conclusions since it is highly important to rapidly detect mrsa isolates, especially in nosocomial infections, phenotypic methods may certainly be useful for this purpose. resistance to methicillin in s. aureus shows a substantially increased ability in turanose metabolism. it is concluded that fermentation of turanose at 0.7% dilution could be a rapid detection method for primary screening of ...

although candida albicans is the most common etiologic agent of candidiasis, c. dubliniensis, has been emerged, as another pathogen resembles c. albicans in many phenotypic aspects and noted for its in vitro potential for fluconazole resistance. since there was no evidence of any report about detection of this organism in iran, this study was designed to use of five different tests for identifi...

Analyses of two-state phenotypic change are common in ecological research. Some examples include phenotypic changes due to phenotypic plasticity between two environments, changes due to predator/non-predator character shifts, character displacement via competitive interactions, and patterns of sexual dimorphism. However, methods for analyzing phenotypic change for multivariate data have not bee...

backgroundandobjectives:rapidandaccuratedetectionofmethicillinresistantstaphylococcus aureus (mrsa) is an important role of clinical microbiology laboratories to avoid treatment failure. the aim of this study was to compare conventional methods against the e-test minimum inhibitory concentration (mic) method to determine the best phenotypic method. materials and methods: methicillin resistance...

Experimental murine genetic models of complex human disease show great potential for understanding human disease pathogenesis. To reduce the time required for analysis of such models from many months down to milliseconds, a computational method for predicting chromosomal regions regulating phenotypic traits and a murine database of single nucleotide polymorphisms were developed. After entry of ...

in the present study the allelic polymorphisms of gh, ghr and tgfβ3 genes and its association with egg production traits were investigated. blood samples randomly were collected from breeder hens of mazandaran native fowls breeding station and transported to the laboratory in cold chain condition. dna was extracted using modified salting out method and the desired loci were amplified by specifi...

background and objective: the production of carbapenemases especially klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (kpc) is the most important mechanism of enzymatic resistance in isolated enterobacteriaceae such as k. pneumoniae. the purpose of this study was detected of the carbapenemase producer k. pneumoniae strains with phenotypic and genotypic methods. method: out of 800 strains, 270 k. pneumoniae...

A method is introduced to test the hypothesis that both the phenotypic means and the phenotypic covariances can be modeled with the same common genetic and environmental factors. LISREL can be used to implement the method. An illustration is given with simulated twin data.