The clinical demand on rapid microbiological diagnostic is constantly increasing. PCR coupled to electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry, PCR/ESI-MS, offers detection and identification of over 750 bacteria and Candida species directly from clinical specimens within 6 hours. In this study, we investigated the clinical performance of the IRIDICA BAC LRT Assay for detection of bacterial pathoge...

The nature of reporting of a microbiology laboratory depends upon the quality of the culture media used. Quality of media directly affects the observations and inferences drawn from the cultural characteristics of microorganisms. Checking of different parameters of media such as growth supporting characteristics, physical characteristics, gel strength and batch contamination can help to assess ...

Abstract: The present paper presents a hybrid model of yogurt starter mixed culture fermentation. The main nonlinearities within a classical structure of continuous process model are replaced by neural networks. The new hybrid model accounts for the dependence of the two microorganisms’ kinetics from the on-line measured characteristics of the culture medium – pH. Then the model was used furthe...

Butanol is produced chemically using either the oxo process starting from propylene (with H2 and CO over a rhodium catalyst) or the aldol process starting from acetaldehyde. The key problems associated with the bioproduction of butanol are the cost of substrate and butanol toxicity/inhibition of the fermenting microorganisms, resulting in a low butanol titer in the fermentation broth. Recent in...

In the course of screening microorganisms isolated fromthe marineenvironment,fermentation samplesof culture LL-141352 were found to exhibit activity in the Biochemical Induction Assay (BIA), which detects agents that directly or indirectly initiate DNAdamage1}. This culture was originally isolated from an orange tunicate collected from the Pacific Ocean in proximity to Fiji and was subsequently...

Sonication improved the diagnosis of orthopedic implant-associated infections (OIAI). We investigated the diagnostic performance of sonication fluid inoculated into blood culture bottles in comparison with that of intraoperative tissue and sonication fluid cultures. Consecutive patients with removed orthopedic hardware were prospectively included and classified as having OIAI or aseptic failure...

culture has always been regarded as the most important element of human communities; we can easily observe cultural changes. what causes these changes has been a matter of controversy. the issues such as people’s increasingly getting detached from each other, psychopathy, behavioral abnormalities, traditions being increasingly faded away, malformation, extravagancy and value conversion into ant...

Heterotrophic marine microalga Schizochytrium sp. is one of the most studied microorganisms for docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) production. Severeal strategies were reported to enhance DHA production, including co-culturing algal cells with different microorganisms. In this study, and Escherichia coli co-cultured examine effect bacterial on growth The incubated 168 h recovered analyze biomass lipid ...