We report a case of a patient who experienced a catheter-related bloodstream infection caused by Staphylococcus condimenti, which was first isolated from soy sauce mash. This is the first reported case of human infection. Although blood culture isolates and the catheter tip tube did not reveal coagulase or clumping factor, false-positive results were obtained from latex agglutination tests for ...

I N 1958, Shimamoto et al.’ reported platelet aggregation induced by hepari iized plasma of rabbits treated with bacterial endotoxin, and concluded that this was due to an appearance of platelet-clumping substance in plasma. These results were confirmed in vitro by Des Prez, Horowitz and Hooks in 1961. Since then, many investigators have reported adenosine diphosphate (ADP), thrombin, adrenalin...

This development responds to a challenge. Text mining software can conveniently generate very large sets of terms or phrases. Our examples draw from use of VantagePoint (or equiv‐ alently, Thomson Data Analyzer – TDA) software [1] to analyze abstract record sets. A typi‐ cal search on an ST&I topic of interest might yield, say, 5,000 records. One approach is to apply VantagePoint’s Natural Lang...

Discrete Absorption Components (DACs) seen in ultraviolet lines are one of the clearest indicators of large-scale structure in the winds of hot stars. Cranmer & Owocki (1996) attributed these DACs to Corotating Interaction Regions (CIRs) which are formed when slow and fast streams collide in the wind. In their model, CIRs are produced by introducing a spot on the stellar surface. The spot can l...