Candida albicans and Gardnerella vaginalis are two common infectious organisms of the female urogenital tract. Single agent boric acid (BA) topical preparations have been a treatment for resistant gynecologic Candida and...
Persisters are a special group of quiescent and phenotypically unique cells in a given microbial population that survive antimicrobial insults or stresses but retain properties of the original population. Persisters have been...
Gardnerella vaginalis (GV) is associated with bacterial vaginosis (BV), a dysbiosis that predisposes to preterm labor and increased susceptibility to sexually transmitted infections. The potential role of cytokines elaborated...
Found in Advances in Microbiology, https://www.scirp.org/pdf/aim_2020082015540201.pdf and Background: Farnesol is added to numerous consumer products that intentionally, or inadvertently come in contact with tissues that may...
Background: Farnesol is added to numerous consumer products that intentionally, or inadvertently come in contact with tissues that may harbor the opportunistic yeast, Candida albicans. Objective: This study explores biological...
There is a lack of data regarding real and perceived barriers to research participation among osteopathic medical students (OMS’s). We have previously addressed this open question by surveying incoming first-year OMS1’s and...
Candida albicans and Candida glabrata, are two clinically relevant strains of yeast. They make up a majority of commonly seen pathologies such as vaginal yeast infections, nosocomial infections, and infections of...
Objecti ve: Soft tissue manual therapies are commonly utilized by osteopathic physicians, chiropractors, physical therapists and massage therapists. These techniques are predicated on subjecting tissues to biophysical...
Posted on Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=101985 and This paper explores one of the underappreciated reasons for lack of efficacy in certain cases of...
This paper explores one of the underappreciated reasons for lack of efficacy in certain cases of antimicrobial therapy, namely the occurrence of a non-genetic resistance to antimicrobial drugs due to a metabolic quiescence of...