Publications
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| comparative in vitro activities of new 14-, 15-, and 16-membered macrolides. | the in vitro activities of several 14-, 15- and 16-membered macrolides were compared with that of erythromycin. in general, 14-membered macrolides such as erythromycin, clarithromycin, and flurithromycin were more active against streptococci and bordetella pertussis than was the 15-membered macrolide azithromycin, which was more active than 16-membered macrolides such as miocamycin and rokitamycin. clarithromycin was the most active compound against streptococcus pyogenes, pneumococci, listeria ... | 1988 | 3252753 |
| the occurrence of thermophilic campylobacter in mink and an experimental oral infection of pregnant mink by campylobacter jejuni. | 1988 | 3256243 | |
| paediatric campylobacter diarrhoea from household exposure to live chickens in lima, peru. | although campylobacter jejuni is a frequent enteropathogen in cases of paediatric diarrhoea in developing countries, its route of transmission is not well understood. an age-matched, case-control study of children with c. jejuni diarrhoea was therefore carried out in lima, peru, from january 1983 to april 1986 to identify the risk factors and vehicles of transmissions. as cases, 104 children less than 3 years of age were selected and compared with controls of the same age with non-gastrointestin ... | 1988 | 3262442 |
| [bacteriological, pharmacokinetic and clinical studies on a rokitamycin dry syrup in the pediatric field]. | bacteriological, pharmacokinetic and clinical studies were done on the effect of rokitamycin (rkm, tms-19-q) in the field of pediatrics. the results are summarized below. 1. antibacterial activities antibacterial activities of rkm against staphylococcus aureus (including 50 methicillin-sensitive and 50 methicillin-resistant strains), 18 strains of haemophilus influenzae and 50 strains of campylobacter jejuni were studied comparatively with activities of josamycin (jm), midecamycin (mdm), erythro ... | 1988 | 3265445 |
| prevalence of campylobacter in infant, juvenile and adult laboratory primates. | a cross-sectional study of campylobacter spp. infection was conducted on 125 infant (macaca nemestrina and macaca fascicularis) in an infant primate nursery housing infants from birth to 18 months of age, and 145 m. nemestrina aged from 4 months to 15 years at another facility (primate field station) housing animals from birth to aged adults. the objective was to determine the prevalence of campylobacter spp. in various age groups and to investigate the correlation with diarrhea. in the infant p ... | 1988 | 3265462 |
| [campylobacter jejuni and campylobacter coli: epidemiologic markers of isolated strains in santiago, chile]. | 1988 | 3267894 | |
| gene disruption and replacement as a feasible approach for mutagenesis of campylobacter jejuni. | campylobacter jejuni and campylobacter coli are important causes of human enteric infections. several determinants of pathogenicity have been proposed based on the clinical features of diarrheal disease and on the phenotypic properties of campylobacter strains. to facilitate an understanding of the genetic determinants of campylobacter virulence, we have developed a method for constructing c. jejuni mutants by shuttle mutagenesis. in the example described here, a kanamycin resistance gene was in ... | 1988 | 2832375 |
| nucleotide sequence analysis and expression of a tetracycline-resistance gene from campylobacter jejuni. | resistance to tetracycline in the microaerophilic gram-negative bacterium campylobacter jejuni is plasmid-mediated. a 6.9-kb hindiii dna fragment containing the tetracycline-resistance (tcr) gene (designated teto) from the c. jejuni conjugative plasmid pua466 was cloned into puc8, and the resultant plasmid puoa1 was used to transform escherichia coli to tc resistance. the teto gene was localized at a 2.0-kb region comprising 0.2-kb and 1.8-kb hincii fragments, and the nucleotide sequences were d ... | 1988 | 2836268 |
| the relationship between intestinal campylobacter species isolated from animals and humans as determined by brenda. | intestinal thermophilic campylobacter species produce stable patterns when subjected to bacterial restriction endonuclease dna analysis (brenda); this technique is therefore of considerable value in epidemiological studies. brenda was used to examine thermophilic campylobacter species from humans, wild and domestic animals. one hundred and ninety-four (61%) of 316 isolates of campylobacter jejuni from humans had brenda patterns which could be matched to those of animal isolates. poultry appear t ... | 1988 | 2837404 |
| severe guillain-barré syndrome: an association with iga anti-cardiolipin antibody in a series of 92 patients. | to determine whether anti-cardiolipin antibodies (aca) are associated with acute guillain-barré syndrome (gbs), we studied sera from 92 patients with gbs, 82 age- and sex-matched hospital controls and 24 patients with uncomplicated cytomegalovirus or campylobacter jejuni infection, using an isotype-specific aca enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa). iga aca titres (but not igg aca or igm aca) were significantly elevated (p = 0.002) in gbs patients compared to controls, and associated with pe ... | 1988 | 2840454 |
| nucleotide sequence analysis of tetracycline resistance gene teto from streptococcus mutans dl5. | streptococcus mutans dl5, isolated from the dental plaque of a pig, was resistant to high levels of streptomycin (sm, 20 mg/ml), erythromycin (em, 1 mg/ml), and tetracycline (tc, greater than 100 micrograms/ml), but contained no detectable plasmid dna. the smr and emr determinants were cloned from cellular dna on the self-replicating 5-kilobase-pair (kbp) ecori fragment of pam beta 1 and the 4.2-kbp cryptic plasmid pva380-1, respectively, by transformation of streptococcus sanguis challis. helpe ... | 1988 | 2841293 |
| study of plasmid screening amongst pathogenic bacteria isolated in nigeria. | clinical isolates of neisseria gonorrhoeae, campylobacter jejuni, escherichia coli, shigella dysenteriae, shigella boydii, yersinia spp. and salmonella spp. were screened for the presence of plasmids. approximately 80% of these strains harboured plasmids ranging in molecular weight from 1.0 to 45 x 10(6) daltons. | 1988 | 2845756 |
