(1) A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium.
(2) Acid-fast bacilli were isolated from 3 out of 41 mice inoculoted with heat killed bacilli.
(3) In two there was invasion by Mycobacterium leprae into the brain tissue, with neuronal cells and glial cells containing intracellular bacilli.
(4) Cure rates for nosocomial pneumonias from gram-negative bacilli treated with these 2 therapies also were similar (70% versus 60%, respectively).
(5) Fever was also associated with a higher incidence of lymphopenia, hyponatraemia, hypoalbuminaemia and many acid-fast bacilli on sputum smear.
(7) Over 90% of gram-negative bacilli, except Proteus spp., were inhibited by 3.12 mug of BB-K8 per ml.
(8) Middle-ear exploration in six patients revealed abundant granulation tissue; multiple granulomas and acid-fast bacilli were demonstrated on a section of tissue from one patient with a nonhealing mastoidectomy incision.
(9) 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.
(10) At the completion of reversion the wall material synthesized has similar characteristics to those of the walls of the parent bacilli, containing peptidoglycan and teichoic and teichuronic acids in about the same proportions.
(11) Electron microscopic studies were also performed to elucidate whether the formation of an electron-transparent zone (ETZ) around phagocytized bacilli was linked to their intramacrophagic survival.
(12) In this method, the bacilli appeared earlier and more frequently than in the routine culture method on egg medium.
(13) Melioidosis is an infection caused by a gram-negative bacilli, Pseudomonas pseudomallei.
(14) Three major groups of proteins, which differed markedly with respect to profile of release and location in intact bacilli, were defined.
(15) Patients who developed new infection with gram-negative bacilli had fever, in contrast to patients with new gram-positive cocci infection.
(16) Histopathologic lesions and acid-fast bacilli were rare during the first 4 months of infection and then, with time, increased in prevalence and severity.
(17) The antigenicity of extra-cellular material between the bacilli in undisturbed cultured colonies and that of the pathogen per se were measured and correlated by means of the semi quantitative complement fixation method after incubation for 72 h at 37 C. When the amount of extracellular substance in wild-type T1 (virulent) bacteria was compared by electron microscopy with that in avirulent strains of Y. pestis, with and without passage through guinea pigs, we found that the material of interest was greatly attenuated or even absent in colonies that had not been passed through animals, whereas passage markedly augmented production of the material.
(18) Fifteen bone marrow transplant (BMT) patients who received three 0.12% chlorhexidine digluconate (CHX) mouthrinses daily for eight weeks were monitored weekly for the occurrence of oral opportunistic Gram-negative bacilli (GNB).
(19) Amongst 7 cases with bacilli which were originally resistant to Isoniazid (4 and 3 respectively), there were 2 failures at 6 months one in each group with acquired resistance to Rifampicin observed at the time of the failure.
(20) After repeated immunization with sonicate from about 0.8 microgram of BCG bacilli, five components still induced a marked antibody response.
Cocci
Definition:
(pl. ) of Coccus
Example Sentences:
(1) Concerning species isolated from the blood, gram-positive cocci were isolated more frequently than gram-negative bacteria, and Staphylococcus epidermidis was the most common species.
(2) Minimal bactericidal concentrations for gram-positive cocci approximated the minimal inhibitory concentrations.
(3) These antimicrobial agents are very active against gram-positive organisms, including MRSA and appear to be potent agents against infections due to gram-positive cocci, particularly MRSA.
(4) MicroScan (Baxter Healthcare Corp., West Sacramento, Calif.) has recently developed a microdilution system for identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing of gram-positive cocci.
(5) Patients who developed new infection with gram-negative bacilli had fever, in contrast to patients with new gram-positive cocci infection.
(6) The weak correlation obtained with the probe for ANT(6) was due to the fact that gram-positive cocci can also be streptomycin resistant by synthesis of APH(3") or ANT(3")(9) and by ribosomal mutation.
(7) "Corncob" configurations consisting of filamentous bacteria surrounded by Gram-positive cocci, and "bristle brush" formations comprising corncobs surrounded by long rods were observed in the superficial layer of the plaque.
(8) The numbers of spirochaetes, other motile microorganisms, non-motile filaments, rods or cocci and of granulocytes, monocytes and epithelial cells were determined.
(9) Of these 38% were Gram-positive rods, 27% Gram-positive cocci, 28% Gram-negative rods and 7% were Gram-negative cocci.
(10) The half of isolated cocci was Enterococcus, followed by S. epidermidis and S. aureus.
(11) The experimental-clinical investigations have demonstrated the high effectiveness of the native preparation Nitazole against the Gram-negative non-spore-forming anaerobic bacteria, Gram-positive anaerobic cocci, spore-forming Clostridium, certain facultative anaerobes.
(12) (23 patients), other gram-negative bacilli (five patients), staphylococci (19 patients), other gram-positive cocci (seven patients), and Rickettsia conorii (five patients).
(13) Anaerobes, mainly gram-positive cocci, were recovered from a quarter of ear aspirates in acute otitis media in about one third mixed with aerobic and facultative bacteria.
(14) The activity of CI-934, a new carboxy-quinolone antibiotic, against gram-positive cocci and bacilli and gram-negative bacilli was compared with that of reference antibiotics.
(15) Gram-positive cocci and gram-negative bacilli were found in equal numbers, with a definite increasing trend of gram-negative bacilli over the last 4 years.
(16) 80% of the cases showed Leptothrix alone or together wihh lactobacilli or cocci.
(17) These data do not support the hypothesis that the R determinants were acquired recently from a single common origin and suggest an easy exchange of genetic information among the Gram-positive cocci.
(18) Gram-negative bacilli were the most common isolates from the bloodstream of dogs with bacteremia (46%), and gram-positive cocci and anaerobic bacteria were isolated from 36% and 31% of positive cultures, respectively; 15% of positive cultures were polymicrobial.
(19) In most centers, gram-positive cocci have become the most common isolates.
(20) In the anaerobic microflora, the numbers of cocci, clostridia and bacteroides were suppressed while there were minor changes in the numbers of bifidobacteria.