Characteristics of Streptococcus suis isolated from patients in Japan.

Seven cases of Streptococcus suis infection in Japan during 1994 and 2006 were summarized. All cases had porcine exposure and five of them had hand skin injury during the exposure. Five cases presented symptoms of meningitis, three presented symptoms of sepsis, and one resulted in sudden death.

[Purulent meningitis caused by Streptococcus suis in a pig breeder].

A case of Purulent meningitis caused by Streptococcus suis type 2 is reported here. It occurred in a 58-year-old male pig breeder. A few days before presentation, the patient had experienced headache, systemic articular pain and fever (38.

Characterization of cefotaxime-resistant Escherichia coli isolates from a nosocomial outbreak at three geriatric hospitals.

Over a 22-month period, there was an unusual upsurge in the incidence of cefotaxime-resistant Escherichia coli among hospitalized patients in three geriatric hospitals in the same district. Sixteen highly cefotaxime-resistant strains were obtained from clinical specimens during the period January 1996 through October 1997. All strains were characterized by antibiotic resistance pattern analysis, the detection of the TEM- and Toho-type beta-lactamase or CTX-M-type beta-lactamase gene by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), plasmid profiling, Southern hybridization analysis, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE).