Coastal production areas can be impacted by anthropogenic contamination from urban, agro-industrial and leisure activities. Some contaminants, such as chemical substances, might also have a telluric origin. Non filter feeding univalve mollusks, limpets, which are collected in rocky shores either for sale or auto-consumption, very appreciated Portugal, but been excluded provisions on the classif...

BACKGROUND Water treatment systems are a critical variable in dialysis therapy. Rigorous control of hemodialysis water quality is particularly important in order to guarantee a better quality of life of the hemodialysis patients. The objective of the study was to evaluate the chemical, microbiological quality and antimicrobial resistance of bacteria isolated from water and dialysate in a public...

Medical personnel run the risk of contracting infectious diseases caused by physical, microbiological and chemical agents because they are directly exposed to factors such as presence pathogens in environment; For this reason, article derives from research carried out four hospital centers department Santander (Colombia) that seeks identify most common fungal microorganisms, bacterial microorga...

BACKGROUND Mycoplasma synoviae is an important avian pathogen which can cause both respiratory disease and synovial joint inflammation (synovitis) in poultry. Mycoplasmas spp. may cause the respiratory system infection in ostriches with symptoms such as inflammation of the nose, trachea and also damages of lungs. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to use the M. synoviae specific Polymerase Ch...

The diagnosis of etiology in severe pneumonia remains a challenging area. Postmortem lung tissue potentially increases the sensitivity of investigations for identification of causative pathogens in fatal cases of pneumonia and can confirm antemortem microbiological diagnoses. Tissue sampling allows assessment of histological patterns of disease and ancillary immunohistochemical or molecular dia...

In this study, total heavy metal content and its effects on soil microbiological characteristics were investigated in soil samples from an area with known long-term pollution problems. The total heavy metal concentrations of contaminated soil samples were 109 and 1,558 mg/kg for Hg and As, respectively. Key microbiological parameters measured included dehydrogenase activity, ATP content and num...