two hundred pa t ient s o f t he l ow socioe conomic g roup wi th an aborti on o f the f i r s t t r i mest e r were stud 1ed . the s ter i l e produc ts o f concept ion were c ul t ured on gr e e n monke y kidney ti s sue cul t ure f or v i r a l de t e c - tion. four po s i t i ve herpe s virus, two positive rubella v~ru s and t hree pos i tive unidentifie d entero v irus l ike vlrus were obt...

Cephalexin-aztreonam-arabinose agar (CAA), a new selective agar, was examined in comparison with nalidixic acid-colistin agar for the differentiation of Enterococcus faecium from other enterococci and the ability to isolate the organism from feces. Two hundred sixteen enterococcus isolates and a variety of gram-positive and gram-negative control strains were inoculated onto both media. All cont...

BACKGROUND Infections with multidrug-resistant enterococci are a growing problem worldwide. Little is known about the host defense against enterococcal diseases. In vitro studies have demonstrated an important role played by complement proteins in neutrophil-mediated phagocytosis. In this study, we investigated the importance of complement in an in vivo model of Enterococcus faecium peritonitis...

BACKGROUND Antibiotic resistance represents a serious global health threat to public health, so infections such as pneumonia and urinary tract infection (UTI) are becoming harder to treat. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an action plan to restrain the problem of antibiotic resistance. One approach in UTI control could be the use of lactobacilli because these indigenous inhabitants in huma...

Enterococci, which have useful biotechnological applications, produce bacteriocins, including those that exert anti-Listerial activity. The present study aimed to determine the antibiotic susceptibility patterns and antimicrobial activity of Enterococcus faecium strains isolated from human breast milk. The strains were identified using carbohydrate fermentation tests and ribotyping. Subsequentl...

Strain FM11-1 was isolated from flowers of Solanum torvum that were collected in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Thailand and characterized using a polyphasic approach as Gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic with short chains catalase-negative cocci. This strain produced L-lactic acid glucose closely related to Enterococcus durans NBRC 100479T, faecium NRIC 1145T, hirae ATCC 9790T, lactis LMG 2...

Mutations in liaFSR, a three-component regulatory system controlling cell-envelope stress response, were recently linked with the emergence of daptomycin (DAP) resistance in enterococci. Our previous work showed that a liaF mutation increased the DAP MIC of a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis strain from 1 to 3 μg/ml (the DAP breakpoint is 4 μg/ml), suggesting that mutations in the lia...

the objective of this study was to evaluate lactic flora identification in fresh (one-day) and ripened (90-day) koozeh cheese samples as one of the raw milk cheeses. in first step, in order to isolate the different genera of lactic acid bacteria (lab), selective and differential (corresponding) media were used as follow: mrs for lactobacilli and pediococci, mrs+ vancomycin for leuconostocs, m17...

conclusions this research study proved the presence of viable probiotic lab microflora in the ewe milk with enhanced health benefits. the 2 selected lactobacillus strains could be exploited in dairy or pharmaceutical industry in future. objectives the probiotic efficacy of two lactobacillus strains namely lactobacillus pentosus lp05 and l. brevis lb32 was evaluated. they were previously isolate...