Volume 7, Issue 1

Irshad Ahmad, Nighat Nawaz, Sadeeq Ur Rahman, Abdul Sajid, Farhan A. Khan, Sher B. Khan, Mohammad Z. Mustafa, Simon G. Patching

pp. 1–7 · 2018

Multidrug resistance is a globally increasing problem that has become an alarming threat to antibiotic therapy. A principal resistance mechanism that prokaryotic organisms have evolved is active multidrug efflux, whereby…

Muhammad Rehan Alam, Pirzada Jamal Siddiqui, Safia Hassan, Ambareen Abbas, Saleem Akhtar, Mansoor Zafar, Muhammad Hanif Somoro

pp. 8–16 · 2018

Portunid crab (Scylla serrata) is most abundant species and commonly known as mud crab. This study was conducted to estimate the sex ratio, carapace width (CW), body weight (BW) and maturity size from two different study…

Hengameh Deldar Ghasemi, Sadegh Allameh, Safar Ali Beyramabadi, Hossein Behmadi, Ali Morsali Morsali

pp. 17–20 · 2018

A novel Hg (II) complex based on 5-nitro-N1-((pyridin-2-yl) methylene) benzene-1,2-diamine (HgL2) has been studied for catalytic performance in the synthesis of polyhydroquinoline derivatives. This efficient and eco-frie…

Kaburi Josyline, Ngumbi Philip, Irungu Lucy, Ndegwa Paul, Ingonga Johnstone, Bernard Osero, Dickson Libendi, Anjili Christopher

pp. 21–27 · 2018

Current efforts at mosquito control of malaria rely heavily on insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor residual spraying with insecticide, and application of chemical larvicides. No new public health insecticides have been …

Nidhi Kakkar, Sanjeev K. Gupta, Aman Bura, Aastha Gandhi

pp. 28–32 · 2018

This study was aimed to investigate the cellulolytic bacteria of termite gut symbionts of worker Coptotermes heimi (Wasmann) and to identify bacteria with the ability to degrade the cellulosic biomass to glucose monomers…