A 62-year-old woman with splenic marginal zone lymphoma presented with fever, cough and bilateral pneumonia 11 days after chemotherapy. A bronchoalveolar lavage showed numerous leukocytes and Gramnegative bacilli that were identified as Bordetella bronchiseptica in culture. An antibiotherapy with minocycline and ciprofloxacin helped her to stop coughing. This unusual micro-organism, which has m...

An obligate anaerobic organism capable of dehydroxylating cholic acid to deoxycholic acid and allocholic acid to allodeoxycholic acid was isolated from feces of the rabbit. It was a member of the bacteroides group (Gram-variable, nonsporulating anaerobes). The growth of the organism was inhibited by neomycin, 10-20 micro g/ml. The existence of this organism affords a satisfactory explanation fo...

SUMMARY In this research, which was done for two years, we investigated various liquid and solid media without feeder ceells, for the ability to support growth of P. carinii. Data obtained from counting the organisms nuclei showed that, addition of Cyclo­heximide, penicillin, & streptomycin to neopeptone­N-Acetyle Glucoseamine (N.P.G. medium) can provides growth requirements of organism in its...

Background: Water, vitamins, minerals, proteins and carbohydrates are biomolecules essential for the functioning of organism. In this context, it is valid to point out that micro macronutrients subgroups nutrients an optimal

The present results challenge the view that macrophage activation leads to a general, non-specific increase of microbicidal activity of these cells. Instead, it was found that the interactions between activated macrophages and micro-organisms are dependent on the kind of activation and the type of target micro-organism.

AIMS To compare the sensitivity and specificity of two semiautomated systems against a conventional (MIC 2000) test system for the identification and antibiotic susceptibility of Gram negative bacteria. METHODS Clinical isolates of Gram negative bacilli (188 urinary and 229 non-urinary strains) were identified and tested for antibiotic susceptibility in the Cobas Micro and MIC 2000 systems. O...

We consider self-propelled particles confined between two parallel plates, moving with a constant velocity while their direction changes by rotational diffusion. The probability distribution of such micro-organisms in environment is singular because accumulate at the boundaries. This leads us to distinguish densities bulk and They satisfy degenerate Fokker–Planck system we propose boundary cond...