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  • ...yticus'' include methicillin, gentamycin, erythormycin, and uniquely among staphylococci, glycopeptide antibiotics([http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=ret ...her hand, the region is most likely responsible for the diversification of staphylococci species and enables the bacteria to successfully colonize and infect the hu
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  • ...[5], causing 10-20% of all UTIs in sexually active young women. Like other Staphylococci, ''S. saprophyticus'' is globular and resembles clusters of grapes. ''S. sa In 1962, Torres Pereira first isolated a coagulase-negative Staphylococci with antigen 51 from women with acute UTI. [4]. This antigen was later clas
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  • ...y are similarly shaped, form chains because they divide only in one plane. Staphylococci are facultative anaerobes. They mainly grow by aerobic respiration, or ferm ...genes that can be transferred to other bacteria. Other diseases caused by staphylococci include boils, sinusitis, emesis, diarrhea, endocarditis, scalded skin synd
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  • ...biotics and antimicrobials, the only remaining treatment for most of these staphylococci is glycopeptide antibiotic vancomycin; however, a vancomycin resistant stra ...nds are where the differences of resistance and pathogenicity are located. Staphylococci and low-GC-content gram-positive bacteria assisted in changing their virule
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  • ...pherical cells, if the septum forms a multiple angles, the closely related staphylococci will result. In the case of ''Micrococcus tetragenus'', a tetrad is formed
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  • ...and grow large on a rich medium. ''Staphylococcus aureus'' and their genus Staphylococci are facultative anaerobes which means they grow by aerobic respiration or f ...nyi, F. & Gemmell, C. G. Pathogenicity and virulence of coagulase negative staphylococci in relation to adherence, hydrophobicity, and toxin production in vitro. J.
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  • ...hydrolyzing and inactivating the drug however, it is exclusively found in staphylococci (Chambers, 1999). Penicillin resistance in S. pneumoniae occurs by alterati ...F. 1999. Penicillin-Binding Protein–Mediated Resistance in Pneumococci and Staphylococci. JID
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  • ...his genus, S. hominis is known as the third most common Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) (6). CoNS are opportunistic pathogens that exist in the normal human ...and Schleifer, K. "Modified Oxidase and Benzidine Tests for Separation of Staphylococci from Micrococci". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 1981. Volume 13. p. 103
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  • ...diseases, microbes such as tubercle bacilli, streptococci, pneumococci and staphylococci have been demonstrated. These respiratory bacteria are dispersed in air in ...ith antibiotic-resistant staphylococci. Methicillin (oxacillin)-resistant staphylococci were discovered in 17 out of 24 keyboards using genetic and biochemical ana
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  • ...ces (CDS)[[#10. References|[17,18]]]. Occurrences of CRISPR are rare among Staphylococci, but S. intermedius contain a CRISPR locus of the Nmeni and Mtube subtype,[ ...) of 93.61% confirmed the genetic similarity among SIG, compared to other Staphylococci[[#10. References|[17]]].
    27 KB (3,409 words) - 19:13, 12 December 2023
  • ...ted a positive result. The medium shows good yellow growth and is presumed Staphylococci because it is not inhibited by NaCl. The organism produces acid from Mannit
    5 KB (706 words) - 20:49, 8 December 2017
  • Michels, R. et al. (2021) Update on coagulase-negative staphylococci-what the clinician should know, Microorganisms. U.S. National Library of Me
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  • ...ave the same activity against coagulase-positive versus coagulase-negative staphylococci suggesting interference with the enzyme coagulase as a possible mechanism o
    24 KB (3,658 words) - 19:46, 15 December 2015
  • ...rial meningitis. A culture of the cerebral spinal fluid grew gram positive staphylococci. Upon further tests the bacteria was found to be ''S. oralis'', making this
    7 KB (1,024 words) - 16:08, 22 January 2016
  • ...ay be transferred from one microorganism to another, as is the case with ''Staphylococci'' carrying QAC-resistant plasmids encoding efflux pumps [3,7,20]. Therefor ...r, E. 2005. Widespread distribution of disinfectant resistance genes among Staphylococci of bovine and caprine origin in Norway. Journal of Clinical Microbiology,
    16 KB (2,123 words) - 04:41, 27 December 2012
  • ...nce Typing (MLST) are commonly used to study the molecular epidemiology of Staphylococci(4). ...orizontal Gene Transfer.(5)’ In addition, S. aureus, S. pyogenes and other Staphylococci can synthesize toxins like Pyrogenic toxin superantigens, Exfoliative toxin
    23 KB (3,294 words) - 03:34, 20 August 2010
  • ...mycin also showed antimicrobial activity against multiple other species of staphylococci, enterococci, and streptococci. Based on this action, scientists predict th
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  • ...as <i>α-hemolytic</i> and <i>nonhemolytic streptococci, coagulase negative staphylococci</i>, <i>Neisseria, Flavescens, Corynebacterium, Actinomyces, Leptotrichiae< ...ine, 2014.</ref>. The most common isolated bacterial pathogens include: <i>staphylococci coagulase</i> positive and by <i>β non-hemolytic streptococci</i> <ref nam
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  • ...f the gene. This is of interest because the nickase gene is very common on staphylococci plasmids. It may be feasible to manipulate the CRISPR/cas system to slow th ...imer, Erik J. 2008. CRISPR Interference Limits Horizontal Gene Transfer in Staphylococci by Targeting DNA. Science 322: 1843-1845.] http://www.sciencemag.org/conten
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  • ...systems in <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> and <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i>. In Staphylococci, phenol-soluble modulin (PSM) peptides have surfactant molecule properties ...net.42.110807.091640 Novick RP and Geisinger E. 2008. Quorum sensing in <i>Staphylococci. Annu Rev Genet</i> 42:541-564.]
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