Staphylococcus aureus (including Methicillin-resistant S. aureus) and coagulase negative Staphylococcus spp (including methicillin-resistant coagulase negative) permanently or transiently colonize humans and act as sources of complicated skin and soft tissue infections, bacteraemia and infective endocarditis. They also cause chronic infection of indwelling medical devices. Treatment of these in...

objective the extensive pollution of natural ecosystems has occurred by organophosphorus pesticides, being used for improvement of crop production in agriculture. biodegradation is interested in application of multifunctional bacteria containing genetical elements which specially degrade organophosphorus compounds. in this paper the detection of two bacteria species, pseudomonas and flavobacter...

Antibiotic resistance is a major concern, yet it is unclear what causes the relatively high densities of resistant bacteria in the anthropogenically impacted environment. There are various possible scenarios (hypotheses): (A) Input of resistant bacteria from wastewater and agricultural sources is significant, but they do not grow in the environment; (B) Input of resistant bacteria is negligible...

background: transmission of mycobacterium tuberculosis ( m. tuberculosis ) can occur in different ways. furthermore, drug resistant in m. tuberculosis family is a major problem that creates obstacles in treatment and control of tuberculosis (tb) in the world. one of the most prevalent families of m. tuberculosis is haarlem, and it is associated with drug resistant. our objectives of this study ...

improving cleaning and disinfection performance must be taken into account for prevention and control of infection. health care settings are engaged in a battle against healthcare associated infection (hais). the importance of infection prevention and control is increasing due to rapidly developing strains of multi-drug resistant organisms (mdros) that can result in serious illness and even dea...

To reduce the pesticide load in industrial plantings, it is necessary to use pathogen-resistant varieties when establishing orchards. The problem of obtaining stable, large-fruited, adaptive acute, since there are practically no genotypes existing assortment that combine a complex economically valuable traits with resistance diseases. isolation new genes wild forms and creation resistant fungal...

We examined natural water sources in the U.S. for the presence of bacteria resistant to natural and human-produced antimicrobial agents. The impact of these aquatic organisms on diseases in man and animals is unknown but resident bacteria in water represent a potentially important reservoir of resistance genes. Further, the presence of resistant organisms is usually an indication of some select...

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in the broiler production environment after the avoparcin ban and their epidemiological relationship with human clinical VRE from the same geographical regions in Greece. METHODS Caecal contents from broilers (n = 500) from eight livestock farms and faecal samples from poultry slaughterers (n = 50), al...

The use of antibiotics in food animals is of public health concern, because resistant zoonotic pathogens can be transmitted to humans. Furthermore, global trade with food may rapidly spread multi-resistant pathogens between countries and even continents. The purpose of the study was to investigate whether imported chicken meat and meat from locally reared chicken are potential sources for human...