March 2023

ICU COVID-19 patients with bacterial and fungal super-infections in Saudi Arabia

Bacterial and fungal infections in COVID-19 patients were reported all over the world. A retrospective study was conducted to determine the prevalence of bacterial and fungal superinfections in COVID-19 positive patients between April 2020 and December 2021. This research included patients admitted in a specialized medical center in Saudi Arabia. A total of 2643 patients with confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 via reverse...

Author(s): Manal M Darwish, Mohammed Ahmed Garout, Altaf A. Abdul Khaliq and Magda R. Abdultawab

March 2023

Molecular cloning and functional research in drug-resistance of transposase gene in Burkholderia pseudomallei

Transposons are widely used in genetic engineering research and play an essential role in microbial drug resistance research. Transposase is the key to constructing efficient transposons, but no studies have reported transposons in Burkholderia pseudomallei. In this study, a new transposase gene was cloned and identified from HNBp001 isolated from Hainan province. Blast and phylogenetic tree analysis showed that the...

Author(s): Hao Xiu, Jie Hou, Yunfan Quan, Tingting Fu, Sufang Dong, Chuizhe Chen, and Qinhui Sun,

March 2023

Aflatoxins contamination in raw and roasted cashew nuts in Mtwara, Tanzania

The aim of this work was to determine the contamination levels of raw and roasted cashew nuts sold in Masasi and Newala districts of Mtwara region in Tanzania. A total of 60 samples including 40 roasted (24 samples from Newala and 16 from Masasi) and 20 raw samples (12 from Newala and 8 from Masasi) were collected. Determination of total aflatoxins levels in raw and roasted cashew nuts samples was carried out by immune...

Author(s): Catherine Leonard Akwilapo, Beatrice M Kilima and Alex Wenaty