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Atypical bacteria play role in infection of upper respiratory tract in adults. The most often bacteria playing role in these infections are Chlamydophila pneumioniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae. These bacteria have significant impact in pharyngitis and tonsillitis and less in rhinosinusitis. Atypical...
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PMID: 19177780
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Macrolides are applied to control bacterial infection of the respiratory tract. Because of their possibility to penetrate into bacterial cell, they are used in inflammatory diseases caused mainly by atypical bacteria. Many macrolide gidelines have been accepted for antibiotic therapy. In the paper r...
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PMID: 19177783
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Atypical bacteria, including Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydophila pneumonia and Legionella pneumophila play significant role in respiratory tract infections and account for 40% of all cases of community acquired pneumonia (CAP). These organisms also commonly occur as co-pathogens in mixed infections...
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PMID: 19177777
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In order to evaluate the infectious agents associated with the first episode of severe acute wheezing in otherwise healthy infants and to define the role of each of them in recurrences, 85 patients in Italy, aged <12 months, hospitalized because of a first acute episode of wheezing, were prospective...
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PMID: 18558940
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Angiography demonstrated lesions with hyperfluorescence, leakage, and diffuse macular edema. OCT showed intraretinal edema. Laboratory evaluation revealed IgG antibodies for Bartonella hensalae. Treatment with oral ciprofloxacin led to regression of lesions, resolution of macular edema, and improvem...
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PMID: 18379943
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Initial antibiotic treatment including a macrolide agent is associated with improved outcomes in Medicare patients hospitalized with bacteremic pneumonia. These results have implications regarding the mechanism by which the use of a macrolide for treatment of pneumonia is associated with improved ou...
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PMID: 17296649
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We describe the development of a new, automated technique for simultaneous testing and detection of several pathogens using a multiplexed serology test. This should prove to be a valuable tool for the rapid determination of patient status, allowing effective and efficient postexposure prophylaxis an...
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PMID: 17114771
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We continuously observed growth of Vibrio alginolyticus early-phase colonies on agar plates by phase-contrast microscopy. Two mutants defective in motility on solid surfaces were used in this study: one (YM4) can swim in liquid environments using its polar flagellum, and the other (NMB198) cannot sw...
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PMID: 16732454
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We need further studies to approach the place of this PCR test in the diagnosis of multifaceted atypical pneumonia. We also need to know if the cost associated with the microbiological diagnosis (culture, serology, immunofluorescence, urinary antigen test, PCR...) for atypical pneumonia worth value?...
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PMID: 17027196
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Atypical bacteria responsible for infections in children are mainly Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydia pneumoniae and Legionella pneumophila. Atypical pneumonia is a frequent disease in children. Until recently, the outcome was thought to be rather benign and antibiotherapy to have only a minor impact...
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PMID: 15893238
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Most isolates recovered from marine environments are Gram-negative proteobacteria, even with the use of various media and media additions to enhance recoverability. Cultivation studies with two genera of deep-water sponges yielded nine isolates that demonstrated bulbous branching rod morphology, whi...
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PMID: 12076808
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The atypical pathogens are an important and significant cause of CAP. The clinical and radiologic manifestations of CAP caused by these pathogens are modulated by the immunologic and physiologic status of the host, and therefore are not pathogen-specific. The range of frequencies found in various st...
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PMID: 10516898
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Four atypical coagulase-negative staphylococcal (CNS) isolates from clinical sources were compared with Staphylococcus epidermidis strains by ribotyping. The ribotypes of the four strains shared close rDNA restriction profiles with those of the S. epidermidis strains used. The DNA sequence encoding...
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PMID: 9765856
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We examined the appropriateness of requests and also physicians' understanding of the test. Of 119 patients tested, only 3 had titres indicative of acute infection. Most patients were tested within 2 days of hospital admission, before receipt of results excluding more likely diagnoses. Forty-five pa...
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PMID: 8698563
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CS31A is a plasmid-encoded K88-related fimbrial antigen. A Sau3AI library was constructed from p31A, a 180 kb CS31A encoding plasmid, in the pSUP202 vector. Bacterial recombinant clones expressing CS31A were isolated. A 8.5 kb EcoRI-HinIII DNA fragment from one of them was subcloned in pBR322 and pH...
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PMID: 1686628
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It was observed that at 37 degrees C under in vitro conditions, aerobic culture filtrates of a few strains of Vibrio cholerae biotype El Tor isolated from diarrhoeal cases produced a minute amount of toxin which failed to elicit a positive ileal loop reaction like toxigenic strains. Thus, these stra...
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PMID: 1930578
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Growth studies of Helicobacter pylori were performed involving analysis of the bacterium and its microenvironment, to lend insight into the factors responsible for the morphologic conversion phenomenon. H. pylori converted from bacillary to coccoid forms in broth culture after incubation for 5 days...
