Bacterial genetics is the study of the mechanisms of heritable information in bacteria, their chromosomes, plasmids, transposons and phages. Techniques that have enabled this discipline are ...

All are broad-spectrum antibiotics used to treat many different types of bacterial illness. When the E. coli biofilms were on microplastics, they grew dramatically faster, larger and more ...

such as bacterial keratitis and fungal keratitis. Additionally, Maples points out that corneal infections can cause painful corneal ulcers and may result in irreversible vision loss. When you ...

Preserve the longevity and safety of your contact lenses by avoiding these common mistakes, according to an optometrist.

The ability of bacteria to control the biophysical properties of their membrane phospholipids allows them to thrive in a wide range of physical environments. Fatty acid biosynthesis is an energy ...

Methods: Clinical diagnoses of herpes simplex virus (HSV) (n=5) and bacterial/fungal (n=5) keratitis were confirmed by histology. Healthy corneas (n=7) and keratoconus (n=4) samples served as controls ...

The most frequent causes of microbial keratitis are bacterial, fungal, viral and parasitic (acanthamoeba). Historically, fungal keratitis was thought to be a suppurative corneal lesion with one or ...

Wu, J.J. and Liang, G.H. (2025) Progress in Diagnosis and Treatment of Fungal Keratitiss. Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, 13, 138-146. doi: 10.4236/jbm.2025.133011 .

Pseudomonas is a genus of gram-negative bacteria. It belongs to the family Pseudomonadaceae and is in the class Gammaproteobacteria. Not all strains of this type of bacteria cause infection, but some ...