[Sucrose saturated solution bioactivity over Sporothrix schenckii].

The purpose of this work was to determine the in vitrobioactivity of a sucrose saturated solution with eugenol (Dickinson, from Dr. Preston Lab. Argentine) and polyethylenglycol 400 ( Merck, from Merck Chemistry Argentine) over Sporothrix schenkii.

Hernia surgery in the South American woodlands: a surgical adventure in Argentina.

Background: Because of the socioeconomic conditions existing today in Argentina, I decided to operate on hernias and incisional hernias among the poorest population in their living environment.

Methods: To achieve this, I organized a group of 19 people, including resident surgeons and technicians, transferring everything in order to set up three surgical rooms in an old house, in the worst surgical environment, in the middle of the woodlands in the northeast tropical part of our country. It was like war-trench surgery but in peacetime.

Effect of potassium sorbate and pH on the survival of Staphylococcus aureus in saturated sugar solutions.

Addition of 0.3% (w/w) of potassium sorbate (a permitted food additive) coupled with a reduction of pH from 7 to 6 or 5.5, resulted in a dramatic decrease in the survival of two S.

Antimicrobial activity of clove oil dispersed in a concentrated sugar solution.

Essential oil of clove, dispersed (0.4% v/v) in a concentrated sugar solution, had a marked germicidal effect against various bacteria and Candida albicans. Staphylococcus aureus (five strains), Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Clostridium perfringens, and Escherichia coli inoculated at a level of 10(7) cfu/ml, and C.

Submicroscopical changes in Klebsiella pneumoniae cells treated with concentrated sucrose and polyethylene glycol 400 solutions.

This study reports the extent and character of plasmolysis and other morphological changes as shown by electron microscopy in a strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae and with sucrose or polyethylene glycol 400 (PEG-400) as the plasmolysing agent at a water activity of 0.935. Both solutes produced severe plasmolysis in K.