| a new heat-labile cytolethal distending toxin (cldt) produced by campylobacter spp. | a new heat-labile toxin cytolethal to cho, vero, hela, and hep-2 cells and negative in y-1 cells has been demonstrated in culture filtrates of many strains of campylobacter spp. this new toxin was termed a cytolethal distending toxin (cldt) to reflect the progressive cell distention and eventual cytotoxicity observed in all sensitive tissue cells. cldt was distinct from previously reported cytotoxins and cholera-like enterotoxin produced by some campylobacter spp. since cho elongation induced by ... | 1988 | 2849028 |
| adherence of campylobacter jejuni and campylobacter coli to porcine intestinal brush border membranes. | the adhesion of campylobacter jejuni and c. coli to isolated porcine intestinal brush border membranes was studied by phase-contrast and electron microscopy. approximately 45% of the cell population adhered to the brush borders, possibly in a specific manner. pretreatment of the brush borders with trypsin or pronase, and competitive inhibition with l-rhamnose caused a slight reduction of the adhesion. different forms of pretreatment of the bacterial cells reduced their ability to adhere, but als ... | 1988 | 3046640 |
| [microbiological, pharmacokinetic and clinical studies of rokitamycin dry syrup in the pediatric field]. | rokitamycin (rkm), a newly developed macrolide antibiotic with a 16-membered ring, dissolves well under acidic conditions. it has been improved over other macrolides to minimize individual variations in its absorbability. we measured, using the ga-test, variations in gastric acidities of 43 children with ages between 1 to 14 years, and investigated the relationship between gastric acidities and pharmacokinetic values. also activities (expressed in mics) of antimicrobial agents were studied again ... | 1988 | 3050186 |
| occurrence of 'thermophilic' campylobacters in sewage and their removal by treatment processes. | removal of thermophilic campylobacters from sewage at three different stages of treatment at a trickling filter sewage works has been assessed. samples of incoming sewage, primary sedimentation effluent and final effluent were taken daily from 06.00 h to 20.00 h for 5 consecutive days and the numbers of campylobacters determined by using a most probable number method. each sample was cultured using 2 h pre-enrichment followed by enrichment in preston broth for 48 h and detection by plating. over ... | 1988 | 3053218 |
| electrophoretic protein typing of campylobacter jejuni subspecies "doylei" (nitrate-negative campylobacter-like organisms) from human faeces and gastric mucosa. | twenty-seven strains comprising 23 clinical isolates of nitrate negative campylobacters (nnc) from australia, south africa, the united kingdom and the federal republic of germany, a representative of the cnw (catalase negative/weak) group and reference strains of three other campylobacter species, were characterized by one-dimensional sds-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of cellular proteins. the protein patterns were highly reproducible, and were used as the basis for a numerical analysis whi ... | 1988 | 3053235 |
| the clinical use of macrolides. | macrolides are active against streptococcus pneumoniae, legionella spp. and mycoplasma pneumoniae, the main causes of community-acquired pneumonia they may therefore be used for the empirical treatment of community-acquired pneumonia, although emergent resistance in str. pneumoniae limits their use in some parts of the world. in patients with bronchitis the use of macrolides reduces the severity and duration of symptoms. macrolides have also been used successfully in the treatment of otitis medi ... | 1988 | 3053568 |
| immune response to acute diarrhea seen as circulating antibody-secreting cells. | we studied the immune response to acute diarrhea by examining antibody-secreting cells among peripheral blood lymphocytes, which are believed to be derived from the intestinal mucosa and to be on their way back there. in 23 of 24 patients, a dramatic increase in the total number of cells actively secreting immunoglobulins was detected one week after onset of diarrhea, and most of the cells were secreting iga. cells secreting antibody specific to the pathogen (campylobacter jejuni or salmonella s ... | 1988 | 3053918 |
| motility of campylobacter jejuni in a viscous environment: comparison with conventional rod-shaped bacteria. | the motility of four strains of campylobacter jejuni in solutions of varying viscosity was measured and compared to that of a number of conventional rod-shaped bacteria (crsb). all the bacteria tested showed an initial increase in velocity in the low viscosity solutions--between 1 and 3 centipoise (1 p = 0.1 pa s). however, only the campylobacters were actively motile in highly viscous solutions with velocities ranging from 60 to 100 micron s-1. all strains of c. jejuni tested showed three separ ... | 1988 | 3053972 |
| characterization of campylobacter jejuni and campylobacter coli isolated from waste water. | the raw sewage samples of the investigated municipal sewage plant (sewage flow of about 30,000 m3/d) contained about 10(3) campylobacters/100 ml. the sewage plant reduced 80.8% of organic wastes (cod), 85.0% of colony counts (20 degrees c), 92.5% of total coliforms and 88.0% of campylobacters. the sewage plant effluent contained an average of 1.3 x 10(2) campylobacters/100 ml. about 10(10) campylobacters are discharged with the effluent of the high-output sewage plant into the receiving water ev ... | 1988 | 3057769 |
| [chronic diarrhea caused by campylobacter jejuni in a patient with aids]. | we report a case of c. jejuni chronic diarrhea in a homosexual man with aids. the antibiotic susceptibility of the bacteria was about normal for the species. investigating specific immunity, we observed the presence of anti-c. jejuni igg and the absence of anti-c. jejuni iga. these findings concord with the hypothesis that specific iga are necessary for c. jejuni clearance from the digestive tract. | 1988 | 3059270 |
| colonization of gastrointestinal tracts of chicks by campylobacter jejuni. | bacterial enumeration and histologic examination of organs and tissues of 8-day-old chicks 7 days after peroral inoculation with campylobacter jejuni revealed that the organism colonized primarily the lower gastrointestinal tract. the principal sites of localization were the ceca, large intestine, and cloaca, where densely packed cells of c. jejuni were observed in mucus within crypts. examination of c. jejuni-colonized crypts by transmission electron microscopy revealed that the campylobacters ... | 1988 | 3060015 |
