The article discusses a topical issue regarding the replenishment of passenger car fleet with promising and comfortable cars. To determine quality assessment carriage, check was carried out for compliance standards smoothness carriage. Based on main technical parameters new calculated values were determined without taking into account payload. Comparing results obtained highest permissible valu...

we recorded a markedly enhanced immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody response in the two youngest and most seriously ill test animals. In these, the elimination of L. monocytogenes from the gastrointestinal tract occurred simultaneously with the development of the highest antibody levels at 14 to 15 days postinoculation. In the case of the oldest test animal, a preexisting, persistent IgG antibody r...

Typhoid fever is caused by Salmonella typhi, which differs from most other Salmonella species in that it infects only humans and frequently causes severe systemic illness. It is usually transmitted by food and drink that has been contaminated with fecal material from a patient with typhoid fever or an asymptomatic carrier of S. typhi. The fatality rate ranges from 16% in untreated cases to less...

We investigated carriage of avian influenza viruses by wild birds in Australia, 2005-2008, to assess the risks to poultry industries and human health. We collected 21,858 (7,357 cloacal, 14,501 fecal) samples and detected 300 viruses, representing a detection rate of ≈1.4%. Rates were highest in autumn (March-May) and differed substantially between bird types, areas, and years. We typed 107 avi...

The recent paper by H. E. Muller (3) on the role of the Morganella-Proteus-Providencia group in diarrheal disease raises some important points. Previous reports have speculated on the role of these organisms in gastrointestinal disease (1, 2, 4). To date, no specific mechanism of pathogenicity has been described which links the Proteeae with infectious diarrhea. The prevalence study reported by...

Human bocavirus (HBoV) was first described in 2005 in nasopharyngeal aspirates of children with respiratory tract infection. Multiple studies have confirmed the presence of HBoV in respiratory tract samples of children world-wide. HBoV has recently also been detected in blood and fecal samples. Most studies so far have studied virus prevalence, and only a few reports provide data regarding the ...

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi can colonize the gallbladder and persist in an asymptomatic carrier state that is frequently associated with the presence of gallstones. We have shown that salmonellae form bile-mediated biofilms on human gallstones and cholesterol-coated surfaces in vitro. Here, we test the hypothesis that biofilms on cholesterol gallbladder stones facilitate typhoid carriage ...

Glycopeptide-resistant enterococci (GRE) can carry more than one VanA element (3, 5), but we are unaware of previous evidence for separate transfer of such elements. Enterococcus faecalis JS3B was examined as one of 46 GRE isolated from fecal screens of a hematology patient at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom (7). Overlapping PCR (1) showed that this strain contained a group H ...