Results: 35

Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli

Braz. j. microbiol; 47 (supl.1), 2016
ABSTRACT Most Escherichia coli strains live harmlessly in the intestines and rarely cause disease in healthy individuals. Nonetheless, a number of pathogenic strains can cause diarrhea or extraintestinal diseases both in healthy and immunocompromised individuals. Diarrheal illnesses are a severe public h...

Local circulating clones of Staphylococcus aureus in Ecuador

Braz. j. infect. dis; 20 (6), 2016
ABSTRACT The spread of pandemic Staphylococcus aureus clones, mainly methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), must be kept under surveillance to assemble an accurate, local epidemiological analysis. In Ecuador, the prevalence of the USA300 Latin American variant clone (USA300-LV) is well known; however, t...

Incidence of virulence determinants in clinical Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium isolates collected in Bulgaria

Braz. j. infect. dis; 20 (2), 2016
Abstract Objectives To evaluate the prevalence of some virulence genes among 510 clinical Enterococcus spp. isolates and to assess the association of those genes with the species, infection site, and patient group (inpatients/outpatients). Methods Adhesins genes (aggregation substances agg and asa1 of ...

Virulence genes in Escherichia coli isolated from feces and urine of cats

Determinadas linhagens de Escherichia coli comportam-se como patógenos em gatos, causando doenças gastrointestinais e extraintestinais. Neste estudo, foram utilizadas 205 cepas de E. coli isoladas de amostras de fezes provenientes de 19 gatos diarreicos e de 21 gatos não diarreicos, e três amostras d...