Bacterial Infection

In-vitro evaluation of antimicrobial and insect repellent potential of supercritical-carbon dioxide (SCF-CO) extracts of selected botanicals against stored product pests and foodborne pathogens.

In the present study, the antimicrobial and the insect repellent activity of 16 botanical extracts obtained by supercritical CO (SCF) extraction were evaluated. The present investigation was conducted as there is a necessity for exploration of natural botanical extracts that target both stored product insects and microbes. The antimicrobial activity was studied by disc diffusion and broth microdil...

An agent-based lattice model for the emergence of anti-microbial resistance.

This work introduces a new probabilistic agent-based lattice model for studying the emergence of anti-microbial resistance (AMR) and proposes a new proxy to measure it: the average death probability of the population under the action of the AMD. Both analytical studies and computer simulations of the microscopic behaviour of a bacterial culture interacting with anti-microbial drugs on a discrete l...

Compositional model based on factorial evolution for realizing multi-task learning in bacterial virulent protein prediction.

The ability of multitask learning promulgated its sovereignty in the machine learning field with the diversified application including but not limited...

The effect of climate change on cholera disease: The road ahead using artificial neural network.

Climate change has been described to raise outbreaks of water-born infectious diseases and increases public health concerns. This study aimed at findi...

Same-day antimicrobial susceptibility test using acoustic-enhanced flow cytometry visualized with supervised machine learning.

Antimicrobial susceptibility is slow to determine, taking several days to fully impact treatment. This proof-of-concept study assessed the feasibilit...

Rapid identification of pathogenic bacteria using Raman spectroscopy and deep learning.

Raman optical spectroscopy promises label-free bacterial detection, identification, and antibiotic susceptibility testing in a single step. However, a...

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 me...

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 p...

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...