with a tiny bit. Corresponding‚ Mariana Bridi Costa from Brazil was living a dream‚ traveling the world trading her beauty for a career in modeling‚ while lifting her family out of poverty. Except during a tour of contests‚ she contracted Pseudomonas aeruginosa‚ a multiresistant urinary tract infection. It worsened rapidly‚ and turned into septic shock. In desperate attempt by surgeons they amputated her hands‚ legs‚ and some stomach. She sadly died the next day after she completely stopped breathing
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bacteria” ● Scientists at University of the PhilippinesDiliman’s Molecular Microbiology Laboratory have identified a number of bacteria which can help solve the problem of oil spills in oceans and seas through this technology. These are Pseudomonas aeruginosa‚ Acinetobacter baumanii‚ Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus‚ Bordetella bronchiseptica and Lysinibacillus sphaericus. ● Another group of bacteria‚ the cyanobacteria are plantlike because they have chlorophyll-containing cells. Most of them are
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remains liquid. The negative result may be S. epidermidis but only a more detailed identification test can confirm this‚ using biochemical tests as in API tests and BBL CRYSTAL methods. MATERIALS Sterile swab‚ oxidase strap‚ microorganisms (Pseudomonas aeruginosa‚ E. coli) METHODS A. Catalase 1. A drop of 3% H2O2 was placed on a glass slide. 2. A sterile loop was touched to the culture of the tested organisms. Visible mass of cell was picked. 3. The cell organism was mixed in
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abies born with CF don’t gain weight as expected. They fail to thrive in spite of a normal diet and a good appetite. Mucus blocks the passageways of the pancreas and prevents pancreatic digestive juices from entering the intestines. Without these digestive juices‚ the intestines can’t absorb fats and proteins completely‚ so nutrients pass out of the body unused rather than helping the body grow. Poor fat absorption makes the stools appear oily and bulky and increases the child’s risk for deficiencies
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heterogeneous conditions throughout the distribution system. The total count varied from 1.2x102 to 6.3x103 cfu/ml. Different bacterial genera including Alcaligenes spp.‚ Bacillus spp.‚ Corynebacterium spp.‚ Escherichia spp.‚ Micrococcus spp.‚ Pseudomonas spp.‚ Shigella spp.‚ Staphylococcus spp. and Streptococcus spp. were isolated from the collected samples. The bacterial community was found to be diversified where the concentration of tannery waste was less; thereby it was assumed that the tannery
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A seminar on Antimicrobial Resistance and stewardship strategies to optimize the activity of currently available agents Presented By: Guide: Itee Sharma Dr. D.S. Arora M.Sc.(Hons.)F.M.T Index Contents Page No. ➢ Introduction 3 ➢ Definitions 4 ➢ History 5 ➢ Major antibiotics in common use 6 ➢ Graphical Representation
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Exercise 5 Introduction: Many different species of bacteria look similar under the microscope and also have the same staining results (ex. Gram stain). To be able to differentiate between the different species‚ one can look at the metabolic differences (fermentation)‚ as well as the environmental condition differences (temperature‚ pH‚ oxygen requirements). Being able to manipulate these conditions in a controlled environment can help to correctly identify the exact bacteria. Different media
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Chapter 6 Microbial Growth 1 Growth • increase in cellular constituents that may result in: – increase in cell number • e.g.‚ when microorganisms reproduce by budding or binary fission – increase in cell size • e.g.‚ coenocytic microorganisms have nuclear divisions that are not accompanied by cell divisions • microbiologists usually study population growth rather than growth of individual cells 2 The Growth Curve • observed when microorganisms are cultivated in batch
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exposed to increasing concentration of Tributyl Phosphate viz. 10‚ 25‚ 50‚ 75 and 100 mg/l in MSM‚ the potential microorganism was found to survive at higher concentration and utilized it as a sole source of carbon. This organism was identified as Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes strain DSM 50018T using 16S rRNA sequencing. This
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Some important examples include penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae‚ vancomycin-resistant enterococci‚ methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus‚ multi-resistant Salmonella typhi‚ Shigella dysenteriae‚ Neisseria gonorrhea‚ Pseudomonas aeruginosa and multi-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The development of resistance to drugs commonly used to treat P. falciparum malaria is of particular concern‚ as is the emerging resistance to antiretroviral drugs. The mechanism of bacterial
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