Random urine samples from hospitalized patients (n = 550) and seeded sterile filtered urine samples (n = 730) were used to test a membrane filtration technique, Qualture (Future Medical Technologies International, Inc., West Palm Beach, Fla.), for the detection and identification of uropathogens. Results for each sample were compared with those obtained by the calibrated loop (0.01 ml) method t...

Background: Noscapine is a water soluble alkaloid with antitussive property and very less toxicity. It is obtained from the Papaveraceae family. Recently, new pharmacological properties such as anticancer, anti stroke and anti-angiogenic effects are introduced. There is no scientific report on noscapine effect on reproductive system. The aim of present study was to determine in vitro effect of ...

Abstract Inactivation of bacterial spores is a key objective for developing novel food preservation technologies. In this work, the removal properties filtering materials based on silica microparticles functionalized with essential oil components (EOCs) (carvacrol, eugenol, thymol, and vanillin) against Bacillus subtilis, spore-forming bacterium, in two liquid matrices were investigated. The vi...

  White Spot Virus (WSV) is currently the most serious viral pathogen of shrimp worldwide it causes mortality up to 100% within 7-10 days in commercial shrimp farms. Infected Indian white shrimp Fenneropenaeus indicus samples were collected from Guatr shrimp site in Sistan and Baluchestan province in south of Iran and WSV infection was confirmed by Nested PCR. WSV was isolated from infected shr...

Due to the increasing number of fat grafting procedures, several laboratories have developed their own fat processing system (Puregraft(®), LipiVage(®), Viafill(®), etc.), such as closed harvesting systems, centrifugation or washing and filtration devices, or even simple decantation techniques. However, all these tissue-engineering systems are expensive. Our team has developed a simple and fast...

BACKGROUND Compounding pharmacies often prepare parenteral nutrition (PN) and must adhere to rigorous standards to avoid contamination of the sterile preparation. In March 2011, Serratia marcescens bloodstream infections (BSIs) were identified in 5 patients receiving PN from a single compounding pharmacy. An investigation was conducted to identify potential sources of contamination and prevent ...

background. this study evaluated the antimicrobial activity of tetraacetylethylenediamine-sodium perborate (taed-sp) in comparison to 2.5% and 5% sodium hypochlorite (naocl) against enterococcus faecalis. methods. a standard suspension of e. faecalis was inoculated on 60 plates containing mueller-hinton agar culture medium. four sterile disks of beckman filtration paper were placed on each plat...

introduction: amiodarone is an effective drug for life-threatening arrhythmias like recurrent ventricular fibrillation and atrial fibrillation. amiodarone creates rarely genitourinary side effects are seen. these are epididymitis, testicular dysfunction and impotance. amiodarone aggregates and triggers inflammation in the head of the epididym. case report: we present the case of a patient who d...

This study was designed to investigate the ability of an extracorporeal circuit (ECC) with a vented hard shell reservoir to remain sterile for a period of 72 h under dry conditions. The study was conducted in three phases. In Phase One: Two previously published methods for detecting contamination of the ECC were compared. A group of positive controls was collected by contaminating identical cir...

Certain important industrial fermentations require substantial amounts of sterile air that are commonly obtained by filtration through beds of fibers, granular solids, or specially prepared filter media (Gaden and Humphrey, 1956). To control the efficiency of such sterilization filters, several methods to estimate the microorganism content of the air have been proposed. These methods can be cla...