OBJECTIVES Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bacterial isolates is essential for clinical diagnosis, to detect emerging problems and to guide empirical treatment. Current phenotypic procedures are sometimes associated with mistakes and may require further genetic testing. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) may soon be within reach even for routine surveillance and clinical diagnostics. The aim...

Pear is one of the most important fruit species grown in temperate zones globe. Besides production, pear are highly valued forestry and agroforestry systems; landscaping, as ornamental features; fruits ecological value, other areas. The Pyrus species, obtained from a gene bank, were evaluated for different morphological traits trees, leaves, flowers, fruits, well their responses to attacks prin...

The experiment included 20 cowpea genotypes with three replications in a Randomized Block Design. study was carried out to estimate the genetic variability, advance, correlation coefficient analysis and yield contributing traits, direct indirect effects of component on through path analysis. variance revealed existence all hence data 17 traits which showed significant differences among entries ...

We tested the possibility that two phenotypic traits, defective activation of macrophage antileishmanial activities and susceptibility to infection with Leishmania major, were controlled by the same gene. We used P/J (susceptible) and C3H/HeN (resistant) mice to breed F1, backcross (Bx), and F2 mice that were tested individually for both traits, each of which is known to be controlled by a sing...

We compared the serological phenotypic frequencies of ABO, MNSs, and Duffy in 417 blood donors and 309 malaria patients from four Brazilian Amazon areas. Our results suggest no correlation between ABO phenotype and malaria infection in all areas studied. We observed significant correlation between the S +s +, S +s -, and S -s + phenotypes and malaria infection in three areas. Some of the Duffy ...