Stachybotrys chartarum is a toxigenic fungus that has been associated with human health concerns such as nasal bleeding in adults and pulmonary hemosiderosis (PH) in infants. Seven of eight strains of S. chartarum isolated from homes of infants with PH in Cleveland, Ohio, and the strain from the lung of an infant with PH in Texas produced stachylysin in tryptic soy broth (TSB), whereas only one...

Previous generations of hemoglobin (Hb)-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs) have been plagued by key biophysical limitations that result in severe side-effects once transfused in vivo, including protein instability, high heme oxidation rates, and nitric oxide (NO) scavenging. All of these problems emerge after mammalian Hbs are removed from red blood cells (RBCs) and used for HBOC synthesis/formulati...

Continuous burrowing, ingesting, turning, mixing, aeration and the improvement of drainage soil are major roles played by earthworms in renewing fertility. Larger amounts herbicides applied to continuously farmers as they realize importance these herbicides. These could then accumulate toxic levels become lethal microorganisms, plant, wild life man. In this study, we sought assess effects formu...

Interactions of earthworm species with their environment and in particular the soil they inhabit is poorly understood. In this study, we aimed to use mid infrared absorption (MIR) spectroscopy bodies combination discriminant analysis principal components (DAPC), order investigate if biogeochemical composition determined by belonging or inhabit. Our conceptual approach included comparison MIR sp...