Normal and tumour cervical cells respond differently to vaginal lactobacilli, independent of pH and lactateJournal of Medical Microbiology - Tập 62 Số 7 - Trang 1065-1072 - 2013
Elahe Motevaseli, Mahdieh Shirzad, Seyed Mohammad Akrami, Azam Sadat Mousavi, Akbar Mirsalehian, Mohammad Hossein Modarressi
Cervical cancer is a human papilloma virus (HPV)-related cancer, but most HPV infections are transient or intermittent and resolve spontaneously. Thus, other factors, such as cervical microflora, which are dominated by lactobacilli, must be involved in invasive cervical carcinoma development after HPV infection. Previous studies have demonstrated that lactobacilli have antitumour effects, ...... hiện toàn bộ
Dissemination of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strains carrying the ISAba1–bla OXA-23 genes in a Chinese hospitalJournal of Medical Microbiology - Tập 56 Số 8 - Trang 1076-1080 - 2007
Hua Zhou, Borui Pi, Qing Yang, Yunsong Yu, Yagang Chen, Lanjuan Li, Shusen Zheng
An outbreak of 95 clinical infections with imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a Chinese hospital was investigated and the carbapenemase-encoding genes and their relationship with ISAba1 of these and a further 16 isolates recovered from the intensive care unit (ICU) environment were analysed. Almost all isolates were resistant...... hiện toàn bộ
One year prospective survey of Candida bloodstream infections in ScotlandJournal of Medical Microbiology - Tập 56 Số 8 - Trang 1066-1075 - 2007
Frank C. Odds, Mary Hanson, Amanda D. Davidson, Martin Jacobsen, P Wright, Julie A. Whyte, Neil A. R. Gow, B Jones
A 12 month survey of candidaemia in Scotland, UK, in which every Scottish hospital laboratory submitted all blood isolates of yeasts for identification, strain typing and susceptibility testing, provided 300 isolates from 242 patients, generating incidence data of 4.8 cases per 100 000 population per year and 5.9 cases per 100 000 acute occupied bed days; 27.9 % of cases occurred in intens...... hiện toàn bộ
Cutaneous infection caused by Aspergillus terreusJournal of Medical Microbiology - Tập 58 Số 7 - Trang 968-970 - 2009
Burçin Özer, Aydıner Kalacı, Nizami Duran, Yunus Doğramacı, Ahmet Nedim Yanat
Aspergillus species are widely distributed in nature, and more than 30 species have been reported to be involved in human and animal infection. Cutaneous infections due to Aspergillus terreus are particularly rare. In this report, we describe a case of cutaneous infection caused by A. terreus... hiện toàn bộ
Genotyping of the prevalent Chlamydia trachomatis strains involved in cervical infections in women in Ahvaz, IranJournal of Medical Microbiology - Tập 59 Số 9 - Trang 1023-1028 - 2010
Behrouz Taheri Beni, Hossein Motamedi, Mohammad Roayaei Ardakani
To determine the prevalence of cervicalChlamydia trachomatisgenotypes in Iran for the first time and their association with three clinical symptoms/signs, i.e. abnormal vaginal discharge, lower abdominal pain (LAP) and swab-induced bleeding, and patient age, 620 cervical specimens were obtained from women with symptomatic genital infection referred to gynaecologi...... hiện toàn bộ