Draft genomes for Microbacterium hominis 84-0209(T) and M. laevaniformans 91-0039 were studied. Genome sizes (bps, [G+C contents]) were 3,506,522 (70.96%) and 2,999,965 (69.51%), respectively. Annotation revealed: (M. hominis) three rRNA sequences, 45 tRNA genes, and 3,218 coding sequences; (M. laevaniformans) three rRNA sequences, 49 tRNA genes, and 2,874 coding sequences.

The complete genome sequence of Mycoplasma hominis LBD-4 has been determined and the gene content ascribed. The 715,165-bp chromosome contains 620 genes, including 14 carried by a strain-variable prophage genome related to Mycoplasma fermentans MFV-1 and Mycoplasma arthritidis MAV-1. Comparative analysis with the genome of M. hominis PG21(T) reveals distinctive arrangements of repeat-containing...

Introduction: Blastocystis hominis is a parasite found in the stools of human as well as in the stools of other animals and recently its pathogenic potential has been increasingly recognized. Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a digestive system’s disorder which is featured by change in bowel habits, abdominal pains and other symptoms similar to Blastocystis hominis infection. There is lit...

Biological transmission of eggs and larvae of the human bot fly Dermatobia hominis by a female of the horn fly Haematobia irritans is reported for the first time in South America. Seventeen females of H. irritans were collected near the municipality of Morada Nova (19oS, 45oW) in the Três Marias, region of northwestern Minas Gerais in June 1993 and sent to the Entomology Laboratory, Dept. of Pr...

OBJECTIVE The genital mycoplasmas, Ureaplasma urealyticum and Mycoplasma hominis, are commonly identified in the vagina of healthy pregnant women. However, these microorganisms are the most common isolates from the amniotic fluids of women in preterm labor. The mechanisms responsible for vaginal colonization and ascent to the uterus remain undetermined. We evaluated the association between U. u...

BACKGROUND Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum are implicated in a wide array of infectious diseases in adults and children. Since some species have innate or acquired resistance to certain types of antibiotics, antibiotic susceptibility testing of mycoplasma isolated from the urogenital tract assumes increasing importance. AIMS To evaluate the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibili...

Spiral organisms were isolated from an antral gastric mucosal biopsy specimen from a dyspeptic patient with gastritis. Only corkscrew-shaped organisms resembling "Gastrospirillum hominis" ("Helicobacter heilmannii") but no Helicobacter pylori-like organisms were seen in histological sections. H. pylori was not cultured from specimens from this patient. On the basis of biochemical reactions, mor...

BACKGROUND Cryptosporidiosis is an important cause for chronic diarrhea and death in HIV/AIDS patients. Among common Cryptosporidium species in humans, C. parvum is responsible for most zoonotic infections in industrialized nations. Nevertheless, the clinical significance of C. parvum and role of zoonotic transmission in cryptosporidiosis epidemiology in developing countries remain unclear. M...

Sheehan et al. (3) and Pikula (Z. P. Pikula, Letter, J. Clin. Microbiol. 25:1581, 1987) bear witness to the fact that Blastocystis hominis is a common inhabitant of the human intestinal tract. These authors, like those they cite, have found B. hominis in some persons in whom they identified none of the commonly recognized pathogens, and in others in association with recognized pathogenic protoz...

Mycoplasma hominis is one of the well known genital mycoplasma agent that has been recognized as potentially pathogenic species and associated with various infectious diseases in adult men and woman. The organism could cause pelvic inflammatory disease, postpartum, postabortion fever and pyelonephritis. The Aim of this prospective study was to detemine the occurrence and prevalence of Mycoplasm...