DiphtheriaeUlceransInfectionsGlutamicumBacteriaJeikeiumPseudotuberculosisSpeciesPathogensStaphylococcusDiphtheria toxinOrganismGram-positiveGenusAbundantToxinsEndocarditisClinical specimenBacterialMetabolicStrainOutbreaksProteinsHaemophilusDiseaseInducesAmong HumansPathogenRabiesSurveillanceFoundSymptomsDiseasesGenomeSkin
Diphtheriae23
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae is the pathogenic bacterium that causes diphtheria. (wikipedia.org)
- C. diphtheriae does not produce pyrazinamidase which differentiates from Corynebacterium striatum and Corynebacterium jeikeium. (wikipedia.org)
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae is the bacterium that causes the disease called diphtheria. (wikipedia.org)
- C. diphtheriae has shown to exclusively infect humans. (wikipedia.org)
- The genus contains the species Corynebacterium diphtheriae and the nondiphtherial corynebacteria, collectively referred to as diphtheroids. (medscape.com)
- In some endemic locations, such as India, 44% of throat and nasal swabs tested positive for C diphtheriae and Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum . (medscape.com)
- Diphtheria is an acute, bacterial disease caused by toxin-producing strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae . (cdc.gov)
- and Corynebacterium diphtheriae from clinical specimens are accepted for confirmation. (in.gov)
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae , the cause of diphtheria in humans. (wikidoc.org)
- Diphtheria is a severe infection caused in humans by toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae bacteria. (pasteur.fr)
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae is responsible for both endemic and epidemic diphtheria. (who.int)
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae est responsable à la fois de la diphtérie endémique et épidémique. (who.int)
- Diphtheria is a serious infection caused by strains of bacteria called Corynebacterium diphtheriae that make a toxin (poison). (truewestmagazine.com)
- One such example is diphtheria toxin, which is produced by Corynebacterium diphtheriae and causes diphtheria, a serious and potentially fatal bacterial infection of the nose and throat. (scitechdaily.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)
- To manufacture diphtheria antitoxin, horses were inoculated with the toxin produced by the bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae , the causative agent of diphtheria. (wadsworth.org)
- A toxin-mediated disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae 2. (slideserve.com)
- by Corynebacterium diphtheriae , Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis . (who.int)
- The vaccine provides specific active immunization against infections caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Clostridium tetani, Bordetella pertussis, Haemophilus influenzae type B and the Hepatitis B virus in children from six weeks of age. (bvsalud.org)
- Diphtheria is an acute pharyngeal or cutaneous infection caused mainly by toxigenic strains of the gram-positive bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae and rarely by other, less common Corynebacterium species. (msdmanuals.com)
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae usually infect the nasopharynx (respiratory diphtheria) or skin (cutaneous diphtheria). (msdmanuals.com)
- Humans are the only known reservoir for C. diphtheriae . (msdmanuals.com)
- Those microorganisms that are potential indicators of contamination in a dental environment include Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Streptococcus mutans, Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus salivarius, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Bacteroides fragilis and Peptoestreptococus. (bvsalud.org)
Ulcerans3
- Corynebacterium ulcerans is attracting attention as an emerging zoonosis that causes lymphadenitis, dermatitis and respiratory infections. (nih.gov)
- The organism produces catalase but not urease, which differentiates it from Corynebacterium ulcerans. (wikipedia.org)
- Corynebacterium ulcerans may cause diphtheria in humans and caseous lymphadenitis in animals. (cdc.gov)
Infections4
- and urinary tract infections and mastitis (affecting milk production) in cattle due to infection with Corynebacterium renale , Corynebacterium cystidis , Corynebacterium pilosum , and Corynebacterium bovis . (medscape.com)
- Human studies are finding abundant Corynebacterium DNA sequences in samples from healthy people's eyes, but some strains of Corynebacterium may also cause eye infections in the immunocompromised and the elderly and one study found that a strain of Corynebacterium mastitidis can be an opportunistic pathogen on human skin. (sciencedaily.com)
- Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii breast infections: Report of four cases]. (bvsalud.org)
- The highly pathogenic avian influenza is a highly contagious disease affecting wild birds and poultry with occasional infections in human. (who.int)
Glutamicum5
- The human pathogen and aetiological agent of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis has a cell wall architecture similar to the non-pathogenic bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum. (bham.ac.uk)
- The objectives were to evaluate the effects of Corynebacterium glutamicum cell mass (CGCM) supplementation, replacing blood plasma in diets, on the gene expressions of biomarkers associated with peptidoglycan and their correlation with intestinal health in nursery pigs. (usda.gov)
