Prevalence and Risk Factors of Group B Streptococcus Colonization in Pregnant Women: A Pilot Study in Palestine by Mohammad Qadi, Adham AbuTaha, Ro’ya Al-Shehab, Salsabil Sulaiman, Abdallah Hamayel, Amjad Hussein, Shatha AbuTaha, Ayman Dawoud, Faizeh Hussein

“…A cross-sectional, single center study conducted at Rafidia Governmental Hospital in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine. Samples were collected between November 2019 and January 2020. …”
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Comparison of ethanolic and ethyl acetate fractions of Iraqi Medicago sativa for the treatment of urinary tract infection by Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Yousif, Sheelan Amir Al-Darwish, Farah Fawzi, Alaa Ghaith Ahmed

“…Antibacterial activity was evaluated using the agar well diffusion method, with minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) determined via microplate serial dilution. …”
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Speciation and mobilization of ultra-trace Hg(II) in groundwater by Kunfu PI, Yanxin WANG, Juewen LIU, Ya’nan YANG, Van Cappellen PHILIPPE

“…Here, this research presents and assesses two types of biosensing methods for dissolved Hg(II) based on a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sensing material: the DNA-functionalized hydrogel for direct Hg(II) detection in groundwater and the DNA-DGT sensor for simultaneous sampling and detection with the diffusive gradients in thin films technique (DGT). …”
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Bacterial Isolates and Their Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns of Wound Infections among Inpatients and Outpatients Attending the University of Gondar Referral Hospital, Northw... by Aynalem Mohammed, Mengistu Endris Seid, Teklay Gebrecherkos, Moges Tiruneh, Feleke Moges

“…Antimicrobial susceptibility tests were performed using disk diffusion technique following Kirby-Bauer method. Results. …”
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Characterization of Genetic Determinants Involved in Antimicrobial Resistance in <em>Aeromonas hydrophila</em>, <em>Escherichia coli</em> and <em>Vibrio cholerae</em> Isolated from... by Iroha I. Romanus, Ude Ibiam, Ejikeugwu C. Peter, Onochie C. Chike

“…A total of 372 water samples, comprising of 111, 144 and 117 ponds, rivers and streams were collected from three local governments areas (Abakaliki, Ebonyi and Ikwo) of Ebonyi State Nigeria over a period of twelve (12) months. …”
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The evaluation of antimicrobial resistance rates in infections caused by uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains collected from the south of Lebanon by Sajida Chreim, Seyed Masoud Hosseini, Abdallah Medlej, Mahdi Tarhini

“…Materials and Methods: Antimicrobial resistance phenotype of 104 urine samples was tested to determine the resistance percentages for various antibiotics including ampicillin, gentamicin, ciprofloxacin, tetracycline, bactrim, meropenem, and imipenem using disk diffusion test. …”
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Evaluation of some fungicides for inhibiting proteolytic fungi isolated from leather binding of a historical manuscript dated back to the Mamluk period by Mostafa Abdel-Hamied, Ahmed A. M. Abdelhafez, Rania F. Ahmed, Sherif H. Abd-Alrahman, Gomaa Abdel-Maksoud

“…The fungal growth inhibition was assessed by the disc diffusion method (DDM). The results revealed that individual or mixed boscalid and pyraclostrobin fungicides at 300 ppm achieved the highest inhibition activity against A. fumigatus, but the linear diagram showed that individual boscalid and pyraclostrobin fungicides at 200 ppm was the ideal concentration for application with the leather samples in the future study. …”
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Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci and Its Associated Risk Factors among HIV-Positive and -Negative Clients Attending Dessie Referral Hospital, Northeast Ethiopia by Seid Ali, Martha Alemayehu, Mulat Dagnew, Teklay Gebrecherkos

“…Antibiotic susceptibility tests were done using the Kirby–Bauer disk diffusion method. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 22 software package. …”
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Multi-Parametric MRI and Texture Analysis to Visualize Spatial Histologic Heterogeneity and Tumor Extent in Glioblastoma. by Leland S Hu, Shuluo Ning, Jennifer M Eschbacher, Nathan Gaw, Amylou C Dueck, Kris A Smith, Peter Nakaji, Jonathan Plasencia, Sara Ranjbar, Stephen J Price, Nhan Tran, Joseph Loftus, Robert Jenkins, Brian P O'Neill, William Elmquist, Leslie C Baxter, Fei Gao, David Frakes, John P Karis, Christine Zwart, Kristin R Swanson, Jann Sarkaria, Teresa Wu, J Ross Mitchell, Jing Li

