Detection of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from Hospital Instruments by Aminu, A.I., Abdullahi, S., Usman M.I.

“…It is a descriptive hospital based study and 74 samples were randomly collected from swabbed instruments from five Hospitals in Kano, Nigeria. …”
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Molecular Detection of mecA Gene in Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Surfaces of some Public Hospitals in Katsina State, Nigeria by A A Sunusi, M A Dangari, M K Salihu, Aminu Ado

“…One hundred and ninety-two (192) swab samples of doorknob, bedrail, table tops and drip stand were collected from 4 hospitals within Dutsin-Ma and Kurfi local government. …”
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Serological Distribution of <i>Salmonella enterica</i> subsp. Isolated from Feces of Domesticated Crested Gecko (<i>Correlophus ciliates</i>) in Busan Province, South Korea by Il Kwon Bae, Yon-koung Park, So Hyun Park, Jun Sung Hong

“…This study was conducted to describe the prevalence and characteristics of pathogens isolated from fecal samples of crested geckos in South Korea. A total of 76 fecal samples were collected from 76 domesticated crested geckos in independent captivity. …”
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Transcription analysis of TIMP-1 and NM23-h1 genes in glioma cell invasion Análise transcricional dos genes TIMP-1 e NM23-H1 na invasão celular em astrocitoma difuso e glioblastoma... by José Augusto Nasser, Asdrúbal Falavigna, Fernando Ferraz, Gregory Duigou, Jeffrey Bruce

“…NM23-H1 was present in the entire gliomas sample, but it did not vary in diffuse astrocytomas and glioblastomas.…”
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Accelerated formation of M2C carbides by proton irradiation inhibits molten salt corrosion in Ni-based alloy by Weichi Ji, Zhenbo Zhu, Hefei Huang, Cheng Li, Guanhong Lei, Yan Li

“…Nanoscales M2C carbides were observed to be distributed, with a denser and thicker distribution in samples with higher irradiation doses. Their distribution depth is related to the Cr depletion region, inhibiting Cr diffusion toward the GBs and surface. …”
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Improved Isolation of Ultra-High-Molecular-Weight Genomic DNA Suitable for Third-Generation Sequencing by Ayşe Öykü Ova, Enrique Joffre, Reza Zandi Shafagh, Mariana F. G. Assunção, Roman Y. Sidorov, Lilia M. A. Santos, Volker M. Lauschke, Ute Römling

“…The chamber is flanked by semi-permeable polycarbonate membranes of variable pore size for the selective diffusion of compounds and components, which allows efficient cell lysis and the subsequent isolation of ultra-high-molecular-weight genomic DNA without shearing. …”
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Grouting Fractured Coal Permeability Evolution Based on Industrial CT Scanning by Li Tao, Yao Banghua, Liu Yong, Wang Dengke

“…The crack distribution before and after the grouting of fractured coal samples was scanned with an industrial CT, and the fracture distribution of coal samples was reconstructed using an independently compiled MATLAB program. …”
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Antimicrobial Resistance Profiling of Pathogens from Cooked Donkey Meat Products in Beijing Area in One Health Context by Yiting Liu, Hongyun Duan, Luo Yang, Hong Chen, Rongzheng Wu, Yi Li, Yiping Zhu, Jing Li

“…Twenty-one cooked donkey meat samples were collected from different delis, subjected to homogenization, and analyzed for bacterial contamination. …”
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Study on the carbonation resistance of sulphoaluminate cement grouting materials enhanced by acrylamide in-situ polymerization modification by Guangling Shi, Hucheng Chai, Liya Zhao, Songhui Liu, Zhiying Guo, Haibo Zhang

“…The results indicate that increasing the AM content significantly improved SAC's long-term carbonation resistance. Samples with ≥20 % AM exhibited carbonation depths of less than 3 mm after 28 days of accelerated carbonation. …”
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Aluminum doped zinc oxide nanoplatelets based sensor with enhanced hydrogen sulfide detection by Brahim Ydir, Amine Ajdour, Iulia Antohe, Gabriel Socol, Marcela Socol, Luiza-Izabela Toderascu, Driss Saadaoui, Imade Choulli, Radouane Leghrib, Houda Lahlou

“…These effects enhance the formation of active sites and create doping-induced defects while providing shorter and more efficient diffusion paths for the electrons, significantly improving the sensor’s sensitivity and response speed.…”
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Drivers of antimicrobial resistance in pig production systems of Uganda by Adrian Muwonge, Tadeo Kakooza, Paul C. D. Johnson, Lawrence Kisuule, Michael Kimaanga, Clovice Kankya, Barend Mark de Clare Bronsvoort, Tiziana Lembo

