Publications
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| [importance of ultrastructural findings for the diagnosis of primary and secondary pleural neoplasms]. | 2003 | 262293 | |
| psycho-social aspects of recovery from coronary heart disease: a review. | 2003 | 329420 | |
| statistical analysis of epidemiological data from a chromium chemical manufacturing plant. | a statistical analysis was performed on reported bronchogenic carcinoma incidence in a group of chromium chemical manufacturing workers over the period 1929 to 1977. the purpose was to determine if post-1950 process improvements corresponded to favorable trends in morbidity. because the paucity of data on the population at risk prevented meaningful calculations of smr's, a recently developed method called "probability window analysis" was used to evaluate for statistically valid changes in the " ... | 2003 | 430272 |
| [state of the pituitary-adrenal system in burns]. | 2003 | 201039 | |
| [multifactorial diagnosis and treatment of low back pain (author's transl)]. | as a rule chronic or acute low back pain has not one, but a number of pathogenetic factors. disturbances of the supporting and locomotor systems, the cerebrospinal and autonomic nervous systems, the viscera, posture and the psyche are to be recognized and delimited. the therapeutic aim is the extinction, suppression or elimination of disturbing factors in the supporting and locomotor systems, in the peripheral voluntary and autonomic nervous systems and the psyche, in order to enable the organis ... | 2003 | 143614 |
| [development of asphyxia in hematogenic osteomyelitis of the mandible in a newborn infant]. | 2003 | 283596 | |
| identification of genetic loci required for capsular expression in vibrio vulnificus. | transposon mutagenesis of an encapsulated, virulent strain of vibrio vulnificus 1003(o) led to the identification of four genetic regions that are essential to capsular polysaccharide (cps) expression and virulence. of the four regions, three are believed to be part of a capsule gene locus comprised of biosynthesis, polymerization, and transport genes clustered on a single chromosomal fragment. genes indicating a wzy-dependent system of polymerization and transmembrane export are present, sugges ... | 2003 | 12595419 |
| characterization of microbial communities from coastal waters using microarrays. | molecular methods, including dna probes, were used to identify and enumerate pathogenic vibrio species in the chesapeake bay; our data indicated that vibrio vulnificus exhibits seasonal fluctuations in number. our work included a characterization of total microbial communities from the bay; development of microarrays that identify and quantify the diversity of those communities; and observation of temporal changes in those communities. to identify members of the microbial community, we amplified ... | 2003 | 12620025 |
| histamine-releasing reaction induced by the n-terminal domain of vibrio vulnificus metalloprotease. | a zinc metalloprotease secreted by vibrio vulnificus, an opportunistic human pathogen causing septicemia and wound infection, stimulates exocytotic histamine release from rat mast cells. this protease consists of two functional domains: the n-terminal domain that catalyzes proteolytic reaction and the c-terminal domain that promotes the association with a protein substrate or cell membrane. like the intact protease, the n-terminal domain alone also induced histamine release from rat peritoneal m ... | 2003 | 12628443 |
| isolation of mutants of vibrio anguillarum defective in haeme utilisation and cloning of huva, a gene coding for an outer membrane protein involved in the use of haeme as iron source. | the isolation of vibrio anguillarum mutants lacking the ability to use haemin and haemoglobin as the only iron sources, as well as the identification of a gene involved in haeme utilisation are described. one of the isolated mutants defective in haeme utilisation lacked an iron-regulated outer membrane protein of 79-kda. although growth on haeme as iron source was completely abolished, the haemin and haemoglobin binding activities remained intact in the mutant, suggesting that the absent protein ... | 2003 | 12647036 |
| detection of pathogenic bacteria in shellfish using multiplex pcr followed by covalink nh microwell plate sandwich hybridization. | outbreak of diseases associated with consumption of raw shellfish especially oysters is a major concern to the seafood industry and public health agencies. a multiplex pcr amplification of targeted gene segments followed by dna-dna sandwich hybridization was optimized to detect the etiologic agents. first, a multiplex pcr amplification of hns, spvb, vvh, ctx and tl was developed enabling simultaneous detection of total salmonella enterica serotype typhimurium, vibrio vulnificus, vibrio cholerae ... | 2003 | 12654491 |
| [a life saving case of vibrio vulnificus (septic type)]. | after eating raw shellfish, 62-year-old man suffered from watery diarrhea and leg pain. the disease developed to septicemia and necrotizing fasciitis of bilateral lower extremities. vibrio vulnificus was isolated from wound. he was treated with antibiotics, surgical debridement and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and consequently was saved. effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on v. vulnificus infection was discussed. | 2003 | 12708010 |
| [a case of septicemia type vibrio vulnificus infection with necrotizing fasciitis rescued by lower extremity amputation]. | we report a case of septicemia type vibrio vulnificus infection. the patient was a 74-year-old man who had liver cirrhosis and hepatocelluler carcinoma. he felt a pain in the right femoral lesion after eating raw shellfish (japanese "umitake") two days ago. he was admitted to our emergency center due to his shock status and thrombocytopenia two days after the onset. we diagnosed necrotizing fasciitis due to vibrio vulnificus infection, his life was saved by emergency amputation of the right lowe ... | 2003 | 12708011 |
