Prevalence and microbial resistance to Mycoplasmas

Microbial resistance to disinfectants: mechanisms and significance.

Drinking water disinfection provides the final barrier to transmission of a wide variety of potentially waterborne infectious agents including pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and protozoa. These agents differ greatly in their innate resistance to inactivation by disinfectants, ranging from extremely sensitive bacteria to highly resistant protozoan cysts. The close similarity between microorganism...

Microbial Resistance and Biocides

Microbial resistance or team resistance?

Results Studies show that bacterial resistance is increasing in parallel with antibiotic use, it is estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO) that 25 to 33% of patients use antimicrobial drugs during their hospitalization. Although the choice of antibiotic is a doctor’s concern , the administration of drugs is carried out by nursing staff who are nursing assistants and technicians being ...

Adherence of mycoplasmas to glass and plastic.

It has been shown that confluent sheets of Mycoplasma pneumoniae organisms become attached to the surface of glass or plastic containers in which this mycoplasma is growing in liquid medium (N. L. Somerson et al., Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., in press). In addition, erythrocytes adhere to colonies of M. pneumoniae on agar medium (R. A. Del Guidice and R. Pavia, Bacteriol. Proc., p. 71, 1964) and to gr...

Resistance to clopidogrel: prevalence and associate variables.

BACKGROUND The dual antiplatelet therapy with acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) and clopidogrel is the cornerstone of treatment for patients undergoing angioplasty with coronary stent implantation. However, some of these patients, despite the use of aspirin and clopidogrel, are not effectively anti-aggregated, a phenomenon known as resistance to antiplatelet agents. Its prevalence, as well as the cond...