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Bacterial strain and culture conditions. Rice was used as the sample source for the production of fibrinolytic enzyme. From the food sample, ten protease producing organisms were selected and further secondary screening were carried out for fibrinolytic enzyme production. Fibrinolytic enzyme activity of the bacterial isolate was tested in a fibrin plate method. In this method, 7.5 mL of 1% (w/v) agarose was prepared in 0.1 M sodium phosphate buffer (pH 7.4). To this 1.2% (v/v) fibrinogen and thrombin

Study Overview: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a healthcare associated infection with significant morbidity and mortality, especially in elderly, hospitalized patients. Antibiotic associated diarrhea (AAD) is also a complication of antibiotic therapy with detrimental effects in hospitalized patients. The use of probiotics for primary prophylaxis of AAD and CDI in hospitalized patients is still controversial. Varying study quality as well as significant heterogeneity make drawing conclusions

Clostridium difficile or otherwise known as C.diff. is a life threating infection that can cause a wide range of symptoms. Patients can experience anything from diarrhea to inflammation of the colon that can lead to death. In the past few years, Clostridium difficile infection rates have increased here in the United States causing great concern about the effectiveness of current treatments. For the past fifty years, the medical community has been investigating other areas for better treatment options

A total of 50 commercial swine finishing barns were recruited and sampled from 5 states during June – October 2011. A total of 30 fresh fecal samples were collected from the floor of each barn, 5 samples from 6 different pens, when the animals were at the end of the finishing phase and within 30 days of marketing. At the time of collection, barn managers were given a survey to capture data relating to antimicrobial use practices for the sampled group of animals beginning in the farrowing phase.

Final: Effects of Studying the Microstructure of Human Biology on How We View Human Bodies In her essay on “Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body,” Elizabeth Wilson addresses the role of science in the feminist theory and gender studies by arguing that "sustained interest in biological detail will have a reorganizing effect on feminist theories of the body." In her argument, Wilson attests that studying the microstructure of our bodies could lead us to explaining, or otherwise rethinking

Since the year 1965, the term probiotics has been used. Lilly and Stillwell were the first to describe probiotics as substances secreted by one organism, which stimulated growth of other organisms (Gupta, 2009). It was however, Elie Metchnikoff in the 1900s who first suggested that there were health properties in lactic acid bacteria from fermented food products (Anukam, 2007). Since then, the meaning has undergone some changes, one of the most recent definitions is that probiotics are beneficial

The immune system is a complex network of innate and adaptive compartments that work together in order to protect and fight against pathogenic invaders. The immune system also acts as a regulator of host homeostasis in order to ensure that the body is operating under optimal conditions. The composition of microbiota is associated with the adaptive and innate immune systems, which work together in order to maintain a constant relationship between the increasingly different microbiota and pathogens

FIGURE 1 Bar chart shows the mean of relative abundance of each taxa in both faecal and oral samples. Orange bars indicate faecal samples and blue bars indicate oral samples. Faecal bars represent the mean and error bars the standard error (n=31), while oral bars represent the mean and error bars the standard error (n=99). The most common abundance of bacteria in faecal sample were Bacteroides and while the most common abundance of bacteria in oral sample were Streptococcus. The mean of abundance

The ratio of TUNEL-labeled surface over the entire surface area of the egg was then measured (Pannebakker et al., 2007). The research article results shows that A. tabida, has become dependent on W. pipientis to reproduce. W. pipientis affects the wasps oogenesis, but the specific mechanism responsible is yet unknown. Pannebakker et al. (2007) research shows the W. pipientis influences programmed cell death processes in A. tabida by making its presence essential for the wasps eggs to fully mature

DISCUSSION Many authors consider placement of an implant in a socket with periapical lesion as a contraindication, but several studies which were conducted do not show any significant difference compared to those with healthy sockets. The disadvantage of the placement of implants into the sockets of teeth with periapical lesions is the potential for implant contamination during the initial healing period because of remnants of the infection.(8,13,162)Bacteroides species can inhabit tooth periapical