• citation needed] C. pseudotuberculosis also causes disease in horses, and should be considered prevalent in areas where cases of "pigeon fever" and "ulcerative lymphadenitis" have been recorded. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] It was finally renamed Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis in 1948, to reflect that the clinical disease signs were similar to disease caused by M. tuberculosis species. (wikipedia.org)
  • This bacterial species has caused occasional cases of infection in people who work closely with infected small ruminants, resulting in similar swellings of the lymph nodes in the neck and groin. (wikipedia.org)
  • Three species ( Corynebacterium diphtheriae , C. ulcerans , and C. pseudotuberculosis ) can potentially produce diphtheria toxin. (cdc.gov)
  • The genus contains the species Corynebacterium diphtheriae and the nondiphtherial corynebacteria, collectively referred to as diphtheroids. (medscape.com)
  • Some nondiphtheria species of Corynebacterium produce disease in specific animal species, and some of these are also human pathogens . (wikidoc.org)
  • Some species of Corynebacterium have sequenced genomes that range in size from 2.5 - 3 Mbp. (wikidoc.org)
  • Species of Corynebacterium have been used in the mass production of various amino acids including L-Glutamic Acid , a popular food additive that is made at a rate of 1.5 million tons/ year by Corynebacterium. (wikidoc.org)
  • Species identification recommended for any isolate thought to be causing human infection. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • Auwaerter, Paul G. "Corynebacterium Species. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • Pediatrics Central , peds.unboundmedicine.com/pedscentral/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX_Guide/540637/3.0/Corynebacterium_species. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • Erythrasma is a superficial skin disease caused by Gram-positive Corynebacterium species. (symptoma.com)
  • Interestingly, we found that HmuY is similar to proteins encoded in several different species belonging to the Bacteroidetes phylum, which consists of three classes: Bacteroidetes, Flavobacteria, and Sphingobacteria [23]. (erksignal.com)
  • In general the agents implicated in etiology of respiratory syndrome include a wide spectra of viruses such as PI 3, Adeno and Reo viruses, bacterial species such as Hemophilus, Bordetella, Pasteurella, Corynebacterium, Mycoplasma and Chlamydia along with a chain of predisposing factors mainly the environmental and managemental fluctuations. (cswri.res.in)
  • Of 18 known species, Yersinia (Y.) enterocolitica and Y. pseudotuberculosis cause disease in humans. (hygiene-in-practice.de)
  • The species Y. pseudotuberculosis generally occurs only in 0.5 to 1 percent of cases worldwide. (hygiene-in-practice.de)
  • Both Y. enterocolitica and Y. pseudotuberculosis are zoonoses (diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans and vice versa), where the main reservoir is found in animal species such as pigs and cattle, but also goats or dogs. (hygiene-in-practice.de)
  • The phages exhibited relatively wide host ranges among Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and related species. (mdpi.com)
  • This species causes infection that leads to blindness and sexually transmitted diseases in humans. (up.ac.za)
  • 44 proteins were commonly identified in two different strains, isolated from distinct hosts, then composing a core C. pseudotuberculosis exoproteome. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Comparative analyses of the exoproteomes of two C. pseudotuberculosis strains, in addition to comparison with other experimentally determined corynebacterial exoproteomes, were helpful to gain novel insights into the contribution of the exported proteins in the virulence of this bacterium. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Case series from Canada, consistent with global surveillance, have found that the disease burden is increasingly attributed to cutaneous, non-pseudomembranous respiratory and systemic disease from toxigenic and non-toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae and C. ulcerans Footnote 2 Footnote 3 Footnote 4 Footnote 5 Footnote 6 Footnote 7 Footnote 8 . (canada.ca)
  • I went with the former, as did Greg, and the other Peter Assessing the Genotypic Differences between Strains of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis biovar equi through Comparative Genomics. (btfrocks.com)
  • Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is a Gram-positive bacterium known globally to infect ruminants, horses, and rarely people. (wikipedia.org)
  • Infection with this bacterium is often confirmed by bacterial culture of the purulent exudate. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] Shortly after, it was sampled from abscesses in a sheep by Hugo von Preisz [hu], and the bacterium was named the "Preisz-Nocard" bacillus until further work by German microbiologists in the mid-1900s, when it was recategorized into the Corynebacterium genus. (wikipedia.org)
  • C. pseudotuberculosis is a Gram-positive bacterium that can be either coccoid or filamentous rods, which can be organized into palisades. (wikipedia.org)
  • This bacterium is grown at 37 °C under aerobic or anaerobic conditions, thus C. pseudotuberculosis is a facultative anaerobe. (wikipedia.org)
  • The present study examined the possibilities that: (i) careful examination of Gram-stained sputum and culture plates may reveal a predominant bacterium such as Corynebacterium spp. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a curved, rod-shaped, Gram-negative bacterium found in brackish saltwater, which, when ingested, causes gastrointestinal illness in humans. (datapunk.net)
