Low prevalence of Moraxella catarrhalis in the patients who suffered from conjunctivitis in the southwest of Iran

OBJECTIVE: Moraxella catarrhalis is a non-motile Gram-negative diplococcus bacterium that contributed to several human infections including conjunctivitis. This study aimed to reveal the prevalence of M. catarrhalis in patients who suffered from conjunctivitis in Ahvaz city, southwest of Iran. RESUL...

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Autores principales: Farajzadeh Sheikh, Ahmad, Feghhi, Mustafa, Torabipour, Maryam, Saki, Morteza, Veisi, Hojat
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7687714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33239090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05389-4
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author Farajzadeh Sheikh, Ahmad
Feghhi, Mustafa
Torabipour, Maryam
Saki, Morteza
Veisi, Hojat
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description OBJECTIVE: Moraxella catarrhalis is a non-motile Gram-negative diplococcus bacterium that contributed to several human infections including conjunctivitis. This study aimed to reveal the prevalence of M. catarrhalis in patients who suffered from conjunctivitis in Ahvaz city, southwest of Iran. RESULTS: Out of 100 conjunctiva swab specimens, M. catarrhalis was isolated only from one (1%) conjunctivitis cases using the culture method. This strain was isolated from a 34 years old female patient. Also, the results of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) were in agreement with the culture method, and the specimen that showed positive culture was also positive for specific gene of M. catarrhalis. The remaining 99 specimens did not show positive results with any of the culture and PCR methods.
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spelling pubmed-76877142020-11-30 Low prevalence of Moraxella catarrhalis in the patients who suffered from conjunctivitis in the southwest of Iran Farajzadeh Sheikh, Ahmad Feghhi, Mustafa Torabipour, Maryam Saki, Morteza Veisi, Hojat BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Moraxella catarrhalis is a non-motile Gram-negative diplococcus bacterium that contributed to several human infections including conjunctivitis. This study aimed to reveal the prevalence of M. catarrhalis in patients who suffered from conjunctivitis in Ahvaz city, southwest of Iran. RESULTS: Out of 100 conjunctiva swab specimens, M. catarrhalis was isolated only from one (1%) conjunctivitis cases using the culture method. This strain was isolated from a 34 years old female patient. Also, the results of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) were in agreement with the culture method, and the specimen that showed positive culture was also positive for specific gene of M. catarrhalis. The remaining 99 specimens did not show positive results with any of the culture and PCR methods. BioMed Central 2020-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7687714/ /pubmed/33239090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05389-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Feghhi, Mustafa
Torabipour, Maryam
Saki, Morteza
Veisi, Hojat
Low prevalence of Moraxella catarrhalis in the patients who suffered from conjunctivitis in the southwest of Iran
title Low prevalence of Moraxella catarrhalis in the patients who suffered from conjunctivitis in the southwest of Iran
title_full Low prevalence of Moraxella catarrhalis in the patients who suffered from conjunctivitis in the southwest of Iran
title_fullStr Low prevalence of Moraxella catarrhalis in the patients who suffered from conjunctivitis in the southwest of Iran
title_full_unstemmed Low prevalence of Moraxella catarrhalis in the patients who suffered from conjunctivitis in the southwest of Iran
title_short Low prevalence of Moraxella catarrhalis in the patients who suffered from conjunctivitis in the southwest of Iran
title_sort low prevalence of moraxella catarrhalis in the patients who suffered from conjunctivitis in the southwest of iran
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7687714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33239090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05389-4
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