| pathogenic bacteria in milk--a review. | pathogenic bacteria are transmissible to humans through milk and milk products. recently, attention is focused on milk, cheese, and ice cream contaminated with pathogenic bacteria, viz., listeria monocytogenes, yersinia enterocolitica, campylobacter jejuni, and enteropathogenic escherichia coli. this review presents information on characteristics of these pathogens and illnesses caused by them. | 1988 | 3060492 |
| [isolation of a campylobacter jejuni-like bacteria from gastric mucosa]. | 1988 | 3063580 | |
| the genus campylobacter: a decade of progress. | in 1977, microbiologists and clinicians were awakened to the importance of the genus campylobacter when it was learned that one species, campylobacter jejuni, was a major cause of human enteritis. in the following decade substantial advances were made in diagnosis, isolation technology, identification, classification, serotyping, and epidemiology. the genus has undergone rapid expansion as advantage was taken of the deoxyribonucleic acid-deoxyribonucleic acid hybridization technique in defining ... | 1988 | 3069194 |
| oral rehydration in infantile diarrhoea in the developed world. | acute diarrhoea is an important health problem in developed countries, particularly in young children. the attack rates for viral diarrhoea are similar in developed and developing countries. rotavirus is the most common pathogen, followed by adenovirus. bacterial diarrhoea is less common in developed than developing countries. the 2 most common bacterial pathogens are campylobacter jejuni and salmonella. the most serious consequence of diarrhoea is dehydration, and the treatment for this is the ... | 1988 | 3069444 |
| comparison of broth enrichment and direct plating for the isolation of campylobacter jejuni from dogs. | two techniques for the isolation of campylobacter jejuni from feces, direct plating and thioglycolate broth enrichment, were compared. a total of 272 rectal swab cultures were performed on 156 laboratory dogs. campylobacter blood agar plates and campylobacter thioglycolate broth were inoculated immediately upon sampling of the dogs. after incubation at 4 degrees c for 12 to 16 h, material from the campylobacter thioglycolate medium was inoculated onto campylobacter blood agar plates. a total of ... | 1988 | 3069857 |
| cloning and expression of the campylobacter jejuni glya gene in escherichia coli. | genetic studies of campylobacter jejuni are greatly hampered by the lack of genetic markers and an established classical gene transfer mechanism between strains of this species. to facilitate future genetic studies and to provide a recombinant dna approach for analyzing genes of c. jejuni, we constructed an extensive genomic library of a pathogenic c. jejuni strain tgh9011 (serotype 0:3) using pbr322. we report the isolation of a number of recombinant plasmids containing the complete structural ... | 1988 | 3072255 |
| the growth of potential food poisoning organisms on chicken and pork muscle surfaces. | muscle surfaces of pork were inoculated with a mixture of yersinia enterocolitica and staphylococcus aureus, and chicken muscle with campylobacter jejuni or a mixture of salmonella typhimurium and staph. aureus. the surface growth at 20 degrees c was followed microscopically. organisms grew as discrete colonies bound together by a glycocalyx which differed between bacterial species. on prolonged incubation colonies spread peripherally and tended to coalesce, while still retaining their colony st ... | 1988 | 3072327 |
| campylobacter and salmonella contamination of unpasteurized cows' milk on sale to the public. | campylobacters and salmonellas were isolated respectively from 6 and 0.2% of samples of unpasteurized cow's milk on sale to the public. there was a significant association between the presence of escherichia coli and that of campylobacter jejuni. the mean e. coli count was also higher in campylobacter-positive samples. enumeration of e. coli would seem to have value as an indicator of faecal contamination and thus potential hazard in raw milk. | 1988 | 3072328 |
| campylobacter. | campylobacter is now known to be a major cause of gastrointestinal illness throughout the world. there are seven species known to be associated with enteritis, and it is likely that more will be described. campylobacter jejuni is responsible for more than 95 per cent of the cases of diarrhea due to campylobacter. contaminated food products are the major source of infection. the clinical illness usually involves diarrhea, abdominal pain, and other constitutional symptoms. an accurate diagnosis of ... | 1988 | 3074120 |
| a two-year study of enteric infections associated with diarrhoeal diseases in children in urban somalia. | a hospital-based systematic sample of 1667 children with severe diarrhoeal disease was studied in mogadishu, somalia, throughout 1983 and 1984. one or more enteric pathogens were found in 61% of the patients. rotavirus (25%), enterotoxigenic escherichia coli (11%), shigella spp. (9%), aeromonas hydrophila (9%), giardia lamblia trophozoites (8%), campylobacter jejuni (8%), and vibrio cholerae non-o1 (6%) were the most frequently identified pathogens. age-specific detection rates of enteric pathog ... | 1988 | 3076719 |
| mucosal and systemic immunity to campylobacter jejuni in rabbits after gastric inoculation. | the mucosal and systemic immune responses to campylobacter jejuni were studied in rabbits receiving gastric inoculation with live organisms. a lavage procedure was used to facilitate repeated monitoring of the intestinal immune response to c. jejuni. immunity to c. jejuni was determined by secondary challenge by using the removable intestinal tie adult rabbit diarrhea (ritard) model and monitoring for resistance to colonization and bacteremia. oral-gastric inoculation of normal rabbits produced ... | 1988 | 3335413 |
| the extent of surface contamination of retailed chickens with campylobacter jejuni serogroups. | eighty-two chickens purchased at 11 retailers (supplied by 12 wholesalers) in the south of england were cultured for campylobacter jejuni by a method involving total immersion. the organism was isolated from 22 (48%) of 46 fresh birds, 12 of 12 uneviscerated (new york dressed) birds, but only 1 of 24 frozen birds. viable counts of up to 1.5 x 10(6)/chicken were obtained from fresh birds and 2.4 x 10(7)/chicken from uneviscerated birds. surface swabbing of breasts, thighs, wings and vents of fres ... | 1988 | 3338503 |
