An effective weapon against biofilm consortia and small colony variants of MRSA.

Objectives: This study was designed to investigate the effect of AgNPs (10 nm and 30 nm) on different phenotypes of biofilm consortia.

Materials And Methods: A total of eighteen biofilm-producing isolates of Methicillin-Resistant (MRSA) were used in the present study. Tube methods, Congo-red agar method, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were used to study biofilm phenotypes.

Ascorbic acid augments colony spreading by reducing biofilm formation of methicillin-resistant .

Objectives: is a Gram-positive pathogen, well known for its resistance and versatile lifestyle. Under unfavourable conditions, it adapts biofilm mode of growth. For staphylococcal biofilm formation, production of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) is a pre-requisite, which is regulated by operon-encoded enzymes.

Emergency endovascular stenting of the right iliac artery in a patient with secondary haemorrhage following transplant nephrectomy.

A patient presented with abdominal pain, hypotension and a retroperitoneal haematoma 5 days after transplant nephrectomy. Vascular injury sustained from transplant nephrectomy was repaired using endovascular techniques. Several known advantages to endovascular repair include: (1) intervention by a less invasive approach, (2) performance under local anaesthesia, (3) association with a shorter hospital stay and (4) reduction in morbidity and mortality.