COMPARISON AND EVALUATION OF NEUTRALIZATION OF CLINICALLY FREQUENTLY USED ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS USING THREE DIFFERENT CULTURE MEDIA IN SIMULATED BLOOD CULTURES

ABSTRACT The performance of BACT/ALERT FA/FN Plus (France) blood culture containing a novel resin, DL (China) blood culture containing common resin, and adsorbent-free REDOX (USA) blood culture relying on dilution for antimicrobial neutralization at %peak serum concentration was evaluated by measuring the recovery of organisms and time to detection

Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based untargeted metabolomics implies that annotated metabolites can serve as potential markers of the associated bioactivities of plant extracts.Firstly, we selected Aphananthe aspera and Zelkova serrata (Family: Ulmaceae) from 16 Korean plant species based on their distinct principal component analy

Tropical peatlands in Southeast Asia have experienced widespread subsidence due to forest clearance and drainage for agriculture, oil palm and pulp wood production, causing concerns about their function as a long-term carbon store.Peatland drainage leads to subsidence (lowering of peatland surface), an indicator of degraded peatlands, while stabili

We present a method to enhance the accuracy of platform-based, high-frequency (HF) direction-finding (DF) systems using dynamic mode selection.To improve bandwidth and efficiency, the metallic platform supporting the DF array is used as the primary radiator by employing tillman 750m electrically small antennas to excite linearly independent combina

Oleic acid and its salts are present among the toxic pollutants in olive oil mill wastewaters.Four lignocellulosic here materials modified by grafting quaternary ammonium groups have been tested for the adsorption of the oleate anion from aqueous solutions, viz.cotton fibres, viscose fabric, wood sawdust and maize cob powder.As a result of their st