| flagellar basal body flg operon as a virulence determinant of vibrio vulnificus. | vibrio vulnificus, a halophilic estuarine bacterium causing a rapidly progressing fatal septicemia, is highly cytotoxic to eukaryotic cells. to identify new virulence factors associated with cytotoxicity, we constructed a mariner-based transposon (tn himar1) library of the highly virulent clinical isolate mo6-24/o having a double mutation in the hemolysin and protease genes. the himar1 mutant library was extensively screened for the mutants showing decreased cytotoxicity to hela cells. we select ... | 2003 | 12711330 |
| [vibrios (vibrio cholerae, v. parahaemolyticus, v. vulnificus)]. | 2003 | 12718054 | |
| [noncholera vibrio infections (v. parahaemolyticus, v. vulnificus and others)]. | 2003 | 12718068 | |
| molecular characterisation and antimicrobial resistance of vibrio vulnificus and vibrio alginolyticus isolated from mussels (mytilus galloprovincialis). | twelve vibrio vulnificus biotype 1 and 11 vibrio alginolyticus isolated from mussels in italy were analysed by antimicrobial resistance, plasmid profiles, random amplification of polymorphic dna (rapd), and single enzyme amplified fragment length polymorphism (saflp). plasmid dna was detected in three v. vulnificus and four v. alginolyticus cultures. all isolates were resistant to at least two antimicrobial agents: all isolates were resistant to ampicillin, carbenicillin and streptomycin, except ... | 2003 | 12747419 |
| infections with vibrio vulnificus. | v. vulnificus is an uncommon cause of soft tissue infection and primary septicemia, especially in patients with hepatic disease or who patients who are immunocompromised. the mortality of infection in these patients is extremely high despite timely antibiotic therapy. it is important to consider the possibility of infection with v. vulnificus in patients who present with high fever and rapidly progressive sepsis and have a history of consumption of raw seafood (especially oysters) or exposure of ... | 2003 | 12757246 |
| health department liability for non-enforcement. | 2003 | 12762123 | |
| response of vibrio parahaemolyticus 03:k6 to a hot water/cold shock pasteurization process. | vibrio vulnificus and v. parahaemolyticus are natural inhabitants of estuarine environments world wide. pathogenic strains of these bacteria are often transmitted to humans through consumption of raw oysters, which flourish in the same estuaries. previous studies reported the effective use of hot water pasteurization followed by cold shock to eliminate from raw oysters naturally and artificially incurred environmental strains of v. vulnificus and v. parahaemolyticus common to the gulf of mexico. ... | 2003 | 12775474 |
| vibrio vulnificus infection of the lower limb after fish spine injuries. | five patients with soft tissue infection of the lower extremity caused by vibrio vulnificus after penetrating injuries by fish spines are described. despite previously reported dismal rates of morbidity and mortality associated with vibrio septicemia, early measures including wide-spectrum intravenous antibiotics and surgical excision of devitalized tissues resulted in complete resolution in all cases. although penetrating injury is the common route of infection, indirect seeding may occur by th ... | 2003 | 12782885 |
| the kinetics of antibody production in mucus and serum of european eel (anguilla anguilla l.) after vaccination against vibrio vulnificus: development of a new method for antibody quantification in skin mucus. | vibrio vulnificus serovar e, a bacterial pathogen for eels cultured in intensive systems, is transmitted through water and enters into new hosts mainly via gills. the main objective of this work was to study the kinetics of antibody production to v. vulnificus in serum and mucus and their relationship with protection after vaccination. to quantify local mucus antibodies, a new "in situ" dot blot immunoassay using image analysis has been developed. this assay was applied to measure antibody produ ... | 2003 | 12787687 |
| intraspecific diversity of vibrio vulnificus in galveston bay water and oysters as determined by randomly amplified polymorphic dna pcr. | randomly amplified polymorphic dna (rapd) pcr was used to analyze the temporal and spatial intraspecific diversity of 208 vibrio vulnificus strains isolated from galveston bay water and oysters at five different sites between june 2000 and june 2001. v. vulnificus was not detected during the winter months (december through february). the densities of v. vulnificus in water and oysters were positively correlated with water temperature. cluster analysis of rapd pcr profiles of the 208 v. vulnificu ... | 2003 | 12788713 |
| population genetics of vibrio vulnificus: identification of two divisions and a distinct eel-pathogenic clone. | genetic relationships among 62 vibrio vulnificus strains of different geographical and host origins were analyzed by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (mlee), random amplification of polymorphic dna (rapd), and sequence analyses of the reca and glna genes. out of 15 genetic loci analyzed by mlee, 11 were polymorphic. cluster analysis identified 43 distinct electrophoretic types (ets) separating the v. vulnificus population into two divisions (divisions i and ii). one et (et 35) included all indo ... | 2003 | 12788717 |
