Heterophil phagocytosis of fluorescein-labeled staphylococcal bacteria was analyzed by flow cytometry. Opsonization with two types of normal pooled sera and staphylococcal antisera significantly increased bacterial phagocytosis compared to samples without an opsonin. The staphylococcal antisera did not significantly increase bacterial phagocytosis compared to the normal pooled sera. Opsonizatio...

In a previous study (Hay, 1960), the incidence of staphylococcal septicaemia and pyaemia at the Christchurch Hospital was shown to have risen considerably in recent years. The patients presented in a variety of ways, and frequently pulmonary signs or a chest radiograph gave the clue to the diagnosis. The object of this paper is to review the natural history of staphylococcal pyaemia as it affec...

The complications of staphylococcal septicaemia are many and varied, according to the age group affected. In the adult, acute bacterial endocarditis, pneumonia (which may be further complicated by acute pyogenic pericarditis), osteomyelitis and focal abscess formation in the liver, spleen, kidney and brain may all occur. In childhood, staphylococcal pneumonia with its attendant danger of pyopne...

The complications of staphylococcal septicaemia are many and varied, according to the age group affected. In the adult, acute bacterial endocarditis, pneumonia (which may be further complicated by acute pyogenic pericarditis), osteomyelitis and focal abscess formation in the liver, spleen, kidney and brain may all occur. In childhood, staphylococcal pneumonia with its attendant danger of pyopne...

The complications of staphylococcal septicaemia are many and varied, according to the age group affected. In the adult, acute bacterial endocarditis, pneumonia (which may be further complicated by acute pyogenic pericarditis), osteomyelitis and focal abscess formation in the liver, spleen, kidney and brain may all occur. In childhood, staphylococcal pneumonia with its attendant danger of pyopne...

introduction: staphylococcus aureus (s. aureus) is a bacterium found on the skin and hair of people and animals. s. aureus could product some extracellular protein. materials and methods: one hundred and fifty s. aureus isolates that were collected from different resources were screened for the meca, tst-1, eta and etb genes by pcr. 50 isolates were selected from human staphylococcal isolates a...

Sanyal, Shyamal K., Kaur, Inder, Hooja, Vijaya, Thapar, Mohinder, K., and Vaishnava, Sarla (1970). Archives ofDisease in Childhood, 45, 198. Staphylococcal pericarditis with cardiac tamponade in children. Six children with acute staphylococcal pericarditis with cardiac tamponade are presented. In any patient with staphylococcal infection, the sudden onset of dyspnoea, tachycardia, tachypnoea, d...

background and objectives:   staphylococcus aureus is one of the main causatives of bovine mastitis. resistance of some strains to methicillin, can complicate the treatment of its infections. on the other hand, enterotoxin production is also im- portant. therefore, the aim of our study was to investigate the methicillin resistance and enterotoxin production in s. aureus isolates caused bovine m...

Staphylococcal enterotoxin C (SEC) is a major cause of staphylococcal food poisoning in humans and plays role bovine mastitis. Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) benefits from competitive growth advantage under stress conditions encountered foods such as low pH. Therefore, understanding the stressors lactic acid on SEC production pivotal relevance to safety. However, stress-dependent cues their ...

background: staphylococcus aureus has been recognized as a major human pathogen and is the major cause of nosocomial infections. gamma-toxin, leukocidin and other bi-component toxins are a family of proteins encoded by the hlg and luk-pv, respectively. panton-valentine leukocidin (pvl) is an example of these toxins and causes leukocyte destruction and tissue necrosis. the aim of this study was ...