  • citation needed] Although few recent studies have been conducted into its prevalence, data from slaughterhouses in Australia in the late 1980s suggested that C. pseudotuberculosis was affecting 50-60% of sheep. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although prevalence of CL varies by region and country, it is found worldwide and is of major concern for small ruminant producers in North America. (msdvetmanual.com)
  • This study determined the prevalence of MCFV-associated infections in cattle within the mesoregions of the state of Paraná, Southern Brazil, by analyzing the histopathologic patterns of renal lesions in association with positive immunoreactivity to intralesional antigens of MCFV. (bvsalud.org)
  • The management system also found to affect the sero-prevalence of BTD and it was higher in migratory flocks (63.29% in sheep to 84.84% in goats) compared to stationary flocks (35.03% in sheep to 72.88% in goats). (cswri.res.in)
  • In addition to disease burden, other toxigenic Corynebacteria ( C. ulcerans or C. pseudotuberculosis ) and non-toxigenic C. diphtheriae may serve to maintain a reservoir for toxigenic respiratory diphtheria Footnote 2 Footnote 4 Footnote 8 . (canada.ca)
  • For more information about C diphtheriae infections, please see Diphtheria . (medscape.com)
  • Diphtheria is a now-rare vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) associated with a wide range of clinical illnesses, depending on the infection site and the toxigenicity of the bacteria. (canada.ca)
  • Corynebacterium diphtheriae , the cause of diphtheria in humans. (wikidoc.org)
  • Every country should have a surveil ance system were original y developed based on the advice of a group in place for diphtheria. (who.int)
  • Non-diphtheria Corynebacterium spp. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Corynebacterium diphtheriae is responsible for both endemic and epidemic diphtheria. (who.int)
  • Phylogenetic analyses of the Corynebacterium genus were performed using house-keeping loci but also secreted protein loci from Cp 3/99-5. (gla.ac.uk)
  • Corynebacterium is a genus of Gram-positive , facultatively anaerobic , non- motile , rod-shaped actinobacteria . (wikidoc.org)
  • Malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) is a viral infectious disease caused by specific members of the Macavirus genus that are referred to as the MCF virus (MCFV) complex group. (bvsalud.org)
  • Endocarditis caused by Corynebacterium spp. (wikidoc.org)
  • May cause bacteremia, endocarditis , device/ prosthesis infections , wound infections--especially in immunocompromised patients with hematological disorders or vascular catheters. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • bacteremia, endocarditis , wound infections. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • We describe a patient who developed Corynebacterium striatum native valve endocarditis after receiving two 6-week courses of daptomycin for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and osteomyelitis. (symptoma.com)
  • Once the diagnosis has been made, treatment of the infection can begin, but this is difficult due to the nature of the organism and the lesions it forms. (wikipedia.org)
  • Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is a facultative intracellular pathogen that belongs to the so-called CMN ( Corynebacterium-Mycobacterium-Nocardia ) group, a distinct subgroup of the Actinobacteria that also includes other highly important bacterial pathogens, such as Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis . (biomedcentral.com)
  • We found pathogenic bacteria in following frequency: 18.7% Staphylococcus aureus , 12.1 % C macginleyi, 10.3% Streptococcus pneumoniae, 8.4% Haemophilus influenzae. (symptoma.com)
  • Vaccines have also been produced to develop acquired immunity to this infection. (wikipedia.org)
  • Culture of active lesions for Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is diagnostically definitive. (msdvetmanual.com)
  • Additionally, degenerative vascular lesions of the kidney should be considered during the establishment of a histological diagnosis of MCFV-induced infections in cattle in the absence of fibrinoid change or necrotizing vasculitis. (bvsalud.org)
  • [ 5 ] Today, the more common scenario is nondiphtherial corynebacterial bacteremia associated with device infections (venous access catheters, heart valves, neurosurgical shunts, peritoneal catheters), as well as meningitis , septic arthritis , and urinary tract infections. (medscape.com)
  • Infection by diphtheroids tend to occur in elderly, neutropenic , or immunocompromised patients, and those who have indwelling prosthetic devices such as heart valves , neurologic shunts , or catheters . (wikidoc.org)
  • CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR)() data were used to examine relative survival of males with breast cancer diagnosed during 2007-2016 by race/ethnicity, age group, stage at diagnosis, and U.S. Census region. (cdc.gov)
  • A disease known as ulcerative lymphagenitis can also result from infection with C. pseudotuberculosis in the distal limbs of horses. (wikipedia.org)
  • In fact, one might expect that the majority of the virulence determinants of C. pseudotuberculosis would be present in the exoproteome, i.e . the entire set of bacterial proteins found in the extracellular milieu [ 7 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Aside from the T3SS, two genes encoding well-characterized virulence proteins are typically found on the PAI, the thermostable direct hemolysin gene (tdh) and/or the tdh-related hemolysin gene (trh). (datapunk.net)
