Life Sciences

The prevalence of post operative wound infections and its antimicrobial resistance pattern may vary from region to region and was included in this study. A battery of 108 post operative wound cases were included thereby various potential bacterial pathogens isolated from 94 patients and 134 isolates were possibly recovered. Among them Staphylococcus aureus (29.8%) predominated, followed by Escherchia coli (14.2%), Klebsiella pneumonia (11.9%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (3%), Proteus mirabilis (1.5%), Serratia marcescens (0.7%) and Candida albicans (0.7%).

Chandrakundam pond is one of the significant holistic faith ponds in Bhimavaram Town, Andhra Pradesh, India. In the present study aim is to assess the quality of Chandrakundam pond water for determining whether its suitability for drinking purposes otherwise sea water intrusion. For present study the Chandrakundam pond water samples were collected seasonally, pre-monsoon and monsoon during the year of 2013 from four different sampling stations.

Verticillium dahliae Kleb., the cause of Verticillium wilt is a major threat, which is known as “cancer” in cotton. However, currently available conventional fungicides are less effective due to its long persistency as mycelia and microsclerotia. The objective of the present study was to find out the optimum and most effective treatment for the suppression of this drastic disease. Ten modern fungicides alone and in combination with butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) and sodium alginate (SA) were tested under laboratory conditions.

Mango Malformation Diseases (MMD) is one of the serious threats, causing tremendous economic losses every year to mango growers/contractors. In the current study, six fungi were isolated from primary and secondary tissues of malformed parts of the inflorescence. The fungi identified as Fusarium nivale, F. oxysporum, F. moniliforme, F. semitectum, Alternaria alternata and Aspergillus niger. F. nivale was isolated predominantly from the diseased samples collected from Mirpurkhas, Hyderabad, Tando Allah Yar and Sanghar districts. F.

Two hundred and twenty two water samples were collected from August 2008 to April 2009, which including 49 samples from 13 water purification plants in Basrah governorate (13 samples prior entering to the plants, 13 from precipitation, 10 from filtration tanks and 13 samples from the water coming out of these plants). Furthermore 127 samples of tap water were collected from 18 districts around Basrah governorate. Also 46 samples were collected from tankers which supplying Reverse Osmosis (RO) in 19 different places and from five RO water supplying plants in the governorate.

In the present study aimed to evaluate the growth inhibitory effect of Hibiscus rosasinensis, Azadirachta indica, Ficus religiosa and Ocimum sanctum leaves extracts on Esherichia coli, Salmonella typhii, Staphylococcus aureus and Enterobacter aerogen. Aquous plant extracts were tested against 4 bacteria. Gel diffusion method, were used in this investigation. The antibacterial activity of Azadirachta indica plant extract was exhibited maximum zone of inhibition against Esherichia coli 14 mm (Mean value in Dia.), when compared with other medicinal plant extracts.

Field experiment was undertaken to find out the influence of different orgaftfc inputs and growth regulators on growth, yield and quality of French marigold (Tagetes patula L.) cv. Sindhamani, in a farmer’s field at Sivapuri near Annamalainagar, Tamil Nadu. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with three replications. Various organic inputs and growth regulators including panchagavya 3%, vermiwash 1:5 dilution, humic acid 0.02%, gibberellic acid 300ppm, triacontanol at 250 ppm were applied.

The study was designed to evaluate the impact of different fertilizer on the growth and yield of soybean varieties at Babcock university farm, Ilishan-Remo in 2009 and 2010. The experimental design was a randomized complete block (RCBD) using three replications. The treatments are three varieties of soybean: (TGx 1740-2F), (TGx 1842 - IE) and (TGx 1448 -2E) and four different fertilizers application: 4ton/ha compost; 30kgN/ha, urea, combination of 2ton/ha compost and 30kgN/ha urea, and (a control).

A total of 60 suspected cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) cases were diagnosed during the period from December, 2013 to February, 2014 with females representing 67% of the cases. The incidence rate with CL was 88.3% by using Real-Time PCR. Fourty -two (70%) of isolates from different patients were typed as L. major and 11 (18.3%) of isolates were typed as L.tropica while 7 (11.7%) of cases were gave negative results. The present investigation revealed that the highest number of patients 24 (40%) was in age group (10 and less) year.

In the present study, breeding information spread over a period of 14 years from 1995 to 2008, was collected from the history-cum-pedigree sheets and milk yield registers of Murrah buffaloes maintained at four centres of Network Project on Murrah Buffalo Improvement (National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal; Central Institute for Research on Buffalo, Hisar and Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana and Choudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar). Data on first lactation traits of 832 Murrah buffaloes sired by 95 bulls were used for the study.