Staphylococci and staphylococcal infections

Staphylococci and staphylococcal infections.

The International Symposium of Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections is a biennial conference that brings together clinicians who treat staphylococcal infections in the community and in hospitals, veterinary microbiologists who study staphylococcal infections in animals, and basic scientists who study pathogenesis of infection and the biology of staphylococci. Over 430 delegates from 24 c...

The Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Pathogenesis

Over the past 30 years, the scientific literature has been rife with articles that have chronicled the enduring threat and changing nature of Staphylococcus aureus as a leading cause of infectious morbidity and mortality to humans (Sheagren, 1984; Archer, 1998; Lowy, 1998; Otto, 2010). The most current surveys indicate that S. aureus is responsible for almost 500,000 hospitalizations and 30,000...

Studies of Staphylococcal Infections. I. Virulence of Staphylococci and Characteristics of Infections in Embryonated Eggs.

Staphylococcal infections.

977 T HE STAPHYLOCOCCUS problem has been placed high on the agenda of the Public Health Service for this year. Last year it was Asian flu vaccine. The year before it was poliomyelitis vaccine. This year it is the problem of hospital-acquired staphylococens infection. It is pleasing to me to see the position pediatricians have taken as one of the first national organizations to realize the impor...

[Staphylococcal infections].

All the forms of staphylococcal infections require cooperation among microbiologists, immunologists and clinicians. In case of any acute staphylococcus process, the curative tactics is based on an effective chemotherapy sometimes completed by a radical surgical intervention. In case of chronic forms, however, the antibiotics therapy is considered to be problematic. It is the specific immunother...