Journal of Bacteriology & Parasitology

2^nd International Congress on Bacteriology & Infectious Diseases

November 17-19, 2014 DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago-North Shore, USA

Accepted Abstracts

• Microbial pathogenesis and cancer: New approaches to bacterial anticancer drug development

  Ananda M Chakrabarty

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• Mapping the whole Escherichia coli K-12 transcriptome at single nucleotide resolution

  Barry L Wanner

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• Phenotypic detection of carbapenemases from extended spectrum beta lactamases producing E. coli isolated from cases of urinary tract infection

  Basma El-Awady, Eman El-Seidi and Alaa Reda

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• Laboratory diagnosis, monitoring and characterization of strains of Bordetella pertussis in Brazil

  Daniela Leite

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• Association between O blood group and Helicobacter pylori infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis

  Debebe Shaweno and Deresse Daka

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• Spiroplasma as a candidate causal agent of CJD is an infectious disease model of neuro degeneration

  Frank Bastian

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• Different bacterial strategies for organizing microcolonies during early stages of biofilm formation

  Gerard C L Wong

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• Isolation of a multi-drug resistant (Manual ESBL and Modified Hodge Test Negative) and KpC positive Salmonella group E from a 5-year old male with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) in a private tertiary hospital in

  Gilbert Vergara and Oscar Grageda

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• Enhancing antibacterial action of Origanum vulgare essential oil through nanoemulsions

  Cannillo Giuseppe and Salerno Antonio

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• Multidrug efflux pumps in Gram-negative bacteria: The assembly and drug efflux across two membranes

  Helen I Zgurskaya

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• Bacteriological examination of some ready-to-eat foods in Faisalabad with special reference to Listeria monocytogenese

  Iftikhar Hussain, Muhammad Shahid Mahmood and Faisal Siddique

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• Investigating the intracellular survival and virulence of Burkholderia pseudomallei

  Jamuna Vadivelu, Wen-Tyng Kang, Leang-Chong Choh and Kumutha Malar Vellasamy

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• Discovery of Q203, a potent clinical candidate for the treatment of tuberculosis

  Jichan Jang

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• Antibacterial activity of Sudanese bee honey

  Mahasin Wadi

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• Multiple layers of intercellular signaling pathways in the rice pathogenic bacterium Burkholderia glumae

  Jong Hyun Ham

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• Total synthesis of natural cyclic depsi-peptides by convergent SPPS and macrolactonization strategy for anti-TB activity

  Venugopala K Narayanaswamy, Fernando Albericio, Bander E Al-Dhubiab and Govender T

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• How structural biology can help to understand antibiotic mechanism and resistance and contribute to discovery new anti-tuberculosis drugs

  Marcio Vinicius Bertacine Dias

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• The diagnosis of gas gangrene: Does a discrepancy exist between the literature and practice?

  Maryellen P Brucato

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• Improved intra-operative hand hygiene compliance

  Matthew Koff and Loftus R W

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• Outcomes and cost effectiveness of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) in patients with diabetic foot infection

  Malone M, West D, Cameron K, Xuan W, Lau N and Dickson H G

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• Antivirulence agents sensitize MRSA to beta-lactam antibiotics

  Menachem Shoham

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• Genotyping harboring a second flagellin gene of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi in Indonesia endemic areas

  Mochammad Hatta

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• Antibiotic use and development of allergic diseases

  Mohammad Ehlayel

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• Biochemical characterization of CTX-M-15 from Enterobacter cloacae and designing a novel non- β-lactam-β-lactamase inhibitor

  Mohammad Faheem, Md. Tabish Rehman, Md. Danishuddin and Asad U Khan

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• Discovery of third category of bionanomotor by revolution mechanism without rotation and development of high efficient antibacterial drug targeting to biomotors

  Peixuan Guo

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• Progress towards the development of a chlamydial vaccine for koalas

  Avinash Kollipara, Jon Hanger, Jo Loader, Galit Rawlinson, Jacqui Brumm, Karen Nilsson, Adam Polkinghorne, Kenneth Beagley and Peter Timms

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• Critical illness in HIV-infected patients

  Putul Sarkar

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• Transmission dynamics for gram negative bacterial pathogens in the anesthesia work area

  Randy Loftus

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• Phytochemicals and synergistic combinations as therapeutics against Staphylococcus epidermidis

  Reema Gabrani

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• Phytate mineralising bacteria increase in the rhizosphere of nodulated common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) under P deficiency

  Maougal Rim Tinhinen, Brauman Alain, Plassard Claude, Abadie Josiane, Djakoun Abdelhamid and Drevon Jean-Jacques

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• Creating a novel anti- tubercular drug: A 25 year long sojourn!

