| incidence of toxigenic vibrios in foods available in taiwan. | a total of 1088 vibrios and related species were isolated from seafood and aquacultured foods available in taiwan. they were identified as vibrio alginolyticus, v. cholerae, v. fluvialis i, v. fluvialis ii, v. parahaemolyticus, v. mimicus, aeromonas caviae, a. hydrophila, a. sobria and other species. incidence of these vibrio and aeromonas species in these foods was high. vibrio parahaemolyticus was frequently found in seawater and in foods of freshwater origin. the vibrio isolates were examined ... | 1992 | 1399913 |
| bacteremia in patients with cirrhosis of the liver. | infections are frequent in patients with liver cirrhosis, as their defenses against infectious agents are altered. but bacteremia occurring in cirrhotic patients has seldom been reported in the literature. from 1981 to 1986, we collected 197 cases with 228 episodes of bacteremia for this retrospective study. the incidence of bacteremia in cirrhotic patients was 8.8%; no significant difference was noted between cirrhotic patients with variant etiologies of hbv(+), hbv(-) and alcohol. but the inci ... | 1991 | 1779712 |
| [the ratios and kinds of clinical bacteria isolated in taiwan's large-size hospitals]. | the prevalence of clinical bacteria, as isolated from linko chang-gung memorial hospital (2,300 beds) in the period january 1985 to december 1986 and from taipei veterans general hospital (2,300 beds) during the period january 1986 to december 1986, was analyzed with the following findings: (i) the isolation ratio of anaerobic and aerobic or facultative bactria during the period of investigation were 7.8% (5,513/70,799) and 92.2% (65,286/70,799), respectively. (ii) of the total aerobic or facult ... | 1989 | 2791722 |
| in vitro and in situ survivals of bacterial populations added to fresh water environments. | the fate of aeromonas hydrophila, alcaligenes denitrificans, vibrio cholerae non-01, pseudomonas putida and four different isolates of escherichia coli in fresh river water were assessed by using different microcosms (i.e., membrane diffusion chamber and erlenmeyer flask). when water samples were incubated at 16 +/- 1 degrees c, the differences in extent of survival among test bacteria were in general not significant. if the incubation temperature was raised to 29 +/- 1 degrees c, in the in situ ... | 1993 | 7982366 |
| increasing antibiotic resistance in clinical isolates of aeromonas strains in taiwan. | a total of 234 clinical isolates of aeromonas, primarily a. hydrophila, were collected for the present study. most were isolates from blood. by the agar dilution method, more than 90% of the aeromonas strains were found to be susceptible to moxalactam, ceftazidime, cefepime, aztreonam, imipenem, amikacin, and fluoroquinolones, but they were more resistant to tetracycline, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, some extended-spectrum cephalosporins, and aminoglycosides than strains from the united states ... | 1996 | 8723478 |
| microbiological evaluation of bottled uncarbonated mineral water in taiwan. | the microbiological quality of 136 samples of bottled uncarbonated mineral water, including 88 domestic and 48 imported samples, was investigated. the numbers of samples with heterotrophic plate count (hpc) over the maximum level legally permitted in taiwan (200 colony forming units ml-1) were 45 (51.1%) and 29 (60.4%) for domestic and imported samples, respectively. coliforms and faecal streptococci were not detectable in the samples tested. two of the domestic samples were contaminated with ae ... | 1997 | 9310848 |
| survey on the distribution of vibrionaceae at the seaport areas in taiwan, 1991-1994. | a monthly survey on the distribution of human-pathogenic vibrionaceae of the seawater from five principal harbors in taiwan was conducted by national quarantine service from july, 1991 to february, 1994. of the total 1,167 vibrionaceae isolates, strains of vibrio alginolyticus (449 strains) were the most frequently isolated, followed by vibrio parahaemolyticus (262) , aeromonas hydrophila (153), vibrio cholerae non-o1 (86), and vibrio vulnificus (67). none of vibrio cholerae o1 was isolated. the ... | 1996 | 10592802 |
| atypical chryseobacterium meningosepticum and meningitis and sepsis in newborns and the immunocompromised, taiwan. | from 1996 to 1999, 17 culture-documented systemic infections due to novel, atypical strains of chryseobacterium meningosepticum occurred in two newborns and 15 immunocompromised patients in a medical center in taiwan. all clinical isolates, which were initially misidentified as aeromonas salmonicida by an automated bacterial identification system, were resistant to a number of antimicrobial agents. the isolates were characterized as atypical strains of c. meningosepticum by complete biochemical ... | 2000 | 10998378 |
| decolorization of the textile dyes by newly isolated bacterial strains. | six bacterial strains with the capability of degrading textile dyes were isolated from sludge samples and mud lakes. aeromonas hydrophila was selected and identified because it exhibited the greatest color removal from various dyes. although a. hydrophila displayed good growth in aerobic or agitation culture (agi culture), color removal was the best in anoxic or anaerobic culture (ana culture). for color removal, the most suitable ph and temperature were ph 5.5-10.0 and 20-35 degrees c under ano ... | 2003 | 12523970 |
