Streptococcus pneumoniae is the major bacterial pathogen causing high pneumonia morbidity and mortality in children <5 years of age. This study aimed to determine molecular epidemiology S. detected among hospitalized pediatric ARI cases at Khanh Hoa General Hospital, Nha Trang, Vietnam, from October 2015 September 2016 (pre-PCV). We performed semi-quantitative culture isolate pneumoniae. Ser...

Small island developing states are often characterized as vulnerable owing to their unique geographies of smallness and remoteness, resource insecurity, more recently from the impacts climate change. These vulnerabilities manifested in significant imports, poor waste management, inability develop economies scale. In effect, sustaining small islands an era global environmental change is a task b...

Understanding the dynamics behind forest transitions, i.e., shifts from deforestation to recovery, is crucial for conservation and climate-change mitigation carbon (C) sequestration. We investigated drivers of transition in United States, which was characterized by thickening despite surges industrial wood extraction. employ concepts Human Appropriation Net Primary Productivity (HANPP) Material...

A multicenter susceptibility surveillance (the S.A.U.C.E. project) including 2,721 Streptococcus pneumoniae, 3,174 Streptococcus pyogenes, and 2,645 Haemophilus influenzae consecutive isolates was carried out in 25 hospitals all over Spain from November 2001 to October 2002 to evaluate the current epidemiology of resistance of the main bacteria involved in community-acquired respiratory tract i...

Recent research suggests that prospective and non-prospective forms of mind-wandering possess distinct properties, yet little is known about what exactly differentiates between future-oriented and non-future-oriented mind-wandering episodes. In the present study, we used multilevel exploratory factor analyses (MEFA) to examine the factorial structure of various phenomenological dimensions of mi...

Resistance of streptococci to macrolide antibiotics is caused by target-site modification or drug efflux. The phenotypic expression of target-site modification can be inducible or constitutive. The prevalence of the three phenotypes among Belgian erythromycin-resistant Group A streptococci (GAS) and Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates was surveyed, their MICs for seven antibiotics were determined...

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The aim of the study was to evaluate the species distribution, antimicrobial susceptibility and erythromycin-penicillin resistance mechanisms of viridans streptococci (VGS) isolates from blood cultures of adult patients with underlying diseases. Fifty VGS blood culture isolates were screened for their antibiotic susceptibilities against penicillin G, erythromycin and tetracycline by E-test. Cli...

The macrolides, lincosamides, ketolides, and streptogramin B agents (the MLKS(B) antimicrobial agents) have related chemical structures and share similar molecular targets on the 50S ribosomal subunit of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Mutations in rRNA or ribosomal proteins generate a variety of resistance phenotypes. The M phenotype of S. pneumoniae, which predominates in North America, affords low...