Publications
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| soft salt-mannitol agar-cloxacillin test: a highly specific bedside screening test for detection of colonization with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus. | the early detection of colonization with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) of patients in intensive-care units is an essential step in the strategy for preventing mrsa epidemics. in this study, tubes containing soft salt-mannitol agar with cloxacillin (6 microg/ml) (ssmac) were prepared for inoculation of clinical samples at patients' bedsides by personnel of an intensive-care unit. a total of 1,914 swabs from different sample sites of 81 patients were dipped into ssmac tubes, a ... | 1998 | 9542922 |
| clinical importance of identifying coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from blood cultures: evaluation of microscan rapid and dried overnight gram-positive panels versus a conventional reference method. | we evaluated the clinical usefulness of species identification of blood isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci as a predictor of the clinical significance of the isolates. in addition, we compared results of species identification obtained with microscan rapid gram-positive identification panels and dried overnight (conventional) gram-positive identification panels with those obtained by a tube reference method. two hundred eighty-five blood isolates were tested, including 92 judged to rep ... | 1998 | 9650970 |
| increased oxacillin activity associated with glycopeptides in coagulase-negative staphylococci. | vancomycin resistance in methicillin-resistant staphylococci presents a potential therapeutic problem. in order to understand the impact of low-level vancomycin resistance in coagulase-negative staphylococci, stepwise selection of vancomycin resistance was accomplished by growing staphylococcus haemolyticus in culture media with increasing concentrations of vancomycin. a >40-fold increase in susceptibility to beta-lactam antibiotics was observed. no obvious alterations in the growth curve, the p ... | 1998 | 9665294 |
| molecular cloning of a 32-kilodalton lipoprotein component of a novel iron-regulated staphylococcus epidermidis abc transporter. | our previous studies identified two iron-regulated cytoplasmic membrane proteins of 32 and 36 kda expressed by both staphylococcus epidermidis and staphylococcus aureus. in this study we show by triton x-114 phase partitioning and tritiated palmitic acid labelling that these proteins are lipoproteins which are anchored into the cytoplasmic membrane by their lipid-modified n termini. in common with those of some other gram-positive bacteria, these highly immunogenic lipoproteins were released fro ... | 1998 | 9673260 |
| an inexpensive and reliable method for routine identification of staphylococcal species. | the aim of this study was to develop a simple, reliable, and inexpensive in-house system for routine species identification of staphylococci in clinical practice. the system combines 15 key tests (including carbohydrate fermentation) performed in micro-well strips and antimicrobial disk diffusion susceptibility tests performed on standardised paper disk method antibiotic sensitivity medium agar. twenty-eight staphylococcal reference strains belonging to 18 different species were correctly identi ... | 1998 | 9721961 |
| european glycopeptide susceptibility survey of gram-positive bacteria for 1995. european glycopeptide resistance survey study group. | in the european glycopeptide susceptibility survey 7078 gram-positive isolates collected in 1995 from 70 centers in 9 countries of western europe were examined, using a standardized, quantitative susceptibility testing method. of the 7078 isolates, 6824 (96.4%) were tested by the national coordinating centers. teicoplanin (mode mic 0.5 microgram/ml) was generally twice as active as vancomycin (mode mic 1 microgram/ml) against staphylococcus aureus (n = 2852). all isolates were susceptible to van ... | 1998 | 9764397 |
| [profile of a nurse. ms. junko ra: a midwifery instructor engaged in research and promotion of lamaze method of childbirth]. | 1998 | 105186 | |
| purification and characterization of two lectins from aloe arborescens mill. | two lectins have been isolated from leaves of aloe arborescens mill by salt precipitation, ph-dependent fractionation and gel filtration. one lectin (p-2) has a molecular weight of approximately 18,000, consists of two subunits (alphabeta) and contains more than 18% by weight of neutral carbohydrate. the smaller subunit (alpha) has a molecular weight of approximately 7,500 and the larger subunit (beta) a molecular weight of approximately 10,500. the other lectin (s-1) has a molecular weight of a ... | 1998 | 104986 |
