Anaerobic Bacteria: Selected Topics

ISBN-13: 9781461331612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 314 str.

Dwight W. Lambe; Dwight W. Lambe

Opis

A symposium seems an appropriate vehicle to review recent, as well as new, data on important topics. It is therefore our goal to present a symposium on selected topics of importance every three years. Some topics will be updated and new topics will be presented. A vast amount of information has been accumulated over the past ten years on the significance of anaerobic bacteria in infectious diseases. This symposium was organized to discuss laboratory aspects, normal flora, pathogenicity, serology, and the patients' immune re sponse to anaerobic infection. Important imformation on the patients' immune response and serology of anaerobes which has accumulated over the last few years made these topics an important part of the sympo sium. Development of serological diagnostic tests undoubtedly will provide quicker and less expensive identification of certain anaerobic species in the future. Utilization of the patients' immune response to anaerobic septicemia has the potential of providing a diagnosis of the causative agent within 24 hours after onset of symptoms. The development of such diagnostic methods and the use of these methods in the clinical laboratory in the future would provide rapid diag nostic information to the clinician on these life-threatening infec tions. Campylobacter was included in the symposium to emphasize the important role of this organism in human acute gastroenteritis. The pathogenesis of Campylobacter in gastroenteritis has been recognized in certain European countries since 1972, although we have recognized the importance of Campylobacter gastroenteritis in the United States only within the past two years."

Spis treści

I Introduction. Selected Clinical Laboratory Topics and Identification.- 1. Introduction: Culture of Clinical Specimens for Anaerobic Bacteria.- 2. A Simplififed Technique for the Routine Cultivation of Anaerobic Bacteria.- 3. Gas Chromatography of Pus as an Indication of Anaerobic Infection.- 4. Recent Changes in Identification and Classification of Some Anaerobes.- 5. Anaerobic Flora of the Female Genital Tract.- 6. A Standardized Disk Method for Antibiotic Susceptibility Test for Anaerobes; Four Years of Antibiotic Data.- 7. Changing Trends in the Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern of Anaerobic Bacteria.- II Pathogenicity of Anaerobes.- 8. Campylobacter Enteritis and Septicemia.- 9. Role of Anaerobes in Crohn’s Disease.- 10. Infections Following Gastroduoedenal Operations.- 11. The Anaerobic Microflora Associated with Periodontal Disease.- 12. The Relationship Between the Periodontal Microflora and Alveolar Bone Loss in Macaca Arctoides.- 13. Experimental animal Models for Anaerobic Infections.- III Serology of Anaerobes.- 14. Serology of Bacteroidaceae.- 15. Demonstration of Heat Stable and Heat Labile Antigens of Bacteroides Fragilis with the Use of Co-Agglutination and Immunoelectrophoresis Techniques.- 16. Surface Antigens as Virulence Factors in Infection with Bacteroides Fragilis.- 17. Antigenic Analysis of Actinomyces Species.- 18. Serology of Propionibacteria.- IV Immune Response to Anaerobic Infections.- 19. Immune Response to Anaerobic Septicemia and to Anaerobic Cocci.- 20. Immune Response to Anaerobic Wound Infections.- 21. Immune Response of Hamsters and Humans with Antibiotic-Associated Colitis.- 22. Systemic Immune Responses to Oral Anaerobic Organisms.- 23. Clinical Summary of Conference.- 24. Microbiological Summary of Conference.