no on-site sanitation system treats both urine and faecal matter in one process. a laboratory scale biological filter was fed with high concentration of urea (4 g n/l) and 17.1 g cod/l to determine if it will be possible to treat liquid that leach from a ventilated improved pit latrine. the hlr in the proposed biological filter system was calculated to be ca 36 l/m2/d, significantly lower than ...

Clostridium difficile is the most common cause of antibacterial-associated diarrhea. Clear clinical presentation and rapid diagnostics enable targeted therapy for C. difficile infection (CDI) to start quickly. CDI treatment includes metronidazole and vancomycin (VAN). Despite decades of use for CDI, no clinically meaningful resistance to either agent has emerged. Fidaxomicin (FDX), an RNA polym...

Thunbergia alata (Black-eyed Susan) is a plant species from East Africa and grows in tropical regions worldwide, including Colombia, being considered an invasive some countries. Even though it used by local communities to treat several illnesses, malaria, there are few biological chemical studies on T. alata. Therefore, this study aimed explore the composition vitro antimycotic (against Candida...

Nowadays, uncontrolled and frequent use of antibiotics may cause emergence of microbial resistanceamong pathogenic agents. Therefore, the use of new synthetic and natural antimicrobial compounds isinevitable. One source of natural compounds in this respect comes from plants. The purpose of this study was to examine the antibacterial effects of peel extracts from sour and sweet pomegranate. Meth...

Please Note: The research described below represents a small portion of an ongoing technical development project. Any and/or all of the methods used for this project may or may not be implemented in the final NIDA Neuroproteomics Center microarray protocols. ABSTRACT The ability to quantitate multiple proteins simultaneously has a wide array of applications including basic biological research, ...

Serial monitoring of the serum C-reactive protein (CRP) concentration was performed, using a one-hour laser-immunonephelometric assay, during 29 episodes of infection in 22 neutropenic patients with acute leukaemia. Serum CRP increased to above a diagnostic level of 100 mg/l in all 29 episodes and continued to rise progressively until appropriate antibiotics, or granulocytes, were given when it...

nowadays, growing interest in the application of nanotechnology in biomedical and biotechnological fields has opened a new avenue to explore the nanoparticles-biological system interaction. indeed, a clear gap is still in the cytotoxic effect of nps on the biological systems. for this purpose, the interaction of the silica oxide nanoparticles (sio2-np) with pc12 cell line, as a model of nervous...