| experimental colonization of broiler chicks with campylobacter jejuni. | minimal colonization inocula for two broiler strains of campylobacter jejuni were determined in broiler chicks aged 2-3 days and 2 weeks. individually housed chicks were exposed to a single oral or cloacal challenge. diarrhoeal symptoms were absent in all 380 chicks included in the study. chick susceptibility to the two c. jejuni strains varied. colonization was effected by less than 10(2)-10(4) colony forming units (c.f.u.) via cloacal challenge and 10(4)-10(6) c.f.u. via the oral route. coloni ... | 1988 | 3338504 |
| campylobacter jejuni infection with acute self limiting colitis and polyarthritis. | 1988 | 3338828 | |
| characterization of an unclassified microaerophilic bacterium associated with gastroenteritis. | four isolates of an unclassified microaerophilic bacterium resembling campylobacter species were characterized by growth requirements, microscopic examination, biochemical characteristics, antimicrobial susceptibility tests, and protein profile analysis. the unclassified isolates were differentiated from campylobacter jejuni, campylobacter coli, campylobacter fetus subsp. fetus, campylobacter laridis, campylobacter pylori, and an ovine isolate. the bacterium was fusiform shaped with a corrugated ... | 1988 | 3343302 |
| evaluation of the campyslide agglutination test for confirmatory identification of selected campylobacter species. | the utility of a rapid latex slide agglutination test (campyslide; bbl microbiology systems, cockeysville, md.) in detecting selected campylobacter spp. was evaluated and compared with that of conventional identification methods. isolated colonies suggestive of campylobacter spp. were tested directly from primary selective media after incubation at 42 degrees c under microaerophilic conditions. stock cultures of campylobacter jejuni (n = 27) and c. coli (n = 3) were correctly confirmed to the ge ... | 1988 | 3343315 |
| experimental campylobacter jejuni infection in humans. | two strains of campylobacter jejuni ingested by 111 adult volunteers, in doses ranging from 8 x 10(2) to 2 x 10(9) organisms, caused diarrheal illnesses. rates of infection increased with dose, but development of illness did not show a clear dose relation. resulting illnesses with strain a3249 ranged from a few loose stools to dysentery, with an average of five diarrheal stools and a volume of 509 ml. infection with strain 81-176 was more likely to cause illness, and these illnesses were more se ... | 1988 | 3343522 |
| persistent campylobacter jejuni infections in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv). | we identified campylobacter jejuni infections in four patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv); three had persistent and severe c. jejuni infections. multiple isolates obtained from each patient had the same biochemical and serotypic characteristics, indicating recurrent infection rather than reinfection with unrelated strains. serum antibody responses to c. jejuni group antigens by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay were markedly impaired in the three patients with persisten ... | 1988 | 3348562 |
| a-61827 (a-60969), a new fluoronaphthyridine with activity against both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. | a-61827 (a-60969 is the hydrochloric salt of a-61827) is a new aryl-fluoronaphthyridine which is active against aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. the mics of a-61827 for 90% of strains (mic90) of staphylococci and streptococci were less than or equal to 1 microgram/ml and were generally 1 to 4 twofold dilutions less than those of ciprofloxacin for these bacteria. the mic90s of a-61827 for members of the family enterobacteriaceae and pseudomonas aeruginosa were also less than or equal to 1 microgra ... | 1988 | 3348609 |
| ultrastructure of campylobacter jejuni in gamma-irradiated mouse jejunum. | this paper describes the ultrastructure of intracellular elongated, transitional and coccoid forms of campylobacter jejuni, in irradiated mouse jejunum infected both in vitro and in vivo and in cultured human skin fibroblasts. jejunum of irradiated mouse incubated for 1 hour under conditions favorable to the organisms showed minimal tissue degeneration. the intracellular organisms in this material were free cytoplasmic forms showing inner membrane degeneration, loss of cytoplasmic granules, and ... | 1988 | 3354638 |
| campylobacter jejuni antibodies in nigerian children. | titers of complement-fixing (cf) antibody to campylobacter jejuni were demonstrated in 87 (36.7%) of 237 infants 6 to 15 months old in jos, nigeria. of the total number of children examined, 81 had acute diarrhea and 27 of them (33.3%) were found to have cf antibodies in their serum. the remaining 156 children were asymptomatic, and 60 (38.4%) of them had cf antibodies. in the diarrheal group, 27 of 75 children 6 to 8 months old were cf antibody positive. there was no significant difference in t ... | 1988 | 3356797 |
| [campylobacter jejuni: sepsis and meningitis in an adult without risk factors]. | a case of campylobacter jejuni meningitis with associated septicemia and positive stool culture in a normal host is presented. clinical findings, course of the illness and serologic data are compared with data from the literature. the possibility of infection due to a serum-resistant strain of campylobacter jejuni is raised. retrospective analysis of immunity revealed normal humoral and cellular immunity in a healthy patient one year later. | 1988 | 3358105 |
| detection of campylobacter jejuni with a synthetic oligonucleotide probe. | 1988 | 3361728 | |
| [effect of the composition of the nutrient media and culture conditions on the growth of strains of campylobacter jejuni and c. coli]. | the influence of the composition of culture media and cultivation conditions on the growth of campylobacter strains has been studied. blood-containing media have been found to ensure the most favorable growth conditions. no differences between the use of rct supplement (rifampicin, cephalothin and trimethoprim in amounts of 10, 15 and 5 mg/l respectively) and dc supplement (0.1% of sodium deoxycholate and 15 mg/l of cephalothin), as well as between different methods used for the creation of micr ... | 1988 | 3364070 |
