Bacterial Infection

A deep learning ensemble for function prediction of hypothetical proteins from pathogenic bacterial species.

Protein function prediction is a crucial task in the post-genomics era due to their diverse irreplaceable roles in a biological system. Traditional methods involved cost-intensive and time-consuming molecular biology techniques but they proved to be ineffective after the outburst of sequencing data through the advent of cost-effective and advanced sequencing techniques. To manage the pace of annot...

Screening physicochemical, microbiological and bioactive properties of fruit vinegars produced from various raw materials.

In the present study, variety of fruit vinegars were investigated in terms of their physicochemical, microbiological and bioactive properties. Total phenolic and flavonoid contents were in the range of 933-1162 mg GAE/L and 66.64-470.86 mg/L in terms of catechin equivalents, respectively. During the evaluation of antioxidant activity via DPPH and ABTS assay, samples showed the activity as in the r...

Effect of storage on the quality of processed palm oil collected from local milling points within Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.

The influence of storage practices on physicochemical and microbial changes in crude palm oil (CPO) from milling points in Ile-Ife, Nigeria were inves...

Fast and Accurate Bacterial Species Identification in Urine Specimens Using LC-MS/MS Mass Spectrometry and Machine Learning.

Fast identification of microbial species in clinical samples is essential to provide an appropriate antibiotherapy to the patient and reduce the presc...

Use of high-content analysis and machine learning to characterize complex microbial samples via morphological analysis.

High Content Analysis (HCA) has become a cornerstone of cellular analysis within the drug discovery industry. To expand the capabilities of HCA, we ha...

Comprehensive analysis of machine learning models for prediction of sub-clinical mastitis: Deep Learning and Gradient-Boosted Trees outperform other models.

Sub-clinical bovine mastitis decreases milk quality and production. Moreover, sub-clinical mastitis leads to the use of antibiotics with consequent in...

Nutritional, biochemical and microbiological composition of Mart. sap in Burkina Faso.

The palmyra palm Mart. grow wild and gives natural stands in several localities of central-eastern and eastern regions of Burkina Faso. This work aim...

Emergence of mcr-1 mediated colistin resistant Escherichia coli from a hospitalized patient in Bangladesh.

INTRODUCTION: The emergence of plasmid mediated mcr in bacteria has become global public health threat. Herein, we report a mcr-1 positive E. coli in ...

The performance of gravity-driven membrane (GDM) filtration for roofing rainwater reuse: Implications of roofing rainwater energy and rainwater purification.

Rainwater harvesting (RWH) coupled with gravity-driven membrane (GDM) filtration was used to simultaneously treat rainwater and recover energy. A pilo...

Effect of lipopolysaccharide on cell proliferation and vascular endothelial growth factor secretion of periodontal ligament stem cells.

PURPOSE: Periodontal ligament stem cells (PDLSCs) have considerable potential for use as a means of achieving periodontal regeneration due to their no...

A Preliminary Study on Coagulation Parameters and Sterility of Thawed Refrozen Fresh Frozen Plasma.

Thawed fresh frozen plasma (FFP) if not used within 6 h, may have to be discarded due to the risk of contamination and uncertainty about its quality. ...

Antibiotic resistance and metabolic profiles as functional biomarkers that accurately predict the geographic origin of city metagenomics samples.

BACKGROUND: The availability of hundreds of city microbiome profiles allows the development of increasingly accurate predictors of the origin of a sam...

Amperometric genosensor for culture independent bacterial count.

Bacterial plate count for general assessment of water quality requires lengthy bacterial culturing. We report here a new DNA induced current genosenso...

Modelling and Optimizing Pyrene Removal from the Soil by Phytoremediation using Response Surface Methodology, Artificial Neural Networks, and Genetic Algorithm.

This study aimed to model and optimize pyrene removal from the soil contaminated by sorghum bicolor plant using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) and...

Small antibacterial molecules highly active against drug-resistant .

The rapid growth of antibiotic resistance in coupled with their biofilm forming ability has made the infections difficult to treat with conventional ...

Identifying non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) using deep learning methods with hyperspectral microscope images.

Non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) serogroups such as O26, O45, O103, O111, O121 and O145 often cause illness to people in the Uni...

Machine learning to predict microbial community functions: An analysis of dissolved organic carbon from litter decomposition.

Microbial communities are ubiquitous and often influence macroscopic properties of the ecosystems they inhabit. However, deciphering the functional re...

Morphology-based classification of mycobacteria-infected macrophages with convolutional neural network: reveal EsxA-induced morphologic changes indistinguishable by naked eyes.

EsxA is an essential virulence factor for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) pathogenesis as well as an important biomarker for Mtb detection. In this s...

mSphere of Influence: the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Infection Biology.

Artur Yakimovich works in the field of computational virology and applies machine learning algorithms to study host-pathogen interactions. In this mSp...

Harnessing robotic automation and web-based technologies to modernize scientific outreach.

Technological breakthroughs in the past two decades have ushered in a new era of biomedical research, turning it into an information-rich and technolo...