background: the ob­jective of this study was to find an appropriate approach to asymptomatic malaria in elimination setting through a systematic review. methods: a broad search was conducted to find articles with the words ‘malaria’ in their titles and ‘asymptomatic’ or ‘submicroscopic’ in their texts, irrespective of the type of study conducted. the cochrane, medline/pubmed, and scopus databas...

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are fused-ring hydrocarbon compounds that are highly recalcitrant under normal conditions due to their structural complexity and strong molecular bonds. These groups of petrochemicals are mainly found in petroleum-refining plants, accidental oil spills and pipe leakages, and rainwater run-off from roadway. Improperly managed and disposed PAHs can cause en...

Lipids are one of the major subcellular constituents and serve as signal molecules, energy sources, metabolic precursors and structural membrane components in various organisms. The function of lipids can be modified by multiple biochemical processes such as (de-)phosphorylation or (de-)glycosylation, and the organization of fatty acids into distinct cellular pools and subcellular compartments ...

The dispersion of soilborne plant pathogens could be greater in closed soilless growing systems than in open ones. The effect of three soilless growing systems (open, closed and closed with slow sand filtration) on the dispersion of Verticillium dahliae propagules and the severity of the disease in strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) has been analysed. V. dahliae dispersion in a closed syste...

Loss of Heterozygosity Diversity: Whole Ploidy Shifts, Aneuploidy, and Rapid Mechanisms for Generating Genome Richard J. Bennett, Anja Forche and Judith Berman Infection Fungal Biofilms, Drug Resistance, and Recurrent Andes Jigar V. Desai, Aaron P. Mitchell and David R. Pathogenic Species Complex Candida The Siobhán A. Turner and Geraldine Butler Metabolism in Fungal Pathogenesis et al. Iuliana...

an important part of plant in vitro techniques is the sterilization of explants and the maintenance of aseptic conditions. ideally, sterilizing materials should be effective on a vast range of microorganisms at low density. nowadays, the use of compounds such as essential oils (eos) and nanoparticles is applicable in microbiology studies. the main objective of this experiment was to study the s...

with its well-known biological toxicity, the excessive concentrations of sulfide in tannery wastewaters may upset the biological treatment processes, thus leading to a substantial decrease in the efficiency of treatment plants. the presence of sulfide in wastewaters may dramatically interfere with microbial activities and consequently disturb the function of the system as a whole. in this study...

Biotrickling filters (BTFs) are becoming very potential means to purify waste gases containing multiple VOC components, but the removal of the waste gases by BTF has been a major challenge due to the extremely complicated interactions among the components. Four biotrickling filters packed with polyurethane foam were employed to identify the interactions among four aromatic compounds (benzene, t...

Lipopolysaccharide-binding protein (LBP) and bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) are closely related endotoxin-binding proteins that function in a co-ordinated manner to facilitate an integrated host response to invading Gram-negative bacteria. Differences in the structure and function of BPI and LBP, as well as differences in their mobilization, permit highly sensitive pro-infla...