| experimental infection of dogs with campylobacter jejuni. | three groups of conventional puppies were inoculated orally with campylobacter jejuni biotype 2 which had been isolated from the small intestine of a dog with enteritis. mild enteric disease was observed in one group. there was superficial intestinal colonization by the organism but penetration of intestinal epithelial cells was not apparent. c jejuni was isolated from the blood and viscera of inoculated dogs which showed no histological evidence of disease. | 1988 | 3369054 |
| guillain-barré syndrome following campylobacter jejuni enteritis. | 1988 | 3369964 | |
| campylobacter diarrhea and guillain-barré syndrome. | four of 106 consecutive patients with acute guillain-barré syndrome had preceding bacterial enteritis caused by campylobacter jejuni. one had a severe illness with axonal damage and poor outcome; three had typical courses with good recovery. preceding illnesses in the other 102 patients were the following: diarrhea in nine (with negative stool cultures in five), upper respiratory tract infections in 46, hepatitis in six, other infectious illnesses in eight, and none in 33. eight patients previou ... | 1988 | 3369973 |
| cryopreservation studies of campylobacter. | seven strains of campylobacter fetus ss. fetus, one of campylobacter fetus ss. venerealis, and one of campylobacter jejuni were preserved using a variety of cryopreservation methods. organisms were frozen to -150 degrees c in a liquid nitrogen refrigerator, in the freezer compartment of a refrigerator (-20 degrees c), and in a mechanical freezer (-65 degrees c). in the latter two cases, viabilities of the organisms were compared after being frozen in brucella albimi broth and 10% glycerol. viabi ... | 1988 | 3371059 |
| chemotactic behavior of campylobacter jejuni. | the chemotactic behavior of campylobacter jejuni was determined in the presence of different amino acids, carbohydrates, organic acids, and preparations and constituents of mucin and bile. l-fucose was the only carbohydrate and l-aspartate, l-cysteine, l-glutamate, and l-serine were the only amino acids producing a chemotactic (positive) response. several salts of organic acids, including pyruvate, succinate, fumarate, citrate, malate, and alpha-ketoglutarate, were also chemoattractants, as were ... | 1988 | 3372020 |
| losses related to the ingestion of lincomycin-medicated feed in a range sheep flock. | because of an episode of abortion caused by a tetracycline-resistant campylobacter jejuni, lincomycin was mixed into a barley pellet and fed to 3,000 range ewes at a dosage of 225 mg/ewe/day. after the second feeding, a number of ewes were anorectic and diarrheic, and 6 were dead. necropsies revealed congestion and hemorrhage of the entire gastrointestinal tract. the feeding of the medicated pellets was discontinued immediately. sick ewes were treated with antihistamines and corticosteroids, but ... | 1988 | 3372336 |
| serovars and biovars of campylobacter strains isolated from humans and slaughterhouse animals in northern germany. | a total of 318 campylobacter strains from sporadic cases of human enteritis (109 strains) and healthy slaughterhouse animals in northern germany (209 strains) were bio- and serotyped according to the lior typing schemes. three hundred strains were typable (94.3%) and 38 serovars were identified. among human strains 28 serovars were identified with 30% of them belonging to serovar 4. strains from pigs were associated with 25 serovars, the most frequent being serovar 20 (21.2%). fourteen serovars ... | 1988 | 3372398 |
| the mode of spread of campylobacter jejuni/coli to broiler flocks. | 1988 | 3376623 | |
| campylobacter jejuni infections in gnotobiotic pigs. | at 3 days of age, 12 gnotobiotic pigs were inoculated orally with broth cultures of campylobacter jejuni. one pig was euthanatized and evaluated each day for 12 days. in the cecum and colon, there was diffuse edema, neutrophilic infiltration, and sloughing of epithelial cells from the mucosa on postinoculation days (pid) 2 through 5. dysplastic colonic crypt epithelial cells were observed in the submucosa of the colon on pid 5 through 12. curved, rod-shaped bacteria were detected on the surface ... | 1988 | 3377304 |
| migratory birds of central washington as reservoirs of campylobacter jejuni. | migratory ducks, canada geese, and sandhill crane from the pacific north american flyway have been screened for campylobacter spp. samples (298) from these birds were examined and the incidence of campylobacter spp. in the samples were as follows: sandhill crane (grus canadensis tabida), 81%; ducks (aythya collaris, anas carolinensis, aythya americana, and anas platyrhynchos), 73%; and canada geese (branta canadensis), 5%. all isolates were identified as campylobacter jejuni. to our knowledge th ... | 1988 | 3378202 |
| [biotyping and plasmid analysis of campylobacter jejuni/coli and their preliminary application in epidemiological studies]. | 1988 | 3383232 | |
| fisher's syndrome associated with campylobacter jejuni infection. | a patient developed typical features of fisher's syndrome after an infection with campylobacter jejuni as ascertained by positive serology both in the blood and spinal fluid. this may be the first case of this association described. | 1988 | 3383912 |
| response of campylobacter jejuni to combinations of ferrous sulphate and cadmium chloride. | on mueller hinton (mh) agar, campylobacter jejuni showed 20.0 and 30.9 mm zones of inhibition surrounding discs impregnated with 2.5 and 20 micrograms cdcl2 respectively. the minimal inhibitory concentration (mic) ranged from 0.64 to 3.2 micrograms cdcl2/ml of mh agar for four c. jejuni strains. in the presence of 23 micrograms feso4/ml of mh the mic increased to a range of 1.5-5.4 micrograms cdcl2/ml of mh. moreover, the numbers of colonies present on mh supplemented with feso4 were greater tha ... | 1988 | 3384765 |
| improved blood free selective medium for isolating campylobacter jejuni from faecal specimens. | 1988 | 3385002 | |
| enterotoxigenicity of chicken isolates of campylobacter jejuni in ligated ileal loops of rats. | ligated ileal loops in rats of the charles-foster strain, weighing 200-250 g and aged 7-8 months, provided a sensitive and reproducible means of testing the enterotoxigenicity of campylobacter jejuni. all of 16 chicken isolates caused fluid accumulation comparable to that produced by toxigenic vibrio cholerae o1, strain 569b. however, 11 of the isolates required one to three consecutive passages through the rat gut before doing so. the amount of fluid produced increased after each passage. of th ... | 1988 | 3385766 |
