Sequence type (ST) 8 has not been a common methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clone in Asia until recently. We aimed to determine the clinical significance and microbiological characteristics of MRSA bacteraemia (MRSAB) caused by ST8 and ...
Pao-Yu Chen +5 more
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High Rates of Homologous Recombination in the Mite Endosymbiont and Opportunistic Human Pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi [PDF]
The study was funded by the Wellcome Trust. PS was supported by grants from the Wellcome Trust (073135) and British Infection Society.Orientia tsutsugamushi is an intracellular alpha-proteobacterium which resides in trombiculid mites, and is the ...
Feil, EJ +44 more
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Establishment of a publicly available core genome multilocus sequence typing scheme for Clostridium perfringens [PDF]
Clostridium perfringens is a spore-forming anaerobic pathogen responsible for a variety of histotoxic and intestinal infections in humans and animals.
Seyboldt, Christian +11 more
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Antonella Santona +6 more
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Leishmania donovani populations in Eastern Sudan: temporal structuring and a link between human and canine transmission. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), caused by the members of the Leishmania donovani complex, has been responsible for devastating VL epidemics in the Sudan.
Baleela, Rania +16 more
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Genetic diversity of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae
Fifty five Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates with reduced susceptibility to penicillin, obtained from patients with respiratory tract infections during 2003 –2007, were analyzed by MLST.
T. A. Savinova +3 more
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Multilocus Sequence Typing and Phylogenetic Analysis of Propionibacterium acnes [PDF]
ABSTRACTPropionibacterium acnesis a commensal of human skin but is also implicated in the pathogenesis of acne vulgaris, in biofilm-associated infections of medical devices and endophthalmitis, and in infections of bone and dental root canals. Recent studies associateP. acneswith prostate cancer.
Kilian, Mogens +2 more
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Multilocus sequence typing of Cronobacter sakazakii and Cronobacter malonaticus reveals stable clonal structures with clinical significance which do not correlate with biotypes [PDF]
Background: The Cronobacter genus (Enterobacter sakazakii) has come to prominence due to its association with infant infections, and the ingestion of contaminated reconstituted infant formula. C. sakazakii and C.
Loughlin, Michael, Dr. +13 more
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Giardia duodenalis is an intestinal protozoan parasite of humans and animal hosts and comprises eight microscopically indistinguishable molecularly-diverse lineages designated as assemblages A–H.
Saeideh Hashemi-Hafshejani +5 more
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Molecular epidemiologic source tracking of orally transmitted Chagas disease, Venezuela. [PDF]
Oral outbreaks of Chagas disease are increasingly reported in Latin America. The transitory presence of Trypanosoma cruzi parasites within contaminated foods, and the rapid consumption of those foods, precludes precise identification of outbreak origin ...
Hernán J. Carrasco +27 more
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