- Corynebacterium glutamicum that expresses exogenous GAD gene, gadB2 or gadB1 , can synthesize GABA from its own produced Glu. (springeropen.com)
- Corynebacterium glutamicum is generally regarded as safe and is widely used for the industrial production of Glu, l -lysine (Lys) and other amino acids (Leuchtenberger et al. (springeropen.com)
- Advances in metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum to produce high. (rwth-aachen.de)
Bacteria12
- This confers a wide range of bacteria and other microbes inhabiting the human body. (kenyon.edu)
- In general, they found that the human skin-associated bacteria Corynebacterium and Propionibacterium (Actinobacteria) but not Staphylococcus were more abundant on the station than in Earth-based clean rooms. (sciencedaily.com)
- Specifically, the microbiomes of people with Alzheimer's disease showed specific increases and decreases in common gut bacteria, especially decreases in Bifidobacterium , an important inhabitant of the healthy human gut. (washington.edu)
- But it is our genetic background that influences how bacteria actually function in the human gut. (washington.edu)
- People have been finding bacterial DNA on the human eye but no one has presented experimental proof that these bacteria actually live there," says senior co-author Rachel Caspi, an immunologist at the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH). (sciencedaily.com)
- Foodborne diseases are caused by food contaminated by pathogenic bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus, Listeria monocytogenes, Campylobacter, and Clostridium, a critical threat to human health. (usda.gov)
- This article provides an overview of the most important human pathogenic bacteria. (amboss.com)
- The following table provides an overview of the nomenclature of important human pathogenic bacteria, according to their form and Gram staining properties. (amboss.com)
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Jeikeium2
- Based on this reclassification, for example, Corynebacterium haemolyticum became Arcanobacterium haemolyticum and the JK group became Corynebacterium jeikeium . (medscape.com)
- C. parvum, C. xerosis, C. jeikeium, and C. minutissimum are some predominant Corynebacteria in human skin. (microbenotes.com)
Pseudotuberculosis1
- Toxin-producing C. pseudotuberculosis can cause lymphadenitis in humans. (cdc.gov)
Species9
- 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)
- Related infectious organisms include Mycobacterium and Corynebacterium species ( 3 ). (frontiersin.org)
- Advanced tools of 'multi-omics' technology allow researchers to identify species in the human gut and analyze the bacterial genes and protein products that affect our brain health. (washington.edu)
- To find out which bacterial species lived on the eyes of their mice, the researchers swabbed samples from the conjunctiva of their mice across a petri dish and waited to see what grew, but even so, they would have missed Corynebacterium mastitidis if not for luck. (sciencedaily.com)
- Staphylococcus is a dominant species in human skin. (microbenotes.com)
- S. epidermidis is the dominant species in human skin. (microbenotes.com)
- P. granulosum, P. avidum, and P. acne are the most common species in human skin. (microbenotes.com)
Pathogens4
- The Reference Bacteriology Laboratory offers identification of selected bacterial pathogens from human sources which are of public health importance. (in.gov)
- Further experiments established that the Corynebacterium could cause immune cells from the conjunctiva to release IL-17.Tears from mice with Corynebacterium living in their conjunctivae were more deadly to the pathogens Candida albicans and Pseudomonas, both of which can cause loss of vision when they infect the eye. (sciencedaily.com)
- A small number of studies reported that consumption of veal liver was associated with an increased risk of human illness from these two pathogens. (usda.gov)
- Its organisms appear as straight to slightly curved rods and are known to be human and animal parasites and pathogens. (bvsalud.org)
Staphylococcus2
- Staphylococcus , Corynebacterium , by dietary habits as well as by the ed, the number of frequent genes and Propionibacterium [8]. (who.int)
- The human nasal and oropharyngeal microbiomes and Staphylococcus aureus colonization. (cdc.gov)
Diphtheria toxin1
- Diphtheria toxin, an exotoxin secreted by Corynebacterium that causes disease in humans by inhibiting protein synthesis, enters the cell via receptor-mediated endocytosis. (rcsb.org)
Organism2
- Humans are the only hosts of the organism and is present in the upper respiratory tract. (who.int)
- The incriminated organism is Corynebacterium minutissimum, which usually is present as a normal human skin inhabitant. (dermpathdiagnostics.com)
Gram-positive1
- Corynebacterium is a genus of Gram-positive , facultatively anaerobic , non- motile , rod-shaped actinobacteria . (wikidoc.org)
Genus2
- These characteristics are common of the genus Corynebacterium . (ukessays.com)
- Thus, it is presumed that the environmental isolate is that of the Corynebacterium genus. (ukessays.com)
Abundant2
- While we observed no significant differences when comparing colonized persons to non-colonized persons in either the nares or oropharynx, Corynebacterium was more abundant in the colonized persons. (cdc.gov)
- However, when comparing persistently colonized persons to intermittently colonized persons, we found Corynebacterium argentorantense to be more abundant in the persistently colonized individuals. (cdc.gov)
Toxins2
