| the immunochemical investigations of endotoxins of asporulating gram negative rods (genus sphaerophorus and eggerthella). | | 1974 | 4217812 |
| chemical composition of endotoxins of eggerthella convexa (bacteroides fragilis) strains. | | 1973 | 4697729 |
| immunological response to eggerthella convexa (b. fragilis) strains depending on method of preparation of antigen. | | 1973 | 4764326 |
| serological properties of endotoxins of bacteria of the genus sphaerophorus (fusobacterium) and eggerthella (bacteroides). | | 1973 | 4797556 |
| [1st results of a trial of serological classification of 131 strains of bacteroides of the fragilis group (eggerthella)]. | | 1971 | 5000250 |
| [serological classification of 131 strains of bacteroides of the fragilis group (eggerthella)]. | | 1971 | 5005656 |
| ultrastructures of sphaerophorus and eggerthella strains. | | 1972 | 5040725 |
| [strains of eggerthella from pathological material and from stool specimen]. | | 1967 | 5603345 |
| [metabolic ability in fecal strains of the species eggerthella]. | | 1968 | 5741517 |
| [the persistency of faecal biotypes of the species eggerthella in healthy persons]. | | 1968 | 5745513 |
| [the antibiotic sensitivity of bacteroides (eggerthella) strains]. | | 1968 | 5745723 |
| [otogenic brain abscess and meningitis caused by eggerthella convexa]. | | 1964 | 5831688 |
| the family coriobacteriaceae: reclassification of eubacterium exiguum (poco et al. 1996) and peptostreptococcus heliotrinreducens (lanigan 1976) as slackia exigua gen. nov., comb. nov. and slackia heliotrinireducens gen. nov., comb. nov., and eubacterium lentum (prevot 1938) as eggerthella lenta gen. nov., comb. nov. | 16s rrna gene sequences were determined for eubacterium exiguum and peptostreptococcus heliotrinreducens. these species were found to be closely related and, together with eubacterium lentum, to constitute a branch of the coriobacteriaceae. two new genera are proposed on the basis of phenotypic characteristics and 16s rrna gene sequence comparisons: slackia to include the bile-sensitive species eubacterium exiguum and p. heliotrinreducens, and eggerthella to include the bile-resistant eubacteriu ... | 1999 | 10319481 |
| phylogenetic evidence for the transfer of eubacterium lentum to the genus eggerthella as eggerthella lenta gen. nov., comb. nov. | eubacterium lentum has unique phenotypic characters within the genus eubacterium. the 16s rrna sequence of eubacterium lentum was determined and its phylogenetic position was defined. this micro-organism is a member of the genus eubacterium but it is not closely related to eubacterium limosum, the type species of the genus eubacterium, and is nearer to collinsella aerofaciens and coriobacterium glomerans. a pcr-based identification system using species-specific primers designed on the basis of d ... | 1999 | 10555354 |
| bacteriology of histopathologically defined appendicitis in children. | acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency in childhood. however, the pathogenesis and detailed microbiology are obscure. | 2000 | 11099090 |
| enterococcal vanb resistance locus in anaerobic bacteria in human faeces. | while developing a rapid method to detect carriers of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (vre), we found the vanb gene by pcr in 13 of 50 human faecal specimens that did not contain culturable vre. passaging under antibiotic selection allowed us to isolate two species of anaerobic bacteria that were vanb pcr positive, vancomycin resistant, and teicoplanin sensitive. sequence analysis of the 16s rrna genes showed that one isolate resembled eggerthella lenta (98% identity), and the other clostridium ... | 2001 | 11265957 |
| rapid detection of human fecal eubacterium species and related genera by nested pcr method. | pcr procedures based on 16s rdna gene sequence specific for seven eubacterium spp. and eggerthella lenta that predominate in the human intestinal tract were developed, and used for direct detection of these species in seven human feces samples. three species of eggerthella lenta, eubacterium rectale, and eubacterium eligens were detected from seven fecal samples. eubacterium biforme was detected from six samples. it was reported that e. rectale, e. eligens, and e. biforme were difficult to detec ... | 2001 | 11386422 |
