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| Bagheri,Samane; Gargari,Seyed Latif Mousavi; Rasooli,Iraj; Nazarian,Shahram; Alerasol,Masoome. |
| OBJECTIVES: Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), a major cause of diarrhea in children under 5, is an important agent for traveler's diarrhea. Heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) and colonization factors (CFs) are two main virulence mechanisms in ETEC. CS6 is one of the most prevalent CFs consisting of two structural subunits viz., CssA, CssB, necessary for attachment to the intestinal cells.METHODS: In the present research, a chimeric trivalent protein composed of CssB, CssA and LTB was constructed. The chimeric gene was synthesized with codon bias of E. coli for enhanced expression of the protein. Recombinant proteins were expressed and purified. Mice were immunized with the recombinant protein. The antibody titer and specificity of the immune sera were... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli; CS6; Enterotoxin; Chimeric protein. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702014000300308 |
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| Borelli,Beatriz M.; Ferreira,Elaine G.; Lacerda,Inayara C.A.; Santos,Deise A.; Carmo,Luiz S.; Dias,Ricardo S.; Silva,Maria Crisolita C.; Rosa,Carlos A.. |
| Canastra cheese is produced from raw cow's milk, and it is made at the farmhouse level using artisanal procedures and natural starters. The aim of this work was to determine the main hygienic-sanitary indicators and enterotoxigenic staphylococcal strains present during the manufacturing of traditional cheese of Serra da Canastra region, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Samples from 10 farms were studied, and they included: water employed in the process, raw milk, natural starters, cheese curd before salting and cheese after five days of ripening. All water samples exhibited faecal coliform contamination above the maximum acceptable value recommended by Brazilian standards. Pseudomonas aeruginosa and sulfite-reducing clostridia were also isolated from the water... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Artisanal cheese; Coliforms; Staphylococcus; Enterotoxin. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822006000400026 |
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| Borelli,B.M.; Lacerda,I.C.A.; Brandão,L.R.; Vianna,C.R.; Ferreira,M.C.; Gomes,F.C.O.; Carmo,L.S.; Heneine,L.G.D.; Rosa,C.A.. |
| The population dynamics of Staphylococcus spp. was studied during the ripening of Canastra Minas cheese at three farms located in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The presence of coagulase (coa), thermonuclease (nuc), and enterotoxin (sea, seb, sec, and sed) genes was investigated in Staphylococcus strains isolated during the 60-day cheese-ripening period. The presence of the staphylococcal enterotoxins A, C, and D was also investigated in the cheese samples. Cheese samples that were matured for 0, 7, 15, 30, and 45 days presented staphylococci counts from 10³ to 10(8)cfu/g. All isolates considered coagulase-positive by physiological tests had the coa gene. However, no association was observed between the results obtained with biochemical tests and those... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Canastra Minas cheese; Staphylococcus; Enterotoxin. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-09352011000200028 |
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| Fagundes,Helena; Barchesi,Luciana; Nader Filho,Antonio; Ferreira,Luciano Menezes; Oliveira,Carlos Augusto Fernandes. |
| The objective of the present study was to evaluate the occurrence of Staphylococcus aureus in milk produced in 37 farms located in the regions of Ribeirão Preto and São Carlos, state of São Paulo, Brazil. Two-hundred and eight samples of milk from individual cows showing subclinical mastitis, and 37 samples of bulk tank milk were analyzed. S. aureus strains were detected in 18 (7.3%) milk samples: 14 (6.7%) from samples of individual cows, and 4 (10.8%) from bulk tank milk. Two individual milk samples (14.3%) and two bulk milk samples contained enterotoxigenic S. aureus. PFGE analysis revealed the genetic heterogeneity of the strains isolated from raw milk, which presented to 13 S. aureus patterns. Results confirmed the potential transmission of... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Staphylococcus aureus; Raw milk; Bovine; Mastitis; Enterotoxin. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822010000200018 |
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| Ribeiro,DA; Niemann,FS; Gatti,MSV; Lanna,MCS; Tsuji,T; Yano,T. |
| Enteric infections caused by the ingestion of contaminated water, especially by Escherichia coli, are important to define the virulence properties of these bacteria. Due to frequent infantile diarrhea in the city of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, the phenotypic and genotypic diarrheagenic properties of E. coli isolated from drinking water were studied. The culture supernatants of 39 (40%) among a total of 97 E. coli isolates from drinking water were positive by suckling mouse assay and induced cytotoxic effects on Vero cells. The enterotoxic and cytotoxic activities were present in the fraction with less than 10 kDa and were not lost when heated up to 60°C and 100°C for 30 minutes. PCR assays showed that among these 39 Vero cytotoxigenic E. coli,... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Escherichia coli; Drinking water; Cytotoxin; Enterotoxin. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-91992011000100014 |
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| Carlos,Lanamar de Almeida; Amaral,Kenas Aguiar da Silva; Vieira,Ivo José Curcino; Mathias,Leda; Braz-Filho,Raimundo; Samarão,Solange Silva; Vieira-da-Motta,Olney. |
| Staphylococci bacteria are involved in many human and animal infections and development of alternative antimicrobial drugs against pathogenic bacteria is of great interest to the pharmaceutical industry. This study investigated the in vitro effect of Rauvolfia grandiflora methanol extract (root bark fraction) (RGE) on the density of ATCC strains of Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis, and a clinical enterotoxin-producer, S. aureus bovine strain. The alkaloid, isoreserpiline, obtained from dichloromethane extract of R. grandiflora was ineffective against the strains tested. After incubation of staphylococci strains in the presence of 1.2 mg.mL-1 RGE, a significant inhibition of cell growth was observed using both spectrophotometry and ELISA... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Rauvolfia grandiflora; Staphylococcus aureus; Enterotoxin; Antimicrobial activity. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822010000300011 |
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