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Phage Therapy against Staphylococcus aureus: Selection and Optimization of Production Protocols of Novel Broad-Spectrum Silviavirus Phages

Pharmaceutics, 2022
Background: Phage therapy a promising antimicrobial strategy to address antimicrobial resistance for infections caused by the major human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus.
Camille Kolenda, Mathieu Medina, Mélanie Bonhomme, Floriane Laumay, Tiphaine Roussel-Gaillard, Patricia Martins-Simoes, Anne Tristan, Fabrice Pirot, Tristan Ferry, Frédéric Laurent, PHAGEinLYON Study Group   +10 more
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Determination of a Tentative Epidemiological Cut-Off Value (ECOFF) for Dalbavancin and Enterococcus faecium

Antibiotics, 2021
Dalbavancin is a lipoglycopeptide antibiotic that shows potent activity against Gram-positive bacteria. It circumvents vanB-type glycopeptide resistance mechanisms; however, data on the in vitro activity of dalbavancin for Enterococcus faecium (E ...
Robert E. Weber, Carola Fleige, Franziska Layer, Bernd Neumann, Michael Kresken, Guido Werner   +5 more
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Nanobiosystems for Antimicrobial Drug-Resistant Infections

Nanomaterials, 2021
The worldwide increased bacterial resistance toward antimicrobial therapeutics has led investigators to search for new therapeutic options. Some of the options currently exploited to treat drug-resistant infections include drug-associated nanosystems ...
Foteini Gkartziou, Nikolaos Giormezis, Iris Spiliopoulou, Sophia G. Antimisiaris   +3 more
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First Report of Food Poisoning Due to Staphylococcal Enterotoxin Type B in Döner Kebab (Italy)

Pathogens, 2023
Staphylococcal food poisoning results from the consumption of food contaminated by staphylococcal enterotoxins. In July 2022, the Turin local health board was notified of a suspected foodborne outbreak involving six children who had consumed döner kebab ...
Angelo Romano, Simona Carrella, Sara Rezza, Yacine Nia, Jacques Antoine Hennekinne, Daniela Manila Bianchi, Francesca Martucci, Fabio Zuccon, Margherita Gulino, Carmela Di Mari, Teresa Zaccaria, Lucia Decastelli   +11 more
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Profiles of coagulase-positive and -negative staphylococci in retail pork: prevalence, antimicrobial resistance, enterotoxigenicity, and virulence factors [PDF]

Animal Bioscience, 2021
Objective The present study aimed to investigate the occurrence and species of coagulase-positive staphylococci (CoPS) and coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) in retail pork meat samples collected during nationwide monitoring.
Gi Yong Lee, Soo-Jin Yang
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Mandatory Notification of Panton–Valentine Leukocidin-Positive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Saxony, Germany: Analysis of Cases from the City of Leipzig in 2019

Microorganisms, 2023
In Germany, Saxony is the only federal state where the detection of a Panton–Valentine Leukocidin (PVL)-positive Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has to be notified to the local health authority (LHA).
Utta Helbig, Constance Riemschneider, Guido Werner, Nancy Kriebel, Franziska Layer-Nicolaou   +4 more
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Strain diversity and infection durations of Staphylococcus spp. and Streptococcus spp. causing intramammary infections in dairy cows

Journal of Dairy Science, 2023
: To effectively prevent and control bovine mastitis, farmers and their advisors need to take infection pathways and durations into account. Still, studies exploring both aspects through molecular epidemiology with sampling of entire dairy cow herds over
S. Woudstra, N. Wente, Y. Zhang, S. Leimbach, M.K. Gussmann, C. Kirkeby, V. Krömker   +6 more
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In Vitro Anti-Biofilm Activity of Bacteriophage K (ATCC 19685-B1) and Daptomycin against Staphylococci

Microorganisms, 2021
The purpose of the present study was to investigate anti-staphylococcal activity of daptomycin and bacteriophage K, alone or in combination, against biofilm-producers and non-producers S. aureus and S. epidermidis strains, under biofilm forming and cells’
Maria Plota, Eleni Sazakli, Nikolaos Giormezis, Foteini Gkartziou, Fevronia Kolonitsiou, Michalis Leotsinidis, Sophia G. Antimisiaris, Iris Spiliopoulou   +7 more
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Inducible Clindamycin Resistance and Biofilm Production among Staphylococci Isolated from Tertiary Care Hospitals in Nepal

Infectious Disease Reports, 2021
Resistance to antibiotics, biofilm formation and the presence of virulence factors play important roles in increased mortality associated with infection by staphylococci.
Sarita Manandhar, Raju Shrestha, Ratna Shova Tuladhar, Sunil Lekhak   +3 more
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Detection of PBP2a (penicillin-binding protein 2a) and mecA gene in methicillin resistant staphylococci originated from animals [PDF]

Acta Veterinaria, 2012
For the purpose of detecting methicillin (oxacillin) resistance in staphylococcal strains, in a number of microbiological laboratories only disc diffusion method with cefoxitin and/or oxacillin discs is used.
Ašanin Jelena, Aksentijević Ksenija, Zdravković N., Ašanin Ružica, Mišić D.   +4 more
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