| neurofibromatosis in childhood. | a study of 78 children with neurofibromatosis showed that 40% had an autosomal dominant form of inheritence and a wide variety of manifestations which developed at varying stages during childhood. the pattern of these manifestations differed in many respects from the pattern seen in adults with neurofibromatosis. as a result of our inability to predict the future appearance of these manifestations and the difficulty encountered in treating advanced lesions, it is suggested that a policy of early ... | 1998 | 104700 |
| [application of echocardiography to the diagnosis of tricuspid valve diseases. apropos of 103 cases]. | in a series of 103 consecutive surgical patients, the normal and pathological echocardiographic appearances of the tricuspid valve were analysed and compared with the anatomical findings. it was possible to define the nature of the lesions by echocardiography, which was superior to angiography in this field. the right ventricular index (right ventricular dimension body surface area) correlated well with the mean pulmonary artery pressure (r = 0.75; p less than 0.001). the index may be useful in ... | 1998 | 104681 |
| treatment of premature labor by prostaglandin synthetase inhibitors. | 1998 | 105528 | |
| pin or prosthesis? | 1999 | 85879 | |
| blindness and paraplegia in severe childhood hypertension. | 3 children with severe renal hypertension and bilateral infarction of the optic nerves are described. 1 patient also had a transverse myelopathy. such complications may perhaps be prevented by earlier detection of hypertension and gradual reduction of blood-pressure. | 1999 | 89559 |
| adolescence and social change. | 1999 | 89355 | |
| stool microflora in extremely low birthweight infants. | to serially characterise aerobic and anaerobic stool microflora in extremely low birthweight infants and to correlate colonisation patterns with clinical risk factors. | 1999 | 10212075 |
| mechanisms of action of quinolones against staphylococci and relationship with their in vitro bactericidal activity. | ciprofloxacin and norfloxacin exhibited mechanism a (requires cell division as well as bacterial protein and rna synthesis to kill bacteria) and c (active against nondividing bacteria but requires protein and rna synthesis) against the reference strain staphylococcus aureus atcc 25923, yet only mechanism a was exhibited by these fluoroquinolones when tested against three clinical isolates: s. aureus sa-215, staphylococcus epidermidis se-81 and staphylococcus haemolyticus sx-1. on the contrary, f ... | 1999 | 10224339 |
| the distribution of meca, mecr1 and meci and sequence analysis of meci and the mec promoter region in staphylococci expressing resistance to methicillin. | the presence and sequences of genes that regulate the expression of methicillin resistance was investigated in 42 isolates of staphylococcus aureus and 102 isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci (cns). pcr was used to detect meca and the regulatory genes mecr1 and meci. in a selected group of isolates, the sequences of meci and the mec promoter region were also determined and compared with the sequences obtained from pre-mrsa strain n315. the genetic diversity of the collection was assesse ... | 1999 | 10381096 |
| topoisomerase sequences of coagulase-negative staphylococcal isolates resistant to ciprofloxacin or trovafloxacin. | coagulase-negative staphylococcal isolates (n = 188) were screened for susceptibility to oxacillin, ciprofloxacin, and trovafloxacin, a new fluoroquinolone. at an oxacillin concentration of >/=4 microg/ml, 43% were methicillin resistant; of these, 70% were ciprofloxacin resistant (mic, >/=4 microg/ml). of the methicillin-resistant, ciprofloxacin-resistant isolates, 46% were susceptible to </=2 microg of trovafloxacin per ml and 32% were susceptible to </=1 microg of trovafloxacin per ml. sixteen ... | 1999 | 10390214 |
| combinations of vancomycin and beta-lactams are synergistic against staphylococci with reduced susceptibilities to vancomycin. | evidence of synergism between combinations of vancomycin and beta-lactam antibiotics against 59 isolates of methicillin-resistant staphylococci (staphylococcus aureus, staphylococcus epidermidis, and staphylococcus haemolyticus) for which vancomycin mics ranged from 1 to 16 microg/ml were tested by broth microdilution checkerboard, disk diffusion, agar dilution, and time-kill antimicrobial susceptibility tests. the combination of vancomycin and oxacillin demonstrated synergy by all test methods ... | 1999 | 10390234 |