| ecology of vibrio vulnificus in estuarine waters of eastern north carolina. | while several studies on the ecology of vibrio vulnificus in gulf coast environments have been reported, there is little information on the distribution of this pathogen in east coast waters. thus, we conducted a multiyear study on the ecology of v. vulnificus in estuarine waters of the eastern united states, employing extensive multiple regression analyses to reveal the major environmental factors controlling the presence of this pathogen, and of vibrio spp., in these environments. monthly fiel ... | 2003 | 12788759 |
| regulation of vibrio vulnificus virulence by the luxs quorum-sensing system. | vibrio vulnificus is a halophilic estuarine bacterium that causes fatal septicaemia and necrotizing wound infections. we tested whether v. vulnificus produces signalling molecules (autoinducer 1 and/or 2) stimulating vibrio harveyi quorum-sensing system 1 and/or 2. although there was no evidence for signalling system 1, we found that v. vulnificus produced a signalling activity in the culture supernatant that induced luminescence expression in v. harveyi through signalling system 2. maximal auto ... | 2003 | 12791145 |
| characterization of the vibrio vulnificus putap operon, encoding proline dehydrogenase and proline permease, and its differential expression in response to osmotic stress. | the vibrio vulnificus putap genes encoding a proline dehydrogenase and a proline permease are transcribed in the same direction. proline dehydrogenase activity and the level of puta transcript were determined to reach a maximum in exponential phase and were then repressed when growth slowed down. northern blotting and primer extension analyses revealed that transcription of putap genes results in two different transcripts, transcript a (puta transcript) and transcript ap (putap transcript). expr ... | 2003 | 12813078 |
| inflammatory cytokine response to vibrio vulnificus elicited by peripheral blood mononuclear cells from chronic alcohol users is associated with biomarkers of cellular oxidative stress. | vibrio vulnificus is the leading cause of death in the united states associated with the consumption of raw seafood, particularly oysters. in epidemiological studies, primary septicemia and inflammation-mediated septic shock caused by v. vulnificus is strongly associated with liver disease, often in the context of chronic alcohol abuse. the present study was undertaken to determine whether clinical biomarkers of liver function or cellular oxidative stress are associated with peripheral blood mon ... | 2003 | 12819121 |
| analysis of vibrio vulnificus from market oysters and septicemia cases for virulence markers. | representative encapsulated strains of vibrio vulnificus from market oysters and oyster-associated primary septicemia cases (25 isolates each) were tested in a blinded fashion for potential virulence markers that may distinguish strains from these two sources. these isolates were analyzed for plasmid content, for the presence of a 460-bp amplicon by randomly amplified polymorphic dna pcr, and for virulence in subcutaneously (s.c.) inoculated, iron-dextran-treated mice. similar percentages of mar ... | 2003 | 12839775 |
| a fatal case of vibrio vulnificus meningoencephalitis. | the objective of this paper is to report a rare case of vibrio vulnificus presenting as meningoencephalitis without a wound infection. vibrio vulnificus is capable of causing severe and often fatal infections in susceptible individuals. it commonly causes necrotizing wound infections, primary septicemia, and gastroenteritis. a 69-year-old man had meningoencephalitis with lesion on the red nucleus, substantia nigra, basal ganglia, and dentate nucleus as the initial clinical manifestation of a v. ... | 2003 | 12848737 |
| signal-mediated cross-talk regulates stress adaptation in vibrio species. | quorum sensing systems serve as a means of 'census taking' of conspecific and non-conspecific bacteria in the near vicinity. the acylated homoserine lactone (ahl) quorum sensing system has been proposed to be primarily an intra-specific communication system, while the ai-2 autoinducer signalling system is proposed to be an interspecific communication system. here it is shown that ai-2-like signalling in two marine vibrio species, vibrio vulnificus and 'vibrio angustum' s14, induces the core resp ... | 2003 | 12855743 |
| cholera and other types of vibriosis: a story of human pandemics and oysters on the half shell. | vibrios are ubiquitous in the aquatic environment and are commonly present in or on shellfish and other seafood. a small subset of strains/species are able to cause human disease, including the cholera toxin-producing strains of vibrio cholerae that are responsible for epidemic/pandemic cholera; thermostable direct hemolysin-producing strains of vibrio parahaemolyticus; and vibrio vulnificus, which can cause fulminant sepsis. cholera outbreaks can be initiated by transmission of "epidemic" v. ch ... | 2003 | 12856219 |
| [vibrio vulnificus septicemia transmitted through a wound caused by a crustacea]. | vibrio vulnificus proliferates during the summer in salt water where it infects the crustaceans. expression of its pathogenicity depends on the underlying condition and mode of contamination. | 2003 | 12876519 |
| dna binding and cleavage by the periplasmic nuclease vvn: a novel structure with a known active site. | the vibrio vulnificus nuclease, vvn, is a non-specific periplasmic nuclease capable of digesting dna and rna. the crystal structure of vvn and that of vvn mutant h80a in complex with dna were resolved at 2.3 a resolution. vvn has a novel mixed alpha/beta topology containing four disulfide bridges, suggesting that vvn is not active under reducing conditions in the cytoplasm. the overall structure of vvn shows no similarity to other endonucleases; however, a known 'betabetaalpha-metal' motif is id ... | 2003 | 12881435 |
