Mycobacterium tuberculosis was detected by the Isolator lysis-centrifugation blood culture system from the blood of a patient with tuberculosis of the breast. The organism also grew on conventional laboratory media inoculated with pleural fluid from the patient.

The aim of the study was to analyse experimental transmission of Mycoplasma synoviae, an avian pathogen. Three experiments using specific pathogen-free day-old chicks placed in isolators were conducted. In the first experiment, the birds were introduced in an isolator previously contaminated with a M. synoviae broth culture. After 34 days, these birds were eliminated and, for the second trial, ...

Blood was cultured from guinea pigs with experimental Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 pneumonia, using four different methods. A 0.03-ml amount was spread onto each of several plates of buffered charcoal-yeast extract supplemented with alpha-ketoglutarate (BCYE) (direct plate); 1.5 ml each was inoculated into a BCYE agar-yeast extract broth bottle (biphasic), a pediatric Isolator tube (E. I....

Town Board Stations (TBS) are usually located in residential areas. Pressure reduction through reducing valves in these stations generates considerable amounts of sound and vibrations. These mechanical...

Amid growing evidence that numerous viral infections can produce immunopathology, including nonspecific polyclonal lymphocyte activation, the need to test the direct impact of an infecting virus on the immune system of the host is crucial. This can best be tested in the isolator piglet model in which maternal and other extrinsic influences can be excluded. Therefore, neonatal isolator piglets w...

Scrap tire rubber pad (STRP) isolators are made from scrap automobile tires, which expected to be a low-cost material for earthquake-resistant design of low-to-medium-rise buildings in developing countries. This paper describes the seismic vulnerability unbonded STRP (U-STRP) base-isolated masonry building using finite element method. The three-dimensional model U-STRP is placed between foundat...