Clinical Strains
Genetic Heterogeneity of Clinical Strains of Yersinia enterocolitica Traced by Ribotyping and Relationships between Ribotypes, Serotypes, and Biotypes
... enterocolitica clinical strains collected in a Spanish region and 10 reference strains, assigned to nine serotypes and five biotypes, were analyzed by ribotyping ...the strains under study ...
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Conserved collateral antibiotic susceptibility networks in diverse clinical strains of Escherichia coli
... more clinical isolates from different infection foci, more diverse genetic backgrounds including dif- ferent bacterial species, as well as other selective agents, could change the outcome of our statistical ...
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First Report of Macrolide Resistant Strains and Description of a Novel Nucleotide Sequence Variation in the P1 Adhesin Gene in Mycoplasma pneumoniae Clinical Strains Isolated in France over 12 Years
... MICs of erythromycin for 153 clinical isolates and reference strains M129 and FH ranged between 0.008 and 0.032 g/ml. Two isolates, MPL1 and MPL2, were found resistant to eryth- romycin (MICs, 256 ...
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Analysis of genetic determinants involved in antibiotic resistance in clinical strains Isolated from urine samples of renal transplantation Recipients
... Gram-negative strains are considered to be responsible for the majority of UTIs in renal transplant recipients (more than 70%) and ...gram-negative strains causing UTI (19 and ...main strains ...
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Subspecies Identification and Significance of 257 Clinical Strains of Mycobacterium avium
... The clinical sources and significance of the 238 patients with isolation of ...bacterial strains were isolated from the respi- ratory tract specimens ...8 strains iso- lated from abdominal or pelvic ...
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Characterization of clinical strains of Staphylococcus aureus associated with pneumonia
... However, when the organisms were grown in biologically complex medium, hydrophobicity of the postinfluenzal staphylococcal pneumonia strains was significantly lower P < 0.005 than that o[r] ...
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Biofilm formation by clinical isolates and the implications in chronic infections
... amongst clinical strains, may further complicate patient treatment ...individual strains, we observed that strains capable of forming biofilms were more frequently observed to be an MDR ...
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Molecular Epidemiology of Clinical Cryptococcus neoformans Strains from India
... since a previous study from our laboratory in which the same methods and equipment were used found extensive karyotype diversity among isolates from one hospital in New York City (24). In this study we demonstrate that a ...
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Analysis of antibiotic susceptibility of klebsiella pneumoniae strains isolated from different clinical specimens in Enugu state
... pneumoniae strains isolated from different clinical samples (urine= 72, high vaginal swab (HVS)=12, sputum=50 and wound swab= 16) from patients visiting University of Nigeria teaching hospital (UNTH) ...
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Development and Validation of a Quantitative PCR Assay for Diagnosis of Scedosporiosis
... fluorescence becomes detectable above background) values were plotted against the logarithmically converted DNA concentrations, and a linear regression co- efficient was calculated (Fig. 1). An average value and 99% ...
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Development of a Flow Chart for Identification of Gram Positive Anaerobic Cocci in the Clinical Laboratory
... Bacterial strains and culture conditions. The bacterial strains used in this study included 13 GPAC reference strains and 111 isolates that were previously recovered from clinical specimens ...
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Genotypic Diversity of Clinical Actinomyces Species: Phenotype, Source, and Disease Correlation among Genospecies
... routine clinical laboratory and investigated the clinical significance of accurate identification to the species ...92 clinical strains of Actinomyces, including 13 strains in the ...
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Bulgecin A as a β-lactam enhancer for carbapenem-resistant<em> Pseudomonas aeruginosa</em> and carbapenem-resistant <em>Acinetobacter baumannii</em> clinical isolates containing various resistance mechanisms
... CR-PSDA clinical isolates demonstrating a variety of carbapenem resistance mechanisms (VIM-2 carbapenemases, efflux mechanisms, and AmpC producer expression) were characterized with agar dilution minimum ...
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Evaluation of the Invader Assay with the BACTEC MGIT 960 System for Prompt Isolation and Identification of Mycobacterial Species from Clinical Specimens
... among clinical strains of the species, and the sequence data should be reliable, definitive, and commonly ...ATCC strains identified by the Invader ...
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Identification of Medically Important Yeasts Using PCR Based Detection of DNA Sequence Polymorphisms in the Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 Region of the rRNA Genes
... These data are supported by the phylogenetic trees con- structed with ITS2 region sequences (Fig. 3A) by using differ- ent treeing algorithms. The global tree topology among the different treeing methods was very similar ...
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Cell Wall Thickening Is a Common Feature of Vancomycin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
... VRSA strains explain why they do not quickly prevail in health care facilities and their detection is mostly confined to patients with MRSA infection undergoing long-term vancomycin therapy (5, 9, 29, ...VRSA ...
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Clinical Persistence of Chlamydia trachomatis Sexually Transmitted Strains Involves Novel Mutations in the Functional αββα Tetramer of the Tryptophan Synthase Operon
... Comparative structure analyses of TrpB and TrpA for clinical strains F I-IV reveals mutations within the functional ␣␣ tetrad complex. F I-IV TrpA was elongated by two aas, 254N and 255L, to a total of ...
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Are Two Cryptococcus neoformans Strains Epidemiologically Linked?
... with clinical isolates, one could still wonder which tool was indeed the best since visual differences between pro- files from serial (linked) isolates were sometimes larger than those between profiles obtained ...
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Necessity of Quality Controlled 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Databases: Identifying Nontuberculous MycobacteriumSpecies
... ATCC strains of mycobacteria, encompassing 80 established species and 12 nonestablished ...and strains not identified to the species level) comprised our data- base of mycobacterial sequences for the ...
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Research Note: Molecular Subtyping of Salmonella enterica serovar Tshiongwe Recently Isolated in Malaysia During 2001 2002
... 23 strains (17 humans, 4 environ- mental, 2 food isolates) were analyzed by anti- microbial susceptibility test and pulsed field gel ...the clinical strains were from patients in various Government ...
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