| inverse paradoxical embolism in a patient on chronic hemodialysis with aortic bacterial endocarditis. | we present a 45-year-old patient on chronic hemodialysis who suffered aortic endocarditis by staphylococcus haemolyticus after bacteremia associated with a venous catheter, which was used temporarily during the maturing phase of a cimino-brescia arteriovenous fistula in the left forearm. three weeks after starting antibiotic therapy, the patient suffered a septic pulmonary embolism. the catheter had been removed 4 weeks before the embolism. thrombophlebitis of lower limbs, infection or thrombosi ... | 1999 | 10430983 |
| molecular characterization and transfer among staphylococcus strains of a plasmid conferring high-level resistance to mupirocin. | in this work, mupirocin resistance was correlated with the presence of plasmids in methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) strains isolated in the rio de janeiro federal university hospital in brazil, where topical mupirocin has been used extensively since 1990. of 19 strains studied, those exhibiting high-level resistance carried a large and relaxable plasmid of about 35 kb. mupirocin-sensitive derivatives, obtained by growth at 42 c of a strain exhibiting high-level resistance, were ... | 1999 | 10442415 |
| staphylococcus haemolyticus lipase: biochemical properties, substrate specificity and gene cloning. | lipase of staphylococcus haemolyticus l62 was purified from culture supernatant and its molecular mass was estimated to be 45 kda by sds-page. its optimum temperature and ph for the hydrolysis of olive oil was 28 degrees c and ph 8.5, respectively. the enzyme was stable up to 50 degrees c in the presence of ca(2+)and over the ph range 5-11. it had high hydrolytic activity against tributyrin, tripropionin, and trimyristin among various triglycerides. the gene encoding the lipase was cloned in esc ... | 1999 | 10518741 |
| distribution of insertion sequence-like element is1272 and its position relative to methicillin resistance genes in clinically important staphylococci. | the distribution of insertion sequence-like element is1272 was analyzed for clinical isolates of staphylococcus aureus, staphylococcus epidermidis, and staphylococcus haemolyticus. in each of the staphylococcal species, is1272 was detected in both methicillin-resistant (mr) and methicillin-susceptible strains of different genetic types. in mr isolates, is1272 was generally located downstream of the truncated mecr1 gene (deltamecr1), with an identical junction sequence occurring between deltamecr ... | 1999 | 10543763 |
| dissemination of two methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus clones exhibiting negative staphylase reactions in intensive care units. | from december 1997 to march 1998, 25 methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) isolates exhibiting negative staphylase (oxoid ltd., basingstoke, england) reactions were identified from various clinical specimens from 13 patients in six intensive care units (icus) or in wards following a stay in an icu at the national taiwan university hospital. the characteristics of these isolates have not been previously noted in other mrsa isolates from this hospital. colonies of all these isolates w ... | 1999 | 9986803 |
| investigation of suspected nosocomial clusters of staphylococcus haemolyticus infections. | to determine whether typing methods can discriminate among staphylococcus haemolyticus isolates. | 1999 | 10064218 |
| new screening test for colorectal cancer developed in canada. | 1999 | 89207 | |
| conception in a phenylketonuric woman. | 1999 | 84971 | |
| [clinical significance and therapy of extrasystole]. | 1999 | 84445 | |
| advanced male non-seminomatous germ-cell tumours. combination chemotherapy with cis-platinum, vinblastine and bleomycin. | nineteen men with advanced germ-cell tumours were treated with a combination of vinblastine, bleomycin and cis-diamminedichloroplatinum ii (cis-platinum). one patient died nine days after starting chemotherapy. seventeen patients responded to therapy (14 completely and three partially). toxicity was very high, and three patients died of septicaemia during therapy. eight patients remain in complete remission 36 to 80 weeks after starting chemotherapy. | 1999 | 94148 |
| [adaptation of pancreatic amylase activity in volunteers on high-saccharide diet (author's transl)]. | 1999 | 93981 | |
| injection sclerotherapy for oesophageal varices. | 1999 | 89430 | |
| fatal aspiration (mendelson's) syndrome despite antacids and cricoid pressure. | two patients died after inhalation of gastric contents during general anaesthesia for caesarean section. both had received antacid therapy before surgery and their stomachs contained large volumes of fluid. failure to empty the stomach preoperatively may have been a major contributory cause of these deaths. | 1999 | 89335 |
