Beta-lactamase Induction in Nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus Strains Cultured from the Nasal Cavity and Wound of Patients
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The study was conducted to determine Beta-lactamase induction in Staphylococcus aureus strains cultured from the nasal cavity and surgical wounds of in- patients at a tertiary teaching hospital.Swab samples were taken from the nasal cavity -wound pair of 110 consented patients. The S. aureus isolates were identified and the antibiotics susceptibility tests were conducted using standard protocols. Beta-lactamase induction was assayed with the micro-iodometric method. The data obtained were statistically analysed.A total of 81 S. aureus isolates were cultured from the nasal cavity and wounds of the 110 samples collected. Beta-lactamase was produced by 14 (41.2%) and 26 (55.3%) of the isolates cultured from the nasal cavity and wounds respectively. Constitutive and induced Beta-lactamase production was observed.Beta-lactamase production in the isolates is not dependent on antibiotic exposure alone. The findings underscore the need for appropriate infection control and adequate hygiene practices to prevent the spread of S. aureus in the hospital settings.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".