Results. In order to study the hemolytic activity of Streptococcus, α -, β - and γ -isolated from samples clinical material synanthropic birds rodents, we studied 324 cultures Streptococcus. rats, mice caught in livestock buildings -types hemolysis were mainly manifested, -hemolysis was observed less frequently. To properties 140 Streptococcus isolated air, washings walls floors, as well feeder...

We investigated the hemolytic activity of Escherichia coli strain EC901 carrying plasmid pBJN406 containing genes draA-E involved in expression of the mannose-resistant Dr hemagglutinin, and in its isogenic insertion mutants devised with Tn5, Tn3, and TnphoA. While E. coli BN406 displayed rapid hemolytic activity against equine erythrocytes, insertion mutations in draD and draE, but not in draA...

Hemolytic transfusion reactions represent one of the most common causes of transfusion-related mortality. Although many factors influence hemolytic transfusion reactions, complement activation represents one of the most common features associated with fatality. In this paper we will focus on the role of complement in initiating and regulating hemolytic transfusion reactions and will discuss pot...

Hemolytic anemia is characterized by intravascular and extravascular destruction of erythrocytes. It manifests if the production of the erythrocytes in the bone marrow is slower than their degradation. A first good differentiation of the several forms of hemolytic anemia can be made between ‘hereditary’ and ‘acquired’. In this article, the most important forms of acquired hemolytic anemia are p...

I T HAS BECOME increasingly apparent that many forms of hemolytic disease are due to hereditary enzyme deficiencies affecting the erythrocytes. The drug-induced hemolytic anemias may be due to glucose-fl-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD ) deficiency, glutathione reductase (GSSG-R) deficiency, or to a deficiency in reduced glutathione (GSFI ). Nonspherocytic congenital hemolytic anemia may be due...

The ability of streptolysin S preparations to induce high percentages of transformation in human peripheral blood lymphocytes was confirmed in a series of apparently healthy donors. Transforming activity was not demonstrated in the two media used for streptolysin S production, nor in control preparations in which a strain each of Streptococcus viridans, Staphylococcus aureus (nonhemolytic), and...