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Bacterial communities in residential wastewater treatment plants are physiologically adapted to high concentrations of quaternary ammonium compounds
(2023-08-28)
Benzalkonium chloride (BAC) is a quaternary ammonium compound (QAC) widely used
as the active ingredient of disinfectants. Its excessive discharge into wastewater is
constant and in high concentrations, likely affecting ...
Neotropical bats that co-habit with humans function as dead-end hosts for dengue virus
(2017-05-18)
Several studies have shown Dengue Virus (DENV) nucleic acids and/or antibodies present in Neotropical wildlife including bats, suggesting that some bat species may be susceptible to DENV infection. Here we aim to elucidate ...
Neotropical Bats from Costa Rica harbour Diverse Coronaviruses
(2015-02-04)
Bats are hosts of diverse coronaviruses (CoVs) known to potentially cross the host–species barrier. For analysing coronavirus diversity in a bat species-rich country, a total of 421 anal swabs/faecal samples from Costa ...
Benchmarking AI-based plasmid annotation tools for antibiotic resistance genes mining from metagenome of the Virilla River, Costa Rica
(2023)
Bioinformatics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) stand as rapidly evolving tools that have facilitated the annotation of mobile genetic elements (MGEs), enabling the prediction of health risk factors in polluted environments, ...
Importance of mevalonate pathway lipids on the growth and survival of primary and metastatic gastric carcinoma cells
(2021)
Purpose: This preclinical study aims to determine the effect of drugs that alter isoprenoids and cholesterol metabolism in the homeostasis of gastric carcinoma cell lines in the search for new therapeutic targets for stomach ...