INTRODUCTION To our knowledge, there was no record of Vibrio cholerae in Haiti until the 2010 post earthquake outbreak. METHODOLOGY This study describes the analysis of 301 stool samples from 117 infants in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, who participated in a pediatric nutrition study between July 2008 and October 2009. RESULTS Nine samples were identified positive with both SYBR Green and Taqman-M...

Escherichia vulneris is an opportunistic human pathogen. It has been primarily reported in adult patients and invasive infections have been observed in immune-suppressed individuals. This is the first report of E. vulneris causing complicated diarrhoea and sepsis in an infant. Two month old sick infant, born full-term, was admitted to the paediatrics department with loose motions and refusal to...

Twenty-nine Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains were identified in a collection of 2,607 isolates from patients with diarrhea in São Paulo, Brazil, from 1976 to 1999. The STEC strains belonged mainly to serotypes O111:HNM (HNM, nonmotile) (13 of 29 [44.8%]), O111:H8 (7 of 29 [24%]), and O26:H11 (4 of 29 [13.8%]); stx(1) eae (26 of 29 [89.6%]), in combination with either entero...

We investigated the prevalence of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in hospitalized diarrhea patients in Calcutta, India, as well as in healthy domestic cattle and raw beef samples collected from the city's abattoir. Multiplex polymerase chain reaction using primers specific for stx1 and stx2 detected STEC in 18% of cow stool samples, 50% of raw beef samples, and 1.4% and 0.6% of bl...

Background Escherichia coli is among the most common uropathogens. Increased antibiotic resistance in Gram negative bacilli global concern. Alternative therapeutic options including vaccines against uropathogenic E. (UPEC) have been developed. In this study, we compared genotypic characteristics and antimicrobial susceptibility of UPEC according to phylogenetic groups. Methods We retrospectivel...

Infectious diseases caused by infected tools in the environments are threaten to safety and public health. Transmission sources of these infectious unknown, but it is thought that non-living materials called fomites, major source acquired infections. Three hundred one swabs were taken from different cultured on blood agar study heamolysis ability isolated bacteria. In this study, MacConkey was ...

Bu çalışmanın amacı tavuk etlerinden (n:50; bütün kanat, göğüs, baget; toplamda N: 150) Listeria monocytogenes’in tespitinde kolorimetrik loop-mediated izotermal amplifikasyon’un (LAMP) performansını değerlendirmektir. amaçla, etleri 100-104 CFU/25 g (veya eti) seviyede L. monocytogenes ve rekabetçi mikrobiyota olarak kullanılan 5 diğer bakteri (Salmonella Typhimurium, Campylobacter jejuni, col...

Urinary tract infection (UTI) during pregnancy is often correlated with complications. As the main objective of this study, we investigated prevalence antimicrobial susceptibility, resistance genes, virulence genes and its relationship different phylogenetic groups among Uropathogenic E. coli strains isolated from pregnant women asymptomatic bacteriuria who referred to Hafez hospital, Shiraz, I...