| acute intramedullary spinal cord abscess: case report. | we report the first case of an acute pyogenic intramedullary cervical spinal cord abscess, brain abscesses and meningitis due to an unusual anerobe, bacteroides disiens. the importance of spinal magnetic resonance imaging for establishing the diagnosis is emphasized. | 1992 | 1440219 |
| bacterial vaginosis. | bacterial vaginosis (bv) is the most common of the vaginitides affecting women of reproductive age. it appears to be due to an alteration in the vaginal ecology by which lactobacillus spp., the predominant organisms in the healthy vagina, are replaced by a mixed flora including prevotella bivia, prevotella disiens, porphyromonas spp., mobiluncus spp., and peptostreptococcus spp. all of these organisms except mobiluncus spp. are also members of the endogenous vaginal flora. while evidence from tr ... | 1991 | 1747864 |
| the role of beta-lactamase-producing bacteria in obstetrical and gynecological infections. | pelvic inflammatory disease (pid) is a polymicrobial infection that evolves multiple aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. several of the bacterial pathogens that participate in pid can produce the enzyme beta lactamase. these include bacteroides species (including bacteroides bivius, bacteroides disiens, and bacteroides fragilis group), neisseria gonorrheae, enterobacteriaceae and staphylococcus aureus. a recent increase in numbers of beta-lactamase-producing strains of these organisms in pid has bee ... | 1991 | 1765319 |
| the susceptibility of organisms associated with bacterial vaginosis to spermicidal compounds, in vitro. | bacterial vaginosis (bv) is a prevalent vaginal infection that is now regarded as a risk factor in more serious pelvic and obstetric complications. spermicides are known to have antimicrobial activity against other sexually transmitted diseases and the aim of this study was to test whether the causative organisms of bv were also susceptible to spermicides, in vitro. | 1991 | 1774052 |
| multivariate analyses of cellular fatty acids in bacteroides, prevotella, porphyromonas, wolinella, and campylobacter spp. | the genera bacteroides, wolinella, and campylobacter contain several similar species that require taxonomic revision. fatty acid profiles of whole bacterial cells have proven useful for taxonomy. in this study, cellular fatty acids from bacteroides, prevotella, porphyromonas, wolinella, and campylobacter spp. were identified and quantitated by gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and the data were subjected to principal component analyses. bacteroides fragilis, the type s ... | 1991 | 1993755 |
| protein banding patterns of the outer membrane-enriched fraction of bacteroides bivius. | bacteroides bivius is a common anaerobe in female genital infections. although protein banding patterns of outer membrane (om) preparations of bacteroides fragilis are well described and are homologous within the species, similar work has not been done with b. bivius. our aims were to (i) characterize the om banding patterns of b. bivius and compare them with those of other bacteroides species and (ii) test clinical isolates of b. bivius against anti-b. bivius and anti-b. fragilis sera to identi ... | 1990 | 2324268 |
| the incidence of anaerobes in the sputum of patients with cystic fibrosis. | the number of anaerobes in selected sputum samples from patients with cystic fibrosis (cf) was investigated. when cultured by a semi-quantitative method, 26 (23.85%) of 109 sputum specimens from 21 cf patients contained greater than 10(5) cfu of anaerobic organisms/ml. nine (42.7%) of the 21 patients produced sputum containing such concentrations of anaerobes on at least one occasion. anaerobes were isolated from repeated sputum specimens from five patients. the anaerobes most often isolated wer ... | 1990 | 2325116 |
| immunochemistry of the cell surfaces of bacteroides bivius and bacteroides disiens. | outer membranes were extracted from seven strains of bacteroides bivius and six strains of b. disiens by the sarkosyl method. lipopolysaccharides (lps) were extracted from the same strains by the proteinase k method, and from three strains of each species by an aqueous phenol method. analysis of the outer-membrane proteins by sds-page demonstrated that, within a species, very similar patterns with many shared or common bands were produced, but there were sufficient differences between species to ... | 1989 | 2467988 |
