Patients who are colonized with enteric vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) are a major reservoir for transmission of and infection with this organism. In a randomized, controlled study to assess the effectiveness of high-dose bacitracin in the eradication of enteric VREF, 12 patients who were colonized with VREF were randomized to receive placebo (n=6) or orally administered zinc ...

A study was carried out to determine if the presence of bacitracin methylene disalicylate (BMD) interfered with the assay of chlortetracycline (CTC) and if the presence of CTC interfered with the assay of BMD when both are combined in a pig feed. In addition, the potential influence of steam pelleting on active concentrations of BMD and CTC was determined. Further, the stability of BMD in the p...

A disk Wang-Bézier type generalized Ball curve is a Wang-Bézier type generalized Ball curve whose control points are disks in a plane. It can be viewed as a parametric curve with error tolerances. In this paper, we discuss the problem of degree reduction of disk Wang-Bézier type generalized Ball curve, that is, bounding disk Wang-Bézier type generalized Ball curves with lower degree disk Wa...

background and importance: disk sequestration can be defined as a herniated disk with perforation of the fibrous ring (or outermost annulus fibrosus) and posterior longitudinal ligament with migration of the disk fragment to the epidural space. even after the introduction of high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (mri), it is still frequently misinterpreted as neoplastic masses. unfortunate...

The reliability of the bacitracin inhibition test to differentiate between 125 Lancefield group A and 122 non-group A beta-haemolytic streptococci was studied. Bacitracin discs containing 0-02, 0 04, or 0-1 international units and the conditions recommended by both the Association of Clinical Pathologists and the Federal Drug Administration for routine sensitivity testing were used. The results...

A fast spectrophotometric method has been developed for bacitracin identification and determination after condensation reaction with dabsyl chloride. In addition, determination of dye stability of sulfonamide derivative and identification of the molar ratio of reagents was done at various time-points. The developed method has a good linearity with very broad spectrum, correlation coefficient of...

Aim: Antibiotic resistance studies about the Streptococcus have a great importance for treatment of especially child throat infections in terms public health and rational antibiotic use. For this purpose, we aimed to identify macrolide genes mef(E) erm(B). Material Method: The culture samples taken from 51 children presenting hospital with complaint sore were evaluated laboratory, S. pyogenes w...