Publications by authors named "Robab Rafiei Tabatabaei"
Nanotechnology covers many disciplines, including the biological sciences. In this study, selenium nanoparticles (Se-NPs) were synthesized using Artemisia annua extract and investigated against clinical strains of klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) for their anti-biofilm effects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNewcastle disease (ND) is known as the most common diseases of economic importance worldwide. Vaccination against virulent strains of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) has failed during some outbreaks. Here, we aimed to assess the epitopes of NDV fusion protein as targets for a peptide-based vaccine.
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- Recent studies show a high presence of non-albicans fungal infections in environments like raw milk, highlighting the need to understand the quality and fungal flora in milk.
- A total of 262 milk samples from various dairy farms were collected and cultured, resulting in 69 identified non-albicans strains; their antifungal resistance was tested using four common antifungal medications.
- Findings indicated that many non-albicans strains in milk were highly sensitive to flucytosine and fluconazole, with the results aiding physicians in selecting effective long-term treatments for infections by local fungal strains.
Background And Objectives: One of the most important antibiotic-resistant bacteria is methicillin-resistant (MRSA) biofilm that has caused significant problems in treating the patients. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the levels of expression of genes involved in biofilm formation in MRSA (ATCC 33591) while being treated by a combination of and .
Materials And Methods: The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of ethanolic extract of and and also the minimum inhibitory concentration of combination of both extracts were 512, 1024 and 256 μg/ml, respectively; then at concentrations lower than the MIC, expression levels of the desired genes were determined by Real Time PCR.
Background: Typing of nosocomial pathogens is necessary to determine the source of an outbreak. The aim was to determine the genomic variability among Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) by random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) methods.
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