scholarly journals Outbreak of Glomerulonephritis byStreptococcus zooepidemicusSzPHV5 type, in Monte Santo de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosângela S.L.A. Torres ◽  
Talita Z. Santos ◽  
Andre F. L. Bernardes ◽  
Patricia A. Soares ◽  
Ana C. C. Soares ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hypervariable Region ◽  
Streptococcus Zooepidemicus ◽  
Food Handlers ◽  
High Similarity ◽  
Milk Supply ◽  
Banding Patterns ◽  
Zoonotic Pathogen ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Post Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis ◽  
The Town

ABSTRACTStreptococcus zooepidemicusis an emerging and opportunistic zoonotic pathogen, which playsan important role in the development of severe and life-threatening diseases and potentially capable of triggering large glomerulonephritis outbreaks. Between December 2012 and February 2013, 175 cases of glomerulonephritis were confirmed in the town of Monte Santo de Minas / MG / Brazil. During the outbreak, 19 isolates ofS. zooepidemicuswere recovered: one from ice cream, two from the oropharynx of food handlers and 16 from patients affected by acute post streptococcal glomerulonephritis (APSGN). AllS. zooepidemicusinvolved in the outbreak amplified the same sequence of the hypervariable region of the SzP protein (SzPHV5) and presented indistinguishable banding patterns with high similarity (> 99%) by rep-PCR technique. Inspection programs on the milk supply chain should be strengthened and continuously encouraged so that consumers’ health is preserved.

scholarly journals Outbreak of Glomerulonephritis Caused byStreptococcus zooepidemicusSzPHV5 Type in Monte Santo de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosângela S. L. A. Torres ◽  
Talita Z. Santos ◽  
Andre F. L. Bernardes ◽  
Patricia A. Soares ◽  
Ana C. C. Soares ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Repetitive Element ◽  
Hypervariable Region ◽  
Food Handlers ◽  
Milk Supply ◽  
Banding Patterns ◽  
Poststreptococcal Glomerulonephritis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Town ◽  
Element Sequence

ABSTRACTStreptococcus zooepidemicusis an emerging and opportunistic zoonotic pathogen which plays an important role in the development of severe and life-threatening diseases and is potentially capable of triggering large glomerulonephritis outbreaks. Between December 2012 and February 2013, 175 cases of glomerulonephritis were confirmed in the town of Monte Santo de Minas, MG, Brazil. During the outbreak, 19 isolates ofS. zooepidemicuswere recovered, 1 from ice cream, 2 from the oropharynx of food handlers, and 16 from patients affected by acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis (APSGN). AllS. zooepidemicusisolates involved in the outbreak amplified the same sequence of the hypervariable region of the SzP protein (SzPHV5) and presented indistinguishable banding patterns with high similarity (>99%) to each other by the repetitive element sequence-based PCR (rep-PCR) technique. Inspection programs on the milk supply chain should be strengthened and continuously encouraged so that the health of consumers is preserved.

The history and progress of the town milk supply tuberculin testing scheme

1955 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 138-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.D.M.G. Laing
Keyword(s):  
Milk Supply ◽  
Testing Scheme ◽  
Tuberculin Testing ◽  
The Town

scholarly journals Differences inRhodococcus equiInfections Based on Immune Status and Antibiotic Susceptibility of Clinical Isolates in a Case Series of 12 Patients and Cases in the Literature

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Praveen Gundelly ◽  
Yasuhiro Suzuki ◽  
Julie A. Ribes ◽  
Alice Thornton
Keyword(s):  
Antibiotic Susceptibility ◽  
Immune Status ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Clinical Isolates ◽  
Immunocompromised Patients ◽  
Hiv Patients ◽  
Zoonotic Pathogen ◽  
The Us ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Immunocompetent Patients

Rhodococcus equiis an unusual zoonotic pathogen that can cause life-threatening diseases in susceptible hosts. Twelve patients withR. equiinfection in Kentucky were compared to 137 cases reported in the literature. Although lungs were the primary sites of infection in immunocompromised patients, extrapulmonary involvement only was more common in immunocompetent patients (P<0.0001). Mortality inR. equi-infected HIV patients was lower in the HAART era (8%) than in pre-HAART era (56%) (P<0.0001), suggesting that HAART improves prognosis in these patients. Most (85–100%) of clinical isolates were susceptible to vancomycin, clarithromycin, rifampin, aminoglycosides, ciprofloxacin, and imipenem. Interestingly, there was a marked difference in susceptibility of the isolates to cotrimoxazole between Europe (35/76) and the US (15/15) (P<0.0001). Empiric treatment ofR. equiinfection should include a combination of two antibiotics, preferably selected from vancomycin, imipenem, clarithromycin/azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, rifampin, or cotrimoxazole. Local antibiograms should be checked prior to using cotrimoxazole due to developing resistance.