| [gram-negative nonsporulated anaerobic bacilli promoted by bile. their place in the eggerthella genus (n. gen.)]. | | 1963 | 14202541 |
| [demonstration of bacteriocins elaborated by anaerobic gram negative bacteria belonging to the eggerthella genus]. | | 1965 | 14305954 |
| in vitro activities of a new des-fluoro(6) quinolone, garenoxacin, against clinical anaerobic bacteria. | the antimicrobial activities of garenoxacin and eight other antibiotics against 641 anaerobic isolates were evaluated with the nccls agar dilution method. overall, the mics of garenoxacin for 50 and 90% of the strains tested (in micrograms per milliliter) were as follows: bacteroides fragilis group, 0.5 and 2; prevotella spp., 0.25 and 2; fusobacterium spp., 0.25 and 0.5; porphyromonas spp., 0.125 and 0.25; bilophila wadsworthia, 0.5 and 1; veillonella spp., 0.25 and 0.5; clostridium spp., 0.25 ... | 2003 | 14576144 |
| multiple bacteria in aortic aneurysms. | the purpose of the present study was to reexamine the possibility that bacteria, particularly anaerobes, are present in aortic aneurysms. | 2003 | 14681645 |
| dna microarray analysis of predominant human intestinal bacteria in fecal samples. | a microarray method was developed for the detection of 40 bacterial species reported in the literature to be predominant in the human gastrointestinal tract. the 40 species include seven species each of bacteroides and clostridium, six species of ruminococcus, five species of bifidobacterium, four species of eubacterium, two species each of fusobacterium, lactobacillus and enterococcus, and single species each of collinsella, eggerthella, escherichia, faecalibacterium and finegoldia. three 40-me ... | 2004 | 15271382 |
| eggerthella hongkongensis sp. nov. and eggerthella sinensis sp. nov., two novel eggerthella species, account for half of the cases of eggerthella bacteremia. | eggerthella, one of the human gut flora, was rarely reported to cause bacteremia in the literature. we describe the application of 16s ribosomal rna gene sequencing in defining the epidemiology and clinical significance of eggerthella bacteremia during a 4-year period. among 55 clinically significant blood culture isolates of anaerobic gram-positive bacilli, 5 were identified as e. lenta and 5 belonged to 2 novel eggerthella species, proposed as e. hongkongensis and e. sinensis, respectively. th ... | 2004 | 15313530 |
| dna-dna relatedness and phylogenetic positions of slackia exigua, slackia heliotrinireducens, eggerthella lenta, and other related bacteria. | recently, two asaccharolytic eubacterium species, eubacterium exiguum and eubacterium lentum, and peptostreptococcus heliotrinreducens have been reclassified as slackia exigua, eggerthella lenta and slackia heliotrinireducens in the novel genera on the basis of 16s rdna sequence analysis. but dna-dna relatedness among these species and other related bacteria have not been reported yet. dna-dna relatedness is the standard arbiter and the recommended method for the designation and evaluation of ne ... | 2004 | 15327650 |
| anaerobic, non-sporulating, gram-positive bacilli bacteraemia characterized by 16s rrna gene sequencing. | owing to the difficulties in identifying anaerobic, non-sporulating, gram-positive bacilli in clinical microbiology laboratories, the epidemiology and clinical spectrum of disease of many of these bacteria have been poorly understood. the application of 16s rrna gene sequencing in characterizing bacteraemia due to anaerobic, non-sporulating gram-positive bacilli during a 4-year period is described. the first case of olsenella uli bacteraemia, in a patient with acute cholangitis, is also reported ... | 2004 | 15585505 |
| enantioselective synthesis of s-equol from dihydrodaidzein by a newly isolated anaerobic human intestinal bacterium. | a newly isolated rod-shaped, gram-negative anaerobic bacterium from human feces, named julong 732, was found to be capable of metabolizing the isoflavone dihydrodaidzein to s-equol under anaerobic conditions. the metabolite, equol, was identified by using electron impact ionization mass spectrometry, (1)h and (13)c nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and uv spectral analyses. however, strain julong 732 was not able to produce equol from daidzein, and tetrahydrodaidzein and dehydroequol, whi ... | 2005 | 15640190 |
