OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to identify small staphylococcal plasmids that carry either the trimethoprim resistance gene dfrK or the apramycin resistance gene apmA and analyse them for their structure and organization with regard to their potential role as precursors of large multiresistance plasmids that carry these genes. METHODS Trimethoprim- or apramycin-resistant staphylococci...

A 38-year-old patient developed meningitis after a complicated kidney transplantation and organ rejection. Ureaplasma urealyticum was identified as the etiological agent by molecular and microbiological analyses of the cerebrospinal fluid. The patient was successfully treated with doxycycline and chloramphenicol. This is the first report of Ureaplasma urealyticum meningitis in an adult.

Corynebacterium urealyticum, an infrequent cause of bacteremia, is an emerging pathogen in humans, especially immunocompromised hosts. This report describes a patient with prostate cancer complicated with obstructive nephropathy who developed C. urealyticum bacteremia after placement of a percutaneous nephrostomy tube. The bacteremia was not controlled until the infected nephrostomy tube was re...

A PCR assay was used to analyze endotracheal aspirates from preterm infants for Ureaplasma parvum versus U. urealyticum. U. parvum was detected more often than U. urealyticum. There was no significant difference or trend in the prevalence of either species between infants with or without bronchopulmonary dysplasia when isolated alone.

We report here the complete genome sequence of the methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus strain ATCC 6538 (FDA 209, DSM 799, WDCM 00032, and NCTC 10788).

PURPOSE Chlamydia trachomatis and Mycoplasma hominis, Mycoplasma genitalium, and Ureaplasma urealyticum are associated with various diseases of the urogenital tract, but they are usually not detected by routine microbiological diagnosis. To determine the occurrence of Chlamydia trachomatis, Mycoplasma hominis, Mycoplasma genitalium, and Ureaplasma urealyticum in patients with sterile pyuria. ...

Staphylococcus equorum subsp. equorum is a member of the coagulase-negative staphylococcus group and is frequently isolated from fermented food products and from food-processing environments. It contributes to the formation of aroma compounds during the ripening of fermented foods, especially cheeses and sausages. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Staphylococcus equorum subsp. equoru...

Consecutively collected synovial fluids were examined for presence of bacterial DNA (a 700-bp fragment of the bacterial 23S rRNA gene) followed by DNA sequencing of amplicons, and by conventional bacteriological methods. One or more microorganisms were identified in 22 of the 227 synovial fluids (9,7%) originating from 17 patients. Sixteen of the patients had clinical signs of arthritis. For 11...

On the basis of numerical analysis of 100 phenotypic features, the strains of two species, Staphylococcus carnosus and Staphylococcus piscifermentans, were differentiated into two separate phenons corresponding with the macrorestriction patterns of their genomic DNA, as well as with the results of ribotyping and PCR amplification of enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus sequences. One...

Objective This study investigated the prevalence of infections with human papillomavirus, Chlamydia trachomatis, Ureaplasma urealyticum, Mycoplasma hominis, and Mycoplasma genitalium in the semen of Korean infertile couples and their associations with sperm quality. Methods Semen specimens were collected from 400 men who underwent a fertility evaluation. Infection with above five pathogens wa...