The aim of this research is to comparatively study the phytochemical and antimicrobial properties of Bryophyllum pinnatum and Citrus aurantifolia leaf extracts and their synergy. Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Aspergillus niger, Mucor mucedo, Penicillium notatum and Candida albicans, were used as test organisms and the antimicrobial a...

Monosodium glutamate (MSG) elicits a taste called umami and interacts synergistically with nucleotide monophosphates such as 5'-inosine monophosphate (IMP) to potentiate this taste intensity. Indeed, the synergistic interaction of nucleotide monophosphates and MSG is a hallmark of umami. We examined interactions between MSG and other taste stimuli, including IMP, by measuring the lick rates of ...

Objectives: Resistance to third generation cephalosporins in E. coli and K. pneumoniae are due to various factors. The present study was undertaken to detect resistance mediated by ESBL’s. Multidrug resistance in isolates producing ESBL was also studied. Methods: The study included a total of 200 clinical specimens which include 95 urine, 45 pus, 32 sputum, 11 blood, 9 throat swabs, 6 suction t...

Antibiotic resistance poses a real threat to treat infections caused by pathogenic bacteria [1]. As there are increasing numbers of reports on bacterial resistance to antibiotics especially during monotherapy, there is a renewed interest towards combination therapy [2]. Synergistic effects of various drug combinations are under study and some combinations are prescribed clinically [3,4]. The pr...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Bacterial resistance has greatly hampered effective treatment of patients in clinical settings. Non-fermenting Gram-negative bacilli (NFGNB) are common nosocomial pathogens. In this study we attempted to develop a convenient test for early detection of carbapenemase and metallo-beta-lactamase (MbetaL) production in NFGNB. Lack of sufficient reports from India in this area...

In this paper, we present the SRI system submission to the NIST OpenSAD 2015 speech activity detection (SAD) evaluation. We present results on three different development databases that we created from the provided data. We present system-development results for feature normalization; for feature fusion with acoustic, voicing, and channel bottleneck features; and finally for SAD bottleneck-feat...

BackgroundThe base for common practice of cutting the umbilical cord after birth is in view of either that there is very little or no benefit by additional placental transfusion to the newborn. Active milking of the umbilical cord towards the baby prior to clamping (rather than passive) should take less than 10 seconds to perform and should resuscitation. Objectives1. Asses the selected neonata...