| antibiotic activity of lectins from marine algae against marine vibrios. | saline and aqueous ethanol extracts of marine algae and the lectins from two red algal species were assayed for their antibiotic activity against marine vibrios. experimental studies were also carried out on the influence of environmental factors on such activity, using batch cultures. the results indicated that many of the saline extracts of the algal species were active and that the activity was selective against those vibrios assayed. the algal extracts were active against vibrio pelagius and ... | 2003 | 12884128 |
| on-line high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometric detection and quantification of n-acylhomoserine lactones, quorum sensing signal molecules, in the presence of biological matrices. | a protocol using reversed-phase liquid chromatography coupled with positive-ion electrospray ionization and ion trap mass spectrometry is described for the identification and quantification of n-acylhomoserine lactones (hsls) in crude cell-free supernatants of bacterial cultures. the hsls are produced by gram-negative bacteria and act as intercellular signals inducing density-dependent gene expression. compared with the multi-step procedures previously reported, which included chemical extractio ... | 2003 | 12885081 |
| vibrio vulnificus necrotizing fasciitis of the calf presenting with compartment syndrome. | we describe a 17-year-old boy with congenital spherocytosis and iron overload who presented with compartment syndrome of the calf as the initial manifestation of vibrio vulnificus infection after minor trauma in a contaminated fish pond. the disease was complicated by necrotizing fasciitis requiring above the knee amputation. childhood diseases associated with iron overload pose an increased risk for complicated v. vulnificus infections. | 2003 | 12886899 |
| vibrio vulnificus infection: clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, and antimicrobial therapy. | there has been a dramatic increase in the number of reported cases of infection due to vibrio vulnificus in taiwan. although the organism has been etiologically implicated in a variety of clinical syndromes, most cases of v. vulnificus infection are categorized as primary bacteremia, skin and soft tissue infection. the mortality was up to 50% in septic patients, most of them dying within 48 h of admission. in most of the cases involving v. vulnificus infection have underlying disease, particular ... | 2003 | 12886957 |
| vibrio vulnificus infection in a hemodialysis patient receiving intravenous iron therapy. | a 73-year-old man treated with long-term hemodialysis, erythropoietin, and intravenous iron sucrose infusions developed vibrio vulnificus infection after eating raw oysters harvested from the alabama coast. five of the 31 persons with cases of v. vulnificus infection reported to the alabama department of public health (montgomery) during 1996-2002 (including the patient described here) also had renal disease. persons with renal disease, especially those treated with long-term hemodialysis and in ... | 2003 | 12942420 |
| smcr and cyclic amp receptor protein coactivate vibrio vulnificus vvpe encoding elastase through the rpos-dependent promoter in a synergistic manner. | the putative virulence factors of vibrio vulnificus include an elastase, the gene product of vvpe. we previously demonstrated that vvpe expression is differentially directed by two different promoters in a growth phase-dependent manner. the activity of the stationaryphase promoter (promoter s (ps)) is dependent on rpos and is also under the positive control of cyclic amp receptor protein (crp). in this study, primer extension analyses revealed that smcr, the vibrio harveyi luxr homolog, is also ... | 2003 | 12947096 |
| regulation of fur expression by rpos and fur in vibrio vulnificus. | in a proteomic analysis of rpos-deficient vibrio vulnificus versus the wild type, one of the down-regulated proteins in the rpos mutant strain was identified as a fur protein, a ferric uptake regulator. the expression of a fur::luxab fusion was significantly influenced by sigma factor s, the rpos gene product, and positively regulated by fur under iron-limited conditions. | 2003 | 13129962 |
| severe bacterial infection in transfusion-dependent patients with thalassemia major. | the incidence and clinical spectrum of severe bacterial infection were studied in 89 patients with thalassemia major that was diagnosed between january 1971 and march 2002. there were 20 patients with 24 episodes of severe bacterial infection, resulting in an incidence of 1.6 infections per 100 patient-years. the clinical spectrum included liver abscess (6 cases), septicemia (6 cases), soft-tissue infection (2 cases), osteomyelitis (2 cases), corneal ulcer (1 case), enteritis (1 case), and absce ... | 2003 | 13130412 |
| characterization and pathogenic significance of vibrio vulnificus antigens preferentially expressed in septicemic patients. | many important virulence genes of pathogenic bacteria are preferentially expressed in vivo. we used the recently developed in vivo-induced antigen technology (iviat) to identify vibrio vulnificus genes induced in vivo. an expression library of v. vulnificus was screened by colony blot analysis by using pooled convalescent-phase serum that had been thoroughly adsorbed with in vitro-expressed v. vulnificus whole cells and lysates. twelve clones were selected, and the sequences of the insert dnas w ... | 2003 | 14500463 |
| isolation of vibrio vulnificus and atypical vibrio from surface water of the baltic sea in germany. | from 1995 to 1997 several defined species like v. alginolyticus, v. anguillarum, v. cholerae (non o1 and non o139), v. mimicus, v. parahaemolyticus and v. vulnificus were isolated during a survey to determine the presence of v. vulnificus in the brackish water of the baltic sea in germany. moreover atypical vibrio isolates were detected. four isolates belonging to a group of atypical vibrio and possibly representing a new species in the genus vibrio were characterized in detail. all four strains ... | 2003 | 14526469 |
