{"title":"Preliminary evaluation of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis phenolglycolipid antigen in the serologic diagnosis of tuberculosis","authors":"J. Torgal-Garcia , H.L. David , F. Papa","doi":"10.1016/0769-2609(88)90020-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0769-2609(88)90020-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>La présence d'IgM spécifiques dirigées contre un antigène phénolglycolipidique récemment décrit chez <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> a été recherchée par test ELISA dans le sérum de 162 personnes (40 malades tuberculeux et 122 individus sains). Les résultats du test ELISA se sont révélés positifs chez 39 malades tuberculeux (97,5%) et 17 individus sains (13,9%). La sensibilité et la spécificité du test étaient respectivement de 97,5 et de 86,1%. Ces résultats indiquent que la recherche d'IgM réagissant avec le phénolglycolipide de <em>M. tuberculosis</em> peut être utile pour le diagnostic présomptif de la tuberculose active.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77666,"journal":{"name":"Annales de l'Institut Pasteur. Microbiology","volume":"139 3","pages":"Pages 289-294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0769-2609(88)90020-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14270552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Espèces du genre vibrio associées aux produits marins du bassin d'arcachon","authors":"M.C Urdaci , M Marchand , P.A.D Grimont","doi":"10.1016/0769-2609(88)90027-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0769-2609(88)90027-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The distribution of <em>Vibrio</em> species in water and seafood collected from Arcachon Bay (located in the southwest of France) was studied. All invertebrate animals collected were associated with one or more <em>Vibrio</em> species. Eighty strains corresponding to 14 species were precisely identified. The identification of strains with <em>V. parahaemolyticus</em> was checked by DNA/DNA hybridization. The most frequently recovered species were <em>V. alginolyticus, V. parahaemolyticus</em> (non-haemolytic strains), <em>V. harveyi</em> and <em>V. metschnikovii</em>. The three <em>V. cholerae</em> non-O1 strains isolated from water and crab did not produce immunologically detectable cholera toxin and had no DNA fragment hybridizing with a cholera-toxin-gene-specific probe. It is suggested that the sanitary surveillance of seafood in France should include the precise characterization of potentially pathogenic <em>Vibrio</em> species.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77666,"journal":{"name":"Annales de l'Institut Pasteur. Microbiology","volume":"139 3","pages":"Pages 351-362"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0769-2609(88)90027-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14308541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P.A Trinel , M.O Husson , F Gavini , C Bernard , D Izard
{"title":"Immunological relationship among glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases in the genera Enterobacter and Escherichia","authors":"P.A Trinel , M.O Husson , F Gavini , C Bernard , D Izard","doi":"10.1016/0769-2609(88)90022-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0769-2609(88)90022-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The comparative immunological study of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-3-PDH) among <em>Enterobacteriaceae</em> carried out with an anti-<em>Enterobacter cloacae</em> G-3-PDH serum pointed out the large heterogeneity of the genera <em>Enterobacter</em> and <em>Escherichia</em>. The use of two-dimensional maps integrating our new data and previously acquired quantitative data confirmed these results.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77666,"journal":{"name":"Annales de l'Institut Pasteur. Microbiology","volume":"139 3","pages":"Pages 307-314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0769-2609(88)90022-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14309291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. de Barjac , I. Thiery , V. Cosmao-Dumanoir , E. Frachon , P. Laurent , J.-F. Charles , S. Hamon , J. Ofori
{"title":"Another Bacillus sphaericus serotype harbouring strains very toxic to mosquito larvae: Serotype H6","authors":"H. de Barjac , I. Thiery , V. Cosmao-Dumanoir , E. Frachon , P. Laurent , J.-F. Charles , S. Hamon , J. Ofori","doi":"10.1016/0769-2609(88)90028-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0769-2609(88)90028-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ten isolates of <em>Bacillus sphaericus</em> from Ghana, very toxic to mosquito larvae, have been identified as belonging to serotype H6. These isolates can be represented by the head-group strain IAB59. They form crystals at the sporulation stage. Their larvicidal effect on <em>Culex pipiens</em> and <em>Anopheles stephensi</em> larvae is as high as that of the most toxic strains already known, <em>e.g.</em> 1593 and 2362 (serotype H5a,5b) and 2297 (serotype H25). Spore-crystal extracts of all these strains contain a 43-Kd polypeptide immunologically related to the 43-Kd polypeptide from strain 2362 described by other authors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77666,"journal":{"name":"Annales de l'Institut Pasteur. Microbiology","volume":"139 3","pages":"Pages 363-377"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0769-2609(88)90028-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14308544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-radioactive oligonucleotide probe for detection of clinical enterotoxigenic Escherichia Coli isolates of bovine origin","authors":"A Kumar , M Contrepois , P Tchen , J Cohen","doi":"10.1016/0769-2609(88)90023-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0769-2609(88)90023-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Oligonucleotides (32 or 34 mer) corresponding to enterotoxigenic <em>Escherichia coli</em> ST<sub>Ia</sub> (ST-P) toxin were tailed with Bio-11-dUTP using terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase. Plasmids from clinica <em>E.Coli</em> isolates were prepared by modified rapid alkaline lysis procedure and dot-spotted. Biotinylated oligonucleotide probes were hybridized to detect the St<sub>Ia</sub> toxin gene. The results were in agreement with that obtained by radioactive oligonucleotide probes. Of 135 clinical isolates (sampled from 6 different regions of France), only 7 (5.2 %) were found to be ST<sub>Ia</sub><sup>+</sup>. These 7 isolates were the only ones to be found positive for the K99 adhesive pili antigen. Both the proves were specific to the ST<sub>Ia</sub> toxin gene and failed to detect the closely related ST<sub>Ib</sub> (ST-H) toxin gene. Possibilities of their wide usage in clinical labs are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77666,"journal":{"name":"Annales de l'Institut Pasteur. Microbiology","volume":"139 3","pages":"Pages 315-323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0769-2609(88)90023-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14184815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biotechnology of waste treatment and exploitation","authors":"P Kaiser","doi":"10.1016/0769-2609(88)90037-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0769-2609(88)90037-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77666,"journal":{"name":"Annales de l'Institut Pasteur. Microbiology","volume":"139 3","pages":"Pages 383-384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0769-2609(88)90037-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115128952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Essays in agricultural and food microbiology","authors":"P Kaiser","doi":"10.1016/0769-2609(88)90040-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0769-2609(88)90040-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77666,"journal":{"name":"Annales de l'Institut Pasteur. Microbiology","volume":"139 3","pages":"Pages 386-387"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0769-2609(88)90040-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"99260507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Certificats de vaccination exié et conseils d'hygiène pour les voyageurs internationaux","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/0769-2609(88)90043-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0769-2609(88)90043-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77666,"journal":{"name":"Annales de l'Institut Pasteur. Microbiology","volume":"139 3","pages":"Page 388"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0769-2609(88)90043-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136737073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}