the sigatoka disease complex of banana involves three related ascomycetous fungi viz., mycosphaerella fijiensis, m. musicola, and m. eumusae. due to rather similar symptoms on banana, similar teleomorph morphology and problems associated with growth and sporulation in culture, species identification based on classical methods is troublesome. the exact distribution of these three species and the...

Background: Malaria is still account for 200 million cases annually. Microscopy is the gold standard technique for malaria parasites detection. PCR-based techniques can detect malaria infections with high sensitivity. The study aimed to evaluate the sensitivity of microscopy technique in the detection of P. falciparum and P. vivax, using monoplex real-time PCR, Gezira State, Central Sudan. Met...

evaluating the in vitro antifungal activity of phlomis lanceolata, rhynchocorys elephas, otostegia persica and eremurus persicus, four species used in iranian traditional medicine, has been performed on the clinical isolates of the pathogenic fungi aspergillus fumigatus, a. flavus, trichophyton mentagrophytes, t. rubrum, t. verrucosum, microsporum canis, m. gypseum and epidermophyton floccosum ...

Organophosphates are powerful inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase, which is critical to nerve function. Despite continuous research for detecting the highly toxic organophosphates, a new and improved methodology is still needed. Herein we demonstrate simple-to-fabricate chemiresistive gas sensors using conducting-polymer polypyrrole (PPy) nanotube transducers, which are chemically specific and c...

The venom of animals, including snakes, scorpions, and spiders is a complex combination of proteins, peptides, and other biomolecules as well as some minerals. Among the biomolecules of some animal’s venom, small peptides that lack disulfide bands known as Non-Disulfide Bridge Peptides (NDBPs) potentiate the bradykinin by preventing the conversion of angiotensin 1 to angiotensin 2 using the mec...