| identification of a drw7 variant. | 1999 | 93802 | |
| kawasaki disease: a worldwide survey. | 1999 | 89295 | |
| [blood serum cholesterol fractions in diseases of the liver and biliary tract]. | 1999 | 89227 | |
| epidermal cytoplasmic antigens. | 1999 | 85677 | |
| standards for infection control in recovery room nursing. | 1999 | 88922 | |
| self-treatment of cold sores with ice. | 1999 | 84976 | |
| pattern and flash visual evoked responses in multiple sclerosis. | in multiple sclerosis (ms), increase of delay may be important, but the earlier change is the behavior of the wave shape; amplitude is always lower even in ms patients without visual subjective symptomatology, provided not only flash but also pattern stimulation is performed. normal amplitude with pattern stimulation does not necessarily mean normal with flash. combining both stimulation methods, we obtained lowering of amplitude and change of wave shape in 100% of cases while latency was increa ... | 2000 | 87495 |
| branch vein occlusion study. | 2000 | 90028 | |
| [cesarean section]. | 2000 | 90018 | |
| esophagomyotomy versus forceful dilation for achalasia of the esophagus: results in 899 patients. | between 1949 and 1976, 899 patients underwent treatment for achalasia of the esophagus at the mayo clinic, 431 by forceful hydrostatic or pneumatic dilation and 468 by a standardized transthoracic esophagomyotomy. esophageal leak and mediastinal sepsis was an uncommon but major complication of both types of therapy, occurring four times more often with dilation (4%) than with myotomy (1%), although no deaths resulted from this in either group. the 30-day mortality was 0.2% after myotomy and 0.5% ... | 2000 | 89837 |
| carcinoid syndrome with cardiac involvement: successful palliative cardiac surgery. | 2000 | 86496 | |
| allo-anti-c in a patient who had previously made an autoantibody mimicking anti-c. | a patient, previously studied by us, who had produced a benign autoantibody with a specificity that mimicked anti-c, has now produced allo-anti-c that is not of the mimicking type. she is no longer producing any serologically demonstrable autoantibody. it is highly probable that conversion from auto to alloantibody production in this patient was prompted by the introduction of additional foreign immunogen on fetal red blood cells during her third pregnancy. | 2000 | 86216 |
| cephradine-induced interstitial nephritis. | a patient developed acute interstitial nephritis following cephradine administration. the clinical illness preceding the interstitial nephritis and the eosinophilia in peripheral blood suggested an allergic reaction. immunological studies demonstrated an allergy to cephradine and penicillins which was igg2-mediated. it is probable, therefore, that allergy to cephradine caused the renal lesion from which there was full clinical and biochemical recovery. | 2000 | 89922 |
| [structural and functional reactive changes in the bushy interceptor of the frog urinary bladder upon adequate stimulation]. | morphological and functional changes in the bushy receptors of the frog urinary bladder were studied after a definite cystectasia (bladder wall distention). morphological and electrophysiological parameters were registered synchronously. under the effect of distention the total rate of afferent impulse activity was demonstrated to increase with a simultaneous increase of the average size of the receptor end-plates and with changing (growing round) in their form. increment of the average size of ... | 2000 | 88931 |
| intermittent pelvic infusion with vincristine, bleomycin, and mitomycin c for advanced recurrent carcinoma of the cervix. | 2000 | 89908 | |
| the phencyclidine psychosis: phenomenology and treatment. | 2000 | 101872 | |
| the psychosocial impact of tertiary care: neonatal intensive care and the social worker. | 2000 | 101949 | |
| [quantitative determination of copper in urine by color reaction with lead diethyldithiocarbamate]. | 2000 | 90204 | |
| low-dose heparin in breast-cancer surgery. | 2000 | 87604 | |
| radiation doses after three mile island. | 2000 | 86763 | |
| demonstration of rheumatoid factor idiotypic antigens on peripheral blood b and t lymphocytes from patients with rheumatoid arthritis. | antisera were raised against three polyclonal igm rheumatoid factors (rf). after adequate absorptions, the antisera were rendered idiotype-specific, as assayed by haemagglutination technique. by using the anti-idiotype antisera in indirect immunofluorescence on peripheral blood lymphocytes from the patients used as donors for the immunizing rf, it was demonstrated that 3-14% of the lymphocytes were stained, and thus had membrane-bound structures with idiotypic antigens similar to those of the ci ... | 2000 | 86203 |
