Novel isolation and optimization of anti-MRSA bacteriophages using plaque-based biokinetic methods

Nisreen Jawad Kadhim; Shaymaa Jawad Kadhim; Ahmed S. Abdulamir

doi:10.5339/jemtac.2024.iscncm.2

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Thu Nov 14 2024

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Journal Of Emergency Medicine, Trauma And Acute Care

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2024

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10.5339/jemtac.2024.iscncm.2

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Novel isolation and optimization of anti-MRSA bacteriophages using plaque-based biokinetic methods

Nisreen Jawad Kadhim

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Shaymaa Jawad Kadhim

Ahmed S. Abdulamir

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Background: MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is a global health problem. Many people are looking for new ways to combat MRSA, for example by using bacteriophages (phages). It has been extremely challenging to isolate a sufficient quantity of lytic anti-MRSA phages. Therefore, new techniques for separating, refining, and reworking anti-MRSA phages were sought in this study.

Methods: Of 437 S. aureus isolates, nine clinical MRSA isolates were obtained from three hospitals in Baghdad, Iraq and two ATCC MRSA strains were used to separate wild anti-MRSA phages from sewage, filth, and hospital settings. The wild phage was optimized using plaque-based biokinetic methods. The resulting highly lytic and specific anti-MRSA phages were subjected to novel physico-chemical phage redesign protocols using agents to weaken the bacterial cell wall to allow phages to enter into host bacteria and acquire the specificity of the new host. Three protocols were tested using different combinations of benzethonium chloride (BZT-CH), alkaline ethanol, and chlorhexidine gluconate.

Results: Five newly redesigned, transiently stable, anti-MRSA phages were produced using the BZT-CH and ethanol–alkali methods, albeit at varying rates.

Conclusion: Although the resulting designed anti-MRSA phages are transiently stable, they represent a rare opportunity and an excellent endless source of lytic anti-MRSA phages from which a large number of permanent phage lysins can be separated and purified.

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Tue Jan 18 2022

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Materials Science Forum

The Effect of Gamma Radiation on the Manufactured HgBa2Ca2Cu2.4Ag0.6O8+δ Compound

Gamma doses radiation

crystal size

strain

degree of crystallinity

Scherrer

crystallinity and Williamson equations.

zainab j

Balqees A.

Mohammed A.

Kareem A.

Auday H.

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In this article four samples of HgBa₂Ca₂Cu_2.4Ag_0.6O_8+δ were prepared and irradiated with different doses of gamma radiation 6, 8 and 10 Mrad. The effects of gamma irradiation on structure of HgBa₂Ca₂Cu_2.4Ag_0.6O_8+δ samples were characterized using X-ray diffraction. It was concluded that there effect on structure by gamma irradiation. Scherrer, crystallization, and Williamson equations were applied based on the X-ray diffraction diagram and for all gamma doses, to calculate crystal size, strain, and degree of crystallinity. I

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