Journal of Bacteriology & Parasitology

International Congress on Bacteriology & Infectious Diseases

November 20-22, 2013 DoubleTree by Hilton Baltimore-BWI Airport, MD, USA

Accepted Abstracts

• Prevalence and risk factors associated with Entamoeba histolytica/dispar/moshkovsk II infection among selected local government in zone C senatorial district Yobe, Nigeria

  Adamu Galadima Dagona

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• Synthesis of some novel 2-pyrazolyl-4(3H)-quinazolinone derivatives of potential antimalarial and anti-leishmanial activities

  Addisu Asfaw Azene

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• A novel ?persister? phenotype of Vibrio cholerae

  Afsar Ali

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• Antioxidant adaptation by eugenol and its derivatives and their affect on the expression of virulence in Candida species

  Aijaz Ahmad and Nikhat Manzoor

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• Giardiasis as zoonosis: Between proof of principle and paradigm in Brazil

  Aline Cardoso Caseca Volotao

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• Molecular basis of human body odor formation: Insights deduced from corynebacterial genome sequences

  Andreas Tauch

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• Identification and characterization of RahU: A novel virulent factor induced by Pseudomonas during host-bacterial interactions. Regulation of biofilm, PAMPS, inflammation, nitric oxide and chemotaxis

  Ashok R. Amin

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• Clindamycin in treatment of lung abscess in children

  Atiar Rahman

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• Biliary microflora in patients undergoing cholecystectomy

  Bahman Darkahi

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• B lymphocytes promote P. gingivalis-mediated periodontal disease and inflammation in obesity

  Barbara Nikolajczyk

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• Bacterial inclusions as platform for recombinant production of particulate vaccines

  Bernd H. A. Rehm

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• Melioidosis in India: Current challenges and future perspectives

  Bijayini

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• Structure and function of MS channels in bacterial cells: From biophysics to applications in medicine

  Boris Martinac

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• Mycoplasma meleagridis surface protein endowed with an endonuclease activity related to the restriction enzymes of the RE_ AlwI superfamily

  Boutheina Ben Abdelmoumen Mardassi, Elhem Yacoub and Awatef Bejaoui Khiari

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• A dual coding Staphylococcus aureus RNA produces two secreted peptides that unequally lyse host cells and competing bacteria

  Brice Felden, M. L Pinel-Marie and R. Brielle

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• Host related iron acquisition in Bacillus cereus: The interplay between surface proteins and siderophores in iron grabbing from ferritin and hemoproteins

  Christina Nielsen Le Roux

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• Antibacterial proteins signal their intention to kill

  Colin Kleanthous

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• Bacterial and host factors involved in chronic infection with Crohn?s disease-associated E. coli

  Brian K. Coombes

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• Genomic and transcriptomic characterization of E. coli and Shigella

  David A. Rasko

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• Biorefinery (lab scale) for low cost biodiesel production with zero waste production technology

  Debarati Paul, K. K. Bandyopadhyay, Amanjot Kaur and Abha

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• Persistent antimicrobials provide an opportunity to supplement existing pathogen prevention practices with the addition of monthly germ prevention services

  Eric Couture

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• LPS from pathogenic Coxiella burnetii prevents trafficking to microbicidal phagolysosomes

  Eric Ghigo

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• Demonstration of horizontal gene transfer through plasmid transport

  Erum Shoeb

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• Modulation of obesity and host immune response by diet-gut microbiota interactions

  Giuliana D. Noratto

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• Development of a novel chimeric toxin vaccine against Clostridium difficile infection

  Hanping Feng

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• A genome wide insight into the molecular events accompanying the emergence and expansion of a multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis outbreak strain

  Amine Namouchi, Neira Dekhil, Brigitte Gicquel and Helmi Mardassi

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• Iron uptake pathways in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Targets for new antibiotics

  Isabelle J. Schalk

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• Circumvent the membrane barrier strategy to combat multidrug resistant Gram negative bacteria

  Jean Marie Pages

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• Targeting host signaling pathways to protect against pathogen induced vascular damage

  Joanne Chan

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• Trans-translation pathway inhibitors have broad-spectrum antibiotic activity and sterilize M. tuberculosis

  Kenneth C. Keiler

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• Identification of bacteria in a Vaccine production

  Lene Blicher Olesen

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• Bioprospecting novel natural products for potential anti-infective drugs

  Lixin Zhang

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• Screening and characterization of drug targets in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Prediction of the homology model, dynamics, and docking towards drug designing

  Madhusudana P, Chaitanya M, Babajan B, Shobha rani, Anuradha C. M, Chitta Suresh Kumar and K. R. S Sambasiva Rao

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• Unbiased, holistic systems approach to discover how genomic variations in both pathogen and host modulate sepsis susceptibility and outcomes

  Malak Kotb

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• Killing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA US300) by myxoamoeba

  Marcin Filutowicz

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• Mechanism of action of antimicrobial protein rBPI21: Biophysical approach

  Marco M. Domingues, Miguel A. R. B. Castanho and Nuno C. Santos

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• Angiogenic, arteriogenic, and vasculogenic properties of sonic hedgehog gene therapy in an experimental model of ischemia

  Palladino M Gatto I1, Neri V, Silver M, Straino S, Smith R. C, Crea F, Tritarelli A, Gaetani E, Capogrossi M and Pola R

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• A loop- mediated amplification (LAMP)-based detection method for Salmonella in animal feed

  Martin D'Agostino

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• Antibiotic susceptibility in bacteria

  Max Maurin

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• Multidrug resistant Staphylococcus species isolated from neonates in neonatal intensive care unit, can be the soil the solution for this drama?