| pd-140248 (parke-davis & co). | pd-140248 is an isomerase inhibitor and topoisomerase ii inhibitor under development by parke-davis and co as a potential treatment for bacterial infection. although no details of active development have been published in the scientific literature since 1996, in september 1999, the company confirmed that pd-140248 is still in active development [338530]. the compound is one of two new pyrrolidinyl naphthyridines (the other compound being pd-131628) with a broad spectrum of antibacterial activity ... | 2000 | 16107942 |
| mixed infection in adult bacterial meningitis. | 12 adult patients suffering from bacterial meningitis caused by mixed infection were identified at kaohsiung chang gung memorial hospital over a period of 13 years (1986-1998), and they accounted for 6.5% (12/184) of our culture-proven adult bacterial meningitis. the 12 cases included seven males and five females, aged 17-74 years. six of the 12 cases had community-acquired infections and the other six had nosocomially-acquired infections. ten of the 12 cases had associated underlying diseases, ... | 2000 | 10697784 |
| a comparison of antimicrobial resistance rates in gram-positive pathogens isolated in the uk from october 1996 to january 1997 and october 1997 to january 1998. | rates of resistance for two consecutive years for 28 centres (10 teaching, nine associate teaching and nine district general hospitals) in the uk were compared. combined rates of resistance for each of the hospital types of staphylococcus aureus to methicillin revealed an increase in the rate of resistance in teaching hospitals (12.5% year 1, 23.5% year 2), but, for associate teaching and district general hospitals rates fell (associate teaching 19.1% year 1, 11.9% year 2; district general 16.5% ... | 2000 | 10702546 |
| septicaemias caused by a strain of staphylococcus haemolyticus exhibiting intermediate susceptibility to teicoplanin in multiple intensive care unit patients. | 2000 | 10702572 | |
| rapid identification of staphylococcus epidermidis. | during the collection of airborne bacteria in a museum in england some bacterial strains were isolated which due to their fatty acid profiles were clearly identified as members of the genus staphylococcus. as fatty acid compositions of coagulase-negative staphylococci are very similar, differing only in quantities but not in qualities, further identification at the species level without a fatty acid database was not achieved. investigation of the isolates using the staph id 32 api system resulte ... | 2000 | 10843049 |
| glycopeptide resistance in coagulase-negative staphylococci. | coagulase-negative staphylococci (cns) were the first organisms in which acquired glycopeptide resistance was recognized. ever since the early reports, it has been apparent that resistance to teicoplanin is more common than that to vancomycin and that resistance occurs mostly in species such as staphylococcus haemolyticus and staphylococcus epidermidis. the minimum inhibitory concentrations (mics) of teicoplanin for cns usually fall over a wide range, and, especially in some methicillin-resistan ... | 2000 | 10947214 |
| [infectious endocarditis in intravenous drug abusers]. | clinical course of infectious endocarditis (ie) was analysed for 43 intravenous drug abusers. 42 of them had primary ie, one patient--secondary. acute course and high activity of the disease were registered in 86% of the patients. ie was provoked by staphylococcus aureus (50%), staphylococcus epidermidis 920%), staphylococcus haemolyticus (11%), e. coli (8%), pseudomonas aeruginosa (2%), candida albicans (2%), mixed microflora (7%). vegetations were detected on the tricuspid, mitral and aortic v ... | 2000 | 11019526 |
| acute conjunctivitis associated with biofilm formation on a punctal plug. | punctal plugs are used for the treatment of tear-deficient type dry eye. we recently examined a case of acute conjunctivitis associated with bacterial biofilm formation on a punctal plug. | 2000 | 11033137 |
| glycopeptide susceptibility profiles of staphylococcus haemolyticus bloodstream isolates. | twelve clinical strains of staphylococcus haemolyticus (eight methicillin resistant and three methicillin susceptible), isolated from blood cultures between 1982 and 1997, were investigated for teicoplanin and vancomycin susceptibility profiles. on the basis of conventional mic tests and breakpoints, four isolates were susceptible (mics, 1 to 8 microgram/ml) and eight were resistant (mics, 32 to 64 microgram/ml) to teicoplanin while all were susceptible to vancomycin (mics, 1 to 2 microgram/ml). ... | 2000 | 11036034 |
