polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pahs) are one of the most common contaminants found in soil. pahs exhibit a significant concern because of their toxicity, carcinogenic, teratogenic and mutagenic properties. using microorganisms for cleaning the pollution of soil can be cheap, effective and can provide environmental immunity. the goal of this study is to isolate and identify phenanthrene degra...

The results of this study suggest that the transduction of antibiotic resistance genes by wild-type phages is an additional mechanism of spread amongst strains of P. aeruginosa. The emergence of lysogenic, multidrug-resistant strains, therefore, should be closely monitored. tobramycin resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa with phage F 116 and AP 19, a new wild-type phage. Zentralblatt für Bakter...

UNLABELLED The aim of our study was to determine the prevalence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia, risk factors, and outcome of patients treated at the Hospital of Kaunas University of Medicine. MATERIAL AND METHODS All hospitalized patients with blood culture positive for Pseudomonas aeruginosa during the 5-year period were included. A retrospective data analysis was performed to evaluate...

This study adopted an ecosystem services approach to pollution management by investigating the impact of biochar-mediated remediation on soil nitrogen, abundance nitrogen cycling bacteria and activity ammonia monooxygenase (AMO) enzyme in petroleum-polluted using two biochar types applied at treatment levels with monitoring over 15 weeks. The corn cob-derived (CDB), generally, had a stronger re...

Contamination of fluorescein solutions by Pseudomonas aeruginosa has been a concern of ophthalmologists for many years because of the severity of pseudomonas keratitis. Attempts to prevent contamination have been directed at stringent sterility control during manufacture and the introduction of single-dose disposable containers such as Minims. Deliberate contamination of Minims fluorescein with...

Background: Despite availability of potent antimicrobial agents, Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P aeruginosa) continues to be a serious cause of bacteremia, with high rates of morbidity and mortality; but no available data to elucidate if non-aeruginosa strains of Pseudomonas constitute a similar problem or just bystanders. The aim of this study was to identify the relative frequency of Pseudomonas ba...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A (PA), a potent protein synthesis inhibitor, was found to be a weak T-cell mitogen for murine splenocytes. Maximal stimulation of [3H]thymidine incorporation was obtained with 10 to 100 ng of toxin per ml following a 4-day induction. PA was also shown to be a polyclonal activator of cytolytic T lymphocytes (CTL), effective against concanavalin A-treated target c...

[This corrects the article on p. 532 in vol. 7, PMID: 29379773.].