which would have been impossible without the discovery of heat-resistant bacteria more than half a century ago, is now being used to boost the signal of viruses in most of the available tests for ...

Vanbiervliet et al. showed that the Multistix 8SG rapid urine screening test had 100% sensitivity and specificity for SBP diagnosis. 22 More recently, Castellote et al. demonstrated that another urine ...

Background Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis is ... 20mL of ascetic fluid was sent for routine biochemical and culture test. The reagent strip (Combiscreen SL10, Analyticon, Germany) was immersed in ...

One example is the clearance of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), which are web-like structures released by immune cells to trap bacteria. In severe conditions like sepsis or serious COVID-19 ...

Background The diagnosis and management of pneumonia is often challenging due to its overlapping clinical presentations with other respiratory illnesses, low pathogen identification rates ...

Flavonoid and limonoid glycosides influence taste properties as well as marketability of Citrus fruit and products, particularly grapefruit. In this work, nine grapefruit putative natural product ...

Sound Rivers reports 12 swimming sites in NC fail fecal bacteria tests. Stay informed to avoid risk of gastrointestinal illness from contaminated waters. Skip Navigation. Share on Facebook; ...

Bacteriophage (phage) typing methods are used to identify and extract representative profiles of bacterial types out of species such as the Staphylococcus aureus. Current systems rely on the ...

The general consensus among sport and exercise genetics researchers is that genetic tests have no role to play in talent identification or the individualised prescription of training to maximise ...

Clonal types of pathogenic bacteria differ in their ability to colonize, spread and cause disease in hosts. The evolution of bacterial clones and factors that contribute to the clonal spread of ...