Publications by authors named "Ki Sang Kim"
Chronic low back pain that lasts more than 12 weeks causes mental and physical distress. This study investigated the effects of pain neuroscience education combined with lumbar stabilization exercises on strength, pain, flexibility, and activity disorder index in female patients with chronic low back pain. Thirty-five female patients with chronic low back pain were randomly divided into two groups: the pain neuroscience education (PNE) combined with lumbar stabilization exercises (LSEs) group ( = 18, experimental group) and the lumbar stabilization exercises alone group ( = 17, control group).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Echovirus 30 (Echo30) is one of the most frequently identified human enteroviruses (EVs) causing aseptic meningitis and encephalitis. However the mechanism underlying the pathogenesis of Echo30 infection with significant clinical outcomes is not completely understood. The aim of this investigation is to illustrate molecular pathologic alteration in neuronal cells induced by Echo30 infection using clinical isolate from young patient with neurologic involvement.
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- An outbreak of Chlamydia pneumoniae occurred in March 2004 on a Korean island, leading to a mass examination of 137 school students (ages 7-16) to study the infection's impact.
- Results indicated that 58.3% of students exhibited respiratory symptoms, with various testing methods revealing high PCR positivity rates among patients during both the acute and convalescent phases of the infection.
- Despite extensive testing, including serological methods like ELISA and microimmunofluorescence (MIF), the organism was not successfully isolated through cell culture, suggesting challenges in confirming C. pneumoniae presence.
Six hundred fifteen isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes were collected over a 6-year period from patients with pharyngitis in Korea. All isolates were characterized in terms of their antibiotic resistance, the phenotypes of erythromycin resistance, the frequencies of erm(B), erm(A), and mef(A) genes, and the emm genotype. The prevalent emm genotypes were emm12 and emm4.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStreptococcus pneumoniae is an important human pathogen that causes a variety of diseases, such as pneumonia, bacteremia, meningitis, otitis media, and sinusitis, in both adults and children. The global pattern of growth phase-dependent protein expression of S. pneumoniae during in vitro culture was analyzed using 2-DE combined with MALDI-TOF MS and LC/ESI-MS/MS.
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