Publications by authors named "Daniel Amiteye"
Peptidoglycan is the basic structural polymer of the bacterial cell wall and maintains the shape and integrity of single cells. Despite years of research conducted on peptidoglycan's chemical composition, the microscopic elucidation of its nanoscopic architecture still needs to be addressed more thoroughly to advance knowledge on bacterial physiology. Apart from the model organism , ultrastructural imaging data on the murein architecture of Gram-negative bacteria is mostly missing today.
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- * An in vitro test showed that chitosans with high polymerization and low acetylation significantly reduce C. jejuni adhesion to human cells without being toxic.
- * Treatment of contaminated chicken meat with chitosan led to a marked decrease in C. jejuni levels, indicating its potential as an effective antiadhesive agent in food production.
Antibiotic resistance of pathogenic bacteria needs to be urgently addressed by the development of new antibacterial entities. Although the prokaryotic cell wall comprises a valuable target for this purpose, development of novel cell wall-active antibiotics is mostly missing today. This is mainly caused by hindrances in the assessment of isolated enzymes of the co-dependent murein synthesis machineries, e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Tuberculosis TB) and drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) continue to persist as a serious public health challenges in Ghana. Although several research has evaluated the drug resistance of complex (MTBc) strains across the country, there is a paucity of data on its magnitude as well as the various lineages circulating in the Eastern region of Ghana.
Objective: This study therefore evaluated the distribution of the various lineages of MTBc in the Eastern region of the country and the associated drug resistance.