Volume 8, Issue 3

Ahmed Elsayed Taha

pp. 83–88 · DOI: 10.5530/ajbls.2019.8.14 · 2019

Staphylococcus aureusis considered an important and dangerous pathogen worldwide.Vancomycin was extensively used for treatment of the emerging methicillin-resistantStaphylococcusaureus(MRSA), but this led to the emergenc…

Gouse Basha Sheik, Ali Ismail Ali Abdel Raheim, Zeyad Abdullah Alzeyadi, Mohammed Ibrahim AlGhonaim

pp. 89–96 · DOI: 10.5530/ajbls.2019.8.15 · 2019

The global problem of antibiotic resistance and the lack of novel antibiotics in the markets is soon to be a health care crisis. Silver nanoparticles are recently considered as a tool of the medical field, especially in …

Giovanni De Jesus Milanez

pp. 97–102 · DOI: 10.5530/ajbls.2019.8.16 · 2019

Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM) is considered as one of the health challenges in the medical field due to its fatal outcome to the host. This condition is caused by infection of the protozoanNaegeleria fowleri.…

Ron Patrick C Campos, James Kennard S Jacob, Helen C Ramos, Florenda B Temanel

pp. 103–110 · DOI: 10.5530/ajbls.2019.8.17 · 2019

Endophytic fungi reside internally and asymptomatically in plant tissues and play significant role in the ecosystem. Medicinal plants, such as oregano (Plectranthus amboinicusLour.), are valuable sources of important end…

Frederick R. Masangkay RMT MSMT

pp. 111–116 · DOI: 10.5530/ajbls.2019.8.18 · 2019

Waterborne Coccidians are emerging pathogens and are not entirely known in developing countries.CryptosporidiumandCyclosporahave been reported to cause diffuse watery diarrhea among immunocompetent and immunocompromised …

Giovanni De Jesus Milanez, Mary Rose Ferrer Lirio, Bernardino Manikis Hagosojos, Frederick Ramirez Masangkay

pp. 117–119 · DOI: 10.5530/ajbls.2019.8.19 · 2019

In the course of establishing Free-Living-Amoeba (FLA) biodiversity from the intestines of edible freshwater fishes all over the Philippines, the presence of cyst-like structures in amoeba culture plates were observed, s…