| use of the rapid-ana system to screen for enzyme activities that differ among species of bile-inhibited bacteroides. | the rapid-ana system (innovative diagnostics systems, inc., atlanta, ga.) was used to test 102 strains of 14 species of phenotypically similar bile-inhibited bacteroides from humans. bacteroides oris, bacteroides veroralis, bacteroides buccalis, bacteroides melaninogenicus, bacteroides loescheii, and bacteroides denticola had very similar enzyme activity profiles. clear differentiation of these six species by the rapid-ana system was not possible, but tests for arginine aminopeptidase and beta-g ... | 1986 | 2871042 |
| ampicillin/sulbactam versus metronidazole-gentamicin in the treatment of soft tissue pelvic infections. | the clinical efficacy and safety of ampicillin/sulbactam versus metronidazole-gentamicin were evaluated in a comparative, randomized, prospective study. forty-four patients were enrolled: 22 received the ampicillin/sulbactam regimen, and 22 received the metronidazole-gentamicin combination. there were 33 cases of severe acute pelvic inflammatory disease, two tuboovarian abscesses, five cases of endomyometritis, and two cases of posthysterectomy pelvic cellulitis. aerobic and anaerobic cultures f ... | 1987 | 3030109 |
| parotitis due to anaerobic bacteria. | although staphylococcus aureus remains the pathogen most commonly implicated in acute suppurative parotitis, the pathogenic role of gram-negative facultative anaerobic bacteria and strict anaerobic organisms in this disease is becoming increasingly recognized. this report describes a case of parotitis due to bacteroides disiens in an elderly woman with sjögren's syndrome. literature reports on seven additional cases of suppurative parotitis due to anaerobic bacteria are reviewed. initial therapy ... | 1988 | 3287567 |
| microbiology of the female genital tract. | patients who contract genital tract infections are predominantly young, are otherwise healthy, and generally respond well to treatment for bacterial infections. these infections are most commonly polymicrobial in etiology, with several noteworthy exceptions. often there is an inciting event such as childbirth, surgical intervention, pregnancy termination or intrauterine contraceptive device insertion. with treatment, prognosis for cure is excellent; however, sequelae such as recurrent infections ... | 1987 | 3548376 |
| rapid detection and identification of bacteroides fragilis and bacteroides melaninogenicus by immunofluorescence. | bacteroides fragilis group and bacteroides melaninogenicus group fluorescent-antibody kits were evaluated with 188 clinical specimens and 116 fresh aerobic and anaerobic bacterial isolates. fluorescent-antibody and culture results corresponded in 88% of clinical specimens of the b. fragilis group and 94% of clinical specimens of the b. melaninogenicus group. there was greater than or equal to 90% correlation for both kits with colony smears. antigen sharing by bacteroides bivius, bacteroides dis ... | 1981 | 6112238 |
| frequency of occurrence and antimicrobial susceptibility of bacterial isolates from the intestinal and female genital tracts. | in the selection of empiric therapy for infections of the female genital tract and intraabdominal infections in humans, the requisite information includes (1) the frequency of isolation of bacterial species dominant in the normal gastrointestinal and female genital tracts and in intraabdominal and female genital tract infections and (2) the in vitro susceptibilities of the dominant species to drugs that may be used against them (e.g., penicillin g, cefoperazone, cefoxitin, chloramphenicol, clind ... | 1983 | 6342102 |
| role of anaerobic bacteria in bite-wound infections. | the etiologic agents usually involved in wound infections due to human or animal bites are the aerobic skin flora of the victim, e.g., staphylococcus aureus, and/or the aerobic oral flora of the biter, e.g., pasteurella multocida. while anaerobic bacteria are predominant in the normal oral flora of humans and animals, their importance in the pathogenesis of bite-wound infections has not been stressed. most investigators in this field have either not cultured these wounds for anaerobic bacteria o ... | 1984 | 6372026 |
| therapy of obstetrical infections with moxalactam. | we evaluated moxalactam in 62 patients with puerperal or postabortal genital infections. in all patients, the initial dose was 6 g/day. in 84% of patients, we found anaerobes in genital specimens. of aerobic isolates, only enterococci were resistant. among anaerobes tested, only two isolates (a clostridium leptum and a bacteroides disiens) had minimal inhibitory concentrations of greater than or equal to microgram/ml. good clinical responses occurred in 56 of 62 (90%). moxalactam was well tolera ... | 1980 | 6447473 |
