This study investigated the bacteriological and physicochemical quality of seawater sediment samples collected from four sampling sites in Gulf Annaba (Northeastern Algeria) over a one-year period. Culture-based techniques were used to quantify assess Fecal Indicator Bacteria (FIB) potentially pathogenic bacteria. Additionally, various parameters including temperature, pH, salinity, dissolved o...

Science, a purely European enterprise, began to be exported to peripheral countries in the nineteenth century. The rapid expansion of bacteriology is a striking example of this. But at the same time, the transformation of bacteriology into a well-established and codified scientific discipline hampered the diffusion of bacteriological knowledge, because the laboratory practice that developed in ...

Methods Retrospective analysis on hospital stays’ database in the pediatric unit at Hopital Principal de Dakar between September and November 2010. Patients with a positive bacteriological test were selected. Probable cases of HCAI were included on clinical and bacteriological data (presence of multiresistant bacteria). Cases were matched to control patients (with no infection) by sex, age and ...

Methods: This is prospective study conducted during four years period, in a group of 60 children aged from 6 months to 18 years. All patients included in this study underwent bronchoscopy when they fulfilled criteria of routine clinical protocol, in order to set correct diagnosis of lower respiratory tract disease. Results of bacteriological analysis of PLA samples were compared against the res...

Classification, nomenclature and identification of the Streptococcus anginosus group (SAG) have been historically problematic and unreliable, mainly due to variability in bacteriological characteristics and clinical presentations. This group was first discovered in 1956 by Guthof, in reference to non-hemolytic streptococcal lassification, nomenclature and identification of the Streptococcus ang...

Rapid and accurate diagnosis is crucial for effective treatment of bacterial meningitis. Bacteriological culture of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood is still the single most important laboratory investigation which is carried out. However, in some cases, bacteriological culture is unable to detect any causative organisms. This may be due to a number of reasons such as prior antibiotic therap...

Immunotherapy with Mycobacterium w was given, in addition to standard multidrug therapy (MDT) to a lepromatous leprosy (LL) patient with a bacteriological index (BI) of 6. After 15 months of treatment this patient attained bacteriological negativity and clinical inactivity. Histopathologically the patient upgraded to borderline-tuberculoid at 12 months, and at 15 months showed features of nonsp...

A cluster of 4 cases of meningitis due to Acinetobacter calcoaceticus var anitratus occurred during a 5-day period in a neonatal intensive care unit. Three of the infants were preterm and all had a history of other medical problems. Initiation of intravenous therapy with carbenicillin was accompanied by clinical recovery and a bacteriological cure. Intensive bacteriological investigation failed...