abstract：:The acute dental abscess is frequently underestimated in terms of its morbidity and mortality. The risk of potential serious consequences arising from the spread of a dental abscess is still relevant today with many hospital admissions for dental sepsis. The acute dental abscess is usually polymicrobial comprising fac...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Robertson D,Smith AJ

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Streptococcus anginosus group (SAG) are frequently involved in pyogenic infections in humans. In the present study, the antimicrobial susceptibility of 141 clinical SAG isolates to six antimicrobial agents was analysed by agar dilution. All isolates were susceptible to penicillin, cefotaxime and vancomy...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Asmah N,Eberspächer B,Regnath T,Arvand M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eikenella corrodens, a commensal of the human oral cavity, is generally associated with bite wounds and head and neck infections. Neonatal infections are rare. We report two cases of premature birth associated with maternofetal E. corrodens infection. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Garnier F,Masson G,Bedu A,Masson P,Decroisette E,Guigonis V,Fermeaux V,De Barbentane MC,Denis F,Ploy MC

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:Episodes of cholera stemming from indigenous Vibrio cholerae strains in Australia are mainly associated with environmental sources. In the present study, 10 V. cholerae O1 strains of Australian origin were characterized. All of the strains were serogroup O1 and their conventional phenotypic traits categorized them as ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Safa A,Bhuiyan NA,Murphy D,Bates J,Nusrin S,Kong RYC,Chongsanguan M,Chaicumpa W,Nair GB

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic characteristics of Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains isolated in 2004 and 2005 in Mozambique were assessed in this study to determine whether the pandemic clone of V. parahaemolyticus O3 : K6 and O4 : K68 serotypes has spread to Mozambique. Fifty-eight V. parahaemolyticus strains isolated from hospitalized d...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ansaruzzaman M,Chowdhury A,Bhuiyan NA,Sultana M,Safa A,Lucas M,von Seidlein L,Barreto A,Chaignat CL,Sack DA,Clemens JD,Nair GB,Choi SY,Jeon YS,Lee JH,Lee HR,Chun J,Kim DW

更新日期：2008-12-01 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

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：:Campylobacter fetus subsp. fetus infection can occur in female sheep, causing infertility or abortion. Despite extensive research on the effect of these bacteria on female fertility, little research has been done on the influence of C. fetus subsp. fetus on the male factor. Our objective was to examine the influence o...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Zan Bar T,Yehuda R,Hacham T,Krupnik S,Bartoov B

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection by antibody-based testing allows for some recently infected individuals to be falsely assessed as non-infected. Since such individuals often have high viral loads and are capable of transmitting HIV, it is an imperative public health need to identify these indi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ren A,Louie B,Rauch L,Castro L,Liska S,Klausner JD,Pandori MW

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coccidioidal pericarditis is a condition found in approximately 1-5% of patients infected by Coccidioides species. It is associated with widely diverse clinical symptoms. This paper reports a case of coccidioidal pericarditis diagnosed by an in-house Coccidioides posadasii antigen and confirmed with mycological and mo...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Brilhante RSN,Cordeiro RA,Rocha MFG,Fechine MAB,Furtado FM,Nagao-Dias AT,Camargo ZP,Sidrim JJC

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:We describe the case of a graft versus host disease (GvHD) patient, in whom Hafnia alvei was cultured as a single organism, and at high bacterial counts from stool samples, from the onset of the disease until its resolution. This case is a further example of the contentious role of this species in causing human intest...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Savini V,Di Bartolomeo E,Catavitello C,Talia M,Manna A,Febbo F,Balbinot A,Di Bonaventura G,Di Bartolomeo P,Piccolomini R,D'Antonio D

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis has been recognized as the causative agent of tularaemia for almost a century. Since its discovery in 1911, it has been shown to infect a wide range of hosts, including humans. As early as the 1920s it was suggested to be an intracellular pathogen, but it has proven to be an enigmatic organism, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Oyston PCF

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) is the commonest pathogen causing food-borne disease among humans and animals in Australia. A multiplex PCR-based reverse line blot (mPCR/RLB) system was developed to rapidly identify S. Typhimurium phage types and strains within them. The system comprised 32 bi...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Wang Q,Kong F,Jelfs P,Gilbert GL

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leclercia adecarboxylata is a rarely reported human pathogen, most commonly affecting immunocompromised individuals. In reported cases of immunocompetent patients infected with this organism, it is seen exclusively in the context of polymicrobial infections. We report here the case of an abscess in an immunocompetent ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hess B,Burchett A,Huntington MK

更新日期：2008-07-01 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 development of tuberculosis (TB) infection in humans depends on the mycobacterial strain and the human host, and is multigenically controlled in both. ATP ligation of P2X(7) receptors expressed on human macrophages infected with mycobacteria induces cell death and subsequent loss of intracellular bacterial viabili...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mokrousov I,Sapozhnikova N,Narvskaya O

