… The major band was probably AH since it was absent after electrophoresis of similar
preparations from a nonhemolytic mutant (SJ Cavalieri and I. S. Snyder, unpublished data). …

… (4; SJ Cavalieri and IS Snyder, J. Med. Microbiol., in press). … gradients as previously described
(Cavalieri and Snyder, in … and absorbed as described by Cavalieri and Snyder (in press)…

To gain further evidence for the role of the Escherichia coli alpha-hemolysin in pathogenesis,
its in vitro effects on human peripheral leukocyte function were studied. Leukocytes …

The rise of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis has complicated therapy for
tuberculosis and led us to search for a potentially active combination of drugs against these …

β-Lactamases produced by urine isolates from patients in long-term care facilities (LTCFs),
outpatient, clinics, and one hospital in a US community were characterized. A total of 1.3% of …

A study was designed to assess the impact of the VITEK 2 automated system and the Advanced
Expert System (AES) on the clinical laboratory of a typical university-based hospital. A …

The E Test (PDM Epsilometer; AB Biodisk, Solna, Sweden) was compared with microbroth
dilution and disk diffusion for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Nocardia as a collaborative …

Alpha haemolysin, produced by Escherichia coli, grown in a chemically defined medium, was
purified 19-fold and the endotoxin content reduced 2176-fold by ultrafiltration and glycerol-…

MICs of amikacin, cefoxitin, ciprofloxacin, clarithromycin, doxycycline, and imipenem were
determined by Etest for 100 clinical strains of rapidly growing mycobacteria and compared …

Background Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP),
and health care–associated pneumonia (HCAP) are associated with substantial morbidity, …