Methanococcus vannielii is a strictly anaerobic motile coccus that possesses a tuft of flagellae. The cells are markedly sensitive to mechanical stress and are readily lysed by detergents, but the organism grows normally in media of low ionic strength. The absence of a typical cell wall, further suggested by resistance of M. vannielii to penicillin, cycloserine, and vancomycin, was confirmed by...

The range of antibiotics available for therapy is extending steadily, and in consequence there is an increasing demand on the services of the laboratory. Chloramphenicol has now been added to the free list, aureomycin is being used for certain prescribed conditions, and terramycin is generally available in the U.S.A. This form of therapy should be subjected to bacteriological control, and it is...

The minimal inhibitory concentrations (MIC) of various antibiotics and fungicides for Erwinia carotovora, Pseudomonas coronafaciens var. atropurpurea, P. lachrymans, Alternaria mali, A. kikuchiana, Pyricularia oryzae, Botrytis sp. and Sclerotinia sp. isolated from diseased plants in various localities of Japan were examined to enable the isolates to be gruoped into sensitive and resistant strai...

Of this series, 878 were domiciled in Copenhagen and 26 in other parts of Denmark, while 49 were foreigners, including thirteen seamen. In all, 115 foreign and Danish seamen were treated. 136 were women referred by the police under the Danish Venereal Diseases Act, and most of these were admitted as in-patients. In a total of 594 cases sensitivity determinations were carried out before the firs...

Three surveys of the sensitivity of pretreatment isolates of gonococci to penicillin, ampicillin, tetracycline, spectinomycin, streptomycin, and co-trimoxazole were carried out during the period 1976-78. Compared with the results of previous surveys in the London area the decline in the proportion of strains of gonococci which are insensitive to penicillin appears to have halted. No changes wer...

Topical antibiotics are frequently introduced in therapy by various specialists, e.g., dermatologists-venereologists, ENT specialists, proctologists, ophthalmologists, and others. In dermatology, topical antibiotics are used in the treatment of superficial inflammatory skin lesions, acne and rosacea. These agents are also used in the prevention of inflammatory lesions after surgical and correct...

conclusions: high percentage of hemolysins, biofilm and beta lactamase production by isolated staphylococci, suggests an important role of these virulence factors in the pathogenesis of isolated staphylococci from dermatitis lesions. the s. aureus isolates from wound infections, show a high sensitivity pattern to all examined antibiotics. only ciprofloxacin was found to be active against all is...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of targeted and serendipitous treatment for, and associated recovery from, urinary tract infection (UTI) in pre-school children is unknown. AIM To determine the frequency and suspicion of UTI in children who are acutely ill, along with details of antibiotic prescribing, its appropriateness, and whether that appropriateness impacted on symptom improvement and recovery...

Methods At the Infectious Disease Hospital in Constanța, between January 2014 and June 2014, urine cultures were performed in patients presenting urinary tract infections. Urine was seeded by loops calibrated technique on Columbia agar with 5% sheep blood and Drigalski agar. To identify the germs we used latex agglutination kits for Gram-positive germs and API galleries (BioMerieux) for Gram-ne...