The rarity of endocarditis due to Klebsiella species limits its recognition and awareness of its often malignant course. We describe two recent cases of Klebsiella pneumoniae endocarditis and review the clinical context and outcomes of 48 other cases reported in the literature. At our hospital, endocarditis complicated only one of 86 consecutive episodes of bacteremia due to Klebsiella species....

Eighteen pesticide-degrading endophytic bacteria were isolated from the roots, stems, and leaves of healthy rice plants identified through 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Furthermore, biochemical properties, including enzyme production, dye degradation, anti-bacterial activities, plant-growth-promoting traits, N-fixation, P-solubilization, auxin ACC-deaminase activities these naturally occurring alon...

We describe two multicellular implementations of the classical P and PI feedback controllers for regulation gene expression in a target cell population. Specifically, we propose to distribute proportional integral actions over different cellular populations microbial consortium comprising third population whose output needs be regulated. By engineering communication among via appropriate orthog...

Maillard reactions products (MRPs) are a major colorant of distillery effluent. It is major source of environmental pollution due to its complex structure and recalcitrant nature. This study has revealed that sucrose glutamic acid-Maillard reaction products (SGA-MRPs) showed many absorption peaks between 200 and 450 nm. The absorption maximum peak was noted at 250 nm in spectrophotometric detec...

In vitro experiment was performed by taking petrol pump soils and diesel in flasks with the micronutrients and macronutrients supplements. Cemented bioreactors having sterilized soil and diesel was used for in vivo analysis of diesel hydrocarbon degradation. There were two sets of experiments, first having three bioreactors (1) inoculated by KI. pneumoniae subsp. aerogenes with soil and diesel;...

Staphylococcus epidermidis (SE) is the leading pathogen of prosthetic valve endocarditis. At the same time it is a very rare cause of native valve endocarditis and it follows a clinical course and outcome similar to Streptococcal viridans endocarditis. We report here the case of a 41-year-old man with a community acquired SE endocarditis of a native aortic valve. Despite early surgical interven...

the prospects of using the biostimulation and bioaugmentation treatment for the removal of the polychlorinated biphenyl (pcbs) from contaminated sediment collected from the sewage canal in the surroundings of a former pcb manufacturing plant in slovakia is described. the eleven bacterial strains isolated in our previous work from sewage strážsky canal sediments were able to aerobically degrade ...

We describe a multicellular approach to control target cell population endowed with bistable toggle-switch. The idea is engineer synthetic microbial consortium consisting of three different populations. In such consortium, two populations, the Togglers, responding some reference input, can induce switch memory mechanism in third population, Targets, so as activate or deactivate additional funct...

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are widespread persistent pollutants that cause several adverse health effects. Aerobic bioremediation of PCBs involves the activity of either one bacterial species or a microbial consortium. Using multiple species will enhance the range of PCB congeners co-metabolized since different PCB-degrading microorganisms exhibit different substrate specificity. We have ...