BACKGROUND Free-living amoebae (FLA) including Acanthamoeba spp. and Hartmannella spp. are the causative agents of serious corneal infection especially within contact lens wearers. Thus contact lenses and their storage case could be a suitable niche for potentially pathogenic amoebae. The main objective of the present study was to evaluate the contamination of contact lenses to free living amoe...

Abstract Background Plasmopara viticola, the causal agent of grape downy mildew, is one most serious diseases. Application Trichoderma harzianum grown on different potato dextrose supplemented broth media using some chemical inducers (TSDCIS), i.e., thiamine (T2), a mixture micronutrients (T3) and potassium tartrate (T4), compared to without amendment (T1), was conducted under field conditions ...

Trichoderma species are commercially applied as biocontrol agents against numerous plant pathogenic fungi due to their production of antifungal metabolites, competition for nutrients and space, and mycoparasitism. However, currently the identification of Trichoderma species from throughout the world based on micro-morphological descriptions is tedious and prone to error. The correct identificat...

due to high antagonistic activity of trichoderma harizanum, 5 isolates t.h.k, t.h.bi, t.h.mo, var33 and torbat vi were selected and their efficacy was studied for controlling sugar beet damping-off caused by rhizoctonia solani, under in vitro and in vivo conditions.  antagonistic ability of t. harzianum isolates was investigated as dual culture on pda in concomitant and sequential cultures, 48 ...

In Burkina Faso, vegetable production is a very important asset for its socio-economic development. However, this faces many constraints that negatively affect potential. The use of organic fertilization appears to be an alternative address these and could also promote sustainable agricultural production. such context, study was conducted on tomato using two bio-fertilizers based local substrat...

A semiautomatic procedure is presented for the separate determination of total T3 and T4 in serum in approximately 10 hrs simultaneously in 25 samples. Removal of the thyroid hormones from the serum, separation of T3 from T4 and concentration of the peaks were achieved in a closed system, consisting of three consecutive columns. The automatic microchemical iodine determination of T3 and T4 resp...

The antibiotic activity of 70 isolates belonging to the genera Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarium, Alternaria and Trichoderma was tested as preliminary screening. The highest activity was obtained with three Penicillium oxalicum isolates, one Penicillium decumbens isolate and the Trichoderma harzianum isolate. After that, we chose these five isolates in order to carry out other studies with bac...

Q: Consider an uncorrelated (white) Gaussian signal s(t). Calculate its 3rd and 4th order moments, m3 = ⟨s(t1)s(t2)s(t3)⟩ and m4 = ⟨s(t1)s(t2)s(t3)s(t4)⟩. Confirm with simulation. The third moment m3 = ⟨s(t1)s(t2)s(t3)⟩ is zero. Namely, if t1 ̸= t2 ̸= t3 then m3 = ⟨s⟩ = 03 = 0. If t1 = t2 = t3, m3 = ⟨ s3 ⟩ = ́ N (0, σ2)x3dx = 0, as this is the integral over an odd function. For t1 = t2 ̸= t3, m3 = ...