Avian extraintestinal Escherichia coli exhibits enterotoxigenic-like activity in the in vivo rabbit ligated ileal loop assay.

Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) strains harbor a number of virulence genes and cause extraintestinal diseases, such as septicemia, swollen-head syndrome, salpingitis, and omphalitis in poultry. APEC strains are not known to cause intestinal diseases. Herein, for the first time, it is reported that APEC strains were able to induce an enterotoxigenic-like effect in rabbit ligated ileal loops. Strain SEPT362 caused cell detachment of the intestinal villi, which also showed a flattened and wilted appearance, but the integrity of the tight junctions was maintained. Additionally, this strain did not adhere to enterocytes in vivo, although adhesin encoding genes ( fimH, csgA, lpfA2-3, and ECP) were present while other lpfA types, sfa, afa, papC, and ral genes were not. This enterotoxigenic-like activity was conserved after thermal treatment of the supernatant at 65°C but not at 100°C. Moreover, experiments based on filtering with different molecular weight cut-off (MWCO) pore sizes demonstrated that the component associated with the observed biological effect has a molecular weight >100 kDa. Blast search and polymerase chain reaction assays for known E. coli virulence factors showed that strain SEPT362 harbors the gene encoding for the toxin EAST-1 and the serine protease autotransporter (SPATE) Tsh, but is negative for genes encoding for the toxins LT-I, STh, STp, Stx1, Stx2, CNF-1, CNF-2, CDT and the SPATEs Sat, Pic, Vat, SigA, SepA, EatA, EspP, or EspC. A cloned copy of the tsh gene in E. coli K-12 was also tested and was shown to have an enterotoxic effect. These results suggest that APEC might induce fluid accumulation in the rabbit gut. The Tsh autotransporter seems to be one of the factors associated with this phenotype.

Heat stress impairs performance and induces intestinal inflammation in broiler chickens infected with Salmonella Enteritidis.

Stressful situations reduce the welfare, production indices and immune status of chickens. Salmonella spp. are a major zoonotic pathogens that annually cause over 1 billion infections worldwide. We therefore designed the current experiment to analyse the effects of 31±1°C heat stress (HS) (from 35 to 41 days) on performance parameters, Salmonella invasion and small intestine integrity in broiler chickens infected with Salmonella Enteritidis. We observed that HS decreased body weight gain and feed intake. However, feed conversion was only increased when HS was combined with Salmonella Enteritidis infection. In addition, we observed an increase in serum corticosterone levels in all of the birds that were subjected to HS, showing a hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis activation. Furthermore, mild acute multifocal lymphoplasmacytic enteritis, characterized by foci of heterophil infiltration in the duodenum, jejunum and ileum, was observed in the HS group. In contrast, similar but more evident enteritis was noted in the heat-stressed and Salmonella-infected group. In this group, moderate enteritis was observed in all parts of the small intestine. Lastly, we observed an increase in Salmonella counts in the spleens of the stressed and Salmonella-infected chickens. The combination of HS and Salmonella Enteritidis infection may therefore disrupt the intestinal barrier, which would allow pathogenic bacteria to migrate through the intestinal mucosa to the spleen and generate an inflammatory infiltrate in the gut, decreasing performance parameters.

Dos casos de enteritis con bacteriemia por Campylobacter jejuni / Two cases of enteritis with bacteremia due to Campylobacter jejuni

Campylobacter es un importante agente causante de enfermedad en el ser humano en nuestro medio. Los casos de bacteriemia ocurren principalmente en pacientes inmunosuprimidos y sondebidos frecuentemente a C. fetus. Sin embargo la bacteriemia es un episodio que también se ha observado enpacientes con enteritis por C. jejuni. Referimos dos pacientes con enteritis grave y bacteriemia, ambos con enfermedades concomitantes compatibles con inmunodepresión: uno con síndrome nefrótico de larga data y otro con hepatopatía crónica con cirrosis. Destacamos que los dos casos presentaron hematemesis y uno de ellos,enterorragia. Sugerimos prestar atención a la coloración de Gram durante el subcultivo de los caldos conhemocultivos, en busca de formas características de esta especie, y en ese caso emplear medios de cultivo enmicroaerofilia a 37 y 42 °C

