Thirty isolates of Bacillus anthracis recovered from animal carcasses, soil and human in different localities in Iran between 2007 and 2008. They were tested by standard disc diffusion susceptibility method for their resistant/ susceptibility to different kinds of antibiotics. According to American National Committee of Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) guidelines all isolates were sensi...

Companion animals are considered as one of the reservoirs of antimicrobial-resistant (AR) bacteria that can be cross-transmitted to humans. However, limited information is available on the possibility of AR bacteria originating from companion animals being transmitted secondarily from owners to non-owners sharing the same space. To address this issue, the present study investigated clonal relat...

during one year period from 2010 to 2011 the samples from pneumonic animals were taken and transported to the laboratory. pasteurella multocida were identified in 16.6% of animal by biochemical test. the high incidence of p. multocida was obtained in the south of fars province, where the area was warm region. the mean death time between the isolates was 12-18 and 19-24 hours. only the capsular ...

Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii is the causative agent of cryptococcal meningitis, a significant source of mortality in immunocompromised individuals, typically human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS patients from developing countries. Despite the worldwide emergence of this ubiquitous infection, little is known about the global molecular epidemiology of this fungal pathogen. Here we sequence th...

Phytophthora ramorum has three populations belonging to the same species: the two North American populations (NA1 and NA2) and the European population (EU1). All three populations are genetically distinct lineages, as revealed by different molecular marker systems. P. ramorum is also heterothallic, with two opposite mating types, A1 and A2. All NA1 and NA2 isolates are of the A2 mating type. Al...

Molecular markers revealed that Botryotinia fuckeliana (the teleomorph of Botrytis cinerea), a haploid, filamentous, heterothallic ascomycete, contained a large amount of intrapopulation genetic variation. The markers were used to determine the mode of reproduction and the population structure of this fungus. We did not detect any differentiation between isolates from different organs, collecti...

Campylobacter isolates from diverse samples within broiler production and processing environments were typed by using flaA short variable region DNA sequence analysis. Sixteen flocks from four different farms representing two broiler producers in Arkansas and California were analyzed. Fourteen of the flocks (87.5%) were Campylobacter-positive; two remained negative throughout the 6-week rearing...

Abstract Background The aim of the current study was to improve our understanding origins and transmission Mycobacterium africanum (MAF) in Norway. Methods Whole-genome sequences (WGS) were generated for all ( n = 29) available clinical isolates received at Norwegian National Reference Laboratory Mycobacteria (NRL) identified as MAF Norway, period 2010–2020. Phylogenetic analyses performed. Res...