This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30770111, 30900051, 30970125), the National Key Program for Infectious Diseases of China (2008ZX 10004-002, 2008ZX 10004-009, and 2009ZX10004-712), and the Program of Shanghai Subject Chief Scientist (09XD 1402700).
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a major concern in hospitals and the bacterial community of which has not been systemically discussed yet. Sputum from patients in the acute stages is a kind of accessible sampl...
We thank Professor M Picardeau for the gift ofL. interrogans strain IPAV and Bao-Yu Hu and Yang Yang for the support in performing bacteria culture. We also thank Dr Junwei Yang for suggestions in revising the manuscript. We thank the genome sequencing team at Chinese Human Genome Center at Shanghai for their assistance. This work was supported in part by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30770111, 30900051 and 30970125), the National Key Program for Infectious Diseases of China (2008ZX10004 and 2009ZX10004), the Program of Shanghai Subject Chief Scientist (09XD 1402700) and the Program of Shanghai Research and Development (10JC 1408200).
The virulence-attenuated Leptospira interrogans serovar Lai strain IPAV was derived by prolonged laboratory passage from a highly virulent ancestral strain isolated in China. We studied the genetic variations of IPAV ...
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30770111, 30900051, and 30970125), the National Key Program for Infectious Diseases of China (2008ZX10004 and 2009ZX10004), the Program of Shanghai Subject Chief Scientist (09XD1402700), and the Program of Shanghai Research and Development (10JC 1408200).
Sputum is the most common sample collected from patients suffering from lower respiratory tract infections and it is crucial for the bacterial identification of these infections. In this study, we enrolled 101 sput...