BACKGROUND Mycobacteria have a spectrum of virulence and different susceptibilities to antibiotics. Distinguishing mycobacterial species is vital as patients with non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections present clinical features that are similar to those of patients with tuberculosis. Thus, rapid differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex from NTM is critical to administer app...

Abstract The 3ADON chemotype of Fusarium graminearum predominates in northern Europe, whereas the 15ADON is predominant central and southern Europe. Therefore, it has been suggested that there are two F. populations which may have specialized to different host plants. aim present work was test this hypothesis by comparing European isolates (15ADON chemotype) from Russia (3ADON Finland infection...

Background: Methane emission from the ruminants is receiving global attention due to its warming potential. It imposes development of cost-effective and easily adoptable energy reduce methane emissions ruminants. Apart this, information available on methanogenic microflora their populations in Indian native cattle also very limited. In this study, normal Gir was studied using molecular methods ...

The Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office (PBSO) Crime Laboratory and the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences (ADFS) have validated and implemented analysis of short tandem repeat (STR) sequences on casework using silver staining kit and SYBR Green I detection systems and are presently validating fluorescently tagged STR alleles using the Hitachi FMBIO 100 instrument. Concurrently, the Broward ...