| intestinal colonization of campylobacter jejuni in chickens. | 1988 | 3386104 | |
| intestinal colonization of campylobacter jejuni in young japanese quails (coturnix coturnix japonica). | 1988 | 3386114 | |
| [biotyping and serotyping and plasmid analysis of campylobacter jejuni/coli]. | 1988 | 3391596 | |
| purification and antigenic analysis of flagella of campylobacter jejuni. | the flagella of campylobacter jejuni strain fum158432 were purified and a flagellin preparation consisting of only a single peptide of 63,000 daltons was obtained. the peptide of 92,000 daltons usually associated with a flagellar preparation was shown to be a peptide derived from the hook region. antiserum was prepared by immunizing a rabbit with the flagellin preparation. the reaction of the antiserum was found to be highly specific for the flagellar filament by immunoelectron microscopy and fo ... | 1988 | 3393098 |
| cross-protection of infant mice against intestinal colonisation by campylobacter jejuni: importance of heat-labile serotyping (lior) antigens. | an association of the heat-labile antigens detected by the lior serotyping scheme with ability to protect infant mice against gastrointestinal colonisation with campylobacter jejuni has been established. overall, 39 (57%) of 68 infant mice challenged with a heterologous strain of the same lior serotype as the vaccine strain were protected, compared with 40 (85%) of 47 infants protected against a homologous challenge. in contrast, none of the infant mice challenged with a strain carrying the same ... | 1988 | 3398033 |
| colonization characteristics of campylobacter jejuni in chick ceca. | we report our findings on several parameters influencing cecal colonization of chickens by campylobacter jejuni. thirty-five colony-forming units (cfu) of a composite culture of c. jejuni colonized the ceca of one-half of the newly hatched chicks challenged by oral gavage. a challenge dose of 3500 cfu/chick consistently colonized the ceca of all chicks challenged. challenge doses of approximately 10(5) cfu of c. jejuni per chick resulted in consistent cecal colonization, regardless of whether th ... | 1988 | 3401176 |
| cefetamet pivoxil: bacteriostatic and bactericidal activity of the free acid against 355 gram-negative rods. | the in vitro activity of the free acid of cefetamet pivoxil (ro 15-8075) was tested against 355 clinical isolates, namely enteropathogenic bacteria, glucose non-fermentative gram-negative rods (excluding pseudomonas aeruginosa) and legionella pneumophila. ceftriaxone was included in the study as reference compound. although the free acid of the orally active cephalosporin was generally weaker than ceftriaxone, it inhibited 88.2% and 94.5% of enterobacteriaceae and vibrionaceae at a concentration ... | 1988 | 3403040 |
| a prospective study of acute idiopathic neuropathy. ii. antecedent events. | the incidence of antecedent events and serological evidence of preceding infection were studied in 100 patients with acute idiopathic neuropathy and age and sex matched control subjects in south-east england. symptoms of respiratory infections occurred within one month before onset of neuropathic symptoms in 38% of patients and 12% of controls (p less than 0.001) and symptoms of gastrointestinal infections in 17% of patients and 3% of controls (p less than 0.005). immunisations, insect bites and ... | 1988 | 3404161 |
| characterization of campylobacter strains isolated in bangladesh from different sources. | campylobacters have been isolated in bangladesh from patients with gastroenteritis, from healthy individuals and animals. a total of 180 campylobacter isolates, 100 from patients with gastroenteritis reporting to international centre for diarrhoeal disease research, bangladesh hospitals, 50 from asymptomatic carriers and the other 30 from domestic animals of the index cases have been characterized following standard procedures available. all isolates tested have been confirmed as campylobacter j ... | 1988 | 3404566 |
| antibody response to campylobacter coli in children during intestinal infection and carriage. | in the central african republic, etiological studies of diarrhea have shown that campylobacter coli accounts for almost 40% of campylobacter enteric isolations. this prompted us to investigate the antibody response to c. coli infection in children. as expected from the literature on campylobacter jejuni infections, our results show that both infection and carriage elicited antibodies against glycine-extracted membrane antigens, flagella, and cholera toxin. the human antibody response to c. coli ... | 1988 | 3410956 |
| occurrence of campylobacter jejuni in free-living wild birds from japan. | campylobacter jejuni was isolated from 44 of 313 free-living birds from japan. the highest isolation rate was found in 30 of 87 (34%) crows (corvus levaillanti and corvus corone), followed by 2 of 10 (20%) blue magpies (cyanopica cyanus), 5 of 35 (14%) gray starlings (sturnus cineraceus), 2 of 16 (13%) domestic pigeons (columbia livia domestica), 4 of 36 (11%) bulbuls (hypsipetes amaurotis), and 1 of 62 (2%) eastern turtledoves (streptopelia orientalis). one-fourth of the contents of the crop an ... | 1988 | 3411703 |
| campylobacter jejuni/coli in commercially reared beagles: prevalence and serotypes. | a 5 year longitudinal study involving 187 commercially reared beagles from three suppliers was undertaken to determine prevalence and serotypes of campylobacter jejuni and c. coli. campylobacter jejuni or c. coli was isolated from the feces in 62 of 177 asymptomatic beagles and 8 of 10 dogs with diarrhea for an overall prevalence of 37%. a total of 36 isolates were serotyped on the basis of thermostable antigens with 20 antisera prepared against frequently occurring serotypes isolated from human ... | 1988 | 3411913 |
