Clinical and environmental isolates
Comparison of Distribution of Virulence Determinants in Clinical and Environmental Isolates of Vibrio cholera
... toxigenic clinical isolates also carried the two ORF in the TLC element namely VC1465 and ...the environmental isolates, respectively, with significant difference between the two ...
7
Genotypic and Phenotypic Relationships between Clinical and Environmental Isolates of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
... maltophilia isolates from clinical and environmental sources (plant associated and water) was investigated to determine the intraspecies diversity of the group and to determine whether or not the ...
7
Consensus Sequence Based Scheme for Epidemiological Typing of Clinical and Environmental Isolates of Legionella pneumophila
... additional isolates were also characterized and gave concordant results; ...i.e., clinical and environmental isolates that were epidemiologically linked gave identical pro- files for all six ...
6
Detection of piluslike structures on clinical and environmental isolates of Vibrio vulnificus
... vulnificus adherence results obtained with HEp-2 cells showed 10 50% of 20 clinical isolates and 0 0% of 10 environmental isolates with averages of >10 adherent bacteria per cell, demons[r] ...
7
Comparison of three typing methods for clinical and environmental isolates of Aspergillus fumigatus
... fumigatus isolates using three typing methods: isoenzyme analysis (IEA), random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis, and restriction endonuclease analysis ...Twenty-one isolates were from a single ...
6
In vitro evaluation of the susceptibility of Acinetobacter baumannii isolates to antiseptics and disinfectants: comparison between clinical and environmental isolates
... all isolates were sensitive to pure povidone- ...18.51% isolates were ...between isolates from pa- tients and the environmental isolates was not ...significant. Clinical strains ...
7
Macrorestriction Analysis of Clinical and Environmental Isolates of Sporothrix schenckii
... of clinical cases of sporotrichosis occurred in the southwest of Western Australia over the last 5 ...infection. Isolates of S. schenckii from hay and clinical cases were investigated by traditional ...
6
Epidemiology and Antifungal Susceptibility Profile of Aspergillus Species: Comparison between Environmental and Clinical Isolates from Patients with Hematologic Malignancies
... Aspergillus clinical and environmental ...Aspergillus clinical isolates, we excluded six isolates cultured from the same patient within 7 ...Aspergillus clinical isolates, ...
13
Biochemical Characteristics, Adhesion, and Cytotoxicity of Environmental and Clinical Isolates of Herbaspirillum spp
... Herbaspirillum bacteria are best known as plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria but have also been recovered from clinical samples. Here, biochemical tests, matrix-assisted laser deionization–time of flight ...
7
Identification and DNA fingerprinting of Legionella strains by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis
... The randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) technique was used in the development of a fingerprint- ing (typing) and identification protocol for Legionella strains. Twenty decamer random oligonucleotide primers were ...
5
Random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis of clinically and environmentally isolated Cryptococcus neoformans in Nagasaki
... All clinical and environmental isolates were identified as ...All isolates were confirmed to be ...All environmental isolates were pathogenic to BALB/c mice, as confirmed through ...
5
DNA typing of isolates associated with the 1988 sporotrichosis epidemic
... the source of the 1988 sporotrichosis epidemic by using molecular DNA typing methods to compare the clinical and environmental isolates associated with the outbreak.. Also, the possible [r] ...
5
Influence of Different Media, Incubation Times, and Temperatures for Determining the MICs of Seven Antifungal Agents against Paracoccidioides brasiliensis by Microdilution
... Twenty-one clinical and environmental isolates of Paracoccidioides were tested us- ing amphotericin B, itraconazole, ketoconazole, fluconazole, sulfamethoxazole, sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim, and ...
8
Multilocus Sequence Typing of Historical Burkholderia pseudomallei Isolates Collected in Southeast Asia from 1964 to 1967 Provides Insight into the Epidemiology of Melioidosis
... pseudomallei isolates was analyzed by multilocus sequence typing ...contains environmental isolates obtained from a geographical distribution survey of ...pseudomallei isolates in Thailand ...
12
Gene flow in environmental Legionella pneumophila leads to genetic and pathogenic heterogeneity within a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak
... by clinical or radiological evidence of community-acquired pneumonia in conjunction with either isolation of Legionella species from respiratory secretions, detection of ...pneumophila. Isolates were ...
10
Identification of 15 to 17 kilodalton antigens associated with virulent Rhodococcus equi
... equi infections recognized epitopes from the 15- to 17-kDa antigens and that these diffuse proteins were present on the clinical isolates as well as on some of the environmental isolates[r] ...
5
Subspecies typing of Vibrio parahaemolyticus by pulsed field gel electrophoresis
... thirty clinical isolates were selected from cultures of stool samples collected from individuals involved in food poisoning outbreaks during 1993 and 1994 on Taiwan, and the isolates were subjected ...
5
Microsatellite Markers for Typing Aspergillus fumigatus Isolates
... 50 clinical isolates, 50 environmental isolates, and 2 reference strains we obtained 12, 11, 10, and 23 different alleles for the four CA microsatellites, respectively (discrim- inatory power, ...
6
Molecular Epidemiology of Aspergillus fumigatus: an In Depth Genotypic Analysis of Isolates Involved in an Outbreak of Invasive Aspergillosis
... of clinical and environmental matches is im- portant to prove an environmental source of the outbreak and nosocomial acquisition of the ...an environmental match in only 3 out of the 10 ...
6
Comparative Evaluation of the BD Phoenix and VITEK 2 Automated Instruments for Identification of Isolates of the Burkholderia cepacia Complex
... Bacterial isolates. A total of 134 isolates of the BCC were included in the ...gladioli isolates were also tested for comparison. B. cepacia isolates were derived from clinical samples ...
6