Rhodococcus equi
A Rare Case of Rhodococcus equi Infection in a Newly Diagnosed Patient with Retroviral Disease Presenting with Necrotizing Pneumonia
... [3] Spiliopoulou, A., Assimakopoulos, S., Foka, A., et al. (2014) Pulmonary Infection by Rhodococcus equi Presenting with Positive Ziehl-Neelsen Stain in a Patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus: A Case ...
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In vitro evaluation of antibacterial action of Caralluma europaea extracts on Rhodococcus equi
... against Rhodococcus equi: in an ethyl acetate extract, a methanol extract and an aqueous ...R. equi is a gram-positive coccobacillus, primarily known as a pulmonary pathogen in animals, foals and in ...
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Rapid Identification of Rhodococcus equi by a PCR Assay Targeting the choE Gene
... actinomycete Rhodococcus equi is a pri- mary pathogen of ...R. equi causes severe pyo- granulomatous pneumonia, often accompanied by ulcerative enteritis and mesenteric lymphadenitis ...R. ...
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Immunoglobulin G Subisotype Responses of Pneumonic and Healthy, Exposed Foals and Adult Horses to Rhodococcus equi Virulence-Associated Proteins
... Rhodococcus equi causes severe pyogranulomatous pneumonia in foals and in immunocompromised ...R. equi infection, antibody partially protects ...R. equi pneumonia have a Th2-biased, ...
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Minimum inhibitory concentrations of erythromycin and rifampin for Rhodococcus equi during the years 2007–2014
... R. equi is already a problematic pathogen to treat and if the bacteria keeps gaining resistance to these antibiotics at rate that has been shown over the last decade, then a new form of treatment will have to be ...
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Characterization of Virulence Plasmids and Serotyping of Rhodococcus equi Isolates from Submaxillary Lymph Nodes of Pigs in Hungary
... 164 Rhodococcus equi strains obtained from submaxillary lymph nodes of swine from different piggeries in 28 villages and towns located throughout the country were ...R. equi strains of intermediate ...
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In Vivo Expression of and Cell-Mediated Immune Responses to the Plasmid-Encoded Virulence-Associated Proteins of Rhodococcus equi in Foals
... Rhodococcus equi is a facultative intracellular pathogen that causes pneumonia in foals but does not induce disease in adult ...R. equi depends on the presence of a large plasmid, which encodes a ...
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Performance of Five Serological Assays for Diagnosis of Rhodococcus equi Pneumonia in Foals
... Rhodococcus equi, a gram-positive facultative intracellular pathogen, is the most devastating cause of pneumonia in foals between 3 weeks and 5 months of ...R. equi infections in foals include ...
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Pulmonary infection by Rhodococcus equi presenting with positive Ziehl Neelsen stain in a patient with human immunodeficiency virus: a case report
... His respiratory status further deteriorated, but at this time aerobic vials from routine blood cultures (FA BacT/ALERT® and FN BacT/ALERT®, bioMérieux, Marcy l’Etoile, France) collected during his hospitalization showed ...
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Rhodococcus equi peritonitis in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis: a first in Colombia
... isolated Rhodococcus equi in the peritoneal fluid culture. Rhodococcus equi is a rare pathogen in immunocompetent ...the Rhodococcus equi ...treatment, Rhodococcus ...
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Strain to strain variation of Rhodococcus equi growth and biofilm formation in vitro
... Objective: Rhodococcus equi is an opportunistic pathogen that causes disease worldwide in young foals and immu- nocompromised ...R. equi with the host immune system have been described; however, most ...
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Identification of Pulmonary T-Lymphocyte and Serum Antibody Isotype Responses Associated with Protection against Rhodococcus equi
... Rhodococcus equi infects and causes pneumonia in foals between 2 and 4 months of age but does not induce disease in immunocompetent adults, which are immune and remain clinically normal upon ...R. ...
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Experimental Infection of Neonatal Foals with Rhodococcus equi Triggers Adult-Like Gamma Interferon Induction
... Rhodococcus equi is a facultative intracellular pathogen that causes pneumonia in young foals but does not induce disease in immunocompetent adult ...R. equi depends mainly on gamma interferon (IFN- ...
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Influence of Plasmid Type on the Replication of Rhodococcus equi in Host Macrophages
... actinomycete Rhodococcus equi is a mul- tihost, facultative intracellular pathogen of ...R. equi isolates obtained from foals and pigs possess conjugative plasmids housing a pathogenicity island ...
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Clearance of Virulent but Not Avirulent Rhodococcus equi from the Lungs of Adult Horses Is Associated with Intracytoplasmic Gamma Interferon Production by CD4+ and CD8+ T Lymphocytes
... actinomycete Rhodococcus equi is an im- portant pulmonary pathogen in young ...R. equi is a facultative intracellular bacterium that persists and replicates within mac- rophages (8, ...R. equi ...
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Management of <em>Rhodococcus equi</em> pneumonia in foals
... Abstract: Rhodococcus equi, a gram-positive facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen, is the most important cause of pneumonia in foals aged 3 weeks to 5 ...R. equi infections, in particular on ...
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Comparison of the Vitek MS and Bruker Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry Systems for Identification of Rhodococcus equi and Dietzia spp
... ABSTRACT Rhodococcus equi causes pyogranulomatous pneumonia in domesti- cated animals and immunocompromised ...R. equi and Dietzia ...R. equi and Dietzia on the basis of their Gram stain ...
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RESISTOTYPES OF ISOLATED FROM FOALS WITH Rhodococcus equi RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS
... Rhodococcus equi has been recognized primarily as a respiratory pathogen of equines particularly of foals between one and four months of ...R. equi is ranked among the most important disease problems ...
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Emergence of rifampin resistant Rhodococcus equi in an infected foal
... in Rhodococcus equi strains isolated from foals and their environment in Japan, we compared the in vitro antimicrobial susceptibilities to rifampin of 640 isolates from 64 infected foals and 98 soil ...
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Foal Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells Become Activated upon Rhodococcus equi Infection
... to Rhodococcus equi pneumonia is exclusive to the first few months of ...R. equi or its avirulent, plasmid-cured ...R. equi induced (P < ...R. equi infection promoted comparable ...
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