Deoxynivalenol (DON) is a mycotoxin mainly produced by Fusarium graminearum and culmorum commonly found in cereals such as wheat, barley, oats, their derivatives. Scientists have been working on different strategies for DON detoxification, with biological detoxification being an approach growing interest. When evaluating the use of microorganisms phenomena can occur, namely, biotransformation (...

Pharmacopeial microbiological tests detect and/or enumerate microbes that replicate in the presence of microbiological media. The challenge presented by adopting modern rapid microbiological methods is determining whether or not they represent the automation of a current compendial method or if they represent an “alternative” to a compendial method. The answer impacts how a firm should qualify ...

Background: Providing safe drinking water has critical importance to human societies. The aim of this study was to investigate microbiological quality of drinking water in distribution system of urban and rural regions of Ijroud, in Zanjan province.   Materials and Methods: In present descriptive study, the microbiological examination of drinking water was conducted in 15 facilities with...

A newly developed radioimmunoassay was used to measure the concentration of vancomycin in 137 specimens of serum from patients being treated with this antibiotic. Of these sera, 84 were also analyzed with a microbiological assay technique for vancomycin. Duplicate determinations were done with each of the techniques. Individual values and averaged values for both methods were used for statistic...

OBJECTIVES To define the outcome of treatment for deep sternal wound infections (DSWIs) using direct wound closure (DC) or vacuum-assisted therapy (VAT) based on negative vs. positive microbiological results. METHODS Between 1999 and 2008, 7746 patients underwent median sternotomy for cardiac surgery at our institution. Patients were screened for DSWI and out of the cohort 159 were identified...

Systematic control of antibiotic residues includes analysis and selection of large number of samples, and requires a wide range of screening methods. Screening tests should satisfy the following requirements: they must be capable to detect antibiotics of interest, detection limits must comply with the requirements (MRLmaximum residue limit), they must be easy to perform and cost effective, test...

stylistics is one of the main trends that try to look for beauties in the text. it interested in studying literary texts based on an objective approach for analyzing texts to find the beauties. we can get through that by analyzing the language and rhetorical phenomena in the text in terms of the three levels, vocal, synthetic, and indicative. style is one rhetorical face in the book nahjo al-ba...

BACKGROUND Microbiological contamination of water in dental unit waterlines (DUWL) creates a risk of cross-infections, and is a source of biological risk factors in the work environment of a dentist. The aim of the study was to evaluate dentists' knowledge on DUWL microbiological contamination and the scope of activities/procedures they undertake to monitor it. MATERIALS AND METHOD The questi...

INTRODUCTION An acute infection of the nail fold, called paronychia, is a common clinical problem. The basis for the implementation of the treatment is the result of microbiological examination. Due to the rapid and painful course of infection, usually an empirical antimicrobial treatment prior to obtaining microbiological test results is introduced. AIM The microbial analysis of acute infect...

METHODS The present report attempts to illustrate the positive impact on the microbiological quality of dialysis patients over a 15-year period through the progressive implementation of state-of-the-art technological strategies and the optimization of microbiological surveillance procedures in five dialysis units in Sardinia. RESULTS Following on better microbiological, quality controls of di...