An 80-year-old diabetic man (type 2) with detrusor underactivity treated by long-term urethral catheterization attended the emergency department with a 4-day history of scrotal swelling and pain and an associated offensive discharge. Physical examination revealed a grossly swollen right hemi-scrotum with gangrene. Crepitus and erythema were noted over the discolored area, extending into the rig...

Escherichia blattae acid phosphatase/phosphotransferase (EB-AP/PTase) exhibits C-5'-position selective pyrophosphate-nucleoside phosphotransferase activity in addition to its intrinsic phosphatase. Improvement of its phosphotransferase activity was investigated by sequential site-directed mutagenesis. By comparing the primary structures of higher 5'-inosinic acid (5'-IMP) productivity and lower...

Sulfhemoglobinemia is a rare condition in which a sulfur atom oxidizes the heme moiety in hemoglobin, making the hemoglobin incapable of carrying oxygen and leading to hypoxia and cyanosis. This condition has been described in patients taking sulfur medications or who have cultured hydrogen sulfide producing intestinal bacteria such as Morganella morganii. This case describes a pediatric patien...

To analyse the occurrence and prevalence of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR) genes in the tribe Proteeae, 81 isolates (65 Proteus spp., 12 Morganella morganii and 4 Providencia stuartii) consecutively collected in 66 hospitals belonging to the WHONET-Argentina Resistance Surveillance Network were studied. Of the 81 isolates, 50 (62%) were susceptible to quinolones [43/65 (66%) Prote...

AIM: The present study investigates the production of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBL) and formation biofilm among different bacterial pathogens. METHODS: conducted prospective analysis on bacteria isolates (Gram-negative) from patients who have diagnosed with infections between October 2020 January 2022. RESULTS: results showed that there were 53 producers in Escherichia coli. In contr...

Gram-negative rods have assumed a major role in infectious disease, particularly among hospitalized patients. Among the Enterobacteriaceae, members of the genus Proteus may cause infections of the urinary' and respiratory2 tracts, as well as meningitis,8 soft tissue infections,' and septicemia.' However, mere isolation of these bacteria did not necessarily indicate the presence of infection. Th...

FRmmwK I. EmEm and Louis R. nkhsosvm Characterization and partial purification of the toxin of Lepiota morganil. Toxicon 12, 557-563, 1974.-The toxin of L . rnorganll is present throughout the mushroom, but most concentrated in the cap tissue . It is heat labile, losing all detectable activity in 30 min at 70°. The toxin is proteinaceous, with an approximate molecular weight in excess of 400,00...

Phosphocholine (PC)-specific antibodies that arise in the mouse in response to Proteus morganii (PM) and use V1-DFL16.1-JH1 are characterized by a number of recurring mutations. Most striking is an invariant A for G substitution in codon 95 of VH which results in an asparagine instead of aspartate at that position. Because of the apparent importance of this substitution in an anti-PC(PM) respon...

A natural hybrid of Vipera ammodytes × Vipera berus was presented having low body weight, seizures and generalized swelling of the cephalic region. Based on the history of the case and clinical examination, hemorrhagic stomatitis of traumatic origin was diagnosed. The snake was kept in a terrarium with wood chips as a substrate, and the material had induced trauma in the oral mucosa which was f...

Multiple myeloma associated with extramedullary plasmacytoma at initial presentation is rare. We describe a 45-year-old female patient with an initial presentation of low back pain and right side L5, S1 radiculopathy. There was no evidence of vertebral involvement but an epidural tumor was found later during neurosurgical intervention. The final diagnosis was immunoglobulin G, kappa multiple my...