ANTI-PROTEUS ANTIBODIES AND PROTEUS ORGANISMS IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: A CLINICAL STUDY (1994)
McDONAGH, J., GRAY, J., SYKES, H., WALKER, D. J., BINT, A. J., DEIGHTON, C. M.
We have studied anti-Proteus antibodies (APA), isolation of Proteus, and their relation to various measures of RA disease activity. Seventy RA patients with a CRP>10 mg/l had higher APA titres...
Bacteriuria of pregnancy--an update on significance, diagnosis and management (1994)
Bacteriuria of pregnancy is a common condition which is thought to be associated with serious sequelae in mother and fetus. A programme of screening, treatment and follow-up is likely to be...
Sampling time for serum gentamitin levels (1992)
Edwards, C., Bint, A. J., Venables, C. W., Scott, D. K.
A survey in 53 UK hospitals showed that 44% of clinical microbiologists recommended post-dose serum gentamicin concentrations to be measured at less than 40 min after an iv bolus dose. Serum...
Leyland, M. J., Bayston, K. F., Cohen, J., Warren, R., Newland, A. C., Bint, A. J., ...
Three-hundred and twelve episodes of fever in 234 neutropenic patients with haematological malignancies were treated empirically with either imipenem or a combination of piperacillin and gentamicin....
ANTI-PROTEUS ANTIBODIES IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS SAME-SEXED SIBSHIPS (1992)
DEIGHTON, C. M., GRAY, J. W., BINT, A. J., WALKER, D. J.
One hundred and forty-two RA patients and 121 of their healthy same-sexed siblings were tested for antibodies (Abs) to Proteus mirabilis and Escherichia coli by indirect immunofluorescence....
Tapson, J. S., Orr, K. E., George, J. C., Stansfield, E., Bint, A. J., Ward, M. K.
This report describes a prospective, randomized comparison of oral ciprofloxacin and intraperitoneal vancomycin/netilmicin in the treatment of 50 consecutive episodes of CAPD peritonitis in 35...
Reeves, D. S., Lacey, R. W., Mummery, R. V., Mahendra, M., Bint, A. J., Newsom, S. W. B.
The efficacy, tolerability and side effects of a 3-day treatment for acute urinary infection in general practice with norfloxacin (400 mg 12 hourly) or nalidixic acid/citrate (1 sachet 8 hourly) were...
Ceftazidime therapy for serious infections (1983)
Bint, A. J., Constable, J., Patton, K. R., Constable, F. L.
Thirty-two episodes of severe infection in 23 patients were treated with parenteral ceftazidime: 96% of the infections were cured or improved. Of 15 chest infections in cystic fibrosis patients, 14...
Bint, A. J., Bullock, D. W., Speller, D. C. E., Stern, S. R., Turner, A.
The activity of cefuroxime in vitro against the epidemic kiebsiella was superior to that of other cephalosporins. Twenty courses of cefuroxime were given to 18 patients with urinary tract infections...
Cefoxitin sodium: a clinical and pharmacological study (1978)
Reeves, D. S., Bint, A. J., Holt, H. A., Stocks, P. J.
In a clinical study, predominantly of patients with intra-abdominal sepsis, 14 (70%) of 20 patients were cured by cefoxitin sodium i.v. A further 6 (30%) patients improved. There were no clinical...
Speller, D. C. E., Bint, A. J., Stephens, Mary
Of more than 100 hospital patients colonized with a resistant Klebsiella aerogenes strain, 15 required treatment with colistin or amikacin. Colistin failed to eradicate a urinary tract infection in 4...
A comparative clinical trial of amoxicillin-clavulanic acid and cephalexin was carried out in 80 women with bacteriuria of pregnancy. Treatment was randomly allocated and consisted of either one...
Cryptosporidiosis in patients at a large teaching hospital.
Marshall, A R, Al-Jumaili, I J, Fenwick, G A, Bint, A J, Record, C O
In 1984, all stool samples submitted to a microbiology laboratory (n = 2,197) from a predominantly hospital-based population were examined for Cryptosporidium oocysts after Ziehl-Neelsen staining,...
An outbreak of infection caused by a gentamicin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Bint, A J, George, R H, Healing, D E, Wise, R, Davies, M
An outbreak of infection caused by a strain of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to gentamicin and tobramycin and other antibiotics occurred in two wards in a hospital. Eight patients were colonized,...
A proposal for doing prevalence studies of AIDS
Wright, A E, Sellars, J, Sprott, M S, Bint, A J, Codd, A A, Freeman, R, ...
Urinary tract infection due to laboratory-acquired Escherichia coli: relation to virulence.
Parry, S H, Abraham, S N, Feavers, I M, Lee, M, Jones, M R, Bint, A J, ...
A comparative clinical trial of amoxicillin-clavulanic acid and cephalexin was carried out in 80 women with bacteriuria of pregnancy. Treatment was randomly allocated and consisted of either one...
Cryptosporidiosis in patients at a large teaching hospital.
Marshall, A R, Al-Jumaili, I J, Fenwick, G A, Bint, A J, Record, C O
In 1984, all stool samples submitted to a microbiology laboratory (n = 2,197) from a predominantly hospital-based population were examined for Cryptosporidium oocysts after Ziehl-Neelsen staining,...
An outbreak of infection caused by a gentamicin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Bint, A J, George, R H, Healing, D E, Wise, R, Davies, M
An outbreak of infection caused by a strain of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to gentamicin and tobramycin and other antibiotics occurred in two wards in a hospital. Eight patients were colonized,...
A proposal for doing prevalence studies of AIDS
Wright, A E, Sellars, J, Sprott, M S, Bint, A J, Codd, A A, Freeman, R, ...
Urinary tract infection due to laboratory-acquired Escherichia coli: relation to virulence.
Parry, S H, Abraham, S N, Feavers, I M, Lee, M, Jones, M R, Bint, A J, ...
Specificity of the proteus antibody response in rheumatoid arthritis.
Deighton, C M, Gray, J, Bint, A J, Walker, D J
Antibodies to proteus were determined by indirect immunofluorescence in 146 serum samples from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). An autoantibody screen was performed in the same samples and in...
P blood group phenotype, proteus antibody titres, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Deighton, C M, Gray, J, Roberts, D F, Bint, A J, Walker, D J
The interrelationships between P blood group phenotype, proteus antibodies and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were investigated in 140 patients with RA and 114 of their siblings who did not have RA. In...