Continued increase in the world population increases the demand for food, which requires active intervention to ensure food security. Furthermore, greenhouse gases have resulted in global warming which has triggered climate ...

Rapidly emerging strains of bacteria resistant to most advanced antibiotics have become issues of very important public health concern. Research currently directed towards marine actinomycetes presents a vast potential for ...

The apparent reversal of trend from modern drugs to herbal medicine is partly due to the fact that synthetic drugs have always shown adverse reactions and other undesirable side effects. Hence, the use of medicinal plants ...

Helicobacter pylori is an important human pathogen known to chronically infect billions of people worldwide, causing a number of gastric related diseases. Prevalence of this organism is very high in Africa and has been ...

In this study, the diversity of forty Salmonella isolates from selected drinking water and wastewater sources in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa was assessed using parameters such as protein and lipopolysaccharide ...

Plant natriuretic peptides (PNP) are novel peptides which, like in vertebrates, have been shown to have a function associated with water and salt homeostasis. Two PNP-encoding genes have been identified and isolated from ...

The Eastern Cape Province of South Africa is composed mainly of rural areas where the communities still rely heavily on surface water sources for their domestic, irrigation and recreational water needs. This fact places ...

Bioflocculants are flocculating substances produced by microorganisms during growth and have recently received considerable attention from researchers; due to their biodegradability, non-toxicity and lack of secondary ...

Water is an essential need that stimulates health and well being. Increase in population size and urbanization negatively affect water resources due to high demands of effluent outputs. Wastewater is an important reservoir ...

Certain areas in the world still depend on the receiving water bodies as sources of domestic water and for recreational purposes. The discharge of poor quality effluents from wastewater treatment plants can impact negatively ...