Staphylococcus pyogenes Septicaemia Treated with Penicillin

Esch. coli septicaemia treated with ampicillin.

Dialysis catheter-related septicaemia--focus on Staphylococcus aureus septicaemia.

BACKGROUND Dialysis catheters are a common cause of nosocomial septicaemia in haemodialysis units usually due to staphylococci, of which Staphylococcus aureus is the most pathogenic. In this study, the epidemiology and pathogenesis of dialysis catheter-related infections were studied, and methods to identify patients with these infections were evaluated. METHODS A one-year prospective study o...

Effect of elevated atmospheric pressure on penicillin binding by Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes.

A gas pressure of 68 atm, elicited by helium-oxygen gas mixtures, reduced the susceptibility to penicillin of Staphylococcus aureus but not of Streptococcus pyogenes. The elevated pressure also caused a reduction in the binding of (14)C-penicillin to S. aureus, but not to S. pyogenes. When these studies were extended to glycine incorporation, it was shown that, even without penicillin, pressuri...

Agranulocytosis in a drug addict with recurrent Staphylococcus aureus septicaemia.

Accepted 1 June 1995 A 37-year-old male drug addict was admitted to hospital because of a swollen right lower limb for two weeks. He had been using his groin for injection of heroin. He had been hospitalised three times six months earlier because of left lower limb deep vein thrombosis with or without Staphylococcus aureus septicaemia. He discharged himselfprematurely during the first admission...

Pneumococcal Meningitis Treated with Penicillin and Aureomycin