Addressing blood and body fluid spills: conserving time and resources during surface disinfecting.

As new issues and areas of concern arise in the health care industry, such as the potential transmission of HIV and HBV, adaptive measures will continue to be developed to assist health care professionals in their mission to provide expert medical care for patients and safe environments in which to practice. Health care institutions must commit to exploration of the advances in infection control that employ improved measures to manage the cleaning and disinfecting of spill incidents involving blood and/or body fluids and the disinfecting of contaminated surfaces. Together, product manufacturers and health care workers will discover new ways to save time, money, and resources.

Plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid in clinical isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Two different sizes of circular covalently closed deoxyribonucleic acid plasmids have been identified in four independent clinical isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. All four strains contained a small plasmid with a molecular weight of 2.8 X 10-6 and two of the four stains also contained a large plasmid with a molecular weight of 24.

Co-transduction of plasmids mediating resistance to tetracycline and chloramphenicol in Staphylococcus aureus.

Independent plasmids mediating resistance either to tetracycline (Tc) or chloramphenicol (Cm) were transduced successively into Staphylococcus aureus strain 8325. From this doubly resistant donor strain, Tc was co-transduced with a frequency of 40 to 50% when Cm was selected. Co-transduction of Cm was 5 to 10% with Tc selection.