shigellosis is one of the important gastrointestinal bacterial infections, particularly among children of developing countries such as iran. antibiotic susceptibility pattern and genetic typing for epidemiological purposes are of significant issues in shigella infectious control. the aim of this study was to investigate the antibiotic susceptibility and genetic relationship among shigella strai...

Colistin resistance was detected in 53 of 10,011 Escherichia coli (0.5%) by prospective phenotypic testing of consecutive clinical isolates in a single hospital in Barcelona, Spain (2012-15). The mcr-1 gene was retrospectively identified by PCR and sequencing in 15 of 50 available isolates. Each isolate had a unique PFGE pattern except for two. This clonal diversity supports the hypothesis of h...

A collection of 15 carbapenem-resistance Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates was analysed on two tertiary hospitals in Mexico. The OXA-51 was identified in all isolates, followed by OXA-239 and OXA-58; OXA-239 is described as a new OXA-23-like allele. These carbapenemases were identified on four clonal groups, distributed between two neighbouring hospitals. Acinetobacter baumannii is poor...

Solitary plasmacytoma of bone (SPB) is a rare disease, defined as clonal proliferation of plasma cells identical to those of plasma cell myeloma, which manifest as localised osseous growth with no evidence of disease dissemination. We report a case of solitary plasmacytoma of Right 6 rib in 28-year-old male. The patient underwent complete en-bloc resection of the chest wall harbouring the tumou...

6 Kouda S, Ohara M, Onodera M et al. Increased prevalence and clonal dissemination of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa with the blaIMP-1 gene cassette in Hiroshima. J Antimicrob Chemother 2009; 64: 46–51. 7 Martinez E, Marquez C, Ingold A et al. Diverse mobilized class 1 integrons are common in the chromosome of pathogenic Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates. Antimicrob Agents Ch...

The methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) population in the Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria over a 5-year period (1998 to 2002) was marked by shifts in the circulation of pandemic clones. Here, we investigated the emergence of high-level mupirocin resistance (Hi-Mup(r)). In addition to clonal spread, transfer of ileS2-carrying plasmids played a significant role ...

Clonal T cells have been demonstrated in skin lesions of all stages of cutaneous T-cell lymphomas (CTCLs). However, there are conflicting data regarding the CTCL stage at which dissemination of clonal cells into peripheral blood occurs. Although the multifocal occurrence of cutaneous CTCL lesions and T-cell recirculation suggest an early appearance of neoplastic cells in the blood, circulating ...

We introduce in this paper a generic architecture to deal with the general problem: “How to Deliver the Right Information to the Right User?”. We discuss this issue through the proposal of our SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information) Personalised Architecture, called MySDI, which is based on the software agent paradigm as well as on information retrieval techniques. In order to clarify and ...