Heterogeneous photoactive antimicrobial coating based on a fluoroplastic doped with an octahedral molybdenum cluster compound

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalya A. Vorotnikova ◽  
Vyacheslav A. Bardin ◽  
Yuri A. Vorotnikov ◽  
Kaplan Kirakci ◽  
Lyubov Adamenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Health Issue ◽  
Cluster Compound ◽  
Pathogenic Microorganisms ◽  
Antimicrobial Coating ◽  
Molybdenum Cluster

Despite the wide variety of strategies developed to combat pathogenic microorganisms, the infectious diseases they cause remain a worldwide health issue. Hence, the search for new disinfectants, which prevent infection...

Nutritional Recommendation for COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 753-757
Author(s):  
Anagha Gulhane ◽  
Shamli Hiware
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Immune Function ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health Issue ◽  
System Quality ◽  
Life Phase ◽  
Global Health Issue ◽  
Nutritional Recommendation

It is the most unreliable truth that anybody can get infected by the COVID-19, and nobody can escape from the danger of getting tainted by the virus. Yet, the line of hope is that anyone and everyone can boost their resistance, thus avoid the risk of getting affected by the illness. The immunity of humans pulls down as they grow older. If their immune system is robust, them falling sick is feeble. If their resistance is weak, them getting ill is sound. Several factors affect the immune system and its ability, including its nourishment. A two-way connection between nutrition, infection and immunity presents. Changes in one part will affect the others part in our body that's the nature's rule. Well defined immune system quality which is present between each life phase may influence the type, generality and the degree of infections. At the same time, low nutrition to the body will decrease the immune function and expose the body to the danger of getting infected by infectious diseases. Different quantity of micronutrients is required for increasing the immunity power of our body. Generally the vitamins A,C,D,E,B2,B6,B12, iron, zinc and selenium.The deficiencies of micronutrients are acknowledged as a global health issue, and also low nutrition makes it prone to establishes the infections in the body.

Octahedral molybdenum clusters as radiosensitizers for X-ray induced photodynamic therapy

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (26) ◽  
pp. 4301-4307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaplan Kirakci ◽  
Jaroslav Zelenka ◽  
Michaela Rumlová ◽  
Jiří Martinčík ◽  
Martin Nikl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Photodynamic Therapy ◽  
Antiproliferative Effect ◽  
Cluster Compound ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Molybdenum Clusters ◽  
Molybdenum Cluster

The nanoparticles made of the luminescent octahedral molybdenum cluster compound significantly enhance the antiproliferative effect of X-ray radiation.

scholarly journals Estimating the global burden of thalassogenic diseases: human infectious diseases caused by wastewater pollution of the marine environment

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hillel Shuval
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Global Burden ◽  
Pathogenic Microorganisms ◽  
Filter Feeding ◽  
The World ◽  
Wastewater Pollution

This paper presents a preliminary attempt at obtaining an order-of-magnitude estimate of the global burden of disease (GBD) of human infectious diseases associated with swimming/bathing in coastal waters polluted by wastewater, and eating raw or lightly steamed filter-feeding shellfish harvested from such waters. Such diseases will be termed thalassogenic—caused by the sea. Until recently these human health effects have been viewed primarily as local phenomena, not generally included in the world agenda of marine scientists dealing with global marine pollution problems. The massive global scale of the problem can be visualized when one considers that the wastewater and human body wastes of a significant portion of the world's population who reside along the coastline or in the vicinity of the sea are discharged daily, directly or indirectly, into the marine coastal waters, much of it with little or no treatment. Every cubic metre of raw domestic wastewater discharged into the sea can carry millions of infectious doses of pathogenic microorganisms. It is estimated that globally, foreign and local tourists together spend some 2 billion man-days annually at coastal recreational resorts and many are often exposed there to coastal waters polluted by wastewater. Annually some 800 million meals of potentially contaminated filter-feeding shellfish/bivalves and other sea foods, harvested in polluted waters are consumed, much of it raw or lightly steamed. A number of scientific studies have shown that swimmers swallow significant amounts of polluted seawater and can become ill with gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases from the pathogens they ingest. Based on risk assessments from the World Health Organization (WHO) and academic research sources the present study has made an estimate that globally, each year, there are in excess of 120 million cases of gastrointestinal disease and in excess of 50 million cases of more severe respiratory diseases caused by swimming and bathing in wastewater-polluted coastal waters. Filter-feeding shellfish/bivalves, which are often harvested from wastewater-polluted areas of the sea, can effectively filter out and concentrate the microbial pathogens in the seawater. It can be roughly estimated that annually there are some 4 million cases of infectious hepatitis A and E (HAV/HEV), with some 40 thousand deaths and 40 thousand cases of long-term disability, mainly chronic liver damage, from consuming raw or lightly steamed filter-feeding shellfish/molluscs harvested globally from polluted coastal waters. The total global health impact of the thalassogenic diseases—human infectious diseases associated with pathogenic microorganisms from land-based wastewater pollution of the seas—is estimated to be about 3 million ‘disability-adjusted life years’ (DALY)/year, with an estimated economic loss of some 12 billion dollars per year. Due to the preliminary nature of the estimates in this study it is appropriate to assume that all of the above figures are no more than first approximations and that the true figures may be 50% higher or lower. Nevertheless, it is the author's belief that this study indicates that wastewater pollution of the sea results in a multi-billion dollar per year health burden and that preventing wastewater pollution of the sea is worthy of inclusion on the global agenda of marine pollution prevention and control.