| rpos-dependent stress response and exoenzyme production in vibrio vulnificus. | vibrio vulnificus is an estuarine bacterium capable of causing rapidly fatal infections through both ingestion and wound infection. like other opportunistic pathogens, v. vulnificus must adapt to potentially stressful environmental changes while living freely in seawater, upon colonization of the oyster gut, and upon infection of such diverse hosts as humans and eels. in order to begin to understand the ability of v. vulnificus to respond to such stresses, we examined the role of the alternate s ... | 2003 | 14532069 |
| emerging pathologies in aquaculture: effects on production and food safety. | infectious diseases represent a limiting factor for the further development of italian aquaculture. the recent introduction and spreading of new pathogens, along with the global climatic change, has contributed to a considerable decrease in trout production. emerging pathologies in rainbow trout culture include viral diseases, e.g. infectious haematopoietic necrosis (ihn), bacterial diseases, such as lactococcosis and visceral flavobacteriosis, and parasitical diseases, e.g. proliferative kidney ... | 2003 | 14535454 |
| necrotising fasciitis and myositis that originated from gastrointestinal bacterial infection: two fatal cases. | we present two cases of aggressive myofasciitis after gastrointestinal infections. the first patient developed necrosis of the legs over 5 days and he died on the 20th day. vibrio vulnificus was cultured. the second patient developed bullae on his thigh and he died the next day. streptococcus pyogenes was cultured. | 2003 | 14582759 |
| a 46-year-old man with end-stage liver disease secondary to hepatitis c with diarrhea, fever, and worsening liver failure. | 2003 | 14603109 | |
| duplex real-time sybr green pcr assays for detection of 17 species of food- or waterborne pathogens in stools. | a duplex real-time sybr green lightcycler pcr (lc-pcr) assay with dna extraction using the qiaamp dna stool mini kit was evaluated with regard to detection of 8 of 17 species of food- or waterborne pathogens in five stool specimens in 2 h or less. the protocol used the same lc-pcr with 20 pairs of specific primers. the products formed were identified based on a melting point temperature (t(m)) curve analysis. the 17 species of food- or waterborne pathogens examined were enteroinvasive escherichi ... | 2003 | 14605150 |
| identification of foodborne bacteria by infrared spectroscopy using cellular fatty acid methyl esters. | identification of bacterial species by profiling fatty acid methyl esters (fames) has commonly been carried out by using a 20-min capillary gas chromatographic procedure followed by library matching of fame profiles using commercial midi databases and proprietary pattern recognition software. fast gc (5 min) fame procedures and mass spectrometric methodologies that require no lipid separation have also been reported. in this study, bacterial identification based on the rapid (2 min) infrared mea ... | 2003 | 14607413 |
| hepcidin: the missing link between hemochromatosis and infections. | 2003 | 14638752 | |
| [interaction of antithymocyte globulin and immunopotentiating activity of schizophyllan (author's transl)]. | 2003 | 155747 | |
| dermatological aspects of so called vinyl chloride monomer disease. | the pathological findings revealed in 30 subjects with so called vinyl chloride disease has been presented. the most often observed symptoms were: changes in histopathological picture of the skin, history of the symptoms of raynaud's phenomenon, positive results of functional proofs (pletysmography, vibration perception test, cooling test), and scleroderma like skin lesions. acroosteolysis was found only in 3 cases, thrombocytopenia only in one. the constellation of singns may be related to the ... | 2003 | 161529 |
| [in memoriam professor erich zdansky]. | 2003 | 154440 | |
| the bulletin turns forty. | 2003 | 150055 | |
| osteogenic sarcoma of the mandible. a case report. | 2003 | 280618 | |
| [reconstruction of abdominal wall defects using corium. surgical procedure, clinical results and manometric examination of postoperative abdominal wall function]. | extensive resection of the abdominal wall was performed on six patients to reconstruct defects caused by tumors or necroses. autologous dermis covered by a flap plasty produced good clinical and functional results, documented by the measurement of intraabdominal pressures in response to coughing, pressing, and lifting of the legs. the autologous dermis graft represents a valuable tool for the closure of large defects of the abdominal wall. | 2003 | 161976 |
| the independent living centre. | 2003 | 161503 | |
| an interview with robert l. clyman. the role of the pedodontist. | 2003 | 154075 | |
| a case of giant cavernous hemangioma of the liver complicated by intravascular coagulopathy. | a case of liver hemangioma complicated by intravascular coagulopathy is presented because of the rarity of the association. hemangioma of the liver was suspected by palpation of the liver tumor, scintigraphy and x-ray examination, and confirmed by selective hepatic arteriography in combination with exploratory laparotomy. intravascular coagulopathy was established by demonstrating secondary fibrinolysis and consumption of platelets and coagulation factors. unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia due to ... | 2003 | 148835 |
| angiographic demonstration of bleeding into a pancreatic pseudocyst with venous drainage. | 2003 | 143416 | |
