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Open AccessKnot tying in arthroplasty and arthroscopy causes lesions to surgical gloves: a potential risk of infection
Recent studies have shown that the incidence of glove lesions during arthroscopy is much lower than that during primary and revision arthroplasty. However, the rate of glove damage after knot tying has not yet...
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Open AccessIntraoperative damage to surgical gloves during various operations on the musculoskeletal system: a multicenter study
Various orthopedic surgical procedures cause mechanical stress for gloves. In some cases, sharp-edged objects impact on the glove surfaces. The systematic description of lesions is still missing.
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Comparison of the etiological relevance of Staphylococcus haemolyticus and Staphylococcus hominis
The study was performed to assess potential differences in the etiological relevance of two coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS), Staphylococcus haemolyticus and Staphylococcus hominis, in an observational sin...
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Open AccessThe Regulatory Small RNA MarS Supports Virulence of Streptococcus pyogenes
Small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) play a role in the control of bacterial virulence gene expression. In this study, we investigated an sRNA that was identified in Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus, GAS) b...
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Open AccessScreening for Gram-negative bacteria: Impact of preanalytical parameters
Screening recommendations for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria comprise microbiological analyses from rectal swabs. However, essential specifications of the preanalytic steps of such screenings, i.e....
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Alterations in the mucosa-associated bacterial composition in Crohn’s disease: a pilot study
Changes in the intestinal bacterial composition seem to play a major role in the pathogenesis and in the clinical course of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), which consist of Crohn’s disease (CD), and ulcerat...
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Open AccessScreening agars for MRSA: evaluation of a stepwise diagnostic approach with two different selective agars for the screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) poses a hygiene risk that does not spare field hospitals or military medical field camps during military deployments. Diagnostic options for un...
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Open AccessRole of IFN-gamma and IL-6 in a protective immune response to Yersinia enterocoliticain mice
Yersinia outer protein (Yop) H is a secreted virulence factor of Yersinia enterocolitica (Ye), which inhibits phagocytosis of Ye and contributes to the virulence of Ye in mice. The aim of this study was to addres...
