Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) is a major serovar associated with human salmonellosis. A total of 425 clinical S. Enteritidis isolates of human origin were collected between June 2009 and September 2010 from North Carolina. The isolates were further characterized for antimicrobial susceptibility, antimicrobial resistance coding determinants, virulence genes, and finger...

Osteoporosis (OP) is one of the most common chronic disorders; the disabilities that result from osteoporotic fractures (OPF) worldwide have an enormous impact on the health of individuals, societies and economies. Genetic factors together with environmental factors play an important role in regulating the development of osteoporosis as well as contributing to the susceptibility of osteoporotic...

Salmonella enterica serotypes Derby, Mbandaka, Montevideo, Livingstone, and Senftenberg were among the 10 most prevalent serotypes isolated from farm animals in England and Wales in 1999. These serotypes are of potential zoonotic relevance; however, there is currently no "gold standard" fingerprinting method for them. A collection of isolates representing the former serotypes and serotype Gold ...

A genome and fatty acid analysis of 16 Pseudomonas stutzeri reference strains having DNA compositions ranging from 62.2 to 65.5 mol% G+C was performed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of XbaI and SpeI macrorestriction fragments and gas chromatography of total cellular fatty acids. Macrorestriction fragment patterns were evaluated by using previously described algorithms (D. Grothues and B. T...

The aim of the study was to elucidate the association between the zoonotic pathogen Salmonella and a population of land iguana, Colonophus subcristatus, endemic to Galápagos Islands in Ecuador. We assessed the presence of Salmonella subspecies and serovars and estimated the prevalence of the pathogen in that population. Additionally, we investigated the genetic relatedness among isolates and se...

We studied the population genetics of Mycobacterium kansasii isolates from the United States by PCR restriction enzyme analysis (PRA) of the 441-bp Telenti fragment of the hsp-65 gene and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of genomic DNA with the restriction endonucleases AseI, DraI, and XbaI, and we compared the patterns to those previously reported from France and Japan. By PRA, 78 of 81...