Campylobacter is an importantagent of illness in human beings. Bacteremia occurs principally in the immunocompromissed host and is frequently due to C. fetus. Nevertheless bacteremia also has been observed in patients with enteritis due to C. jejuni. We refer two cases of patients with severe enteritis and bacteremia, both of them with immunosupressive concomitant diseases such as nephrotic syndrome and chronic cirrotic hepatopathy. Both patients presented hemathemesis

Dos casos de enteritis con bacteriemia por Campylobacter jejuni / Two cases of enteritis with bacteremia due to Campylobacter jejuni

Campylobacter es un importante agente causante de enfermedad en el ser humano en nuestro medio. Los casos de bacteriemia ocurren principalmente en pacientes inmunosuprimidos y sondebidos frecuentemente a C. fetus. Sin embargo la bacteriemia es un episodio que también se ha observado enpacientes con enteritis por C. jejuni. Referimos dos pacientes con enteritis grave y bacteriemia, ambos con enfermedades concomitantes compatibles con inmunodepresión: uno con síndrome nefrótico de larga data y otro con hepatopatía crónica con cirrosis. Destacamos que los dos casos presentaron hematemesis y uno de ellos,enterorragia. Sugerimos prestar atención a la coloración de Gram durante el subcultivo de los caldos conhemocultivos, en busca de formas características de esta especie, y en ese caso emplear medios de cultivo enmicroaerofilia a 37 y 42 ºC (AU)

Campylobacter is an importantagent of illness in human beings. Bacteremia occurs principally in the immunocompromissed host and is frequently due to C. fetus. Nevertheless bacteremia also has been observed in patients with enteritis due to C. jejuni. We refer two cases of patients with severe enteritis and bacteremia, both of them with immunosupressive concomitant diseases such as nephrotic syndrome and chronic cirrotic hepatopathy. Both patients presented hemathemesis (AU)

Dos casos de enteritis con bacteriemia por Campylobacter jejuni / Two cases of enteritis with bacteremia due to Campylobacter jejuni

Campylobacter es un importante agente causante de enfermedad en el ser humano en nuestro medio. Los casos de bacteriemia ocurren principalmente en pacientes inmunosuprimidos y sondebidos frecuentemente a C. fetus. Sin embargo la bacteriemia es un episodio que también se ha observado enpacientes con enteritis por C. jejuni. Referimos dos pacientes con enteritis grave y bacteriemia, ambos con enfermedades concomitantes compatibles con inmunodepresión: uno con síndrome nefrótico de larga data y otro con hepatopatía crónica con cirrosis. Destacamos que los dos casos presentaron hematemesis y uno de ellos,enterorragia. Sugerimos prestar atención a la coloración de Gram durante el subcultivo de los caldos conhemocultivos, en busca de formas características de esta especie, y en ese caso emplear medios de cultivo enmicroaerofilia a 37 y 42 ºC (AU)

Campylobacter is an importantagent of illness in human beings. Bacteremia occurs principally in the immunocompromissed host and is frequently due to C. fetus. Nevertheless bacteremia also has been observed in patients with enteritis due to C. jejuni. We refer two cases of patients with severe enteritis and bacteremia, both of them with immunosupressive concomitant diseases such as nephrotic syndrome and chronic cirrotic hepatopathy. Both patients presented hemathemesis (AU)

[Molecular mechanism for pathogenicity of Salmonella sp]. / Mecanismos moleculares de patogenicidad de Salmonella sp.

Salmonella is a Gram negative bacillus that behaves like a facultative intracellular pathogen. Its environment is the human and animal gastrointestinal tracts, it is never found like a normal microbiota. It is associated with gastrointestinal problems, septicaemic disease and abortion, due to its cellular invasion capacity and its intraphagocytic survival. Nowadays, it is known that Salmonella contains five pathogenicity islands. Several genes involved in the cellular invasion of nonphagocytic cells such as epithelial cells, apoptosis of macrophages, activation of routes of MAP kinases and transcription factors are located in centisome 63, constituting the pathogenicity island 1 (SPI-1). The SPI-2 and SPI-3 islands control the intracellular survival and replication. The SPI-4 island encodes a putative type I secretion system and its believed that it participates in the intracellular survival. Finally, the SPI-5 island encodes for factors involved in the fluid secretion and inflammatory reaction in the intestinal mucosa. Due to a coordinated and precise regulation of the Salmonella genes, it allows for adaptation to environmental changes that occur during an inflammatory process.

