Surface-enhanced Raman spectral investigation of antibacterial activity of zinc 3-chlorobenzoic acid complexes against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria.

Background: Raman spectroscopy is an effective tool for determining the antibacterial actitivites of organometallic compounds against different bacterial strains.

Objectives: The purpose of current study is to check the anibacterial activites of ligand (3-chlorobenzoic acid) and its respective zinc complex against gram positive and gram-negative bacterial strains by using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).

Methods: The ligand (3-chlorobenzoic acid) and its respective zinc complex caused different biochemical changes in gram-positive and gram-negative bacterial strains such as lipid contents, DNA/RNA contents, proteins contents, peptidoglycan contents and bacterial spore contents which can be observed with different SERS spectral features.

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) for monitoring colistin-resistant and susceptible E. coli strains.

The emergence of drug-resistant bacteria is a precarious global health concern. In this study, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is used to characterize colistin-resistant and susceptible E. coli strains based on their distinguished SERS spectral features for the development of rapid and cost-effective detection and differentiation methods.

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products of Rifampin resistant and susceptible tuberculosis patients.

Background: Raman spectroscopy is an effective tool for detecting and discriminating microorganisms that is robust, reliable, and rapid.

Objectives: To develop a polymerase chain reaction technique (PCR) based on Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) technique with principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) were used to assess diagnostic capability of SERS for distinguishing between tuberculosis (TB) positive rifampin resistant and tuberculosis (TB) positive rifampin susceptible samples.

Methods: Silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) were used as SERS substrates and technique was used to distinguish TB positive rifampin (RIF) resistant and TB positive rifampin (RIF) susceptible patients on the basis of characteristic SERS spectral features of their respective PCR products.

Sodium arsenate induced genotoxicity, morphometric and morphological changes in mice embryo and protective role of Moringa oleifera extracts.

The present study was carried out to find the comparative ameliorative role of Moringa oleifera leaf and flower extracts against sodium arsenate induced genotoxic, morphometric and morphological changes in mice embryo. Seven to eight week old pregnant females (N=44) with body weight of 20-25g at gestation day zero were divided randomly in groups (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J and K). Group A was of control while all others were experimental groups and administered with selected doses of sodium arsenate as toxicant (6mg/kg B.

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for comparison of serum samples of typhoid and tuberculosis patients of different stages.

Background: Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a reliable tool for the identification and differentiation of two different human pathological conditions sharing the same symptomology, typhoid and tuberculosis (TB).

Objectives: To explore the potential of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for differentiation of two different diseases showing the same symptoms and analysis by principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least square discriminate analysis (PLS-DA).

Methods: Serum samples of clinically diagnosed typhoid and tuberculosis infected individuals were analyzed and differentiated by SERS using silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) as a SERS substrate.