in order to evaluate the efficiency of inoculation of chickpea seeds with mesorhizobium and application of nitrogen and zinc on yield and yield components of rainfed chickpea an experiment was carried out in research station of shirvan-chardavel, ilam. the experiment was conducted in randomized complete block design (rcbd) with six treatments including mesorhizobium inoculation, nitrogen (40 kg...

abstract asthma is a common chronic inflammatory and complex disease in children with many contributing (including genetic and environmental) factors. this study aims to review the impact of infections in children with asthma. different websites including googlescholar, yahoo, pubmed, sid.ir, magiran, irandoc, iranmedex ,embase and hand searching were searched for pertinent articles with keywor...

several species of magnetotactic bacteria have been discovered recently. these bacteria synthesize intracellular magnetic nanoparticles in specific sizes and shapes and arrange them in chains. these particles called magnetosomes and can be used for drug-delivery, cell-targeting and hyperthermia. magnetotactic bacteria navigate along the magnetic field; this process is known as ‘magnetotaxis’ wh...

hydrocarbons are prone to bacterial and fungal contamination. bacteria and fungi live and proliferate in water droplets within the fuels and on surfaces surrounding them. this can cause corrosion in oil exploration and production, clogging of fuel lines in aviation and higher emissions in diesel combustion engines to state few examples. state-of-the-art is the addition of biocides to fuels, whi...

bacteria make up about half of the living organisms inside of the rumen. however, they do more than half of the work in the rumen. the bacteria work together. some breakdown certain carbohydrates and proteins which are then used by others. some require certain growth factors, such as b-vitamins, which are made by others. some bacteria help to clean up the rumen of others’ end products, such as ...

antibiotic resistance is an important problem in antibiotic treatment of infections, particularly in hospitals. tomatidine is a plant secondary metabolite with antimicrobial and antifungal effects. this study examined the possible synergistic effect tomatidine with several antibiotics against standard and clinical strains of staphylococcus aureus, enterococcus faecalis, pseudomonas aeruginosa a...

background bottled mineral water is generally considered more pure than tap water in developing countries. immunocompromised patients and those with co morbid conditions are often offered bottled mineral water since they are believed to be safer. the present study was designed to determine the risk of common bacterial contamination of commercially available bottled mineral water in iran. materi...

background: photoreactivation of microorganisms following uv disinfection is a disadvantage of using uv technology for wastewater treatment, since in some cases it may even reach several logarithms. the aim of this study was to evaluate the possibility of the photoreactivation of indicator bacteria (coliform and streptococci) in the irradiated effluent. methods: this study was performed using t...

behaviors of simultaneous removal of no and so2 using the coculture of anaerobic denitrifying bacteria and sulfate reducing bacteria were investigated in a bench-scale biotrickling-filter. approximate 20 days were required to use the landfill leachate as the microbial seed to develop the biofilm on the surface of packing material. when the combined no/so2 removal biotrickling-filter was operate...

The presence of perchlorate salts in aqueous solutions bears two opposite effects on habitability. On the one hand, trigger a decrease freezing point solutions, resulting stable at subzero temperatures, thereby widening habitable conditions for potential microbial life. other perchlorates solution imposes significant osmotic stress that compromises integrity cell membranes, restricting same env...