Concerning the sensitivity of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus.

The strains of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, var. anitratus (A. c.

Laboratory criteria in the diagnostics of intestinal infections of staphylococcal etiology in children.

Faecal samples were investigated from 948 children hospitalized with the diagnose of acute intestinal infection. The authors studied the isolation and properties of a broad spectrum of microorganisms from children's faeces: Salmonella, Shigella, E. coli, S.

Reinfusion of UV-irradiated blood in the treatment of infection. I. Experimental infection with staphylococci.

During the last 10 years, reinfusion of UV-irradiated blood has been rediscovered again as a therapeutic method suitable in the treatment of a variety of diseases. The described series of model experiments on rabbits confirm its beneficial effects in the treatment of staphylococcal infection: the control animals reinfused blood not exposed to UV radiation died all within 48 hours after injected with a suspension of live Staphylococcus aureus culture; all rabbits reinfused UV-irradiated blood (2 ml per kg body weight) survived the whole period of observation (30 days); reinfusion of UV-irradiated blood in a volume reduced to 1 ml.kg-1 body weight prolonged the animals' life-span to 96 or 120 hours.