| bifidobacterial lipoglycan as a new cause for false-positive platelia aspergillus enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay reactivity. | we previously hypothesized that a lipoglycan of bifidobacterium bifidum subsp. pennsylvanicum cross-reacts with the platelia aspergillus (pa) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) based on the presence of galactofuranosyl epitopes in the cell wall (m. a. s. h. mennink-kersten, r. r. klont, a. warris, h. j. m. op den camp, and p. e. verweij, lancet 363:325-327, 2004). we tested this hypothesis by testing bacterial suspensions of different bifidobacterial species and other gram-positive and -n ... | 2005 | 16081932 |
| microbial and immunological responses relative to high-altitude exposure in mountaineers. | high-altitude exposure is often associated with gastrointestinal disorders, inflammation, and an increased risk of infection. we suspected microbial and immunological responses to high-altitude exposure in mountaineers resulting from changes in the balance of the intestinal microflora. | 2005 | 16118577 |
| intestinal bacterial communities that produce active estrogen-like compounds enterodiol and enterolactone in humans. | lignans are dietary diphenolic compounds which require activation by intestinal bacteria to exert possible beneficial health effects. the intestinal ecosystem plays a crucial role in lignan metabolism, but the organisms involved are poorly described. to characterize the bacterial communities responsible for secoisolariciresinol (seco) activation, i.e., the communities that produce the enterolignans enterodiol (ed) and enterolactone (el), a study with 24 human subjects was undertaken. seco activa ... | 2005 | 16204524 |
| phylogeny of human intestinal bacteria that activate the dietary lignan secoisolariciresinol diglucoside. | the human intestinal microbiota is essential for the conversion of the dietary lignan secoisolariciresinol diglucoside (sdg) via secoisolariciresinol (seco) to the enterolignans enterodiol (ed) and enterolactone (el). however, knowledge of the species that catalyse the underlying reactions is scant. therefore, we focused our attention on the identification of intestinal bacteria involved in the conversion of sdg. strains of bacteroides distasonis, bacteroides fragilis, bacteroides ovatus and clo ... | 2006 | 16466386 |
| occurrence and activity of human intestinal bacteria involved in the conversion of dietary lignans. | the human intestinal microbiota is necessary for the production of enterolignans from the dietary lignan secoisolariciresinol diglucoside (sdg). however, little is known about the bacteria that contribute to sdg conversion. therefore, we aimed at describing the occurrence and activity of sdg metabolising bacteria. the data showed differences in conversion efficiency between sdg deglycosylating species, but sdg was completely deglycosylated within 20 h by five of six strains. the strain clostridi ... | 2006 | 16765860 |
| production of equol from daidzein by gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium isolated from rat intestine. | isoflavones (mainly daidzein and genistin) belong to the flavonoid group of compounds and are classified as phytoestrogens. in the intestine, daidzin is converted to daidzein by beta-glucosidase, and then daidzein is converted to o-desmethylangolensin (o-dma) or equol via dihydrodaidzein by enzymes of intestinal bacteria. we isolated, for the first time, an anaerobic gram-positive rod-shaped strain capable of producing equol from daidzein. its 16s rdna gene sequence (1428 bp) showed 99% similari ... | 2006 | 17046543 |
| production of phytoestrogen s-equol from daidzein in mixed culture of two anaerobic bacteria. | an anaerobic incubation mixture of two bacterial strains eggerthella sp. julong 732 and lactobacillus sp. niu-o16, which have been known to transform dihydrodaidzein to s-equol and daidzein to dihydrodaidzein respectively, produced s-equol from daidzein through dihydrodaidzein. the biotransformation kinetics of daidzein by the mixed cultures showed that the production of s-equol from daidzein was significantly enhanced, as compared to the production of s-equol from dihydrodaidzein by eggerthella ... | 2007 | 17109177 |
