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ArticlesApplication of bacteriophages isolated from sewage to control urinary O157:H7 Escherichia coli and several bacterial uropathogens
Salwa M. Masoud, Hend A. Refat, Nada S. Sayed, Mohamed K. Abd-El Aal, Ahmed A. Dosocky, Zeinab S. Mohammed et al.
Urinary tract infections (UTI) are global bacterial infections. Since the spread of antibiotic resistance, it is necessary to find alternative antimicrobial agents. The aim of this work was to investigate the effect of waste water bacteriophages on the…
8 Feb 2025- Articles
Diversity of aquatic Pythium and Phytopythium spp. from rivers and a pond of Gifu city, Japan
Hani M. A. Abdelzaher, Koji Kageyama
Pythiaceous fungi have variety of occurrences in different environments. If these fungi are present in water intended to irrigate crops, they pose high risk as pathogens. Pythium adhaerens, P. aquatile, P. diclinum, P. dissotocum, P. pachycaule and P. t…
8 Feb 2025 - Articles
Association of Hepatitis C viral load with liver functions and risk factors among HCV patients, Minia governorate, Egypt
Hala, R. Ahmed, Reham, A. Ibrahem, Rehab, M. Abd El-Baky et al.
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the blood transmitted hepatitis viruses. HCV infections have been identified as major causes of chronic hepatic diseases, and hepatocellular carcinoma. The aims of the current study were to determine the HCV viral load…
8 Feb 2025 - Articles
Severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus-2 infection: A synopsis of the host immune responses and viral immune evasion strategies involved
Bala, N. Umar, Jibril, Adamu, Muhammad, T. Ahmad et al.
The novel coronavirus designated as SARS-CoV-2 is the etiological agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which rendered the care of the global health powerless and plunged the world economy into a historic decline. This disease is characterized b…
8 Feb 2025 - Articles
Epidemiology of COVID-19 scenario in India
Prasanta Majumder, Shyamalendu Laskar, Aesha Zafna, Manisha Koul, Anudarsh P. Kalakumari, Pallavi A. Thomas
There was an outbreak of a new Coronavirus infection in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in late December 2019, which caused acute respiratory syndrome of unknown etiology. The World Health Organization (WHO) named the viral causal agent as Severe Acute Res…
8 Feb 2025 - Review
Recent updates on effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines
Sareer ud Din, Umar Shahbaz, Shahab ud din, Sadaf Siraj, Anbareen Gul, Abdur Raziq et al.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has infected millions of people worldwide. Vaccines are urgently needed to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic and return to the pre-pandemic era. The aims of the current literature review were to discuss the administered vacc…
8 Feb 2025 - Review
A perspective of precision medicine in the management of COVID-19
Shrikant Verma, Mohammad Abbas, Sushma Verma, Aliya Abbas Rizvi, Almas Khan, Syed Tasleem Raza et al.
The idea of precision medication is turning out progressively to be famous. The utilization of enormous information, genomics and other "omics" like metabolomics; proteomics and transcriptomics; could soon cause the fantasy of personalized med…
8 Feb 2025 - Articles
Presepsin as a predictive indicator of severity in Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19)
Sara M. Farag, Rasha A. Nasr, Nesma G. El Sheikh, Mona A. Khattab
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) currently represents a major health emergency worldwide. Early recognition of severe forms of this virus is essential to align effective management and treatment strategies. Presepsin (PSP), the soluble cluster of dif…
8 Feb 2025 - Articles
Physiological aspects of the halophilic and halotolerant fungi, and their potential applications
Rutuja S. Patankar, Vasudeo P. Zambare, Mohanadoss Ponraj
Extremophiles are organisms that can thrive under extreme environmental conditions. There are many types of extremophiles, which require different growth conditions and habitats to grow; among them are the halophilic and the halotolerant microbes. These…
8 Feb 2025 - Articles
Bacteriophages as affordable solution for treatment of multidrug resistant bacteria, and their recent potential applications
Ghadah A. Alsubhi
The impact of bacteriophages as antibacterial agents was known after their first discovery in 1915, and they were then employed to treat the bacterial infections. However, the discovery of penicillin in 1928 quickly overshadowed bacteriophage therapy, a…
8 Feb 2025 - Articles
