In the tight-knit Sicilian tradition, Eugenia Piddini lived with her parents while attending college at the University of Palermo. But her family had always encouraged her to think ambitiously about her career, and so at 25, she struck out for mainland Europe to launch her research career in cell biology, convincing the EMBL in Heidelberg to give her a PhD candidate spot. There, she studied the...

Escherichia coli merupakan pathogen penyebab diare yang dapat menginfeksi manusia melalui air atau makanan terkontaminasi. Penggunaan antibiotik tidak bijak dalam mengatasi infeksi bakteri menimbulkan resistensi terhadap antibiotik. Cengkeh salah satu bahan alam memiliki potensi sebagai antibakteri dikarenakan kandungan eugenol ada pada tanaman cengkeh baik batang, daun maupun bunga. Penelitian...

BACKGROUND To screen methanolic extracts of 26 commonly used Indian spices against nine species of uropathogenic bacteria (Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus aureus, Acinetobacter baumannii, Citrobacter freundii, Enterobacter aerogenes, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus mirabilis, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa), isolated from clinical samples of a tertiary care hospital for antib...

The optimum concentrations of clove oil as an anesthetic for olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) and the stress response of the fish to clove oil anesthesia were determined over a range of water temperatures, and investigated in a simulated transport experiment using analysis of various water and physiological parameters. While the time for induction of anesthesia decreased significantly as...

The inhibitory effects of essential oils including clove, lavender and geranium extracted from Eugenia caryophyllata, Lavandula officinalis and Pelargonium graveolens on multidrug resistant isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were investigated. The main constituents of clove, lavander and geranium oil were eugenol (80-90%), 1,8-cineol (13%) and citronellol (45%) respectively. Clove had the most ...