Patients with Active and Quiescent Crohn Disease and Ulcerative Colitis: A Chemiluminescent Study, Anna Blázovics, Ágota Kovács, Andrea Lugasi, Krisztina Hagymási, Lajos Bı́ró, and János Fehér ( Second Department of Medicine, Semmelweis University Medical School, Szentkirályi St. 46, Budapest H-1088, Hungary; 2 Elizabeth County Hospital, Alsó erdõsor St. 7, Budapest H-1074, Hungary; 3 National I...

The aim of this study was to determine the presence methicillin resistant staphylococci (MRS) in retail raw chicken meat samples sold Hatay. antimicrobial susceptibility isolates tested for 13 different antimicrobials by disc diffusion method and investigated resistance genes encoding (mecA), tetracycline (tetM, tetK), penicillin (blaZ), macrolide (ermA, ermC), lincosamide (lnuA) aminoglycoside...

We describe here the isolation of 8 beta-lactamase-producing multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates in 2010. All strains showed diverse pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) profiles, all belonging to the same clonal complex, CC17. By PCR and hybridization experiments, the entire blaZ-blaI-blaR1 operon was found. The beta-lactamase activity was demonstrated at a high inoculum and i...

The sequence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain B6 (sequence type 30 [ST30], spa type t433, staphylococcal chromosomal cassette mec element [SCCmec] type IVc, Panton-Valentine leukocidin [PVL] positive), isolated from a pediatric patient with a lung infection in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is described here. The draft genome sequence includes a 2.8-Mb chromosome, accompa...

Our understanding of staphylococcal pathogenesis depends on reliable genetic tools for gene expression analysis and tracing of bacteria. Here, we have developed and evaluated a series of novel versatile Escherichia coli-staphylococcal shuttle vectors based on PCR-generated interchangeable cassettes. Advantages of our module system include the use of (i) staphylococcal low-copy-number, high-copy...

The prevalence, virulence potential, and antibiotic resistance of ophthalmic Staphylococcus pseudintermedius (SP) isolated from dogs were examined. Sixty-seven Staphylococcus species were isolated from ophthalmic samples and surveyed for species-specific sequences in the Staphylococcus intermedius group (SIG) nuclease gene (SInuc), exfoliative toxin gene for SIG (siet), and antibiotic resistanc...