objectives: with side effects of antibiotics taken into consideration, the necessity of antibiotic therapy after simple implant placement procedures is still a subject of debate and the existing literature on this topic is widely controversial. the aim of this study was to assess the effect of postoperative amoxicillin therapy on early colonization of peri-implant sulcus after implant placement...

The oil-water interface formed during an oil spill represents a challenging environment for pelagic communities living in aquatic ecosystems. At this anoxic barrier, we report the formation of microbial hydrocarbonoclastic biofilm capable electron transfer along water column. This generated membrane surface-active compounds that allowed spontaneous separation electrical charges, causing establi...

Prokaryotic communities in pristine and oil-contaminated desert soil, seawater, and hypersaline coastal soil were analyzed using culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches. The former technique was the dilution-plating method. For the latter, total genomic DNA was extracted and the 16S rRNA genes were amplified using a universal bacterial primer pair and primer pairs specific for Acti...

Autochthonous microorganisms inhabiting hydrocarbon polluted marine environments play a fundamental role in natural attenuation and constitute promising resources for bioremediation approaches. Alcanivorax spp. members are ubiquitous in contaminated surface waters and are the first to flourish on a wide range of alkanes after an oil-spill. Following oil contamination, a transient community of d...

The purpose of this study was to combine all available information on the state Lake Pertusillo (Basilicata, Italy), both in field and published, which included Sentinel-2A satellite data, understand algal blooms a lacustrine environment impacted by petroleum hydrocarbons. data retrospectively used monitor lake, is located near largest land-based oil extraction plant Europe, with particular att...

background: urinary tract infection (uti) is considered as the most common bacterial infectious disease seen among the pediatric patients. the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of bacterial uropathogens isolated from the pediatric patients with urinary tract infections. methods: this descriptive study was conducted in children medial center, te...

abstract       background and objective: the spread of drug resistance in bacteria have prompted researchers to seek suitable alternative for antimicrobial drugs among various medicinal plants and nanoparticles. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of silver nanoparticles alone and in combination with methanol extract of zataria multiflora on five gram-positive and gram-negative bac...