Staphylococcus Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Staphylococcus, including details on mrsa, hospitals, infection, antibiotic resistance, superbugs.

Volume 4 (2007), Issue 4 (April)

1. In vitro efficacy of newly designed vancomycin-based microparticles.
   J Cataract Refract Surg, 33(4): 702-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Staphylococcus aureus exploits cathelicidin antimicrobial peptides produced during early pneumonia to promote staphylokinase-dependent fibrinolysis.
   J Infect Dis, 195(9): 1365-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Microbiological changes in naturally fermented cassava fish (Pseudotolithus sp.) for lanhouin production.
   Int J Food Microbiol, 116(2): 287-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Crystal structure of the heme-IsdC complex, the central conduit of the Isd iron/heme uptake system in Staphylococcus aureus.
   J Biol Chem, 282(14): 10625-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Simple and sensitive bacterial quantification by a flow-based kinetic exclusion fluorescence immunoassay.
   Biosens Bioelectron, 22(11): 2500-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in children in Brazil.
   Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis, 57(4): 467-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Activity of sodium metabisulfite against planktonic and biofilm Staphylococcus species.
   Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis, 57(4): 355-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. In vitro activity of lysostaphin, mupirocin, and tea tree oil against clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
   Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis, 57(4): 413-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Is SAPHO syndrome a target for antibiotic therapy?
   Clin Rheumatol, 26(5): 817-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. The rationale for revising the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute vancomycin minimal inhibitory concentration interpretive criteria for Staphylococcus aureus.
    Clin Infect Dis, 44(9): 1208-15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Catalytic properties of Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus members of the secondary cation/proton antiporter-3 (Mrp) family are revealed by an optimized assay in an Escherichia coli host.
    J Bacteriol, 189(8): 3081-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. The transcriptional regulators NorG and MgrA modulate resistance to both quinolones and beta-lactams in Staphylococcus aureus.
    J Bacteriol, 189(8): 2996-3005. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Study of nosocomial primary bloodstream infections in a pediatric intensive care unit.
    J Trop Pediatr, 53(2): 87-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Piriformis pyomyositis with sciatica: an unrecognized complication of "unsafe" abortions.
    J Clin Rheumatol, 13(2): 87-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at a pediatric healthcare system, 1991-2003.
    Pediatr Infect Dis J, 26(4): 339-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Brief ultrasonication improves detection of biofilm-formative bacteria around a metal implant.
    Clin Orthop Relat Res, 457: 210-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Intranasal corticosteroid use is associated with lower rates of bacterial recovery in chronic rhinosinusitis.
    Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg, 136(4): 605-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Biofilm formation in an in vitro model of cochlear implants with removable magnets.
    Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg, 136(4): 583-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Biofilm formation in cochlear implants with cochlear drug delivery channels in an in vitro model.
    Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg, 136(4): 577-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Use of 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide for rapid detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by resonance light scattering.
    Anal Chim Acta, 589(2): 186-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Staphylococcus aureus sensitization and allergic disease in early childhood: population-based birth cohort study.
    J Allergy Clin Immunol, 119(4): 930-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Adhesion and detachment kinetics of several strains of Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus under three different experimental conditions.
    Food Microbiol, 24(6): 585-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Methicillin-sensitive and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: management principles and selection of antibiotic therapy.
    Dermatol Clin, 25(2): 157-64, vi. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Omiganan interaction with bacterial membranes and cell wall models. Assigning a biological role to saturation.
    Biochim Biophys Acta, 1768(5): 1277-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Evaluation of the antimicrobial mode of berberine by LC/ESI-MS combined with principal component analysis.
    J Pharm Biomed Anal, 44(1): 301-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Bioactive plants from Argentina and Bolivia.
    Fitoterapia, 78(3): 227-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Antimicrobial activity of the essential oil of Centaurea aladagensis.
    Fitoterapia, 78(3): 253-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Detection of mecA and ermA genes and simultaneous identification of Staphylococcus aureus using triplex real-time PCR from Malaysian S. aureus strain collections.
