Search results for "pathogenic"

Infections associated with medical devices: pathogenesis, management and prophylaxis.

2005

The insertion or implantation of foreign bodies has become an indispensable part in almost all fields of medicine. However, medical devices are associated with a definitive risk of bacterial and fungal infections. Foreign body-related infections (FBRIs), particularly catheter-related infections, significantly contribute to the increasing problem of nosocomial infections. While a variety of micro-organisms may be involved as pathogens, staphylococci account for the majority of FBRIs. Their ability to adhere to materials and to promote formation of a biofilm is the most important feature of their pathogenicity. This biofilm on the surface of colonised foreign bodies is regarded as the biologi…

Bacteriophage Adherence to Mucus Mediates Preventive Protection against Pathogenic Bacteria

2019

The mucosal surfaces of animals are habitat for microbes, including viruses. Bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria—were shown to be able to bind to mucus. This may result in a symbiotic relationship in which phages find bacterial hosts to infect, protecting the mucus-producing animal from bacterial infections in the process. Here, we studied phage binding on mucus and the effect of mucin on phage-bacterium interactions. The significance of our research is in showing that phage adhesion to mucus results in preventive protection against bacterial infections, which will serve as basis for the development of prophylactic phage therapy approaches. Besides, we also reveal that exposure to m…

Bioenergy willow: protection from the negative impact of biological factors

2017

W rozdziale przedstawiono wyniki badań patologii bakteryjnych oraz grzybicowych wierzby, oraz szkodników i chwastów, które prowadzą do zaginięcia roślin lub znacznego spadku plonu biomasy plantacji energetycznych. Wyświetlono metody ochrony i zapobiegania.

Fusariose du cyclamen : vers un outil de détection précoce

2016

SPEIPM; Fusariose du cyclamen : vers un outil de détection précoce

Fight evolution with evolution: plasmid‐dependent phages with a wide host range prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance

2013

The emergence of pathogenic bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics is a serious worldwide public health concern. Whenever antibiotics are applied, the genes encoding for antibiotic resistance are selected for within bacterial populations. This has led to the prevalence of conjugative plasmids that carry resistance genes and can transfer themselves between diverse bacterial groups. In this study, we investigated whether it is feasible to attempt to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistances with a lytic bacteriophage, which can replicate in a wide range of gram‐negative bacteria harbouring conjugative drug resistance–conferring plasmids. The counter‐selection against the plasmid was sh…

Soybean Diseases Caused by Genus Pseudomonas Phytopathenes Bacteria

2019

The rationale and experimental confirmation of the role of the bacteria of the Pseudomonas genus in the pathogenesis of soybean, and the investigation of the biological properties of the main causative agent Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. glycines. Methods. Theoretical generalization, laboratory-model research, phytopathological, microbiological, physiological, biochemical and genetic methods. Results. The largest group of pathogens in different soil-climatic zones of Ukraine consists of bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas was established. Their biological properties have been investigated and the methods for identification of the dominant type of phytopathogenic bacteria causing bacterial blight…

Bacterial diseases of energy plants

2017

Przedstawiono wyniki badań bakteryjnych patogenów bioenergetycznych roślin drzewiastych (topoli, brzozy), prowadzących do znacznego zmniejszenia zbiorów lub zaginięcia. Opisano różne choroby bakteryjne i patogeny zaznaczonych roślin, objawy tych chorób, charakterystykê obrażeń, rozmieszczenie i szkodliwość patogenów. Przedstawiono charakterystykê głównych chorób bakteryjnych (rak bakteryjny i martwicę bakteryjną kory) oraz mniej niebezpiecznych (mokradła), zarazy bakteryjne, choroby korzeni i gruźlica). Czynnikiem sprawczym bakteryjnego raku jest bakteria Xanthomonas populi (syn. Aplanobacterium populi). Jako towarzysząca mikroflora czynników wywołujących raka przeważają bakterie z rodzaju …

Maladie du huanglongbing

2019

Maladie du huanglongbing. Analyse du risque phytosanitaire pour l’Union européenne

Chorobotwórczość pałeczki ropy błękitnej Pseudomonas aeruginosa w chorobach uszu i oczu

2016

Study of the interactions between Broad bean wilt virus 1 and its host plants

Broad bean wilt virus 1 (BBWV-1) is the type member of the Fabavirus genus, in the Secoviridae family. BBWV-1 is worldwide distributed and infects important horticultural and ornamental crops causing considerable economic losses. However, information about the biological and molecular characteristics of BBWV-1 isolates is scarce. BBWV-1 is composed of two molecules of positive single-stranded RNA (ssRNA+) that are separately encapsidated in virions of icosahedral morphology. Each ssRNA+ encodes polyproteins which are processed by proteolytic cleavage into functional peptides. RNA1 (~ 5.8 kb) encodes for one polyprotein that renders proteins involved in viral replication: a protease cofactor…