Genomic Characteristics of an Extensive-Drug-Resistant Clinical O99 H30 ST38 Recovered from Wound.

Background: Antibiotic-resistant is one of the major opportunistic pathogens that cause hospital-acquired infections worldwide. These infections include catheter-associated urinary tract infections (UTIs), ventilator-associated pneumonia, surgical wound infections, and bacteraemia.

Objectives: To understand the mechanisms of resistance and prevent its spread, we studied C91 (ST38), a clinical outbreak strain that was extensively drug-resistant.

Genotypic characterization of soil bacteria in the Umm Al-Namil Island, Kuwait.

Microflora is an integral part of soil ecosystem, in which bacteria are the largest group of soil microbes. This is a pioneer study for establishing baseline data on the diversity of soil bacteria among different regions in Kuwait. The aim is to understand biodiversity in different settings, how bacteria adapt to different niches in the environment as well as in different hosts.

Caveolin-1 Variant Is Associated With the Metabolic Syndrome in Kuwaiti Children.

Caveolin-1 () variants have been suggested to be associated with obesity and related metabolic disorders, but information based on human studies is limited. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the potential association between the rs1997623 C/A variant and metabolic syndrome (MetS) in Kuwaiti children. DNA from saliva samples collected from 1313 Kuwaiti children (mean age: 12 years) were genotyped using the TaqMan SNP genotyping assay.

A resource for functional profiling of noncoding RNA in the yeast .

Eukaryotic genomes are extensively transcribed, generating many different RNAs with no known function. We have constructed 1502 molecular barcoded ncRNA gene deletion strains encompassing 443 ncRNAs in the yeast as tools for ncRNA functional analysis. This resource includes deletions of small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs), transfer RNAs (tRNAs), small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs), and other annotated ncRNAs as well as the more recently identified stable unannotated transcripts (SUTs) and cryptic unstable transcripts (CUTs) whose functions are largely unknown.