| production of menaquinones by intestinal anaerobes. | ninety intestinal organisms (71 isolates from fecal samples of neutropenic patients with cancer or from various sites in patients with intraabdominal infections and 19 control strains) were examined by reverse-phase thin-layer chromatography for their ability to produce menaquinones in vitro. menaquinones were found in all of 24 organisms of the bacteroides fragilis group. two other bacteroides species, bacteroides disiens and bacteroides bivius, also produced menaquinones. a single isolate of b ... | 1984 | 6470528 |
| an in vitro study of the attachment to vaginal epithelial cells of anaerobic curved rods, bacteroides bivius and bacteroides disiens. | an in vitro test system was used to study the influence of different ph levels on the adherence of anaerobic curved rods (acr) of the long (lcr) and short type (scr), of bacteroides bivius and b. disiens, to vaginal epithelial cells (vec) obtained from healthy women. there was a significant increase in the adherence of acr (p less than 0.05) and b. bivius (p less than 0.05) at decreasing acidity. lcr adhered significantly better than scr at ph 7.5 as compared with ph 4.0 (p less than 0.01). 'clu ... | 1984 | 6598920 |
| bacteroides bivius and bacteroides disiens in obstetrical patients: clinical findings and antimicrobial susceptibilities. | | 1980 | 6968748 |
| gram-negative anaerobic bacilli: their role in infection and patterns of susceptibility to antimicrobial agents. i. little-known bacteroides species. | the role in infection and the patterns of susceptibility to antimicrobial agents of 17 infrequently reported species of bacteroides were studied. the findings of this research are summarized, and the literature dealing with recovery of these species from both the normal flora and infections of humans is reviewed. during a six-year period, 22% of 679 specimens from infections due to anaerobic bacteria that were studied by the authors yielded one or more of these "other bacteroides species" (obs). ... | 1980 | 7012991 |
| in vitro activity of meropenem compared with imipenem, metronidazole, ampicillin, and ampicillin/sulbactam against anaerobes. | the aim of the present study was to compare the in vitro activity of meropenem (ici 194660, cas 96036-03-2) with imipenem, metronidazole, clindamycin, ampicillin and ampicillin/sulbactam against a variety of anaerobic bacteria using an agar dilution method. 423 clinical isolates were tested belonging to 70 species of 15 anaerobic genera. they included bacteroides fragilis (n = 62), bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (n = 45), prevotella bivia (n = 11), fusobacterium nucleatum (n = 12), clostridium per ... | 1994 | 7945523 |
| in vitro antibacterial activity of fk037, a new parenteral broad-spectrum cephalosporin, against recent clinical isolates in the fields of obstetrics and gynecology. | the antibacterial activity of a new parenteral cephalosporin, fk037 was assessed against recent aerobic and anaerobic strains isolated from patients in the fields of obstetrics and gynecology during the period between january 1992 and june 1993. the mics of fk037 for 90% of the clinical isolates tested were 0.10 microgram/ml for escherichia coli and klebsiella pneumoniae, 0.20 microgram/ml for streptococcus agalactiae, 0.39 microgram/ml for gardnerella vaginalis, 0.78 microgram/ml for staphyloco ... | 1994 | 8205934 |
| comparison of activities of trovafloxacin (cp-99,219) and five other agents against 585 anaerobes with use of three media. | agar dilution testing was used to compare the in vitro activities of trovafloxacin and ofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, imipenem, metronidazole, and clindamycin against 585 anaerobes. the activity of trovafloxacin was superior to those of ofloxacin and ciprofloxacin, with 94%, 91%, 96%, 100%, 90%, and 100% inhibition of bacteroides fragilis, non-fragilis bacteroides species, peptostreptococcus magnus/peptostreptococcus micros, clostridium perfringens, prevotella bivia/prevotella disiens, and fusobacter ... | 1996 | 8953106 |
