Microbial Predominance and Antimicrobial Resistance in a Tertiary Hospital in Northwest China: A Six-Year Retrospective Study of Outpatients and Patients Visiting the Emergency Dep... by Caifeng Wang, Wen Li, Juanjuan Gao, Dancheng Zhang, Yali Li, Fang Li, Jine Lei

“…More than 200 species with 46.4% gram-positive cocci and 45.3% gram-negative bacilli were identified in the 3,849 nonrepetitive isolates. …”
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Potential Impacts of Future Climate Changes on Crop Productivity of Cereals and Legumes in Tamil Nadu, India: A Mid-Century Time Slice Approach by Vellingiri Geethalakshmi, Ramasamy Gowtham, Radhakrishnan Gopinath, Shanmugavel Priyanka, Marimuthu Rajavel, Kandasamy Senthilraja, Manickam Dhasarathan, Raj Rengalakshmi, Kulanthaivel Bhuvaneswari

“…The present study uses the midcentury climate derived from the ensemble of 29 general circulation models (GCMs) on a spatial grid to quantify the anticipated climate change impacts on rice, maize, black gram, and red gram productivity over Tamil Nadu state in India under RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 scenarios. …”
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Evaluation of Antibiotic Resistance and Biofilm Production among Clinical Strain Isolated from Medical Devices by Veronica Folliero, Gianluigi Franci, Federica Dell’Annunziata, Rosa Giugliano, Francesco Foglia, Rossella Sperlongano, Anna De Filippis, Emiliana Finamore, Massimiliano Galdiero

“…Among the 94 MDs isolated strains, 42.7% were Gram-positive, 40.3% Gram-negative, and 17% Candida species. …”
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Causative Microorganisms of Infectious Endophthalmitis: A 5-Year Retrospective Study by Fang Duan, Kaili Wu, Jingyu Liao, Yongxin Zheng, Zhaohui Yuan, Junlian Tan, Xiaofeng Lin

“…In posttraumatic endophthalmitis, Gram-positive bacteria were the predominant species, followed by Gram-negative bacteria and fungi. …”
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Canadian Patterns of Antimicrobial Resistance: Overview of Current Trends Related to Hospital Pathogens by Tony Mazzulli

“…For the Gram-positive organisms, methicillin resistance rates for S aureus have been reported to be as high as 10% and vancomycin resistance rates for Enterococcus species have been reported to be less than 1%. …”
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Identification of Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii from Raman spectra by Artificial Intelligen... by Yu-Tzu Lin, Hsiu-Hsien Lin, Chih-Hao Chen, Kun-Hao Tseng, Pang-Chien Hsu, Ya-Lun Wu, Wei-Cheng Chang, Nai-Shun Liao, Yi-Fan Chou, Chun-Yi Hsu, Yu-Hui Liao, Mao-Wang Ho, Shih-Sheng Chang, Po-Ren Hsueh, Der-Yang Cho

“…Results: After training on 24,420 Raman spectra from 1221 isolates and testing on 4333 isolates, the AIRDIS demonstrated an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.99 for Gram classification, with accuracies of 97.64 % for Gram-positive bacteria and 98.86 % for Gram-negative bacteria. …”
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Synthesis, Antibacterial and Antifungal Activities of s Derivatives by B. B. Baldaniya, P. K. Patel

“…All newly synthesized compounds have been tested for their antibacterial activity against gram (+)ve and gram (-)ve bacteria and also on different strains of fungi. …”
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Antibacterial Activity of Grepafloxacin by B Wiedemann, P Heisig

“…Grepafloxin has an extremely broad spectrum of activity. Its activity against Gram-positive bacteria exceeds that of currently available quinolones. …”
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Synthesis and Evaluation of Some Coumarin Containing Potential Antimicrobial Agents by Sayali D. Kudale, Meenakshi N. Deodhar

“…These compounds were characterized on the basis of their spectral (IR, 1H NMR) data and evaluated for antimicrobial activity in vitro against gram positive and gram negative bacteria and fungi. …”
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Synthesis and Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activity of Nitrones from Derivatives of Aryl-Substituted Dihydroisoquinoline by Mouna Bouzid, Raed Abdennabi, Mohamed Damak, Majed Kammoun

