The purpose of this study was to evaluate the routine need for bacteriological studies as a guide to therapy and prognosis of patients with pneumonia in a selected age group. Bacteriological studies in pneumonia may be of value for diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and epidemiology. The clinician is interested in bacteriological studies primarily because they may serve as a guide to treatment. A...

Recently, different bacteriological laboratory interventions that decrease reporting time have been developed. These promising new broad-based techniques have merit, based on their ability to identify rapidly many bacteria, organisms difficult to grow or newly emerging strains, as well as their capacity to track disease transmission. The benefit of rapid reporting of identification and/or resis...

In order to investigate the prevalence of Mannheimia haemolytica infection in cattle, nasal andnasopharyngeal swabs and blood samples were obtained from 250 cattle after slaughter at Ahvaz(southwestern Iran) abattoir. Nasal and nasopharyngeal swabs were cultured on blood agar and incubated at37°C for 24-48 h. The suspected bacterial cultures were processed for isolation of M. haemolytica follow...

Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 grown on acidic medium containing glucose and solidified with bacteriological agar expressed a virB::lacZ fusion. No expression of this fusion was observed on a similar medium which was solidified with purified agarose. The fraction from bacteriological agar which was responsible for vir gene induction was extracted with methanol and partially purified by preparati...

A case of vertebral osteomyelitis due to Haemophilus aphrophilus is presented. We review the clinical and bacteriological findings and emphasise the need for careful bacteriological investigation. To the best of our knowledge this is the second reported case of vertebral osteomyelitis caused by this rarely recognised pathogen.

From the "Department of Pathology, University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Austria; the ~lmmunopathology Laboratory, Karolinska Institute, S-I0401 Stockholm, Sweden; the SDepartment of Immunology, National Bacteriological Laboratory, S-10521 Stockholm, Sweden; the IIDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Austria; the 82 of Virology, National Bacteriological Laboratory, S-10521...

We made a bacteriological diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis in 107 of 132 (81%) adults with clinical tuberculous meningitis: acid-fast bacilli were seen in 77 of 132 (58%) and cultured from 94 of 132 (71%). Volume of cerebrospinal fluid, duration of symptoms, cerebrospinal fluid neutrophils, lactate, and glucose were all independently associated with bacteriological confirmation.

James Homer Wright, M.D. Pp. 397. LoncionThe Rebman Publishing Co. (Ltd.). Philadelphia: W. Saunders. 1898. We have here an excellent guide to the best methods performing post-mortem examinations, inspecting gross lesions> and conducting bacteriological, histological, and chemical exam1 nations. The growing attention which is now being paid t0 bacteriological methods of diagnosis is evidenced b...