Water and Sign Magic in al-Jabin, Yemen

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 82-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Hehmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Group Of Seven ◽  
Run Off ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Magical Power ◽  
The Town

The preserved heritage of al-Jabin, a town located in Yemen’s western highlands, offers a unique opportunity to document traditional water engineering principles. There are no springs in the immediate vicinity, because the town is perched at the edge of the mountain escarpment. Even today, water is provided by open cisterns that collect surface run-off following a rain. But as the rains needed to feed the system are highly unpredictable, the water supply is never secure. The perimeter wall of one of the cisterns bears a group of seven signs, a detailed description of which is given in Kitab Shams al-Ma`arif wa-Lata’if al-`Awarif, a work attributed to Ahmad ibn `Ali al-Buni (d. 1225), a well-known prolific writer on magic. Al-Buni explains that the signs symbolize God’s supreme name and thus display great magical power of a protective and well-wishing nature. Generally speaking, magical practices attempt to influence the course of natural events by calling upon a superhuman force. In the case of the cistern, God’s supreme name was inscribed in the hopes that this would lead to a guaranteed water supply. While it is easy to dismiss al-Buni’s text and the observed practice in al-Jabin as superstitious frailty, one needs to bear in mind that under life-threatening circumstances, even people in the modern West easily resort to magical procedures.

scholarly journals Characterization of Streptococcus zooepidemicus (Lancefield group C) from human and selected animal infections

1987 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Barnham ◽  
Graham Cole ◽  
Androulla Efstratiou ◽  
John R. Tagg ◽  
Stephen A. Skjold
Keyword(s):  
Susceptibility Testing ◽  
Streptococcal Infection ◽  
Human Infection ◽  
Bacteriocin Production ◽  
Streptococcus Zooepidemicus ◽  
Test Kit ◽  
Major Outbreak ◽  
Post Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis ◽  
Lancefield Group

SUMMARYWe assembled an international collection of strains from sporadic and epidemic human infection with Streptococcus zooepidemicus (Lancefield group C) for laboratory study. Cultural and physiological characteristics of the isolates were determined, including biotyping with the API 20 STREP test kit and susceptibility testing with penicillin, erythromycin and tetracycline. The strains were examined for bacteriocin production and sensitivity and typed with a specially developed group-C streptococcal bacteriophage system incorporating a panel of 14 phages. Results of these tests gave useful discrimination between many of the strains: differences were shown between each of the major outbreak strains, including those complicated by post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis.Serious group C streptococcal infection may be caused by S. zooepidemicus and isolates should be identified to species level; the application of a typing scheme such as this may help to distinguish epidemiological patterns of infection.

scholarly journals Whole-Genome Sequence of an Orf Virus Isolate Derived from a Cell Culture Infected with Contagious Ecthyma Vaccine

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (32) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel L. Heare ◽  
Sara V. Little ◽  
Dale W. Weise ◽  
James R. Harris ◽  
Andrew E. Hillhouse ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virus Isolate ◽  
Draft Genome ◽  
Orf Virus ◽  
Whole Genome Sequence ◽  
Contagious Ecthyma ◽  
Hybrid Assembly ◽  
High Similarity ◽  
Short Read ◽  
Zoonotic Pathogen ◽  
A Cell

ABSTRACT This is a draft genome of an orf virus (ORFV) vaccine strain assembled via long- and short-read hybrid assembly. ORFV is a zoonotic pathogen that affects sheep and goats. The genome of the virus contained in the vaccine was found to have high similarity (98%) to those of other published strains.

scholarly journals Human infection withStreptococcus zooepidemicus(Lancefield group C): three case reports

1987 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Barnham ◽  
Ake Ljunggren ◽  
Michael McIntyre
Keyword(s):  
Case Reports ◽  
Human Infection ◽  
Streptococcus Zooepidemicus ◽  
The Third ◽  
Systemic Sepsis ◽  
Source Of Infection ◽  
Animal Source ◽  
Severe Infections ◽  
Post Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis ◽  
Lancefield Group

SUMMARYThree unrelated severe infections withStreptococcus zooepidemicusoccurred in England in 1985. The first patient developed septic arthritis, which has not been recorded before with this organism. The second died with septicaemia, pneumonia and post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis, the only record so far of nephritis following sporadicS. zooepidemicusinfection and of nephritis and systemic sepsis in the same patient. The third patient experienced septicaemia during pregnancy but recovered without complications. A likely animal source of infection was found in only one case.