| the response of campylobacter jejuni and campylobacter coli in the sydney rock oyster (crassostrea commercialis), during depuration and storage. | sydney rock oysters, when allowed to feed in waters containing approximately 10(4) cfu of campylobacter cells per ml, concentrated between 10(2) and 10(3) cfu of the organism per g of oyster tissue, within 1 h. when these contaminated oysters were subjected to depuration, they were effectively cleaned in 48 h. the survival of campylobacter jejuni and campylobacter coli was also investigated. oysters contaminated by feeding and injection were processed as half shells and bottled oysters and were ... | 1988 | 3275320 |
| high-voltage electroporation of bacteria: genetic transformation of campylobacter jejuni with plasmid dna. | electroporation permits the uptake of dna by mammalian cells and plant protoplasts because it induces transient permeability of the cell membrane. we investigated the utility of high-voltage electroporation as a method for genetic transformation of intact bacterial cells by using the enteric pathogen campylobacter jejuni as a model system. this report demonstrates that the application of high-voltage discharges to bacterial cells permits genetic transformation. our method involves exposure of a ... | 1988 | 3277182 |
| campylobacter ileocolitis mimicking acute appendicitis: differentiation with graded-compression us. | in nine patients with clinical symptoms of acute appendicitis, graded-compression ultrasound (us) did not depict the appendix but instead demonstrated mural thickening of the terminal ileum and part of the colon, as well as moderately enlarged mesenteric lymph nodes. in one patient a normal appendix was removed; eight patients recovered without treatment. infection with campylobacter jejuni was proved in all nine patients. in four patients, an unnecessary appendectomy was avoided because of the ... | 1988 | 3277242 |
| guillain-barré syndrome following campylobacter jejuni enteritis. report of three cases and review of the literature. | we describe three cases of guillain-barré syndrome (gbs) associated with campylobacter jejuni enteritis and review the data from eight other cases described in detail in the literature. the recent recognition of this association is probably due to improved stool culture technique. in comparison with gbs associated with respiratory infections, the delay between the first symptoms of infection and the development of gbs is somewhat longer, an observation in accordance with gbs associated with gast ... | 1988 | 3277576 |
| [in vitro bacteriostatic and bactericidal effect of ciprofloxacin and others quinolone derivatives on campylobacter jejuni]. | the in vitro bacteriostatic (mic) and bactericidal (mbc) activities of ciprofloxacin and seven other quinolone derivatives on campylobacter jejuni from human origin were determined. ciprofloxacin, pefloxacin and rosoxacin exhibited the best bacteriostatic and bactericidal activities. for the three compounds the mic90 was less than or equal to 0.33 microgram/ml while the mbc90 was resp. 0.36, 0.56 and 0.56 microgram/ml. the mbc values were always significantly higher than the mic values (p less t ... | 1988 | 3279386 |
| a prospective study of serum antibody responses to enterotoxinogenic escherichia coli in swedish travellers. | serological responses to relevant enterotoxinogenic escherichia coli (etec) antigens were studied in 85 swedish travellers to subtropical and tropical areas. serum samples were collected from the travellers before and then after 3-5 weeks, i.e. within a week after return to sweden, when a faecal specimen was also taken. 40% of the participants had traveller's diarrhoea during their visit abroad, while 21% reported "loose stools" and 39% had no such problems. etec was rarely isolated from the sto ... | 1988 | 3283923 |
| [detection of campylobacter jejuni and c. coli in waste water]. | for the detection of c. jejuni and c. coli in waste water the content of rifampicin in selective media was reduced from 10 micrograms/ml (bolton and robertson 1982) to 5 micrograms/ml and the content of polymymyxin b was increased from 0,25 microliter/ml (skirrow 1977) to 2.5 micrograms/ml. on the basis of this modification the isolation of c. jejuni and c. coli from waste water samples by membrane filter technique as well as by enrichment procedure was possible. before inoculation of waste wate ... | 1988 | 3285625 |
| campylobacter jejuni/coli. | 1988 | 3285863 | |
| [quantitative and qualitative studies of campylobacter in the sewage of a large city]. | in a one-year-study wastewater from the sewage system of a big town was examined for the occurrence and distribution of campylobacter spp. the sewage consisted mainly of domestic and industrial wastewater, but also to a small degree of agricultural wastewater and abattoir effluent. preston broth and agar were used as culture media. the number of campylobacter was determined parallel at 37 degrees c and 42 degrees c by the mpn-method. three colonies of each agar plate were isolated and biotyped. ... | 1988 | 3131983 |
| [quantitative and qualitative studies of campylobacter in a sewage treatment plant]. | the occurrence and distribution of campylobacter spp. in the wastewater of a sewage treatment plant was examined from july 1985 to july 1986. the number of campylobacter was determined in a double set-up by the mpn-method. preston broth and -agar containing fbp supplement were used as nutrient media. the samples were incubated at 37 degrees c and 42 degrees c, respectively. subsequently 1345 isolated campylobacter strains were biotyped. the number of fecal and total coliforms, ph-value and tempe ... | 1988 | 3131984 |
| reassessment of selective agars and filtration techniques for isolation of campylobacter species from faeces. | four different studies were conducted in order to re-evaluate conventional methods and assess the efficacy of new selective agars and a filtration method for the isolation of campylobacters. skirrow's medium, preston agar, modified ccd agar and fennell's medium, incubated microaerobically at 37 degrees c for 48 h, gave similar campylobacter isolation rates from 225 faecal samples, but the latter two media were more selective. evaluation of modified ccd agar demonstrated that campylobacters could ... | 1988 | 3134202 |
| human serum antibody response in campylobacter jejuni enteritis as measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. | an elisa for detection of igg, iga, and igm antibody using an acid-glycine extract from campylobacter jejuni as antigen was developed. to determine the value of this assay for the diagnosis of acute campylobacter jejuni infections, the igg, iga, and igm immune response against campylobacter jejuni was investigated at various timepoints after infection in patients with culture-proven infection. a total of 112 sera from 46 patients and 78 sera from a control group were tested. all but one of the 4 ... | 1988 | 3137040 |
