Staphylococci and staphylococcal infections.

Lysostaphin: an enzymatic approach to staphylococcal disease. II. In vivo studies.

Lysostaphin is a potent enzymatic anti-staphylococcal agent that lyses the cell walls of staphylococci in vitro. Studies described in the preceding paper demonstrated that lysostaphin rapidly killed staphylococci, was unaffected by human serum, and maintained its activity after prolonged incubation at body temperature.' Unlike the penicillins, lysostaphin was active in vitro against very large ...

مقایسه روش تعیین حساسیت دیسک دیفیوژن و واکنش زنجیره ای پلیمراز برای شناسایی استافیلوکوکوس مقاوم به متی سیلین

Background: Staphylococci as a micro-organism, has the most importance to cause nosocomial infections, particularly in patients with indwelling catheters or other medical devices. Unfortunately 90% of Staphylococci isolated from the nosocomial infections are resistant to methicillin, and methicillin resistance strains are also resistant to a wide range of antimicrobial drugs, therefore detectin...

Suppression of nasal, skin, and aerial staphylococci by nasal application of methicillin.

Untreated heavy nasal carriers of staphylococci have been reported to have staphylococci on their skin more frequently and to disseminate staphylococci in the air in larger numbers than either noncarriers or carriers of smaller numbers of these bacteria (1). If the nose is the main source of skin and aerial staphylococci, suppression of nasal staphylococci should be followed by a reduction in b...

Antimicrobial resistance in staphylococci from animals with particular reference to bovine Staphylococcus aureus, porcine Staphylococcus hyicus, and canine Staphylococcus intermedius.

Besides their role as commensals on the skin and mucosal surfaces, staphylococci may be involved in a wide variety of diseases in animals. Staphylococcal infections in animals are mainly treated with antimicrobial agents and as a consequence, staphylococci from animal sources have developed and/or acquired resistance to the respective antimicrobial agents. Resistance statistics obtained from na...

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