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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Is there a difference between K1 capsule antigen on E.coli that causes sepsis compared to ESBL- producing E.coli?

Zubaidah, Ridha January 2021 (has links)
The incidence of sepsis is a growing problem worldwide with a high mortality rate.  K- capsule antigens are becoming more dangerous than before. The purpose of the study was to categorize the capsules virulence factors, as well as to find a safe and empirical antibiotic treatment for sepsis infection, and to determine if the existence of ESBL producing bacteria have increased exponentially in recent decades. A total of 101 isolates were collected for a period of 5 years, of which blood isolates (n=38) were collected at Uppsala university hospital and feces isolates from healthy mothers and their infants (n=63) at Cunghi hospital, China. Isolates were serotyped with agglutination test, using N. meningitides B / Ecoli K1 against K1 capsule antigen, and phage test, using K1, K5 and K13 bacteriophage to identify the corresponding E. coli K antigen. Results showed that K1- capsule antigen could be identified in 42% (16/38) of the blood-isolated bacterial strains, compared with 11% (7/63) in fecal-isolated bacterial strains, while K5- capsule antigen was serotyped in 5% (2/38) and 19% (12/63), respectively. In contrast, the K13 capsule antigen was not found in blood-isolated bacterial strains and was serotyped only in 4% (3/63) of the fecal-isolated bacterial strains. Overall, the investigated E.coli  K capsular antigens were identified in 47% (18/38, non -typeable n=20) of the blood-isolated cultures compared with 35% ( 22/36, non-typeable=41) in fecal-isolated cultures..

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