(a.) Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus.
(a.) Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such a need has occurred in New York City, where schistosomiasis, with its protean manifestations has been seen with increasing frequency.
(2) Sarcoidosis is a disease of unknown etiology with protean manifestations.
(3) Cow's milk protein intolerance (CMPI) is recognised as an important cause of protean symptoms in infants.
(4) The symptoms are protean from unilateral headache, Horners syndrome, tinnitus, to cerebral ischemia and hemipareses.
(5) The protean clinical manifestation depends on the site and the extent of the disease and its complications.
(6) Lyme borreliosis is a protean infection caused by B burgdorferi, a recently recognized arthropod-borne spirochete.
(7) The fossil fuel resistance, like the fossil fuel industry, is protean and sprawling – and each win reverberates for decades to come, because that’s how long pipelines and coal mines are built to last.
(8) Congenital intrapericardial aneurysm of the left atrial wall is a rare anomaly with protean manifestations.
(9) It was important for the physician to have a high index of suspicion based on a protean chief complaint, a lack of preceding history of illness, the time of presentation to the ED, and more subtle physical findings such as minor skin bruising, retinal hemorrhage, and distended abdomen.
(10) Amongst the protean extra-intestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease, scant mention is made of muscle involvement.
(11) This adds another entity to the already protean manifestations of M. pneumoniae infection.
(12) The signs and symptoms of the syndrome are protean, and the underlying cancer is often occult.
(13) Widespread drug abuse, a comparatively recent medicosocial phenomenon, presents protean clinical patterns and challenging diagnostic problems daily that mimic classical medical syndromes.
(14) The infants all had multiple skin haemangiomas as well as deep-seated lesions in many different tissues that caused protean clinical manifestations and management problems.
(15) The latter has protean manifestations, but bouts of fever with low parasitaemia and blood disorders are predominant.
(16) Only the subsequent course of the tumor enabled us to identify the site in the sphenoid sinus, an atypical area surrounded by numerous neurovascular structures which, if involved, may give rise to a protean and nonspecific symptom-complex.
(17) While qualitatively normal, these precursors accumulate to cause protean signs and symptoms.
(18) Symptomatology was protean, clinical findings minimal, relapses frequent, and results of laboratory investigations, including virological studies, were generally negative.
(19) Both clinicians and pathologists must be aware of the protean manifestations of AIDS in order to establish an accurate and complete diagnosis.
(20) Although the hallmark of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection is pneumonia, the organism is also responsible for a protean array of other symptoms.
Proteus
Definition:
(n.) A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed different shapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance or principles.
(n.) A genus of aquatic eel-shaped amphibians found in caves in Austria. They have permanent external gills as well as lungs. The eyes are small and the legs are weak.
(n.) A changeable protozoan; an amoeba.
Example Sentences:
(1) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(2) Both Shigella and Salmonella transferred multi-drug resistance to some enterobacteria--E. coli and Proteus as well as to Salmonella typhimurium when the latter was also present in the intestinal tract; of these some 10--40 per cent acquire the multi-drug resistance of Salmonella heidelberg and Shigella sonnei.
(3) In addition, it has excellent antibacterial activity against indole-positive Proteus strains against which conventional Cephalosporins are ineffective.
(4) Bacteria isolated in urine cultures were: Escherichia coli (60%); Proteus mirabilis (10%); Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Citrobacter sp.
(5) Over 90% of gram-negative bacilli, except Proteus spp., were inhibited by 3.12 mug of BB-K8 per ml.
(6) Eight of the nine (88.9%) Proteus vulgaris isolates gave a positive spot indole test; one (11.1%) gave a negative result.
(7) Except for Proteus mirabilis none of the bacteria were digested with the liberation of soluble materials into the medium.
(8) When the original ratio was 100:1, the staphylococci did not reach 5 x 10(6) cells per milliliter at 10, 15, 22, or 30 C (with one exception), when growing with cultures representing six species of coliform bacteria and two of Proteus.
(9) It inhibited some Enterobacter and indole-positive Proteus, but it was less active against these later species than was cefamandole, cefuroxime, or cefoxitin.
(10) Proteus mirabilis 2573 (ATCC 49565) produces an acidic capsular polysaccharide which was shown from glycose analysis, carboxyl reduction, methylation, periodate oxidation, and the application of one dimensional and two-dimensional high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance techniques to be a high-molecular-weight polymer of branched trisaccharide units composed of 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose (N-acetyl-D-glucosamine), 2-acetamido-2,6-dideoxy-L-galactose (N-acetyl-L-fucosamine), and D-glucuronic acid, having the structure: [formula: see text] P. mirabilis 2573 also produces an O:6 serotype lipopolysaccharide in which the O-chain component has the same structure as the homologous capsular polysaccharide.
(11) Proteus vaccine introduced in combination with adsorbed staphylococcal toxoid essentially stimulated the synthesis of anti-alpha-staphylolysin.
(12) Netilmycin was found to be effective against Staphylococci, Pseudomonas and Enterobacter, Ceftizoxime against Serratia, Acinetobacter, Proteus and Klebsiella.
(13) At 1, 3, 7, and 14 days, intrapulmonary killing was assessed by inhalation challenge with Staphylococcus aureus or Proteus mirabilis and by comparing the number of viable bacteria remaining in the lungs at 4 h between O3-exposed and control animals.
(14) The effect of Brilliant Green on motility was studied with Salmonella anatum, S. derby, S. tennessee, Escherichia coli, Proteus vulgaris, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
(15) Subsequent fecal samples showed a progressive supplantation of E coli by Klebsiella, Enterobacter and Proteus.
(16) Most (88%) of the isolated bacteria were Gram-negative rods of the species E. coli, Enterobacter, Klebsiella, Citrobacter, Proteus, Serratia, Pseudomonas and Acinetobacter.
(17) The Proteus syndrome, with its hemihypertrophy, macrodactyly and exostoses, has features which would indicate that the phenotype results from such events.
(18) Synergy of TOB with CET could be demonstrated against 83% of Klebsiella pneumoniae, 78% of E. coli, 44% of Proteus rettgeri and 39% of Proteus inconstans.
(19) Combinations of gentamicin-nalidixic acid against Proteus mirabilis and rifampin-amphotericin B against Candida albicans are used as examples to demonstrate the technique.
(20) In 1950 the 1st case of gram-negative shock to be recognized as such occurred in a 93-year-old man who suffered shock due to a Proteus bacteremia following a transurethral resection.