Mercury (Hg)-Resistant Bacteria in Hg-Polluted Gold Mine Sites of Bandung, West Java Province, Indonesia

Molecular surveillance of Dengue in Sukabumi, West Java province, Indonesia.

INTRODUCTION Dengue is endemic and affects people in all Indonesian provinces. Increasing dengue cases have been observed every year in Sukabumi in West Java province. Despite the endemicity, limited data is available on the genetic of dengue viruses (DENV) circulating in the country. To understand the dynamics of dengue disease, we performed molecular and serological surveillance of dengue in ...

A Parallel Simulator for Mercury (Hg) Porosimetry

A parallel simulator, based on the Dual Site-Bond Model of complex media, is developed to study Hg intrusion and extrusion processes in the myriad of voids contained in a porous network. In order to reduce the requirements in RAM and computing resources, the porous network is partitioned into several sub-networks distributed in different cluster processors. The simulator uses shared memory to p...

Spatial distribution of mercury deposition fluxes in Wanshan Hg mining area, Guizhou province, China

The legacy of long-term mining activities in Wanshan mercury (Hg) mining area (WMMA), Guizhou, China including a series of environmental issues related to Hg pollution. The spatial distribution of gaseous elemental mercury (Hg0) concentrations in ambient air were monitored using a mobile RA-915 Zeeman Mercury Analyzer during daytime and night time in May 2010. The data imply that calcines and m...

Oxidation of Hg(0) to Hg(II) by diverse anaerobic bacteria

Innate stimulatory capacity of high molecular weight transition metals Au (gold) and Hg (mercury).

Nickel, cobalt and palladium ions can induce an innate immune response by triggering Toll-like receptor (TLR)-4 which is present on dendritic cells (DC). Here we studied mechanisms of action for DC immunotoxicity to gold and mercury. Next to gold (Na3Au (S2O3)2⋅2H2O) and mercury (HgCl2), nickel (NiCl2) was included as a positive control. MoDC activation was assessed by release of the pro-inflam...