Bacterial Infection

Application of bacteriophages during depuration reduces the load of Salmonella Typhimurium in cockles.

As bivalve molluscs are filter feeder, often consumed raw or lightly cooked and are frequently cultivated in contaminated waters, they are implicated in food-borne disease transmission to human. The present study investigated the potential application of bacteriophage (or phage) phSE-2, phage phSE-5 and phage cocktail phSE-2/phSE-5 to decrease the concentration of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi...

Physicochemical analyses of a bioactive 4-aminoantipyrine analogue - synthesis, crystal structure, solid state interactions, antibacterial, conformational and docking studies.

A novel Schiff base derivative of 4-aminoantipyrine, that is, ()-4-(2-methoxybenzylideneamino)-1,5-dimethyl-2-phenyl-1-pyrazol-3(2)-one (MBA-dMPP), was synthesized and characterized by FT-IR, H-NMR, and EI-MS. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction data revealed MBA-dMPP adopts a configuration around its central C=N double bond, and forms orthorhombic crystals. XRD revealed that MBA-dMPP possess two di...

A New Hybrid BFOA-PSO Optimization Technique for Decoupling and Robust Control of Two-Coupled Distillation Column Process.

The two-coupled distillation column process is a physically complicated system in many aspects. Specifically, the nested interrelationship between sys...

Achieving partial nitrification by inhibiting the activity of Nitrospira-like bacteria under high-DO conditions in an intermittent aeration reactor.

It is generally accepted that a low dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration is more beneficial for achieving partial nitrification than high-DO. In this s...

Methanol Extract from Anogeissus leiocarpus (DC) Guill. et Perr. (Combretaceae) Stem Bark Quenches the Quorum Sensing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1.

Due to its extensive arsenal of virulence factors and inherent resistance to antibiotics, is a threat particularly in immunocompromised patients. Co...

Adherence of staphylococcus aureus to catheter tubing inhibition by quaternary ammonium compounds.

INTRODUCTION: is a Gram positive bacterium which is responsible for a wide range of infections. This pathogen has also the ability to adhere to bioti...

Biocontrol potential of Halotolerant bacterial chitinase from high yielding novel Bacillus Pumilus MCB-7 autochthonous to mangrove ecosystem.

The multifaceted role of chitinase in medicine, agriculture, environmental remediation and various other industries greatly demands the isolation of h...

Cytotoxic and Antimicrobial Constituents from the Essential Oil of Lippia alba (Verbenaceae).

(Verbenaceae) is a plant widely used in folk medicine to treat various diseases. The present work deals with the chemical composition of the crude es...

Improved Fuzzy Logic System to Evaluate Milk Electrical Conductivity Signals from On-Line Sensors to Monitor Dairy Goat Mastitis.

The aim of this study was to develop and test a new fuzzy logic model for monitoring the udder health status (HS) of goats. The model evaluated, as in...

Screening for antibacterial and antibiofilm activity in Thai medicinal plant extracts against oral microorganisms.

To evaluate the antibacterial activity of 12 ethanol extracts of Thai traditional herb against oral pathogens. The antibacterial activities were asses...

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF (SPRENG.) LESS. (ASTERACEAE) METHANOL EXTRACTS AGAINST .

BACKGROUND: Prolonged use of antibiotics may lead to the selection of drug-resistant bacteria; as a result, efforts are being made to identify new and...

Prediction of bacterial associations with plants using a supervised machine-learning approach.

Recent scenarios of fresh produce contamination by human enteric pathogens have resulted in severe food-borne outbreaks, and a new paradigm has emerge...

Evaluation of the proximate composition, antioxidant potential, and antimicrobial activity of mango seed kernel extracts.

After pulp extraction in fruit processing industry, a significant quantity of mango seed kernels are discarded as solid wastes. These seed kernels can...

Composition of Asarum heterotropoides var. mandshuricum radix oil from different extraction methods and activities against human body odor-producing bacteria.

In this study, oils from Asarum heterotropoides were extracted by traditional solvent extraction and supercritical CO (SC-CO) extraction methods and t...

Synthesis, identification and in vitro biological evaluation of some novel quinoline incorporated 1,3-thiazinan-4-one derivatives.

The present study describes the synthesis of two new series of 3-hydroxy-N-(4-oxo-2-phenyl-1,3-thiazinan-3-yl)-8-(trifluoromethyl)quinoline-2-carboxam...

Modeling and optimization of Newfoundland shrimp waste hydrolysis for microbial growth using response surface methodology and artificial neural networks.

The hydrolyzed protein derived from seafood waste is regarded as a premium and low-cost nitrogen source for microbial growth. In this study, optimizat...

Quantitative determination of AI-2 quorum-sensing signal of bacteria using high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

Autoinducer 2 (AI-2), an important bioactive by-product of the LuxS-catalyzed S-ribosylhomocysteine cleavage reaction in the activated-methyl-cycle, h...

Comparison of Boiling and Robotics Automation Method in DNA Extraction for Metagenomic Sequencing of Human Oral Microbes.

The rapid improvement of next-generation sequencing performance now enables us to analyze huge sample sets with more than ten thousand specimens. Howe...

Stability of daptomycin reconstituted vials and infusion solutions.

OBJECTIVES: Daptomycin is a cyclic lipopeptide with selective action against drug-resistant Gram-positive bacteria. The stability of daptomycin soluti...

Two-Swim Operators in the Modified Bacterial Foraging Algorithm for the Optimal Synthesis of Four-Bar Mechanisms.

This paper presents two-swim operators to be added to the chemotaxis process of the modified bacterial foraging optimization algorithm to solve three ...