RETRACTED ARTICLE: Novel magnetic organic–inorganic hybrids based on aromatic polyamides and ZnFe2O4 nanoparticles with biological activity by Reza Eivazzadeh-Keihan, Mostafa Ghafori Gorab, Hooman Aghamirza Moghim Aliabadi, Mohammad mahdavi, Ali Reza Akbarzadeh, Ali Maleki, Hossein Ghafuri

“…Also, it has antibacterial ability against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. Because the results show that the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of the synthesized polymer for bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923, Escherichia coli ATCC 25922, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853 is in the range of 500–1000 µg/ml. …”
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Microbiome in development of esophageal diseases by Yu. V. Yevsyutina, V. T. Ivashkin

“…The microbiome of the normal esophageal mucosa is represented by gram-positive bacteria like Firmicutes; microbiome in patients with Barret's esophagus and esophagitis is constituted mainly by gram-negative anaerobe bacteria: Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, Fusobacteria and Spirochaete; patients with eosinophilic esophagitis have Proteobacteria. …”
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Synthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Using Leaf Extract of Lippia adoensis (Koseret) and Evaluation of Its Antibacterial Activity by Meron Girma Demissie, Fedlu Kedir Sabir, Gemechu Deressa Edossa, Bedasa Abdisa Gonfa

“…According to the result of this study, ZnO nanoparticles synthesized using Lippia adoensis leaf extract showed promising result against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial strains with a maximum inhibition zone of 14 mm and 12 mm, respectively, using uncalcinated form of the synthesized ZnO nanoparticles.…”
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Synthesis, Spectroscopic, Molecular Structure, and Antibacterial Studies of Dibutyltin(IV) Schiff Base Complexes Derived from Phenylalanine, Isoleucine, and Glycine by Har Lal Singh, Jangbhadur Singh

“…Few representative compounds are tested for their in vitro antibacterial activity against Gram-positive (B. cereus, Staphylococcus spp.) and Gram-negative (E. coli, Klebsiella spp.) bacteria. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization, X-Ray Crystal Structure, and Antimicrobial Activity of 1,1′-(3,4-Diphenylthieno[2,3-b]thiophene-2,5-diyl)diethanone by Yahia Nasser Mabkhot, Fahad D. Aldawsari, S. S. Al-Showiman, Assem Barakat, M. Iqbal Choudhary, Sammer Yousuf

“…Compound 4 was found to be active against Gram-positive bacteria (Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus pneumoniae) and Gram-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli) and also was found to be active against fungi (Aspergillus fumigatus and Candida albicans).…”
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Development of water-soluble zein colloid particles and in situ antibacterial evaluation by multiple headspace extraction gas chromatography by Yan Yin, Fuzhen Zhou, Yechong Yin, Yonghong Peng

“…To investigate the antimicrobial properties of zein/SC particles, Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis, Listeria monocytogenes were selected as gram-negative and gram-positive indicator bacteria. …”
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Photocatalytic Degradation of Methylene Blue and Antibacterial Activity of Mesoporous TiO2-SBA-15 Nanocomposite Based on Rice Husk by Eid H. Alosaimi, Ibrahim Hotan Alsohaimi, Talal E. Dahan, Qiao Chen, Ayman Abdelaziz younes, Belal El-Gammal, Saad Melhi

“…Besides, TiO2-SBA-15 could effectively inhibit the growth of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. These results offer a practical and economic approach in the environmental management industries.…”
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ANALYZING THE CHARACTERISTICS AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF METHANOLIC EXTRACTS FROM STACHYS BYZANTINE LEAVES by Ali Q. Khazaal, Zainab F. Mahmood, Sanaa A. Hammood

“…The methanolic extracts obtained from S. byzantine showed antibacterial activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. The extract inhibited Staphylococcus aureus with 15, 20, and 22 mm inhibition zones at 100, 200, and 400 mg/ml, respectively.  …”
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Meningococcal Neonatal Purulent Conjunctivitis/Sepsis and Asymptomatic Carriage of N. meningitidis in Mother’s Vagina and Both Parents’ Nasopharynx by Enrique Chacon-Cruz, Jorge Arturo Alvelais-Palacios, Jaime Alfonso Rodriguez-Valencia, Erika Zoe Lopatynsky-Reyes, Maria Luisa Volker-Soberanes, Rosa Maria Rivas-Landeros

“…Clinical examination confirmed profuse purulent conjunctival discharge, as well as clinical signs and laboratory findings suggestive of bacteraemia. Gram stain from conjunctival exudate revealed intracellular Gram negative diplococci; we presumed the baby had gonorrheal conjunctivitis; however, serogroup Y, N. meningitidis was isolated both from conjunctival exudate and blood. …”
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A Cognitive Radio Spectrum Sensing Method for an OFDM Signal Based on Deep Learning and Cycle Spectrum by Guangliang Pan, Jun Li, Fei Lin