    Int J Antimicrob Agents, 29(5): 582-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Molecular basis of resistance to macrolides and lincosamides among staphylococci and streptococci from various animal sources collected in the resistance monitoring program BfT-GermVet.
    Int J Antimicrob Agents, 29(5): 528-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Synthesis and characterization of surface-grafted polyacrylamide brushes and their inhibition of microbial adhesion.
    Langmuir, 23(9): 5120-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Photocatalytic degradation of pathogenic bacteria with AgI/TiO2 under visible light irradiation.
    Langmuir, 23(9): 4982-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Role of PBP1 in cell division of Staphylococcus aureus.
    J Bacteriol, 189(9): 3525-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Higher Bcl-2 levels decrease staphylococcal superantigen-induced apoptosis of CD4+ T cells in atopic dermatitis.
    Allergy, 62(5): 520-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Rapid determination of hospital-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lineages.
    J Med Microbiol, 56: 614-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Prospective comparison of methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant community-associated Staphylococcus aureus infections in hospitalized patients.
    J Infect, 54(5): 427-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Mechanism of dihydroneopterin aldolase. NMR, equilibrium and transient kinetic studies of the Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli enzymes.
    FEBS J, 274(9): 2240-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Comparative activities of daptomycin, linezolid, and tigecycline against catheter-related methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus bacteremic isolates embedded in biofilm.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 51(5): 1656-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Genetic basis of resistance to fusidic acid in staphylococci.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 51(5): 1737-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Role of acidic pH in the susceptibility of intraphagocytic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains to meropenem and cloxacillin.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 51(5): 1627-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Rapid bactericidal activity of daptomycin against methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus peritonitis in mice as measured with bioluminescent bacteria.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 51(5): 1787-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Multiple staphylococcal cassette chromosomes and allelic variants of cassette chromosome recombinases in Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci from Norway.
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 51(5): 1671-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Comparative study of Cd(II) and Cr(VI) biosorption on Staphylococcus xylosus and Pseudomonas sp. in single and binary mixtures.
    Bioresour Technol, 98(15): 2859-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Can methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus be found in an ambulance fleet?
    Prehosp Emerg Care, 11(2): 241-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Different patterns of biofilm formation in Staphylococcus aureus under food-related stress conditions.
    Int J Food Microbiol, 116(3): 372-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. The role of singlet oxygen and oxygen concentration in photodynamic inactivation of bacteria.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 104(17): 7223-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Occurrence of vancomycin-intermediate-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Japan.
    J Infect Chemother, 13(2): 118-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. A comparative in vitro photoinactivation study of clinical isolates of multidrug-resistant pathogens.
    J Infect Chemother, 13(2): 87-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Characterization of oxacillin-susceptible mecA-positive Staphylococcus aureus: a new type of MRSA.
    J Infect Chemother, 13(2): 79-86. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Trends in the gentamicin and arbekacin susceptibility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and the genes encoding aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes.
    J Infect Chemother, 13(2): 74-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. Susceptibility of staphylococcal biofilms to enzymatic treatments depends on their chemical composition.
    Appl Microbiol Biotechnol, 75(1): 125-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia after thoracic surgery: successful treatment with linezolid after failed vancomycin therapy.
    Ann Thorac Surg, 83(5): 1888-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Induced production of emericellamides A and B from the marine-derived fungus Emericella sp. in competing co-culture.
    J Nat Prod, 70(4): 515-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Antimicrobial resistance in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from hospital and community sources in southern Jamaica.
    Int J Infect Dis, 11(3): 220-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. Cellular coating of the left ventricular assist device textured polyurethane membrane reduces adhesion of Staphylococcus aureus.
    J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 133(5): 1147-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. In vitro efficacy and pharmacodynamic indices for antibiotics against coagulase-negative staphylococcus endophthalmitis isolates.
    Ophthalmology, 114(5): 871-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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