Genetic diversity and antifungal resistance in Candida albicans from VVC cases in Indian women by Binaya Krushna Sahu, Utkalika Mallick, Rashmi Hegde, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Mahesh Chandra Sahu, Sujogya Kumar Panda

“…Method A total of 170 vaginal swab samples were collected from Indian women attending the obstetrics and gynecology departments at IMS SUM Hospital and Kalinga Hospital, Odisha, India. …”
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Antibacterial and antioxidant activity of sea cucumber extracts collected from Lampung waters, Indonesia by Abdullah Rasyid, Masteria Y. Putra, Yasman

“…The antibacterial activity was evaluated using the agar diffusion method, and the antioxidant activity was assessed using the ABTS (2,2′-azino-bis (3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) method. …”
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Prevalence and molecular detection of mecA and lukD genes from livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated in raw chicken meats sold in Abakaliki, Nig... by Emmanuel Nnabuike Ugbo, Agatha Ifunanya Ugbo, Mustofa Helmi Effendi, Wiwiek Tyasningsih, Bernard Nnabuife Agumah, Anthonia Chinyere Nwachi, Aswin Rafif Khairullah, Ikechukwu Benjamin Moses, Ricadonna Raissa, Sheila Marty Yanestria

“…Methods: The butchers in the slaughterhouses provided 150 fresh raw chicken meat samples, which were then cultured and purified using Mannitol Salt Agar. …”
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Enhancing Fricke Xylenol Gel Dosimeter's Response to Radiation with Optimized Preparation Methods by Syed Shajid, ABHIJIT MANDAL, Kalyan Mondal, Gogul Priean V, Bratindranath Mukherjee, Praveen Chandra Pandey, Himanshu Mishra, Ritusha Mishra, Ganeshkumar Patel, Ankur Mourya, Lalit Aggarwal, Sunil Choudhary

“…However, a significant limitation of this dosimeter is the post-irradiation diffusion of ferric ions, which can result in the degradation of spatial dose information. …”
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Application of novel oligomeric Co(II) complexes of 4,4′-bipyridine and 1,10-phenanthroline modified glassy carbon electrode for differential pulse voltammetric determination of ci... by Mezgebu Biresaw, Adane Kassa, Getinet Tamiru Tigineh, Atakilt Abebe

“…When it came to determining CPF in tablet formulations and human urine samples, the new approach outperformed recently published voltammetric methods. …”
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Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance profile of Listeria spp. isolated from raw fish by Marta Sołtysiuk, Paulina Przyborowska, Agnieszka Wiszniewska-Łaszczych, Dawid Tobolski

“…Results Listeria spp. was isolated from 13.9% of samples (104 positive samples), comprising L. seeligeri (34.6%), L. welshimeri (28.8%), L. monocytogenes (23.1%), and L. innocua (13.5%). …”
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Prevalence, antimicrobial sensitivity patterns and associated factors of urinary tract infection among patients attending Nekemte Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Western Ethiop... by Abdi Diriba, Seifu Gizaw, Fedasan Alemu, Kume Tesfaye, Endalu Tesfaye, Motuma Chali, Girmaye Jobir

“…Methods A hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted at Nekemte Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, from June to September 2024 among 270 participants. Midstream urine samples were collected under aseptic techniques. Then samples were cultured on blood and MacConkey agars following standard microbiological techniques. …”
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Antibiotics resistance in El Tor Vibrio cholerae 01 isolated during cholera outbreaks in Mozambique from 2012 to 2015. by Liliana Candida Dengo-Baloi, Cynthia Amino Semá-Baltazar, Lena Vania Manhique, Jucunu Elias Chitio, Dorteia Luísa Inguane, José Paulo Langa

“…All samples were collected and tested in the context of Africhol Project, approved by the National Bioethics Committee for Health.…”
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Production of Protein Hydrolysates from Cod Backbone Using Selected Enzymes: Evaluation of Antioxidative and Antimicrobial Activities of Hydrolysates by Dimitra Marinou, Charlotte Jacobsen, Davide Odelli, Krystalia Sarigiannidou, Ann-Dorit Moltke Sørensen

“…Alcalase-treated samples had the highest PEY (3 h, 63.5 ± 4.5%) followed by Protamex-treated samples (3 and 6 h; 51.9 ± 5.5% and 56.5 ± 4.5%); the lowest PEY was obtained with Neutrase (3 and 6 h; 30.4 ± 1.9% and 34.7 ± 3.4%). …”
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Biofilm formation capacity and Carbapenem-resistance in Acinetobacter-calcoaceticus-baumannii isolated from inpatients in a tertiary care hospital in Nepal by Shova Bhandari, Milan Kumar Upreti, Khadga Bikram Angbuhang, Basudha Shrestha, Upendra Thapa Shrestha