- And it is also how bacterial toxins enter human cells and wreak havoc. (scitechdaily.com)
- Pei's research team at Ohio State has spent years trying to understand how biomolecules such as bacterial toxins get inside a human cell, with the goal of finding ways to get medications into those cells. (scitechdaily.com)
Endocarditis1
- Endocarditis caused by Corynebacterium spp. (wikidoc.org)
Clinical specimen1
- This laboratory is not a general identification service for laboratories that provide human clinical specimen testing. (in.gov)
Bacterial3
- Such findings in human and mouse models point to the tantalizing prospect that restoring healthy gut bacterial composition could prevent or slow the development of Alzheimer's in at-risk populations. (washington.edu)
- We know that bacterial cells are more sensitive to drugs than human cells, so we can target them without hitting human cells. (washington.edu)
- Barrier agains t pathogen s gut bacterial genes in the MetaHIT ation when attempting to extrapolate [10], although Proteobacteria, Ver- catalogue were also well represent- results obtained in mouse models to rucomicrobia, and Fusobacteria are ed in the other metagenomes that the situation in humans. (who.int)
Metabolic1
- The metabolic pathways of Corynebacterium have been further manipulated to produce L-Lysine and L-Threonine . (wikidoc.org)
Strain1
- The germ that causes typhoid is a unique human strain of Salmonella. (truewestmagazine.com)
Outbreaks2
Proteins1
- But the mechanics of how these proteins enter human cells were a scientific mystery. (scitechdaily.com)
Haemophilus1
- La Organización Mundial de la Salud ha aprobado el uso universal de la vacuna anti-hepatitis B (HB) y combinaciones con DPT, en los últimos años ha sido incorporada la vacuna anti-Haemophilus influenzae tipo b (Hib) en programas de vacunación del niño. (bvsalud.org)
Disease6
- Most do not cause disease, but are part of normal human skin flora . (wikidoc.org)
- In one striking example, recent NIH-funded research conducted by researchers in the NeuroGenetics Research Consortium suggested that Corynebacterium helps cause Parkinson's disease, but only in people with a specific genotype. (washington.edu)
- By bleeding the horse and processing the blood, the antibody-containing serum was available for the prevention and treatment of the disease in humans. (wadsworth.org)
- Humans generally acquire the disease directly or indirectly from infected animals, or through occupational exposure to infected or contaminated animal products. (who.int)
- Routine cross-notification between the veterinary and human health surveillance systems should be part of any zoonotic disease prevention and control programme, and close collaboration between the two health sectors is particularly important during epidemiological and outbreak investigations. (who.int)
- Egypt has been the most affected country in the EMR where the disease has remained endemic, with frequent epizootic and 167 human cases that include 60 deaths. (who.int)
Induces2
- Corynebacterium tuberculostearicum, a human skin colonizer, induces the canonical nuclear factor-kappaB inflammatory signaling pathway in human skin cells. (nationaljewish.org)
- having lowered damage of deoxy ribonucleic acid (DNA) and in human volunteers induces greater activity of repairing ( Southon, 2000 ). (scialert.net)
Among Humans1
- Control of anthrax among humans depends on the integration of veterinary and human health surveillance and control programmes. (who.int)
Pathogen1
- It is believed that humans may be the reservoir for this pathogen. (wikipedia.org)
Rabies1
- Rabies is still responsible for approximately 60,000 deaths in humans each year. (pasteur.fr)
Surveillance1
- For further consultation regarding human exposure, call the IDOH Surveillance and Investigation at (317) 233-7272. (in.gov)
Found6
- The non-diptheiroid Corynebecterium can also be found in human mucous membranes. (wikidoc.org)
- Many microbes can be found in or around the human body and microbial cells are in much higher abundance than human cells. (kenyon.edu)
- Compared to components that are isolated whole foods are found to be beneficial in a better way to human health in an ascending manner. (scialert.net)
- NIH researchers reporting in the journal Immunity on July 11 found that Corynebacterium mastitidis dwells on the eyes of laboratory mice, and that mice with Corynebacterium could fend off invading pathogenic microbes better than mice without it. (sciencedaily.com)
- Mostly - hemolytic streptococci are found as commensals in human skin. (microbenotes.com)
- Corynebacterium is found abundantly in moist skin. (microbenotes.com)
Symptoms1
- Symptoms of infection in humans include cough, muscle aches, runny nose and sore throat. (who.int)
Diseases2
- The count of human and animal diseases is rising day by day. (scialert.net)
- This certainly raises a question in the human mind that why such a huge emergence of diseases now? (scialert.net)
Genome1
- Image Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), NIH. (washington.edu)
Skin4
- The human body serves as a microbial ecosystem with a wide variety of environments ranging from the skin to mucous membranes and the digestive tract. (kenyon.edu)
- br>The outer ear is exposed to the external environment and much like skin on other parts of the human body is in contact with microbial life. (kenyon.edu)
- They are resident flora of human skin, and when disturbed, they quickly re-establish themselves. (microbenotes.com)
- It has been isolated from air, environmental surfaces, and human skin. (edlab.org)