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Crude preparation of a phage-encoded biofilm-dispersing factor expressed in E. coli and its potential application in bacteriological analysis of environmental water samples.

Faruque, SN Naser, IB Hoque, MM Akter, F Faruque, SM

A fundamental technical challenge in detecting pathogenic bacteria in aquatic reservoirs is the inability to accurately estimate biofilm-associated cells in water. Considering the role of biofilms ...

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Antioxidant boost to corals to endure thermal stress as a climate change scenario

Dorantes-Aranda, JJ Camp, E Matthews, J Keaney, D Moorhead, J Kimberley, D Doble, P Ferrier-Pages, C

Climate change has compromised large areas of coral reefs around the world due to raising temperatures and the arrival of heat waves. These conditions create an uncontrolled production of the so-ca...

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Supine hyperinflation and expiratory flow limitation are associated with respiratory arousals and nocturnal hypoventilation in COPD.

Srinivasan, M Touma, D Blokland, KEC Patel, K Tonga, KO Chapman, DG Chan, ASL Cistulli, PA King, GG

INTRODUCTION: Subjective sleep disturbance is common in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and is related to hyperinflation when supine and tidal expiratory flow limitation (EFL). We hypo...

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A species-group framework to unravel blowfly diversity: integrative revision of the Calliphora clarki-group (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

Johnston, NP Szpila, K Pape, T Meiklejohn, KA Foley, LB Wallman, JF

The Australian Calliphorinae represent a diverse division of the global blowfly fauna and a broad range of life histories. Past research focused on the carrion-breeding species and there remains a ...

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Invasive Streptococcus dysgalactiae subspecies equisimilis compared with Streptococcus pyogenes in Australia, 2011-23, and the emergence of a multi-continent stG62647 lineage: a retrospective clinical and genomic epidemiology study.

Xie, O Featherstone, L Nguyen, ANT Hayes, AJ Pitt, ME Spring, S Liu, A Tonkin-Hill, G Dotel, R Joshi Rai, N Rofe, A Duchêne, S Holt, DC Judd, LM Coin, LJM Krause, VL O'Sullivan, MVN Baird, RW Bond, K Howden, BP Korman, TM Currie, BJ Davies, MR Tong, SYC

BACKGROUND: Streptococcus dysgalactiae subspecies equisimilis (SDSE) is closely related to Streptococcus pyogenes, with overlapping disease manifestations. We compared the clinical and genomic epid...

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Resting Hyperinflation Predicts Incremental Shuttle Walk Distance in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Srinivasan, M Touma, D Blokland, KEC Tonga, KO Chapman, DG King, GG

Rationale: The incremental shuttle walk test (ISWT) correlates closely with peak oxygen uptake in COPD and relates to important outcomes such as mortality, response to treatment and hospital readmi...

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Drinking Water Policy: A Realist Review

Fono, MA Chapman, F Christie, V Parter, C Knight, J Sherriff, S Rambaldini, UB Moggridge, B Gwynne, K

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures have a deep, enduring connection to water. However, since Australia's colonisation in 1788, water management has shifted, creating ongoing issues for ...

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Voices of hard-to-reach island communities provide inclusive and culturally appropriate climate change responses: A case study from the Torres Strait Islands, Australia

Mosby, V Moggridge, BJ Creamer, S Evans, G Ireland, L Pecl, G Lansbury, N

Introduction: Many island-based Indigenous communities continue to occupy, manage and live off and from their ancestral lands. For some Indigenous Islander communities, climate change is already ca...

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Taguchi L9 Optimization of Microwave-Assisted Solid-Liquid Duo Heating for Berberine Extraction With HPTLC Analysis.

Satija, S Vyas, M Pandey, P Garg, M

We present an optimized approach for the extraction of berberine using microwave-assisted solid-liquid duo heating. The conventional procedure relies on the simultaneous heating of the sample matri...

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Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean.

McNichol, J Williams, NLR Raut, Y Carlson, C Halewood, ER Turk-Kubo, K Zehr, JP Rees, AP Tarran, G Gradoville, MR Wietz, M Bienhold, C Metfies, K Torres-Valdés, S Mock, T Eggers, SL Jeffrey, W Moss, J Berube, P Biller, S Bodrossy, L Van De Kamp, J Brown, M Sow, SLS Armbrust, EV Fuhrman, J

We introduce the Global rRNA Universal Metabarcoding Plankton database (GRUMP), which consists of 1194 samples that were collected from 2003-2020 and cover extensive latitudinal and longitudinal tr...

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