Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is responsible for several food-borne outbreaks worldwide. In this study, tissue samples of finfish (tilapia, n = 100) and (mullet, 100), twenty human hand swabs from fish sellers fishermen were tested bacteriologically STEC presence. Isolates their antibiotic susceptibility examined the presence eaeA,stx1, stx2 genes. E. identified tissues (36.5% 1...

The most cited paper ever published by the Journal of African Economies is Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warners “Sources of Slow Growth in African Economies.” The paper advises that despite decades of slow growth in Africa there should be considerable optimism regarding Africa’s future; if it could have only managed policy and governance quality that equalled the average non-African developing econ...

In this study we isolate and identify the Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) causing diarrhea in children less than five years in Cairo, Egypt, during different seasons. Children younger than five years with diarrhea, attending the Pediatric Gastroenterology Intensive Care Unit of the Cairo University Pediatric Hospital in one year period were our group of study. Our control group was age...

BACKGROUND Conventional lactate-buffered peritoneal dialysis fluids containing glucose as the osmotic agent have been shown to compromise important peritoneal host defence functions. The current study employed an in vitro model using activated peripheral blood mononuclear leukocytes (PBMC) for the preclinical biocompatibility assessment of a novel bicarbonate-buffered peritoneal dialysis fluid ...

Transgenic C57BL/6 mice expressing human serum amyloid P component (HuSAP) are resistant to Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2) at dosages that are lethal in HuSAP-negative wild-type mice. However, it is well established that Stx2 initiates extra-intestinal complications such as the haemolytic-uremic syndrome despite the presence of HuSAP in human sera. We now demonstrate that co-administering purified Escher...

Cytotoxic activity is one of the major functions of Natural Killer (NK) cells and is a critical effector mechanism of innate immune responses against infected or cancer cells. A variety of assays have been developed to determine NK cell cytotoxic activity, however a receptor-based screening tool is still lacking. Here, we propose the CD25 receptor as a candidate for NK cell cytotoxicity marker....