| targeted pcr for detection of vaginal bacteria associated with bacterial vaginosis. | several novel bacterial species have been detected in subjects with bacterial vaginosis (bv) by using broad-range pcr assays, but this approach is insensitive for detecting minority species. we developed a series of taxon-directed 16s rrna gene pcr assays for more sensitive detection of key vaginal bacteria. we sought to determine the prevalence of each species in the vagina, its association with bv, and the utility of pcr for the microbiological diagnosis of bv. targeted pcr assays were develop ... | 2007 | 17687006 |
| enantioselective dehydroxylation of enterodiol and enterolactone precursors by human intestinal bacteria. | during the course of experiments on the transformation of lignans to phytoestrogenic substances, such as enterodiol (end) and enterolactone (enl), a previously isolated bacterium, eubacterium (e.) sp. strain sdg-2, capable of phenolic p-dehydroxylation in the biotransformation of secoisolariciresinol diglucoside to end and enl, was concluded to be eggerthella (eg.) lenta (eg. sp. sdg-2) on the basis of 16s rrna gene sequence analysis. the bacterium could transform (+)-dihydroxyenterodiol (dhend, ... | 2007 | 17978485 |
| association between lactobacillus species and bacterial vaginosis-related bacteria, and bacterial vaginosis scores in pregnant japanese women. | bacterial vaginosis (bv), the etiology of which is still uncertain, increases the risk of preterm birth. recent pcr-based studies suggested that bv is associated with complex vaginal bacterial communities, including many newly recognized bacterial species in non-pregnant women. | 2007 | 17986357 |
| first australian description of eggerthella lenta bacteraemia identified by 16s rrna gene sequencing. | | 2008 | 18446634 |
| adlercreutzia equolifaciens gen. nov., sp. nov., an equol-producing bacterium isolated from human faeces, and emended description of the genus eggerthella. | nine strains capable of metabolizing isoflavones to equol were isolated from human faeces. four of the strains were characterized by determining phenotypic and biochemical features and their phylogenetic position based on 16s rrna gene sequence analysis. these strains were related to eggerthella sinensis hku14t with about 93 % 16s rrna gene sequence similarity; they were asaccharolytic, obligately anaerobic, non-spore-forming, non-motile and gram-positive coccobacilli. in enzyme activity tests, ... | 2008 | 18450717 |
| asaccharobacter celatus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from rat caecum. | an obligately anaerobic and equol-producing bacterium, designated strain do03t, was isolated from the caecal content of a rat. cells were gram-positive, non-spore-forming rods. the results from a phylogenetic analysis based on 16s rrna gene sequences showed that strain do03t formed a separate line of descent in the phylogenetic cluster of the family coriobacteriaceae. the strain was unable to metabolize glucose or other carbohydrates as sole carbon sources; growth was enhanced in the presence of ... | 2008 | 18450720 |
| biotransformation of c-glucosylisoflavone puerarin to estrogenic (3s)-equol in co-culture of two human intestinal bacteria. | puerarin and daidzein are the major naturally occurring isoflavones in leguminous plants. these two compounds are metabolized to equol by human intestinal flora. here we isolated two intestinal bacteria capable of metabolizing puerarin and daidzein, respectively, from human feces. one of them, strain pue, converted puerarin to daidzein by cleaving a c-glucosyl bond, whereas the other, strain dze, converted daidzein to equol by reducing a double bond in ring c followed by elimination of an oxo gr ... | 2008 | 18670101 |
| isolation and characterization of a novel equol-producing bacterium from human feces. | an equol-producing bacterium was newly isolated from the feces of healthy humans and its morphological and biochemical properties were characterized. the cells were obligate anaerobes. they were non-sporulating, non-motile, gram-positive bacilliform bacteria with a pleomorphic morphology. the strain was catalase-positive, and oxidase-, urease-, and indole-negative. the only other sugar utilized by the strain was glycerin. the strain also degraded gelatin, but not esculin. it was most closely rel ... | 2008 | 18838805 |