| emergence of teicoplanin-resistant staphylococcus haemolyticus clinical isolates in greece. | 2000 | 11102431 | |
| patterns of multidrug resistance among methicillin-resistant hospital isolates of coagulase-positive and coagulase-negative staphylococci collected in the international multicenter study resist in 1997 and 1998. | the primary purpose of the multicenter international study "resist" was to obtain an update on the degree of multidrug resistance among methicillin-resistant staphylococci collected from a geographically diverse sample. a total of 3,307 staphylococcal isolates were recovered from single patients and primarily from clinical specimens that were collected at 20 collaborating regional health centers located in several countries in europe, asia, and latin america during a 3- to 4-month period each in ... | 2000 | 11144420 |
| jejunal morphology in multiple sclerosis. | in a prospective survey jejunal biopsy samples from 11 patients with multiple sclerosis on normal diets were compared with those from controls matched for age and sex. quantitative histology, morphometry, and electron microscopy showed no difference between the two groups. since there was no evidence that gluten sensitivity plays a role in the aetiology of multiple sclerosis, the wide adoption of gluten exclusion by patients seems unjustified. | 2000 | 86833 |
| cytological changes due to urinary calculi: a consideration of the relationship between calculi and the development of urothelial carcinoma. | urinary calculi can induce urothelial cellular abnormalities comparable with those of malignancy; this was found in 11 out of 62 lithiasis cases. severe cellular changes, comparable with those of carcinoma in situ, may be seen in the epithelium adjacent to a calculus. squamous metaplasia was frequently observed in cases with staghorn stones in the renal pelvis. the abrasive effect of the calculus may result in many multinucleated cells in the sediment. when the calculi are removed the cytologica ... | 2000 | 89882 |
| effects of gravity and the presence of erythrocytes on platelet and granulocyte adhesion in stagnant blood. | 2000 | 89875 | |
| [theoretical suppositions and clinical use of verapamil in the treatment of ventricular extrasystole in acute myocardial infarct]. | 2000 | 89852 | |
| [therapeutic use of constant and low-frequency magnetic fields (a review of the literature)]. | 2000 | 86232 | |
| a reflex hammer for accurate measurement of reflex latency. | a hammer equipped with a piezo-electric crystal is suitable to measure fast tendon jerk latencies more accurately than a hammer equipped with a mechanical switching device. measurements show that the hammer supplied with a piezo-electric crystal gives a pulse within 50 musec--at least 10 times faster than hammers supplied with a mechanical switch--which is negligible in comparison with the latency of any reflex response. | 2001 | 88351 |
| . . . milk. | 2001 | 87750 | |
| analysis on distribution of insertion sequence is431 in clinical isolates of staphylococci. | distribution of insertion sequence is431 in clinical isolates of staphylococcus aureus, staphylococcus epidermidis, and staphylococcus haemolyticus was investigated. except for methicillin susceptible-s. aureus (mssa), is431 was detected in all isolates of the three staphylococcal species. in mssa, only 20% of isolates with distinct coagulase types and genetic types possessed is431. in a few mssa isolates, an is431 variant with internal deletion was found. | 2001 | 11173193 |
| in vitro activities of rwj-54428 (mc-02,479) against multiresistant gram-positive bacteria. | rwj-54428 (mc-02,479) is a new cephalosporin with a high level of activity against gram-positive bacteria. in a broth microdilution susceptibility test against methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa), rwj-54428 was as active as vancomycin, with an mic at which 90% of isolates are inhibited (mic(90)) of 2 microg/ml. for coagulase-negative staphylococci, rwj-54428 was 32 times more active than imipenem, with an mic(90) of 2 microg/ml. rwj-54428 was active against s. aureus, staphylococc ... | 2001 | 11302805 |
| nonspecific aerobic vaginitis and pregnancy. | during the period 1996-1998, cervical swabs of 50 pregnant women with subacute amniotic infection syndrome (ais) and the semen of their consorts were bacteriologically analyzed. in the control group were 50 healthy pregnant women and their consorts too. pathogenic bacteria (the most common were escherichia coli, staphylococcus haemolyticus, chlamydia trachomatis and ureaplasma urealyticum) were isolated from the cervical swab of 50 pregnant patients with ais in 86.0% of them, while in the contro ... | 2001 | 11316936 |
