| gram-negative enteric bacillary meningitis: a twenty-one-year experience. | we reviewed our experience with gram-negative enteric bacillary meningitis in neonates and infants from 1969 through 1989. ninety-eight patients were identified. their ages were from 1 day to 2 years with a median of 10 days. in 25 patients (26%), predisposing factors were identified, the most common of which were neural tube defects and urinary tract anomalies. the causative agents were escherichia coli (53%), klebsiella-enterobacter species (16%), citrobacter diversus (9%), salmonella species ... | 1993 | 8419603 |
| some like it hot: the effects of climate change on reproduction, immune function and disease resistance in the cricket gryllus texensis. | in many parts of the world, climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of heat waves. how do heat waves impact short-lived poikilotherms such as insects? in the cricket, gryllus texensis, 6 days of elevated temperatures (i.e. 7°c above the average field temperature and 5°c above their preferred temperature) resulted in increased egg laying, faster egg development and greater mass gain. the increased temperature also increased activity of phenoloxidase and lysozyme-like enzymes, two ... | 2011 | 21613515 |
| a tertiary care cancer center experience of the 2007 outbreak of serratia marcescens bloodstream infection due to prefilled syringes. | | 2009 | 19888846 |
| detection of serratia outbreaks in hospital. | infections due to serratia marcescens were studied in 23 different hospitals. a retrospective study was done in 4 hospitals; all isolates were compared by serological typing, antibiograms, bacteriocin production, and bacteriocin sensitivity. 2 of the hospitals were having cross-infection problems due to antibiotic-resistant strains, but the other 2 had little or no cross-infection. outbreaks were studied in 19 other hospitals. 9 of these outbreaks were classified as "common source" since contam ... | 1976 | 73753 |
| containment of a multiresistant serratia marcescens outbreak. | a 3-year-old male from bolivia who sustained a full-thickness 80 per cent tbsa burn complicated by smoke inhalation on the 28 march 1995 was admitted to our burn centre on 6 april 1995. on 11 april the patient's wounds were colonized with a serratia marcescens sensitive only to ciprofloxacin and imipenem. sputum cultures revealed the same phenotypic s. marcescens. two patients who were admitted days later had the same phenotypic s. marcescens. their tbsa burns ranged from 54 to 80 per cent. both ... | 1997 | 9115604 |
| epidemiological analysis defining concurrent outbreaks of serratia marcescens and methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in a neonatal intensive-care unit. | to describe the epidemiology, interventions, and molecular typing methods used during the investigation and control of concurrent outbreaks of serratia marcescens and methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) infections in a neonatal intensive-care unit (nicu). | 1998 | 9872530 |
| bacterial diversity in surgical site infections: not just aerobic cocci any more. | to evaluate the microbial diversity in chronic surgical site infections (ssis). | 2009 | 19862869 |
| epidemiologic investigation of a 2007 outbreak of serratia marcescens bloodstream infection in texas caused by contamination of syringes prefilled with heparin and saline. | this retrospective cohort study found that syringes prefilled with heparin flush solution caused an outbreak of serratia marcescens bloodstream infection at an outpatient treatment center in texas in 2007. the epidemiologic study supported this conclusion, despite the lack of microbiologic evidence of contamination from environmental and product testing. this report underscores the crucial contributions that epidemiologic studies can make to investigations of outbreaks that are possibly product ... | 2009 | 19415967 |