  Rup Lal

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• Antimicrobial activity of different treatment protocols of blue light therapy on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in vitro

  Daniela Masson-Meyers, Violet Bumah, Gabriel Biener, Valerica Raicu and Chukuka Enwemeka

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• In vitro anti-mycobacterial activity of selected medicinal plants against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis strains

  Abdella Gemechu, Mirutse Giday, Adane Worku and Gobena Ameni

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• Mapping spatial distribution of multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in Ethiopia

  Adane Worku

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• Evaluation of in-vitro anti-mycobacterial activity of selected medicinal plants in Mekelle, Northern Ethiopia

  Adane Worku

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• Transcriptional analysis of trehalose-6-phosphate synthetase and major chaperone genes in Mesorhizobium ciceri strain Ca181 to desiccation induced stress

  Akhilesh Yadav, Asha Lata Singh, Sanjeet Kumar and Major Singh

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• Prevalence of virulence and high level aminoglycoside resistant genes in Entrococcus faecalis strains

  Alireza Dolatyar Dehkharghani, Mohsen Imani and Mohsen ghelman

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• In vivo anti-trypanosomal activity of the leaf extracts of Albizia schimperiana (Fabaceae) against Trypanosoma congolense infection in mice

  Amene Tesfaye, GetachewTerefe, Mirutse Giday and Workineh Shibeshi

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• Evaluation of inhibitory action of novel non β-lactam inhibitor against Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC-2)

  Arbab Khan, Mohammad Faheem, Md. Danishuddin and Asad U Khan

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• Carbapenemase producing multidrug resistance in India: Detection of NDM-4 producer

  Asad U Khan and Shadab Pervez

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• Sero-bacteriological investigation and antibiotic resistance patterns of pullorum disease in district Rawalpindi, Pakistan

  Ayesha Khan, Faisal Siddique and Asif Iqbal

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• Multi-drug resistance in coliforms from a wastewater treatment plant of a community in Lagos, Nigeria

  Omotayo E Ayodele, Adesida A Solayide and Eboreime I Precious

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• Treatment of soil with L-alanine and inosine as germinants may drop the number of living cells of Bacillus anthracis below an infectious dose level

  Benedict Ntui and Wolfgang Beyer

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• Genotyping of Mycobacterium bovis isolated at human-animals interface of the Serengeti ecosystem in northern Tanzania

  Bugwesa Zablon Katale

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• Panton-valentine leukocidin does not exist as a coupled molecule: LukS-PV subunit becomes active leukocytolytic toxin following phosphorylative activation by LukF-PV subunit

  Charles Okolie, Karl Wooldridge, David Turner, Alan Cockayne and Richard James

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• Antibiotic resistance in bacteria

  Daniel Lopez

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• Potential bacterial pathogens of external ocular infections and their antibiotic susceptibility pattern in Hawassa University Referral Hospital, Hawassa, Ethiopia

  Anteneh Amsalu, Tamirat Abebe, Adane Mihret, Demoze Delelegne and Endale Tadesse

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• Evaluation of in vitro and in vivo antitrypanosomal activity of aqueous and methanol leaf extracts of Clutia abyssinica (Euphorbiaceae) and Verbascum sinaiticum (Scrophulariaceae) against Trypanosoma congolense field iso

  Ermias Mergia Terefe, Workineh Shibeshi, Getachew Terefe and Tilahun Teklehaymanot

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• Non-typhoid Salmonella (NTS) isolated from stool of rural under-5 children presented with moderate-to-severe diarrheal disease in rural Bangladesh

  Farzana Ferdous, Sumon Kumar Das, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Fahmida Dil Farzana, Anowar Hossain, Dilruba Ahmed, Mohammad Abdul Malek, Khitam Muhsen, Dilruba Nasrin, Tamer H Flag, Yukun Wu, William C Blackwelder, Sandra Panchalingam, James P Nataro, Karen L Kotloff, Myron M Levine and Abu Syed Golam Faruque

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• Factors associated with gestational health risk and fatal neonatal outcome in rural Bangladesh: A prospective study

  Farzana Ferdous, Sumon Kumar Das, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Fahmida Dil Farzana, Dilruba Nasrin, Karen L Kotloff3, Myron M Levine and Abu Syed Golam Faruque

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• Correlation between immune response and periodontopathic biofilm in Down syndrome children

  Faten S Bayoumi, Eman H A Aboulezz, Ismail M K Ismail, El Ruby M, Jeffrey L Ebersole and Hassany K A