Water and Sign Magic in al-Jabin, Yemen

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 82-96
Author(s):  
Ingrid Hehmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Group Of Seven ◽  
Run Off ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Magical Power ◽  
The Town

The preserved heritage of al-Jabin, a town located in Yemen’s western highlands, offers a unique opportunity to document traditional water engineering principles. There are no springs in the immediate vicinity, because the town is perched at the edge of the mountain escarpment. Even today, water is provided by open cisterns that collect surface run-off following a rain. But as the rains needed to feed the system are highly unpredictable, the water supply is never secure. The perimeter wall of one of the cisterns bears a group of seven signs, a detailed description of which is given in Kitab Shams al-Ma`arif wa-Lata’if al-`Awarif, a work attributed to Ahmad ibn `Ali al-Buni (d. 1225), a well-known prolific writer on magic. Al-Buni explains that the signs symbolize God’s supreme name and thus display great magical power of a protective and well-wishing nature. Generally speaking, magical practices attempt to influence the course of natural events by calling upon a superhuman force. In the case of the cistern, God’s supreme name was inscribed in the hopes that this would lead to a guaranteed water supply. While it is easy to dismiss al-Buni’s text and the observed practice in al-Jabin as superstitious frailty, one needs to bear in mind that under life-threatening circumstances, even people in the modern West easily resort to magical procedures.

Dying: Mudlick Mountain Trail and The Cloud of Unknowing

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belden C. Lane
Keyword(s):  
Colorado River ◽  
The West ◽  
Technological Society ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
Cloud Of Unknowing ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Rational Control ◽  
Sandstone Wall ◽  
The Town ◽  
Desert Landscape

Everett ruess disappeared in the redrock canyons of southeast Utah in November 1934. The twenty-year-old artist, poet, and vagabond had left the town of Escalante a few days earlier, setting out with his two burros along the Hole-in-the-Rock Road toward the Colorado River. He was no stranger to wilderness, despite his youth. He had wandered the West for years. But he was never seen again. Searchers found his two burros by his campsite in a remote gulch, his footprints leading nowhere in particular, and a word recently scratched on a sandstone wall: “Nemo . . . 1934.” No one. How could the desert have swallowed him alive without leaving a trace? Was he killed by rustlers? Had he run away with Navajo Indians? What could erase him so quickly and completely from the desert landscape? The previous year he had written his brother about the irresistible joy of wild country, saying, “I’ll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I’ll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.” Apparently that’s what happened. There was no hint of suicide, no sign of violence. The mystery has never been solved. The story’s grip on the imagination is more than that of a cautionary tale, warning of the dangers of backcountry travel. You stand a better chance, anyway, of being killed on city streets than on the far reaches of the Colorado Plateau. Wilderness wandering is no more inherently life-threatening than driving home on the freeway every night. What makes wild terrain seem so menacing (and yet captivating) is the deceptively comforting character of our technological society. It gives us the illusion of being in control of our environment. Wilderness, by contrast, lies beyond the reach of our managerial skills. It challenges the ego. Its threat of death is more psychological and spiritual than physical. Unfrequented canyons broach the possibility of our dying to what we’ve known in the past, losing rational control, encountering a wonderment beyond understanding. Everett Ruess perceived this potential of “dying before one dies” as something to be welcomed.

scholarly journals A spotlight on Raoultella ornithinolytica: A newly emerging life-threatening zoonotic pathogen

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Wafaa A. Abd El-Ghany
Keyword(s):  
Acquired Resistance ◽  
Food Poisoning ◽  
Antibiotic Resistance Genes ◽  
Human Infection ◽  
Zoonotic Pathogen ◽  
Negative Bacillus ◽  
Poultry Products ◽  
The Family ◽  
Life Threatening

The genus Raoultella contains Raoultella ornithinolytica (R. ornithinolytica), which was previously named as Klebsiella ornithinolytica. R. ornithinolytica is a Gram-negative bacillus that belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae. This pathogen is normally present in aquaculture, and it has been isolated from fish, insects, and wild and domestic birds. Seafood and poultry products are incriminated as sources of R. ornithinolytica infection. Community-acquired human infection with R. ornithinolytica is common. This infection is commonly associated with sepsis, bacteremia, food poisoning, purities, and urinary and respiratory tracts' infections. Rapid acquired resistance of R. ornithinolytica strains is common, and it is related to the development of resistant genes. R. ornithinolytica is considered as a newly emerging life-threatening pathogen world-wide. Hence, it is very important to determine the role of animals and birds in the epidemiological situation of this pathogen as well as the detection of antibiotic resistance genes before treatment.

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