Objectives Detection of rarer carbapenemases is challenging, as it requires molecular assays with comprehensive coverage or the use of phenotypic methods for the detection of carbapenemase activity. We describe a new class A carbapenemase, FRI-2, in an Enterobacter cloacae complex isolate following implementation of an in-house multiplex PCR for the detection of 'rare' class A carbapenemases. ...

Orogenic gold de pos its are char ac ter ized by struc tur ally con trolled, low-sul phide quartz veins that formed prox i mal to deep-crustal faults in greenschist-fa cies meta mor phic ter ranes. These de pos its, pre vi ously re ferred to as mesothermal, greenstone-hosted, shear-hosted and turbidite-hosted de pos its, have a wide range of as so ci ated min er al iza tion styles and as so ci ...

Nep tu nian dykes were re cently re corded within the Mid dle Mio cene (Up per Badenian and Lower Sarmatian) Medobory reef com plex of the Carpathian Fore land in west ern Ukraine. The Up per Badenian reefs are cut by a reg u lar, semi-per pen dic u lar net work of in ter sect ing fis sures that pen e trate the Badenian reef lime stone down for more than 10 m. The dykes are filled by sev eral g...

objectives the objective of this study was to develop the primers for single and/or multiplex pcr amplification assays for simultaneous identification of class a, class b, and class d carbapenem hydrolyzing β-lactamases in enterobacteriaceae and then to evaluate their efficiency. conclusions we have reported here a reliable method, composed of single and multiplex pcr assays, for screening all ...

conclusions the current study highlights that the high level of resistance to many antibacterial agents and a gradual increase in the degree of per, oxa-10, shv and tem esbls among the majority of imipenem resistant p. aeruginosa isolated from patients with burn infection is an enormous threat in burn centers in iran. results the results showed that the majority of isolates (88%) were multi-dru...

Romina Papa Ezdra, Inés Bado, Nicolás Cordeiro, Claudia Gutierrez, Patricia Hitateguy, Verónica Seija, Rafael Vignoli Departamento de Bacteriología y Virología, Instituto de Higiene, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay; Departamento de Laboratorio Clínico, Área Microbiología, Hospital de Clínicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, ...

Sta ble light iso tope ra tios (C/C and O/O) in fos sil teeth pro vide key ar chives for un der stand ing ecol ogy of past fau nal com mu ni ties and the evo lu tion of en vi ron ments dur ing the Plio-Pleis to cene. Given the in ev i ta ble pro cesses of diagenesis dur ing fos sili sa tion, the in teg rity of iso to pic in for ma tion and the de gree of de tailed in for ma tion that can be ex ...

BACKGROUND Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder in white populations caused by mutation in a gene that encodes Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) protein. Since frequent respiratory tract infections are the major problem in patients with CF, obligation to identify the causative bacteria and determining their antibiotic resistance pattern is cru...