| [survey for the contamination of campylobacter jejuni and campylobacter coli among raw meat and the environment of poultry processing plants]. | 1988 | 3137280 | |
| further serological investigations in humans and domestic animals on the cape verde islands (q-fever, brucellosis, listeriosis, shigellosis, campylobacteriosis, yersiniosis, toxoplasmosis and chlamydia of plt-group). | 439 sera of domestic animals and various number (150-500) of human sera of the cape verde islands were examined for antibodies against coxiella burnetti, brucella abortus, b.melitensis, listeria monocytogenes, shigella dysenteriae, s.flexneri, s. boydii, s.sonnei, campylobacter jejuni, c.fetus ssp. intestinalis, yersinia enterocolitica, toxoplasma gondii and chlamydia of the plt-group. it could be shown, that on the cape verde islands there is to be counted with numerous zoonoses due to various ... | 1988 | 3139491 |
| risk factors for persistent diarrhoea. | with a systematically sampled population of children aged under 5 attending this centre for diarrhoeal disease research during 1983-5 a retrospective analysis of persistent diarrhoea (defined as greater than 14 days' duration) was performed to identify the possible risk factors for this syndrome. of the 4155 children included in the analysis, 410 (10%) gave a history of persistent diarrhoea. a comparison with children with acute diarrhoea matched for age showed that 11 factors were correlated wi ... | 1988 | 3142603 |
| [use of slide agglutination technic in serogrouping of campylobacter jejuni/coli isolates from the outbreaks and sporadic cases in japan]. | 1988 | 3143789 | |
| a mouse model of chronic campylobacter jejuni infection. post-infection nephritis. | 1988 | 3148404 | |
| [campylobacter jejuni infections in slaughterhouse workers]. | complement fixing (c.f.) antibodies to campylobacter jejuni were detected in 83 slaughterhouse workers and 83 blood donors. workers were aged 18-65 years (mean, 41.7 +/- 12.3) and had worked in the slaughterhouse for 2-40 years (mean, 17.5 +/- 5.1). c.f. antibodies were detected according to mosimann's method and by including five antigens: campylobacter jejuni, yersinia enterocolitica types 03 and 09, yersinia pseudotuberculosis and brucella. positive titers were found in 12.1% of workers and i ... | 1988 | 3154982 |
| [enterotoxigenic escherichia coli and campylobacter jejuni in acute diarrheic syndrome in chilean infants]. | 1988 | 2965884 | |
| the effect of campylobacter lipopolysaccharide on fetal development in the mouse. | purified lipopolysaccharide (lps) obtained from isolates of campylobacter fetus ss. fetus and campylobacter jejuni impaired fetal development when administered to mice on day 13 of pregnancy. strikingly more fetal resorption was produced by c. jejuni lps than by similar amounts of c. fetus ss. fetus lps. three of the four campylobacter strains examined produced lps that had no effect on maternal health, but lps from one c. jejuni strain killed all of the mice to which it was administered. | 1988 | 2968457 |
| comparative in-vitro activities of a-56268 (te-031) and erythromycin against 306 clinical isolates. | the inhibitory (mic) and bactericidal (mbc) activities of a new macrolide a-56268 (te-031) against 306 clinical aerobic bacterial isolates was compared with that of erythromycin. the mic90/mbc90 ratios for a-56268 were: campylobacter jejuni 4/16, haemophilus influenzae 8/8-16, h. parainfluenzae 8/8-16, legionella pneumophila 0.06/0.5, methicillin-sensitive isolates of staphylococcus aureus 0.5/1, and coagulase negative staphylococci 1/8, methicillin resistant isolates of staph. aureus and coagul ... | 1988 | 2968968 |
| the ultrastructure and atpase nature of polar membrane in campylobacter jejuni. | polar membrane in campylobacter jejuni has been visualized on membrane vesicles. it was composed of doughnut-shaped particles 5-6 nm in diameter, with stalks, arranged in a hexagonal array. this structure was stabilized on the membrane by a high ionic strength buffer in the presence of 2-mercaptoethanol. histochemical staining indicated localized atpase activity at the poles of the cells. an atpase with distinctive properties has been isolated and purified from this organism; it gives a specific ... | 1988 | 2974756 |
| comparison of preservation media and freezing conditions for storage of specimens of faeces. | to evaluate the long-term recoverability of bacterial enteropathogens, two freezing conditions (deep-freezing at -70 degrees c and liquid nitrogen) and three preservation media (cary-blair, amies, and buffered glycerol-saline) were tested. these were compared with storage in containers with no preservation medium and refrigeration at 4 degrees c. at 4 degrees c, viability of organisms could not be consistently maintained beyond one month; cary-blair medium generally gave the best results and sto ... | 1989 | 2915366 |
| campylobacter jejuni isolations from mexican and swedish patients, with repeated symptomatic and/or asymptomatic diarrhoea episodes. | the presence of different campylobacter jejuni serotypes in swedish patients with diarrhoea and in mexican patients with or without diarrhoea was investigated with special reference to repeated isolations during the course of infection and to symptomatic and asymptomatic episodes. the study included 136 c. jejuni isolates from 62 mexican children and 173 isolates from 68 swedish patients. the bacteria were serotyped for heat-stable (hs) and heat-labile (hl) antigen. swedish patients, all with sy ... | 1989 | 2917617 |
| campylobacter jejuni and campylobacter coli diarrhoea in rural and urban populations in yugoslavia. | during a 4-month period during the summer of 1985, campylobacters were isolated from 338 (16.3%) of 2080 patients with acute diarrhoea attending the university hospital of infectious diseases in zagreb. of these isolates 220 (64.1%) were campylobacter jejuni and 118 (34.9%) were c. coli. the patients were drawn from three residential zones in and around zagreb: inner city, peripheral city and rural. incidences of campylobacter diarrhoea ranged from 71 per 100,000 per year in inner city residents ... | 1989 | 2917618 |
| [campylobacter jejuni infections in the netherlands]. | 1989 | 2919393 |