Enicostemma hyssopifolium, a useful medicinal herb was subjected to antimicrobial as well as phytochemical investigations. The petroleum ether, chloroform, n-Butanol, ethanol and aqueous extracts of the whole plant of Enicostemma hyssopifolium were studied for in vitro antimicrobial activity against Human pathogenic microorganisms. The antimicrobial potential of Enicostemma hyssopifolium agains...

background & aim:vaginal disease has always been a great concern of women. medicinal plants as natural resources with fewer side effects can effectively treat these infections given the diversity of these infections, resistance to antibiotics and side effects of existing drugs. the present study aimed to compare antimicrobial effects of methanol extract of francoeuria undulata on growth of seve...

conclusions minimum biofilm eradication values of ciprofloxacin obtained in the study are close to the values of the minimal inhibition concentration (mic). results all tested strains formed a biofilm. a value of 1.0 μg/ml ciprofloxacin is mbe50 for the strains of both tested species. an mbe90 value of ciprofloxacin for isolates of p. vulgaris was 2 μg/ml and for p. mirabilis was 512 μg/ml. mat...

background and purpose: candidiasis is a major fungal infection, and candida albicans is the major cause of infections in humans. the clinical and laboratory standards institute (clsi) developed new breakpoints for antifungal agents against c. albicans. in this multi-center study, we aimed to determine the drug susceptibility profile of c. albicans, isolated from iranian population according to...

conclusions the results showed that enterococci are common contaminants in food. indeed, this study indicates a high prevalence of multidrug-resistant enterococci in food of animal origin in iran. isolating some persisting enterococcal isolates revealed that continuous surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in enterococci from food is essential. materials and methods thirty samples of meat, c...

this work studies the biosurfactants production which enables the diesel biodegradation byusing mixed microbial consortia from polluted sites. it was carried out by culturing three microbial consortia(named as xa, xb and xc) obtained from polluted soils, and enriched in diesel as sole carbon source.batchexperiments were done to study the effects of three variables (temperature,hydrocarbon conce...

The resazurin assay utilising microtitre-plate, described by Drummond and Waigh in 2000, has been modified to achieve more accuracy in the determination of the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values of natural products, including crude extracts, chromatographic fractions or purified compounds against various bacterial strains. This modified resazurin method is simple, sensitive, rapid, r...

OBJECTIVES To compare the in vitro activities of vancomycin and linezolid against methicillin resistant Staphyloccus aureus in our set up to help in formulating a better empirical treatment and reduce the emergence of vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. METHODS The study was conducted over a period of 6 months (1st July 2009-31st Dec 2009). Fifty Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus a...

According to current interpretive criteria, Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates with ciprofloxacin minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of ≤ 0.06 μg/mL are considered susceptible. Intermediate and resistant MIC breakpoints have not yet been established but isolates of N. gonorrhoeae with ciprofloxacin MICs of 0.05 to 0.25 μg/mL have been associated with apparent treatment failure with a regimen ...

Commentary Background Reports of a gonorrhoea 'superbug' made the headlines last year following the description of a ceftriaxone-resistant i solate of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. 1 But is antimicrobial resistance a significant problem and what is the current reality of N. gonorrhoeae infection in the UK? Is gonorrhoea getting meaner? Anogenital infection with N. gonor-rhoeae has been highly responsi...