Enfoque diagnóstico y terapéutico de la diarrea crónica en pacientes con SIDA / Diagnosis and therapeutics approach to the chronic diarrhea in AIDSns patients

Estudia las infecciones intestinales en pacientes con SIDA, las que les provocan diarrea con compromiso del intestino delgado y/o del colon. Se identifican los principales agentes patógenos y las manifestaciones clínicas de las infecciones que producen enfermedad primaria intestinal (Cryptosporidium, Enterocytozoon bieneusi, Isospora belli, Giardia lamblia, Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacer, Clostridium difficile, Virus Herpes Simplex) y que producen compromiso intestinal secundario a infecciones sistémicas (Cytomegalovirus, Mycobacterium avium intracelular, Histoplasma capsulatum) y otros patógenos (Blastocystis hominis, Entamoeba hystolitica y otras). Se discuten las hallazgos relacionados con la enteropatía idiopática asociada al SIDA y a los neoplasmas intestinales (Sarcoma de Kaposi y linfomas). Se exponen algunos estudios realizados sobre tratamiento de estas infecciones (drogas empleadas, respuesta a las mismas y efectos adversos observados)

Enfoque diagnóstico y terapéutico de la diarrea crónica en pacientes con SIDA / Diagnosis and therapeutics approach to the chronic diarrhea in AIDSns patients

Estudia las infecciones intestinales en pacientes con SIDA, las que les provocan diarrea con compromiso del intestino delgado y/o del colon. Se identifican los principales agentes patógenos y las manifestaciones clínicas de las infecciones que producen enfermedad primaria intestinal (Cryptosporidium, Enterocytozoon bieneusi, Isospora belli, Giardia lamblia, Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacer, Clostridium difficile, Virus Herpes Simplex) y que producen compromiso intestinal secundario a infecciones sistémicas (Cytomegalovirus, Mycobacterium avium intracelular, Histoplasma capsulatum) y otros patógenos (Blastocystis hominis, Entamoeba hystolitica y otras). Se discuten las hallazgos relacionados con la enteropatía idiopática asociada al SIDA y a los neoplasmas intestinales (Sarcoma de Kaposi y linfomas). Se exponen algunos estudios realizados sobre tratamiento de estas infecciones (drogas empleadas, respuesta a las mismas y efectos adversos observados)

Malabsorcion de carbohidratos en el sindrome diarreico del nino / Carbohydrate malabsortion in diarrheal syndrome of dhildren

Entre marzo y agosto de 1987 se estudiaron 86 ninos con edades comprendidas entre 1 y 24 meses, quienes habian ingresado al Servicio de Lactantes del Hospital Infantil de Medellin, con deshidratacion secundaria a enfermedad diarreica aguda, prolongada o cronica. Una vez hidratados se inicio la alimentacion con dieta que contenia lactosa. Mediante la prueba de Clinitest se hizo el diagnostico de intolerancia a la lactosa y a las maltodextrinas; la primera estaba presente en el 78% de los pacientes y la segunda en el 10%. No hubo diferencias significativas en la frecuencia de malabsorcion en cuanto al tiempo de evolucion de la riarres ni al estado nutricional de los pacientes. La intolerancia a las maltodextrinas fue significativamente mayor en los menores de seis meses. Los resultado con la prueba de Benedict fueron similares a los encontrado con el Clinitest. Aun cuando en general el ph fecal es mas bajo en los casos de intolerancia, se concluye que su sola medcicion no confirma tal entidad.

Between March and August 1987 we studied 86 children aged 1 to 24 months, who had been admitted to the Lactant Service at Hospital lnfantil, Medellín, Colombia. They were dehydratedas a result of acute, chronic or prolonged diarrhea. Once rehydration was obtained they were put on a lactose-containing diet. Lactose and maltodextrine intolerance were diagnosed employing Clinitest and were found to be present in 78 and 10% respectively. The frequency of malabsortion was not significantly different in regards to duration of diarrhea or nutritional status of patients. Maltodextrine intolerance was significantly more common in those under six months of age. Benedict test and Clinitest ylelded similar results. Fecal pH was generally lower in children with intolerance but this finding was not confirmatory of the presence of this entity