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Preanalytical, Analytical and Postanalytical Analyses on Corynebacterium spp. and Actinomycetaceae in Urine Samples of Patients with Suspected Urinary Tract Infection—A Hypothesis-Forming Observational Study

Diagnostics
A hypothesis-forming exploratory cross-sectional assessment was conducted to assess the occurrence and relevance of Gram-positive rod-shaped bacteria like Corynebacterium spp. and Actinomycetaceae in human urine samples. In total, 1170 urine samples from
Hagen Frickmann, Kerstin Schwinge, Andreas Podbielski, Philipp Warnke   +3 more
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Actinomyces turicensis causing Urinary Tract Infection in Nephrotic Syndrome Patient- A Case Report [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2020
Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) are one of the most common bacterial infections which accounts for significant cost to health care and it is one of the important cause of bacteremia.
D Sarumathi, Pallam Gopichand, Kapil Sejpal, PS Priyamvada, Jharna Mandal   +4 more
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Alterations of the oral-gut microbiome axis of Egyptian teenagers after Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy [PDF]

Records of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences, 2023
Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative carcinogenic intestinal pathogen that infects about 50% of humans worldwide. The impact of H. pylori eradication therapy on the oral and gut microbiota of teenagers is yet unknown.
Sarah Shabayek
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SARS-CoV-2 Monitoring in Wastewater Reveals Novel Variants and Biomarkers of Infection

Viruses, 2022
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a popular tool for the early indication of community spread of infectious diseases. WBE emerged as an effective tool during the COVID-19 pandemic and has provided meaningful information to minimize the spread of ...
Jenna McGowan, Monica Borucki, Hicham Omairi, Merina Varghese, Shahnaz Vellani, Sukanya Chakravarty, Shumin Fan, Srestha Chattopadhyay, Mashuk Siddiquee, James B. Thissen, Nisha Mulakken, Joseph Moon, Jeffrey Kimbrel, Amit K. Tiwari, Roger Travis Taylor, Dae-Wook Kang, Crystal Jaing, Ritu Chakravarti, Saurabh Chattopadhyay   +18 more
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Prediction of Gut Microbial Community Structure and Function in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome With High Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021
Gut microbiota has been proved to be involved in the occurrence and development of many diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, coronary heart disease, etcetera. It provides a new idea for the pathogenesis of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
Xuping Zhu, Yanyu Li, Yanmin Jiang, Jisheng Zhang, Ru Duan, Lin Liu, Chao Liu, Xiang Xu, Lu Yu, Qian Wang, Fan Xiong, Chengming Ni, Lan Xu, Qing He   +13 more
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The Pathogenic Role of Actinomyces spp. and Related Organisms in Genitourinary Infections: Discoveries in the New, Modern Diagnostic Era

Antibiotics, 2020
Actinomycosis is a chronic, suppurative, granulomatous infectious disease, caused by different species of Actinomyces bacteria. To date, 26 validly published Actinomyces species have been described as part of a normal human microbiota or from human ...
Márió Gajdács, Edit Urbán
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No man's land: Species‐specific formation of exclusion zones bordering Actinomyces graevenitzii microcolonies in nanoliter cultures

MicrobiologyOpen, 2021
To survive within complex environmental niches, including the human host, bacteria have evolved intricate interspecies communities driven by competition for limited nutrients, cooperation via complementary metabolic proficiencies, and establishment of ...
Fatemeh Jalali, Felix Ellett, Pooja Balani, Margaret J. Duncan, Floyd E. Dewhirst, Gary G. Borisy, Daniel Irimia   +6 more
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Hepatic actinomycosis – A potential mimicker of malignancy

Radiology Case Reports, 2020
Actinomycosis is a rare granulomatous disease caused by commensal bacteria (Actinomycetaceae family) of the oropharynx, gastrointestinal, and urogenital tract.
Patrick Murphy, DO, Winnie A. Mar, MD, David Allison, DO, Gabriela Aguiluz Cornejo, MD, Suman Setty, MD, Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti, MD   +5 more
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Gut microbiota alterations may increase the risk of prescription opioid use, but not vice versa: A two-sample bi-directional Mendelian randomization study

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
IntroductionGut microbiota alterations are strongly associated with prescription opioid use (POU) and multisite chronic pain (MCP). However, whether or not these associations are causal remains unknown.
Liling Lin, Jianwei Lin, Junxiong Qiu, Feng Wei, Xiaohui Bai, Weiying Ma, Jingxian Zeng, Daowei Lin   +7 more
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Actinomycetes associated with abscess formation in a goat, a llama and two alpacas

Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift, 2020
The genera Actinomyces and Schaalia, both members of the bacterial order Actinomycetales, include relevant infectious agents that cause abscesses in small ruminants and New World camelids.
R Sting, A Schwalm, M Contzen, M Roller, J Rau   +4 more
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