The International Circumpolar Surveillance (ICS) program was initiated in 1999 to conduct population-based surveillance for invasive pneumococcal disease in select regions of the Arctic. The program was expanded to include the surveillance of invasive diseases caused by Neisseria meningitidis and Haemophilus influenzae. An interlaboratory quality control (QC) program to monitor laboratory profi...

AIM Colibacillosis is considered as one of the major bacterial infections in avian pathology. The excessive use of antibiotics reduced their effectiveness, which eventually led to the risk of emergence of antibiotic resistance. The aim of this study was to isolate, identify and serotype the pathogenic Escherichia coli strains and to determine their antibiotic susceptibility. MATERIALS AND MET...

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) comprise one of the six categories of diarrhoeagenic E. coli (DEC). EPEC is subgrouped into typical (tEPEC) and atypical (aEPEC). The identification of DEC cannot be based only on cultural and biochemical criteria, since they are indistinguishable from the non-pathogenic E. coli commonly found in human feces. Several PCR methods, with both single and mul...

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is very commonly a cause of acute watery diarrhea in infants and young children in Bangladesh (2). Although organisms of this type are known to be spread through food and water contaminated by feces, limited information is available on climatic factors or the presence of ETEC in surface waters (ponds, rivers, and lakes) that are used for drinking, washing...

Of 210 children 164 (78%) had diarrhoea due to E.coli infection. The common enteropathogenic serotypes in 71 cases were 0111: K58 (36.6%) and 0125:K70 (25.4%). Enteropathogenic strains of E.coli were sensitive to Ampicillin (84.5%), Amoxil (73.2%) and Ampiclox (54.9%) (JPMA 36: 14, 1986). INTRODUCTION Diarrhoea is a common disease of infants and children under the age of two years. It is caused...

conclusion our results showed that obtained protein patterns of the isolated strains were more reliable than serotyping results for typing purposes. our findings indicated that pap adhesion–encoding operon has an important role in the development and severity of uti. many cases of serious urogenital diseases are caused by a limited number of uropathogenic e.coli strains that generally possess s...

Pasteurella multocida is a gram-negative, opportunistic pathogen and the common inhabitant of the upper respiratory tract of domesticated and wild animal species. It is a causative agent of numerous economically important diseases worldwide, such as enzootic bronchopneumonia in ruminants and haemorrhagic septicemia in cattle and buffalo. The present study was undertaken to determine the prevale...

Salmonella spp. are zoonotic enteric bacteria able to infect humans, livestock and wildlife. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of Salmonella (spp.) and to determine antibiotic susceptibility, serogrouping and presence of invA gene (Salmonella Invasion Gene A) in the detected strains in wild captive herbivores in Iran. The fecal samples of 103 animals from 8 different speci...