Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a disease of many causes which are only partially detected to date. As intracellular staphylococci promote the infection, pre-operative detection would be helpful. There no relevant data about pattern recognition in CRS patients.

Background: Antibiotics called macrolide, lincosamide and streptogramin B (MLSB) are being used to treat staphylococci infections. Multiple pathways that impart resistance to MLSB antibiotics have been confirmed to cause clinical failure. The present work aimed to determine the frequency of constitutive and inducible clindamycin resistant among coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) isolates o...

Sir, To follow-up our previous finding of reduced polystyrene adherence accompanying the acquisition of linezolid resistance in a clinical bloodstream isolate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), we evaluated the polystyrene adherence properties of linezolid-resistant staphylococci obtained from our institution as well as isolates obtained from multiple medical centres through...

Background: Neutropenic patients are vulnerable to a wide spectrum of infectious agents. The aim of this study was to determine the current frequency of bacterial infections in patients with nosocomial fever and neutropenia. Methods: In a retrospective study, the neutropenic patients’ specimens with nosocomial fever were cultured on blood and MacConkey agar plates and evaluated at microbiology ...

The International Symposium of Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections is a biennial conference that brings together clinicians who treat staphylococcal infections in the community and in hospitals, veterinary microbiologists who study staphylococcal infections in animals, and basic scientists who study pathogenesis of infection and the biology of staphylococci. Over 430 delegates from 24 c...

A tissue culture procedure is described which permits the quantitative evaluation of the intracellular survival of staphylococci within leucocytes. Staphylococcus aureus survived, but did not multiply, within neutrophils and monocytes of normal rabbits. The same was true of normal human blood leucocytes. Staphylococcus albus on the other hand was destroyed by these cells under the same conditio...

Skalka, B.: Bacteriocin Typing of Staphylococci. Acta vet. Bmo, 61,1992: 179-187. The report describes bacteriocin typing of staphylococcal strains using the deferred method. The collection of active strains comprised 11 strains, Q of which were isolated by the author, namely 3 S. intermedius strains, 2 S. hominis strains and 1 strain each of S. epidermidis, S. simulans, S. sciuri and S. haemol...

A total of 245 strains of staphylococci isolated from various pathological specimens derived from cases of human infections was tested for staphylocoagulase activity. Test systems employing normal citrated rabbit plasma and the same substrate supplemented with inhibitors of thrombin and proteolytic enzymes (but not influencing the staphylocoagulase activity) were used for testing suspensions of...

Five selective media for the detection and enumeration of coagulase-positive staphylococci were evaluated for their efficiency in the recovery of 17 strains of coagulase-positive staphylococci from foods. They were Staphylococcus Medium 110 (SM-110), tellurite-glycine-agar (TGA), egg-tellurite-glycine-pyruvate-agar (ETGPA), tellurite-egg-agar (TEA), and tellurite-polymyxin-egg yolk-agar (TPEY)....

The in vitro activity of DX-619, a new des-F(6)-quinolone, was tested against staphylococci and compared to those of other antimicrobials. DX-619 had the lowest MIC ranges/MIC(50)s/MIC(90)s (microg/ml) against 131 Staphylococcus aureus strains (</=0.002 to 2.0/0.06/0.5) and 128 coagulase-negative staphylococci (0.004 to 0.25/0.016/0.125). Among strains tested, 76 S. aureus strains and 51 coagul...