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Multiple Drug-Resistant Vibrio Cholerae Responsible for Cholera Outbreak among Migrant Domestic Workers in Kerala, South India
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021)
Cholera outbreaks are prevalent in countries with a low Human Development Index (HDI) where people have limited access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Intriguingly, the state of Kerala which records ...
Probiotics inspired from natural ecosystem to inhibit the growth of Vibrio spp. causing white gut syndrome in Litopenaeus vannamei
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021)
Probiotics inspired by host-microbe interactions in the natural ecosystem are propitious in controlling bacterial infections in aquaculture and veterinary systems. Here we report the isolation and characterization of ...
Building Capacity and Resilience Against Diseases Transmitted via Water Under Climate Perturbations and Extreme Weather Stress
(Springer, Cham, 2020)
It is now generally accepted that climate variability and change, occurrences of extreme weather events, urbanisation and human pressures on the environment, and high mobility of human populations, all contribute to the ...
A Printable Device for Measuring Clarity and Colour in Lake and Nearshore Waters
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute- MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland, 2019)
Two expanding areas of science and technology are citizen science and three-dimensional (3D) printing. Citizen science has a proven capability to generate reliable data and contribute to unexpected scientific discovery. ...
Prevalence of obligate and facultative anaerobic bacteria in the mudbank along the southwest coast of India
(Elsevier, 2021)
Mudbanks along the southwest coast of India are exposed to upwelled hypoxic waters and higher concentrations of methane during summer-monsoon.We report the phylogenetic composition of obligate and facultative anaerobic ...
Analysis of non-pharmaceutical interventions and their impacts on COVID-19 in Kerala
(Nature Publishing Group, 2022)
In the absence of an effective vaccine or drug therapy, non-pharmaceutical interventions are the only option for control of the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019, a pandemic with global implications. Each of the ...
Diversity of sediment-associated Planctomycetes in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone
(Wiley, 2017)
We examined the diversity of Planctomycetes in the sediment sample collected from an oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) in the southeast Arabian Sea. A 16SrRNA gene library was constructed using the forward primer specific for ...
The Influence of Photodynamic Antimicrobial Chemotherapy on the Microbiome, Neuroendocrine and Immune System of Crustacean Post Larvae
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023)
Photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy (PACT), employing a combination of light and natural photosensitizer molecules such as curcumin, has been accepted as a safe modality for removing aquatic pathogens which cause ...
Sponge-Associated Bacteria Produce Non-cytotoxic Melanin Which Protects Animal Cells from Photo-Toxicity
(Springer, 2017)
Melanin is a photo-protective polymer found in many organisms. Our research shows that the bacteria associated with darkly pigmented sponges (Haliclona pigmentifera, Sigmadocia pumila, Fasciospongia cavernosa, Spongia ...
Pseudonocardia cytotoxica sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from an Arctic fjord with potential to produce cytotoxic compound
(Springer, 2021)
Herein we report the isolation of a novel actinomycete, strain MCCB 268T, from the sediment sample collected from a high Arctic fjord Kongsfjorden. MCCB 268T showed greater than 97% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with ...