  Maysaa Maysaa E. Zaki, Fathy Mansour, Mohamed Abou-Dobara and Basma Gaber

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• The role of procalcitonin in community-acquired pneumonia: A literature review

  Mijung Lee

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• Molecular mechanism of heterochromatin formation in the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe

  Mo Motamedi

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• Multiple infections in cancer: Epidemiology approches in cancer control

  Mukesh Verma

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• Protection against respiratory challenge of Brucella abortus in the murine lung

  Naveen Surendran

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• Development and characterization of LTA appended chitosan nanoparticles for mucosal immunization against hepatitis B

  Neeraj Mishra

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• In vitro and in vivo studies of antibacterial effect of ceftriaxone moxifloxacin combination against methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus biofilms formed on biomedical implants

  Nermin H. Ibrahim, Azza S. Zakaria, Nahla A. Melake, Nayira Abdel Baky and Nouf M. E Rasheed

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• Mechanisms of airway pathogenesis in mouse models of Bordetella pertussis infection and disease

  Nicholas Carbonetti

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• Point mutations in FimH adhesin of Crohn?s disease-associated adherent-invasive Escherichia coli enhance intestinal inflammatory response

  Nicolas Barnich

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• Toxocariasis in school children in urban and rural areas of Argentina

  Nora B. Molina

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• Can a specific sub-group of biofilm forming Gardnerella vaginalis strains be the real causative agent of bacterial vaginosis?

  Nuno Cerca

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• Combination of nucleic acid mimics and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for an improved diagnosis of microbial infectionsc

  Nuno F. Azevedo

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• The control of oxygen radical production in the neutrophil phagosome

  Oliver N?sse

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• Bacterial vaccine development and virulence factor prediction using reverse vaccinology program Vaxign

  Yongqun ?Oliver? He and Zuoshuang Xiang

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• MRSA endocarditis

  Pascal M. Dohmen

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• Petrobactin: The stealth siderophore of anthrax

  Philip C. Hanna

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• Application of traditional and molecular techniques in understanding the epidemiology of Riemerella anatipestifer in a commercial duck company

  R. M. Fulton

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• Initial adherence of EPEC, EHEC and VTEC to host cells

  R. P. Diwakar, R. K. Diwakar, R. K. Joshi and Vibha Yadav

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• Docking, synthesis and antibacterial Studies on N-(5-bromo/nitro-pyridin-2-yl)-sulfonamide analogues as FtsZ inhibitors

  Ramendra K. Singh, Anuradha Singh, Madhu Yadav, Ritika Srivastava and Preeti Singh

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• Antimicrobial activity of newly synthesized methylsulfanyl-triazoloquinazoline derivatives

  Rashad Al-Salahi, Mohamed Marzouk, Ghada Awad and Mohamed Al-Omar

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• Pathogenesis of bovine intramammary infections: Lessons learned from the pathogen and host cell interactions

  Raul A. Almeida

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• A multidisciplinary approach to characterizing virulence determinants in bacterial pathogens

  Rekha Panchal

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• Complex bacteriotherapy in pediatric gastrointestinal disorders

  Richard Kellermayer

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• Antimicrobial resistance of respiratory tract pathogens

  Roman S. Kozlov

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• Listeria monocytogenes: A virulence tailored to cross barriers

  Samer Kayal

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• Communication pathway from sensor to signaling domain of oxygen sensor protein from Bacillus subtilis, HemAT-Bs, by UV resonance Raman spectroscopy

  Samir F. El-Mashtoly

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• Electrophysiology of bacterial mechanosensitive channels: A path to understanding osmoregulation and drug permeation

  Sergei Sukharev

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• Burkholderia pseudomallei suppresses Caenorhabditis elegans immunity by specifically targeting a GATA transcription factor

  Sheila Nathan

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• Manipulating the plant genome to increase susceptibility to Agrobacterium-mediated transformation

  Stanton B. Gelvin

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• Molecular basis of cyclic peptide antibiotics targeting the bacterial ribosome

  Tanakarn Monshupanee, Albert E. Dahlberg, Shanna K. Johansen and Stephen Douthwaite

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• Towards a ?Universal influenza vaccine?: Principles and approaches

  Teodor-D. Brumeanu and Sofia Casares

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• Infectious disease molecular diagnostics commercialization: An academic?s perspective

  Thomas Barry

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• The application of nanoparticle optical fiber sensors in the diagnosis of bacterial infections

  Thomas J. Inzana

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• Adherence by healthcare providers to Ethiopia?s national tuberculosis guidelines

