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Characterization of a culture method to recover helicobacter pylori from the feces of infected patients.
No full textBACKGROUND:
Helicobacter pylori is difficult to culture from stool. Multiple efforts from multiple laboratories have been unsuccessful, and the optimal conditions to recover H. pylori from stool are still not known. Recovery of H. pylori from feces of infected individuals is important for the performance of molecular epidemiological investigations, especially in children, where their symptoms do not warrant endoscopy to recover the organism.
METHODS:
Fresh fecal specimens (noncathartic) were obtained from 19 known H. pylori-infected patients and were processed to recover the organism. Fresh fecal specimens (noncathartic) were also obtained from three known H. pylori-negative individuals (controls) to determine whether H. pylori could be isolated from stools seeded with known concentrations of the organism. Treatment of the fecal suspensions with cholestyramine, a basic anion exchange resin that binds bile acids, was used in an attempt to enhance recovery of H. pylori by sequestering bile acids that are inhibitory to H. pylori growth. H. pylori was identified based on colony morphology, cell morphology, Gram's stain, biochemical reactions, and polymerase chain reaction for two H. pylori genes.
RESULTS:
Among 19 patients, H. pylori was cultured at least once from 3 and three times from 2 (5 of 19). Feces that were seeded with H. pylori and obtained from three H. pylori-negative volunteer controls yielded positive recovery in all instances
Repetitive sequence-based PCR (REP-PCR) detects simultaneous, multiple strain infection in duodenal ulcer patients
No full textMs. Courtney Chartier, RWWL AUC, August 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Ms. Courtney Chartier. Ms. Chartier talks about her work on the "New Georgia Encyclopedia" and "Online Voter Education Project." Andrea Jackson, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Ms. Neely Terrell, RWWL AUC, March 2012
No full textThis video is a conversation with Ms. Neely Terrell. Ms. Terrell talks about her book, "Super Singles Activate". Anthony Kinsey and Jahnesta Horney, AUC Woodruff Library, are the interviewers
Confirmation of the Ability to Culture Helicobacter pylori from the Feces of Infected Patients.
No full textMs. Felesha Love, Spelman College, January 2016
No full textThis video is a conversation with Felesha Love. Ms. Love talks about her book, "Brave Leap to Freedom: Integrating Mind, Body, and Spirit to Cultivate Healthy Relationships". Jordan Moore, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Amoxycillin tolerance in helicobacter pylori
No full textResistance to amoxycillin in Helicobacter pylori has only recently been reported. To demonstrate the existence of resistance, and to test for the presence of tolerance, 17 amoxycillin-resistant strains of H. pylori, first isolated in Sardinia (Italy) and the USA, were studied. Four amoxycillin-sensitive strains were used as controls. Primary isolates of all test strains exhibited amoxycillin resistance; β-lactamase activity was not detected. Amoxycillin resistance was lost after storage of strains at -80°C but could be rescued by plating these strains on to amoxycillin gradient plates. MICs and MBCs from rescued isolates ranged from 0.5 to 32 mg/L and from 32 to \u3e 1024 mg/L, respectively. MBC/MIC ratios ≥ 32 are characteristic of antibiotic tolerance. The ratios of MBC/MIC of amoxycillin ranged from 32 to \u3e 1024 for the test strains, indicating that these strains were tolerant to the antibiotic. Amoxycillin resistance does occur in H. pylori. Amoxycillin susceptibility testing of H. pylori isolates in patients who fail therapy should include determination of the MBC to detect tolerance
Explanation for variability of omeprazole amoxicillin therapy? Tolerance of H-pylori to amoxicillin.
No full textHelicobacter pylori in sheep milk.
No full textHelicobacter pylori was recovered from sheep milk, suggesting a
role for animals in transmission. H pylori may be a commensal in
the sheep, which may be H pylori’s ancestral host
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