Staphylococcus saprophyticus is a Gram-positive pathogen that most commonly associated with community-acquired urinary tract infections in adolescent and adult women. While antibiotics can be used to treat these infections, they often reoccur there has been increased interest using herbal preparations them. Curcumin promoted as treatment for variety of diseases, but its effectiveness limited by...

This study aimed to identify Staphylococcus sp. and antibiotic resistance in Tutur District, Pasuruan. A total of 273 samples cow's milk were evaluated identified as Furthermore, the test was carried out according CLSI standards. showed 41 isolates 97 positive CMT. The results reported seven resistant antibiotics consisted one multidrug-resistant isolate, i.e. S. saprophyticus which penicillin,...

Rates of resistance for two consecutive years for 28 centres (10 Teaching, nine Associate Teaching and nine District General hospitals) in the UK were compared. Combined rates of resistance for each of the hospital types of Staphylococcus aureus to methicillin revealed an increase in the rate of resistance in Teaching hospitals (12.5% year 1, 23.5% year 2), but, for Associate Teaching and Distr...

BACKGROUND Colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) poses a hygiene risk that does not spare field hospitals or military medical field camps during military deployments. Diagnostic options for unambiguously identifying MRSA isolates are usually scarce in military environments. In this study, we assessed the stepwise application of two different selective agars for th...

BACKGROUND The TRAMIL program aims to understand, validate and expand health practices based on the use of medicinal plants in the Caribbean, which is a "biodiversity hotspot" due to high species endemism, intense development pressure and habitat loss. The antibacterial activity was examined for thirteen plant species from several genera that were identified as a result of TRAMIL ethnopharmacol...

pregnant women are at increased risk for urinary tract infection (uti) but in many cases infection is asymptomatic. this study was performed to determine the incidence of asymptomatic bacteriuria and pyuria in pregnant women. a total of 86 pregnant women during first trimester and 56 nonpregnant women were evaluated. all subjects were clinically identified to have no signs and symptoms of uti. ...