Uso de nisina y quitosano para la inhibición de Staphylococcus aureus resistente a antibióticos y asociado a mastitis bovina

This study describes the antibiotic resistance patterns of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from cows with mastitis, as well as their in vitro susceptibility to nisin, chitosan and the nisin/chitosan composite. From milk samples obtained from sick cows, 53 S. aureus isolated were identified, the profile of antibiotic resistance was analyzed. The results showed a high frequency of resistance to beta-lactams group, mainly penicillin, dicloxacillin and ampicillin. In addition, multiresistance was detected in some isolates, since they showed tolerance to 3 or 4 different groups of antibiotics, highlighting the isolates AMC-9 (resistant to three groups) and AMC-23 (resistant to four groups). It is also noted that all isolates were susceptible to levofloxacin. On the other hand, the in vitro susceptibility of the isolates to nisin, chitosan and the nisin/chitosan composite was analyzed determining the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC). The results indicated 100 % of the isolates were susceptible to chitosan and to the nisin/chitosan composite and 47.1 % to nisin. The effect of chitosan and nisin/chitosan composite on the multi-resistant isolates AMC-9 and AMC-23 was bactericidal. These results show the potential of the antimicrobial compounds chitosan, nisin/chitosan to be used as therapeutic agents against bovine mastitis.En este trabajo se describen los patrones de resistencia a antibióticos de aislados de Staphylococcus aureus obtenidos de vacas con mastitis, así como su susceptibilidad in vitro a nisina, quitosano y al compósito nisina/quitosano. A partir de muestras de leche obtenidas de vacas enfermas se aislaron e identificaron 53 S. aureus, a los cuales se les analizó el perfil de resistencia a antibióticos. Los resultados evidenciaron una alta frecuencia de resistencia hacia el grupo de los beta-lactámicos, principalmente a penicilina, dicloxacilina y ampicilina. Asimismo, se detectó multirresistencia en algunos aislados, ya que mostraron tolerancia a 3 o 4 grupos de antibióticos, destacando los aislados AMC-9 (resistente a tres grupos) y AMC-23 (resistente a cuatro grupos). También se resalta que todos los aislados fueron susceptibles a levofloxacina. Por otra parte, se analizó la susceptibilidad in vitro de los aislados a nisina, quitosano y al compósito nisina/quitosano, mediante la determinación de la concentración mínima inhibitoria. Los resultados indican que el 100 % de los aislados fue susceptible a quitosano y al compósito nisina/quitosano y el 47.1 % a la nisina. El efecto del quitosano y del compósito nisina/quitosano sobre los aislados multirresistentes AMC-9 y AMC-23 fue bactericida. Estos resultados revelan el potencial de los compuestos antimicrobianos quitosano y nisina/quitosano para ser utilizados como agentes terapéuticos contra la mastitis bovina

Risk behaviors of 15–21 year olds in Mexico lead to a high prevalence of sexually transmitted infections: results of a survey in disadvantaged urban areas

BACKGROUND: Due to the fact that adolescents are more likely to participate in high-risk behaviors, this sector of the population is particularly vulnerable to contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and resultant health problems. METHODS: A survey was carried out among adolescents from poor homes in 204 small-urban areas of Mexico. Information was collected in relation to risk behaviors and socio-economic environment. A sub-group of the participants also provided blood and urine samples which were analyzed to detect sexually transmitted infections. RESULTS: The presence of Chlamydia was detected in nearly 8% of participants who had stated that they were sexually active (18%) and approximately 12% were positive for herpes type 2-specific antibodies. For both, a greater proportion of girls resulted positive compared to boys. The presence of these biological outcomes of sexual risk behavior was associated with other risk behaviors (smoking), but not with self-reported indicators of protected sex (reported use of condom during most recent sexual activity). CONCLUSION: The results presented in this study show a startlingly high prevalence of HSV-2 among sexually active Mexican adolescents in poor urban areas, suggesting that this group has participated to a great extent in risky sexual practices. The relationships between socioeconomic environment and adolescent risk behavior need to be better understood if we are to design preventive interventions that modify the determinants of risk behaviors

Querying co-regulated genes on diverse gene expression datasets via biclustering

Rapid development and increasing popularity of gene expression microarrays have resulted in a number of studies on the discovery of co-regulated genes. One important way of discovering such co-regulations is the query-based search since gene co-expressions may indicate a shared role in a biological process. Although there exist promising query-driven search methods adapting clustering, they fail to capture many genes that function in the same biological pathway because microarray datasets are fraught with spurious samples or samples of diverse origin, or the pathways might be regulated under only a subset of samples. On the other hand, a class of clustering algorithms known as biclustering algorithms which simultaneously cluster both the items and their features are useful while analyzing gene expression data, or any data in which items are related in only a subset of their samples. This means that genes need not be related in all samples to be clustered together. Because many genes only interact under specific circumstances, biclustering may recover the relationships that traditional clustering algorithms can easily miss. In this chapter, we briefly summarize the literature using biclustering for querying co-regulated genes. Then we present a novel biclustering approach and evaluate its performance by a thorough experimental analysis

La Ciencia de Materiales en la Facultad de Química - UAEM

El libro se encuentra conformado por 13 capítulos que son resultados parciales de tesis de maestría y doctorado, escritos por estudiantes, por su comité de tutores y, en algunos casos, por los investigadores que colaboran con cada grupo disciplinario. Por ello, está dirigido a estudiantes de posgrado en Ciencia de Materiales, y de Ingeniería en Materiales del último año de la carrera.En 1996 dieron inicio los programas de Maestría y Doctorado en Ciencia de Materiales en la Facultad de Química de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. Estos programas ofrecen a los estudiantes la formación académica y de investigación, a través del desarrollo de proyectos que incluyen la síntesis, modificación y el procesamiento de nuevos materiales para aplicaciones en medicina, óptica, construcción, catálisis, detección de sustancias volátiles, entre otras. En los últimos 3 años con el apoyo de estudiantes e investigadores, se logró concluir esta obra que da a conocer la importancia de sintetizar, caracterizar y aplicar materiales con base en sus propiedades.Secretaría de Educación Pública-Subsecretaría de Educación Superior-Dirección General de Educación Superior Universitaria. Número del convenio con la SEP: 2017-15-001-017