Objective: To study the in vitro effect of novel low-dose povidoneiodine formulations against established biofilms of multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans and to test the Minimal Inhibitory Concentration of the same formulations against Candida auris, Trichophton mentagrophytes, Microsporum canis, Candida albicans and Asp...

17-53 ABSTRACT Both physical form and chemical nature of fiber is important to ruminant animals. A recently developed method for determining particle size distribution was used to characterize typical distributions for forages and total mixed rations (TMR) from the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. An effective fiber index (EFI) and modified effective fiber index (MEFI) are proposed which link ph...

1. The relation between the E. M. F. and the minimal duration of an activating current has been determined for passive iron wires in nitric acid under varying conditions of concentration of acid, duration of recovery period, and presence of surface-action compounds. 2. The characteristic intensity-duration curves resemble those of irritable living tissues with moderate speeds of response to sti...

Abstract: Influenza virus is the most important cause of annual morbidities and mortalities worldwide with numerous antigenic drifts and shifts. Inaccessibility to effective drugs and vaccines has made world health authorities to be interested in traditional medicine in order to prevent spread of the infectious agent. Garlic is one of the most famous of all plants in human history. It has bee...

A deterministic population dynamics model involving birth and death for a two-species system, comprising a wild-type and more resistant species competing via logistic growth, is subjected to two distinct stress environments designed to mimic those that would typically be induced by temporal variation in the concentration of a drug (antibiotic or chemotherapeutic) as it permeates through the pop...

We investigated the in vitro interaction with and antitumor effect on several murine and human leukemic cell lines of diaziquone (AZQ). L1210 cells accumulated AZQ from Roswell Park Memorial Institute Medium 1640 with or without newborn calf serum by a temperature-dependent and sodium azide-resistant process. AZQ inhibited, in a dose-dependent fashion, [3H]thymidine incorporation into L1210 cel...

In this note, by considering the notions of the intuitionistic general L-fuzzy automaton and $(alpha, beta)$-language, we show that for any $(alpha, beta)$-language $mathcal{L}$, there exists a minimal intuitionistic general L-fuzzy automaton recognizing $mathcal{L}$.We prove that the minimal intuitionistic general L-fuzzy automaton is isomorphic with threshold $(alpha,beta)$ to any $(alpha, be...

Objective The standard of hygiene in daily life and hospitals can be increased by the use of new antimicrobial fibers, which diminish the danger of pathogenic bacteria. In this study, the antimicrobial effect of special fibers on some staphylococcus isolates was investigated. Materials and Methods The antimicrobial effect of special type of fibers produced in Isfahan Poly Acryl Plant on thre...

Recreational waters should be considered as risks for Enterococcal infections in regions with high utilization and long exposure periods. The aim of this study was to investigate the resistance of Enterococci to selected antibiotics and some heavy metals [Pb+2, Fe+2, Zn+2 and Cr+2]. A total of 75 Enterococcal isolates was obtained from 54 bathing and ...