abscess/carbohydrate

Serological tumor markers are useful for detection of malignancies and evaluation of disease progression. However, some markers are rarely elevated in patients with benign diseases and without malignancies. We herein present a case of a liver abscess with a highly elevated carbohydrate antigen (CA

An 81-year-old woman was admitted to our service because of high fever and severe lumbar pain. Neurological examination showed a nuchal stiffness and sensory disturbance of the lower extremities. CSF findings showed significantly elevated neutrophils and decreased glucose. MRI demonstrated

Bacteroides fragilis is the anaerobe most commonly isolated from clinical cases of intra-abdominal sepsis. In a rodent model of this disease process, intraperitoneal injection of the capsular polysaccharide complex (CPC) from B. fragilis provokes abscess formation, while subcutaneous administration

Oral bacteria play an important rôle in the causation of oro-facial abscesses. However, they can also be involved in brain, liver and lung abscesses. To persist, it is essential that these bacteria can grow on those sites. The main source of nutrients for growth in abscesses is likely to be tissue

The capsular polysaccharide complex (CPC) of Bacteroides fragilis exhibits unusual biologic properties. This polysaccharide complex promotes the formation of abscesses and prevents abscess induction in a rat model of intra-abdominal sepsis. Each of these biologic properties is mediated by a T

Altered glucose metabolism and lactic acidemia are features of Gram-negative polymicrobial abscesses, but the relationship between carbohydrate metabolism and the aerobic or anaerobic organisms is unclear. Since reductions in the % active pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHa) limits glucose

Immunity to Entamoeba species intestinal infection is associated with the presence of intestinal IgA antibodies against the parasite's galactose-inhibitable adherence lectin. We determined the epitope specificity of serum and intestinal antilectin IgA antibodies by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

This work describes the development of new 6-[(18) F]fluoro-carbohydrate-based prosthetic groups equipped with an azido arm that are able to participate in copper(I)-catalyzed cycloadditions for (18) F labeling of biomolecules under mild conditions. The radiolabeling in high radiochemical yields (up

Entamoeba histolytica, an intestinal amoeba that causes dysentery and liver abscesses, acquires nutrients by engulfing bacteria in the colonic lumen and phagocytoses apoptotic cells during tissue invasion. In preliminary studies to identify ligands that stimulate amoebic phagocytosis, we used

The antigens of Entamoeba histolytica recognized by antibodies in 11 individual sera from patients treated for amebic liver abscess were determined both by immunoprecipitation of metabolically-radiolabeled whole trophozoite proteins and by immunoblotting.Collectively, twenty-s even antigens ranging

Entamoeba histolytica causes invasive amebiasis, a major parasitic disease of the developing world, whose primary symptoms are liver abscess and colitis. All strains of E. histolytica express a 260-kDa surface Gal/GalNAc lectin that is antigenically conserved and immunogenic. The lectin is required

1. In a patient with typhoid fever, who had taken, during eleven days, 132 grammes of lactate of calcium by the mouth, as well as 5 grammes of chloride of calcium subcutaneously, there developed, eleven days after the subcutaneous infusion, a large abscess of the breast from which Bacillus typhosus

An isolated pyogenic pancreatic abscess (IPPA) without pancreatitis is extremely rare but can occur in patients with uncontrolled diabetes. This pathologic condition poses a clinical challenge in diagnosis and management because it can be confused easily with a malignancy. Endoscopic ultrasound