Intensive agricultural practices have led to intense soil degradation and fertility losses. Many soil-borne diseases affect these intensive soils, worsening the physical-chemical imbalances. Among numerous pathogens, genus Fusarium includes members that destroy many crops, including Crocus sativus L., which also impairs composition functions of microbial communities. This work aimed investigate...

INTRODUCTION Culture-negative sepsis is a common but relatively understudied condition. The aim of this study was to compare the characteristics and outcomes of culture-negative versus culture-positive severe sepsis. METHODS This was a prospective observational cohort study of 1001 patients who were admitted to the medical intensive care unit (ICU) of a university hospital from 2004 to 2009 w...

Patients with repeated implantation failures or poor embryo quality may benefit from embryo culture using the co-culture technique; growth factors secreted by co-culture cells may act as survival factors. Autologous endometrial co-culture has been suggested as a safe alternative to animal cells for co-culture of human embryos. However, the technique is fairly labour intensive and its effectiven...

To observe the application of alveolar lavage fluid second-generation sequencing in diagnosing and guiding treatment patients with severe pneumonia unidentified pathogenic bacteria to provide novel ideas methods for effective clinical this disease. The data 80 included our intensive care unit from June 2020 2022 were analyzed all had undergone metagenomic next-generation traditional cultures (a...

The aim of this study was to test the efficacy of eosinophilic count as a broad indicator in prognosticating mortality in surgical intensive care unit (ICU). 437 patients admitted to the emergency ward were evaluated for eosinophilc count and absolute eosinophilic count. In a ten years study undertaken from 2004 to 2014, patients admitted to the emergency ward were evaluated for eosinophilic co...

In native tissues, different cell types are organized into defined structures and architectures that are critical for correct tissue function. In vitro cellular patterning methods enable control over the spatial organization of cells, permitting, to some extent, the reproduction of native tissue structures and the generation of a more "in vivo-like" culture platform. While this is advantageous ...

HE rheumatoid inflammatory process T is characterized by uncontrolled connective tissue cell proliferation, overproduction of specialized cell products, such as hyaluronic acid, colonization of affected tissues by various types of “inflammatory cells,” and alterations in the microvasculature. Once established, this complex process is “self-perpetuating” and leads to destruction of capsular stru...

Mixing has been one of the important parameters in characterizing and designing external air-lift bioreactors for the biological processes that require intensive mixing for mass transfer. In this study, pH tracer method was employed to characterize the mixing quality of a three-phase laboratory-scale external-loop air-lift bioreactor (EALR) used for cultivation of a pelletized filamentous funga...

The impact of intensive land-based fish culture in Qingdao, China, on the bacterial communities in surrounding marine environment was analyzed. Culture-based studies showed that the highest counts of heterotrophic, ammonium-oxidizing, nitrifying, and nitrate-reducing bacteria were found in fish ponds and the effluent channel, with lower counts in the adjacent marine area and the lowest counts i...

the incidence of nosocomial fungal infections has increased dramatically during the past two decades as the consequence of continuous increase in the number of severely immunocompromised patients. this study was done to determine the presumptive sources of nosocomial fungal infections at the intensive care unit and transplant wards (in a university- based teaching hospital in tehran) during a 1...