The reproducibility of vancomycin and daptomycin MICs, measured by broth microdilution (BMD) and Etest, was prospectively assessed for 10 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates from the blood samples from patients on vancomycin therapy. The isolates were tested at the time of isolation from blood and following 5, 10, and 20 subcultures and at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months of stora...

Paper describes the challenges and forward developments to face up on Operation Maintenance (O&M) issues at Johan Sverdrup field (Blocks: PL 501, 265 502), phases (Concept Design, Construction Hook-up, Commissioning, Operations Maintenance, Recycling), a research study of Oil&Gas profitability. Estimated reserves are between 1.8 billion 2.8 bbl, so assessing total risk development is crucial. A...

‘This research was supported by the following grants: NIH Grant RR-00785; NIH Grant RR-00711; Boeing Grant W266875; NASA/Ames Grant NCC 2-274; DARPA Contract N00039-83-C0136; ONR Contract N00014-86-K-0652. We thank Micheal Hewett, M. Vaughan Johnson Jr., Robert Schulman and Jeff Harvey for their work on BBl. We thank Russ Altman, Jim Brinkley, Bruce Duncan, Olivier Lichtarge, John Brugge, and O...

Hampp (J. Am. Dental Assoc. 34:317, 1947) reported the successful recovery of six of seven spiral organisms from lyophilized material with the use of a complex medium unavailable through commercial sources. Annear (J. Bacteriol. 83:932, 1962; J. Gen. Microbiol. 27:341, 1962) recovered Reiter Treponeme and four strains of Leptospira from dried material by use of a prolonged and complex method. E...

American U.S. crude oil prices have dropped significantly of late down to a low of less than $30 a barrel in early 2016. At the same time price volatility has increased and crude in storage has reached record amounts in the U.S. America. Low oil prices in particular pose quite a challenge for the survival of U.S. America’s tight-oil industry. In this paper we assess the current profitability an...

PROTEAN is an evolving knowledge-based system that is intended to identify the three-dimensional conformations of proteins in solution. Using a variety of empirically derived constraints, PROTEAN must identify legal positions for each of a protein’s constituent structures (e.g., atoms, amino acids, helices) in threedimensional space. In fact, because protein-structure analysis is an underconstr...

We evaluated three rapid methods to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and compared them with PCR amplification of mecA. A total of 103 S. aureus strains were studied by MRSA-Screen, BBL Crystal, Velogene Genomic and mecA PCR. All the methods detected the 61 MRSA strains having the mecA gene, showing 100% sensitivity and specificity. Despite the correlation between all th...

Between April and December 1994, 23 blood cultures from human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients grew rapidly growing mycobacteria suspected to be Mycobacterium chelonae at a hospital in New Jersey. The isolates were later identified as M. abscessus. Several bacterial species, including M. abscessus, were cultured from an opened multidose supplement vial (BBL Septi-Chek AFB Supplement) th...