BACKGROUND Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by the weakness of facial, shoulder-girdle and upper arm muscles. Most patients with FSHD have fewer numbers of tandem repeated 3.3-kb KpnI units on chromosome 4q35. Chromosome 10q26 contains highly homologous KpnI repeats, and inter-chromosomal translocation has been reported. METHODS To ...

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) has an estimated prevalence of 4–7 per 100,000 population, making it the third most common type of muscular dystrophy. The classic form of FSHD is characterized by weakness that is slowly progressive and often asymmetric in the face, scapulae, upper arms, lower legs, and abdomen. The age at onset of symptoms varies from infancy to middle age, and li...

*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Kawagoe City Public Health Center, 817-1, Ogaya, Kawagoe-shi, Saitama 350-1104, Japan. E-mail: [email protected] We report here an outbreak of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infection at a snapping turtle (Suppon) restaurant in Japan. On September 27, 2007, a public health center received a report that a 4-year-old boy had been s...

To the Editor: Beginning in early May 2011, an outbreak caused by Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 was reported in Germany and other countries in Europe. In this outbreak, the number of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) cases has been unusually high (1). As of June 9, 2011, a total of 722 cases of HUS, 19 deaths, and 2,745 cases of enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) infection were rep...

Salmonella enterica strains isolated in Okinawa between 1995 and 2005 were analyzed with respect to their serovars and antimicrobial susceptibility, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) was used to examine their digestion patterns. A total of 1,071 isolates, including 610 from humans, 358 from animal rectal swabs and 103 from meat obtained at grocery stores, were examined. The first 3 mo...

Salmonella enterica serovar Heidelberg strains are frequently associated with food-borne illness, with recent isolates showing higher rates of resistance to multiple antimicrobial agents. One hundred eighty S. enterica serovar Heidelberg isolates, collected from turkey-associated production and processing sources, were tested for antimicrobial susceptibility and compared by pulsed-field gel ele...

INTRODUCTION In Nigeria, acute gastroenteritis in children under five years of age is a major cause of mortality and morbidity; identification and characterization of microbial agents of acute gastroenteritis, including Salmonella, remains a powerful tool for effective management, surveillance, and control. METHODOLOGY Diarrheal stool samples were directly plated onto differential and selecti...

Salmonella infections have been implicated in large-scale die-offs of wild birds in the United States. Although we know quite a bit about the epidemiology of Salmonella infection among domestic fowl, we know little about the incidence, epidemiology, and genetic relatedness of salmonellae in nondomestic birds. To gain further insight into salmonellae in these hosts, 22 Salmonella isolates from d...

The aim of this study was to analyse chromosomally florfenicol-resistant Escherichia coli isolates for their genetic relatedness, and also for the presence of the floR gene and its adjacent regions, in order to compare these regions with those associated with a floR gene located on a conjugative plasmid from E. coli. Twenty-two bovine E. coli from France and Germany were examined. Florfenicol r...