Staphylococci as urinary pathogens.

Staphylococci as urinary pathogens.

During the course of one year all (382) strains of staphylococci isolated in significant culture from urine specimens were typed by the Baird-Parker method. Staphylococcus aureus accounted for only 63 (16%) of the infections. Novobiocin-resistant micrococcal infection occurred predominantly in young women but also in children of both sexes; it was not restricted to M3. To try to detect possible...

Enteric Pathogens and Staphylococci and Its Use

Coagulase-negative staphylococci-emerging mastitis pathogens.

Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) have become the most common bovine mastitis isolate in many countries and could therefore be described as emerging mastitis pathogens. The prevalence of CNS mastitis is higher in primiparous cows than in older cows. CNS are not as pathogenic as the other principal mastitis pathogens and infection mostly remains subclinical. However, CNS can cause persisten...

Virulence factors of urinary pathogens.

Despite the widespread use of antibiotics urinary tract infections (UTI) remain among the most common bacterial infections in the human population. About 5% of adult females are likely to have a UTI at any moment in time, while more than 50% of all women will experience a UTI at some stage in their lives [l]. Because individual women can alternate between symptomatic and asymptomatic episodes o...

Two coagulase-negative staphylococci emerging as potential zoonotic pathogens: wolves in sheep's clothing?

1 Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA 2 Dermatology and Allergy,University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA 3 Master of Public Health Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA 4 Clinical Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Phil...