(1) Anaerobes, in particular Bacteroides spp., are the predominant bacteria present in mixed intra-abdominal infections, yet their critical importance in the pathogenicity of these infections is not clearly defined.
(2) One patient developed bacteroides septicemia but recovered.
(3) Organisms of the genus Bacteroides represent the major group of obligate anaerobes involved in human infections.
(4) Bacteroides endodontalis produced enzymes that degraded beta-naphthylamide derivatives of glycylproline and glycylphenylalanine.
(5) Distribution of immunoglobulin(Ig)-containing cells was investigated in calves inoculated orally with live organisms of both Bacteroides succinogenes and Selenomonas ruminantium.
(6) Similarly a significant inverse relationship between antibody reactivity with Bacteroides gingivalis and the number of teeth having moderate or severe attachment loss was found.
(7) When isolated bacteroides-glycocalyx was added to Staphylococcus aureus or S. epidermidis, phagocytosis of both clindamycin-treated and -untreated bacteria was significantly reduced.
(8) While nanograms of the Veillonella and Fusobacterium LPS killed the chick embryos and gelated the Limulus lysates, microgram amounts of the Bacteroides LPS were needed to give positive reaction in the same test systems.
(9) Experimental data on protective function of Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis and Bacteroides distasonis comprising intestinal flora against oral infection of Shigella flexneri which causes localized infection are presented.
(10) Metronidazole did not influence the high activity of daptomycin against strains of Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis and Enterococcus faecalis in the absence or presence of the co-cultured Bacteroides strains.
(11) However, the identification of certain ones, including Bacteroides fragilis and Clostridium perfringens, is relatively simple.
(12) A number of organisms, including Mycoplasma, group B Streptococcus, Bacteroides, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis, have been isolated more frequently from patients in premature labor than from controls.
(13) A DNA fragment coding for a cellodextrinase of Bacteroides succinogenes S85 was isolated by screening of a pBR322 gene library in Escherichia coli HB101.
(14) A method for transforming some strains of Bacteroides has been developed.
(15) The group of Bacteroides is composed by several species with different metabolic and genetic characteristics.
(16) Among asporogenous anaerobes, the main causative agents of pulmonary abscesses have been found to belong to four genera: Bacteroides, Fusobacterium, Peptococcus and Peptostreptococcus.
(17) The susceptibilities to 14 antimicrobial agents of 172 clinical isolates of the Bacteroides fragilis group from Korean patients during 1989 and 1990 were tested by an agar dilution method.
(18) Moraxella bovis, M. nonliquefaciens, Bacteroides nodosus, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and N. meningitidis.
(19) Serogrouping of Bacteroides nodosus is based on antigenic differences in fimbriae of the different New Zealand prototype strains.
(20) Presently, clindamycin is the drug of choice for severe Bacteroides infections, though diarrheal side effects often interfere with administration; if contraindicated or side effects occur which are intolerable, doxycycline is indicated, for this -OH-substituted form rarely shares cross-resistances with other tetracyclines.