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We recruited primary GBM patients undergoing image-guided biopsies and acquired pre-operative MRI: CE-MRI, Dynamic-Susceptibility-weighted-Contrast-enhanced-MRI, and Diffusion Tensor Imaging. Following image coregistration and region of interest placement at biopsy locations, we compared MRI metrics and regional texture with histologic diagnoses of high- vs low-tumor content (≥80% vs <80% tumor nuclei) for corresponding samples. …”
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In vitro inhibition of uropathogenic Escherichia coli biofilm formation by probiotic Lactobacilli isolated from healthy breast fed infants by Zeinab, S. Hashem, Rehab, M. Abd El-Baky

“…E. coli isolates were recovered from urine samples of patients with urinary tract infections. …”
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Predicting Glioma Recurrence Using 18F-FDG PET/CT, MRI, and Tumor Markers: A Combined Approach by Wei J

“…MRI was performed to measure the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of the tumor parenchyma and cerebral blood flow (CBF). …”
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Simulation of intercalation and phase transitions in nano-porous, polycrystalline agglomerates by Simon Daubner, Marcel Weichel, Martin Reder, Daniel Schneider, Qi Huang, Alexander E. Cohen, Martin Z. Bazant, Britta Nestler

“…The phase-field method is employed to parameterize complex open pore cathode microstructures and we present a formulation to impose galvanostatic charging conditions on the diffuse boundary representation. By extending the smoothed boundary method to the multiphase-field method, we build a simulation framework which is capable of simulating the coupled effects of intercalation, anisotropic diffusion, and phase transitions in arbitrary complex polycrystalline agglomerates. …”
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Antibacterial and Antioxidant Activities of Prinsepia utilis Royle Leaf and Seed Extracts by Rakshya Bagale, Srijana Acharya, Akriti Gupta, Pooja Chaudhary, Gautam Prasad Chaudhary, Jitendra Pandey

“…In the disc diffusion method, P. utilis ethyl acetate leaf extract was most prominent against Staphylococcus epidermis with a zone of inhibition (ZOI) of 13.83 mm. …”
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RoadDiffBox: Automatic Road Distress Diagnosis through Controlled Image Generation and Semi-Supervised Learning by Yuanyuan Hu, Ning Chen, Hancheng Zhang, Yue Hou, Pengfei Liu

“…The framework addresses dataset imbalances through class control and accelerates image generation by utilizing the denoising diffusion implicit model’s reverse process sampling method, while employing knowledge distillation techniques optimized for resource-constrained mobile devices. …”
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The Antibacterial Property of Nigella sativa (Black seed) Oil Against Gram-positive and Gramnegative Bacteria by Sakar Ahmed Abdullah, Tara Faeq M. Salih, Abdullah Ahmed Hama, Salar Ibrahim Ali, Hassan Hussein Hamaamin

“…The bacteria were obtained from a microbiology company and from clinical samples at the Shar hospital in Sulaimani Provence. …”
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Chitosan hydrogel containing tacrolimus-loaded nanoliposome for ocular drug delivery: Physicochemical analysis and stability evaluation by Parisa Hassansheikhi, Elham Ameri, Zahra Alimohammadi

“…The results of electron microscope tests in both samples (EPC, DPPC) indicated the synthesis of drug delivery systems with a spherical morphology with a diameter of less than 100 nanometers. …”
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Prevalence, serotype distribution, and antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella isolated from food products in Morocco by Nadia Amajoud, Brahim Bouchrif, Mohammed El Maadoudi, Nadia Skalli Senhaji, Bouchra Karraouan, Abdeltif El Harsal, Jamal El Abrini

“…All isolates were serotyped and were then tested for antibiotic resistance using the disk diffusion method. Results: The microbiological analysis showed that 10.3% of food samples were contaminated with Salmonella. …”
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An intelligent non-destructive method to identify the quality of self-compacting concrete based on convolutional neural networks via image recognition by Zhong Xiao, Zixuan Liu, Xuying Guo, Jun Liu

“…In order to correlate the image recognition of SCC with its characteristics, the fluidity, compressive strength and chloride ion diffusion coefficient of SCC were tested while images of SCC were acquired using a smartphone. …”
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Characteristics and antibiotic resistance patterns of urinary tract isolates in hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients: a cross-sectional study in Khartoum, Sudan by Samah El-Arifi, Eltayeb AbdAlla, El Sheikh Mahgoub, Bothyna Fadol, Rashida Elmubarak

“…Bacterial identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing were performed using standard bacteriological methods and Kirby-Bauer’s disc diffusion method. Genotyping for Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (EsβL) production was conducted using multiplex PCR. …”
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Methicillin- and Inducible Clindamycin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus among Patients with Wound Infection Attending Arba Minch Hospital, South Ethiopia by Mohammedaman Mama, Addis Aklilu, Kassahun Misgna, Molla Tadesse, Eyerusalem Alemayehu

“…A total of 161 patients were enrolled and a majority of them were female (90, 50.9%). Among the collected samples, 79 (49.7%) were positive for S. aureus; of this, methicillin resistance accounted for 65 (82.3%). …”
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