14th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious ...

Poster Sessions Sunday, May 2, 2004
13:00–14:00
Molecular bacteriology for Helicobacter pylori
P724 cagA, vacA and babA2 genotypes of
Helicobacter pylori strains from patients
with gastritis or peptic ulcer in Spain
J.A. García-Campos, D. Domingo, T. Alarcón,
E. Aznar, J. Díaz-Regañón, M. López-Brea
(Madrid, E)
P725 FISH detection of clarithromycin-resistant
Helicobacter pylori cells in clinical and
wastewater samples
P. Piqueres, Y. Moreno, A. Jimenez,
J. Hernández, M. Ferrús (Valencia, E)
P726 Effect of the therapy of patients with
H. pylori related gastritis is correlated with
organisation of CAG pathogenicity island
V. Simanenkov, D. Bovaeva, O. Solovjova,
A. Suvorov (St.Petersburg, RUS)
P727 AP-PCR genotyping of clinical isolates of
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
D.H. Binnet, G. Uraz, E. Senol, N. Akar
(Ankara, TR)
P728 Pseudomonas aeruginosa – microarray
for rapid determination of antibiotic
susceptibility and virulence factors
J. Weile, M. Susa, T. Bachmann, C. Knabbe
(Stuttgart, D)
P729 Phenotypic and genotypic analysis of
Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated
from cystic fibrosis patients
S. Scutera, T. Allice, S. Bianco, M.G. Chirillo,
M. Zucca, D. Savoia (Orbassano, I)
P730 Construction of unmarked mutants in gene
coding for Ser/Thr protein kinases and
phosphoprotein phosphatase of
Pseudomonas aeruginosa and analysis of
their properties
J. Nedvedova, P. Lnenicka, K. Hercik, P. Branny
(Prague, CZ)
P731 Application of real-time PCR assay to detect
fragments of the Clostridium botulinum types
A, B and E neurotoxin genes for public health
microbiology
D. Akbulut, K. Grant, M.M. Brett, J. McLauchlin
(London, UK)
P732 Evaluation of variable number tandem
repeats (VNTRs) polymorphisms for
genotyping “Rickettsia conorii complex”
strains
L. Vitorino, R. De Sousa, L. Zé-Zé, F. Bacellar,
R. Tenreiro (Lisbon, P)
P733 Monitoring the ability of the human intestinal
microflora to become re-established after
antibiotic treatment using T-RFLP
C. Jernberg, Å. Sullivan, C. Edlund, J. Jansson
(Huddinge, Stockholm, S)
P734 Exploring the potential for the rapid
identification of Campylobacter species using
MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry
D.J. Dare, H. Sutton, C. Keys, H. Shah, M. Lunt,
G. Wells (Manchester, London, UK)
P735 Application of 23S-5S intergenic spacer
sequencing for the detection and molecular
differentiation of Legionella species
F. Grattard, C. Ginevra, S. Riffard, A. Ros,
J. Etienne, B. Pozzetto (Saint-Etienne, F)
P736 Cerebral Whipple’s disease diagnosed by PCR.
The first case reported from Greece
M. Papdopoulou, M. Rentzos, V. Ioannidou,
A. Ioannidis, C. Nicolaou, S. Chatzipanagiotou
(Athens, GR)
P737 Corynebacterium amycolatum ATCC 49368
reference strain is atypical for clinical
Corynebacterium amycolatum isolates with
respect to biochemical properties, fatty acid
analysis and DNA analysis
K. Martienssen, A. Becker, D.H. Forster, K. Pelz,
A. Sander, E. Kniehl (Karlsruhe, Freiburg, D)
P738 Detection of mutations associated with
resistance to tetracycline and clarithromycin
in Helicobacter pylori using the
Pyrosequencer
A. Lawson, C. Arnold, R. Owen (London, UK)
P739 Detection of Helicobacter pylori infection by
ELISA and Westernblot techniques and
evaluation of anti CagA seropositivity in adult
dyspeptic patients
N. Sen, Ö. Yilmaz, A.A. Küpelioglu, I. Simsek
(Izmir, TR)
P740 Susceptibility of Helicobacter pylori isolates
to the anti-adhesion activity of a highmolecular-weight
constituent of cranberry
H. Shmuely, O. Burger, I. Neeman, J. Yahav,
Z. Samra, Y. Niv, N. Sharon, E. Weiss, M. Tabak,
A. Athamna, I. Ofek (Petach Tiqva, Haifa,
Rehovot, Jerusalem, Kfar Qaraa, Tel Aviv, IL)
P741 Helicobacter pylori infection in Venezuela.
Public health problem
M.E. Cavazza Porro, M. Correnti, M.I. Urrestarazu,
J. Vivas, M.E. Avila, D. Ortiz, V. Lecuna, R. Piñero,
M. Perrone (Caracas, San Cristóbal, VE)
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