Discovery and characterization of novel lipopeptides produced by with biosurfactant and antimicrobial activities.

Unlabelled: The study aimed to evaluate the biosurfactants (BSs) production by SM-23 strain of identified by phenotypical and WGS analysis as . We first demonstrated the lipopeptides production by specie and studied their biochemical and molecular analysis as well as their biological potential. The GC-MS analysis indicated that methyl.

Prevalence and Risk Factors of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Among Very Premature Infants in a Tunisian Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Introduction: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) stands as the primary chronic respiratory complication in premature infants, posing a substantial public health concern due to its rising prevalence, potential mortality, and socioeconomic burden.

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of BPD in very preterm infants and identify its associated risk factors.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective, descriptive, and analytical study including all premature infants born between 26 and 31 weeks of gestation age (GA) who survived beyond the 28th day of life, over a five-year period (2017-2021).

Improving productivity and soil fertility in Medicago sativa and Hordeum marinum through intercropping under saline conditions.

Background And Aims: Intercropping is an agriculture system used to enhance the efficiency of resource utilization and maximize crop yield grown under environmental stress such as salinity. Nevertheless, the impact of intercropping forage legumes with annual cereals on soil salinity remains unexplored. This research aimed to propose an intercropping system with alfalfa (Medicago sativa)/sea barley (Hordeum marinum) to explore its potential effects on plant productivity, nutrient uptake, and soil salinity.

Pseudoachalasia as the first manifestation of signet-ring cell duodenal carcinoma.

Introduction: Pseudoachalasia is a rare clinical condition, often caused by malignancy. Rarely, this entity can reveal the underlying neoplasia. To the best of our knowledge, we report the first case of pseudoachalasia revealing a metastatic signet-ring cell carcinoma of the non-ampullary duodenum.

A renal angiomyolipoma with a challenging presentation: a case report.

Introduction: Renal angiomyolipoma is considered a benign mesenchymal tumor composed of fat, smooth muscle, and blood vessels. It represents 1-3% of solid renal tumors. Despite this tumor's benignity, it can be aggressive with a locoregional extension.

A thermoluminescent method for the evaluation of the I effective half-life in the thyroid when treating Graves' disease.

When planning treatment for Graves' disease with I, the effective half-life (T) should be estimated individually as it depends on biological characteristics such as iodine uptake and excretion, which differ from an individual to another (Berg et al. 1996). All the methods to quantify T described in the literature are quite complex and are difficult to be used in clinical routine.

Calcium and ethylene glycol tetraacetic acid mitigate toxicity and alteration of gene expression associated with cadmium stress in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) shoots.

In the aim to estimate the protective role of calcium (Ca) and ethylene glycol tetraacetic acid (EGTA) against cadmium (Cd)-induced damage, chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) seeds were exposed to 200 μM Cd stress for 6 days or 3 days then subjected to co-treatment of the metal with either 100 mM CaCl or 100 μM EGTA for 3 additional days. The addition of Ca and EGTA improved seedling growth.

Sparse classification of discriminant nystagmus features using combined video-oculography tests and pupil tracking for common vestibular disorder recognition.

Vertigo is a common sign related to a problem with the brain or vestibular system. Detection of ocular nystagmus can be a support indicator to distinguish different vestibular disorders. In order to get reliable and accurate real time measurements from nystagmus response, video-oculography (VOG) plays an important role in the daily clinical examination.

Hybrid clustering system using Nystagmus parameters discrimination for vestibular disorder diagnosis.

Backgroud And Objective: The control of clinical manifestation of vestibular system relies on an optimal diagnosis. This study aims to develop and test a new automated diagnostic scheme for vestibular disorder recognition.

Methods: In this study we stratify the Ellipse-fitting technique using the Video Nysta Gmographic (VNG) sequence to obtain the segmented pupil region.

Morning specimen is not representative of metabolic control in Tunisian children with phenylketonuria: a repeated cross-sectional study.

Objective and methods To evaluate variation of capillary phenylalanine concentrations over the day in patients treated for phenylketonuria and the reliability of the morning sample to assess metabolic control, we conducted a repeated cross-sectional study in 25 Tunisian patients on phenylalanine-low diet. For each patient, we collected nine capillary samples over the day. Phenylalanine was dosed by fluorimetry.

Tomato contrasting genotypes responses under combined salinity and viral stresses.

