Swine dysentery (SD) is a mucohaemorrhagic colitis of grower/finisher pigs classically resulting from infection by the anaerobic intestinal spirochaete Brachyspira hyodysenteriae. This study aimed to determine whether B. hyodysenteriae isolates from pigs in three healthy German multiplier herds supplying gilts to other farms differed from isolates from nine German production herds with SD. Isol...

Background and objective: The treatment of bacterial infections especially of the family Staphylococcaceae is a significant health burden that has led to economic losses, and high morbidity and mortality rates globally. This study aimed at the isolation and characterization of coagulase-positive, methicillin, and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococci isolated from wounds of patients. Methods: Fo...

background staphylococcus aureus is associated with different infections ranging from skin and soft tissue infections to endocarditis and fatal pneumonia. s. aureus is still the most common bacterial species isolated from inpatient specimens and the second most common from outpatient specimens. today, methicillin resistant s. aureus (mrsa) isolates are present in the hospitals of most countries...

background biosurfactants are surface-active compounds produced by some microorganisms. objectives in this study, we collected surface skin samples from breast of poultry (chicken, turkey, and, quail) and screened for biosurfactant-producing bacteria. we also determined the genera of cultured strains. materials and methods 33 hemolytic bacterial strains (15, 11, and 7 isolates from chicken, tur...

The mechanism of multiple antibiotic resistance in six isolates of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium recovered from a patient treated with ciprofloxacin was studied to investigate the role of efflux in the resistance phenotype. Compared to the patient's pretherapy isolate (L3), five of six isolates accumulated less ciprofloxacin, three of six isolates accumulated less chloramphenicol, and...

background: colibacillosis is one of the most economically important diseases of poultry worldwide. objectives: this study was conducted to examine the clonal relatedness and typing of 95 avian escherichia coli isolates by eric-pcr. methods: sixty-three e. coli isolates from two common manifestations of colibacillosis (yolk sac infection and colisepticemia) and 32 isolates from feces of apparen...

introduction: methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) can cause serious and life-threatening hospital- and community-acquired infections. colonized and infected patients represent the most important reservoir of mrsa in health care facilities. therefore, in this study, mrsa isolates collected from shohada hospital in tabriz were evaluated for the frequency of meca gene and their anti...

In order to gain a better understanding of the molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis isolates in Cameroon, 75 isolates of M. bovis collected in three provinces of northern Cameroon were studied by spoligotyping. For 65 of these isolates, typing was also carried out by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) with DraI, and 18 of the isolates were also typed by restriction fragment length...

to investigation of pathogenisity and genotype diversity of xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (xoo) caused rice bacterial blight, several samples were collected from paddy field of rice in rasht-sangar, soumeh sara, rezvan shahr, daboudasht amol and rice-institute-research guilan during the summer of 2012, from plants that showed blight and yellowing in their leaves. bacterial isolates were identif...

Full length genome sequences were characterized for three novel hepatitis C virus (HCV) isolates (here named DH012, DH014, and DH028). The complete genomes were all isolated from injecting drug users (IDUs) who were co-infected with HIV-1 and lived in Dehong prefecture, Yunnan Province, China, which neighbors Myanmar. The three genomes are 9,443-9,470 nt in length and each contains a single ope...