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Chronic malarial spleen tends to be dark grey, with increased density of connective tissue and fibrosis, resulting in a heavy, often massively enlarged organ with a firm or hard capsule.
, Burkholderia cepacia , and some strains of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia are usually resistant to colistin [ 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ] . Cross-resistance with other antibiotics has not been reported [ 10 13 ] , and acquired resistance is rare [ 11 17 ] . Although lower susceptibility rates for P. aeruginosa have been reported in patients with cystic fibrosis undergoing chronic prophylactic treatment with inhaled colistin [ 18 ] , 81% of strains of P. aeruginosa from such patients are still susceptible to colistin [ 14 ] .
In another study using marker perfusions with taurocholate and glycocholate in three infants, however, the bile acid uptake rates with cystic fibrosis were similar to control subjects [ 24 ] .
Over the past decade bacteria in the form of biofilms have been recognized as important causes of a variety of human infections, including infections of prosthetic devices, endocarditis, dental caries, pneumonia in cystic fibrosis, prostatitis and others [ 22 25 26 27 28 ] . Biofilms are more resistant to immune clearance mechanisms and to antibiotics compared to planktonic bacteria [ 29 30 ] . In order to develop strategies to treat and prevent infections caused by bacteria in biofilms, including otitis media with effusion, it will be important to elucidate the characteristics of bacterial pathogens as biofilms.
BSA = bovine serum albumin; CF = cystic fibrosis; CFTR = cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator; C L = lethal concentration; DMSO = dimethyl sulfoxide; EC 50 = effective concentration 50%; EDTA = ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid; GGPG = modified PG-1 with a glycine-rich hexapeptide extension (GGGYGG) containing a single tyrosine residue; HEPES = N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N-2-ethanesulfonic acid; HPLC = high performance liquid chromatography; I-GGPG = monoiodinated variant of GGPG; LPS = lipopolysaccharide; MAC = minimal active concentration; PG-1 = protegrin-1; RU = resonance units; SDS = sodium dodecyl sulfate; SPR = surface plasmon resonance; TSB = trypticase soy broth.
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