Tomato yellow leaf curl disease (TYLCD) and salinity stress adversely affect tomato production worldwide by causing extensive damages. In Tunisia, identifying TYLCD resistant cultivars selected in different environments is useful to devise counter-measures. To this end, 20 tomato commercial cultivars were screened for different gene alleles' combinations and evaluated either for TYLCD incidence or salinity constraint.

Lead-Free BNT-BT/CoFeO Core-Shell Nanostructures with Potential Multifunctional Applications.

Herein we report on novel multiferroic core-shell nanostructures of cobalt ferrite (CoFeO)-bismuth, sodium titanate doped with barium titanate (BNT-BT), prepared by a two-step wet chemical procedure, using the sol-gel technique. The fraction of CoFeO was varied from 1:0.5 to 1:1.

Ureteral stump empyema with calculi.

A 52-year-old man with a history of right nephrectomy for a nonfunctioning kidney, consults after 22 years for fever with right lower abdominal pain. Surgical exploration was thereafter performed and the right ureteral stump was removed en bloc. Pathological examination of the right ureterectomy specimen revealed a significant acute and chronic ureteritis due to stone without any signs of malignancy.

A new preprocessing parameter estimation based on geodesic active contour model for automatic vestibular neuritis diagnosis.

The diagnostic of the vestibular neuritis (VN) presents many difficulties to traditional assessment methods This paper deals with a fully automatic VN diagnostic system based on nystagmus parameter estimation using a pupil detection algorithm. A geodesic active contour model is implemented to find an accurate segmentation region of the pupil. Hence, the novelty of the proposed algorithm is to speed up the standard segmentation by using a specific mask located on the region of interest.

Prognostic Value of Serum C-Reactive Protein in Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage: When Should We Take the Sample?

Background: Several studies showed a correlation between C-reactive protein and mortality in spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage. However, the best time to measure C-reactive protein to assess prognosis is not yet clear. The purpose of this study was to determine if initial or H24-C-reactive protein is independently associated with 30-day mortality in intracerebral hemorrhage.

Effect of salt stress on ion concentration, proline content, antioxidant enzyme activities and gene expression in tomato cultivars.

Salinity is a constraint limiting plant growth and productivity of crops throughout the world. Understanding the mechanism underlying plant response to salinity provides new insights into the improvement of salt tolerance-crops of importance. In the present study, we report on the responses of twenty cultivars of tomato.

ANTISTAPHYBASE: database of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) and essential oils (EOs) against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Staphylococcus aureus.

Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus are major pathogens. The antimicrobial peptides and essential oils (EOs) display narrow- or broad-spectrum activity against bacteria including these strains.

Li0.5Al0.5Mg2(MoO4)3.

The title compound, lithium/aluminium dimagnesium tetra-kis-[orthomolybdate(VI)], was prepared by a solid-state reaction route. The crystal structure is built up from MgO6 octa-hedra and MoO4 tetra-hedra sharing corners and edges, forming two types of chains running along [100]. These chains are linked into layers parallel to (010) and finally linked by MoO4 tetra-hedra into a three-dimensional framework structure with channels parallel to [001] in which lithium and aluminium cations equally occupy the same position within a distorted trigonal-bipyramidal coordination environment.

Robustness of auditory Teager Energy Cepstrum Coefficients for classification of pathological and normal voices in noisy environments.

This paper focuses on a robust feature extraction algorithm for automatic classification of pathological and normal voices in noisy environments. The proposed algorithm is based on human auditory processing and the nonlinear Teager-Kaiser energy operator. The robust features which labeled Teager Energy Cepstrum Coefficients (TECCs) are computed in three steps.

Congenital Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: Atypical Presentation and New ADAMTS 13 Mutation in a Tunisian Child.

Background: Congenital deficiency of ADAMTS13 is characterized by systemic platelet clumping, hemolytic anemia and multiorgan failure. Although, more than 100 mutations have been reported, atypical clinical presentation may be involved in diagnostic difficulties.

Case Report: A 2 year old Tunisian child presented with chronic thrombopenic purpura which failed to respond to corticosteroids.

Tuberculous meningitis in Bacille Calmette-Guerin-vaccinated children: clinical spectrum and outcome.

The Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccination (BCG) contributed widely to reduce tuberculosis incidence in developing countries. The aim of this report was to assess the clinical "spectrum" and outcome of tuberculous meningitis in 16 Bacille Calmette-Guérin-vaccinated Tunisian children. They were 9 boys and 7 girls aged 2 to 168 months (median 72 months ± 65.