Introduction: The importance of H. pylori as an etiological agent in gastroduodenal disease had suggested antibiotic treatment as a main target for the elimination of infection. The successful eradication of H. pylori infection was shown to resolve the gastritis, dramatically accelerate ulcer healing, reduce ulcer recurrence and the prophylactic effect on the recurrence of ulcer bleeding. Mater...

The aim of this study was carried out to determine the antibiotics resistance of aerobic flora strain isolated from fermented milk in Burkina Faso. Nineteen representative strains of aerobic flora were concerned by this study. Antibiotic susceptibility and resistance of nineteen (19) representative aerobic microorganisms strains to six (06) antibiotics was investigated using disc diffusion meth...

Two groups (seventy each) of patients with acute pneumonia treated in a hospital are analysed. The first received course treament with penicillin, streptomycin, oxytetracyclin. The second received the same antibiotics in association with ascorbic acid (AA). It was found that patients of the first groups showed a rapidly advancing reduction of the AA content in the blood plasma and a reduced uri...

BACKGROUND The resistance of bacteria causing urinary tract infection (UTI) to commonly prescribed antibiotics is increasing both in developing and developed countries. Resistance has emerged even to more potent antimicrobial agents. This study was undertaken to determine the current antibiotic resistance pattern among common bacterial uropathogens in St.paul's Hospital Millennium Medical Colle...

A mathematical model is presented for the increase and decrease of non-inherited antibiotic resistance levels in bacteria. The model is applied to experimental data on E. coli exposed to amoxicillin or tetracyclin in different concentrations. The parameters of the model are estimated using a Monte Carlo Markov Chain method. The model accurately describes build-up and decline of antibiotic resis...

Materials and Methods. Materials. Protease-inhibitor cocktail tablets and sequencing grade trypsin were obtained from Roche. N-octyl-glucoside was from Calbiochem, and tissue culture reagents were from Life Technologies. Tetracyclin-free foetal bovine sera (FBS) was from Perbio, and other tissue culture reagents were from Biowhittaker. Precast 4–12% and 10% polyacrylamide Bis-Tris gels were obt...

As fecal streptococci commonly inhabit the intestinal tract of humans and warm blooded animals, and daily detection of all pathogenic bacteria in coastal water is not practical, thus these bacteria are used to detect the fecal contamination of water. The present study examined the presence and the antibiotic resistance patterns of Enterococcus spp. isolated from the Babolrud River in Babol and ...

Some plants are known as medicinal because they contain active substances that cause certain reaction, from relenting to the cure of disease. Aloe vera Linn. and Azadirachta indica are most important and common medicinal plants. The synergistic effect from the combination of antibiotics with plant extracts against resistant bacteria leads to new ways for the treatment of infectious diseases. Sy...

We report the second case of infection with Chromobacterium violaceum that occurred in Brazil. A farm worker living in the State of São Paulo presented fever and severe abdominal pain for four days. At hospitalization the patient was in a toxemic state and had a distended and painful abdomen. Chest X-ray and abdominal ultrasound revealed bilateral pneumonia and hypoechoic areas in the liver. Th...