“…Firstly, we analyze the cyclic autocorrelation of an OFDM signal and the cyclic spectrum obtained by the time domain smoothing fast Fourier transformation (FFT) accumulation algorithm (FAM), and the cyclic spectrum is normalized to gray scale processing to form a cyclic autocorrelation gray scale image. …”
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Lipopeptide adjuvants for antibiotics and vaccines: the future step in the fight against multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant pathogens by Chloé O. Sebilleau, Steven J. Sucheck

“…Antibiotic adjuvants can allow for gram-positive bacteria (GPB) specific treatments to be used against gram-negative bacteria (GNB) infections, with minimal antimicrobial resistance (AMR). …”
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Green synthesis, characterization, photocatalytic and antibacterial activities of copper oxide nanoparticles of copper oxide nanoparticles by Saeid Taghavi Fardood, Ferzaneh Moradnia, Siamak Heidarzadeh, Ali Naghipour

“…CuO NPs were evaluated for antibacterial efficacy against including Gram negative (Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, Proteus mirabilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa) and Gram positive (Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis) bacteria.…”
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Prediction of Blasting Fragmentation Based on GWO-ELM by Zhengzhao Jia, Ziling Song, Junfu Fan, Juyu Jiang

“…Aiming at the complex nonlinear relationship among factors affecting blasting fragmentation, the input weight and hidden layer threshold of ELM (extreme learning machine) were optimized by gray wolf optimizer (GWO) and the prediction model of GWO-ELM blasting fragmentation was established. …”
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Antimicrobial Potential of Secalonic Acids from Arctic-Derived <i>Penicillium chrysogenum</i> INA 01369 by Yulia A. Roshka, Natalia N. Markelova, Sofia D. Mashkova, Kseniya V. Malysheva, Marina L. Georgieva, Igor B. Levshin, Vladimir I. Polshakov, Alexander M. Arutyunian, Alexey S. Vasilchenko, Vera S. Sadykova

“…The antimicrobial activity of secalonic acids D and F has been evaluated against a diverse range of microorganisms, including Gram-positive multidrug-resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>, Gram-negative <i>Escherichia coli</i> ATCC 25922, <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> ATCC 27853, the phytopathogen <i>Pectobacterium carotovorum</i> VKM-B1247, and the fungi <i>Fusarium oxysporum</i> VKPM F 890, <i>Aspergillus fumigatus</i> VKM F-37, and <i>A. niger</i> ATCC 16404. …”
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Functional and Antimicrobial Properties of Propolis from Different Areas of Romania by Gianluca Albanese, Alexandru Ioan Giurgiu, Otilia Bobiș, Adriana Cristina Urcan, Sara Botezan, Victorița Bonta, Tudor Nicolas Ternar, Claudia Pașca, Massimo Iorizzo, Antonio De Cristofaro, Emilio Caprio, Daniel Severus Dezmirean

“…The antimicrobial activity of propolis extract from each apiary was evaluated against five Gram-positive, five Gram-negative bacteria, and one fungal strain, using the difuzimetric method and minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC). …”
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Addition of Bacillus subtilis BN Strain Probiotic on Chicken Eggs Quality by Muhammad Agil Gumilang, Widya Paramita Lokapirnasari, Mochamad Lazuardi, Mohammad Anam Al Arif, Sunaryo Hadi Warsito, Sri Chusniati

“…The results showed that the addition of probiotic Bacillus subtilis BN Strain as many as 0.005 grams/kg of feed, 0.01 grams/kg of feed and 0.02 kg/kg of feed had no noticeable effect on the increase in egg shell thickness, egg white index and egg yolk index.…”
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Host-Bacteria Crosstalk at the Dentogingival Junction by M. T. Pöllänen, M. A. Laine, R. Ihalin, V.-J. Uitto

“…The classical study of Slots showed that in the bacterial plaque, the most remarkable change is the shift from gram-positive aerobic and facultatively anaerobic flora to a predominantly gram-negative and anaerobic flora. …”
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Wavefront Correction for Extended Sources Imaging Based on a 97-Element MEMS Deformable Mirror by Huizhen Yang, Lingzhe Tang, Zhaojun Yan, Peng Chen, Wenjie Yang, Xianshuo Li, Yongqi Ge

“…Simulation results demonstrate that within 100 iterations, both the normalized gray variance and Strehl Ratio can converge, leading to an improvement in image quality by approximately 30%. …”
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Virulence of Bacteria Causing Mastitis in Dairy Cows: A Literature Review by Xiaofang Tong, Herman W. Barkema, Diego B. Nobrega, Chuang Xu, Bo Han, Chenyibo Zhang, Jingyue Yang, Xiaoping Li, Jian Gao

“…The disease is associated with different bacterial agents, primarily Gram-positive cocci (e.g., <i>Staphylococcus</i> spp., <i>Streptococcus</i> spp.) and Gram-negative bacilli (e.g., <i>Escherichia coli</i>, <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i>). …”
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Rapidly Fatal Postlaparoscopic Liver Infection from the Rarely Isolated Species Clostridium butyricum by Kenneth L. Muldrew

“…Liver examination at autopsy showed cystic spaces, necrosis, and spore-forming Gram-positive rods. 16sRNA gene sequencing of the cystic liver tissue identified the organism as C. butyricum.…”
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