Bacterial Typing Techniques

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Adhesin expression in matched nasopharyngeal and middle ear isolates of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae from children with acute otitis media. 
  • An outbreak of infection due to beta-Lactamase Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase 2-producing K. pneumoniae in a Greek University Hospital: molecular characterization, epidemiology, and outcomes. 
  • Association between cytotoxic and invasive Pseudomonas aeruginosa and clinical outcomes in bacterial keratitis. 
  • Bartonella clarridgeiae, a newly recognized zoonotic pathogen causing inoculation papules, fever, and lymphadenopathy (cat scratch disease). 
  • Combinatorial phenotypic signatures distinguish persistent from resolving methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia isolates. 
  • Comparison of methods based on different molecular epidemiological markers for typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains: interlaboratory study of discriminatory power and reproducibility. 
  • Comparison of seven techniques for typing international epidemic strains of Clostridium difficile: restriction endonuclease analysis, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, PCR-ribotyping, multilocus sequence typing, multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis, amplified fragment length polymorphism, and surface layer protein A gene sequence typing. 
  • Controlled clinical laboratory comparison of BACTEC plus aerobic/F resin medium with BacT/Alert aerobic FAN medium for detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • Controlled comparison of bioMérieux VITAL and BACTEC NR-660 systems for detection of bacteremia and fungemia in pediatric patients. 
  • Differentiation of strains in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by DNA sequence polymorphisms, including rapid identification of M. bovis BCG. 
  • Epidemiological features and risk factors of Salmonella gastroenteritis in children resident in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 
  • Genetic diversity in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex based on variable numbers of tandem DNA repeats. 
  • Genomic sequencing is required for identification of tuberculosis transmission in Hawaii. 
  • Genotypic diversity of coagulase-negative staphylococci causing endocarditis: a global perspective. 
  • Identification of a W variant outbreak of Mycobacterium tuberculosis via population-based molecular epidemiology. 
  • Identification of surface-exposed B-cell epitopes on high molecular-weight adhesion proteins of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. 
  • Impact of strain type on detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile: comparison of molecular diagnostic and enzyme immunoassay approaches. 
  • Induction of proinflammatory cytokines from human respiratory epithelial cells after stimulation by nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. 
  • Lipid diversity among botulinum neurotoxin-producing clostridia. 
  • Maturation and secretion of the non-typable Haemophilus influenzae HMW1 adhesin: roles of the N-terminal and C-terminal domains. 
  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus outbreak in an intensive care nursery: potential for interinstitutional spread. 
  • Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis isolates are associated with clonal complex 30 genotype and a distinct repertoire of enterotoxins and adhesins. 
  • Molecular detection and analysis of spotted fever group Rickettsia in patients with fever and rash at a tertiary care centre in Tamil Nadu, India. 
  • Molecular identification of streptomycin monoresistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis related to multidrug-resistant W strain. 
  • Multicenter evaluation of the Vitek 2 anaerobe and Corynebacterium identification card. 
  • Multicenter evaluation of the new Vitek 2 Neisseria-Haemophilus identification card. 
  • Mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit-variable-number tandem-repeat analysis and Beijing/W family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. 
  • Outer membrane protein subtypes of Haemophilus influenzae type b isolates causing invasive disease in Victoria, Australia, from 1988 to 1990. 
  • Persistent bacteremia due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection is associated with agr dysfunction and low-level in vitro resistance to thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein. 
  • Prevalence, antibiotic resistance and molecular characterisation of Staphylococcus aureus in pigs at agricultural fairs in the USA. 
  • Real-time PCR assays compared to culture-based approaches for identification of aerobic bacteria in chronic wounds. 
  • Study of host-microbe interactions in zebrafish. 
  • The Vitek analyser for routine bacterial identification and susceptibility testing: protocols, problems, and pitfalls. 
  • The oral microbiome in health and disease and the potential impact on personalized dental medicine. 
  • The pathogenesis of nontypable Haemophilus influenzae otitis media. 
  • Toward a Wolbachia multilocus sequence typing system: discrimination of Wolbachia strains present in Drosophila species. 
  • Transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus between human and hamster. 
  • Use of 16S ribosomal RNA gene analyses to characterize the bacterial signature associated with poor oral health in West Virginia. 
  • Vibrio metoecus sp. nov., a close relative of Vibrio cholerae isolated from coastal brackish ponds and clinical specimens. 
  • Virulence associated with outbreak-related strains of Burkholderia cepacia complex among a cohort of patients with bacteremia. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Clements III, Dennis Alfred, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, School of Nursing