Seventy poultry farms’ drinking water was tested for Escherichia coli contamination in Qom province inIran. The cases of colibacillosis from positive farms were also collected and tested. The isolates wereexamined for serotype, detection of virulence genes by multiplex PCR and antibiotic resistance. Thirtypoultry farm water samples were E. coli positive (18.57%), although 13 E. coli isolates we...

In this study, 72 Enterococcus faecalis isolates originating from humans (n=39), dogs (n=26) and cats (n=7) were investigated for some virulence factors, some virulence genes, antibiotic resistance phenotypes, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA-polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR) patterns and biofilm production. Of the isolates, 31 (43.1%) were positive for gelatinase, 11 (15.3%) for aggregati...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa as an opportunistic pathogen produces several virulence factors. The most important of these factors are exotoxin A and type III secretion system (T3SS). The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of toxA, exoU and exoS genes among clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa. In this cross-sectional study from September 2011 to February 2012, 156 P. aeruginosa isolates w...

Abstract As a conserved epigenetic mark, DNA cytosine methylation, at the 5’ position (5-mC), plays important roles in multiple biological processes, including plant immunity. However, involvement of methylation determinants virulence phytopathogenic fungi remains elusive. In this study, we profiled patterns fungus Verticillium dahliae , one major causal pathogens wilt disease that causes great...

Objective: Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a bacterium that infects the gastric mucosa of 50% world population. It known different regional treatment practices used against infections H. affect both expression virulence and antimicrobial resistance genes, giving bacteria geographic differentiation. The aim this study was to perform in silico analysis virulence, genes phylogeny strains obtain...

Introduction: In Iran, invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella (iNTS) disease causes severe bacteremic illness among children <5 years old. The global yearly incidence of iNTS disease in children was reported to be in the 3.4 (range&nbsp; 2.1-6.5) million cases,&nbsp; (overall incidence 49 cases (range 30-94) per 100,000 population), the iNTS case-fatality ratio (CFR) of 20% yielded 681,316&nbsp; deat...