Published in Journal of Hospital Infection
Abstract The effect of Polyvinylchloride (PVC), polyurethane (PU) and siliconized latex (SL) catheters on the survival and growth of six non-mucoid and three mucoid strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was evaluated. Pseudomonas aeruginosa (1 × 10 8) was incubated in PBS alone (control) or with 30 1-cm length segments of each catheter and the number o...
Published in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Bacteraemia is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the intensive care unit. In this study the distribution of organisms causing bacteraemic episodes in patients in the adult intensive care unit of a large teaching hospital was determined. Particular emphasis was placed on the type of organisms isolated from community- and hospital-acqu...
Published in Current Microbiology
N-Acetyltransferase (NAT), responsible for bioactivation and detoxification of arylamines, has been demonstrated to be widely distributed in many organisms ranging from humans to microorganisms. Using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to analyze NAT activity in bacteria, the authors found that Pseudomonas aeruginosa exhibited high NAT a...
Published in Clinical Drug Investigation
Objective: The wide clinical application of the combination of ceftazidime and amikacin over recent years for infections caused by multiresistant isolates may render the combination useless in the future because of the development of resistance. The present study aimed to investigate whether the in vitro susceptibility of multiresistant Pseudomonas...
Published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
We fused the Pseudomonas aeruginosa recA promoter to a promoterless Vibrio fisherilux operon. This recA–lux fusion (pMOE15) was introduced into wild-type P. aeruginosa strain FRD1 and recA expression was monitored by measuring 490-nm light production. The RM4440 strain responded to increasing doses of ultraviolet radiation by an increase in its bio...
Published in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
All 134 episodes of bacteremia caused solely by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a university hospital in the periods 1976–1982 and 1992–1996 were reviewed retrospectively to determine the clinical manifestations, outcome and prognostic factors. The mortality for the 30-day interval after drawing the first positive blood culture was 41%, but dropped from ...
Published in Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery
Perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis has been shown to be effective in reducing postoperative wound infections. The rising incidence of infections secondary to methicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus, S. epidermidis and S. enterococcal prompted us to administer Teicoplanin to infection in elective total joint arthroplasty. In 111 pat...
Published in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
The in vitro effects of meropenem on Pseudomonas aeruginosa were examined by studying (i) the inhibitory and bactericidal concentrations of meropenem versus those of imipenem for clinical isolates; (ii) changes in bacterial morphology during in vitro culture; and (iii) release of endotoxin induced by meropenem compared with that induced by other an...
Published in Lipids
Published in Infection
The periplasmic protein banding patterns (PPBPs) of thirteen strains ofPseudomonas aeruginosa pyocin type 10/b implicated in two nosocomial outbreaks in the neonatal unit of Rafeidia Hospital, Nablus, palestine, were examined. In addition, five strains from sporadic cases from the same unit occurring in 1996 and 1997 were also studied. Despite diff...
