Enterococcus

9.3. Lauryl tryptose broth (MERCK) Tryptose ..................................................................................................................... 20.0 g Lactose.........................................................................................................................5.0 g Dipotassium hydrogen phosphate, K2HPO4 ..............................................................2.75 g Potassium dihydrogen phosphate, KH2PO4..................................................…

A female Mini Schnauzer named Maggie and found that after a while of having her, she started chewing on her back & legs with some spots on her looking pretty raw. We examined her and knew she didn't have fleas and we started to worry that her hair wouldn't grow back in the raw areas. We decided to take her to the vet to see what was wrong. The vet had the usual answer of the dog has allergies and could either give her shots (expensive) or try a cream/lotion. We decided to go to the pet store…

UTIs are the results of bacteria that entering the urethra from surrounding skin especial by the anus. The common type of bacterium is Eschericia coli found in faeces. Other contributing factors of UTIs are Staphylococcus, Enterococcus, proteus, Klebsiella and occasionally Candida abicans (yeast). Infection enters the urinary system through the urethra of the man’s penile opening and through the women’s urethra at the Vulva area. Women are more susceptible to UTIs because of…

crisis and to hopefully encourage the community and legislative to raise funds in order to increase antibiotic production. The “ESKAPE” pathogens that are currently causing the majority of infections and are resistant to current antibiotics are Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter…

Three agar slants and three nutrient broths were inoculated with Staphylococcus epidermidis using aseptic techniques for transferring samples from broth, agar, and plate cultures. A sterile inoculating loop was used to transfer a loopful of culture from the culture to the sterile media. The lip of the culture tube and inoculated media tube was flamed before and after transfer. The inoculating loop was reserialized after transfer was complete. An agar deep transfer of S. epidermidis was also done…

Introduction Clinical laboratories have relied historically on phenotypic methods (i.e. culture and biochemical tests) to identify microorganisms. This can be time consuming task especially with slow growing organisms such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Molecular methods are now well established in the diagnosis of infectious disease. . (Harwood 2012). For the purpose of this essay I will give a brief overview of both traditional and molecular methods that re used today. I will focus on the pros…

Table 1 shows the all the isolates that produced a zone of inhibition for the ESKAPE pathogen, Staphylococcus aureus. In total, twenty six isolates were tested against Staphylococcus aureus. However, only eight showed a zone of inhibition. The size of the zones varied for each microorganism. Table 2 shows the results of the biochemical and morphological tests. The test that were performed were Sim, FTM, oxidase, catalase, MSA, blood agar, Acid fast stain and endospore stain. The sim and…

common in urinary tract infections, have been prepared in a lyophilized way in the microbiology laboratory of Fasa University of Medical Sciences: Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923, Staphylococcus epidermidis ATCC 29212, S.saprophyticus ATCC 15305, Enterococcus fecalis ATCC 29212, Proteus vulgaris PTCC 1079, Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC 10031, Escherichia coli ATCC 25922. The leaves of C. viminalis were collected from the decorated trees in the city of Fasa in April 2015. The plant identity was…

infections. The CDC estimates that 2 million Americans are infected with drug–resistant bacteria every year, of whom 23,000 do not survive (Antibiotic Resistance Threats, 2013) The greatest threats include Clostridium difficile, vancomycin–resistant Enterococcus, and drug–resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae. The world no longer produces new antimicrobial research at a sustainable rate, thus giving rise to the dominance of mutated organisms. The natural evolution of infectious microbes such as…

Urinary tract infection is one of the most common bacterial infections in childhood, affecting up to 8 % of girls and 2 % of boys before the age of 11 years. The presentation of UTI varies with age; in infancy, symptoms are often generic including fever, lethargy or irritability, vomiting, diarrhea, poor feeding, failure to thrive, septicemia and febrile convulsion. Several textbooks mention prolonged neonatal jaundice as one symptom of UTI. Jaundice is very common in newborn babies occurring in…