| prevalence of beta-lactamase-producing strains among 149 anaerobic gram-negative rods isolated from periodontal pockets. | in a prospective study, 47 adults presenting a rapidly progressive periodontitis were selected in order to evaluate the prevalence of beta-lactamase-producing strains among oral anaerobic gram-negative rods. predominant anaerobes were identified from two of the deepest periodontal pockets. beta-lactamase-positive strains fulfilled to at least two of three criteria: positive nitrocefin test, penicillin etest minimal inhibitory concentration > 1 microgram/ml, and disk diffusion synergy between amo ... | 1999 | 10895690 |
| rate of cultivable subgingival periodontopathogenic bacteria in chronic periodontitis. | although microbiological studies have identified more than 400 bacterial species in periodontal pockets, only a limited number have been implicated as periodontal pathogens. the purpose of this study was to investigate the incidence of cultivable subgingival periodontopathogenic bacteria in chronic periodontitis. bacterial samples were collected with sterile paper points from the deepest periodontal pockets ((5 mm) of 203 patients: 92 males and 111 females, aged 35-55 years. the samples were cul ... | 2004 | 15508748 |
| the lower genital tract microbiota in relation to cytokine-, slpi- and endotoxin levels: application of checkerboard dna-dna hybridization (cdh). | in the present study the lower genital tract microbiota in asymptomatic fertile women (n=34) was identified and quantified by culturing vaginal secretions. also, vaginal and cervical samples were analyzed by a semiquantitative checkerboard dna-dna hybridization technique (cdh) based on genomic probes prepared from 13 bacterial species (bacteroides ureolyticus, escherichia coli, fusobacterium nucleatum, gardnerella vaginalis, mobiluncus curtisii ss curtisii, prevotella bivia, prevotella disiens, ... | 2008 | 18397461 |
| the vaginal microflora in relation to gingivitis. | gingivitis has been linked to adverse pregnancy outcome (apo). bacterial vaginosis (bv) has been associated with apo. we assessed if bacterial counts in bv is associated with gingivitis suggesting a systemic infectious susceptibilty. | 2009 | 19161595 |
| [differential diagnosis of unilateral necrotic tonsillitis]. | the best known clinical picture of a one-sided necrotisising, infectious tonsillitis is the by plaut and vincent (1894) described angina plaut-vincent. in addition to this fusospirochetosis it is in case of necrotisising inflammations in the oropharynx differential-diagnostically important to consider also the anaerobic type prevotella, especially prevotella disiens as a potential trigger . | 2010 | 20458657 |
| performance of two blood culture systems to detect anaerobic bacteria. is there any difference? | we studied the performance characteristics of two blood culture (bc) bottles/systems, (i) bact/alert-fn plus/3d (biomérieux, marcy l'étoile, france) and (ii) bactec-lytic/9000 (becton dickinson, sparks, usa) for detection of growth and time-to-positivity (ttp) against a balanced and diverse collection of anaerobic bacterial strains (n = 48) that included reference strains (n = 19) and clinical isolates (n = 29) of 32 species (15 gram-negative and 17 gram-positive). standard suspension of bacteri ... | 2017 | 28279857 |
| beta-lactamic resistance profiles in porphyromonas, prevotella, and parvimonas species isolated from acute endodontic infections. | susceptibility to beta-lactamic agents has changed among anaerobic isolates from acute endodontic infections. the aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of the cfxa/cfxa2 gene in prevotella spp., porphyromonas spp., and parviomonas micra strains and show its phenotypic expression. | 2014 | 24565649 |
| sonication assisted microbiological diagnosis of implant-related infection caused by prevotella disiens and staphylococcus epidermidis in a patient with cranioplasty. | infections present a major complication of cranioplasty procedures and in many cases removal of the implant material becomes a necessity. sonication of the artificial implant material has been used during the last years, in order to facilitate better diagnosis of these infections, nevertheless its use in cranial implant infections is still limited. | 2015 | 26183701 |
| [solitary actinomycotic brain abscess: case report]. | actinomycotic brain abscess is a rare condition with uncertain clinical features. here we report the case of a 66-year-old immune-competent woman with an actinomycotic brain abscess who presented with sensory aphasia and mild right hemiparesis. she had no febrile episode or headache. moreover, she did not have any periodontal or oto-rhino-laryngological disease, and the results of laboratory tests were normal. a computed tomography scan showed an irregular, low-density area in the left parietal ... | 2012 | 22647477 |