Salmonella remains a threat to both animal and public health. Its economic significance remains high and changes in public perception mean that some measures for control may be necessary even in the absence of financial loss. Diagnosis is an important part of control. A great deal of new information has become available over the last few years as a result of research into various aspects of bot...

The ability of vancomycin resistance determinants to be horizontally transferred within enterococci species is a concern. Identification and characterization of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in a clinical isolate have a significant impact on infection control practices. In this study, we describe a clinical isolate of Enterococcus gallinarum exhibiting high-level resistance to vancomyc...

UNLABELLED To assess diversity of Salmonella enterica serotypes present in poultry and their environment from southern Brazil, the Kauffmann-White-Le Minor (KWL) scheme was used to serotype a total of 155 isolates. Isolates were then re-examined with nested PCR and sequencing of the dkgB-linked intergenic sequence ribotyping (ISR) region that assesses single nucleotide polymorphisms occurring a...

In a recent report, ATP, which was possibly secreted by some intestinal bacteria, was shown to cause colitis in mice via Th17 cell differentiation. However, the ATP-secreting bacteria have not been isolated and identified. In the present study, we report that Enterococcus gallinarum, which is a vancomycin-resistant Gram-positive coccus isolated from mice and humans, secretes ATP.

RATIONALE Enterococcus gallinarum meningitis (EGM) is rarely found in normal adults and even rarer in children. To our knowledge, EGM in neonate has not been reported previously. PATIENTS CONCERNS Here we reported the first case of EGM in neonate. Prolonged fever was the only manifestation for the case after admission. DIAGNOSES Cerebrospinal fluid cultures showed that the isolate was Enter...

A total of 267 rural scavenging chickens were examined from October 1998 to August 1999 in four woredas (districts) of the Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Of these chickens, 243 (91.01%) were found to harbour one to nine different helminth parasites and 24 (8.99%) were free of helminth parasites. A significant difference (P < 0.01) was found between the prevalence rates of helminth parasites in the di...

Evaluation of protective efficacy of live attenuated Salmonella enterica serovar 1 Gallinarum vaccine strains against fowl typhoid in chickens 2 3 Paweł Łaniewski, Arindam Mitra, Kemal Karaca, Ayub Khan, Rajeev Prasad, 4 Roy Curtiss III, Kenneth Roland 5 6 The Biodesign Institute and School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 7 Tempe, AZ, USA 8 Global Biological Research and Development...