  • causes bacterial meningitis, fulminating septicaemia, pulmonary and ophthalmic infections, chronic synovitis (joint pain/inflammation), skin diseases, wound infections and postoperative urinary tract infections. (microgeninc.com)
  • These opportunistic anaerobic bacteria may also cause bed sores, pressure sores, aspiration pneumonia, chronic otitis media (ear infection), chronic sinusitis, and osteomyelitis (bone infection). (microgeninc.com)
  • On the basis of our mutational analysis of HmuY heme ligands [20], an initial step in Rigosertib clinical trial heme transfer could involve disruption of only one of the two axial histidine ligands, as found for Serratia marcescens hemophore HasA [22]. (erksignal.com)
  • This category will also be used in primary coding to classify bacterial infections of unspecified nature or site. (cdc.gov)
  • causes influenza infection of birds. (microgeninc.com)
  • CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES AND INJURIES I. INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES (001-139) Includes: diseases generally recognized as communicable or transmissible as well as a few diseases of unknown but possibly infectious origin Excludes: acute respiratory infections (460-466) influenza (487. (cdc.gov)
  • causes severe respiratory infections in the immunocompromised. (microgeninc.com)
  • B: A large amount of Gram - positive rods and a few polymorphonuclear leukocytes were found. (symptoma.com)
  • The results indicate that MCFV infections are endemic within the state of Paraná and suggest that the kidney can be of diagnostic value in suspected cases of MCF-associated infections in cattle. (bvsalud.org)
  • Moreover, evidence could be found for probable non-classical export of most of the remaining proteins. (biomedcentral.com)
  • C . pseudotuberculosis rarely infects humans and is typically associated with farm animals ( 7 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Huge efforts have been undertaken in many laboratories around the world to understand the public health risks posed by prions from animals ever since BSE was found in 1990's to cause variant CJD (vCJD) in humans. (infectiousconferences.com)
  • Specifically, C. pseudotuberculosis is intrinsically resistant to streptomycin, with varying resistance to penicillin and neomycin depending on the strain. (wikipedia.org)
  • it was found to be more similar to the equine Cp 1/06-A isolate which is the most diverged of the Cp isolates. (gla.ac.uk)
  • C diphtheriae infection typically is characterized by a local inflammation, usually in the upper respiratory tract, associated with toxin-mediated cardiac and neural disease. (medscape.com)
  • Wound infections also occur, but are less common than seafood-borne disease. (datapunk.net)
  • The disease mechanism of V. parahaemolyticus infections has not been fully elucidated. (datapunk.net)
  • In adolescents and adults, infection also manifests itself as fever and swelling of the lymph nodes, appendicitis-like pain on the right side of the abdomen, inflammation of the throat or other flu-like symptoms. (hygiene-in-practice.de)
  • citation needed] C. pseudotuberculosis can survive in soil for up to 8 months and contaminate bedding and indoor handling facilities for several weeks. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] In horses, arthropod vectors are considered a significant source of infection. (wikipedia.org)
  • The first isolation of C. pseudotuberculosis came from a cow lymph node in 1888, by French bacteriologist Edmond Nocard. (wikipedia.org)
  • Furthermore, the utilization of an in situ diagnostic technique resulted in the detection of a greater number of cases of infections by MCFV than previously identified using other diagnostic methods. (bvsalud.org)
  • These bacteria are now known as Corynebacterium ammoniagenes, and are thought to be associated with diaper rash due to their ability to convert urine to ammonia. (microgeninc.com)
  • Refrigerating meat is not sufficient to contain spreading of the bacteria and the associated risk of infection, as they can multiply even at low temperatures of four degrees Celsius. (hygiene-in-practice.de)
  • While infection can occur by the fecal-oral route, ingestion of bacteria in raw or undercooked seafood, usually oysters, is the predominant cause the acute gastroenteritis caused by V. parahaemolyticus. (datapunk.net)
  • General Information: Bacteria belonging to the Chlamydiales group are obligate intracellular parasites of eukaryotic cells. (up.ac.za)
  • Approximately 30 years ago, taxonomic changes were made to diverse genera previously included within the coryneform groups. (medscape.com)
  • The Bacteroidetes class consists of anaerobes which are often found in high numbers in the intestinal tracts of animals and which may infect different human tissues, including periodontal tissues (see Additional file 1). (erksignal.com)
  • In goat kids it may be Navel infection arthritis caused by corynebacterium pyogensis, streptoceoci, staphylococci, while non-superative arthritis is by birth, caused due to deficiency of vitamins and minerals. (health-articles.net)
  • age distribu tion shifts and found that the majority of cases occur in adoles cents and adults. (who.int)
  • This occur due to lung worm infection or the feed place in drum, some time goat gets irritation and bronchitis that can be control ed by dampening the mixture with water or molasses water, this way dust in the feed wil be reduced. (health-articles.net)