Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic bacterial pathogen most associated with infection of the lungs of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. It produces extracellular polysaccharides collectively referred to as slime that includes one specific virulence factor known as alginate. Current methods to measure the actual production of this slime require either expensive equipment, or they are not qua...

Slime moulds are well studied organisms in biology. They are some of the simplest organisms that exhibit complex emergent behaviour. Although individual organisms interact with the environment only by following local rules, slime moulds produce a collective behaviour on a global scale. The modelling of slime mould patterns provides a good testbed for studying emergent behaviour. We have simulat...

Plasmodium of slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a large single celled organism visible unaided by the eye. This slime mould is capable of optimising the shape of its protoplasmic networks in spatial configurations of attractants and repellents. Such adaptive behaviour can be interpreted as computation. When exposed to attractants and repellents, Physarum changes patterns of its electrical ac...

Eight strains of Staphylococcus epidermidis were isolated from clinical specimens and were subjected to the tests for encapsulation, slime-production, mouse-virulence, capsular-typing and adherence to the plastic surface, the renal cells and the bladder epithelial cells. With the intraperitoneal injection of these strains into mice, three encapsulated strains were observed in mouse-virulent, wh...

Slime molds are fascinating organisms, they can either live as an organism consisting out of a single cell or they can form a multi-cellular organism. Therefore from the biological point of view, the slime molds are studied in order to understand the evolutionary step from a single cell organism to a multi-cellular organism. Studies have shown that the behavior of cooperating single cell organi...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to determine the species distribution, slime activity, and methicillin resistance of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) isolated from blood cultures as either contaminants or true bacteremia agents. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, 13.268 blood culture samples sent to our laboratory from various clinics during a two-year period were examined in term...

turkey is a favourite place for the growth and the development of myxomycete due to its climatic conditions and flora. during routine field trips to several locations of gökçeada (çanakkale), which is the largest island of turkey, numerous samples of myxomycetes were collected. according to the available checklists, diderma effusum (schw.) morgan records for the first time from turkey. it has b...

A study was carried out to assess the effect of Stress Coat® on slime production in goldfish (Carassius auratus) and koi (Cyprinus carpio). The study also investigated histological changes that might be associated with slime producing cells, and wound healing in koi. Several formulations of Stress Coat® were investigated and the results showed that polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), also known as povi...