Methods A total of 20 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus were isolated from 25 cases of breast abscess from a tertiary hospital during January 2010-October 2010. Isolation was done by culturing the pus sample drained from the abscess with 16 gauge needle. The S. aureus isolates were screened for susceptibility to various antibiotics including cefoxitin, clindamycin, fusidic acid, mupirocin, vanc...

The study of polynomial-time algorithms for groups has only recently begun. Only a few of the basic, elementary concepts or results of group theory are presently known to have polynomial-time versions. For example, ]G] can be found in polynomial time (Sims [22], Furst, Hopcroft, and Luks [9]), as can the centralizer of a normal subgroup of G (Luks [17]) and a composition series for G (Luks [16]...

The widespread use of Macrolide Lincosamide Streptogramin B (MLSB) antibiotics has led to an increase in the resistant strains. Although Clindamycin is effective against MRSA but its use in the presence of Erythromycin can lead to induction of cross-resistance among members of the MLSB group which could limit the effectiveness of this drug. Furthermore, at times, some strains are also harbored ...

Staphylococcal leukocidin (Luk) consists of LukS and LukF, which cooperatively lyse human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (HPMNLs), monocytes, and macrophages. Here we found that LukS and LukF assembles into hetero-oligomeric pore complexes on the detergent-resistant membrane microdomains, lipid rafts of HPMNLs. When HPMNLs were treated with LukS alone, 24% of the added LukS was localized in lipid...

BACKGROUND At the University Hospital Zurich (USZ) and the Cantonal Hospital of Lucerne (LUKS) an individualized goal-directed coagulation and transfusion algorithm was introduced and implemented before 2012 (Coagulation algorithm of the USZ: USZ-Alg; of the LUKS: LUKS-Alg). Main differences between both algorithms are: 1) A target haematocrit-range of 0.21-0.24 (USZ-Alg) vs. a lower haematocri...

BACKGROUND A 1400-bed tertiary medical center in northern Taiwan was used to conduct an epidemiological study of children hospitalized with community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infection during a 5-year period. METHODS Nineteen previously healthy children with predominantly skin and soft-tissue CA-MRSA infections were enrolled into the study. Seventeen CA-M...

Staphylococcus intermedius isolates from dogs (n = 44) and pigeons (n = 62) were categorized into 12 types by intergenic ribosomal DNA spacer polymorphism analysis. All isolates from pigeons were lukS positive and all isolates from dogs were lukS and lukF positive by dot blot analysis. The mean leukotoxicity titer for dog isolates was at least 129-fold higher than that for pigeon isolates.