| genetic organization of the chromosome region surrounding meca in clinical staphylococcal strains: role of is431-mediated meci deletion in expression of resistance in meca-carrying, low-level methicillin-resistant staphylococcus haemolyticus. | we report on the structural diversity of meca gene complexes carried by 38 methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus and 91 methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococcus strains of seven different species with a special reference to its correlation with phenotypic expression of methicillin resistance. the most prevalent and widely disseminated mec complex had the structure meci-mecr1-meca-is431r (or is431mec), designated the class a meca gene complex. in contrast, in s. haemolyticus, ... | 2001 | 11408208 |
| glycopeptide resistance in staphylococcus haemolyticus during treatment with teicoplanin. | 2001 | 11428432 | |
| the in vitro activity of daptomycin against 514 gram-positive aerobic clinical isolates. | the in vitro activity of daptomycin was assessed in comparison with that of vancomycin and penicillin against a wide range of gram-positive aerobic clinical isolates. mics were determined by an agar dilution method on mueller-hinton agar (nccls/eucast) and on isotonic agar adjusted to contain 50 mg/l free calcium (bsac). both media were enriched with 5% horse blood for fastidious organisms. daptomycin mics for all 172 staphylococci, including methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant sta ... | 2001 | 11481291 |
| survey of methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci in the hospitals of central greece. | a sample of 450 consecutive, non-replicated coagulase-negative staphylococci (cons), collected from clinical specimens during the period 2000-2001 from the five major hospitals of thessaly district (central greece) were investigated for resistance to methicillin. most of the isolates had been collected in a sporadic fashion from the intensive care units and the surgical wards of the participating hospitals. the majority of the isolates (76%) were staphylococcus epidermidis (50%), staphylococcus ... | 2001 | 11738345 |
| glycopeptide susceptibility profiles of nosocomial multiresistant staphylococcus haemolyticus isolates. | we investigated 48 staphylococcus haemolyticus isolates from patients and medical staff in terms of susceptibility to and in-vitro selection for vancomycin and teicoplanin in regard to their antibiotypes. on comparison of multiresistant s. haemolyticus isolates with non-multiresistant isolates, the geometric mean minimum inhibitory concentration (mic) of vancomycin for multiresistant s. haemolyticus was 2.9 microg/ml, and that of teicoplanin was 18.0 microg/ml, both of which values were signific ... | 2001 | 11810575 |
| genomic rearrangement of the mec regulator region mediated by insertion of is431 in methicillin-resistant staphylococci. | genomic diversification of the mec regulator region mediated by is431 was investigated for clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant staphylococci. a single rearranged form of the mecr1 gene due to is431 insertion was detected in the three staphylococcal species, while another type of mecr1 truncation with is431 and an is431 located downstream of meci were found only in staphylococcus haemolyticus. genetic differentiation of is431 and staphylococcal isolates suggested transmission of mecdna wit ... | 2001 | 11120992 |
| coagulase negative staphylococci as causative agents of urinary tract infections-prevalence and resistance status in igims, patna. | previously considered solely as the laboratory contaminants and normal flora of skin in man, coagulase negative staphylococci are now a major cause of nosocomial and opportunistic infections. this study was conducted at igims, patna to find out the coagulase negative staphylococcus isolates from urine and their antimicrobial resistance. in a period of ten months, the relative frequency of main coagulase negative staphylococci were as follows--staphylococcus epidermidis-45.90%, staphylococcus sap ... | 2001 | 12035353 |
| adult respiratory-distress syndrome in salicylate intoxication. | 2001 | 87755 | |
| intraoperative mapping studies in the wolff-parkinson-white syndrome. | 2001 | 95325 | |
| [alpha fetoprotein in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities]. | 2001 | 90483 | |
| the effect of gramicidin a on the k+ conductance of the membrane of isolated frog skeletal muscle fibres. | gramicidin a effects a drastic decrease of the membrane resistance of frog skeletal muscle fibres in isotonic k2so4 solution. in detubulated fibres the effect is not so pronounced. the reduction of the membrane resistance is caused by an increase in the k+ conductance of the surface and t-system membranes of the muscle cell. | 2001 | 92868 |
