Staphylococcus aureus Newman cells carry a surface receptor for fibrinogen called clumping factor. The bacteria also express coagulase, an extracellular protein that binds to prothrombin to form a complex with thrombinlike activity which coverts fibrinogen to fibrin. We have confirmed a recent report (M. K. Bodén and J.-I. Flock, Infect. Immun. 57:2358-2363, 1989) that coagulase can bind to fib...

A total of 504 clinical isolates of the family Micrococcaceae were tested for coagulase, deoxyribonuclease, clumping factor, and phosphatase to determine whether there is a correlation between the results of these tests and the pathogenicity of staphylococci. In the tests for coagulase production, it was found that either human or rabbit plasma could be used with broth cultures, whereas rabbit ...

We present a model of consumer behaviour when consumers value conformity and examine the implications for environmental policy. The shares feature set out in Dasgupta et al. (2016) having structure preferences which induces mass to adhere exactly norm level consumption (clumping). However we extend our previous analysis by analysing conditions existence potential uniqueness norms. In doing so i...

Context. The radiatively driven wind of the primary star in wind-fed X-ray binaries can be suppressed by irradiation compact secondary star. This causes feedback between and luminosity Aims. We aim to estimate how velocity on face-on side donor depends spectral state high-mass binary Cygnus X-3. Methods. modeled supersonic part computing line force (force multiplier) with Castor, Abbott & K...

UNLABELLED Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus infections has become increasingly difficult because of the emergence of multidrug-resistant isolates. Development of a vaccine to prevent staphylococcal infections remains a priority. To determine whether clumping factor A (ClfA) is a good target protein for inclusion in a multivalent vaccine, we evaluated its efficacy in a variety of relevant stap...

Tree species distribution has been investigated along 45 km of line transects in the tropical rain forest of the Dja Fauna Reserve in Cameroon. The spatial patterns were expressed by the probabilities that two trees are conspecific according to the distance separating them, providing information on the degree of species clumping as well as on alphaand beta-diversity. Our objective was to assess...