Fatal Infection Caused by Chromobacterium violaceum: A Case Report from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Bangladesh by Sadia Sharmin, Aflatun Akter Jahan, S. M. Mostofa Kamal, Protim Sarker

“…Chromobacterium violaceum is a Gram-negative bacterium, found in tropical and subtropical regions. …”
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Vibrio vulnificus specie isolation in series blood culture. A case report. by Elio Jesús Núñez Tamayo, Susana Chamero Melgarejo, Julián Viera Yanez, Belkys Rodríguez Llerena, Nancy Ramírez Martínez, Dania Peñaranda Pordomingo, Annia Alvarado Borges

“…This papers contains a report of a case with Vibrio vulnificuls, gram negative micro organism that ferments carbohydrates and that is positive to the oxidase test and halophile in a patient with history of heart and liver disease who was assisted at the Intensive Care Emergency Unit ( ICU )of the ¨Dr. …”
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Preventing Foodborne Illness: Bacillus cereus and Bacillus anthracis by Keith R. Schneider, Mickey E. Parish, Renée M. Goodrich, Taylor Cookingham

“… Bacillus species are Gram positive, aerobic heterotrophs, ubiquitous bacteria, characterized by their ability to form resistant spore coats. …”
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NKT Cells in Sepsis by Briana Leung, Hobart W. Harris

“…Moreover, apolipoprotein E (apoE), a component of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins, has been shown to be protective in endotoxemia and gram-negative infections in addition to its well-known role in lipid metabolism. …”
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Rothia dentocariosa Endocarditis in an Unsuspecting Host: A Case Report and Literature Review by Stacy Willner, Zaid Imam, Ismail Hader

“…Rothia dentocariosa, a gram-positive coccobacillus, is a commensal bacterium that is part of the oropharynx and respiratory tract. …”
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Pigeon Fever in Florida Horses by Sally DeNotta, Amanda House

“…C. pseudotuberculosis is a gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria that can survive for weeks to months (or possibly even years) in the soil. …”
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A Novel Method to Prepare PolyGMA and its Application to Immobilization of β-Galactosidase by Sun Sufang, Dong Lingyun

“…Under the optimum conditions, β-galactosidase was immobilized on the supporter obtained above and the enzyme activity bound per gram drier carrier could attained up to 77.33％, which was much higher than that bound on the carrier prepared by only using methanol aqueous solution as porogen. …”
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Rhinoscleroma Causing Upper Airway Obstruction by Geetika Verma, D Kanawaty, R Hyland

“…The causative organism is Klebsiella rhinoscleromatis, a Gram-negative coccobacillus. Diagnosis is made on the basis of culture of the organism and the characteristic pathology of Mikulicz cells on light microscopy. …”
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Capnocytophaga Induced Acute Necrotizing and Exudative Pericarditis with Abscess Formation by Alexa Bello, Alejandro Castaneda, Abhay Vakil, Joseph Varon, Salim Surani

“…We present the case of a 55-year-old gentleman, with bilateral pulmonary embolism and a large pericardial effusion that lead to a pericardial window with evacuation of creamy pus. Gram stains were negative, with culture growing Capnocytophaga. …”
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The Role of Pneumococcal Virulence Factors in Ocular Infectious Diseases by Angela H. Benton, Mary E. Marquart

“…Streptococcus pneumoniae is a gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic pathogen that can cause severe infections such as pneumonia, meningitis, septicemia, and middle ear infections. …”
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Preventing Foodborne Illness: Bacillus cereus and Bacillus anthracis by Keith R. Schneider, Mickey E. Parish, Renée M. Goodrich, Taylor Cookingham

“… Bacillus species are Gram positive, aerobic heterotrophs, ubiquitous bacteria, characterized by their ability to form resistant spore coats. …”
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White Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) Production on Different Rearing Densities in Biocrete Pond by T. Budiardi, A. Muzaki, N.B.P. Utomo

“…The results of study showed that mean weight of shrimp reared in biocrete pond was ranged from 9.64 to 12.34 gram, survival rate 26.97-99.58%, productivity 3,078-8,340.9 kg/ha, feed quantity 2,084.5-2,870.4 kg and FCR 1.19-2.60.  …”
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Preventing Foodborne Illness: Shigellosis by Keith R. Schneider, Renée M. Goodrich, Michael J. Mahovic, Rajya Shukla

“… Shigella is a Gram-negative, nonmotile, non-sporeforming, rod-shaped bacterium capable of causing disease in humans. …”
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Simple approach to thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidines as new scaffolds of antimicrobial activities by Hafez Hend N., El-Gazzar Abdel-Rhman B. A., Zaki Magdi E. A.

