Background: Rib osteomyelitis is a very rare form of pediatric osteomyelitis. Case report: Herein, we reported a very rare case of chest wall abscess with rib osteomyelitis and rib destruction due to Staphylococcus aureus infection in a 14-day-old preterm male neonate. The diagnosis of this uncommon disease requires a high index of suspicion due to its rarity and non-specific clinical presenta...

2.1 Summary ............................................... 5 2.2 Definition .............................................. 6 2.3 History ................................................... 6 2.4 Overview of Currently Used Classification Systems and Terminology 7 2.5 Currently Used Terms in Classification of Osteomyelitis of the Jaws .................. 11 2.5.1 Acute/Subacute Osteomyelitis .......

BACKGROUND Biomedical ontologies are representations of classes of entities in the biomedical domain and how these classes are related in computer- and human-interpretable formats. Ontologies support data standardization and exchange and provide a basis for computer-assisted automated reasoning. IDOBRU is an ontology in the domain of Brucella and brucellosis. Brucella is a Gram-negative intrace...

Brucellosis is a zoonosis caused by the bacteria belonging to the genus Brucella. 1 Currently there are six recognized species of Brucellaebased on phenotypic characteristics, antigenic variations and prevalence of infection in different animal hosts. Brucella abortusin cattles, Brucella melitensis in sheep and goats, Brucella suis in pigs, Brucella canis in dogs, Brucella ovis in sheep and Bru...

N pyogenic spinal osteomyelitis compromise only 2-4% of all cases of osteomyelitis. The incidence is estimated at 1:250,000 per year in the general population. Cervical involvement is observed in less than 10% of the cases of spinal osteomyelitis. Pyogenic spinal osteomyelitis is usually caused by gram positive pyogens like Staphylococci and Streptococci species. They are usually seen in immuno...

clindamycin is a lincosamide antibiotic which is approved for the treatment of anaerobic, streptococcal and staphylococcal infections. there has been an increased interest in the use of clindamycin since it achieves high intracellular levels in phagocytic cells, high levels in bone and appears to have an antitoxin effect against the toxin elaborating strains of streptococci and staphylococci. c...

We evaluated the association between the mean platelet volume (MPV) and monocyte/lymphocyte ratio (MLR) with brucella-caused epididymo-orchitis to determine if they could be used to differentiate between brucella and non-brucella epididymo-orchitis. The charts of 88 patients with non-brucella and 14 patients with brucella epididymo-orchitis were retrospectively reviewed. Brucellosis was diagnos...

Eighty feral swine were trapped from a herd that had been documented to be seropositive for Brucella and which had been used for Brucella abortus RB51 vaccine trials on a 7,100-hectare tract of land in South Carolina. The animals were euthanized and complete necropsies were performed. Samples were taken for histopathology, Brucella culture, and Brucella serology. Brucella was cultured from 62 (...

The influence of growth medium and incubation conditions on the detection of Bilophila wadsworthia beta-lactamase was tested with Cefinase and Cefinase Plus disks. The tests involved aerobic and anaerobic incubation with conventional disk and quantitative tube assays. The production of beta-lactamase was correlated with penicillin G, ampicillin, and ampicillin-sulbactam MICs and inhibition zone...

A latex coagglutination assay was developed to identify rough (R) isolates of Brucella. Latex beads were coated, via protein A, with either an anti-Brucella rough-lipopolysaccharide (R-LPS) monoclonal antibody (MAb) or an anti-Brucella 25-kDa outer membrane protein (Omp25) MAb. Slide agglutination tests were done for 68 strains of Brucella spp., including type strains of all biovars as well as ...