BACKGROUND Sputum samples were collected from tuberculosis patients in a high tuberculosis incidence area in the Western Cape, South Africa. The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance and time to diagnosis of a genotypic drug susceptibility testing method. METHODOLOGY During June 2000 and November 2003, a total of 1,540 samples were sent for drug susceptibility testing (DST) to the...

We determined the frequency distribution of Actinomyces spp. recovered in a routine clinical laboratory and investigated the clinical significance of accurate identification to the species level. We identified 92 clinical strains of Actinomyces, including 13 strains in the related Arcanobacterium-Actinobaculum taxon, by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and recorded their biotypes, sources, and d...

OBJECTIVE CYP2C9 is a major enzyme in human drug metabolism and the polymorphism observed in the corresponding gene may affect therapeutic outcome during treatment. The distribution of variant CYP2C9 alleles and prevalence of phenytoin adverse reactions were hereby investigated in a population of patients diagnosed with epilepsy. METHOD Allele-specific PCR analysis was carried out in order to...

The present investigation was carried out at Agricultural Polytechnic, Polasa, Jagtial, Telangana, to understand the correlation and path analysis for yield attributing traits 38 genotypes including 3 checks in Randomized Block Design replicated thrice during Rabi, 2022. Association studies revealed that genotypic values were higher than of phenotypic correlations. Important i.e., spikelet fert...

applying an appropriate statistical analysis is complementary for conducting a robust experimental design in plant and animal breeding. in these experiments 33 iranian bread wheat genotypes, cultivated in a randomized complete blocks design with three replications in two normal and saline conditions were evaluated at the field of national salinity research center located in yazd province, iran....

conclusions data reported here indicated that there is no specific genetic combination beyond the quantity of biofilm biomass in s. epidermidis. biofilm biomass seemed to be controlled by rnaiii expression level. further interest should be directed to biofilm dispersal since it seems that the key difference in biofilm biomass ability of s. epidermidis strains relates to factors regulating this ...

For the wide adoption of soybean varieties, it is desirable, that they are Kunitz trypsin inhibitor (Kti) free and resistant to yellow mosaic disease (YMD). The variety SL525 with YMD resistance was crossed susceptible NRC101 a null kti allele. F5 progeny derived from cross screened two simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers (satt409 satt322) linked allele resistance, respectively, one allele-spe...