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• Coffee husk composting: An investigation of the process using molecular and non-molecular tools

  Fekadu Shemekite

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• Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility patter of Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi isolates from patients with clinical symptom compatible with typhoid fever

  Gizachew A Demessie, Tamrat A Zeleke, Nigatu K Wubie, Solomon Gebre-Selassie, Adane Mihret and Haile Alemayehu

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• Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains by DNA fingerprinting methods (RAPD, ERIC AND GTG-5 PCR)

  Golnar Sami Kashkooli

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• Molecular characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in Benishangul Gumuz Region, Western Ethiopia

  Haimanot Disassa, Ketema Tafess, Adane Worku and Gobena Ameni

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• Disseminated neonatal HSV infection resulting in fatal liver failure

  Harsha Chandnani, Silvana Aricengas and Pisespong Patamasucon

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• Septic cerebral venous sinus thromboses from malignant sinusitis

  Harsha Chandnani, Sharon Joo, Marella Hudkins and Pisespong Patamasucon

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• The expedition of first anti-tuberculosis drug (streptomycin) from 1940 to till date: A brief review

  Jampala Harshitha

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• Autophagy protects monocytes from Wolbachia heat shock protein 60 (rWmhsp60) induced apoptosis and senescence

  Kamalakannan V, Shiny C, Babu S and Narayanan R B

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• Clarifying the role 6S RNA in regulating the expression of essential genes for antibiotic synthesis in S. coelicolor

  Karel Mikulik

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• Incidence and predictors of tuberculosis among adult people living with human immunodeficiency virus at the University of Gondar Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia

  Kefyalew Addis Alene, Ansha Nega and Belaynew Wasie Taye

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• Active case finding for pulmonary tuberculosis and detection of drug resistance among HIVinfected patients in Gondar, Ethiopia

  Martha Alemayehu, Baye Gelaw, Ebba Abate, Abraham Aseffa, Liya Wassie, Yeshambel Belyhun, Shiferaw Bekele, Russell R. Kempker , Henry M. Blumberg

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• Direct identification of Streptococcus agalactiae at vaginal colonization in pregnant women by PCR

  Mohammad Reza Arabestani, Rasoul Yousefi Mashouf, Seyed Masoud Mousavi, Soghra Rabiee and Mohammad Yousef Alikhani

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• The effect of educational program based on health belief model (HBM) on self efficacy related to condom use for preventing of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and AIDS among youth addicts admitted to the drug treatme

  Nikpour Soghra and Haghani Hamid

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• Diversity in structural consequences of MexZ mutations in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  Samad Jahandideh

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• Impact of putative bacterocins against multidrug resistant clinical isolates

  Samyyia Abrar, Saba Riaz

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• Prevalence and risk factors of multidrug resistant and carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae among patients with urinary tract infection at Gondar University Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia

  Setegn Eshetie, Chandrasekhar Unakal, Feleke Moges and Aschalew Gelaw

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• The role of surface adhesins in Clostridium difficile pathogenesis: Comparison between a nonepidemic and an epidemic strain

  Soza T Baban

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• A report of native valve Aspergillus endocarditis presented with acute femoral arterial embolism

  Supakanya Wongrakpanich, Suramath Isaranuwatchai, Parichart Junpaparp, Wikrom Chaiwatcharayut, Ronpichai Chokesuwattanaskul and Sarawut Siwamogsatham

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• Study of the avian Salmonella contribution to human salmonellosis in Chad: Example of the capital, N?Djamena

  Djim-Adjim Tabo

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• Potential epidemics due to multidrug resistant enterobacteriacae in Pakistan

  Tahir Hussain, Muhsin Jamal and Saadia Andleeb

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• Phytochemical screening of the exudete of Aloe otallensis and its effect on Leishmania aethiopica and Leishmania donovani

  Tesfaye Z Nigusse, Kalaeb A and Mannaye T

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• Application of single-nucleotide polymorphism analyses to clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from a region of high TB endemicity; Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

  Tonya Duarte, Theolis Barbosa, Susan Pereira, Joilda Nery, Neio Bo?chat, Isabel Marques, Jo?o Costa, Gabriela Gomes, Carlos Penha Gon?alves and Maur?cio Barreto

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• Phenotypic characterization of Enterobacteriaceae producing Extended-spectrum-β-lactamase from poultry in Brazil

  Marita Vedovelli Cardozo*, Livia Gerbasi Beraldo, Clarissa Ara?jo Borges, Elisabete Schirato de Oliveira, Maria de F?tima Silva Montassier, Fernando Antonio de ?vila

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