: Introduction: Enteric bacteria causing nosocomial infections are often resistant to third-generation cephalosporins due to the production of extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs). Objective: To describe and characterize the ESBLs pattern present in Klebsiella pneumoniae and Serratia marcescens st...
Background The increment of resistant strains to commonly used antibiotics in clinical practices places in evidence the urgent need to search for new compounds with antibacterial activity. The adaptations that Antarctic microorganisms have developed, due to the extreme environment that they inhabit,...
Background: Light can be absorbed by bacterial pigment and affects its growth. Prodigiosin is a red pigment found in various bacterial species. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impacts of light on prodigiosin production, biomass formation, and membrane integrity of Serratia marcescen...
β-carotene is a commonly used food colorant. In this work, a novel β-carotene producing strain, Serratia marcescens RB3, was isolated and identified by physiological and biochemical tests, as well as 16S rDNA sequence analysis. The production of β-carotene by S. marcescens RB3 was identified through...
This study aimed to evaluate the supply and the conservation of water for household consumption, in order to propose solutions for its quality improvement. An inspection of the drilling tank was completed by a two-part process, first consisting of doing a bacteriological analysis of the tank’s water...
Ce travail avait pour objectif d’évaluer l’approvisionnement et la conservation de l’eau de consommation des ménages en vue de proposer des solutions pour l’amélioration de sa qualité. L’inspection du forage a été complétée par l’analyse bactériologique de l’eau du réservoir et la réalisation d’une...
We cloned 2-keto-3-deoxy-gluconate kinase (KDGK), which catalyzes the phosphorylation of 2-keto-3-deoxygluconate (KDG) to 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phophogluconate (KDPG) from Serratia marcescens KCTC 2172. The nucleotide sequence revealed a single open reading frame containing 1,208 bp and encoding for 309...
OBJECTIVES: To test the activity of tigecycline combined with 16 antimicrobials in vitro against 22 gram-positive and 55 gram-negative clinical isolates. METHODS: Antibiotic interactions were determined by chequerboard and time-kill methods. RESULTS: By chequerboard, of 891 organism-drug interaction...
Soil and water sites were sampled at a South African antimony mine with elevated levels of arsenic due to the refining process. Enriched media yielded two pure bacterial cultures able to grow in both arsenite and arsenate. These were identified as Stenotrophomonas maltophilia SA Ant 15 and Serratia...
"An outbreak of Serratia marcescens bacteremia detected in the intensive care unit (icu) of a tertiary care center on the last days of October, 1985, is described. The rate of primary S. marcescens nosocomial bacteremia during the pre-epidemic period (January-September 1985) was 6.25 per cent; and f...
Des souches appartenant aux espèces : Klebsiella oxytoca, Serratia marcescens et Pseudomonas putida, isolées d'un biofiltre utilisé pour le traitement d'effluents urbains ont été choisies parmi une centaine d'autres pour être réimplantées dans un réacteur du même type. Dans le but de suivre leur fix...
Les auteurs décrivent l'émergence de bactéries saprophytes : Aeromonas hydrophila, Enterobacter agglomerans (Erwinia herbicolà ) et du genre Serratia dans les avortements bactériens chez la jument. 49 souches / 302 souches isolées de plus de 200 cas. Cette étude a été faite sur 4 ans (1981-1985) et...