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Investigating the Link Between Imipenem Resistance and Biofilm Formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a ubiquitous environmental organism, is a difficult-to-treat opportunistic pathogen due to its broad-spectrum antibiotic resistance and its ability to form biofilms. In this study, we investigate the link between resistance to a clinically important antibiotic, imipenem, and biofilm formation. First, we observed that the laboratory strain P. aeruginosa PAO1 carrying a mutation in the oprD gene, which confers resistance to imipenem, showed a modest reduction in biofilm formation.We also observed an inverse relationship between imipenem resistance and biofilm formation for imipenem-resistant strains selected in vitro, as well as for clinical isolates.We identified two clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa from the sputum of cystic fibrosis patients that formed robust biofilms, but were sensitive to imipenem (MIC≤2 μg/ml). To test the hypothesis that there is a general link between imipenem resistance and biofilm formation, we performed transposon mutagenesis of these two clinical strains to identify mutants defective in biofilm formation, and then tested these mutants for imipenem resistance. Analysis of the transposon mutants revealed a role for previously described biofilm factors in these clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa, including mutations in the pilY1, pilX, pilW, algC, and pslI genes, but none of the biofilmdeficient mutants became imipenem resistant (MIC≥8 μg/ml), arguing against a general link between biofilm formation and resistance to imipenem. Thus, assessing biofilm formation capabilities of environmental isolates is unlikely to serve as a good predictor of imipenem resistance. We also discuss our findings in light of the limited literature addressing planktonic antibiotic resistance factors that impact biofilm formation.

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Publication Date
Wed Mar 30 2022
Journal Name
College Of Islamic Sciences
Semantic differences between the Quran and abnormal
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This research Find semantic relations between the Holy Quran and readings anomalous in particular, does not mention the readings anomalies are all but signed the examples of them where he found a marked contrast between them and what is known in the Holy Quran, and the intervention of research in the words of the commentators and between their views and stated what is unacceptable and what before, nor Luck meaning significantly different in some readings, leading to different Islamic ruling as well, also found that of the readings made clear what is meant by the blessed verse in the Holy Quran and signed to be even if it was abnormal.

 

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Wed Sep 20 2006
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INVESTIGATING SOME OF THE SYNTACTIC ERRORS MADE BY EFL COLLEGE STUDENTS IN WRITTEN ENGLISH EXPRESSIONS استقصاء بعض الاخطاء النحوية لطلبة الكلية دارسي اللغة الانكليزية لغة اجنبية في التعابير الانشائية
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Publication Date
Sun Feb 03 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Education For Women
The builds and functional relations Between the peopolitics and strategy
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The geopolities considering as build from the basies builds of the polities
geography, participating in appointing the military geography, and submit to it
geo-polities purveyed, playing important role to appointing the builds relations
between the high strategy and the military strategy, while the foreign polities of
the state, which considering as a tool for the state outside it environment and
borders playing the role of the performance and the functional works to the
peaceful or hostile reaction according to the geopolities purveyed which
participating in amassing the recourse for the economical, political, social,
military and technology strategies and activating it to achieving the state interests
and obj

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Publication Date
Sat Aug 02 2025
Journal Name
Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research
Linking the Fatigue Resistance of Nano-Modified Binders to Mixture Cracking
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This study examined the correlation between binder-level fatigue properties and mixture-level cracking resistance in asphalt binders modified with five Nanomaterials (NMs): Nano-Silica (NS), Nano-Alumina (NA), and Nano-Titanium dioxide (NT) at 2%, 4%, and 6% as well as Nano-Zinc oxide (NZ) and Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) at 1%, 2%, and 3%. Modified binders were subjected to Rolling Thin-Film Oven Test (RTFOT) and Pressure Aging Vessel (PAV) aging and tested at 25 °C using the Linear Amplitude Sweep (LAS) test to determine fatigue life (Nf) and the fatigue parameter G*.sin δ. The corresponding asphalt mixtures were evaluated using the IDEAL-CT test. The results indicated strong correlations between binder and mixture performance for

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Tue Oct 14 2025
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Cab Reviews: Perspectives In Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition And Natural Resources
The role of modern agricultural practices in enhancing soil erosion resistance
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This review focuses on conservation agriculture (CA) and its effects on increasing the soil’s resistance to erosion. CA involves minimum soil disturbance (minimum tillage/ no-till), diversified crop rotation, and maintenance of the soil cover to increase soil fertility and reduce erosion. CA reduces soil loss by up to 90% and water erosion by approximately 50 to 70% from runoff as it increases the health of the soil, yield of crops, and water-retention capacity of the soil by incorporating soil organic matter and promoting biodiversity. Crop rotation prevents the replenishment and depletion of soil nutrients by atmospheric fixation of nitrogen/biological nitrogen fixation. Controlled traffic farming (CTF) is a new strategy in which travel

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Publication Date
Sat Oct 01 2022
Journal Name
Baghdad Science Journal
Designing and Synthesising Novel Benzophenone Biscyclic Imides Comprising Drug Moity with Investigating their Antimicrobial Activity
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The present work involved designing and synthesizing of a series of new. compounds which their molecules are composed from two biologically active components namely sulfamethoxazole or β-lactam containing drugs and cyclic imides. The target new compounds were synthesized by two steps in the first one a series of six bis (N-drug phthalamic acid_4-yl) ketone (1-6) were prepared from the reaction of sulfamethoxazole or β-lactam containing drugs with benzophenone 3, 3′, 4, 4′ -tetracarboxylic dianhydride.

In the second step, compounds (1-6) were introduced in dehydration reaction via fusion process producing the target compounds bis (N-drug phthalimidyl-4-yl) ketone (7-12). The antibacterial and antifungal high

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Tue Dec 22 1998
Journal Name
College Of Education Ibn Rushd
Investigating Iraqi College students' production of English Intra Word and Inter Word Consonant Clusters
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Wed Jul 01 2020
Journal Name
Plant Archives
INVESTIGATING THE ABILITY TO USE NATURAL IRAQI MATERIAL "CRUSHED PORCELANITE ROCKS" IN GREYWATER FILTRATION, AND COMPARE IT WITH SAND FILTER
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Wed Jul 01 2020
Journal Name
Plant Archives
Investigating the ability to use natural iraqi material ⇜crushed porcelanite rocks⇝ in greywater filtration, and compare it with sand filter
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Publication Date
Wed Dec 01 2021
Journal Name
Ain Shams Engineering Journal
Improving the rutting resistance of asphalt pavement modified with the carbon nanotubes additive
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