Vibrio cholerae is a human pathogen that causes mild to severe diarrheal illnesses and has major public health significance. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of antimicrobial activity of the gold nanoparticles on Vibrio cholera. Gold and Silver nanoparticles are chemically synthesized. Standard strain of Vibrio cholerawas cultured in a nutrient broth. Minimum inhibitory conc...

Anderson Technical, Inc. has developed rapid, semiautomated equipment for antimicrobial susceptibility testing. A total of 310 fresh clinical bacterial isolates (226 gram-negative and 75 gram-positive) were tested with the Anderson Technical system and compared with those of Micro-Media Systems, Inc. For the gram-positive organisms, 74.3% of the test pairs had identical minimum inhibitory conce...

Garenoxacin (BMS 284756) was active against 105 of 108 (97%) recent clinical Gardnerella vaginalis isolates at < or =2 micro g/ml by using the reference agar dilution method for anaerobes. Twenty-eight percent of isolates (31 of 108) were resistant to metronidazole, and 44% were resistant to doxycycline. All were susceptible to clindamycin and ampicillin-sulbactam.

Background and Aim: Oral infections and dental caries are considered as two serious public health problems, which inflict a costly burden on health care services worldwide, especially in the developing countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antibacterial activity of Iranian Licorice aqueous root extract on Lactobacillus Acidophilus in comparison with Chlorhexidine. Material...