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the nosocomial colonization of t. bear.a national effort to reduce nosocomial infections includes a program developed at the national institutes of health to encourage handwashing in hospitals and day care centers. the program promotes a symbolic teddy bear (t. bear) with slogans to remind hospital personnel and patients to practice handwashing. one of the items used is a stuffed toy t. bear to be dispensed to the hospitalized child. considering the manner in which children handle stuffed toys, we suspected the t. bear might serve as ...19863640737
diversity of culturable heterotrophic aerobic bacteria in pristine stream bed sediments.more than 900 culturable, heterotrophic aerobic isolates were obtained from the sediments of a forested, pristine stream and analyzed using three classical microbiological tests: api 20e, amplified ribosomal dna restriction analysis (ardra), and fatty acid analysis. gram-negative bacteria comprised most of the heterotrophic aerobic isolates (66.7%), similar to other oligotrophic environments. the isolates were assigned to the genus level as pseudomonas, flavobacterium, micrococcus, bacillus, chr ...199910907425
investigations of 2 cases of diphtheria-like illness due to toxigenic corynebacterium ulcerans.we present 2 case reports in the united states and investigations of diphtheria-like illness caused by toxigenic corynebacterium ulcerans. a fatal case occurred in a 75-year-old male washington resident who was treated with clindamycin but did not receive equine diphtheria antitoxin. a second, nonfatal case occurred in a 66-year-old female tennessee resident who received erythromycin and diphtheria antitoxin.200818181738
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