| occupational allergic contact dermatitis to isophorone diamine (ipd) used as an epoxy resin hardener. | three patients employed in the manufacture of plastic tennis rackets developed allergic contact dermatitis to isophorone diamine (ipd), an epoxy resin hardener, and concomitantly to epoxy resin. patch tests were positive to ipd at 1, 2 and 5% in olive oil and to ipd at 1, 2 and 5% in ethanol. investigations were conducted in control subjects to confirm the allergic nature of reactions. a review of the literature about ipd and related compounds is presented. | 2003 | 149629 |
| blood chemistry and lipid profiles of elite distance runners. | in summary, we conclude that the analysis of the blood profiles of elite runners offers no explanation for their superior fitness of physical ability when compared to the good runners. selected enzymes related to cellular or tissue damage may be elevated in distance runners and could be classified as abnormal on routine clinical evaluation if unaware of their physical lifestyles. it is also important to note that certain blood profile parameters, especially the hematocrit, could be classified as ... | 2003 | 201207 |
| [treatment of serous otitis]. | 2002 | 134426 | |
| [2 cases of sudden death of twins with idiopathic cardiomegaly]. | 2002 | 129892 | |
| [work of the department of children's ophthalmological services concerning the treatment of strabismus and amblyopia]. | 2002 | 128723 | |
| differences in length of hospital stay for medicaid and blue cross patients and the effect of intensity of services. | 2002 | 113844 | |
| long-term treatment with beta-blockers after myocardial infarction. | 162 patients discharged from hospital after mycardial infarction were randomly allocated to two groups, one received alprenolol 400 mg daily and the other served as the control. the period of follow-up was two years and all other treatment given was standardized. the two groups did not differ with respect to risk factors for myocardial infarction, the course of the acute infarct or treatment during follow-up. after two years one patient in the group treated with alprenolol had died suddenly as c ... | 2002 | 134897 |
| water-treated stimulatory cells in the unidirectional mixed lymphocyte culture. | 2002 | 129896 | |
| specificity of a heme-assimilating system of vibrio vulnificus to synthetic heme compounds. | vibrio vulnificus strain l-180, a clinical isolate, can obtain iron from a synthetic heme, iron-tetra(4-sulfonatophenyl)porphyrin (fe-tpps), as well as from a natural heme, protoheme. this assimilation of iron bound to tpps was demonstrated to be a common property of v. vulnificus by testing a total of 27 strains isolated from both clinical and environmental sources. strain l-180 could also utilize fe-tcpp, but not fe-tmpyp, as a sole iron source. tpps or its complex with a metal ion reduced bac ... | 2002 | 11934497 |
| vibrio vulnificus septicaemia. | vibrio vulnificus is an opportunistic pathogen capable of causing a fulminant septicaemia in susceptible patients. underlying chronic diseases such as liver impairment and immunosuppression are important factors contributing to the severity of the infection and outcome. early suspicion and diagnosis with appropriate antibiotic therapy is important as delay can adversely affect outcome. for those who develop tissue necrotizing fasciitis, early surgical debridement is recommended to allow better p ... | 2002 | 11939447 |
| vibrio vulnificus and the high risk. patient: a potentially fatal disease. | 2002 | 11942106 | |
| identification of the cadba operon from vibrio vulnificus and its influence on survival to acid stress. | by a transposon-tagging method, cadba genes encoding a lysine/cadaverin antiporter and a lysine decarboxylase were identified and cloned from vibrio vulnificus. the deduced amino acid sequences of cadba were 64-97% similar to those reported from other enterobacteriaceae. functions of cadba genes on acid tolerance were assessed by comparing acid tolerances of v. vulnificus and its isogenic mutants, whose cadba genes were separately inactivated by allelic exchanges. the results demonstrated that g ... | 2002 | 11959444 |
| vibrio vulnificus necrotising fasciitis and septicaemia. | 2002 | 11999222 | |
| vibrio vulnificus septicemia and leg ulcer. | vibrio vulnificus is a gram-negative bacteria that can cause septicemia, wound infection, or a self-limiting diarrhea. this infection typically presents as an extremely virulent infection in patients with underlying liver disease 1 to 2 days after exposure. we report a case of v vulnificus septicemia, cellulitis, and leg ulceration in a patient who had symptoms develop after exposure to brackish water (19 days before admission) or after ingestion of raw oysters (10 days before admission). the lo ... | 2002 | 12004295 |
| cytotoxic mechanism of vibrio vulnificus cytolysin in cpae cells. | vibrio vulnificus is an estuarian bacterium that causes septicemia and serious wound infection. the cytolysin, one of the important virulence determinants in v. vulnificus infection, has been reported to have lethal activity primarily by increasing pulmonary vascular permeability. in the present study, we investigated the cytotoxic mechanism of v. vulnificus cytolysin in cultured pulmonary artery endothelial (cpae) cells, which are possible target cells of cytolysin in vivo. v. vulnificus cytoly ... | 2002 | 12005177 |
| clearing mechanisms of vibrio vulnificus biotype i in the black tiger shrimp penaeus monodon. | vibrio species' infections are a common sequelae to environmental stress or other disease processes in shrimp, but the mechanism by which the shrimp eliminate the bacteria is poorly understood. in this study, the penetration, fate and the clearing of v. vulnificus were investigated in penaeus monodon. a bacterial disease isolate from a shrimp farm was identified as v. vulnificus biotype i. polyclonal antiserum was raised in rabbits against the bacterium and the specificity was verified by elisa ... | 2002 | 12005240 |
