Non-encapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae, vaccination as a measure to interfere with horizontal gene transfer J.D. Langereis & M.I. de Jonge To cite this article: J.D. Langereis & M.I. de Jonge (2017): Non-encapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae, vaccination as a measure to interfere with horizontal gene transfer, Virulence, DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2017.1309492 To link to this article: http://dx.d...

OBJECTIVES   To determine the prevalence of bacteria in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and the antibiogram profile in pediatric patients with suspected meningitis. Methods: This descriptive study was conducted between January 2014 and January 2016 in the Hevi Paediatric Teaching Hospital in Duhok, Iraq. The CSF samples were withdrawn from 432 pediatric patients suspected of meningitis. The samp...

background: streptococcus pneumoniae (s. pneumoniae) is a gram-positive pathogen bacteria which causes a variety of diseases, including otitis media, bacteremia, and meningitis. cases report : a 19-year-old man with paroxysm was admitted to emergency department of hospital. he was diagnosed with s. pneumoniae meningitis on the basis of an analysis of the cerebrospinal fluid and blood culture. c...

Two-component systems (TCSs) have the potential to be an effective target of the antimicrobials, and thus received much attention in recent years. VicK/VicR is one of TCSs in Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae), which is essential for pneumococcal survival. We have previously obtained several Traditional Chinese Medicine monomers using a computer-based screening. In this study, either alon...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain the causative organisms of community acquired pneumonia (CAP) in Jordanian patients requiring hospital admission. METHODS A prospective study of both adults and children admitted to Princess Basma and Princess Rahma Teaching Hospitals in Irbid, Jordan with a diagnosis of CAP over a 6-month period from April to October 2002. RESULTS A total of 35 adult patients were ad...

We report a fatal case of overwhelming pneumococcal infection in an asplenic young adult not vaccinated against Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae).

The present study was designed to establish the antibacterial activities of several concentrations of sater (Satureja hortensis L.) essential oil which is widely used as a condiment and herbal tea and collected from Mersin (Büyükeceli-Gülnar) in Turkey. Sater commonly consumed and grown naturally in Turkey was tested against eleven bacterial strains to compare their antibacterial effects with s...

Eight optochin-susceptible (Opt(s)) alpha-hemolytic (viridans) streptococcus isolates were characterized at the molecular level. These isolates showed phenotypic characteristics typical of both viridans streptococci and Streptococcus pneumoniae. Comparison of the sequence of housekeeping genes from these isolates with those of S. pneumoniae, Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus oralis, and Strept...