The antibacterial activity of nano-encapsulated basil and cinnamon essential oils against certain multidrug-resistant bacteria recovered from infected wounds
Noura El-Kattan, Kamilia A.M. Allam
This study was conducted to evaluate the antibacterial activity of nano-encapsulated essential oils of basil (Ocimum basilicum) and cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum) against multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria. A total of 115 wound swab samples were collected…
8 Feb 2025 - Articles
Phytochemical screening, and in vitro antimicrobial potential of Aerva javanica leaf extracts, collected from Shada Mountain, Al-Baha, Saudi Arabia
Abdulaziz Yahya Al-Ghamdi
The purposes of this study were to determine the phytochemical constituents and in vitro antimicrobial efficacy of Aerva javanica (L.) leaf extracts growing wildly in Al-Baha region, Saudi Arabia. The plant leaves were collected, air-dried, macerated, a…
8 Feb 2025 - Articles
Prevalence of multidrug resistant Escherichia coli recovered from patients suffering from urinary tract infections
Salwa Mahmoud Masoud, Rehab Mahmoud Abd El-Baky, Sherine A. Aly, Reham Ali Ibrahem
Urinary tract infections are common human bacterial infections caused by Escherichia coli, which is one of the most frequent uropathogens. Treatment of such infections has become challenging due to the elevated levels of antimicrobial resistance. The ai…
8 Feb 2025 - Articles
Soil-borne alkaline phosphatase-producing Bacillus and Penicillium species as growth promoters of the Corchorus olitorius and Amaranthus hybridus plants
Olubusola A. Odeniyi, Ladi Turaki
Phosphorus; is an essential element for plant growth, which may be abundant in the soil but unavailable, because it is poorly soluble and forms complexes with the metals. Microorganisms can solubilize and mineralize the insoluble phosphate into bioavail…
8 Feb 2025 - Articles
Efficacy of Trichoderma species as bio-control agents to control root rot disease of Cantaloupe plants under the impact of climate change
Ahmed, M.F.A, Shaheen, S.I, EL-Fiki, I.A.I et al.
In this study, several bio-agents, including Trichoderma album, T. hamatum, T. harzianum and T. viride; prepared as suspensions at a concentration of 30×106 conidia/ ml, in addition to bio-fungicides, such as Plant Guard (T. harzianum, 30×10…
8 Feb 2025 - Articles
In-vitro investigation of biofilm-specific resistance and virulence of biofilm-forming uropathogenic Escherichia coli
Sara A. Alshaikh, Tarek El-Banna, Fatma Sonbol, Mahmoud H. Farghali
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) is the primary etiologic agent of urinary tract infections (UTIs). This study aimed to investigate the difference in antimicrobial susceptibility of UPEC isolates in the planktonic and biofilm states. Important viru…
8 Feb 2025 - Articles
A review on drug resistance patho-mechanisms in ESKAPE bacterial pathogens
Apoorva Jain, Ajay Kumar Oli, Sughosh Kulkarni, Raghavendra D. Kulkarni, Kelmani Chandrakanth
The escalating incidence of nosocomial infections stemming from ESKAPE (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter spp.) bacterial pathogens presents a formidable…
8 Feb 2025 - Articles
Development of polymerase chain reaction coupled with a high-resolution melting technique for detection of Helicobacter pylori clarithromycin resistance
Souad Oirdi Zahir, Mounia El Khadir, Dafr-Allah Benajah, Sidi Adil Ibrahimi, Laila Chbani, Mohamed El Abkari et al.
Helicobacter pylori, a bacterial pathogen that causes severe gastric diseases, has developed antibiotics resistance; mainly against clarithromycin. Consequently, the latest international recommendations have advised clarithromycin susceptibility testing…
8 Feb 2025 - Articles
Microbiota as a linking axis of the macroecosystem involving soil-plant-human. Potential interactions and perspectives for study
Artem V. Lyamin, Lyudmila V. Orlova, Vladimir I. Platonov, Natalia M. Troz, Aleksey S. Sustretov, Elena A. Zakharova et al.
During analyzing morbidity data, it is obvious that the ratio of infections has decreased significantly since the beginning of the 20th century, but the proportion of metabolic and inflammatory diseases has increased. This may be related to the degradat…
8 Feb 2025 - Articles
Proposed therapies and vaccine developing for COVID-19 (SARS CoV-2)
Gamal, Abdelaziz, Heba, A. Mostafa
COVID-19 or Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is the third spillover of animal coronavirus to humans, resulting in a major respiratory epidemic in less than two decades. In March, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) called this…
8 Feb 2025