Capsular tension ring (CTR) is endocapsular support device important during cataract surgery in eyes with weak zonular apparatus. It was presented our experience, advantages and limitations of CTR in phacoemulsification cataract surgery with damaged zonules. Phacoemulsification surgery was performed by clear corneal technique using topical anesthesia. Capsular ring was implanted to stabilize th...

Capsule is an important virulence factor in bacteria. A total of 78 capsular types have been identified in Klebsiella pneumoniae. However, there are limitations in current typing methods. We report here the development of a new genotyping method based on amplification of the variable regions of the wzc gene. Fragments corresponding to the variable region of wzc were amplified and sequenced from...

Staphylococcus aureus produces an antiphagocytic polysaccharide capsule to evade neutrophil-mediated killing. Many vaccines against encapsulated bacterial pathogens require generation of functional anti-capsular antibodies to mediate protection against infection and disease. Here it is shown that the generation of such antibody responses to S. aureus in vivo and in vitro requires the presence o...

Inorganic phosphate limitation modulates capsular polysaccharide composition in mycobacteria 4. Running title: Pi limitation modulates capsular polysaccharide composition. ABSTRACT Mycobacterium tuberculosis is protected by an unusual and highly impermeable cell-envelope that is critically important for the successful colonisation of the host. The outermost surface of this cell envelope is form...

PURPOSE Capsular contracture is the most frequent long-term complication after implant-based breast reconstruction or augmentation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of implant surface properties on fibrotic capsule formation in an animal model. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-four rats received 1 scaled down silicone implant each; 12 of the rats received implants with textured su...

The capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans can undergo dramatic enlargement, a phenomenon associated with virulence. A prior study that used Ab to the capsule as a marker for older capsular material concluded that capsule growth involved the intermixing of new and old capsular material with displacement of older capsular polysaccharide towards the surface. Here we have revisited that question using...

BACKGROUND Previous clinical studies have identified the cervical facet joint, including the capsular ligaments, as sources of pain in whiplash patients. The goal of this study was to determine whether whiplash caused increased capsular ligament laxity by applying quasi-static loading to whiplash-exposed and control capsular ligaments. METHODS A total of 66 capsular ligament specimens (C2/3 t...

BACKGROUND A quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4) was licensed in the United States in 2005; no serogroup B vaccine is available. Neisseria meningitidis changes its capsular phenotype through capsular switching, which has implications for vaccines that do not protect against all serogroups. METHODS Meningococcal isolates from 10 Active Bacterial Core surveillance sites from 200...

The influence of age on capsular contracture rates remains unclear. Most studies have only investigated early capsule development and not whether a link between age at primary surgery and the later development of capsular fibrosis exists. To clarify whether patient age impacts the development of late capsular fibrosis, the authors conducted a retrospective case study involving 43 patients who p...

in this study, to increase information about the relationship between caprine and ovine isolates of pasteurella multocida, 16s rrna gene sequencing of 9 goats (5) and sheep (4) isolates were investigated. also, capsular type and toxagene presentation was studied in this paper. all isolates, except one, belong to capsular type a, and toxa+ strain distributed among strains were isolated from both...