Aim – to study the species composition and population level of microbiota contents maxillary sinuses oropharynx in patients with chronic purulent sinusitis (CPMS), which arose on background type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM).Material methods. A microbiological examination 97 samples sinus cavity was performed. The main group consisted 50 CPMS aged 20-67 years (10 20-31 years, 14 31-45 26 45-67 years...

Phylogenetic relationships of 69 neonatal meningitis Escherichia coli strains isolated worldwide were studied. Restriction fragment length polymorphism of rrn operons (rrn RFLP) in these isolates was compared with that of the 72 strains of the ECOR reference collection. Distributions of K1 antigen, of polymerase chain reaction-detected ibe10 gene, pap, afa, sfa/foc, hly, and aer operons, and of...

To assess the implication of the genetic background of Escherichia coli strains in the emergence of extended-spectrum-Beta -lactamases (ESBL), 55 TEM-, 52 CTX-M-, and 22 SHV-type ESBL-producing clinical isolates involved in various extraintestinal infections or colonization were studied in terms of phylogenetic group, virulence factor (VF) content (pap, sfa/foc, hly, and aer genes), and fluoroq...

UPEC is responsible for morethan 90% of UTI. Conventional and molecular characterizations are essential for epidemiological surveillance as well as proper management of diseases. Virulence factors, antibiotic susceptibility, RAPD pattern, plasmid profile of the E. coli isolated from UTI cases were studied using standard methods. Antibiotic susceptibility pattern of 127 uropathogenic E. coli rev...

Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen, and the detection and differentiation of this bacterium from the nonpathogenic Listeria species are of great importance to the food industry. Differentiation of Listeria species is very difficult, even with the sophisticated MALDI-TOF MS technique because of the close genetic relationship of the species and the usual gene transfer. The present pap...

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) has been used for vaccination against tuberculosis for nearly a century. Here, we analyze immunity induced by a live tuberculosis vaccine candidate, recombinant BCG ΔureC::hly vaccine (rBCG), with proven preclinical and clinical safety and immunogenicity. We pursue in-depth analysis of the endogenous mycobacteria-specific CD4(+) T-cell population, comparing the mo...

Overshoot is a serio us problem in automatic control systems. This paper presents a new method for elimination of the step response overshoot in a conventional PID-controlled system and enhancement of its robustness by cascading a sliding mode controller in the outer loop. The idea is first to use the cascade control principle to model the under-damped system under PID control with a second-ord...

8 1 Département de Microbiologie, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique9 Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Descartes, France 10 2 Centre National de Référence des Listeria, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre 11 for Foodborne Listeriosis, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. 12 3 Actual Adress: Laboratoire de Microbiologie-Hygiène, Centre Hospitalier de Versailles, Le 13 ...