“…The synthesized compounds were also evaluated for their antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and fungus.…”
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Synthesis and Evaluation of Some Coumarin Based Schiff's Bases as Potential Antimicrobial Agents' by Vishakha Bansode, Meenakshi N. Deodhar

“…These compounds were characterized on the basis of their spectral (IR, 1H NMR) data and evaluated for antimicrobial activity in vitro against gram positive bacteria, gram negative bacteria and fungi. …”
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Current Status on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Microbial Degradation of Nicotine by Raman Gurusamy, Sakthivel Natarajan

“…Various nicotine degradation pathways such as demethylation pathway in fungi, pyridine pathway in Gram-positive bacteria, pyrrolidine pathway, and variant of pyridine and pyrrolidine pathways in Gram-negative bacteria have been reported. …”
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Durable Antibacterial Finishing on Organic Cotton by Inclusion of Thymol into Cyclodextrin Derivative by M. Sundrarajan, A. Rukmani

“…Agar diffusion test was carried for unwashed and washed fabric against gram positive (S. aureus) and gram negative (E. coli) bacteria. …”
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Studies on Novel Bisaryl Hydrazino-s-triazine Derivatives - Part 2 by J. A. Chaudhari, R. P. Patel, M. V. Hathi

“…All the compounds were screened for microbial activity against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.…”
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Conductometric, physico-chemical, and biological activity investigations of a copper–indometacin complex by AbdulAziz A. Alayyafi, Kholoud Z. Ghanem, Modhi S. Almarri, Shereen E. Salem, Esam A. Gomaa, Elsayed M. AbouElleef

“…The antimicrobial activities of indometacin and (Cu-Indo) complex have been studied using the disc diffusion method against Gram-negative bacteria (P. aeruginosa, E. coli, and K. pneumoniae), Gram-positive bacteria (S. aureus, B. cereus, and S. epidermidis), and fungi (C. albicans). …”
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Contribution of Medical Wards Contamination to Wound Infection among Patients Attending Ruhengeri Referral Hospital by Emmanuel Munyeshyaka, Parfait Cyuzuzo, Callixte Yadufashije, John Karemera

“…Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 22 was used for data analysis. Gram-negative bacteria were frequently from surgery, pediatric, and ICU with 68.8%, 63.9%, and 31.1%, respectively, while Gram-positive isolates were 37.7% in surgery, 32.9% in pediatric, and 18.0% in ICU. …”
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A Rare Case of Pneumonia Caused by Shewanella putrefaciens by Rajshree Patel, Albin Abraham, Johnson Thomas, Wanqing Zhi, Shadab Ahmed, Janice Verley

“…Shewanella putrefaciens is a gram-negative, nonfermentative, oxidase positive, motile bacillus that produces hydrogen sulphide. …”
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Characterization of microbial populations associated with different organic fertilizers by Natalia Escobar, Nelson E Arenas, Sara M Marquez

“…Gram-positive species were predominant in soils amended with vegetable green waste while Gram-negative bacteria were more abundant in samples with chemical fertilizer. …”
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Synthesis of N-Tetradecyl-1,10-phenathrolinium-Based New Salts for Biological Applications by Atakilt Abebe, Minaleshewa Atlabachew, Misganaw Liyew, Elsabet Ferede

“…The biological activities of the salts were investigated against two Gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes) and two Gram-negative (Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae) bacteria, and they are found to be active against all of them. …”
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mecA and PVL genes in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from clinical specimens: a cross-sectional hospital based study from Nepal by Sirjana Adhikari, Supriya Sharma, Sanjib Adhikari, Sanjit Shrestha, Dwij Raj Bhatta

“…Results: Out of 1950 samples, 452 (23.2%) samples showed bacterial growth, of which 109 isolates (24.1%) were identified as Gram positive and 343 (75.9%) as Gram negative bacteria. …”
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