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PMID: 1866596
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From stools of 88 malagasy insect eater bats Chaerephon pumila, a large amount of bacterial strains were isolated. Twenty different species were recognized, most of them belonged to Enterobacteriaceae family. Eight strains were identified as Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica O48: -; 1.5, despite m...
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PMID: 3240566
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A fatal case of endocarditis due to Listeria monocytogenes is reported. Case reports of endocarditis due to this organism are rare but indicate a higher mortality than with many other causes of bacterial endocarditis. The size of the problem may be underestimated because the organism has a "diphther...
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PMID: 3991406
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The study of the electronograms of B. pertussis strains isolated in the foci of pertussis revealed the existence of the morphological variants of these cells, differing in the character of the cell wall, the state of the cytoplasm, the presence of amorphous inclusions of medium electron-optical dens...
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PMID: 6098110
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A case of acute conjunctivitis in man caused by Chlamydia IOL 207 is described. Chlamydiae were isolated from the eye, and rising titres of type-specific antibodies to C. IOL 207, in serum and tears demonstrated an aetiological role for this agent. C. IOL 207 is an atypical chlamydial strain which s...
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PMID: 6722073
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Blood and urine derived from patients with certain types of nephritis contain filterable (0.22 mu.) bacterial forms, which heretofore have not been considered as possible etiologic agents in those diseases. Furthermore, these cryptic bacterial forms are overlooked by conventional culture techniques....
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PMID: 7368462
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Casts with numerous and unusually large granules were seen in the urine of a child with renal Fanconi's syndrome. When the urine sediment was sealed under a coverslip for several days, many granules changed to filamentous bacterial variants that segmented and, finally, appeared as streptococcal-like...
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PMID: 518219
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A patient with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma developed meningitis due to an aberrant form of Pseudomonas aeruginosa observed on Gram stain. The organism was grown on primary isolation media without needing hypertonic media. The significance of aberrant forms in body fluids is discussed.
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PMID: 417094
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Abnormal forms of Trichomonas vaginalis have been demonstrated by both conventional and scanning electron microscopy after inoculation of media with clinical material from cases of trichomonal vaginitis. Twenty-six cases of vaginitis have been studied; 10 of them showed the abnormal forms of trichom...
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PMID: 305810
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S, R and M forms of Mycobacterium lacticolum were compared. The cells of the R form had the highest requirement in aeration and phosphorus, whereas the cells of the M form, the lowest requirement. The content of oxygen in the medium and the concentration of phosphorus almost did not affect the viria...
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PMID: 895558
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We report a case of mastoiditis due to M fortuitum and discuss the pathogenesis and treatment. This is the first known report of the organism causing otolaryngologic disease....
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PMID: 962700
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Bacterial variants of Pseudomonas maltophilia and Pseudomonas-like bacteria were recovered from tissues removed during the surgical treatment of three successive patients with Crohn's disease and from one patient with clinical and pathological features of both Crohn's disease and chronic ulcerative...
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PMID: 780185
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We found the incidence of ABFs isolated from various ocular sites to be 13.2%. The rate of isolation of these forms from the eyes of patients with suspected bacterial infection differed greatly from that for noninfected eyes. We will describe the microbiological techniques employed and will present...
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PMID: 779731
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Representative strains of "lacy-colony" mycoplasmas isolated from sheep in Great Britain and Victoria (Australia) were classified as M ovipneumoniae following comparison with strain Y98 of this species. The taxonomic description of M ovipneumoniae is extended and Y98 is proposed as the type strain....
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PMID: 936439
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1. Bacteroids of Rhizobium leguminosarum (strain PRE) purified from root nodules of Pisum sativum (var. 'Rondo') by the standard procedure of differential centrifugation contained considerable contamination of mitochondrial material. This could be removed by incubation of the bacteroid preparation w...
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PMID: 172157
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In experimental infection of rats induced with teh S-form of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae the pathogen was found to persist for a long time (up to fifteen months according to the author's personal observations). Under the effect of the specific and unspecific defense of the animal's organism the cau...
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PMID: 1217273
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Skin testing with antigens from Histoplasma capsulatum, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (PPD-S), and atypical mycobacteria (PPD-B, PPD-G, PPD-Y, and PPD-platy) was carried out among six population groups in the Solomon Islands between 1968 and 1972. There was no positive reaction to histoplasmin among an...
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PMID: 808143
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Bilateral draining fistulas which communicated with the cheek pouches were noted in the threat region of an adult femal Macaca mulatta receiving isoniazid for tuberculosis prophylaxis. Necrospy findings included enlargedregional lymph nodes and ulceration of cheek pouch mucous membranes. Acid-fast b...
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PMID: 1134036
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