Thousand Colony Forming Units per Milliliter

A novel fiber-reactive chitosan derivative was synthesized in two steps from a chitosan of low molecular weight and low degree of… Expand

BACKGROUND Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is the most common nosocomial infection, accounting for more than… Expand

PURPOSE Viable bacteria are often isolated from airway secretions in clinically stable patients with chronic bronchitis. We… Expand

An extraction system has been constructed that melts ice from the interior of ice cores and collects the resulting water… Expand

The use of Moloney murine leukemia virus (Mo-MLV)-based vectors to deliver therapeutic genes into target cells is limited by… Expand

Chlamydia pneumoniae has proved to be difficult to isolate and propagate in cell culture. We compared the growth of three strains… Expand

The results of a simplified quantitative broth dilution quantitative tip culture (QTC) of 331 central venous catheters were… Expand

The utility of gram stain and semiquantitative culture of the fluid retrieved by bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in identifying the… Expand

In a prospective study, 131 of 1458 patients acquired 136 urinary-tract infections (defined as greater than 10(5) colony-forming… Expand

We sought to correlate the clinical, radiographic, and bacteriologic findings in maxillary sinusitis in 30 children who had both… Expand