Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy: unlocking fundamentals and prospects for bacterial strain typing

 Novais, AR Freitas, C Rodrigues, L Peixe - European Journal of Clinical …, 2019 - Springer
The need to identify highly related bacterial strains is ancient in clinical, industrial, or
environmental microbiology. Strategies based on different phenotypic and genotypic …

Pharmaceuticals for materials protection: Experimental and computational studies of expired closantel drug (C22H14Cl2I2N2O2) as a potent corrosion inhibitor

MS Bejandi, MH Behroozi, MR Khalili, R Sharifi… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The unique molecular structure of Closantel, a pharmaceutical compound, with a high
number of heteroatoms, aromatic structures, and multiple bonds can introduce the expired …

[HTML][HTML] The novel membrane-associated auxiliary factors AuxA and AuxB modulate β-lactam resistance in MRSA by stabilizing lipoteichoic acids

K Mikkelsen, W Sirisarn, O Alharbi, M Alharbi… - International journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT A major determinant of β-lactam resistance in methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is the drug insensitive transpeptidase, PBP2a, encoded by …

A front line on Klebsiella pneumoniae capsular polysaccharide knowledge: Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy as an accurate and fast typing tool

C Rodrigues, C Sousa, JA Lopes, Â Novais, L Peixe - Msystems, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Genomics-based population analysis of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Klebsiella pneumoniae
motivated a renewed interest on the capsule as an evolutionary and virulence marker of …

Gold nanorod arrays enable highly sensitive bacterial detection via surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) spectroscopy

AN Dizaji, NS Ozek, A Yilmaz, F Aysin… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Infrared (IR) spectroscopy is a unique and powerful method in the identification,
characterization, and classification of chemical and biological molecules. However, the low …

[HTML][HTML] Staphylococcus aureus surface attachment selectively influences tolerance against charged antibiotics

A Hayles, R Bright, NH Nguyen, VK Truong… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2024 - Elsevier
The threat of infection during implant placement surgery remains a considerable burden for
millions of patients worldwide. To combat this threat, clinicians employ a range of anti …

One-step and low-cost designing of two-layered active-layer superhydrophobic silicalite-1/PDMS membrane for simultaneously achieving superior bioethanol …

FS Kamelian, T Mohammadi, F Naeimpoor… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Recently, the coupling of biofuel fermentation broths and pervaporation has been receiving
increasing attention. Some challenges, such as the destructive effects of constituents of the …

Stain-free Gram staining classification of pathogens via single-cell Raman spectroscopy combined with machine learning

H Hu, J Wang, X Yi, K Lin, S Meng, X Zhang… - Analytical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Gram staining (GS) is one of the routine microbiological operations to classify bacteria
based on the cell wall structure. Accurate GS classification of pathogens is of great …

The influence of essential oil compounds on antibacterial activity of mupirocin-susceptible and induced low-level mupirocin-resistant MRSA strains

P Kwiatkowski, A Pruss, B Wojciuk, B Dołęgowska… - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Because of the bacterial drug resistance development, it is reasonable to investigate
chemical compounds capable of preventing the spread of resistance to mupirocin (MUP) …

SmdA is a novel cell morphology determinant in Staphylococcus aureus

IS Myrbråten, GA Stamsås, H Chan, D Morales Angeles… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cell division and cell wall synthesis in staphylococci need to be precisely coordinated and
controlled to allow the cell to multiply while maintaining its nearly spherical shape. The …