| suitability of the traditional microbial indicators and their enumerating methods in the assessment of fecal pollution of subtropical freshwater environments. | twenty-four freshwater sampling sites (11 river water, 6 spring water, and 7 groundwater) were selected from 4 sampling areas located in the northern and central parts of taiwan. a total of 125 water samples were collected during a 5-month sampling period, and the numbers of total heterotrophic bacteria, total coliforms, fecal coliforms, enterococci, aeromonas hydrophila, and salmonella spp. were enumerated. besides the traditional membrane filtration method, total coliforms and escherichia coli ... | 2003 | 14723262 |
| antimicrobial susceptibility of common bacterial pathogens isolated from a new regional hospital in southern taiwan. | antimicrobial resistance has become a major health problem in taiwan. while some trends in antimicrobial resistance are universal, others appear to be unique for specific regions. | 2003 | 15008323 |
| comparative pathogenicity of bacteraemic isolates of aeromonas hydrophila and klebsiella pneumoniae. | two bacteraemic isolates of aeromonas hydrophila and klebsiella pneumoniae, ah-2743 and kp-129, respectively, were studied for their relative pathogenicity in comparison with escherichia coli atcc 25922. ah-2743 caused significantly higher serum levels of tumour necrosis factor-alpha, interleukin (il)-1beta or il-6 in human whole blood, and higher serum il-1beta and il-6 levels in infected mice, than did kp-129 and e. coli atcc 25922. in addition, in balb/c mice infected by intraperitoneal inocu ... | 2005 | 15966973 |
| engulfed pathogen-induced apoptosis in haemocytes of giant freshwater prawn, macrobrachium rosenbergii. | haemocytes of the giant freshwater prawn, macrobrachium rosenbergii, were investigated for the induction of apoptosis after phagocytosis of pathogenic yeasts, bacteria and non-pathogenic latex beads in vitro. isolated haemocytes of m. rosenbergii were cultured at a ratio of 1:50 haemocytes to pathogen with the yeast debaryomyces hansenii, the bacteria aeromonas hydrophila or enterococcus faecium, or with latex beads at 25 degrees c for 2 h, followed by washing to remove free particles. at least ... | 2005 | 16336474 |
| clinical features and risk factors for mortality in aeromonas bacteremic adults with hematologic malignancies. | aeromonas spp. often cause infections in immunocompromised patients. to specifically understand the clinical features of aeromonas bacteremic adults with hematologic malignancies, we investigated the demographic, clinical and microbiologic characteristics of aeromonas bacteremia in this patient population. | 2006 | 16604248 |
| clinical significance and distribution of putative virulence markers of 116 consecutive clinical aeromonas isolates in southern taiwan. | the objectives of this study were to elucidate the clinical manifestations of aeromonas infections and the association of putative virulence genes with clinical invasiveness. | 2007 | 16716402 |
| molecular characterization of class 1 integrons and antimicrobial resistance in aeromonas strains from foodborne outbreak-suspect samples and environmental sources in taiwan. | one hundred thirty-three aeromonas spp. isolates were examined for multiple antibiotic resistance phenotypes and prevalence of class 1 integron sequences. twenty-four (18.0%) of these isolates contained class 1 integron. seven different class 1 integrons were found among 24strains, with a total of 10 different gene cassettes encoding for resistance to trimethoprim (dfr12 and dfr2d), aminoglycosides (aada1 and aada2), beta-lactam antibiotics (oxa2), chloramphenicol (catb3 and catb8), quaternary a ... | 2007 | 17908616 |
| in vitro activities of tigecycline against clinical isolates of aeromonas, vibrio, and salmonella species in taiwan. | all 198 salmonella isolates (58.6% of isolates were resistant to tetracycline), 92 vibrio isolates (4.4% of isolates were resistant to tetracycline), and 200 of 201 aeromonas isolates (39.3% of isolates were resistant to tetracycline; 1 a. caviae isolate had a tigecycline mic of 4 mug/ml) in our study were susceptible to tigecycline, by u. s. food and drug administration criteria for enterobacteriaceae. | 2008 | 18474585 |
| comparative assessment upon dye removal capability of indigenous bacterial strains from lanyang plain in northeast taiwan. | this study provides a first attempt from a geological and ecological perspective to look forward isolations of indigenous strains with the decolorization capability from the most biodiverse region in taiwan for dye-laden wastewater treatment. serial selections were conducted by a specific use of the fungicide nystatin and model azo dye c.i. reactive red 141 (rr141) during isolation. several bacterial strains with the excellent capability of azo dye decolorization were predominantly isolated from ... | 2009 | 18495337 |
| molecular diversity of class 1 integrons in human isolates of aeromonas spp. from southern taiwan. | this work studies antimicrobial resistance and class 1 integrons of aeromonas spp. in human isolates from southern taiwan. pcr amplification and dna sequence analyses were performed to characterize the gene cassette regions of the class 1 integron in 204 isolates of aeromonas hydrophila, 36 isolates of a. sobria, 23 isolates of a. veronii, and 4 isolates of a. caviae. by using southern hybridization with an inti1 probe to determine the presence of class 1 integrons in the 9 isolates of aeromonas ... | 2008 | 18806339 |
