...Gayan Wijesinghe; Ayomi Dilhari; Buddhika Gayani; Nilwala Kottegoda; Lakshman Samaranayake; Manjula Weerasekera Objective: Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus dual-species biofilm infections are notoriously difficult to manage. This study aimed at investigating the influence of four...

...Wadha AlFouzan; Aneesah Al-Haddad; Edet Udo; Bindu Mathew; Rita Dhar Objective: This study was undertaken to determine the frequency of Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-producing Staphylococcus aureus among strains isolated in our laboratory and to study the association of PVL-positive strains...

...Mohammad Motamedifar; Parvin Hassanzadeh; Narjes Ghafari Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the nasal carriage rate of Staphylococcus aureus in hemodialysis patients and the antibiogram of all isolated S. aureus from carriers. Subjects and Methods: A cross-sectional study...

.... Myelodysplasia Renal abscess Staphylococcus aureus 5 10 1996 17 9 2008 Medical Principles and Practice Case Report Med Principles Pract 1997;6:222-225 Received: October 5,1996 Revised: January 29.1997 Sadiqa H. Ali Eman M. AI Onaizi Department of Pediatrics, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital...

...%) leukocytosis (>10,000/mm 3 ). Cerebrospinal fluid culture yielded a pathogen in 873 of 2,260 (38.6%) patients. The most common pathogen was Streptococcus pneumoniae , followed by Neisseria meningitidis and Staphylococcus aureus . Overall mortality was 425 of 2,408 (17.6%). Pathogen-specific mortality was 60...

...Tz. Dimitrov; E.E. Udo; S. Grover Objective: To investigate the carriage of Staphylococcus aureus among doctors and nurses in Infectious Diseases Hospital, Kuwait, following the detection of 3 cases of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). Materials and Methods: A total of 260 nasal and throat...