative PCR ...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762006000900021
更新日期:2006-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::More sensitive methodologies are necessary to improve strongyloidiasis diagnosis. This study compared the sensitivities of the McMaster modified technique and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays, both performed in faecal samples. Lewis rats were subcutaneously infected with 4,000, 400 or 40 infective third-stage la...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762010000100008
更新日期:2010-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Catadiscus pomaceae sp. n. from the intestine of the prosobranch mollusc Pomacea canaliculata (Lamarck, 1801), is described. The host snail was collected from a lenitic biotope belonging to the Riachuelo basin (Corrientes province, Argentina) during 1985-1986. So far the species of the genus Catadiscus Cohn, 1904 have...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761992000100002
更新日期:1992-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common painful inflammatory condition occurring mainly in the later half of life. Hip and knee are the joints mostly affected. Petiveria alliacea (tipi) popularly known as an anti-rheumatic medicine, has been used by OA patients to relief pain. This one-week cross-over double-blind trial has p...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761991000600054
更新日期:1991-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Two sibling species of Biomphalaria, B. tenagophila and B. occidentalis were identified using isozyme patterns obtained by horizontal gel electrophoresis. Six diagnostic enzymatic loci were identified in digestive gland homogenates. The results enable us to distinguish the species, calculate the Nei's coefficient of g...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761995000300010
更新日期:1995-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Studies on the sandfly fauna to evaluate natural infection indexes are still limited in the Brazilian Amazon, a region with an increasing incidence of cutaneous leishmaniasis. Here, by using a multiplex polymerase chain reaction directed to Leishmania kDNA and hybridisation, we were able to identify L. (Viannia) subge...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0074-02760160283
更新日期:2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Aspartyl proteases are a class of enzymes that include the yeast aspartyl proteases and secreted aspartyl protease (Sap) superfamilies. Several Sap superfamily members have been demonstrated or suggested as virulence factors in opportunistic pathogens of the genus Candida. Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis, Candida...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762009000300018
更新日期:2009-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Tissue parasitism, inflammatory process (histologic methods) and sympathetic denervation (glyoxylic acid-induced histofluorescence for demonstration of catecholamines) were studied in the heart (atrium and ventricle) and the submandibular gland of rats infected with the Y strain of Trypanosoma cruzi. In the heart para...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761989000400013
更新日期:1989-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::A ribosome association factor (AF) was isolated from the yeast Sacchharomyces cerevisiae. Partial amino acid sequence of AF was determined from its fragment of 25 kDa isolated by treating AF with 2-(2-nitrophenylsulfenyl)-3-methyl-3'-Bromoindolenine (BNPS-skatole). This sequence has a 86% identity to the product of th...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762004000700012
更新日期:2004-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Twenty six coprolites from an archaeological site in the province of Iquique, northern Chile, were examined for parasites. Coprolites were found in two excavation units, I and II (Tiliviche site), dated respectively at 5,900 B.C. to 4,110 B.C. and 4,110 B.C. to 1,950 B.C., and identified as of human origin. Only at th...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761984000200004
更新日期:1984-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The leishmanicidal activity of four batches of meglumine antimoniate, produced in Farmanguinhos-Fiocruz, Brazil (TAMs), was assessed and compared to Glucantime-Aventis Pharma Ltda. Using the amastigote-like in vitro model, the active concentrations of Sb v varied from 10microg/ml to 300microg/ml for L. (L.) chagasi an...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762008000400008
更新日期:2008-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis to isoniazid (INH) is caused by mutations in the catalase-peroxidase gene (katG), and within the inhA promoter and/or in structural gene. A small percentage (approximately 10%) of INH-resistant strains do not present mutations in both of these loci. Other genes have been associ...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762007000100009
更新日期:2007-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::In the Saimiri monkey, an experimental host for human malaria, acquired protection against Plasmodium falciparum blood stages depends on the IgG antibody populations developed. In vivo protective anti-falciparum activity of IgG antibodies is correlated with the in vitro opsonizing activity promoting phagocytosis of pa...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761992000700069
更新日期:1992-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::An increasing amount of research has been conducted on immunoglobulin Y (IgY) because the use of IgY offers several advantages with respect to diagnostic testing, including its easy accessibility, low cost and translatability to large-scale production, in addition to the fact that it can be ethically produced. In a pr...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0074-02760140457
更新日期:2015-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::To study the action of molluscicide nine ponds were selected: 3 of them lying in Maruim municipality, 29 km far from north Aracaju, the State capital, and 6 ponds in Itabaianinha municipality, 118 km far from south Aracaju. This study was carried out for 16 months. Environmental parameters observed were those thought ...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761987000800061
更新日期:1987-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Host lipids have been implicated in the pathogenesis of Toxoplasma gondii infection. To determine if Toxoplasma infection influences the lipid status in the normal host, we assessed serum lipids of Swiss-Webster mice during infection with the BGD-1 strain (type-2) at a series of time points. Mice were bled at days zer...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762009000200008
更新日期:2009-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Fibrosis in the peripheral nerve is the end stage of leprous neuropathy and the cause of the resulting permanent neural function impairments. Preventive measures to avoid this irreversible pathological state are a relief strategy for leprosy sufferers. OBJECTIVES:The present study describes the frequency of...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0074-02760190056
更新日期:2019-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Diphyllobothriasis is an infection of the small intestine by the broad tapeworm Diphyllobothrium sp. The associated symptomatology is nonspecific, but megaloblastic anemia is a well-described complication. Although the infection is common in temperate regions, descriptions in South America have so far been limited to ...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762005000600013
更新日期:2005-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Infection of C3H/He mice with the Peruvian strain of Trypanosoma cruzi (Biodeme type I, Z2b), a macrophagotropic strain, determined severe parasitism of macrophages, necrosis of the spleen, and high host mortality. In the present study, pentoxifylline (PTX), an inhibitor of TNF-alpha was investigated on its action upo...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02762008005000006
更新日期:2008-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The cases of five patients with unusual manifestations of acute schistosomiasis mansoni are described in this paper. One patient developed skin lesions, three displayed diverse lung involvement, and one presented pyogenic liver abscesses caused by Staphylococcus aureus. ...
journal_title:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0074-02761997000500013
更新日期:1997-09-01 00:00:00