| bacterial conversion of secoisolariciresinol and anhydrosecoisolariciresinol. | it has been investigated whether secoisolariciresinol (seco) and anhydrosecoisolariciresinol (ahs), an acid degradation product of seco, could be fermented in a similar way, and to a similar extent, by members of the intestinal microbiota. | 2009 | 19302311 |
| stereospecific biotransformation of dihydrodaidzein into (3s)-equol by the human intestinal bacterium eggerthella strain julong 732. | stereochemical course of isoflavanone dihydrodaidzein (dhd) reduction into the isoflavan (3s)-equol via tetrahydrodaidzein (thd) by the human intestinal anaerobic bacterium eggerthella strain julong 732 was studied. thd was synthesized by catalytic hydrogenation, and each stereoisomer was separated by chiral high-performance liquid chromatography. circular dichroism spectroscopy was used to elucidate the absolute configurations of four synthetic thd stereoisomers. rapid racemization of dhd catal ... | 2009 | 19304836 |
| gordonibacter pamelaeae gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the coriobacteriaceae isolated from a patient with crohn's disease, and reclassification of eggerthella hongkongensis lau et al. 2006 as paraeggerthella hongkongensis gen. nov., comb. nov. | a strictly anaerobic, gram-positive, short-rod/coccobacillus-shaped bacterial strain, designated 7-10-1-b(t), was isolated from the colon of a patient suffering from acute crohn's disease. the isolate formed small, pale-white, semi-translucent colonies on solid cultivation media. the strain was catalase-positive and metabolized only a small number of carbon sources. whole-cell fatty acids consisted predominantly of saturated fatty acids (89 %), of which 15 : 0 anteiso was the major component. th ... | 2009 | 19502325 |
| isolation of bacteria from the ileal mucosa of tnfdeltaare mice and description of enterorhabdus mucosicola gen. nov., sp. nov. | the diversity of bacteria associated with inflamed mucosa was investigated by culturing ileal samples from tnf(deltaare) mice on a selective medium containing mucin. among eight isolates, two strains (mt1b3 and mt1b8(t)) belonged to bacterial groups not yet cultured from the mouse intestine. whereas strain mt1b3 was identified as a member of the family planococcaceae and is closely related to sporosarcina species and filibacter limicola dsm 13886(t), strain mt1b8(t) was a novel bacterium. based ... | 2009 | 19542111 |
| further studies on a human intestinal bacterium ruminococcus sp. end-1 for transformation of plant lignans to mammalian lignans. | a human intestinal bacterium ruminococcus (r.) sp. end-1 capable of oxidizing (-)-enterodiol to (-)-enterolactone, enantioselectively, was further investigated from the perspective of transformation of plant lignans to mammalian lignans; a cell-free extract of the bacterium transformed (-)-enterodiol to (-)-enterolactone through an intermediate, enterolactol. the bacterium showed not only oxidation but also demethylation and deglucosylation activities for plant lignans. arctiin and secoisolarici ... | 2009 | 19630415 |
| human gut bacterial communities are altered by addition of cruciferous vegetables to a controlled fruit- and vegetable-free diet. | in the human gut, commensal bacteria metabolize food components that typically serve as energy sources. these components have the potential to influence gut bacterial community composition. cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli and cabbage, contain distinctive compounds that can be utilized by gut bacteria. for example, glucosinolates can be hydrolyzed by certain bacteria, and dietary fibers can be fermented by a range of species. we hypothesized that cruciferous vegetable consumption would a ... | 2009 | 19640972 |
| eggerthella lenta as a cause of anaerobic spondylodiscitis. | anaerobic organisms are a rare cause of spondylodiscitis. eggerthella lenta is an organism that is not commonly associated with spondylodiscitis. we describe a case of spondylodiscitis due to eggerthella lenta in an 82-year-old chinese woman presenting with back pain. the organism was isolated from tissue cultures obtained via radiology-guided biopsy. | 2009 | 20087537 |
