of most of the Candida strains tested was noticed, whereas the rest of the surface was covered with a thin layer of bacterial growth. Table 1 shows the mean number and the percentage of strains of C. albicans, as well as Candida of other species which inhibit the growth of the tested bacteria. The standard deviations of these mean numbers, for the 84 strains of C. albicans, were quite low, but ...

The cell counting process is an important procedure for various and cell-related research applications. Many life science-related studies examine the cells to compare results concerning numbers variations. Most of related are conducted using manual methods. However, difficult, time-consuming, fallible. This study proposes automated software computer vision (CV) technology experimental investiga...

The biofilm community structure in a granular activated carbon (GAC) filter was investigated by ribosomal intergenic spacer region analysis (RISA). The results showed that microbial diversity diminished and stabilized with time of filter operation. One bacterium (Hydrogenophaga palleronii) was identified according to its 16S-rRNA sequence. However, this bacterium did not degrade any of the HAAs...

Earlier this month, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to the Australians Barry Marshall and Robin Warren for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer. It is the first time since 1928 that the Nobel Prize has been awarded for the discovery of a bacterium, and H. pylori is the first bacterium to be associated ...

The present study describes the growth of the very well-known probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM on different carbohydrates. Furthermore, recombinant production of putative moonlighting proteins elongation factor G and pyruvate kinase from this bacterium is described. For further and detailed interpretation of the data presented here, please see the research article "Mucin- and ...

The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) causes infections that are difficult to treat, which is due the bacterial natural resistance antibiotics. bacterium also able to...

In recent single-particle tracking (SPT) measurements on Listeria monocytogenes motility in cells [Kuo and McGrath (2000)], the actin-based stochastic dynamics of the bacterium movement has been analyzed statistically in terms of the mean-square displacement (MSD) of the trajectory. We present a stochastic analysis of a simplified polymerization Brownian ratchet (BR) model in which motions are ...