Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are an escalating grim menace to global public health. Our aim is to phenotype and genotype antibiotic-resistant commensal Escherichia coli (E. coli) from humans, animals, and water from the same community with a 'one-health' approach. The samples were collected from a village belonging to demographic surveillance site of Ruxmaniben Deepchand (R.D.) Gardi Medical C...

this research was performed to investigate the combined effect of soil salinity and compaction on some physiological characteristics of corn. for this purpose a factorial pot experiment on the basis of completely randomized design with three replications was performed. the experimental factors were three levels of soil salinity (saturated paste extract electrical conductivity 1.5, 2.5 and 4.5 d...

Wastewater reclamation for municipal irrigation is an increasingly attractive option for extending water supplies. However, public health concerns include the potential for development of antibiotic resistance (AR) in environmental bacteria after exposure to residual pharmaceuticals in reclaimed water. Though scientific studies have reported high levels of AR in soils irrigated with wastewater,...

Conservation of water is critical to the ecological success of Drosophila species living in the drier montane localities of the Western Himalayas. We observed clinal variation in desiccation resistance for both sexes of Drosophila kikkawai from an altitudinal transect (512-2226 m above sea level). Since more than 90 per cent of body water is lost through cuticular transpiration, the target of s...

electrical properties of fruits are accepted indicators for detecting fruit quality. electrical resistanceone reluctance can detect quality factors and are sensitive to variations in the concentration and stateof water. therefore, these properties can be associated with maturity, damage, overripe condition,decay or other quality factors. in most of previous research on electrical resistance and...