“…Compounds 2c, 8b,c, 9b and 10b were the most potent ones against both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. Compound 8c exhibited higher antifungal activity towards the examined fungi with MIC of 1-2 μmol mL-1 compared to ketoconazole (MIC 2-3 μmol mL-1 ).…”
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Cadmium and lead uptake by wild swamp eel in the populous river by N. Nurhasanah, L. Sulistyowati, E. Riani, M. Cordova

“…In this case, the gills acquired the most concentration of cadmium (1.4571±0.3433 microgram per gram) and lead (43.2489±18.6775 microgram per gram). …”
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Silver Trimolybdate (Ag2Mo3O10.2H2O) Nanorods: Synthesis, Characterization, and Photo-Induced Antibacterial Activity under Visible-Light Irradiation by Maria Karollyna do Nascimento Silva Leandro, João Victor Barbosa Moura, Ana Carolina Justino de Araújo, Priscilla Ramos Freitas, Cicera Laura Roque Paulo, Amanda Karine de Sousa, Janaina Esmeraldo Rocha, Lívia Maria Garcia Leandro, Rakel Olinda Macedo da Silva, Clenilton Costa dos Santos, Jaime Ribeiro-Filho, Cleânio da Luz Lima, Abolghasem Siyadatpanah, Zahra Seifi, Bonglee Kim, Henrique Douglas Melo Coutinho

“…The treatment with Ag2Mo3O10.2H2O nanorods alone or combined with visible LED lights exhibited clinically relevant antibacterial activity against both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. This nanostructure presented a variable antibiotic-modulating action, which was not improved by visible LED light exposure. …”
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Eco-benign synthesis of multifunctional silver nanoparticles using leptochloa fusca for enhanced biomedical and catalytic applications by Riaz Ahmad Khan, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Shahnaz, Kamran Tahir, Moamen S Refat, Abdel Majid A Adam, Amnah Mohammed Alsuhaibani

“…Additionally, the agar well diffusion technique demonstrated efficient antibacterial efficacy for LF-AgNPs against both Gram +ve ( Staphylococcus aureus ) and Gram -ve ( Klebsiella pneumoniae ) strains with ZOI values of 19 ± 0.7 mm and 19 ± 0.5 mm, respectively. …”
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Phytochemical, Cytotoxic, and Antimicrobial Evaluation of the Fruits of Miswak Plant, Salvadora persica L. by Mohammed Al Bratty, Hafiz A. Makeen, Hassan A. Alhazmi, Sohier M. Syame, Ashraf N. Abdalla, Husham E. Homeida, Shahnaz Sultana, Waquar Ahsan, Asaad Khalid

“…Interestingly, it was found to be ineffective against other Gram-positive as well as Gram-negative microorganisms. …”
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Isolation, Identification, and Antimicrobial Susceptibilities of Bacteria from the Conjunctival Sacs of Dogs with Bacterial Conjunctivitis in Different Regions of Wuhan, China by Yuxin Li, Yinan Wang, Xin Gao, Lihong Luo, Bohan Zhang, Xiao Wang, Jing Li, Ruijia Wu, Lixin He, Wenxuan Li, Changwei Qiu

“…Drug susceptibility testing for aminoglycoside antibiotics was performed on the most commonly isolated gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. The expression of two aminoglycoside modifying enzyme genes, <i>aacA-aphD</i> and <i>aac (6′)-Ib</i>, and three 16S rRNA methyltransferase genes, <i>rmtB</i>, <i>rmtE</i> and <i>npmA</i>, were analyzed by PCR. …”
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Rapid diagnostic testing combined with an immediate infectious disease consultation increases the rate of septic intensive care unit patients on targeted antibiotic therapy by Evelyn Kramme, Nadja Käding, Nadja Käding, Tobias Graf, Karolin Schmoll, Heidi Linnen, Katharina Nagel, Esther Grote-Levi, Susanne Hauswaldt, Dennis Nurjadi, Dennis Nurjadi, Jan Rupp, Jan Rupp, Jan Rupp

“…Regarding antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST), genotypic testing (ePlex®) was successful for Gram-positive cocci, but inadequate for Gram-negative rods. …”
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