| an investigation of the bacteriological quality of retail vanilla slices. | one hundred and thiry-three vanilla slices, purchased from shops in the west yorkshire metropolitan county, were examined to determine the numbers and types of bacteria present at the time of purchase. the surface colony count at 37 degrees c was greater than 10(3)/g in 67/133 (50%) of the samples examined, bacillus cereus being found at that concentration in 21.8%, coliform bacilli including e. coli in 5.3%, staphylococcus aureus in 3-0% and streptococcus faecalis in 0-8%. thirty-four strains o ... | 1977 | 405420 |
| asymptomatic bacteriuria in schoolchildren in newcastle upon tyne. | a screening survey for asymptomatic bacteriuria (asb) in 13464 schoolgirls aged 4 to 18 years in newcastle upon tyne showed an overall prevalence of 1.9%. in girls 4 to 6 years it was 1.4%, in girls aged 7 to 11 years it was 2.5%, in girls aged 12 to 18 years it was 1.6%, a statistically significant rise and fall. renal scarring was found in 39 (15%) of 254 girls with asb. neither the prevalence nor the severity of renal scarring increased with age. there was no association between asb and socia ... | 1975 | 805569 |
| streptococcal infection in young pigs. iv. an outbreak of streptococcal meningitis in weaned pigs. | twenty-eight pigs died in an outbreak of streptococcal meningitis in an east anglian herd. most were 10-14 weeks old. the outbreak lasted from january to april and was finally controlled by antibiotic therapy. a similar number of losses had occurred in the previous year though no diagnosis had then been made. the causal agent appeared to be a haemolytic streptococcus belonging to group d and provisionally designated streptococcus suis type 2. it is probably identical with de moor's group r strep ... | 1975 | 807620 |
| the effect of selective decontamination of the digestive tract on gastrointestinal enterococcal colonization in itu patients. | the effect of selective decontamination of the digestive tract (sdd) on intensive therapy unit (itu)-acquired enterococcal infection and colonization was studied. changes in the predominant species isolated and resistance patterns to antimicrobial agents were also studied. | 1992 | 1289369 |
| characterization of enterococcal isolates by restriction enzyme analysis of genomic dna. | a restriction enzyme analysis (rea) of chromosomal dna for the intra-species characterization of enterococci is reported. the dna was extracted by a rapid method and digested with the restriction enzyme sal i to provide a characteristic 'fingerprint' consisting of 10-20 bands in the 1.6-5.0 kb range. one hundred and eighty enterococcal isolates were examined; 5 were type strains, 15 from an out-patient clinic and 160 from a geographically isolated british antarctic survey base. the epidemiologic ... | 1992 | 1379935 |
| epidemiology of enterococcus faecalis urinary tract infection in a teaching hospital in london, united kingdom. | enterococcus faecalis is a frequent cause of urinary tract infection in hospitalized patients. recent reports have suggested that the organism may frequently be acquired by cross-infection from other patients. in this study, we used total dna restriction patterns to type 135 urine isolates of e. faecalis from four sets of patients. isolates were placed into types (all bands identical) and into groups (most bands identical). most isolates were discriminated by the typing method, and the results s ... | 1992 | 1500498 |
| antibiotic resistance in enterococci in nottingham. | | 1990 | 2120172 |
| difficult streptococci. | streptococci pose difficulties in laboratory and clinical diagnosis and in therapy. they are important pathogens with both potential for high mortality in acute infections and endocarditis, and recurrence and persistence in foreign-body associated infections. prevention of serious infection and spread of infection pose a number of hospital problems but hospital difficulties may originate in community wide outbreaks which also require investigation and control. our experience with septicaemia cau ... | 1988 | 2896732 |
| bacterial contamination in an eye hospital. | | 1972 | 4113408 |
| degradation of steroids by intestinal bacteria. i. deconjugation of bile salts. | | 1970 | 4315139 |
| streptococcus faecalis: group d or group g? | | 1984 | 6143170 |
| a microbiological study of various food premises with an assessment of cleaning and disinfection practices. | a study of cleaning and disinfection methods in a variety of types of catering premises has been carried out. the level of bacterial contamination of the hands and of equipment was related to cleaning methods and to the type of catering establishment. wiping cloths were frequently contaminated with escherichia coli, and these may be important reservoirs of bacteria for contamination of the hands of catering staff. regular and efficient cleaning of food surfaces and equipment was found to be more ... | 1984 | 6438230 |
| isolation of vancomycin-resistant enterococci from supermarket poultry. | | 1997 | 9331655 |
| bacteraemia and antibiotic resistance of its pathogens reported in england and wales between 1990 and 1998: trend analysis. | determination of causes, trends, and antibiotic resistance in reports of bacterial pathogens isolated from blood in england and wales from 1990 to 1998. | 2000 | 10642227 |
| comparison of enterococcal populations related to urban and hospital wastewater in various climatic and geographic european regions. | scarce knowledge about the distribution of enterococci species in wastewaters limits any statement on their reliability as faecal indicators or the implications of antibiotic resistance transmission by these organisms through the water cycle. enterococci have been involved in nosocomial infections and the spreading of antibiotic resistance through the food chain. the species distribution of enterococci and the presence of resistant strains to vancomycin and erythromycin were analysed in more tha ... | 2003 | 12752807 |
| Bacteriophage lysis of enterococcus host strains: a tool for microbial source tracking? | This paper describes the isolation of Enterococcus host strains, for potential use as simple bacteriophage (phage)-based microbial source tracking (MST) tools. Presumptive Enterococcus host strains were isolated from cattle feces, raw municipal wastewater, agricultural runoff, and waters impacted by farms or wastewater treatment works (WWTW) in southern England, United Kingdom (UK). All enterococcal host strains (n = 390) were first screened for their ability to detect phage in samples of ra ... | 2011 | 22047499 |