Staphlococcus aureus

Creaser reported that staphlococcus aureus forms an inducible f5-galactosidase166. The production of this enzyme is inhibited by the addition of gramicidin. Strictly speaking, gramicidin does not inhibit the enzyme directly but this method could be used as the basis of a sensitive assay method. 

Joseph Lister introduced phenol (carbolic acid) as a disinfectant in 1967. It has been the standard disinfectant to which other disinfectants are compared under the same conditions. The result of this comparison is the phenol coefficient. Salmonella typhi, a pathogen of the digestive system, and Staphlococcus aureus, a common wound pathogen, are typically used to determine phenol coefficients. A disinfectant with a phenol coefficient of 1.0 has the same effectiveness as phenol (Dorland s Illustrated Medical Dictionar). A coefficient less than 1.0 means that the disinfectant is less effective than phenol and greater than 1.0 is more effective than phenol. Phenol coefficients are reported separately for the different test organisms. 

Fig. (45). Survival curves for Staphlococcus aureus bacteremia. The P value is for the difference between the two groups at 40 weeks.

Bachert C, Gevaert P, van Cauwenberge P Staphlococcus aureus entertoxins a key in airway disease Allergy 2002 57 480-487. 

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There is a growing body of literature demonstrating antimicrobial capabilities of ICPs like polyaniline [63, 64]. This creates potential for blending ICPs with other matrices to yield blends with antimicrobial properties. Nand et al. (2013) have prepared blends of polyaniline and linear low density PE and evaluated their antimicrobial potential [3]. Following JIS Z 2801 2000 assay, 1x10 colony forming units of Staphlococcus aureus ATCC... 

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