• These authors studied the microorganism population present at every step of the winemaking process in 3 estates located in 3 Bordeaux appellations: Libournais, Graves, and Medoc. For each estate, they started inventorying the microorganisms present at the vineyard level, continued with those present in the water resulting from cleaning the cellar equipment, and ended by analyzing the microorg...

Vibrio vulnificus infection mainly manifests as primary bacteraemia or gastroenteritis following injection of the microorganism, and wound infection through direct inoculation. Injury from exposure to the microorganism and development of necrotising fasciitis at a remote site and sepsis are rare. This report is of a high-risk patient with haemoglobin H disease who developed necrotising fasciiti...

Completion of Tropheryma whipplei genome sequencing may provide insights into the evolution of the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenicity of this microorganism. The first postgenomic application was the successful design of a comprehensive culture medium that allows axenic growth of this bacterium, which is particularly recalcitrant to cultivation. This achievement in turn permitted ...

Mycobacterium wolinskyi, first described in 1999, is a rapidly growing mycobacterium related to the Mycobacterium smegmatis group. Only eight cases of infection due to this microorganism have been reported, including three cases of bone infection. Here, we present the first case of a joint prosthesis infection cured with the combination of surgery and prolonged antibiotic therapy. The microorga...

The goal was to identify risk factors for healthcare-associated infections by resistant microorganisms and patient mortality in an Intensive Care Unit. A prospective and descriptive epidemiological research was conducted from 2005 till 2008, involving 2300 patients. Descriptive statistics, bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis were used. In bivariate analysis, infection caused...

e review approaches for microorganism identifi cation that exploit the wealth of information in constantly expanding proteome databases. Masses of an organism’s protein biomarkers are experimentally determined and matched against sequence-derived masses of proteins, found together with their source organisms in proteome databases. The source organisms are ranked according to the matches, result...

The species Ureaplasma diversum is associated with bovine reproductive illnesses, in particular granular lesions of the vulva and vagina or granular vulvovaginitis (GVV). In Brazil, this pathology is unknown and, until this point in time, the presence of U. diversum in the Brazilian herds has been ignored. With the intention of detecting the microorganism, vulvovaginal mucuses of 152 animals lo...

Chlamydia trachomatis is one of the infectious cause of ocular disease that is endemic in the regions with limited sanitary resources. The infection may start on eye lids and progress to trichiasis, keratoconjunctivitis and corneal opacity, that eventually lead to vision loss. The chronic infection of the same microorganism in female reproductive system may be associated with pelvic inflammator...

This study aimed to evaluate the microbiota of donor rabbit corneas stored for tectonic transplantation purposes. Swabs from both corneas of 20 rabbits were carefully collected and submitted to microorganism isolation and identification. After this first swab collection, rabbits were euthanized for reasons other than this project and the eyes were enucleated. The corneas were collected and stor...

Comamonas testosteroni is a gram-negative, non-glucose fermenting, oxidase positive, motile bacillus. It accepted as low-virulent microorganism and rarely causes infections in humans. Survival at low nutrient conditions, ability to acquire resistance genes already found virulence factors make C. potential candidate be dangerous infectious agent, especially patients with predisposing factors. We...