| bacterial transformation of dietary lignans in gnotobiotic rats. | the bioactivity of lignans depends on their transformation by gut bacteria. the intestinal bacteria clostridium saccharogumia, eggerthella lenta, blautia producta and lactonifactor longoviformis convert the plant lignan secoisolariciresinol diglucoside via secoisolariciresinol (seco) into the bioactive enterolignans enterodiol (ed) and enterolactone (el). while the in vitro conversion of lignans by these bacteria has already been demonstrated, it is unclear whether this defined community is also ... | 2010 | 20370826 |
| conversion of (3s,4r)-tetrahydrodaidzein to (3s)-equol by thd reductase: proposed mechanism involving a radical intermediate. | to elucidate the mechanism of (3s)-equol biosynthesis, (2,3,4-d(3))-trans-thd was synthesized and converted to (3s)-equol by thd reductase in eggerthella strain julong 732. the position of the deuterium atoms in (3s)-equol was determined by (1)h nmr and (2)h nmr spectroscopy, and the product was identified as (2,3,4(alpha)-d(3))-(3s)-equol. all the deuterium atoms were retained, while the oh group at c-4 was replaced by a hydrogen atom with retention of configuration. to explain the deuterium re ... | 2010 | 20515029 |
| polymicrobial bloodstream infection with eggerthella lenta and desulfovibrio desulfuricans. | the advancement in culture identification methods has made possible the culture and identification of slow-growing anaerobic bacteria in clinical samples. here, we describe a case of polymicrobial bloodstream infection (bsi) caused by eggerthella lenta and desulfovibrio desulfuricans, identified by api 20a and vitek 2 systems and by 16s rrna sequencing. | 2010 | 20720029 |
| molecular analysis of the diversity of vaginal microbiota associated with bacterial vaginosis. | bacterial vaginosis (bv) is an ecological disorder of the vaginal microbiota that affects millions of women annually, and is associated with numerous adverse health outcomes including pre-term birth and the acquisition of sexually transmitted infections. however, little is known about the overall structure and composition of vaginal microbial communities; most of the earlier studies focused on predominant vaginal bacteria in the process of bv. in the present study, the diversity and richness of ... | 2010 | 20819230 |
| [bacteria isolated from surgical infections and their susceptibilities to antimicrobial agents --special references to bacteria isolated between april 2008 and march 2009]. | bacteria isolated from infections in abdominal surgery during the period from april 2008 to march 2009 were investigated in a multicenter study in japan, and the following results were obtained. in this series, 712 strains including 18 strains of candida spp. were isolated from 173 (80.5%) of 215 patients with surgical infections. three hundred and sixty-six strains were isolated from primary infections, and 346 strains were isolated from postoperative infections. from primary infections, anaero ... | 2010 | 20919496 |
| diversity of cervicovaginal microbiota associated with female lower genital tract infections. | the female genital tract (fgt) harbors very large numbers of bacterial species that are known to play an important role on vaginal health. previous studies have focused on bacterial diversity in the vagina, but little is known about the ectocervical microbiota associated with fgt infections. in our study, vaginal swabs and ectocervical swabs were collected from 100 participants in china, including 30 women with bacterial vaginosis (bv; bv group), 22 women with cervicitis (cer group), 18 women wi ... | 2011 | 21287345 |
| complete genome sequence of eggerthella lenta type strain (ipp vpi 0255). | eggerthella lenta (eggerth 1935) wade et al. 1999, emended würdemann et al. 2009 is the type species of the genus eggerthella, which belongs to the actinobacterial family coriobacteriaceae. e. lenta is a gram-positive, non-motile, non-sporulating pathogenic bacterium that can cause severe bacteremia. the strain described in this study has been isolated from a rectal tumor in 1935. here we describe the features of this organism, together with the complete genome sequence, and annotation. this is ... | 2009 | 21304654 |
