This dictionary of pathogenic microorganisms, published by the American Society for Microbiology, is simple and useful. This book is divided in four sections, bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses. Each organism is presented alphabetically in its section. Older names are mentioned and connected with current names. A brief bibliography is also provided at the end of each chapter. The emergence...

This dictionary of pathogenic microorganisms, published by the American Society for Microbiology, is simple and useful. This book is divided in four sections, bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses. Each organism is presented alphabetically in its section. Older names are mentioned and connected with current names. A brief bibliography is also provided at the end of each chapter. The emergence...

Gingivitis is an inflammatory destructive disease mainly caused by microbial plaques. Gram-positive and gram-negative bacilli or cocci have been isolated from dental plaque and gingivitis. This study was going to isolate and characterize the pathogenic bacteria from gingival of 100 patients with oral gingivitis. Enriched and specific media used for isolation of bacteria. Identification of isola...

• Cyanobacterial antiviral and antibacterial metabolites cover a broad chemical space. Some natural product classes are selective for either virus or bacteria. Most have been isolated from Nostoc species. Cyanobacteria promising hosts heterologous expression. Bacterial viral infections pose direct threat to human health due the increase of drug-resistant novel pathogenic strains. Natural produc...

We present bacteriological and virological findings together with salient clinical features from a prospective study of 447 children aged under 2 years admitted to hospital with infectious gastroenteritis. Putative pathogenic micro-organisms were identified in the stools of 75% of these children. Eight identifiably distinct groups of viruses, found on electron microscopy and tissue culture were...

The study of microbial pathogenesis has been primarily a reductionist science since Koch's principles. Reductionist approaches are essential to identify the causal agents of infectious disease, their molecular mechanisms of action, and potential drug targets, and much of medicine's success in the treatment of infectious disease stems from that approach. But many bacteria-caused diseases cannot ...

Microbial contamination of plastic surfaces is a significant source hospital-acquired infections. To produce antimicrobial surfaces, chlorhexidine was attached to nitrided acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). The uniformity distribution on the revealed by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) imaging. Its efficacy established against model pathogenic Gram-positive and Gram...

Streptococcus mutans is a key bacterium in dental caries, one of the most prevalent chronic infectious diseases. Conventional treatment fails to specifically target pathogenic bacteria, while tending eradicate commensal bacteria. Thus, caries remains common and challenging Phage therapy, which involves use bacterial viruses as anti-bacterial agents, has been gaining interest worldwide. Neverthe...