Microbial agents have an important role in the pathogenesis of various inflammatory eye diseases, such as uveitis and keratitis. Microbial infections of the eye such as microbial keratitis, ocular onchocerciasis, bacterial endophthalmitis, viral retinitis, and other infectious uveitis are unfortunately common. In addition, microbial agents have been implicated in the pathogenesis of "non-infect...

.soil microorganisms are important agents in nutrient cycling and energy flow. they are extremely sensitive to environmental changes. soil microbial biomass has been proposed as an index of soil stress and disturbance. the objective of this study was to determine the effects of barley (hordeum vulgare l.) residue amounts, burning, nitrogen fertilizer levels and tillage management on organic car...

The microbial contamination in food packaging has been a major concern that has paved the way to search for novel, natural anti-microbial agents, such as modified α-mangostin. In the present study, twelve synthetic analogs were obtained through semi-synthetic modification of α-mangostin by Ritter reaction, reduction by palladium-carbon (Pd-C), alkylation, and acetylation. The evaluation of the ...

Molecular identification, antifungal susceptibility profile and biofilm 1 formation of clinical and environmental Rhodotorula spp. isolates 2 3 Jorge Meneses Nunes, Fernando César Bizerra, Renata Carmona e Ferreira and 4 Arnaldo Lopes Colombo. 5 6 Laboratório Especial de Micologia, Disciplina de Infectologia, Universidade Federal 7 de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; 8 9 * JM Nunes and FC Bize...