• Wound dressing with Janus superhydrophilic/superhydrophobic feature is designed. Superhydrophilic PCL-Gelatin fibers act as a pump-like suction layer. Suprehydrophobic side shows excellent anti-adhesion effect. Rational design of new wound materials aims to accelerate healing. Traditional hydrophilic dressings, however, tend cause retention exudate retention, which increases the risk bacteria...

Secondary bacterial infection can adversely affect the clinical course of primary viral indengue fever. Time consuming microbiological culture confirmations and false negative resultsdelay timely initiation antibiotics. The objective this study was to describe variation in thecommon laboratory parameters during illness, identify criteria that may predict secondary bacterialinfection before micr...

Gland colonization may be one crucial route for bacteria to maintain chronic gastrointestinal infection. We developed a quantitative gland isolation method to allow robust bacterial population analysis and applied it to the gastric pathobiont Helicobacter pylori After infections in the murine model system, H. pylori populations multiply both inside and outside glands in a manner that requires t...

Introduction Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae causes enzootic pneumonia that primarily affects growing pigs. Although the disease is nonfatal, it causes substantial losses attributable to reduced growth performance, increased susceptibility to secondary bacterial pneumonia, and potentiation of PRRSV-induced pneumonia.1, 2 Both cell-mediated and humoral immune responses appear to be important in providi...

The case of a 61-year-old woman with Whipple's disease-associated sicca complex is reported. Tropheryma whipplei infection was diagnosed by histological and ultrastructural examination of the jejunal mucosa and sequence analysis of the bacterial 16S ribosomal DNA. The role of vitamin A malabsorption in sicca complex secondary to Whipple's disease is discussed.

Orf is a mucocutaneous disease that occurs when non-intact skin comes into contact with contaminated sheep saliva. The lesions may complicate to lymphangitis or secondary bacterial infection, but systemic complications such as erythema multiforme, maculopapular rash, and generalized lymphadenopathy are rare. In this paper, we present two cases of erythema multiforme following Orf disease.

Susceptibility to bacterial infections after a primary immune stimulation differs drastically depending on the presensitization of the innate immune system. To determine the conditions that either induce protection or enhanced susceptibility to infection with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, we pretreated mice either with tumor necrosis factor (TNF), whole killed bacteria, or sublethal ...

Seasonal influenza virus infection presents a major strain on the health care system. Influenza virus infection has pandemic potential, which was repeatedly observed during the last century. Severe disease may occur in the young, in the elderly, in those with preexisting lung disease, and in previously healthy individuals. A common cause of severe influenza pathogenesis is superinfection with b...