et al,' in which the authors demonstrated an altered character in the small bowel's bacterial flora in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. However, the authors did not demonstrate the presence of bacterial overgrowth. The syndrome of bacterial overgrowth is characterised by diarrhoea with malabsorption. The mechanism by which the bacterial overgrowth causes symptoms is not known. These symptoms...

Rapid culture of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) from patients remains a challenge. During the process of developing a rapid culture method for MAP, we found that there is an alternative growth behavior present in MAP, MAH (Mycobacterium avium subspecies hominissuis) and other bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, and Staphylococcus pseudintermedius. The bacterial DNA, R...

BACKGROUND Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis is one of the most frequent and serious complication in patients with liver cirrhosis and ascites associated with high mortality. Empiric antibiotic therapy should be initiated before the results of ascitic fluid cultures are available, guided by knowledge of the microbial spectrum of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in a particular population. ME...

BACKGROUND Microbiota of Anopheles midgut can modulate vector immunity and block Plasmodium development. Investigation on the bacterial biodiversity in Anopheles, and specifically on the identification of bacteria that might be used in malaria transmission blocking approaches, has been mainly conducted on malaria vectors of Africa. Vietnam is an endemic country for both malaria and Bancroftian ...

background meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes, which surround the brain and spinal cord. early treatment of bacterial meningitis can prevent serious complications. in the last two decades, three vaccines have been developed against the three main bacterial species implicated in meningitis of children in western countries and vaccine-preventable invasive bacterial meningitis has decr...

  Objective(s): Streptokinase (SKa) is an antigenic protein which is secreted by Streptococcus pyogenes. Streptokinase induces inflammation by complement activation, which may play a role in post infectious diseases. In the present study, recombinant streptokinase from S. pyogenes was produced and showed that recombinant SKa protein was recognized by infected human sera using Western blot analy...

Pili, in addition to enhancing attachment of gonococci to tissue culture cells, appear to reduce association (attachment/ingestion) of Neisseria gonorrhoeae with mouse peritoneal macrophages in vitro.

introduction lipid-based anesthetic agents such as propofol support rapid microbial growth at room temperature. many reports of systemic infections have been traced to the injection of contaminated propofol. the results of these studies are different according to the magnitude and the mechanisms of infections. the aim of this study was to evaluate the development of bacterial infection in syrin...

ubiquicidin (ubi) [29-41] is a synthetic cationic antimicrobial peptide that preferentially binds to bacterial cell membrane at the site of infection. we aimed to assess diagnostic value of 99mtc-ubi [29-41] as a radiopharmaceutical in differentiation of bacterial infection from sterile inflammation in suspected orthopedic implants. nine patients suspected for orthopedic implant infection, all ...