Gram-positive bacteria can be cocci- (spheres) or bacilli- (rod) shaped, or have branching filaments. Gram-negative bacteria have an outer membrane. However, they have a thinner peptidoglycan cell ...

There are many ways of classifying bacteria. One method is based on the cell membrane. In 1884, a bacteriologist named Christian Gram created a test that could determine if a bacterium had a thick ...

All patients met the following diagnostic criteria: demonstration of gram-negative rods in blood cultures; systolic blood pressure of 80 or less; oliguria (urine flow of 20 ml. per hour or less ...

Human urine that has been matured in the sun for at least one month appears to be both a fertiliser and an effective pesticide. The findings could be particularly helpful for combatting insect ...

Residents of a village in Maharashtra’s Amravati district allegedly thrashed a 77-year-old woman, forced her to drink urine and struck her with hot iron rod over suspicion of black magic practice.

Gram stain showed a positive predictive value (PPV) of 84.7% for gram-negative rods in urine culture; however, the PPV was only 38.4% for gram-positive cocci. In the catheter subgroup, the ...

known as gram-positive and gram-negative. These categories reflect big differences in the microbes' biology, and they also dictate how doctors treat bacterial infections. But what are the ...

A team led by Paul Hergenrother at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has discovered a new antibiotic that exclusively targets gram-negative bacteria and avoids wiping out the ecosystem ...

Hospital uptake of newer antibiotics to treat multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria was low over a 5-year period, according to a retrospective cohort study. Fully 41.5% of episodes of ...

Other clinical samples such as urine, stool, and sputum were collected by the patients ... for non-lactose fermenting Gram-negative rods. According to EUCAST’s breakpoints for meropenem, an isolate ...