OBJECTIVE To determine the antimicrobial susceptibility, phage type and plasmid profile pattern of Salmonella enterica serotype paratyphi A strains isolated in Kuwait. MATERIAL AND METHODS From January 1995 to December 1999, 106 strains of S. enterica serotype paratyphi A isolated from an equal number of cases of enteric fever, attending the Infectious Disease and Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospitals ...

One hundred and twenty-eight shigella strains isolated from newborn and infant human faecal specimens at Kaohsiung Medical College Hospital in Taiwan were serogrouped, serotyped and examined for drug-resistance patterns and for the presence of plasmids. Forty-seven per cent of the isolates were found to belong to the Shigella sonnei serogroup, 41% to the S. flexneri group, 9% to the S. boydii g...

Pyocine production typing and restriction fragment length polymor¬ phism (RFLP) of plasmid DNA with BamHl (BamHl RFLP) were com¬ pared for intraspecies discrimination of 1 00 Pseudomonas aerugi¬ nosa isolâtes. Typeability of pyocine production method was 76% while that of BamHl RFLP was 100%. BamHl RFLP was highly discriminative so as to distinguish unrelated isolâtes of close lineage. However,...

OBJECTIVE To examine the penicillinase producing N. gonorrhoeae (PPNG) collected at St Thomas' Hospital from 1976-1990 and, by determination of antibiotic susceptibility pattern and application of three typing methods, examine the prevalence of different gonococcal types. Also to determine whether there is any relationship between antibiotic sensitivity, plasmid profile, auxotype and serovar. ...