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The growing bacterial resistance to antibiotics calls for the elaboration of new pathogens elimination strategies. Some of these methods are based on the conjugative transfer of recombinant plasmids able to eliminate pathogenic recipients by plasmid run-away replication or by killing activity of plasmid-encoded bacteriocins. Using live bacteria as donors of plasmid vectors carrying killing determinants...
Biosensor techniques are based on biospecific interaction between the biological parts of biosensor with the analyte. In biosensor construction, antibodies are usually used for the detection of analytes such as microorganism, because of very strong and highly specific interaction. The disadvantages of this assay are a long time needed for antibody isolation and purification as well as difficult regeneration...
The increasing, problem of antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria requires development of new antimicrobial agents. Synthesis and experimental application of the hybrids peptides may be one of the interesting possibilities in antimicrobial treatment. The aim of the present investigation is to determinate in vitro activities of two synthetic peptide amides: cecropin-melittin hybrid peptide...
The incidence of extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) was analyzed in Enterobacteriaceae population circulating in the Upper Silesian Child and Mother Health Center in Katowice (USC&MHC). Altogether 1164 clinical specimens, collected from children hospitalized in 8 different hospital units of USC&MHC were investigated. Five hundred and eighty-five clinical isolates of the family Enterobacteriaceae...
Gram-negative anaerobic rods isolated in The Netherlands and Poland from extraintestinal and intestinal sources were identified as Bacteroides fragilis (n = 210) on the basis of Gram staining, growth on selective Bacteroides Bile Esculine medium as black colonies, and biochemical characteristics. PCR-mediated assessment of the presence of the B. fragilis enterotoxin (fragilysin) gene in all strains...
Listeria monocytogenes is an opportunistic pathogen that causes infections collectively termed listeriosis, which are related to the ingestion of food contaminated with these gram-positive rods. The pathogenicity of L. monocytogenes is detennined by the following virulence factors: listeriolysin O, protein ActA, two phospholipases C, internalins (InlA and InlB), protein CwhA and a metalloprotease...
The study comprised tests on the effect of fungicides: Oxafun T, Funaben T and Baytan Universal on the nitrogenase activity of methylotrophic bacteria, selected from the rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soil of spring barley. The obtained results indicated that the field dose of fungicides - 0.5 ppm had no effect on all the examined strains of methylotrophic bacteria. The dose of 50 ppm, however, had...
Opportunistic infections are usually caused by endogenic flora originated from physiological flora. In this context we studied coryneform bacteria recovered from deeper layers of epidermis of the forehead (278 isolates) and the back (196 isolates) of healthy men. It was observed that coryneform bacteria are in dynamic equilibrium with coagu-lase-negative staphylococci and they amount 4,7% of resident...
The laboratory experiments tested the influence of selected pesticides on the symbiotic efficiency and nitrogenase activity of Rhizobium teguminosarum bv. trifolii KGL, Sinorhizobium melilotii Bp and Bradyrhizobium sp. Ornithopus B bacteria entering into symbiosis with clover, lucerne and serradella, respectively. The results obtained indicate that the pesticides used in the experiments (Funaben T...
The efficacy of five disinfecting agents was tested by a new microbiological method, i.e. the flow cytometry. The method is based on kinetic measurements of the effects of a disinfecting agent on the percent of live/dead cells detected with propidium iodide. E. coli ATCC52922 strain and S. aureus ATCC 29213 strain were used in the experiment. From the measurements the killing time 50 (KT50) was estimated...
Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) have become the most often isolated bacteria from blood culture, spinal fluid and respiratory tracts of neonates. These nosocomial strains are often resistant to oxacillin and other antibiotics (macrolides, aminoglycosides and fluorochinolones). 50 multidrug resistant CoNS strains isolated from bloodstream neonatal infections were tested for sensitivity to 23...
Enterococcal infection has become a major clinical problem and E. faecalis and E. faecium are the most frequently isolated species. However, the isolation of other species (E. casseliflavus, E. gallinarwn, E. durans) from clinical materials was reported recently. The aim of this study was to evaluate drug resistance of 97 species of enterococci isolated from clinical specimens of Upper Silesian Health...
During one year study, 394 stool samples obtained from a random cases of diarrhea were examined for the presence of free shiga-like toxins Stx1 and Stx2 in Vero cells assay. Of 394 stool specimen supernatants tested, 2 (0.5%) gave positive results. The two stool supernatants positive on Vero cell line were wholly capable of being neutralized with the monoclonal antibody to Stx2. Broth cultures of...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the reduction in the adherence of 33 strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from humans and different animals to human buccal epithelial cells with neuraminidase inhibition. Buccal epithelial cells were incubated with strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the presence or absence of the neuraminidase inhibitors, 2,3-dehydro-2-deoxy-N-acetyl-neuraminic acid (DANA)...
Two bacterial strains identified as Ralstonia picketti (BP 20) and Alcaligenes piechaudii (CZOR L-1B) were isolated from petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated soil following bioremediation treatment. The surface active properties, e.g. surface tension, emulsification and foamability of their culture filtrates were evaluated. Bacterial cell-surface hydro-phobicity (BAH) as measured by analyzing cell affinity...
The biotransformation of phosphogypsum in cultures of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) isolated from crude petroleum-refining wastewaters or purified using activated sludge method was studied. Selection was with the microcosms method on Postgate and minimal medium with different carbon sources, Emerson medium and petroleum-refining wastewaters. Highest hydrogen sulfide production, in excess of 500...
Photodynamic inactivation (PDI) may be a very promising alternative method for the antimicrobial treatment of periodontitis. Several studies have demonstrated the sensitivity of subgingival flora to PDI using toluidine blue, methylene blue, and chlorin e6 derivatives. In the present study we report the activity of the Fotolon sensitizer, composed of chlorin e6 and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), against...
Studies were conducted on the improvement of A. culicicola identification. This species is phenotypically very similar to A. veronii biotype sobria, A. sobria, and A. allosaccharophila. The sequences of 16S rDNA of A. culicicola isolates show the highest similarity with A. jandaei, A. veronii, and A. caviae. Digestion of 16S rDNA PCR product with Alul and Mbol restriction endonucleases allowed discriminating...
In this study we asked a question whether H. pylori LPS with or without LewisXY (Le) determinants as well as LBP (lipopolysaccharide binding protein) and sCD14 molecules recognizing bacterial LPS may be involved in atherogenesis. Sera from 57 patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), 27 H. pylori infected dyspeptic patients-H.p.(+) and 49 healthy controls (HC) were tested for IgM and IgG to H. pylori...
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