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Maintaining healthy cultures is essential in achieving the proper outcome expected for this lab. Before preparation of vials, or observation of flies, the workbenches and equipment, such as brushes, pipets, and measuring tools were wiped down with 70% ethanol ,and fly pads, as well as Co2 guns, were thoroughly disinfected with kim wipes. Hands were required to be thoroughly washed with anti-bacterial soap and completely dry, especially before preparation of food. Distilled water and other required sources were regularly changed in order to maintain

This experiment can be enhanced in many ways. The amount of alcohol used as treatments could be lessened to measure the viability of A. salina more accurately. The amount of cysts in each Petri dish was not consistent because there

Drug therapy relies on the principle of selective toxicity, where the effects of the drug are only harmful towards the foreign parasite and not at all to the host. By comparing the effects of different drugs on various parasitic organisms we are able to distinguish the type of disease or infection that is present as well as the mechanism of action that takes place by each drug in question. The drugs may function by interacting with enzymes such as transpeptidase and thymidylate synthetase, for example Penicillin and 5-FU function respectively. The effectiveness can be quantified by measuring the zones of inhibition created by the drug on the plate of the bacteria or fungus. This is the area where there is no growth due to the action of the drug. The discovery that the Micrococcus-luteus is classed as a bacteria was made apparent due to Penicillin’s success in inhibiting it’s growth. The action of the Amphotericin solely on the Pythium, gives reason to believe that it can be grouped with fungal growths.

American Medical Association. (2004). Foodborne Illnesses Table: Parasitic Agents. Available: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/36/2004_food_table_para.pdf. Last accessed 4th Nov 2012.

After the incubation period the bacteria was observed for pure colonies. The colonies were sampled and the three streak plate technique was repeated and this sample was incubated for forty eight hours at 37 degrees Celsius. After the incubation of the colonies, a gram stain was performed which is defined in the lab manual.

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To prepare 0.156% of Nordox and Mancozeb, 0.078 g of both fungicides were dissolved in two separate flasks containing 50 ml sterilized distilled water. The 50 ml mixture was used to dissolve 1.95 g PDA. These were then poured and divided into three plates to serve as replicates. The plates were incubated for 5 days at 28-30˚C in an incubation cabinet. However, it is found out that the recommended rate for both fungicides did not inhibit or stop the growth of the pathogen (see Appendix D, page 63). From these

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Before plating the strains on agar plates, dilutions of the three strains of cells were prepared with LB broth.

Phagocytosis and killing of opsonized bacteri were checked by a colorimetric assay according to previously described procedures with some modifications (Fijalkowski et al., 2012; Mehrzad et al., 2009). This experiments wre run in triplicate for each isolated E coli. Brifly, each isolated E coli was opsonized with 10% pooled avian serum for 30 min. The test tube (T) was containe the same volume (500 µL) of heterophiles and opsonized E coli. Test tube was rotated end-over-end at 37 °C for 90 min . The ratio of E coli to hetrophil was 10/1.Control samples (C) contained opsonized E coli, without hetrophil. A 100 µL

For a period of four days, the culture medium was replaced every day with 100 µl of fresh medium containing the sera. Parasitemia was monitored on

However, gentamicin penetrated into epithelial cells may occur at a slow rate, long term incubation was not recommended (Friis, Pin, Pearson, & Wells, 2005). The antibiotic was washed away and the cultured mammalian cells were lysed with a detergent to release intracellular bacteria. The invasion efficiency was determined by a viable count of the released bacteria and was usually expressed as a percentage of the initial bacterial inoculum. Limitation was the assay can be affected by many parameters. The culture conditions used to grow the bacteria that greatly altered invasion levels. This conditions were the bacterial growth media and the environmental conditions. For example, temperature, oxygen, and growth state. Antibiotic-free minimal essential media (MEM) supplemented with fetal calf serum (FCS) was compatible with most invasion systems and MEM may be used to resuspend the bacteria prior to addition to the cultured cells. The bacteria and eucaryotic cells were usually incubated at physiological conditions of 37°C and 5% CO2 at humidified

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION PCR and dsRNA production Target sequences of 1501, 1576, 1650, 1750, 538, and 716 bp specific for gyrase A, gyrase rpo B1, rpo B2 and GFP were successfully amplified with PCR (data not shown).. The in vitro transcription using T7 enzyme resulted in target specific dsRNA of 1501, 1576, 1650, 1750, 538, and 716 bp for each of gyrase A, gyrase B, rpo B1, rpo B2, L11, and GFP genes, respectively (Fig.1). In vitro growth inhibition assay B. bovis growth (Fig. 2) from an initial parasitemia of 1% was significantly (ANOVA) inhibited at 10 µg/ml and 50

In order to obtain well-isolated discrete colonies, the quadrant streak and spread technique was used. This allowed dilution of the original microbial material over the entire surface of the plate. As the original sample was diluted by streaking and spreading it, over successive quadrants the number of organism decreases. Usually by the third or fourth quadrant only a few organism were transferred on the by the inoculating loop and theses produce a few isolated

21.2% of the samples were positive for the blaoxa-48. 36.4.8% of the samples were resistant to meropenem, and 54.5% were sensitive while 9.1 were intermediately resistant to meropenem. Among the imipenem resistant organisms 57.1% of them were positive for the blaoxa-48, 28.6% of the intermediately resistant were positive for the blaoxa-48 and 14.3% of the sensitive organisms were positive to the blaoxa-48. 42.4% were resistant to imipenem, 48.5% were sensitive and 9.1% were intermediately resistant to imipenem. Among the imipenem