Etiologic Agents and Antifungal Susceptibility of Oral Candidosis from Romanian patients with HIV-infection or type 1 diabetes mellitus

BOGDAN MINEA1, VALENTIN NASTASA2, ANNA KOLECKA3, MAGDALENA MARES4, NARCISA MARANGOCI1, IRINA ROSCA1, MARIANA PINTEALA1, MONICA HANCIANU5 and MIHAI MARES2* 1Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry “Petru Poni”, Advanced Research Centre for Bionanoconjugates and Biopolymers, Iasi, Romania 2“Ion Ionescu de la Brad” University, Laboratory of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Iasi, Roma...
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IgG Avidity: an Important Serologic Marker for the Diagnosis of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus Infection

TATJANA VILIBIC-CAVLEK1,2, LJUBO BARBIC3, VLADIMIR STEVANOVIC3, GORANKA PETROVIC4 and GORDANA MLINARIC-GALINOVIC1,2 1Department of Virology, Croatian National Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia 2School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia 3Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases with Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Zagr...
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Enterobacter asburiae KUNi5, a Nickel Resistant Bacterium for Possible Bioremediation of Nickel Contaminated Sites

ANIRUDHA PAUL and SAMIR KUMAR MUKHERJEE* Department of Microbiology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, India *Corresponding author: S. K. Mukherjee, Department of Microbiology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, India; e-mail: dr.samirmukherjee@gmail.com Submitted 6 February 2015, revised 25 May 2015, accepted 31 May 2015 DOI: 10.5604/17331331.1197284 Abstract Nickel res...
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Usefulness of CHROMagar Candida Medium, Biochemical Methods – API ID32C and VITEK 2 Compact and Two MALDI-TOF MS Systems for Candida spp. Identification

ELŻBIETA STEFANIUK1,2*, ANNA BARANIAK3, MONIKA FORTUNA1 and WALERIA HRYNIEWICZ1,2 1 Centre of Quality Control in Microbiology, Warsaw, Poland 2 Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland 3 Department of Molecular Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland *Corresponding author:  E. Stefaniuk, Centre...
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Antimicrobial Activity of Penicillin G and N-acetylcystein on Planktonic and Sessile Cells of Streptococcus suis

IVETTE ESPINOSA1, MICHEL BÁEZ1, EVELYN LOBO1, SIOMARA MARTÍNEZ1 and MARCELO GOTTSCHALK2 1Department of Microbiology, National Centre for Animal and Plant Health, José de Las Lajas Mayebeque, Cuba 2Groupe de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses du Porc and Centre de Recherche en Infectiologie Porcine, Faculte de Medecine Veterinaire, Université de Montreal, St-Hyacinthe, ...
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Assessment of the Microbiological Status of Probiotic Products

ANNA ZAWISTOWSKA-ROJEK1,2, TOMASZ ZARĘBA1, AGNIESZKA MRÓWKA1 and STEFAN TYSKI1,2 1Department of Antibiotics and Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland 2Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland *Corresponding author: A. Zawistowska-Rojek, Department of Antibiotics and Microbiology, National Medicines Insti...
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Serotype-Specific Pneumococcal Status prior to PCV 13 Administration in Children and Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

ALEKSANDRA BANASZKIEWICZ1, BRYGIDA TARGOŃSKA2, KINGA KOWALSKA-DUPLAGA3, KATARZYNA KAROLEWSKA-BOCHENEK1, AGNIESZKA SIECZKOWSKA4, AGNIESZKA GAWROŃSKA1, URSZULA GRZYBOWSKA-CHLEBOWCZYK5, ELŻBIETA KRZESIEK6, IZABELLA ŁAZOWSKA-PRZEOREK1, MARIA KOTOWSKA1,  EDYTA SIENKIEWICZ1, JAROSŁAW WALKOWIAK2, HANNA GREGOREK7, ANDRZEJ RADZIKOWSKI1 and PIOTR ALBRECHT1 1 Department of Pediatric Ga...
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Prevalence of Urogenital Mycoplasmas among Men with NGU in Upper Silesia, Poland. Preliminary Study.

ALICJA EKIEL1, MAŁGORZATA APTEKORZ1, PIOTR KŁUCIŃSKI1, DOMINIKA RADY1, BARBARA WIECHUŁA1, JAROSŁAW JÓŹWIAK2 and GAYANE MARTIROSIAN1,2* 1Department of Medical Microbiology Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland 2Department of Histology and Embryology Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland *Corresponding author: A. Ekiel, Department of Medical Microbiology, Med...
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Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of Carotenogenic Flavobacterial Isolates from Marine Waters

RAMA SOWMYA and NAKKARIKE M. SACHINDRA* Department of Meat and Marine Sciences, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India *Corresponding author: N.M. Sachindra, Department of Meat and Marine Sciences, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India; e-mail: nmsachindra@cftri.res.in. Submitted 9 January 2015, revised 15 April 20...
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Bacterial Diversity and Composition in Oylat Cave (Turkey) with Combined  Sanger / Pyrosequencing Approach

YASEMİN GULECAL-PEKTAS* Institute of Science and Engineering, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey *Corresponding author: Y. Gulecal-Pektas, Institute of Science and Engineering, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey; e-mail: ygulecalpektas@gmail.com Submitted 3 November 2014, revised 10 April 2015, accepted 19 April 2015 DOI: 10.5604/17331331.1197277 Abstract...
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