Sentences with word «trachomatis»

Interactions between Chlamydia trachomatis proteins and host cell proteins help determine whether the bacterium leaves an infected cell via breakdown of the cellular membrane (lysis) or in a membrane - bound package, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens by Phu Hai Nguyen of the National Institutes of Health, U.S., and colleagues.

Simple lab tests can detect the presence of Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria.

Chlamydia trachomatis inclusion showing recruitment of the inositol 1,4,5 - trisphosphate receptor type 3 to microdomains on the inclusion membrane (red).

Analysis of the 1,042,519 — base pair Chlamydia trachomatis genome revealed unexpected features related to the complex biology of chlamydiae.

C. trachomatis exists in different variants that can cause human and veterinary infections, such as infectious blindness or sexually transmitted diseases.

About 52.0 % of the respondents had unprotected sexual intercourse in the previous 3 months; 15.8 % had sexual intercourse with multiple partners in the previous 3 months; 9.5 % had a least 1 child; and 21.6 % tested positive for N gonorrhoeae, C trachomatis or T vaginalis.

Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria.

Part of the control strategy for trachoma — repeated eye infections caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis — is facial cleanliness.

... The list of diseases found with extraordinary frequency among male homosexual practitioners as a result of anal intercourse is alarming: anal cancer, chlamydia trachomatis, cryptosporidium, giardia lamblia, herpes simplex virus, human immunodeficiency virus, human papilloma virus, isospora belli, microsporidia, gonorrhea, viral hepatitis type B & C, syphilis.

You should be tested for hepatitis B, syphilis, group B streptococcus, Chlamydia trachomatis, gonorrhea and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in every pregnancy.

Scientists have sequenced the entire genome of Chlamydia trachomatis, the enigmatic bacterium that's the leading cause of venereal disease in the United States.

Tubal factor infertility now accounts for an estimated 14 % of all infertility and is usually the result of infection with Chlamydia trachomatis, the leading cause of bacterial sexually transmitted disease worldwide.

Dr. Zhong is exploring the possibility that Chlamydia trachomatis, the bacterium that causes chlamydia, could be delivered orally as a vaccine.

Previous studies have shown that C. trachomatis leaves a cell either via lysis or in the membrane - bound inclusion, which is extruded intact from the cell and may serve to protect C. trachomatis on its way to infect new cells.

In the new study, experiments with genetically modified C. trachomatis and host cell lines showed that a C. trachomatis protein found in the inclusion membrane, myosin regulatory complex subunit A (MrcA), interacts with the host proteins ITPR3 and STIM1.

At the end of its development cycle, C. trachomatis is released from the cell, freeing it to infect additional cells in the infected person or animal.

Other studies included use of rapid tests for HIV, HBV and HCV for emergency field testing of the «Walking Blood Bank» in military operations; use of dried blood spots for collection of specimens in the field for testing of HIV, Dengue, West Nile Virus and Chikungunya Virus; and molecular assays for monitoring Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Ebola virus, and other infectious agents in epidemiology and vaccine research studies.

Chlamydia is caused by a species of bacteria called Chlamydia trachomatis.

Chlamydia trachomatis is inactivated by lauric acid, capric acid, and monocaprin (Bergsson et al 1998), and hydrogels containing monocaprin are potent in vitro inactivators of sexually transmitted viruses such as HSV - 2 and HIV - 1 and bacteria such as Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Thormar 1999).

These metals coexisted with infections such as Chlamydia trachomatis and Herpes simplex, as well as with cytomegalovirus and other microorganisms, including viruses associated with cancer.41

BD Viper System; the BD ProbeTec ET System, which utilizes homogeneous Strand Displacement Amplification (SDA) technology as the amplification method and fluorescent energy transfer (ET) as the detection method to test for the presence of C. trachomatis and N. gonorrhoeae DNA in clinical specimens.

In the younger age group, epididymitis is usually caused by sexually transmitted bacteria, including Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, and Escherichia coli, which have spread from the urethra to the testicles.