| actual or standard bicarbonate. | 2001 | 90287 | |
| ia-bearing bone marrow-cultured macrophages induce antigen-specific helper t cells for antibody synthesis. | in bone marrow cell (bmc) cultures supplemented with colony-stimulating factor (csf), accessory cells develop that are capable of inducing specific helper t cells. these accessory cells become effective after 4 days in culture and can be found not only in the adherent but also in the nonadherent cell population. on the other hand, very few accessory cells with helper cell-inducing capacity are obtained in bmc cultures without csf. the active bmc-derived cell type has been shown to carry ia surfa ... | 2001 | 88478 |
| the dose-dependent fate of enzymatically active and inactivated tritiated methylated pancreatic elastase administered intratracheally in the hamster. | hamsters were intratracheally instilled with saline solutions containing a high dose (145 to 220 micrograms) or a low dose (1.3 to 1.5 micrograms) of 3h-methylated pancreatic elastase or n-acetyl-(l-alanyl)3-l-alanine chloromethyl ketone-inactivated 3h-methylated pancreatic elastase. only the lysyl residues of the elastase molecule were methylated and radiolabeled in a nonlabile manner. the 3h-methylated elastase preparation exhibited esterolytic and elastolytic activity, spectral properties, an ... | 2001 | 90469 |
| [comparative study of the average longevity of males and females in non-soviet countries]. | 2001 | 90391 | |
| research needs in low vision. | research needs are presented for several areas of low vision: (1) reading and learning, (2) new low-vision aids, (3) modifying the environment, (4) utilization of disciplines, (5) new technologies, and (6) integrating low-vision services. | 2001 | 88182 |
| a method to determine the end point of decalcification of hard tissue and bone. | a method for decalcification end point determination of mineralized tissue is described. the calcium content of the decalcification solution was determined colorimetrically with a "continuous automatic analyzer" with a high degree of accuracy. the end point method used has been tested on two decalcification methods, 5% nitric acid with or without ultrasonic treatment. the results suggest it is possible to quantitate the decalcification process. | 2001 | 2193429 |
| comparison of aerosolized atropine, isoproterenol, atropine plus isoproterenol, disodium cromoglycate and placebo in the prevention of exercise-induced asthma. | 2001 | 98293 | |
| [questions to television from psychopathology]. | progress is expected in psychopathological diagnosis by using audiovisual procedures. nowadays, a valid psychopathology concept should be broadly planned and the important method of description as well as understanding procedures should be considered. for such a model of psychopathology it seems appropriate to investigate the different psychopathological phenomenons as expression of a disturbed communication ability. concerning this outlook, new strategies are to be developed or procedures of ot ... | 2001 | 90381 |
| correlation between computed tomographic values and liver iron content in thalassaemia major with iron overload. | computer tomographic (ct) scans of the liver were obtained in six thalassaemic patients with iron overload confirmed by liver biopsy. mean ct values for the liver in individual patients were linearly related to the iron content estimated by liver biopsy (correlation coefficient = 0.995). | 2001 | 87781 |
| antimicrobial sensitivity and adherence study in strains of coagulase-negative staphylococcus spp. | antimicrobial sensitivity was evaluated from 120 strains of coagulase-negative staphylococcus (cons), isolated from urinary infections. the isolated species were identified by conventional methods and sensitivity to vancomycin, tetracyclin, norfloxacin, cephalothin erythromycin, clindamycin, oxacillin, penicillin, cyprofloxacin, ampicillin and ampicillin/sulbactam was tested by the agar dilution technique and the diffusion in disc technique. the distribution of the species was: staphylococcus ep ... | 2001 | 17061495 |
| [surgery and surgeons of leningrad during the great patriotic war]. | 2002 | 132736 | |
| [touraine's systemic elastorrhexis]. | 2002 | 128782 | |
| influence of the classifications of oral mucosa on the development of mucogingival surgery. | 2002 | 140360 | |
| use of weight-adjusted oxygen uptake scores that avoid spurious correlations. | 2002 | 4531660 | |
| [thrombocytopenias. immunological aspects]. | 2002 | 120272 |