BACKGROUND The urea blood test (Ez-HBT) has been shown to compare favourably with the urea breath test in the diagnosis of active Helicobacter pylori infection. AIM To examine the performance characteristics of the Ez-HBT Helicobacter blood test in establishing success or failure of therapy in H. pylori-infected adults using the 13C urea breath test as the reference method. METHODS 13C urea...

EZ is a system that integrates the facilities provided separately by traditional programming languages and operating systems. This integration is accomplished by casting services provided by traditional operating services as EZ language features. EZ is a high-level string processing language with a persistent memory. Traditional file and directory services are provided by EZ ’s strings and asso...

Abstract Vibrio species ( sp.) is a class of Gram-negative aquatic bacteria that causes vibriosis in aquaculture, which have resulted big economic losses. Utilization antibiotics against has brought concerns on antibiotic resistance, and it essential to explore potential alternatives. In this study, seven compounds (compounds 1 – 7 ) were isolated from the Arctic endophytic fungus Penicillium s...

Вагомим критерієм при виборі певних штамів грибів для їх промислового культивування є бактерицидні та фунгіцидні властивості. Метою роботи було проаналізувати деякі штами на предмет здатності протидіяти Penicillium sp. в умовах конфронтації. В результаті проведених досліджень рівнозначні антагоністичні властивості встановлені між мікроміцетом Polyporus umbellatus 2511, 2510, Sparassis nemecii 2...

Nine polyketides, including two new benzophenone derivatives, peniphenone (1) and methyl peniphenone (2), along with seven known xanthones (3-9) were obtained from mangrove endophytic fungus Penicillium sp. ZJ-SY₂ isolated from the leaves of Sonneratia apetala. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of MS, 1D, and 2D NMR data. Compounds 1, 3, 5, and 7 showed potent immunosuppressive acti...

The objective of this study was to isolate and identify fungal species found in natural association with adults of Musca domestica. The adult insects were collected from two natural breeding grounds: hog pens and an urban sanitary landfill. The isolated fungi were identified as: Aspergillus flavus (23.8%), A. niger var. niger (14.4%), Penicillium corylophilum (21.4%), P. fellutanum (11.9%), Cla...

Two novel antifungal antibiotics, PF1163A and B, were isolated from the fermentation broth of Penicillium sp. They were purified from the solid cultures of rice media using ethyl acetate extraction, silica gel and Sephadex LH-20 column chromatographies. PF1163A and B showed potent growth inhibitory activity against pathogenic fungal strain Candida albicans but did not show cytotoxic activity ag...

A new chloro-trinoreremophilane sesquiterpene 1, three new chlorinated eremophilane sesquiterpenes 2-4, together with a known compound, eremofortine C (5), were isolated from an Antarctic deep-sea derived fungus, Penicillium sp. PR19N-1. Structures were established using IR, HRMS, 1D and 2D NMR techniques. In addition, the plausible metabolic network of these isolated products is proposed. Comp...