Infectious Disease

The sweet detection of rolling circle amplification: Glucose-based electrochemical genosensor for the detection of viral nucleic acid.

Herein, an isothermal padlock probe-based assay for the simple and portable detection of pathogens coupled with a glucose oxidase (GOx)-based electrochemical readout is reported. Infectious diseases remain a constant threat on a global scale, as in recurring pandemics. Rapid and portable diagnostics hold the promise to tackle the spreading of diseases and decentralising healthcare to point-of-care...

Near-infrared spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics algorithms for the quantitative determination of the germinability of Clostridium perfringens in four different matrices.

Clostridium perfringens (C. perfringens) has the ability to form metabolically-dormant spores that can survive food preservation processes and cause food spoilage and foodborne safety risks upon germination outgrowth. This study was conducted to investigate the effects of different AGFK concentrations (0, 50, 100, 200 mM/mL) on the spore germination of C. perfringens in four matrices, including Tr...

Drug resistance patterns in HIV patients with virologic failure in Iran.

We reviewed the medical charts of 1,700 patients diagnosed with HIV who referred to a central HIV clinic in Tehran between 2004 and 2017. Participants...

Comparison of the predictive outcomes for anti-tuberculosis drug-induced hepatotoxicity by different machine learning techniques.

BACKGROUND: The study compared the predictive outcomes of artificial neural network, support vector machine and random forest on the occurrence of ant...

IILLS: predicting virus-receptor interactions based on similarity and semi-supervised learning.

BACKGROUND: Viral infectious diseases are the serious threat for human health. The receptor-binding is the first step for the viral infection of hosts...

Identification of infectious disease-associated host genes using machine learning techniques.

BACKGROUND: With the global spread of multidrug resistance in pathogenic microbes, infectious diseases emerge as a key public health concern of the re...

Antimicrobial, anti-cancer, anti-filarial and anti-inflammatory activities of Cowabenzophenone A extracted from the endophytic fungus isolated from a mangrove plant .

Cowabenzophenone A was isolated from an endophytic fungus Aspergillus terreus isolated from a mangrove plant Bruguiera gymnorrhyza. The structure was ...

The discoloration effect of diluted minocycline containing triple antibiotic gel used in revascularization.

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Triple antibiotic paste (TAP) has been successfully used in revascularization procedure. However, one of the problems associated w...

Fate of pirlimycin and antibiotic resistance genes in dairy manure slurries in response to temperature and pH adjustment.

Quantifying the fate of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in response to physicochemical factors during storage of manure slurries wi...

A novel machine learning based approach for iPS progenitor cell identification.

Identification of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) progenitor cells, the iPS forming cells in early stage of reprogramming, could provide valuable infor...

A novel model for malaria prediction based on ensemble algorithms.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Most previous studies adopted single traditional time series models to predict incidences of malaria. A single model cannot ...

Discovery of potential 1,3,5-Triazine compounds against strains of Plasmodium falciparum using supervised machine learning models.

The Malaria burden was an escalating global encumbrance and need to be addressed with critical care. Anti-malarial drug discovery was integrated with ...

Green synthesis and characterization of gold nanoparticles using endophytic fungi and its in-vitro anticancer and biomedical applications.

The present study aimed to explore the anticancer potentials of the gold nanoparticles (NPs) obtained by green synthesis method using an endophytic st...

Clinical impact of normal alanine aminotransferase on direct-acting antiviral outcome in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: This study aimed to clarify the clinical picture of hepatitis C virus (HCV) carriers with normal alanine aminotransferase (CNALT)...

New approach in the characterization of bioactive compounds isolated from Calycotome spinosa (L.) Link leaves by the use of negative electrospray ionization LITMS, LC-ESI-MS/MS, as well as NMR analysis.

Two novel compounds were isolated for the first time from Calycotome spinosa (L.) Link, an alkaloid 5-Hydroxy-1H-indole (4) and a cyclitol D-pinitol (...

Protective effect of bacterial lipase on lipopolysaccharide-induced toxicity in rat cardiomyocytes; H9C2 cell line.

Cardiovascular system is highly sensitive to LPS-induced oxidative damage. This study aimed to show the inhibitory effect of bacterial Lipase on LPS-...

Antimicrobial peptide identification using multi-scale convolutional network.

BACKGROUND: Antibiotic resistance has become an increasingly serious problem in the past decades. As an alternative choice, antimicrobial peptides (AM...

Construction of arming Yarrowia lipolytica surface-displaying soybean seed coat peroxidase for use as whole-cell biocatalyst.

Whole-cell biocatalysts could be used in wide-ranging applications. In this study, a new kind of whole-cell biocatalyst was successfully constructed b...

Inhibitory effect of ethanol and thiamine dilaurylsulfate against loosely, intermediately, and tightly attached mesophilic aerobic bacteria, coliforms, and Salmonella Typhimurium in chicken skin.

The effects of 3 ethanol levels (30, 50, and 70%) with and without thiamine dilaurylsulfate (TDS; 1,000 ppm) were evaluated for the reduction of natur...

Image processing techniques represent innovative tools for comparative analysis of proteins.

Different bioinformatic and data-mining approaches have been used for the analysis of proteins. Here, we describe a novel, robust, and reliable approa...