| multiplex pcr detection of enterotoxin genes in aeromonas spp. from suspect food samples in northern taiwan. | aeromonads possess an array of virulence factors and are causative agents of a number of human infections. among them, genes of one cytotoxic (act) and two cytotonic (alt, ast) enterotoxins are implicated in a human diarrheal disease. a rapid, specific, simultaneous detection of these enterotoxin genes in suspected food poisoning samples is not yet reported. hence, a multiplex pcr assay was designed to amplify the cytotoxic (act), heat-labile cytotonic (alt), and heat-stable cytotonic (ast) ente ... | 2008 | 18939759 |
| cost-effective biostimulation strategy for wastewater decolorization using immobilized-cell systems. | this study tended to evaluate threshold operation criteria of biostimulation for optimal biodecolorization in immobilized-cell systems (icss) using porites corals as packing matrices. indigenous aeromonas hydrophila with high efficiency for decolorization isolated from northeast taiwan was used for study. as maximal treatment performance of ics could only be achieved with maximal absorbed biomass with highest color removal capability. maintaining optimal attached cells for cost-effective color r ... | 2009 | 19269169 |
| aeromonas taiwanensis sp. nov. and aeromonas sanarellii sp. nov., clinical species from taiwan. | two clinical aeromonas strains (a2-50(t) and a2-67(t)) recovered from the wounds of two patients in taiwan could not be assigned to any known species of this genus based on their 16s rrna gene sequences, which showed similarities of 99.6-99.8 % to those of the type strains of aeromonas caviae, a. trota and a. aquariorum. the rpod phylogenetic tree allocated these strains to two novel and independent phylogenetic lines, the neighbouring species being a. caviae, the type strain of which showed 93. ... | 2010 | 19819994 |
| comparative study on characteristics of azo dye decolorization by indigenous decolorizers. | this study provides a first attempt to explore indigenous strains with excellent decolorization capability from the most biodiverse region in taiwan for dye-bearing wastewater treatment. bacterial isolates were obtained via serial selections under selection pressure of the fungicide nystatin and model textile dye(s). according to profiles of protein expression and pcr-augmented 16s rrna gene analyses for strain identification, >99% of nucleotide sequences in isolated strains were identical to ty ... | 2010 | 19944603 |
| in vitro susceptibilities of aerobic and facultative anaerobic gram-negative bacilli isolated from patients with intra-abdominal infections at a medical center in taiwan: results of the study for monitoring antimicrobial resistance trends (smart) 2002-2006. | the study for monitoring antimicrobial resistance trends (smart) was initiated to monitor the in vitro antimicrobial susceptibility of aerobic and facultative anaerobic gram-negative bacilli (gnb) isolated from patients with intra-abdominal infections (iai). this report summarizes the smart data from 1 of the study centers from 2002 to 2006. | 2009 | 19949755 |
| clinical presentations, prognostic factors, and mortality in patients with aeromonas sobria complex bacteremia in a teaching hospital: a 5-year experience. | bacteremia due to aeromonas sobria complex is an uncommon clinical presentation, associated with a high mortality rate. this retrospective study reviewed the clinical manifestations and prognostic factors of a. sobria complex bacteremia. | 2009 | 20422137 |
| independent predictors of mortality for necrotizing fasciitis: a retrospective analysis in a single institution. | necrotizing fasciitis (nf), a life-threatening soft tissue infection, requires early diagnosis, prompt and repeated surgical intervention, and broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy. the aim of this study was to identify the independent predictors of mortality among patients with nf in taiwan. | 2011 | 21825948 |
| Bacteremia due to extended-spectrum-ß-lactamase-producing Aeromonas spp. at a medical center in Southern Taiwan. | Although extended-spectrum-ß-lactamase (ESBL)-producing aeromonads have been increasingly reported in recent years, most of them were isolates from case reports or environmental isolates. To investigate the prevalence of ESBL producers among Aeromonas blood isolates and the genes encoding ESBLs, consecutive nonduplicate Aeromonas blood isolates collected at a medical center in southern Taiwan from March 2004 to December 2008 were studied. The ESBL phenotypes were examined by clavulanate combinat ... | 2011 | 21968366 |
| different clinical characteristics among aeromonas hydrophila, aeromonas veronii biovar sobria and aeromonas caviae monomicrobial bacteremia. | this study aimed to compare the clinical presentations of aeromonas hydrophila, a. veronii biovar sobria and a. caviae monomicrobial bacteremia by a retrospective method at three hospitals in taiwan during an 8-yr period. there were 87 patients with a. hydrophila bacteremia, 45 with a. veronii biovar sobria bacteremia and 22 with a. caviae bacteremia. compared with a. hydrophila and a. veronii biovar sobria bacteremia, a. caviae bacteremia was more healthcare-associated (45 vs 30 and 16%; p = 0. ... | 2011 | 22065896 |