| in vitro antimicrobial activity of razupenem (smp-601, ptz601) against anaerobic bacteria. | we evaluated the in vitro antianaerobic activity of razupenem (smp-601, ptz601), a new parenterally administered carbapenem, against 70 reference strains and 323 clinical isolates. razupenem exhibited broad-spectrum activity against anaerobes, inhibiting most of the reference strains when used at a concentration of =1 µg/ml. furthermore, it exhibited strong activity, comparable to those of other carbapenems (meropenem and doripenem), against clinically isolated non-fragilis bacteroides spp. (mic ... | 2011 | 21343447 |
| isolation of catechin-converting human intestinal bacteria. | to isolate and characterize bacteria from the human intestine that are involved in the conversion of catechins, a class of bioactive polyphenols abundant in the human diet. | 2011 | 21457417 |
| eggerthella lenta bacteremia in a crohn's disease patient after ileocecal resection. | eggerthella lenta is an anaerobic, nonspore-forming gram-positive rod and is a common gut commensal. bacteremia from this organism is rare but when present is always clinically significant. gastrointestinal disease and malignancy are the most common causes for bacteremia from this organism. eggerthella species have been isolated in feces from patients with inflammatory bowel disease, but bacteremia has not been reported to the best of our knowledge. here we report the case of a young african-ame ... | 2011 | 21585265 |
| phenotypic identification of over 1000 isolates of anaerobic bacteria recovered between 1999 and 2008 in a major costa rican hospital. | because of limitations in infrastructure, the aetiology of infections caused by anaerobic bacteria is seldom determined in clinical laboratories of developing countries. this study reports on the identification of 1010 anaerobic bacterial isolates collected between 1999 and 2008 in a major costa rican hospital with the use of two commercial phenotypic systems (rapid 32a and api 20a). approximately 60% of the isolates were gram-positive and, among the 35 species of gram-positive bacteria found, t ... | 2011 | 21722256 |
| [Bacteria isolated from surgical infections and its susceptibilities to antimicrobial agents--special references to bacteria isolated between April 2009 and March 2010]. | Bacteria isolated from surgical infections during the period from April 2009 to March 2010 were investigated in a multicenter study in Japan, and the following results were obtained. In this series, 671 strains including 16 strains of Candida spp. were isolated from 174 (79.1%) of 220 patients with surgical infections. Four hundred and eleven strains were isolated from primary infections, and 244 strains were isolated from surgical site infection. From primary infections, anaerobic Gram-negative ... | 2011 | 21861307 |
| The complex vaginal flora of West African women with bacterial vaginosis. | The spectrum of bacteria associated with bacterial vaginosis (BV) has recently expanded through taxonomic changes and the use of molecular methods. These methods have yet to be used in large-scale epidemiological studies in Africa where BV is highly prevalent. | 2011 | 21949860 |
| Complete genomic sequence of the equol-producing bacterium Eggerthella sp. strain YY7918, isolated from adult human intestine. | Eggerthella sp. strain YY7918 was isolated from the intestinal flora of a healthy human. It metabolizes daidzein (a soybean isoflavonoid) and produces S-equol, which has stronger estrogenic activities than daidzein. Here, we report the finished and annotated genomic sequence of this organism. | 2011 | 21914883 |
| lignan transformation by gut bacteria lowers tumor burden in a gnotobiotic rat model of breast cancer. | high dietary lignan exposure is implicated in a reduced breast cancer risk in women. the bacterial transformation of plant lignans to enterolignans is thought to be essential for this effect. to provide evidence for this assumption, gnotobiotic rats were colonized with the lignan-converting bacteria clostridium saccharogumia, eggerthella lenta, blautia producta and lactonifactor longoviformis (lcc rats). germ-free rats were used as the control. all animals were fed a lignan-rich flaxseed diet an ... | 2012 | 22080573 |