Candida is an asexual, diploid, dimorphic fungus that is present on human body and his environment. Nowadays the number of patients, who are immunocompromised, aged, receiving prolonged antibacterial and aggressive cancer chemotherapy or undergoing invasive surgical procedures and organ transplantation, is on increase, and therefore candidiasis emerged itself as an alarming opportunistic dise...

A set of forty-nine Lactobacillus isolates recovered from the faecal swabs of different dog breeds viz. Pomeranian (12), Labrador (15) and mongrel/indigenous dogs (22) were subjected to Lactobacillus group-specific multiplex PCR corresponding to the 16S-23S rRNA intergenic spacer region (ISR) and its flanking 23S rRNA gene. Twenty-three (46.9%) isolates were found to be positive for Group IV; s...

CONTEXT Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the most common gram negative bacteria associated with nosocomial infections. Active surveillance of trends in antibiotic resistance of P. aeruginosa is necessary for the selection of appropriate antimicrobial agent for empirical therapy. AIM To assess the rates of antibiotic resistance and multidrug resistance among P. aeruginosa isolates and to observe the ...

comparison of hardiness in different levels of religiosity in nurses     gorbanalipour m [1] *, yagobi h [2]     received: 1 aug, 2011 accepted: 1 nov, 2011     abstract:   background & aims : effects of religion on mental health has been debated for years, nevertheless only in the last half century have these theories been empirically tested. the purpose of this study was to compare hardiness ...

This study was conducted to determine the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance extended-spectrum cephalosporins (ESC) in Escherichia coli isolates. The isolates were collected from retail meat products Maritime Provinces Canada. Our analyses involved use both selective and traditional culture methods; we also genotype using multiplex polymerase chain reactions. ESC-resistant (ESC-R) E. detect...

Candida albicans is a common cause of bloodstream fungal infections in hospitalized patients. To investigate its epidemiology, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was performed on 285 C. albicans bloodstream isolates from patients in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou (CGMHL), Taiwan from 2003 to 2011. Among these isolates, the three major diploid sequence types (DSTs) were 693, 659, and 443 ...

MIC results for 115 Staphylococcus intermedius group isolates are presented. Of these, 33% were methicillin resistant, among which 51.4% were susceptible to doxycycline, 29.7% to clindamycin, and 21.6% to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. All of the isolates were susceptible to ceftaroline, daptomycin, linezolid, nitrofurantoin, quinupristin-dalfopristin, rifampin, tigecycline, and vancomycin. Of ...

A series of clinical NDM-5-producing Escherichia coli isolates obtained from two surveillance networks for carbapenem-producing Enterobacterales 2018 to 2019, namely, Switzerland (NARA) and Germany (SurvCARE), were analyzed. The 33 E. highly resistant ?-lactams, including novel ?-lactam/?-lactamase inhibitor combinations (ceftazidime-avibactam, imipenem-relebactam, meropenem-vaborbactam), remai...

Temperature-sensitive mutants which replicate normally at 33 C but poorly at 39 C were isolated from nitrosoguanidine- or nitrous acid-mutagenized adenovirus 2 by (i) testing the cytopathic effect or inclusion body-forming capacity of random plaque isolates, or (ii) reduced plaque enlargement upon shifting from 33 to 39 C. Thirty-six mutants were isolated with 33 C/39 C plaque ratios varying fr...

Forty-nine isolates of Bradyrhizobium japonicum indigenous to a field where soybeans were grown for 45 years without inoculation were characterized by using four DNA hybridization probes from B. japonicum. nifDK-specific hybridization clearly divided the isolates into two divergent groups. Diversity in repeated-sequence (RS)-specific hybridization was observed; 44 isolates derived from 41 nodul...