“…We investigated AMR and AMR gene abundance of 668 Escherichia coli, Klebsiella and DNA isolated from 877 faecal samples using diffusion disc-method and qPCR, respectively. …”
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From Pre‐Darcy Flow to Darcy Flow in Porous Media: A Simple Unified Model by Hui Cheng, Fugang Wang, Shengwei Li, Zhongle Cheng, Yilong Yuan, Guanhong Feng

“…Based on the statistics of the loss permeability parameter results of 24 core samples, we found that there is a good positive correlation between the loss permeability parameter and the absolute permeability. …”
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Identification of fungal pathogens among COVID-19 and non COVID-19 cases in Bhaktapur hospital, Nepal by Asmita Lamichhane, Sushma Regmi, Krishma Pandit, Sweety Upadhaya, Jyoti Acharya, Srijana Koirala, Shreedhar Aryal, Krishna Gurung, Jiwan Thapa, Sanjib Adhikari, Suprina Sharma, Pramod Poudel, Supriya Sharma

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted among sputum samples from 135 COVID positive and 101 COVID negative cases. …”
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Deep generative model for the inverse design of Van der Waals heterostructures by Shikun Gao, Qinyuan Huang, Chen Huang, Cheng Li, Kaihao Liu, Baisheng Sa, Yadong Yu, Dezhen Xue, Zhe Liu, Mengyan Dai

“…Abstract This study proposes ConditionCDVAE+, a crystal diffusion variational autoencoder (CDVAE) based deep generative model for inverse design of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures. …”
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Antimicrobial activity of various brands of children's toothpastes formulated with Triclosan, Fluoride and Xylitol by Leopoldo Cosme-Silva, Ana Paula Pereira da Silveira, Kellen Cristina da Silva Gasque, Rafael Tobias Moretti Neto, Vivien Thiemy Sakai, Ana Beatriz S Moretti

“…Nonstimulated saliva samples were collected and inoculated on brain heart infusion (BHI) agar. …”
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Effect of composition on hot cracking susceptibility of Arc-Directed Energy Deposited microalloyed Al–Cu alloys by Xinyu Wang, Yue Zhao, Quan Li, Yanzhuo Wei, Aiping Wu

“…Solidification paths, accounting for solid-state diffusion, were calculated. From solidification paths, the index |dT/d(fs1/2)|max near fs = 1 was calculated to assess solidification cracking susceptibility. …”
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Phytochemical and Antimicrobial Screening of Ethanol Extracts of Zingiber officinale, Allium sativum and Syzygium aromaticum against Some Food Associated Bacteria and Fungi by Aliyu, M.S., Tijjani, M.B., M.H.I. Doko, Garba, I., Ajimego A.B., Hanwa, U.A., Ibrahim, M.M.

“… The in vitro antimicrobial activities of ethanol extracts of ginger (Zingiber officinale), garlic (Allium sativum) and clove (Syzygium aromaticum) were evaluated against some bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli) and moulds (Aspergillus niger and Rhizopus stolonifer) isolated from food samples by agar well diffusion method and poisoned food technique respectively. …”
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Flow-induced 2D nanomaterials intercalated aligned bacterial cellulose by M.A.S.R. Saadi, Yufei Cui, Shyam P. Bhakta, Sakib Hassan, Vijay Harikrishnan, Ivan R. Siqueira, Matteo Pasquali, Matthew Bennett, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Muhammad M. Rahman

“…Additionally, the limited diffusion of other nano-fillers within the three-dimensional nanofibrillar network impedes the development of multifunctional bacterial cellulose-based nanosheets. …”
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Micrometer long bimetallic Nickel-cobalt schiff base MOF as supercapacitor electrodes by S. Parveen, A. Shanmugapriya, B. Saravanakumar, J.Johnson William, N. Chithra

“…The structural analysis reveals that the prepared samples were endowed with well crystalline nature. …”
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in cows with mastitis, the presence of the mecA gene and the gene for virulence by Vesna Jaki Tkalec, Darko Majnarić, Jadranka Jurmanović, Boris Habrun, Željko Cvetnić, Manuela Zadravec, Branka Šeol Martinec

“…Sensitivity to antimicrobial agents was performed by the disc diffusion method. The nuc gene and the virulence factors coa, hla, hlb, hld, hlg, hlg-2, tst, eta, etb, lukF-PV and lukS-PV and mecA gene were detected by the polymerase chain reaction. …”
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