scholarly journals Violations of the law in Hospital Medical Waste Management

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
Marzena Furtak-Niczyporuk
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Medical Waste ◽  
Pathogenic Microorganisms ◽  
Temporary Storage ◽  
Hospital Medical ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
Medical Waste Management ◽  
The Law

Abstract The production of clinical waste is an inevitable consequence of rendering health services, including hazardous infectious clinical waste containing live pathogenic microorganisms, which can be the potential source of infections and infectious diseases. For this reason, the management of waste collected during rendering health services most of all requires responsibility for the security of both patients and staff on the part of the managers of healthcare-institutions. The results of hospital inspections in the field of clinical-waste management conducted by the Voivodeship Sanitary Inspection in Lublin, which were made available for the purpose of this paper, have shown numerous irregularities concerning the management of hazardous clinical waste. Most of the irregularities involved the condition of premises and the temporary storage of clinical waste.

Plant-Derived Natural Alkaloids as New Antimicrobial and Adjuvant Agents in Existing Antimicrobial Therapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (14) ◽  
pp. 1409-1433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajinder Pal Mittal ◽  
Vikas Jaitak
Keyword(s):  
Antimicrobial Activity ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Secondary Metabolites ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Antimicrobial Agents ◽  
Pathogenic Microorganisms ◽  
Proper Treatment ◽  
Natural Agents ◽  
Death Causes

Infectious diseases, instigated by pathogenic microorganisms are the cause of numerous health problems in developing countries. Infectious diseases got a place in the list of top ten death causes worldwide. The reason behind that level of severity is antimicrobial resistance. Antimicrobial resistance makes the antimicrobial agents useless when used in the treatment of infectious diseases. Microbes have very smartly achieved resistance against synthetic and semi-synthetic antimicrobial agents for their survival. Therefore, the handling of these diseases has become challenging. The resistance developing power is the reason for their existence since a million years. Due to their highly dangerous nature, proper treatment of infectious diseases has become a topic of concern. This leads the scientists or researchers to focus their research towards natural agents. Plants synthesize secondary metabolites to cope up with biotic and abiotic changes in the environment. Alkaloids are one of the secondary metabolites, synthesized by plants. Alkaloids protect the plant from predators and help them to fight with pathogens. The protecting nature of alkaloids can be used as a strong weapon in battle with resistant microorganisms. The purpose of this review is to provide information about the antimicrobial activity of alkaloids obtained from different plants and their combination with synthetic antimicrobials. Their mechanism of action against microorganisms is also given in the review.

scholarly journals Исследование фотокаталитической антимикробной активности нанокомпозитов на основе TiO-=SUB=-2-=/SUB=--Al-=SUB=-2-=/SUB=-O-=SUB=-3-=/SUB=- при воздействии светодиодного излучения (405 nm) на стафилококки

2021 ◽  
Vol 129 (6) ◽  
pp. 736
Author(s):  
А.В. Светлакова ◽  
М. Sanchez Mendez ◽  
Е.С. Тучина ◽  
А.Н. Ходан ◽  
М. Traore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Staphylococcus Aureus ◽  
Photocatalytic Activity ◽  
Aluminum Oxide ◽  
Heterogeneous Photocatalysis ◽  
Pathogenic Microorganisms ◽  
Tio2 Content ◽  
Antibacterial Efficiency ◽  
Antimicrobial Coating

The photocatalytic activity of nanocomposites based on theta-modification of aluminum oxide Al2O3 with different TiO2 content for heterogeneous photocatalysis and biodegradation of pathogenic microorganisms under the action of LED radiation with a wavelength of 405 nm has been studied. It was found that all the investigated nanocomposites have photocatalytic activity. The maximum antibacterial efficiency of composites with a TiO2 content of 8 wt% (reduction of CFU of Staphylococcus aureus 209 P to 86%), which allows us to recommend this nanomaterial as a promising antimicrobial coating.

scholarly journals Dairy calf rearing unit and infectious diseases: diarrhea outbreak by bovine coronavirus as a model for the dispersion of pathogenic microorganisms

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (8) ◽  
pp. 1937-1940 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amauri Alcindo Alfieri ◽  
Juliane Ribeiro ◽  
Luciana de Carvalho Balbo ◽  
Elis Lorenzetti ◽  
Alice Fernandes Alfieri
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Pathogenic Microorganisms ◽  
Dairy Calf ◽  
Bovine Coronavirus ◽  
Calf Rearing
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