Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is a leading cause of diarrhea among infants in developing countries. A total of 38 EPEC isolates, obtained from diarrhea patients of Hospital Miri, Sarawak, were investigated through plasmid profile, antibiotic resistance and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis. From the 8 types of antibiotics used, all isolates were 100% resistant to fur...

Herbal mixture such as agbo, has been used in recent years Nigeria to treat various sicknesses including malaria, typhoid, dysentery and cholera. However, the bacteriological quality safety is of paramount importance spurring argument whether it treatment option or sources pathogen transmission. Hence this study was conducted investigate analysis agbo herbal preparations. Samples were purchased...

With the intension to screen heavy metal tolerance and antibiotic susceptibility, a bacterium was isolated and characterized from municipal solid waste dumping yard (Dhapa), Kolkata, India. On the basis of biochemical and 16S rDNA sequence profile, it was identified as Bacillus cereus. Tolerance was observed against heavy metals like Cd, Co, Ni, Cr, Pb , Hg by this bacterium and was found that ...

Twenty six thermotolerant strains resistant to high levels of chromium (50-250 microg/ml) were isolated from treated tannery effluent. They were also found resistant to multiple heavy metals and antibiotics. Majority of them were resistant to copper and bacitracin. Nine strains representing different resistance patterns were selected for plasmid profile and conjugation studies. Agarose gel elec...

We describe an outbreak of Salmonella typhimurium infection, caused by contaminated chocolate produced by one Norwegian company, which occurred in Norway and Finland in 1987. A total of 349 bacteriologically verified cases were recorded in Norway, and 12 cases were recorded in Finland. There was a predominance of young children among the patients (median age, 6 years), many of whom developed ac...

BACKGROUND/AIM To analyze interrelated Salmonella Enteritidis strains isolated in Turkey. Fifty-five S. Enteritidis surveillance strains were isolated from human feces and environmental samples from different regions in Turkey between 2000 and 2010. MATERIALS AND METHODS Clinical isolates were selected from different outbreaks in the Turkish National Reference Laboratory. All isolates were su...

the biodegradation of secondary amines is particularly important due to their propensity for conversion either chemically or microbiologically to n-nitrosamines which are potent carcinogens. in this research, a weak gram-positive organism was isolated from river and identified as mycobacterium. this mycobacterium grows slowly and effectively utilizes piperazine as the sole source of organic, ca...

The emergence of plasmid-mediated multidrug resistance (MDR) among enteric bacteria presents a serious challenge to the treatment of bacterial infections in humans and animals. Recent studies suggest that avian Escherichia coli commonly possess the ability to resist multiple antimicrobial agents, and might serve as reservoirs of MDR for human extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) ...

A total of 225 isolates of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium from food-producing animals collected between 2003 and 2007 were examined for the prevalence of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR) determinants, namely qnrA, qnrB, qnrC, qnrD, qnrS, qepA and aac(6')Ib-cr, in Japan. Two isolates (0.8%) of S. Typhimurium DT104 from different dairy cows on a single farm in 2006 and 2007 w...