Bacteroides fragilis
Bacteroides references in Baron's Medical Microbiology (online at the NCBI bookshelf). Type strain of Bacteroides fragilis at ... Bacteroides fragilis is an anaerobic, Gram-negative, pleomorphic to rod-shaped bacterium. It is part of the normal microbiota ... Bacteroides fragilis resides in the human gastrointestinal tract and is essential to healthy gastrointestinal function such as ... Bacteroides fragilis is involved in 90% of anaerobic peritoneal infections. It also causes bacteremia associated with intra- ...
Nanaerobe
Bacteroides fragilis). Like other anaerobes, these organisms do not require oxygen for growth. This growth benefit requires the ...
Peritonitis
Bacteroides fragilis). Fecal peritonitis results from the presence of faeces in the peritoneal cavity. It can result from ...
Phosphonopyruvate decarboxylase
Zhang G, Dai J, Lu Z, Dunaway-Mariano D (2003). "The phosphonopyruvate decarboxylase from Bacteroides fragilis". J. Biol. Chem ...
Bacteroides
One of the most important clinically is Bacteroides fragilis. Bacteroides melaninogenicus has recently been reclassified and ... Bacteroides species also benefit their host by excluding potential pathogens from colonizing the gut. Some species (B. fragilis ... Bacteroides such as Bacteroides uniformis may play a role in alleviating obesity. Low abundance of B. uniformis found in the ... Bacteroides has also been isolated from abscesses in the neck and lungs. Some Bacteroides species are associated with Crohn's ...
Cefpirome
Bacteroides fragilis, enterococci, Pseudomonas spp. and staphylococci are resistant to cefpirome sulfate, and some Haemophilus ...
Vaginal flora
Lactobacilli have been shown to inhibit in vitro growth of pathogenic microorganisms, e.g. Bacteroides fragilis, Escherichia ... and Bacteroides spp., Fusobacterium spp., Gardnerella vaginalis, Mobiluncus, Prevotella spp., and Gram-negative enteric ...
Fragilysin
Obiso RJ, Lyerly DM, Van Tassell RL, Wilkins TD (October 1995). "Proteolytic activity of the Bacteroides fragilis enterotoxin ... Fragilysin (EC 3.4.24.74, Bacteroides fragilis (entero)toxin) is an enzyme. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical ... Donelli G, Fabbri A, Fiorentini C (January 1996). "Bacteroides fragilis enterotoxin induces cytoskeletal changes and surface ... "The enterotoxin of Bacteroides fragilis is a metalloprotease". Infection and Immunity. 63 (1): 175-81. PMC 172975. PMID 7806355 ...
Tigecycline
Bacteroides fragilis, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, Bacteroides uniformis, Bacteroides vulgatus, Clostridium perfringens, and ... and Bacteroides fragilis. Tigecycline is indicated for treatment of complicated intra-abdominal infections caused by; ...
Α-Galactosidase
The current B-zyme used comes from Bacteroides fragilis. The idea of maintaining a blood supply at healthcare facilities with ...
Pharmacomicrobiomics
2010). "Bacteroides fragilis RecA protein overexpression causes resistance to metronidazole". Res Microbiol. 161 (5): 346-354. ...
7alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase
... and NADP-dependent 7alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases from bacteroides fragilis". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - ...
Polysaccharide A
... (PSA) is a polysaccharide produced by the Gram-negative bacterium Bacteroides fragilis. B.fragilis produces ... Immunomodulation by Bacteroides fragilis' Polysaccharide A". Frontiers in Immunology. 12: 662807. doi:10.3389/fimmu.2021.662807 ... The dark and light sides of Bacteroides fragilis in health". Food Research International. 126: 108590. doi:10.1016/j.foodres. ... eight identified distinct capsular polysaccharides, identified by the letters "A" through "H". PSA colonization of B. fragilis ...
Cefotaxime
As listed, it has modest activity against the anaerobic Bacteroides fragilis. The following represents MIC susceptibility data ... Bacteroides spp. Fusobacterium spp. Notable organisms against which cefotaxime is not active include Pseudomonas and ...
Carbapenem
... s generally exhibit good activity against anaerobes such as Bacteroides fragilis. Like other beta lactam antibiotics ...
Host-cell reactivation
Jones DT, Robb FT, Woods DR (December 1980). "Effect of oxygen on Bacteroides fragilis survival after far-ultraviolet ...
