Sub-minimum inhibitory concentrations in ceftazidime exacerbate the formation of Acinetobacter baumannii biofilms.

Associated with nosocomial infections, the environmental Gram-negative coccobacillus A. baumannii leads to various kinds of high mortality-rate infections among which pneumonias mainly in immune-compromised people from health-care facilities. A critical component of the current antibiotic resistance problem is the presence of antibiotics sub-minimum inhibitory concentrations (sub-MICs) in a variety of natural settings including drinking water, sewage water, rivers, lakes, and natural sludge.

Evaluation of anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity using cardiac biomarkers: A prospective study.

Background: Though anthracyclines are the commonly used chemotherapeutics for cancer treatment, close monitoring of patients is required due to its well reported cardiotoxicity. The present study evaluates the role of biomarkers [N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and high sensitivity cardiac troponin-T (hs-cTnT)] in early prediction of cardiotoxicity in patients with breast and ovarian cancer who received anthracyclines.

Methods: This was a single-center observational study conducted between August-2018 and January-2020.

Sensing behavior of CdS-TiO thick films for the detection of hydrocarbons.

In this article, the sensing behaviors of undoped titanium dioxide (TiO) and CdS-doped TiO (CdS-TiO) thick films are discussed. Sensing pastes of 2 wt% CdS-TiO and undoped TiO were prepared in the laboratory and used to fabricate thick film gas sensors on an alumina substrate. The crystal structures of TiO and CdS-TiO samples were characterized by XRD and atomic force microscopy (AFM).

Evaluating the Research Productivity in Pulpotomy: A Bibliometric Analysis.

The aim of this study was to appraise the bibliometric parameters of pulpotomy in the past 24 years from January 2000 to December 2023. The dataset was obtained from the Web of Science (WoS) database. The filter publication years were applied.

Potential health, environmental implication of microplastics: A review on its detection.

Microplastic contamination of terrestrial and aquatic environment has gained immense research attention due to their potential ecotoxicity and biomagnification property when enterer into food chain. Heterogenous nature of microplastics coupled with their ability to combine with other emerging pollutants have increased the severity of this crisis. Existing detection methods often fails to accurately quantify the amount of microplastic components present in environmental and biological samples.