Environmental Isolates
Comparison of Distribution of Virulence Determinants in Clinical and Environmental Isolates of Vibrio cholera
... is toxin-linked cryptic (TLC) element and 3' of the CTX φ contains a region which encodes repeat in toxin (RTX) gene cluster composed of the toxin (rtxA), activator (rtxC) and transporters (rtxBD) [6- 8]. It is presumed ...
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Consensus Sequence Based Scheme for Epidemiological Typing of Clinical and Environmental Isolates of Legionella pneumophila
... additional isolates were also characterized and gave concordant results; ...and environmental isolates that were epidemiologically linked gave identical pro- files for all six ...well-characterized ...
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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] ...
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Macrorestriction Analysis of Clinical and Environmental Isolates of Sporothrix schenckii
... infection. Isolates of ...clinical isolates and four hay isolates were ...clinical isolates, national Quality Assurance Program isolates, and other environmental isolates ...
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In vitro evaluation of the susceptibility of Acinetobacter baumannii isolates to antiseptics and disinfectants: comparison between clinical and environmental isolates
... Environmental hygiene plays an important role in cross-transmission of A. baumannii. Prolonged survival of A.baumannii in a dry environment has been corre- lated with ongoing epidemics in ICUs [17]. During an A. ...
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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 strains ...
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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 ...
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Molecular Characterization of Hand Flora and Environmental Isolates in a Community Setting
... bacterial isolates, comprising seven species of gram-negative bacterial rods and three species of coagulase-negative staphylococci, recovered from both the hands of caretakers and their environment in households ...
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Comparison of siderophore production and utilization in pathogenic and environmental isolates of Yersinia enterocolitica
... In this study, we examined siderophore utilization by determining the effects of yersiniophore, ferrioxamine, and a WS siderophore on growth promotion, iron binding, and iron uptake in i[r] ...
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Members of the Fusarium solani Species Complex That Cause Infections in Both Humans and Plants Are Common in the Environment
... Fungal isolates. Initially, 921 isolates of the FSSC, including the 35 isolates analyzed by O’Donnell (13), were screened using partial TEF ...All isolates from human infections were found to ...
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Genome Diversity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates from Cystic Fibrosis Patients and the Hospital Environment
... clinical isolates carried all the genes involved in phenazine production, with the exception of CF194, which lacked both phzI and phzS, and CF242, which lacked ...Two environmental isolates, BR220 ...
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Random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis of clinically and environmentally isolated Cryptococcus neoformans in Nagasaki
... and environmental (pigeon excreta) isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans ...clinical isolates and three patterns among 8 environmental ...29 isolates) and was found among isolates ...
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Subspecies typing of Vibrio parahaemolyticus by pulsed field gel electrophoresis
... 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 to PFGE ...
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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 is heavily biased towards the southern region of Thailand, and therefore, isolates from this region are overrepresented in the ...pseudomallei isolates in Thailand carried out ...
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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 (n ⫽ ...
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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] ...
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Biochemical Characteristics, Adhesion, and Cytotoxicity of Environmental and Clinical Isolates of Herbaspirillum spp
... human isolates are able to metabolize a larger number of substrates ( ⬃ 30 substrates) than the environmental isolates (metabolizing ⬃20 ...human isolates may be associ- ated with their ...
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Molecular Epidemiology of Aspergillus fumigatus: an In Depth Genotypic Analysis of Isolates Involved in an Outbreak of Invasive Aspergillosis
... the isolates involved in an invasive aspergillosis outbreak in the hematology unit, al- though only 3 clinical isolates and 8 environmental isolates were analyzed and air samples were ...
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Potential risk factors associated with the microbiota of grass roots in the Kimberley region of Western Australia
... the Environmental Protection Agency in America to register certain Bcc strains for commercial use as biopesticides, allowing the reduction of toxic chemical pesticides; however a 1999 risk assessment, ...
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Influence of Different Media, Incubation Times, and Temperatures for Determining the MICs of Seven Antifungal Agents against Paracoccidioides brasiliensis by Microdilution
... and environmental isolates of Paracoccidioides were tested us- ing amphotericin B, itraconazole, ketoconazole, fluconazole, sulfamethoxazole, sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim, and terbin- afine, according to ...
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