ESCMID. Determination of minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of antibacterial agents by agar dilution. Clin. Microbiol. Infec. 6, 509–515 (2000). Article Google Scholar Smith, K. P. & Kirby, J. E. The inoculum effect in the era of multidrug resistance: minor differences in inoculum ...
In a normal healthy individual’s peripheral blood, the level of CD4+ T-cells is between 800 and 1200/mm3 and once this number reaches 200 or below in an HIV infected patient, the person is classified as having AIDS. Without drug treatment, HIV-1 infection is nearly uniformly fatal within...
Bacterial culture Following lysis centrifugation, the whole blood samples of all patients under study were inoculated into Colombia agar base supplemented with 5% defibrinated sheep blood (CBA). The plates were subsequently incubated for a minimum of 21 days at 37 °C in a 5% CO2 atmosphere25...
The innate immune system uses a several receptors (PRRs) that recognize conserved microbial structures or pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPS), such as those that occur in the bacterial cell-wall components peptidoglycan and lipopolysaccharide. PPRs are classified as: (i) membrane bound PRRs...
DNA reads where subsequently classified, separating the human reads – most likely deriving from Marat's blood – from those assigned to microbial species. The analysis of both sets of DNA sequences allowed characterisation of Marat's ancestry as well as identification of the potential pathogens ...
Despite the biomedical importance of haematopoietic stem cells and haematopoietic progenitor cells, their in vitro stabilization in a developmental context has not been achieved due to limited knowledge of signals and markers specifying the multiple haematopoietic waves as well as ethically restricted access...
These isolates were classified as MRSA isolates. Only one MRSA isolate was susceptible to erythromycin, and only two MRSA isolates were susceptible to clinda- mycin. The statistical analysis showed that MRSA isolates had significantly higher resistance rates than MSSA iso- lates in penicillin, ...
The second step replaced the cassette through negative selection on a sucrose THB agar plate. This method was applied to generate deletion mutants in strain SC070731 background for RNase III (rnc, NJAUSS_RS05775) and glpF (NJAUSS_RS09410), as well as in Δrss03 strain background for ...
In case of non-response on a given question in the questionnaire, the response was classified as 'Don't know'. Results: A total of 110 questionnaires were returned, the majority of respondents being nurses (92.7%) and having 15 or more years of relevant experience (53.6%). While most ...
cells are ring/early trophozoite and 40 h.p.i. cells are late trophozoite/schizont parasites (Fig. 2h). We observed that more individual Δpfap2-p-16 parasites were classified as ring rather than trophozoite compared with controls (Fig. 2i). However, no difference in stage was ...