(1) This comprised of 19.0 percent of the average annual bacillary pulmonary cases.
(2) This type of experiment has discontinued in this laboratory in favor of an airborne challenge type of experiment, with the advantages that animals can be challenged with small numbers of bacilli by a natural route, and the number of primary lesions, the rate of spread from those lesions, and the rate of bacillary multiplication can be used to evaluate protection.
(3) In this report we describe examples of the clinical presentations of bacillary angiomatosis and review therapeutic strategies.
(4) This indicates impairment of native cellular immunity by protein deprivation through decrease in ability of macrophages to inhibit bacillary multiplication.
(5) A total of 377 cases with primarily treated bacillary tuberculosis selected from 432 patients admitted to 5 major national sanatoria during 1987 was analysed and compared with the same sort of studies done in national sanatoria in 1976 and 1980, and in addition 21 dead cases were investigated.
(6) Although the organism is widely distributed in nature, it is of relatively low virulence since colonization is more frequently noted than infection and since most infections occur in patients subjected to the epidemiologic pressures common to nosocomial, gram-negative bacillary infection: prior antibiotic therapy; instrumentation and manipulation (e.g., endotracheal intubation, urinary bladder catheterization, arterial and venous cannulation); surgery; hospitalization, especially with residence in an intensive care unit; severe underlying disease, either systemic (e.g., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, malignancy) or localized to the infected area (e.g., prior bacterial or aspirational pneumonia, trauma).
(7) Cefixime induced the formation of rounded cells from the spiral bacillary form of Helicobacter pylori at the MIC or less.
(8) Shigella flexneri, a Gram-negative bacillus belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae, causes bacillary dysentery in humans by invading colonic epithelial cells.
(9) The expression and secretion of pertussis toxin subunits S1 to S5 in Bacillus subtilis by the aid of a bacillary signal sequence has been reported.
(10) These include: single-agent empiric coverage using a broad-spectrum beta-lactam agent; intrabronchial aminoglycoside instillation therapy; oral quinolone agents for treatment of gram-negative bacillary pneumonia; and passive immune therapy.
(11) The organism multiplies by binary fission extracellularly and intracellulary; is both coccoid and bacillary in form; and contains characteristic cytoplasm, nucleoids, a cytoplasmic membrane, and a small cell wall of variable size.
(12) bacillaris grown on suboptimum concentrations of vitamin B(12).
(13) These data are interpreted to mean that resorptions of bone anterior (nasal spine) or inferior (alveolar bone) to bacillary populations in the nasal mucosa of patients with lepromatous disease in Mali occur independently.
(14) To determine the impact that co-infection with HIV has on the radiographic presentation of pulmonary tuberculosis, we examined the chest roentgenograms obtained before treatment in 225 HIV-tested adult Haitians with bacillary (smear or culture or both) positive pulmonary tuberculosis.
(15) The response rate of gram-negative bacillary infections was 55% Pneumonia with a response rate of 21.1% responded less satisfactorily than all other types of infection.
(16) These data suggest that aztreonam is effective in the treatment of gram-negative bacillary meningitis caused by susceptible organisms.
(17) Production of the bacteriophage Mu cts 62 particles was not registered in the bacillary transcipient cells.
(18) From 1979 to 1982, the four years of this study, episodes of gram-negative bacillary bacteremia occurred in a 489-bed community teaching hospital--an increase of 15.9%.
(19) Therefore, large family foci of the tuberculous infection should be referred to Group 1 according to the accepted classification of tuberculosis foci irrespective of either presence or absence of bacillary excretion or its intensity.
(20) In addition to the common infecting pathogens found in the general population, these unique compromising factors increase the risk of elderly patients for aerobic gram-negative bacillary infection.
Bacillus
Definition:
(n.) A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.
Example Sentences:
(1) We report the isolation of an RNA polymerase from sporulating cells of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp.
(2) Concentrations of each constituent were correlated with the growth inhibitions of Bacillus subtilis (IP-5832).
(3) Bordetella pertussis and Bacillus anthracis, two taxonomically distinct bacteria, secrete adenylate cyclase toxins that are activated by the eukaryotic protein calmodulin.
(4) The action of neopullulanase from Bacillus stearothermophilus on many oligosaccharides was tested.
(5) Bacillus subtilis grown at 42 degrees C produces a major form of Gro EL-like chaperonin that has been analyzed by electron microscopy.
(6) Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki (Btk) and subspecies berliner (Btb) both produce lepidopteran-specific larvicidal protoxins with different activities against the same insect species.
(7) A total of 23 phage specific proteins (including four head and six tail proteins) could be identified after SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of extracts from phage SPP1 infected Bacillus subtilis cells.
(8) These cocultures can be considered as metabolic associations, where the Bacillus produces degradation and fermentation products of pectin, which can be used by Azospirillum species.
(9) 6-(Benzylamino)uracils and substituted 6-anilinouracils have been found to be potent inhibitors of Bacillus subtilis DNA polymerase III by a mechanism identical with that of 6-(phenylhydrazino)uracils.
(10) The temperature optimum is 70-73 degrees C and growth occurs from 62 to 77 degrees C. The organism's thermal and physiological characteristics are compared to those of Bacillus stearothermophilus, Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, Sulfolobus acidocalderius, Thermus aquaticus, Thermus flavus, as well as Thiobacillus denitrificans, the latter being the only other facultatively anaerobic chemolithotroph which has been isolated and described.
(11) A 4.1-kb EcoRI fragment which includes the gene (gldA) encoding a glycerol dehydrogenase (G1DH; EC 1.1.1.6; glycerol:NAD oxidoreductase) from Bacillus stearothermophilus var.
(12) Studies were performed on the prtR gene which enhances the production of the Bacillus subtilis extracellular proteases and levansucrase, but not the alpha-amylase, RNase, and alkaline phosphatase.
(13) 1965.-A correlation is shown to exist in Bacillus subtilis between susceptibility to phage PBS1 and motility, indicating that the receptor site for this phage is located on the flagellum.
(14) Six cultures of Bacillus and six lot numbers of Trypticase soy agar (BBL) were used to test the hypothesis that a microorganism grown on various lot numbers of the same chromatogram.
(15) Effects of alpha- or beta-D-glucose on the respiration of germinated spores (only germinated spores not including swollen spores and elongated spores) of Bacillus subtilis and B. megaterium were studied.
(16) The predicted amino acid sequence of the partial APase clone as well as the experimentally determined amino acid sequence of the enzyme indicated that B. licheniformis APase retains the important features conserved among other APases of Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and various human tissues.
(17) A series of plasmids has been constructed that can be used to fuse the beta-galactosidase gene (lacZ) of Escherichia coli to chromosomal genes of Bacillus subtilis.
(18) Phospholipase C from Bacillus cereus was purified to homogeneity as judged by analytical and sodium dodecyl sulphate disc gel electrophoresis and by immunoelectrophoresis.
(19) These results suggest that growth patterns of Bacillus subtilis can be altered as a result of magnetic-field-induced effects.
(20) The above-cited results, in conjunction with previous results obtained with Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus subtilis, involve diverse biochemical pathways and suggest that nutritional manipulation to alter the pattern of carbon flow in microorganisms is a generally useful means to accomplish increased sensitivity to growth inhibition by metabolite analogs.