(n.) St. Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused inflammation of the skin, which, starting usually from a single point, spreads gradually over its surface. It is usually regarded as contagious, and often occurs epidemically.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ten children had 18 episodes of erysipelas-like erythema which proved to be specific for the disease.
(2) In an attempt to characterize the immuno response of the animal organism to experimental infection, ELISA and immunoblotting were used to test the antibody levels of erysipelas hyperimmune sera (HIS) which had been induced by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae.
(3) Monoclonal IgM-antibodies specific for arthritogenic erysipelas bacteria (Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, serovar 2, strain T28) were isolated from rats suffering from erysipelas polyarthritis.
(4) It was noted that the use of methyluracil and prodigiosan in the combined treatment of erysipelas promoted an increase in the efficacy of the antibiotic therapy owing to acceleration of the local inflammation regression and the favourable effect of the treatment on the cell immunity.
(5) Erysipelas was diagnosed in chukar partridges (Alectoris graeca) kept as hunting stock.
(6) A causal relationship between hyperpyrexia and tumor regression was first suggested in 1866, when Busch reported the cure of a histologically diagnosed sarcoma in a middle-aged woman, following a bout of erysipelas.
(7) In an outbreak of idiopathic erysipelas ten women patients, aged 42-74, in a long-stay unit of a psychiatric hospital were simultaneously affected.
(8) The "skin window" test with phytohemagglutinin and pyrogenal reveals the multiple character of disturbances in the cooperative interaction of dermal T-lymphocytes and macrophages in patients with clinical forms of erysipelas, which indicates the necessity of differentiated immunological correction.
(9) A diabetic patient is described presenting psoriasis, necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum, granuloma annulare, and vitiligo and with a history of recurrent erysipelas and mycotic infections.
(10) We prospectively studied 42 adult patients with acute dermis and soft-tissue infections (27 with erysipelas and 15 with acute cellulitis) involving the lower limb in all except one case.
(11) The measurement of transcutaneous oxygen pressure can supplement the classic parameters of inflammation as a valuable tool for follow-up examinations in patients with erysipelas.
(12) It is an unusual case simulating a facial erysipela.
(13) At the same time the pre-fascial lymph-drainage is enhanced except in cases with recurrent erysipelas or after injection of the tracer into the border of an ulcer.
(14) The reaction of antigen-dependent E-rosette formation with the hemolytic streptococcal antigen in erysipelas patients is indicative of the ambiguous role of the specific immunological transformation of the body in respect of the infective agent antigens in different clinical forms of the disease and is of prognostic importance as regards the chronic transformation of the infectious process and the development of the relapses of the disease.
(15) Turkeys were vaccinated via the drinking water with a commercial live erysipelas vaccine licensed for use in swine.
(16) In determination (in the precipitation reaction in agar gel) of antibodies to the polysaccharide (streptococcus, group A) in the sera of patients suffering from erysipelas there were revealed antibodies against the specific determinant of polysaccharide A.
(17) Immunohistochemically Erysipelas-antigen was demonstrated in the synovial membrane even of those inflamed joints from which no living bacteria had been isolated.
(18) (1961) already suggested that a shock-like pathogenesis existed in the swine erysipelas infection.
(19) Plasma copper was unchanged in patients with erysipelas, but increased in other types of bacterial infections.
(20) Since serotypes 1 and 2 were isolated from cases of septicaemia in pigs, and since serotypes 1, 2, 4 and 7 were isolated from cases of arthritis, it was suggested that factors other than serotype were important in causing the various forms of swine erysipelas.
Streptococcus
Definition:
(n.) A long or short chain of micrococci, more or less curved.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, after the cessation of this treatment Streptococcus viridans grew in her blood again.
(2) The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene for a cell surface protein antigen (SpaA) of Streptococcus sobrinus MT3791 (serotype g) was determined.
(3) The amount of intracellular, iodophilic, glycogen-like polysaccharide (IPS) present in cells of two strains of Streptococcus mutans at various stages of growth in a chemically defined medium was determined by quantitative electron microscopy.
(4) Cultures of Streptococcus mutans HS-6, OMZ-176, Ingbritt C, 6715-wt13, and pooled human plaque were grown in trypticase soy media with or without 1% sucrose.
(5) The reaction components and conditions affecting CAMP factor (Streptococcus agalactiae) induced lysis of target cells have been investigated.
(6) The erm gene from L. reuteri was shown to be related to the erm gene from pIP501 (Streptococcus agalactiae) by DNA-DNA hybridization.
(7) Two patients are described in whom Streptococcus bovis bacteremia was the only clue to the presence of a colonic neoplasm.
(8) Presented are the clinical, pathologic, and virulence features of sudden death due to Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus.
(9) N10-Methyl-5,8-dideaza-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolate (2) exhibited the most potent antifolate activity against L. casei (IC50 = 2.8 nM) and Streptococcus faecium (IC50 = 0.57 nM).
(10) Sterile vegetations were produced in rabbits by placing catheters in the inferior vena cava, tricuspid or aortic valves, and thoracic or abdominal aorta and then were infected by the intravenous inoculation of Streptococcus sanguis.
(11) Streptococcus faecalis grown with glucose as the primary energy source contains a single, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP)-specific 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase.
(12) In addition to detecting three major antigenic variants of malic enzyme within this group, both antisera readily reacted with Streptococcus faecalis malic enzyme.
(13) Streptococcus B was the microorganism most frequently isolated (26.7%), followed by S. epidermidis (19.8%), E. coli (13.7%) and S. aureus (10.68%).
(14) The type-specific cell wall polysaccharide antigen was extracted, purified, and characterized from type f Streptococcus mutans strain OMZ175 and MT557.
(15) A regimen of a single intramuscular dose of penicillin G-streptomycin was compared with regimens of three oral doses of amoxicillin and two oral doses of penicillin V to prevent Streptococcus sanguis endocarditis in rabbits with experimentally induced valvular heart lesions.
(16) No chemical or immunological differences were observed in the cell wall carbohydrate of the noncapsulated streptococcus, 89R50, and that of its capsulated progenitor.
(17) Group D Streptococcus, both enterococci and nonenterococci, should be considered pathogenic in the neonate until proved otherwise.
(18) The pH effect on the nisine biosynthesis during the cultivation of Streptococcus lactis was studied at pH 5,8 6,7 and 7,2.
(19) Pneumonococcus accounted for 50 per cent, and streptococcus for 15 per cent of infections; there was one episode each of Haemophilus influenzae and meningococcus; in 25 per cent, no organism was isolated.
(20) Intra-amniotic infection (six of 16 versus 26 of 120) and endometritis (four of ten versus three of 94) were significantly more common in group B streptococcus patients.