Identification of the Gram-Positive Rumen Flora of Cattle and Sheep in Clinical Cases of Acute Indigestion

Nils Krogh

doi:10.1186/bf03547171

PATHOGENIC ORGANISMS OF THE GENUS LISTERELLA

Journal of Experimental Medicine ◽

10.1084/jem.62.2.203 ◽

1935 ◽

Vol 62 (2) ◽

pp. 203-212 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

C. V. Seastone

Keyword(s):

Guinea Pigs ◽

Gram Positive ◽

Pathogenic Organisms ◽

Myocardial Infection ◽

Cattle And Sheep

From meningitis in man, encephalitis in cattle and sheep, a myocardial infection in fowl, and a generalized infection in rabbits, different observers have isolated Gram-positive organisms which are closely related. Their cultural and serological properties are described. When injected intravenously into chickens, rabbits, or guinea pigs there is an unusual blood response, the monocytes being markedly increased. The organisms tend to localize in the myocardium with resulting necrosis.

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Daptomycin in the treatment of infective endocarditis

Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy ◽

10.36488/cmac.2018.1.35-40 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 35-40

Author(s):

Dmitriy A. Popov

Keyword(s):

Infective Endocarditis ◽

Antimicrobial Therapy ◽

Standard Treatment ◽

Multidrug Resistant ◽

Gram Positive ◽

Treatment Regimens ◽

Highly Effective ◽

Resistant Strains ◽

Lipopeptide Antibiotic ◽

Clinical Cases

This review characterizes daptomycin as a highly effective lipopeptide antibiotic being active against Gram-positive microorganisms, including multidrug resistant strains. The data reflecting the up-to-date daptomycin-based approaches to antimicrobial therapy of infective endocarditis which utilize this drug advantages over standard treatment regimens are presented. The data presented are illustrated with clinical cases.

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Influence of Cell Wall Composition on the Fossilisation of Bacteria and the Implications for the Search for Early Life Forms

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100015025 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 161 ◽

pp. 491-504 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Frances Westall

Keyword(s):

Cell Wall ◽

Life Forms ◽

Cation Binding ◽

Positive Bacterium ◽

Gram Positive ◽

Gram Positive Bacteria ◽

Transmission Electron ◽

Hydrothermal Sediments ◽

Identification Of Bacteria ◽

The Difference

AbstractThe oldest cell-like structures on Earth are preserved in silicified lagoonal, shallow sea or hydrothermal sediments, such as some Archean formations in Western Australia and South Africa. Previous studies concentrated on the search for organic fossils in Archean rocks. Observations of silicified bacteria (as silica minerals) are scarce for both the Precambrian and the Phanerozoic, but reports of mineral bacteria finds, in general, are increasing. The problems associated with the identification of authentic fossil bacteria and, if possible, closer identification of bacteria type can, in part, be overcome by experimental fossilisation studies. These have shown that not all bacteria fossilise in the same way and, indeed, some seem to be very resistent to fossilisation. This paper deals with a transmission electron microscope investigation of the silicification of four species of bacteria commonly found in the environment. The Gram positiveBacillus laterosporusand its spore produced a robust, durable crust upon silicification, whereas the Gram negativePseudomonas fluorescens, Ps. vesicularis, andPs. acidovoranspresented delicately preserved walls. The greater amount of peptidoglycan, containing abundant metal cation binding sites, in the cell wall of the Gram positive bacterium, probably accounts for the difference in the mode of fossilisation. The Gram positive bacteria are, therefore, probably most likely to be preserved in the terrestrial and extraterrestrial rock record.

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Microanatomy of the Periplasm of Bacillus Licheniformis

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100065365 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 29 ◽

pp. 262-263

Author(s):

B.K. Ghosh

Keyword(s):

Cell Wall ◽

Plasma Membrane ◽

Bacillus Licheniformis ◽

External Environment ◽

Permeability Barrier ◽

Periplasmic Space ◽

Modified Technique ◽

Gram Positive ◽

Gram Negative ◽

Gram Positive Bacteria

Periplasm of bacteria is the space outside the permeability barrier of plasma membrane but enclosed by the cell wall. The contents of this special milieu exterior could be regulated by the plasma membrane from the internal, and by the cell wall from the external environment of the cell. Unlike the gram-negative organism, the presence of this space in gram-positive bacteria is still controversial because it cannot be clearly demonstrated. We have shown the importance of some periplasmic bodies in the secretion of penicillinase from Bacillus licheniformis.In negatively stained specimens prepared by a modified technique (Figs. 1 and 2), periplasmic space (PS) contained two kinds of structures: (i) fibrils (F, 100 Å) running perpendicular to the cell wall from the protoplast and (ii) an array of vesicles of various sizes (V), which seem to have evaginated from the protoplast.

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Rapid demonstration of septic or infectious arthritis due to Gram-negative bacteria

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100123830 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 686-687

Author(s):

Jacob S. Hanker ◽

Paul R. Gross ◽

Beverly L. Giammara

Keyword(s):

Chronic Arthritis ◽

Blood Cultures ◽

Gram Negative Bacteria ◽

Infectious Arthritis ◽

Bacterial Arthritis ◽

Gram Positive ◽

Gram Negative ◽

Gram Positive Bacteria

Blood cultures are positive in approximately only 50 per cent of the patients with nongonococcal bacterial infectious arthritis and about 20 per cent of those with gonococcal arthritis. But the concept that gram-negative bacteria could be involved even in chronic arthritis is well-supported. Gram stains are more definitive in staphylococcal arthritis caused by gram-positive bacteria than in bacterial arthritis due to gram-negative bacteria. In the latter situation where gram-negative bacilli are the problem, Gram stains are helpful for 50% of the patients; they are only helpful for 25% of the patients, however, where gram-negative gonococci are the problem. In arthritis due to gram-positive Staphylococci. Gramstained smears are positive for 75% of the patients.

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Type V Bekesy Pattern: Interpretation and Clinical Utility

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/jshr.1004.733 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 733-744 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

William F. Rintelmann ◽

Earl R. Harford

Keyword(s):

Clinical Utility ◽

The Past ◽

Type V ◽

Clinical Cases

Recent studies indicate there is some disagreement concerning the interpretation and clinical utility of the Type V Bekesy pattern. Bekesy tracings obtained over the past six years from a sample of clinical cases were analyzed and a definition was established for the Type V pattern. This definition was applied to Bekesy tracings obtained from normal listeners, hypoacusics, and pseudohypoacusics. The Type V pattern was found frequently among pseudohypoacusics and only rarely among other individuals.

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