  Valerie Janet Ehlers and Getahun Sisay Aragaw

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• New insights into Burkholderia pseudomallei infection (melioidosis)

  W. J. Wiersinga

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• Bacillus anthracis and complement

  Yi Xu

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• Specific properties of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strains isolated from diarrheal patients: Comparison with the strains from foods and fecal specimens of cattle, pigs, healthy carriers in Osaka City, Japan

  Yoshikazu Nishikawa, Lili Wang, Mitsuko Wakushima, Tetsu Aota, Yuka Yoshida, Toshimasa Kita, Tomofumi Maehara, Jun Ogasawara, Changsun Choi, Yoichi Kamata and Yukiko Hara-Kudo

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• Mycobacterial infection in the livestock and wildlife interface of Katavi Rukwa Ecosystem, Tanzania

  Zachariah E. Makondo, Richard S. Mwakapuja, Joseph Malakalinga, Irmgard Moser, Rudovick R. Kazwala and Manfred Tanner

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• Antimicrobial susceptibility patter of bacterial pathogens associated with diarrhea in selected health facilities of Ethiopia

  Rajiha Abubeker, Nathnael Dires, Tamirat Tadesse, Negga Asamene, Teklil Biza, Meseret Assefa, Surafel Fentaw, Terefe Tsegaye, Mulushewa G/Egziabher and Yibralem T/mariam

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

  Abdella Gemechu, Mirutse Giday, Gobena Ameni and Adane Worku

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• Recombination, phage therapy and bacterial infections

  Alao Tinuola A

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• M. ulcerans polyketide macrolide toxin, mycolactone, alters freshwater biofilm metabolic profiles: Implications for Buruli ulcer disease

  Alexander J. Ulintz

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• Molecular characterization of antibiotic resistant-Salmonella species from diarrheal patients? stool samples in Ile-Ife, Nigeria

  Oluduro A. O., Moses I. B., Isawumi A. and Omoboye O. O

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• Obtaining of allergen from Candida albicans and studying of their physicochemical and immunobiological properties

  Berzhets Valentina Michalovna, Blinkova L. P., Khlgatian S. V., Gervazieva V. B., Vasilyeva A. V., Koreneva E. A., Radikova O. V. and Emelyanova O. Y

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• Recent outbreaks of anthrax in national parks in Uganda

  Denis K. Byarugaba, Ojok Lonzy, Okot Bwangamoi and Patrick Atimnedi

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• Fluorescence immuno assay for procalcitonin hormone in whole blood

  Do Won Kim, EunSeon Yoon and EuiYul Choi

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• Antibacterial and antifungal properties of Chromolaena odorata leaf extracts against clinical isolates

  Haruna Muyideen Titilope

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• TIMP-1/TIMP-2 ratio, a novel biomarker for early prediction of sepsis-induced disseminated intravascular coagulation

  Jingchun Song

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• Exogenous phage recombinase-independent inactivation of chromosomal genes in Yersinia enterocolitica

  Mahesh Shanker Dhar, Pradeep Kumar and Jugsharan S. Virdi

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• Production, purification and characterization of prodigiosin from Serratia rubidaea and evaluation of its antibacterial and antiproliferative potential

  N. Darshan and H. K. Manonmani

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• Is rs8099917 Polymorphism of IL-28B gene a good predictor of response to therapy of HCV than rs12979860? An Egyptian study

  Olfat Shaker, Amal Rashad, Ghada Abd E Aziz and Maysa El-Razki

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• Characteristics of the gut microbiota in obese children with allergic diseases

  Maksimova Olga Vladimirovna, Zverev V.V, Zaitseva E.V, Blinkova L.P and Gervazieva V.B

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• Host-pathogen interactions in zebrafish

  Qing Deng

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• Phylogenetic grouping and virulence characterization of ESBL-producing and non-producing vaginal Escherichia coli

  Sareaa M. G. Al-Mayahie

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• Measles outbreak among children at a South African Academic Hospital: A descriptive study

  Siyazi Mda and D. M. Nonyane

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• P. vivax malaria causing subconjunctival haemorrhage: Case report

  Sreehari D, V.B.Singh, Chetan Kumar H.B and Babulal Meena

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• Molecular architecture and assembly principles of Vibrio cholerae biofilms

  Veysel Berk, Jiunn C. N. Fong, Graham T. Dempsey, Omer N. Develioglu, Xiaowei Zhuang, Jan Liphardt, Fitnat H. Yildiz and Steven Chu

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• GCMS analysis, antimicrobial assay of volatile and non volatile components and physico chemical evaluation of Cuminun cyminum

  Waseem Hassan and Shakilla Rahman

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• Effect of glutathione on the pyocyanin production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  Yani Zhang and Shihong Wang

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• Synthesis, antimalarial and antileishmanial evaluation of some quinazoline derivatives

  Yihenew Simegniew

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• Nonculturability and nisin production of Lactococcus lactis

  Pakhomov Yu D., Blinkova L. P. and Stoyanova L. G

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• Polymerase chain reaction as an analytical tool in the diagnosis of cattle mastitis

  Daif H N, E AmryKh F, Khalil A, Marouf SA and El-Jakee J

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