The fungal flora of two water bodies Upper Lake and Hathaikheda Reservoir Bhopal Madhya Pradesh were isolated during the course study from January 2017 to December 2018. During present study, total 600 isolates, comprising 17 genera 24 species aquatic terrestrial fungi recorded bodies. These belonged various orders group Oomycota, Ascomycota Zygomycota. Members Saprolegniales dominant over rest...

Gardening was an important part of the daily duties within several religious orders in Europe during Middle Ages. The rule Saint Benedict specified that monastery should, if possible, contain a garden itself, and before above all things, special care should be taken sick, so they may served very deed, as Christ himself. cultivation medicinal utility plants to meet material needs monastic instit...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of resistance to rifampicin and fusidic acid among Malaysian strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is increasing. This study aimed to determine the mechanisms of rifampicin and fusidic acid resistance and the genetic diversity of MRSA strains from a Malaysian tertiary hospital. METHODS Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) for 21 MRSA strain...

The study objective was to screen both methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-sensitive S. aureus (MSSA) isolates from blood cultures for reduced susceptibility to vancomycin and teicoplanin. A total of 72 MRSA and 143 MSSA isolates were screened on brain-heart infusion agar containing either 4 mg/L vancomycin or 8 mg/L teicoplanin, using an inoculum of approximately...

Digital PCR (dPCR) has been reported to be more precise and sensitive than real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) in a variety of models and applications. However, in the majority of commercially available dPCR platforms, the dynamic range is dependent on the number of partitions analysed and so is typically limited to four orders of magnitude; reduced compared with the typical seven orders achievab...

Forty-four isolates of Bacillus thuringiensis like bacteria from various sources in different locations from Sudan were tested for their insecticidal activity. The toxicity of these isolates ranged from 6.6 to 70% to the neonates of cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera at 10 ppm concentration. The most effective ones are Kb-29, St-6 and Wh-1 comparable with HD-1. Toxicity of isolates to larvae...

As part of our ongoing influenza surveillance program in South China, 19 field strains of H9N2 subtype avian influenza viruses (AIVs) were isolated from dead or diseased chicken flocks in Guangdong province, South China, between 2012 and 2013. Hemagglutinin (HA) genes of these strains were sequenced and analyzed and phylogenic analysis showed that 12 of the 19 isolates belonged to the lineage h...

In this chapter we focus our attention in how to measure consensus in groups of voters when they show their preferences over a fixed set of alternatives or candidates by means of weak orders (complete preorders). We have introduced a new class of consensus measures on weak orders based on distances, and we have analyzed some of their properties paying special attention to seven well-known dista...