Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major cause of hospital-acquired (HA-MRSA) infection worldwide. As a result, the rapid and specific detection of MRSA is crucial not only for early prevention of disease spread, but also for the effective treatment of these infections. We report here an integrated modular-based microfluidic system for MRSA identification, which can carry o...

conclusions the cefoxitin disk diffusion method showed the best results when compared to oxacillin disk, similar to results from detecting the meca gene in pcr as a golden test. studies on mrsa that carry the luk-pv gene should continue to provide significant insight into the prevalence and epidemiology of these important resistant pathogens. also, the rate of pvl gene-producing isolates showed...

introduction : risk management nowadays is one of the main concerns of all professions in order to protect themselves as well as keeping a competitive edge in the market. analyzing risks and their consequences (fmea) is one of the techniques of risk assessment which has been used in this research to define and assess risks and prevention measures for the risk. methods : in this descriptive, cro...

pushover analysis is a simplified nonlinear analysis technique that can be used to estimate the dynamic demands imposed on a structure under earthquake excitations. one of the first steps taken in this approximate solution is to assess the maximum roof displacement, known as target displacement, using the base shear versus roof displacement diagram. that could be done by the so-called dynamic p...

Abstract. Pre-disaster planning and mitigation necessitate detailed spatial information about flood hazards their associated risks. In the US, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) provides important areas subject to flooding during 1 % riverine or coastal event. The binary nature of hazard maps obscures distribution property risk inside SFHA residual outsi...

This paper presents a fast and efficient hardware memory allocation technique, called FEMA, to detect the existence of any free block of requested size in memory. The technique can allocate a free memory block of any number of chunks in any part of memory. The hardware algorithm which was proved more efficient by using the benchmark in [6], the gate-level design of the hardware unit and its are...

A PCR-based assay that can simultaneously detect and differentiate five different types of nosocomial bacterial pathogens was developed. Six pairs of selected primers targeting femA (132 bp) and mecA (310 bp) of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, gltA (722 bp) of Acinetobacter baumannii, phoA (903 bp) of Escherichia coli, mdh (364 bp) of Klebsiella pneumoniae and oprL (504 bp) of Pseu...

Clinically useful antibiotics, β-lactams and vancomycin, are known to inhibit bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan synthesis. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has a unique cell wall structure consisting of peptidoglycan and wall teichoic acid. In recent years, new anti-infectious agents (spirohexaline, tripropeptin C, DMPI, CDFI, cyslabdan, 1835F03, and BPH-652) targeting MRSA ce...