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Impact of pseudomonas aeruginosa Liverpool epidemic strain (LES) on cystic fibrosis patients
... Initially it was believed that each individual harboured his or her own unique Psa strain which was incapable of cross infecting another individual (Speert et al 1987) with or without CF. However, in 1996 Cheng et ...
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Comparative genomics of isolates of a pseudomonas aeruginosa epidemic strain associated with chronic lung infections of cystic fibrosis patients
... Liverpool epidemic strain (LES) from the United Kingdom and Canada representing different virulence characteristics in order to: (1) associate comparative genomics results with virulence factor variability ...
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A diagnostic PCR assay for the detection of an Australian epidemic strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
... To identify genes unique to the AES-I genome, we per- formed suppression subtractive hybridisation (SSH) of DNA from AES-I isolate 973 against PAO1, the sequenced reference strain of P. aeruginosa. We sequenced 20 ...
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Widespread pyocyanin over-production among isolates of a cystic fibrosis epidemic strain
... one epidemic strain isolate from the majority of cystic fibrosis patients tested, and can be retained for up to seven years during chronic ...the epidemic strain taken from six patients over a ...
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Mutation in a Lordsdale Norovirus Epidemic Strain as a Potential Indicator of Transmission Routes
... An increase in norovirus outbreaks was reported internationally during 2002 and 2003 and was also observed in Oxfordshire (United Kingdom) hospitals. To understand their epidemiological relationships, viruses from 22 ...
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Epidemic strain YC2014 of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus could provide piglets against homologous challenge
... homologous strain chal- ...these epidemic strains, the inactivated YC2014 may pro- tect other variant strains challenge in some ...PEDV strain under the selective pressure of ...
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The role of flagella in Clostridium difficile pathogenesis: comparison between a non epidemic and an epidemic strain
... These procedures were carried out essentially as described previously by Lyras et al. [5] with the following modifications. Total RNA was extracted from C. difficile grown to early stationary phase (16 h) in TY broth in ...
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Characterisation of the epidemic strain of H3N8 equine influenza virus responsible for outbreaks in South America in 2012
... vaccine strain Kentucky/ 97, Rio Grande do Sul/1/12 had 11 changes within the HA1 region and one change in ...outbreak strain against both the OIE-recommended vaccine strain Ohio/03 and Kentucky/97, ...
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Identification by Subtractive Hybridization of a Novel Insertion Element Specific for Two Widespread Burkholderia cepacia Genomovar III Strains
... fibrosis. Epidemic strains infect multiple patients, reside primarily in genomovar III, and have an apparent enhanced capacity for human infection and/or interpatient ...in epidemic strain PHDC, ...
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Immunogenicity, Reactogenicity, and Safety of a P1.7b,4 Strain-Specific Serogroup B Meningococcal Vaccine Given to Preteens
... Previous studies have correlated the presence of serum bac- tericidal antibody activity with protection from meningococcal disease (15, 16) and have correlated a fourfold rise in serum bactericidal antibody titer ...
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Patient to patient spread of a single strain of Corynebacterium striatum causing infections in a surgical intensive care unit
... striatum strain with a genotype the same as that of the epidemic strain was found in 25 routine cultures of samples taken from 14 patients in the period from June 1994 to May 1995; a summary of the ...
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Infection control knowledge, beliefs and behaviours amongst cystic fibrosis patients with epidemic Pseudomonas aeruginosa
... Results: Of 144 participants, 30 patients had ePA (two Liverpool epidemic strain, 28 Prairie epidemic strain), 83 % of which had established infection prior to transition to the adult clinic. ...
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Emergence in Spain of a Multidrug Resistant Enterobacter cloacae Clinical Isolate Producing SFO 1 Extended Spectrum β Lactamase
... With regard to the modes of transmission of EbSF strains, the most likely explanation was that they were transmitted from one person to another via the hands of health care per- sonnel. Throughout the study, the presence ...
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Polylysogeny magnifies competitiveness of a bacterial pathogen in vivo
... Key Words: Temperate phage; apparent competition; polylysogeny; Liverpool Epidemic Strain.. This work was supported by the Department of Biology, University for York and the European.[r] ...
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Genotyping of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from pulmonary infections in non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis patients
... Australian Epidemic Strain-1 (AES-1) (Scott & Pitt ...1 strain was found to be the second most common genotype, accounting for 10% of isolates sampled and present in 29% of ...of epidemic ...
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Epidemiology of Burkholderia cepacia infection in patients with cystic fibrosis: analysis by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprinting
... Seven strain types infecting multiple CF patients were found at several different CF treatment centers in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Australia, indicating the presence of ...
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Comparison of epidemiological markers used in the investigation of an outbreak of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections
... However, had resistance to rifampin not been a specific marker for the epidemic strain, the similar antibiogram of this resistant staphylococcal strain and of the epidemic strain may hav[r] ...
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Molecular evolution of Vibrio cholerae O1 strains isolated in Lima, Peru, from 1991 to 1995
... the strain responsible for the Latin American cholera epidemic, more frequently than previously reported, 40 (80%) O1 strains showed an identical ribotype pattern and 41 (82%) strains showed closely related ...
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Factors Influencing Acquisition of Burkholderia cepacia Complex Organisms in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis
... Australian epidemic strain (ST-39) (13). B. cepacia strain ST-675 was common to three patients, and STs 181, 434, 632, 673, and 703 were each detected in clusters of two pa- ...
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Efficacy of genogroup 1 based porcine epidemic diarrhea live vaccine against genogroup 2 field strain in Japan
... Vaccination is an ideal control measure to prevent in- fectious diseases [5]. Since 1990’s, intramuscular live or inactivated vaccines were introduced in Asian countries [6, 7]. Today, an oral vaccine was commercialized ...
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