“…Results Out of 665 different clinical samples, bacterial growth was observed in 281 (42.3%) clinical samples. …”
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Exploring the effect of multi-modal intervention against cognitive decline on atrophy and small vessel disease imaging markers in the AgeWell.de imaging study by Frauke Beyer, Lukas Kleine, Andrea Zülke, Melanie Luppa, Toralf Mildner, Jochen Gensichen, Thomas Frese, David Czock, Birgitt Wiese, Hans-Helmut König, Hanna Kaduszkiewicz, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Jochen René Thyrian, Arno Villringer, Steffi Riedel-Heller, A.Veronica Witte

“…All other markers progressed similarly across groups, however sample size was smaller than expected. In exploratory analyses, cerebral blood flow increased more in the intervention group and this change was associated with decreases in systolic blood pressure. …”
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Application of bacteriophages isolated from sewage to control urinary O157:H7 Escherichia coli and several bacterial uropathogens by Salwa M. Masoud, Hend A. Refat, Nada S. Sayed, Mohamed K. Abd-El Aal, Ahmed A. Dosocky, Zeinab S. Mohammed, Mohamed A. H. Abdel Wahab, Dina M. Mekawy, Ali I. Ali, Basma A. Atya, Katren T. Welliam, Rehab M. Abd El-Baky, Zeinab S. Hashem

“…The Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method was used to determine the isolates antibiotic susceptibility. …”
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Tunable properties of silver (Ag) substituted BaFe2O4 nanoparticles for photovoltaic (PV) applications by Irum Shahid Khan, Iftikhar Hussain Gul

“…A broad inspection has been performed on structural, magneto-electric, dielectric, and optical properties uncovering potential of Ag incorporated barium ferrite nano particles using X-ray diffraction, Vibrating sample magnetometer, Multiferroic system, Impedance Analyzer, UV visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, Fluorescence spectrophotometer and Photoluminescence (PL) system. …”
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A Four-Year Retrospective Study on Epidemiology, Bacteriology, and Antimicrobial Resistance of Bacterial Isolates from Burn Wounds in a Tertiary Care Hospital by Shagufta Roohi1, Anjum Ara Mir1*, Tufail Ahmed1, Fakhri-Zehra Khaja1, Tabish Qayoom1, Nargis Bali1

“…We analyzed swab and pus samples collected from burn wound patients admitted to the Department of Plastic Surgery. …”
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Mobile phone bacterial contaminations, associated factors and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of bacteria isolates from health professionals’ working in public health faciliti... by Alqeer Aliyo, Chaltu Bekele, Tibeso Gemechu, Wako Dedecha, Mekdes Getachew

“…The samples were collected and tested using microbiological analysis to isolate and identify bacteria. …”
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Genotype Distribution and Migration Patterns of Hepatitis C Virus in Shandong Province, China: Molecular Epidemiology and Phylogenetic Study by Lin Lin, Guoyong Wang, Lianzheng Hao, Tingbin Yan

“…MethodsA total of 320 HCV-positive serum samples were collected from multiple hospitals across Shandong Province between 2013 and 2021. …”
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Efficient Image Processing Technique for Detecting Spatio-Temporal Erosion in Boron Nitride Exposed to Iodine Plasma by Ahmed S. Afifi, Janith Weerasinghe, Karthika Prasad, Igor Levchenko, Katia Alexander

“…These maps not only reveal localised material loss (up to 5.5 μm after 84 min) and assess its uniformity but also indicate potential re-deposition of etched material and redistribution across the surface through mechanisms such as diffusion. By analysing areas with higher elevations and observing plasma-treated samples over time, we notice that these elevated regions—initially the most affected—gradually decrease in size and height, while overall erosion depth increases. …”
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Distribution of carbapenemase-producing and colistin resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates in Batna hospitals, Algeria by Asma Bouali, Esma Bendjama, Zineb Cherak, Meriem Mennaai, Ahmed Kassah-Laouar, Jean-Marc Rolain, Lotfi Loucif

“…The strains were collected primarily from pus samples (34.78%) and blood samples (17.39%). Eleven strains were classified as colistin-resistant, with MICs ranging from 4 to 128 μg/mL. …”
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Effect of Aging at Different Temperatures on Microstructure Evolution of 347H Heat-Resistant Steel-Welded Joints by Jun Xiao, Geng Tian, Di Wang, Kuo Cao, Aimin Zhao

“…The results showed that the weld metal consisted of austenitic dendrites and inter-dendritic ferrite in a lath-like form. In the welded samples, the HAZ (Heat-Affected Zone) and BM (Base Material) regions were composed of equiaxed crystals. …”
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Application of concentrated solar energy in postprocessing of selective laser melted Ti6Al4V alloy through simultaneously gas nitriding and heat treatment by Lucia-Antoneta Chicos, Jose Rodríguez, Inmaculada Cañadas, Jose Galindo, Grzegorz Cempura, Adam Kruk, Maciej Ziętara, Adam Gruszczyński, Mihai Alin Pop, Sebastian Marian Zaharia, Camil Lancea

“…SEM–EDS, XRD analyses, and micro-Vickers hardness tests conducted on samples nitrided in SF, using CSE, confirmed the development of a nitrogen compound layer and a nitrogen diffusion zone, accompanied by a significant increase in microhardness, but achieved within a considerably shorter processing time. …”
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