Staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs) are exoproteins which, when produced in food that is then ingested by humans, give rise to symptoms of acute gastroenteritis [2]. Several types of staphylococcal enterotoxins have been identified on a serological basis and are named SE A through U (SEA through SEU) with SEA to SEE being the most frequently encountered due to there detection by usual standard ki...

Cold atmospheric pressure plasmas previously have been shown to be effective in vitro in generating active species, radicals, and charges, which may aid in various processes of interest to medicine, including blood coagulation. Floating electrode dielectric barrier discharge microsecond-pulsed, high-voltage plasma was used in an animal model of hairless Sprague-Dawley rats to treat an incision ...

Distinguishing true coagulase-negative staphylococci bacteremia from contamination remains a challenge. We conducted a retrospective analysis of 183 patients with methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci (MR-CoNS)-positive and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-positive cultures obtained from sterile sites such as blood, synovial fluid, ascitic fluid, and cerebrospinal fl...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to evaluate infections related to health care caused by coagulase-negative Staphylococci in a neonatal intensive care unit by assessing antimicrobial susceptibility profiles and potentially effective antibiotic regimens. METHODS This was a retrospective descriptive study performed on a case series of healthcare-associated infections, and the antimicrobial susceptib...

AIMS The epidemiological assessment of cases of coagulase negative staphylococcal catheter related bloodstream infection. METHODS Two hundred and thirty patients with suspected catheter related bloodstream infection were evaluated over a two year period. Central venous catheters were cultured both endoluminally and extraluminally. Peripheral blood, catheter hubs, skin entry, and skin control ...

One hundred catalase-positive, coagulase-negative, Gram-positive cocci isolated in significant numbers from the urine of patients with urinary tract infections, provisionally subdivided by their sensitivity to nonoviocin, were classified according to a slightly model version of Baird-Parker's schemes (1965 and 1972). It appeared that strains of Micrococcus were nearly all of sub-group 3, and th...

Eighty clinical specimens of BACTEC 9240 blood culture vials, culture positive for staphylococci (38 Staphylococcus aureus and 42 coagulase negative staphylococci), were tested directly for the presence of clumping factor/protein A and free coagulase. Seven commercial slide agglutination kits were compared with a direct-tube coagulase (DTC) method. All tests were performed on blood culture pell...

Despite many recent advances in antimicrobial therapy, resistance among Gram-positive pathogens continues to pose a serious and growing clinical problem. Indeed, over the past 15 years, there has been a steady erosion in the activity of many antimicrobials against certain Grampositive pathogens. The clinical impact of this escalating resistance is underscored by the findings that Staphylococcus...

During this research 159 samples of ready-to-eat and precooked food were examined for the detection of Salmonella spp., Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli, coagulase-positive staphylococci and Enterobacteriaceae, bacterial count. All samples were negative for Salmonella spp. and Listeria monocytogenes; although a low count of coagulase-positive staphylococci (no. 5 samples) and E. coli (n...