Exfoliative toxin genes
High frequency of exfoliative toxin genes among Staphylococcus aureus isolated from clinical specimens in the north of Iran: Alarm for the health of individuals under risk
... etb genes among isolates recovered from 155 patients with invasive ...these genes among isolates recovered from 179 healthy individuals; only 6% and 3% of the isolates carried eta and etb genes, ...
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Rapid and Specific Detection of Toxigenic Staphylococcus aureus: Use of Two Multiplex PCR Enzyme Immunoassays for Amplification and Hybridization of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin Genes, Exfoliative Toxin Genes, and Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin 1 Gene
... E genes (entA, entB, entC, entD, and entE), and the other one was designed to detect the staphylococcal exfoliative toxin genes (eta and etb) and the toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 gene ...
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PREVALENCE OF GENES ENCODING ENTEROTOXINS AND EXFOLIATIVE TOXINS AMONG METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS CLINICAL ISOLATES IN IRAQ
... Toxins genes were investigated using seven specific primers, five of them for the detection of enterotoxins genes that encoding for sea, seb, sec, sed and see which showed the prevalence in percentage ...of ...
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Staphylococcal Scalded-Skin Syndrome in a Very Low Birth Weight Premature Infant
... ABSTRACT. Exfoliative skin diseases are rare in neo- ...staphylococcal exfoliative toxins A or B, which split the granular layer of the skin, induce proteolysis, and might exhibit superantigen activities, ...
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Molecular Analysis of the Pathogenicity Locus and Polymorphism in the Putative Negative Regulator of Toxin Production (TcdC) among Clostridium difficile Clinical Isolates
... It is noteworthy that all the strains belonging to toxinotypes V, VI, and VII that were examined in this study showed a TcdC of only 61 amino acids. A truncated protein, with a sequence of 22 amino acids, has been ...
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Comparative venom gland transcriptomics ofNaja kaouthia(monocled cobra) from Malaysia and Thailand: elucidating geographical venom variation and insights into sequence novelty
... different toxin genes were analysed, which encoded 18 of the 24 protein families of toxins (Data ...same toxin are highly conserved between NK-M and NK-T, with only minor divergence at their amino ...
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Laboratory Detection of Clostridium difficile in Piglets in Australia
... The performance of any assay is ultimately influenced by the choice of reference method. EC/TEC have not only high sensitiv- ities and specificities for C. difficile but also the benefit of recovery of the isolate, which ...
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Genome sequence and comparative genomic analysis of a clinically important strain CD11-4 of Janibacter melonis isolated from celiac disease patient
... 2 genes in the subsystem Stringent Response for (p)ppGpp ...These genes regu- late the global expression and activity of many virulence regulators in response to the stress (nutrient starvation) exerted in ...
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Eggert, Marlene (2011): Nachweis und Charakterisierung von Shigatoxin-bildenden Escherichia coli in Wildwiederkäuern. Dissertation, LMU München: Tierärztliche Fakultät
... STEC belong to the significant foodborne bacteria with zoonotic potential. Ru- minants are regarded as the main reservoir of STEC. Cervids are being discussed another relevant reservoir, however there are only few ...
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Characterization of highly virulent multidrug resistant Vibrio cholerae isolated from a large cholera outbreak in Ghana
... cholera toxin gene (CtxAB) and toxin coregulated pillus (Tcp) gene are both needed by ...the toxin genes by horizontal conjugal transfer [10] and therefore cause classical chol- ...era ...
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Characterization of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and other Shiga toxin producing E coli serotypes isolated from sheep
... Shiga toxin-producing ...and toxin gene restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) ...virulence-associated genes for Shiga toxin(s) and the attaching-and-effacing lesion (stx 1 , stx 2 , ...
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Rapid Molecular Characterization of Clostridium difficile and Assessment of Populations of C difficile in Stool Specimens
... binary toxin genes A and B (cdtA and cdtB, respectively) were designed by using Primer Express (version ...binary toxin gene, avoiding areas of homology to box 1, box 2, and box 3 found in all ...
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Species Variety, Antibiotic Susceptibility Patterns and Prevalence of Enterotoxin Genes in Staphylococci Isolated from Foodstuff in Central Iran
... SE genes among Staphylococcus ...SE genes was sea ...SE genes suggests that probably some factors such as dif- ferences in food products, diagnostic methods and geographical distribution, may be ...
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Identification of Toxin A Negative, Toxin B Positive Clostridium difficile by PCR
... discriminated toxin A1, toxin B1, toxin A2, toxin B1, and toxin A2, toxin B2 strains of ...the toxin A and the toxin B genes and a primer set derived from ...
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Detection of type A, B, and E botulism neurotoxin genes in Clostridium botulinum and other Clostridium species by PCR: evidence of unexpressed type B toxin genes in type A toxigenic organisms
... Detection of Type A, B, and E Botulism Neurotoxin Genes in Clostridium botulinum and Other Clostridium Species by PCR: Evidence of Unexpressed Type B Toxin Genes in Type A Toxigenic Orga[r] ...
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Management of exfoliative glaucoma: challenges and solutions
... Abstract: Exfoliative glaucoma is the most common type of secondary open-angle glaucoma ...of exfoliative glaucoma has to provide a low long-term mean IOP and good 24-hour IOP ...Since exfoliative ...
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Comparison of Distribution of Virulence Determinants in Clinical and Environmental Isolates of Vibrio cholera
... cholera toxin encoding element (CTX) element which is part of the filamentous bacteriophage (CTX φ ) genome [4] involved in coding for cholera toxin (CT) as the most important virulence factor of ...the ...
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Characteristics, Treatment, and Outcomes Associated with Clostridium difficile Associated Diarrhea in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center
... difficile toxin A, toxin B, or both; by the sudden onset of diarrhea with no alternative explanation and a diagnosis of pseudomembranous colitis on the basis of endoscopy; or by histologic evidence of the ...
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Prevalence of cdt Gene in Campylobacter jejuni Strains Isolated from Surface Waters of Rasht, Iran
... Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study was performed on 45 surface water samples collected from the city of Rasht. After culture and isolation of bacteria, the molecular detection of C. jejuni was carried out ...
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Prevalence of Genes Encoding Pyrogenic Toxin Superantigens and Exfoliative Toxins among Strains of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Blood and Nasal Specimens
... SE genes (seg, seh, sei, and sej) and the classical toxins, the overall rate of toxin gene-positive isolates in the study presented here reached ...other toxin genes ...
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