S. epidermidis is commonly associated with catheter related sepsis with a unique property of biofilm formation. This genetically determined property aids its survival by the phenomenon of immune evasion. In all, IV catheter tips and two synchronous blood samples from 297 patients with intravenous catheters and ≥ 48 hours stay in KIMS were subjected to culture and biofilm formation by S. epiderm...

Mutant forms of herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) subgroup C strain 488 with deletions in either STP-C488 or Tip were constructed. The transforming potentials of the HVS mutants were tested in cell culture and in common marmosets. Parental HVS subgroup C strain 488 immortalized common marmoset T lymphocytes in vitro to interleukin-2-independent growth, but neither of the deletion mutants produced such ...

Background: The technique of vertical dome division or tip defining, involves incising the lateral crura and vestibular skin at or lateral to the dome or tip defining point. The incision di-vides the lower lateral cartilage into a lateral segment and a medial segment, which are advanced anteriorly and sutured together to increase tip projection. The present study aimed at assessing a new vertic...

only two cases did results of swabbing correlate with tip culture (see Table). In both of these cases the organism was a coagulase-negative staphylococcus labeled Staphylococcus epidermis However, speciation was not performed and antibiotic susceptibilities were not determined fbr the isolates from entry-site swabbing. It is thus possible that these organisms represented different species or di...