Choloylglycine hydrolase
"Purification and characterization of bile salt hydrolase from Bacteroides fragilis subsp. fragilis". Biochim. Biophys. Acta. ...
List of restriction enzyme cutting sites: Bd-Bp
Reinecke SN, Morgan RD (March 1991). "BfaI, a new MaeI isoschizomer from Bacteroides fragilis, recognizes the sequence 5' C ... Azeddoug H, Reysset G, Sebald M (August 1992). "Characterization of restriction endonuclease BfrBI from Bacteroides fragilis ...
Bacteroidales-1 RNA motif
Bayley DP, Rocha ER, Smith CJ (December 2000). "Analysis of cepA and other Bacteroides fragilis genes reveals a unique promoter ... Bacteroidales-1 RNA motif has been reported as a 6S RNA homologue by a report of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron transcriptome map ... "A high-resolution transcriptome map identifies small RNA regulation of metabolism in the gut microbe Bacteroides ...
Metallo-beta-lactamase protein fold
This belief was soon debunked when the structure of Bacteroides fragilis ZBL, CcrA, was published, showing an additional Zn(II ... "Crystal structure of the wide-spectrum binuclear zinc beta-lactamase from Bacteroides fragilis". Structure. 4 (7): 823-36. doi: ...
Imipenem
Bacteroides fragilis, and Enterococcus faecalis have developed resistance to imipenem to varying degrees. Not many species are ... Acinetobacter anitratus, Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, Actinomyces odontolyticus, Aeromonas hydrophila, Bacteroides distasonis, ... Bacteroides uniformis, and Clostridium perfringens are generally susceptible to imipenem, while Acinetobacter baumannii, some ...
List of sequenced bacterial genomes
2004). "Genomic analysis of Bacteroides fragilis reveals extensive DNA inversions regulating cell surface adaptation". PNAS. ... 2005). "Extensive DNA inversions in the B. fragilis genome control variable gene expression" (PDF). Science. 307 (5714): 1463-5 ... 2003). "A genomic view of the human-Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron symbiosis". Science. 299 (5615): 2074-6. Bibcode:2003Sci... ...
Anaerobic infection
Bacteroides fragilis group is rarely recovered in these infections compared to intra-abdominal infection. Actinomyces spp. and ... Bacteroides fragilis).Clostridium perfringens can cause of brain abscesses and meningitis following intracranial surgery or ... Anaerobes (mostly B. fragilis group, and rarely C. perfringens) can be recovered in complicated infections associated with ... are especially common in bite and skull bone infections, whereas members of the B. fragilis group are often found in vascular ...
Infection
An example of this is appendicitis, which is caused by Bacteroides fragilis and Escherichia coli. The second is an iatrogenic ...
Lipopolysaccharide binding protein
Erridge, C; Pridmore, A; Eley, A; Stewart, J; Poxton, IR (2004). "Lipopolysaccharides of Bacteroides fragilis, Chlamydia ...
Glutamine synthetase
Class III enzymes (GSIII) have, currently, only been found in Bacteroides fragilis and in Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens. It is a ...
Taurolidine
Anaerobes (MIC 0.03-0.3 mg/mL): Bacteroides species (including B. fragilis), Fusobacteriota, Clostridium species, ...
Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron
This genomic feature is shared with another member of the genus with a similar lifestyle, Bacteroides fragilis. The genome is ... Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron is one of the most common components of the human gut flora. In a long-term study of Bacteroides ... Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (formerly Bacillus thetaiotaomicron) is a species of bacterium of the genus Bacteroides. It is a ... behind Bacteroides fragilis. B. thetaiotaomicron is considered commensal or symbiotic. However, it is also an opportunistic ...
Tubo-ovarian abscess
Bacteroides fragilis, other Bacteroides species, Peptostreptococcus, Peptococcus, and aerobic streptococci. Long term IUD use ...
Phocaeicola vulgatus
Designation of Neotype Strains for Bacteroides fragilis (Veillon and Zuber) Castellani and Chalmers and Bacteroides ... Cato, E. P.; Johnson, J. L. (1976-04-01). "Reinstatement of Species Rank for Bacteroides fragilis, B. ovatus, B. distasonis, B ... Smith, C J (October 1985). "Development and use of cloning systems for Bacteroides fragilis: cloning of a plasmid-encoded ... this plasmid was first identified in 1985 in Bacteroides fragilis. P. vulgatus seems to be present from early in an individuals ...