| an investigation into the changed physiological state of vibrio bacteria as a survival mechanism in response to cold temperatures and studies on their sensitivity to heating and freezing. | to induce pathogenic vibrio bacteria into a changed physiological state, in response to cold temperatures in sea water, and assess their sensitivity to heating and freezing, as compared with normal cells. | 2002 | 12010547 |
| occurrence of pathogenic vibrios in coastal areas of france. | this study was carried out to investigate the occurrence of potentially pathogenic species of vibrio in french marine and estuarine environments. | 2002 | 12010553 |
| proinflammatory cytokine profile in vibrio vulnificus septicemic patients' sera. | vibrio vulnificus causes a fulminant and frequently fatal septicemia in susceptible hosts. the present study was designed to evaluate the proinflammatory cytokine profile in v. vulnificus septicemia patients' sera and the effect of doxycycline therapy on the levels of proinflammatory cytokines. levels of proinflammatory cytokines, tumor necrosis factor (tnf)-alpha, interleukin (il)-1beta and il-6, were measured in the sera of v. vulnificus septicemic patients and normal healthy volunteers using ... | 2002 | 12052568 |
| [a successful treatment of vibrio vulnificus infection]. | a 65-year-old male patient with a history of alcoholism visited our outpatient clinic complaining of nausea and diarrhea followed by dizziness. erythema and swelling with partial exfoliation on the right forearm to hand and right thigh were noticed. vibrio vulnificus was isolated from the purulent discharge of the skin. due to urgent and intensive treatment of bacterial shock and antimicrobial drugs, the patient fully recovered three months later. we believe that the patient survived from this f ... | 2002 | 12073576 |
| induction of an outer membrane protein of 78 kda in vibrio vulnificus cultured in the presence of desferrioxamine b under iron-limiting conditions. | although vibrio vulnificus is known to be able to utilize ferrioxamine b as an iron source, its outer membrane receptor remains to be determined. in this study, we found that v. vulnificus expressed a new outer membrane protein of 78 kda when grown in the presence of desferrioxamine b under iron-limiting conditions. the desferrioxamine b-dependent iron uptake was only observed in bacterial cells expressing this protein. furthermore, non-denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by a ... | 2002 | 12076789 |
| a rapid and improved method for the detection of vibrio parahaemolyticus and vibrio vulnificus strains grown on hydrophobic grid membrane filters. | dna probe-based detection methods were developed and characterized as an alternative to time-consuming and less specific conventional protocols. digoxigenin-labeled probes were prepared by polymerase chain reaction amplification of the targeted sequences in the specific amplicons generated from genomic dna. specific probes with high yields were generated for the detection of the tlh gene of vibrio parahaemolyticus and the cth gene of v. vulnificus. colony (southern) hybridization analyses were c ... | 2002 | 12092721 |
| resistance of cold- and starvation-stressed vibrio vulnificus to heat and freeze-thaw exposure. | the effects of cold storage and starvation on the subsequent heat resistance and freeze-thaw resistance of vibrio vulnificus were studied. three strains of v. vulnificus were evaluated. cold stress had no effect on freeze-thaw resistance (p > 0.05). starvation enhanced freeze-thaw resistance for one strain compared to controls (p < 0.05). v. vulnificus was not heat resistant; control populations were inactivated within 12 min at 47 degrees c. starvation increased heat tolerance for one strain, b ... | 2002 | 12092731 |
| litr, a new transcriptional activator in vibrio fischeri, regulates luminescence and symbiotic light organ colonization. | vibrio fischeri is the bacterial symbiont within the light-emitting organ of the sepiolid squid euprymna scolopes. upon colonizing juvenile squids, bacterial symbionts grow on host-supplied nutrients, while providing a bioluminescence that the host uses during its nocturnal activities. mutant bacterial strains that are unable to emit light have been shown to be defective in normal colonization. a 606 bp open reading frame was cloned from v. fischeri that encoded a protein, which we named litr, t ... | 2002 | 12100554 |
| vibrio vulnificus infection in patients with liver disease: report of five autopsy cases. | five autopsy cases of vibrio vulnificus infection with liver disease are reported. all five patients ate raw seafood 24 h before the onset of illness. the clinical presentation was of primary septicemia, with positive cultures in both the blood and cutaneous lesions. stool cultures were positive for the organism in one patient with gastrointestinal symptoms. autopsy examination revealed liver cirrhosis in three cases and alcoholic liver disease in two; all showed portal hypertension. gastrointes ... | 2002 | 12111206 |
| the inherent characteristics and dna polymorphism of vibrio cholerae and other vibrios. | to investigate the inherent characteristics of vibrio cholerae (v. cholerae) and other vibrios and their relationship. | 2002 | 12133305 |
| wound infection due to vibrio vulnificus in spain. | vibrio vulnificus is a gram-negative rod that can cause septicaemia and skin lesions, usually in patients with underlying illnesses such as chronic liver disease or diabetes mellitus. infections caused by this bacterium are unusual in spain. a case of skin infection due to vibrio vulnificus is reported in a patient whose abraded skin on his left leg came into contact with seawater. the patient died suddenly, probably due to septicaemia or bacteraemia caused by this organism. vibrio vulnificus in ... | 2002 | 12172745 |
