The misuse of antibiotics combined with a lack newly developed ones is the main contributors to current antibiotic resistance crisis. There dire need for new and alternative antibacterial options nanotechnology could be solution. Metal-based nanoparticles, particularly silver nanoparticles (NAg), have garnered widespread popularity due their unique physicochemical properties broad-spectrum acti...

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Old Taxonomic Order Order Caudovirales Family Podoviridae Genus T7-like viruses Type Species Enterobacteria phage phiKMV Species in the Genus 9 Tentative Species in the Genus 11 Unassigned Species in the family 7 New Taxonomic Order Order Caudovirales Family Podoviridae Genus phiKMV-like viruses Type Species Enterobacteria phage phiKMV Species in the Genus 6 Tentative Species in the Genus 0 Una...

The spectrum of specific activities and the electrophoretic mobilities of esterases produced by 550 strains of Enterobacteriaceae belonging to 36 species and subclassified into six groups (group 1, Escherichia coli, Shigella and Escherichia hermanii; group 2, genus Salmonella and genus Citrobacter; group 3, genus Klebsiella and genus Enterobacter; group 4, genus Serratia and Serratia fonticola;...

abstract the laelapidae is a large family with worldwide distribution. many laelapids are ectoparasitic on small mammals or associated with arthropods, although some species are free living and predators especially in soil habitat; also they are common in stored products. during three years (2007-2009) of faunestic survey, samples were collected from different habitats such as soil, plant litte...

during a survey of sindh and punjab provinces of pakistan, two dragonfly genera were collected and identified for the first time from the country. anaciaeshna(family aeshnidae) is a genus of large dragonflies. representatives were collectedfrom gujjo, district thatta (sindh) in august 2008 and were identified as anaciaeshna jaspidea (burmeister). the second genus was epophthalmia (family cordul...

the tropical asian cyprinid genus puntius is a major part of the ichthyofauna in southeast asia. systematic status of the genus puntius among cyprinidae, the most prominent freshwater fish all over the world, remain to be substantiated. the molecular phylogenetic analyses derived from recombination activating genesequences (rag2) for 35 representative samples of malaysian puntius and their alli...