BACKGROUND Saline irrigation of the nasal cavity is a classic and effective treatment for acute or chronic rhinosinusitis. Topical antibiotics such as mupirocin have been widely used for recalcitrant chronic rhinosinusitis. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of saline irrigation using mupirocin. METHODS A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of mupirocin...

Use of experimental models of staphylococcal infections clarified several bacterial virulence factors as well as many hematopoetic cell types and their products that are involved in the pathogenesis of infection. For many decades it has been believed that antibody mediated response to staphylococci and their products was the major, if not the only one, hallmark of immune reactivity during infec...

A commercial kit from Diagnostica, Inc., Miami Fla., was studied for its ability to detect antibodies to the teichoic acids of Staphylococcus aureus. A comparative study of the Diagnostica counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE) system and our gel double-diffusion method was undertaken with 156 serum samples from 142 patients. Included were 25 cases of staphylococcal and non-staphylococcal endocardi...

The decreased incidence of potentially autogenous Gramnegative bacillary infections may well be unrelated to the change in ward architecture, but the criteria used to classify cross-infection meant that some of the intestinal type of infections labelled autogenous were in fact cross-infections. As expected, the incidence of definite staphylococcal autogenous infection remained substantially the...

A staphylococcal strain which exhibited weak lytic reaction with group II phages was isolated from a newborn infant with a skin infection. Subsequent investigations established that this weakly reacting strain was responsible for an endemic level of infection and colonization within the hospital nursery. The use of consistently appearing weak lytic reactions in the evaluation of this episode is...

A s ín d r o m e q u e a c o m p a n h a a hiperimunoglobulinemia E (hiper-IgE), como descrita originalmente por Buckley e cols2 em 1972, consistia de susceptibilidade aumentada a infecções, particularmente por estafilococos, e n ív e is s é r ic o s de IgE e x tre m a m e n te elevados (> 2000ng/ml). Demostrou-se a seguir que estes indivíduos também apresentavam deficiência na quimiotaxia neut...

The diabetic foot syndrome is clearly one of the most important complications of diabetes and is the most common cause of hospitalization among diabetic patients. Staphylococcus aureus is found to be the commonest pathogen present in diabetic foot infections. The aim of the present study is to determine activities of three kinds of antibiotics against Staphylococcal biofilm and planktonic cultu...

Molar-incisor malformation (MIM) or molar root-incisor (MRIM) is a dental anomaly that affects teeth and maxillary central incisors. Even though, the etiology not exactly known, it has been reported several factors such as staphylococcal infection in neonatal period, neurological diseases meningitis hydrocephalus, ongoing medications, infectious premature delivery were effective. In this case r...

Bovine mastitis is a common bacterial infection that causes inflammation of the mammary gland in dairy cattle. Staphylococcus one most predominant and significant pathogens known to cause mastitis. Thus, this study was designed isolate assess prevalence strains cattle with clinical Region IV-A, Philippines. Baird Parker agar (BPA) supplemented 5% egg yolk tellurite emulsion used as selective me...