A case of human orotracheal myiasis caused by Wohlfahrtia magnifica

A case of orotracheal myiasis in an 80-year-old man in coma for 1 week in the intensive care unit of Baskent University Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, is reported. A number of larvae of Wohlfahrtia magnifica were recovered repeatedly from the mouth and from the intubation tube of the patient and were reared to adults to facilitate identification. This case history points out the risky of myiasis caused by W. magnifica in the unconscious, debilitated patient.

[Prevalence of G. vaginalis, Mycoplasma, Ureaplasma, T. vaginalis, yeast, N. gonorrhoeae and other bacteria in women with vaginal discharge]

Vaginal discharge of 118 women attended to outdoor clinics of obstetrics and gynaecology at Medical Faculty of Ankara University (A.U.T.F.), have been examined. Direct microscopy has been made by means of wet mount, Gram and Giemsa staining. Vaginal pH has been measured, by 10% KOH the presence of "fishy odor" has been investigated. For culturing vaginal secretions in Amies transport medium have been brought to Microbiology Department of Ankara University, Faculty of Medicine Inoculations have been made on to Blood agar, MacConkey agar, Sabouraud Dextrose agar, New York City. Medium, % 5 Human blood bilayer Tween 80 Medium (HBT), Vivey Trichomonas Agar Medium and into M-broth and U9 broth. In this study, we have isolated 9 (7.62%) Gardnerella vaginalis, 41 (33.89%) Ureaplasma, 13 (11.01%) Mycoplasma, 25 (21.18%) yeasts, 4 (3.38%) Trichomonas vaginalis and 43 (36.46%) various bacteria, 26 cases were found to have polymicrobial etiology.

[Antibiotic susceptibility of group A beta hemolytic Streptococcus]

In this study, we researched the susceptibility of group A Beta-hemolytic Streptococcus to antibiotics which are isolated from 218 Aydinlikevler primary blind boarding school students aged between 7-16 and a group of patient's throat and nose culture with acute and chronic upper respiratory tract infection. The susceptibility to 9 antibiotics of (100) group A Beta hemolytic Streptococcus which were isolated 52 from throat, 48 from nasal discharge were examined by the method of disc diffusion test after determination of the colony, hemolysis and staining characteristics also the sensibility to optochine and bacitracin (0.04 U) discs colonies. The antibiotic resistance ratio are observed as 24%. For Penicillin-G, 59% for Ampicillin, 17% for Amoxicillin, 31% for Methicillin, 22% for Cephalexin, 33% for Carbenicillin, 77% for Lincomycin, 60% for Trimethoprim/Sulphamethoxazole, 26% for Chloramphenicol. This finding shows that group A Beta hemolytic Streptococcus are getting being resistant to this 9 antibiotics. Also this results indicate that the treatment after antibiotic susceptibility test of group A Beta hemolytic Streptococcus is more effective.

[Immunoelectrophoretic analysis of Escherichia coli strains (EPEC, ETEC, EIV and UPEC) (1)]

Water extracts of Escherichia coli "O" and "K" antigen test strains (EPEC, ETEC, EIEC, UPEC) were examined in immunodiffusion and immunoelectrophoresis tests. The precipitation arcs corresponding to the O-antigen specificity and to the thermostable polysaccharide K antigen were easy to identify. All strains gave an O antigen precipitation arc found either on the anodic or the cathodic side of application basin and close to this. The so-called enteropathogenic types (from infantile diarrhoea) had a cathodic O antigen arc type; from dysentery-like disease had a negatively charged O-antigen, but no special thermostable K-antigen. Thus E. coli strains which may invade the tissues when conditions allow have a negatively charged surface antigen, either O-antigen lipopolysaccharide or both. Acidic components were found in the anodic O-antigen.