| vibrio vulnificus infections can be avoided. | 2002 | 12183871 | |
| fulminant wound infections due to vibrio vulnificus. | 2002 | 12183878 | |
| [basic studies on vibrio vulnificus infection: isolation of v. vulnificus from sea water, sea mud, and oysters]. | to clarify the environmental distribution of vibrio vulnificus, sea water, sea mud, and oysters were examined at 13 sites, i.e. 4 sites in the tokyo bay (eastern japan) and 9 sites (5 sites for oysters) in tokushima prefecture (western japan). 1. v. vulnificus was isolated from 80 (54.8%) of the 146 samples of sea water examined. it was isolated from 19 (41.3%) of the 46 samples from western japan and 61 (61.0%) of the 100 samples from eastern japan. 2. it was isolated from 40 (40.8%) of the 98 ... | 2002 | 12212318 |
| cholesterol induce oligomerization of vibrio vulnificus cytolysin specifically. | vibrio vulnificus cytolysin (vvc) has been implicated as one of the important virulence determinants of v. vulnificus that causes serious septicemia and wound infection. an attempt was made to investigate that vvc could act as a ligand which stimulates intracellular signaling systems. cholesterol dose-dependently blocked vvc hemolytic activity through oli-gomerization of cytolysin. among cholesterol derivatives including 7-dehydrocholesterol, cholesteryl esters, deoxycholate, and cholestane test ... | 2002 | 12216116 |
| [vibrio vulnificus: an infrequent cause of septic shock]. | vibrio vulnificus is a lactose positive gram negative rod that lives in warm seas and can infect wounds and produce sepsis. its infection is acquired after eating oysters or other filtering marine organisms. we report a 53 years old diabetic male who started with fever after a voyage to central america. he was admitted febrile, hypotense, dehydrated and polypneic. painful erythematous lesions and lumps were observed in his upper and lower limbs. after 72 hours of evolution, the lesions became vi ... | 2002 | 12235904 |
| an aeromonas salmonicida type iv pilin is required for virulence in rainbow trout oncorhynchus mykiss. | aeromonas salmonicida expresses a large number of proven and suspected virulence factors including bacterial surface proteins, extracellular degradative enzymes, and toxins. we report the isolation and characterization of a 4-gene cluster, tapabcd, from virulent a. salmonicida a450 that encodes proteins homologous to components required for type iv pilus biogenesis. one gene, tapa, encodes a protein with high homology to type iv pilus subunit proteins from many gram-negative bacterial pathogens, ... | 2002 | 12240967 |
| necrotising fasciitis caused by vibrio vulnificus in a child without known risk factors. | 2002 | 12269260 | |
| infectious outbreaks associated with bivalve shellfish consumption: a worldwide perspective. | outbreaks of shellfish-associated infection have been reported for more than a century. since the early 1970s, the global consumption of shellfish has increased considerably--and with it, the reports of outbreaks of infection. most of these reports have originated from the united states, but europe and, to a lesser extent, asia and australia have also been represented. the majority of outbreaks have been linked to oysters, followed by clams and mussels. hepatitis a virus caused the largest ever ... | 2002 | 12355378 |
| promoter analysis and regulatory characteristics of vvhba encoding cytolytic hemolysin of vibrio vulnificus. | cytolytic hemolysin, a gene product of vvha, is a putative virulence factor of the pathogenic bacterium vibrio vulnificus. we have previously shown that hemolysin production is repressed by adding glucose to culture media and that production can be restored by adding camp. in this study, hemolysin activity and the level of vvh transcript were determined to reach a maximum in late exponential phase and were repressed when cells entered stationary phase. northern blot and primer extension analyses ... | 2002 | 12356775 |
| phage therapy of local and systemic disease caused by vibrio vulnificus in iron-dextran-treated mice. | vibrio vulnificus is a gram-negative bacterium that contaminates filter-feeding shellfish such as oysters. after ingestion of contaminated oysters, predisposed people may experience highly lethal septicemia. contamination of wounds with the bacteria can result in devastating necrotizing fasciitis, which can progress to septicemia. the extremely rapid progression of these diseases can render antibiotic treatment ineffective, and death is a frequent outcome. in this study, we examined the potentia ... | 2002 | 12379704 |
| in vitro and in vivo activities of newer fluoroquinolones against vibrio vulnificus. | the mics of six fluoroquinolones as well as minocycline and cefotaxime for 46 clinical isolates of vibrio vulnificus were determined by the agar dilution method. all the drugs tested had good activities against all isolates, with the mics at which 90% of the isolates tested were inhibited (mic(90)s) by five of the fluoroquinolones ranging between 0.03 and 0.06 micro g/ml. the mic(90) of lomefloxacin, on the other hand, was 0.12 micro g/ml. time-kill studies were conducted with these agents and a ... | 2002 | 12384368 |
| seasonality of chesapeake bay bacterioplankton species. | bacteria, gamma-subclass of proteobacteria, vibrio-photobacterium, vibrio vulnificus, vibrio cholerae-vibrio mimicus, and vibrio cincinnatiensis in water samples collected from the choptank river in chesapeake bay from 15 april to 16 december 1996 were enumerated using a fluorescent oligonucleotide direct-counting (fodc) procedure. fodc results obtained using a bacteria taxon-specific probe ranged from one-third the number of to the same number as that obtained by the acridine orange direct coun ... | 2002 | 12406742 |