Influence of outer membrane permeabilization on intrinsic resistance to the hydrophobic biocide triclosan in opportunistic Serratia species

Triclosan is a hydrophobic antimicrobial agent commonly employed in health care settings.While it exhibits broad-spectrum antibacterial properties, the gram-negative nosocomial opportunists Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Serratia marcescens are atypically refractory.Intrinsic resistance to SINNA triclosan in P.aeruginosa is largely due to its outer mem

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CLINICAL PROFILE AND SEXUAL BEHAVIORS IN PATIENTS OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES IN A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF EASTERN NEPAL

A hospital based prospective cross sectional study was under taken over one-year period from April 1998 to March 1999 to study the clinical profile and sexual behavior in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) patients at Dermatology and Venereology OPD at BPKIHS, Dharan, Nepal.A total of 105 patients giving history suggestive of STDs were studied.Th

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The Vanity of Small Differences

To what extent are factors that are extrinsic to the artwork relevant to judgements of artistic value? One might approach this question using traditional philosophical methods, but one can also approach it using empirical methods; that is, by doing experimental philosophical aesthetics.This paper provides an example of the latter COLOUR BATH VIOLET

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Isolation of a natural DNA virus of Drosophila melanogaster, and characterisation of host resistance and immune responses.

Drosophila melanogaster has played a key role in our understanding of invertebrate immunity.However, both functional and evolutionary studies of host-virus interaction in Drosophila have been limited by a dearth of native virus isolates.In particular, despite a long history of virus research, DNA viruses of D.melanogaster have only recently been de

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