Diseases and Pathogens

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) analysis revealed polymorphism of prfA and plcA genes, encoding the pathogenecity factors in strains of Listeria monocytogenes. Phylogenetic analysis confirmed the …

Along with known human pathogens, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter spp., Burkholderia spp., group of non-fermentative Gram-negative rods includes gender Chryseo4 bacterium (former Flavobacterium). Chryseo-bacteria are ubiquitous …

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a new infectious disease, which first appeared in November 2002 in Southern China and spread through 29 countries of Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa and Australia. According to official …

Pancreatitis.associatedinfections (PAI) are among of the most serious complications of acute pancreatitis. Only about 5–7% of all patients with diagnosis of acute pancreatitis develop infection, but in patients with severe necrotizing pancreatitis …

Genital herpes (GH) is widely distributed sexually transmitted disease that is caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 nd 2. This article presents the questions of epidemiology and pathogenesis of this infection. Clinical features and major criteria …

Sarcoidosis – it is a systemic granulomatous disease, the cause and the factors leading to the disease progression are not known. The present literature review devoted to the presumptive factors that can be involved in the onset and progression of …

The available in the literature information on the pathogenic patterns of yersiniae, peculiar properties of the molecular and genetic mechanisms that regulate the expression of the factors of the pathogenesis are analysed and summarized. Data on the …

Kawasaki disease is hyperimmune vasculitis with presumably infectious origin. Predisposing factors are probably heredity and atopy. Although etiology of Kawasaki disease is still unknown, there are a lot of facts, arguing for the trigger role of …