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:The resistance of Balamuthia mandrillaris to physical, chemical and radiological conditions was tested. Following treatments, viability was determined by culturing amoebae on human brain microvascular endothelial cells for up to 12 days. B. mandrillaris cysts were resistant to repeated freeze-thawing (five times), tem...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Siddiqui R,Ortega-Rivas A,Khan NA

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：:Infections of the parotid gland with non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are rarely described. Here, we report on an infection of the parotid gland caused by Mycobacterium avium and give a literature-based overview about this entity. In the light of a global increase of mycobacterial infections, unusual manifestations ...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Gittinger FS,Raible A,Kempf VAJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of the Fungitell assay was investigated in 100 patients with haematological malignancy undergoing chemotherapy who developed antibiotic-unresponsive neutropenic fever (AUNF). Serum beta-D-glucan (BG) concentrations were significantly elevated on the first day of AUNF and all subsequent alternate days t...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ellis M,Al-Ramadi B,Finkelman M,Hedstrom U,Kristensen J,Ali-Zadeh H,Klingspor L

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:The obligate intracellular pathogen Anaplasma phagocytophilum is transmitted by ticks and causes human granulocytic anaplasmosis, tick-borne fever of ruminants, and equine and canine granulocytic anaplasmosis. In a previous study, the perilipin (PLIN) gene was identified as one of the genes differentially expressed in...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Manzano-Roman R,Almazán C,Naranjo V,Bloui EF,Kocan KM,de la Fuente J

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:Blood cultures are sometimes obtained from intravascular catheters for convenience. However, there is controversy regarding this practice. The authors compared the diagnostic test characteristics of blood cultures obtained from intravascular catheters and peripheral veins. Relevant studies for inclusion in this review...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Falagas ME,Kazantzi MS,Bliziotis IA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pathogenic vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) isolate (MIC > or =64 microg ml(-1)) was obtained from a Kolkata hospital in June 2005. Species identification was confirmed by Gram staining, standard biochemical tests and PCR amplification of the nuc gene, which encodes the thermostable nuclease that is...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Saha B,Singh AK,Ghosh A,Bal M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1997 to 2006, in the province of Quebec, Canada, 15 isolates of Streptococcus pseudoporcinus from 1 urine and 14 vaginorectal cultures were recovered from the genitourinary tract of pregnant women. All these women originated from the Caribbean or sub-Saharan Africa (P=0.00045 compared with a suitable control grou...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Gaudreau C,Simoneau E,Labrecque O,Laurence RA,Laferrière C,Miller M,Raynal L,Rallu F

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:Shiga toxins (Stx1 and Stx2) are responsible for initiating haemolytic uraemic syndrome, a serious extraintestinal complication caused by enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 : H7 infection in humans. Shiga toxins are classical AB(5)-type exotoxins, consisting of a globotriaosylceramide (Gb(3))-binding B subunit p...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Griener TP,Mulvey GL,Marcato P,Armstrong GD

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic alternatives available for use against ciprofloxacin-resistant enteric fever isolates in an endemic area are limited. The antibiotics currently available are the quinolones, third-generation cephalosporins and conventional first-line drugs. In this study, the MICs of various newer drugs were determined...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Capoor MR,Rawat D,Nair D,Hasan AS,Deb M,Aggarwal P,Pillai P

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria sicca is rarely associated with clinical infections and to the authors' knowledge this organism has not been reported as a causative agent of infected biloma (liver abscess). A case of a diabetic man with infected biloma due to N. sicca after repeated transcatheter arterial embolization for hepatocellular ca...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Chung HC,Teng LJ,Hsueh PR

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is an important nutritional requirement for bacteria due to its conserved role in many essential metabolic processes. As a consequence of the lack of freely available iron in the mammalian host, bacteria upregulate a range of virulence factors during infection. Transcriptional analysis of Francisella tularensis s...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Milne TS,Michell SL,Diaper H,Wikström P,Svensson K,Oyston PCF,Titball RW

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was conducted of the rapid FASTPlaque-Response test for determination of rifampicin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with and without the addition of an antimicrobial supplement containing nystatin, oxacillin and aztreonam (NOA) to control specimen-related contamination. A total of 631 smea...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mole R,Trollip A,Abrahams C,Bosman M,Albert H

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The periodontopathic bacterium Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans has been implicated in the pathogenesis of periodontal diseases. It has been reported previously that infection with the organism induced apoptosis in the mouse macrophage cell line J774.1. In the present study, the role of caspases during apoptosis i...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Okinaga T,Kasai H,Tsujisawa T,Nishihara T

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serial multiplex PCR approach was reformulated for pneumococcal serotyping to test 153 clinical isolates from children in Mozambique. This approach identified serotypes in 139 (90.8%) of 153 isolates; 126 (82.4%) were identified within two reactions. This approach in developing countries would require minimal traini...

journal_title：Journal of medical microbiology

authors： Morais L,Carvalho MDG,Roca A,Flannery B,Mandomando I,Soriano-Gabarró M,Sigauque B,Alonso P,Beall B

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：: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