the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Project No.81301409);the National Sci-Tech Key Project (No.2013ZX10004203-002).
Background: Adhesion, biofilm formation, yeast-hyphal transition, secretion of enzymes, and hemolytic activity are all considered important factors in Candida tropicalis infection. However, DNA sequence data for this ...
Background:Candida albicans (C.albicans) can become a pathogen causing superficial as well as life-threatening systemic infections,especially in immunocompromised patients.Many phenotypic attributes contribute to i...
Acknowledgements The authors are thankful to all the clinicians and microbiologists for referring vulvovaginal yeast isolates to the mycology reference laboratory. Excellent technical support received from Min Zhao is acknowledged.Financial support and sponsorship This study was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81571394).
Background: Vulvovaginal candidiasis (WC) was a common infection associated with lifelong harassment of woman's social and sexual life. The purpose of this study was to describe the species distribution and in vit...
Background According to data from the China Hospital Invasive Fungal Surveillance Net (CHIF-NET) 2010, Candida tropica/is (C. tropica/is) is the third most common pathogen causing invasive candidiasis. Moreover, t...
Background Extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (K.pneumoniae) is one of the most popular pathogens that cause refractory respiratory tract infection.The genetic environment,includ...
Background Erythromycin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates that causing invasive pneumococcal diseases (IPD) in Chinese children remain uncharacterized. This study aims to identify the resistance genes asso...
This work was supported by the grants from the China 973 Project (No. 2006CB504206) and the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30700706). In addition, this work was supported by a funding from Jiangsu Provincial Key Infectious Diseases Laboratory.
Background The adenovirus-based HIV-1 vaccine developed by Merck Company suffered from an unexpected failure in September 2007. This generated a big shift in the strategy of HIV vaccine development with renewed focus ...
Background In the present study, we characterized multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (MDRP) clinical isolates from a paediatric facility and investigated the types and features of the metallo-β-lactamases ...
Objective To confirm the genetic relation between Giardia lamblia (G. lamblia) isolates from different geographic regions of China and other countries.Methods Genomic DNA were extracted from the trophozoites or cyst...