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[Rapid preliminary diagnosis of anaerobic bacterial infections. II. Investigation of the presence of volatile and non-volatile fatty acids (C1-C6) in pus, purulent fluids and dressing by application of gas chromatography].

Studies were performed in the years 1986-1990 and dealing with 405 clinical materials originating from infections within the abdominal cavity, maxilla, reproductive organ, post-operative wounds as well as dressings, extremities, blood, bile and other types of material and usefulness of analysis by gas chromatography of presence of lower fatty acids in materials for rapid and preliminary diagnostics with strictly anaerobic bacteria was confirmed. Presence in chromatograms of isobutyric, butyric isovaleric, valeric, isocaproic and caproic acid, and partly of propionic acid, is a good indication of infection with strictly anaerobic bacteria. Moreover, presence of succinic acid may suggest presence of anaerobic infection, similarly as presence in chromatograms of three or more various lower fatty acids. Rapid, approximative diagnosis of anaerobic bacteria by application of gas chromatography is worth of broader application. Investigation of clinical material by this method lasts only 1-2 hours and obtained results my present a basis for preliminary diagnosis of the etiological factor and for direction of chemotherapy, which is very important in most early period of treatment of infections.

Bacteria, Anaerobic↗

[Transfer of volatile fatty acids in rat isolated cecum wall].

The transfer of acetic, propionic and butyric acids was studied in vitro, using everted sacs of rat caecum. In experiments it was never shown an absorption against the electrochemical potentiel. Short fatty acids flux through caecal membranes is assumed to involve solely passive diffusion.

Acetates↗

Measurement of volatile fatty acid production rates in sheep given roughage.

Measurement of the irreversible loss rate (ILR) of acetate, propionate and butyrate by radioisotope dilution of the respective tracers in sheep offered chopped dried grass from continuous belt type feeders gave 'plateau samples', the specific radioactivity of which had unacceptably high variance (coefficient of variation [cv] of the five or six samples taken from any one animal over the last four hours of 10 hours infusion ranged from 16 to 57 per cent). In an experiment which attempted to identify the source of this variability the distribution of the liquid phase marker 51Cr EDTA into different areas of the rumen was examined during its administration either in liquid form or impregnated on paper. The paper provided better mixing but incurred considerable spillage problems which would be unacceptable where calculations of ILR were required. Radiographic observations were made to examine the mixing of radio-opaque liquid and solid phase markers in the rumen. A better mixing of both was achieved with intermittent than continuous feeding. When 1-14C- and 2-14C-labelled acetate were each infused into the rumen of four sheep given two levels of chopped dried grass by means of hourly feeders, samples of rumen liquor gave much lower variability of the mean plateau specific radioactivity values than was obtained in experiment 1 (cv less than 15 per cent in all but one sheep). The ILRs of acetate and the transfer quotients of carbon from acetate to butyrate obtained using 1-14C- and 2-14C-labelled acetate were similar.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Acetates↗