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ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
In many countries and war zones, disinfectant agents may be unavailable due to financial or other issues, causing general surgeries and simple wounds to pose potential death risks. The use o…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The potential for plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) to improve plant growth under drought conditions would help lower the watering requirements, while maintaining a healthy yield,…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
In an attempt to improve gut flora, many individuals purchase and self-administer various brands of probiotics. The manufacturers of these goods claim that the bacteria in these probiotics a…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Drosophila suzukii is a type of fruit fly that caused severe economic damage to soft fruit crops in North America. It has a mutualistic relationship with the microbial communities in the ber…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Bacteriophages are gaining traction in medical treatments targeting bacteria, food additives, surface cleaners, and water disinfectants in lieu of antibacterials due to their efficiency, rel…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics and lack of new drug development has resulted in widespread emergence of antibiotic resistant bacterial infections, posing a substantial threat to p…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Enhanced crop production on a sustainable basis is necessary for solving the global food crisis. However, many agricultural practices to enhance crop growth are detrimental to the environmen…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The purpose is to eliminate Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhi in wastewater so that its reuse does not contaminate, using medicinal plants such as Moringa oleifera and Xenophyllum poposu…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The development of antibiotics has meant a new era for microbial treatment and control. However, because of some natural and social problems, have emerged the "Antibiotics Crises" which, acc…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Food poisoning is a case that any person is being susceptible to every day and this study finds a solution for minimizing the risk of being food poisoned. This study aimed to examine the eff…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Rare earth elements (REE) are essential parts of cell phones, magnets, catalysts, and batteries. With the demand for REE rising dramatically, there is a global supply challenge. REE are diff…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
We previously reported that Coiled-Coil Domain Containing 11 (CCDC11) is critical for the production of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) from Human Embryonic Kidney (HEK) 293T cells, likel…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The question asked was “how does ultraviolet irradiation and restriction enzymes characterize bacteriophage infecting Mycobacterium smegmatis?”. The purpose was to determine if an isolated b…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Sucralose is a non-nutritive sweetener heavily marketed in commercial foods and beverages which is mixed with maltodextrin and widely distributed a well know sugar substitute. Sucralose is m…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Today, one of the major public health problems in the world, Europe and Slovenia represent hospital-acquired infections. We are struggling against them with increased hand-hygiene and with t…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
There are several diseases that can be passed on from ticks to humans. Three of these diseases are tick-borne encephalitis, Lyme borreliosis and tularemia. Lyme borreliosis occurs in many pa…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Natural products from marine organisms and endophytic fungi have been proposed as groundbreaking because of their potential for supplying novel compounds unknown to the biological system. 10…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an emerging health problem that threatens global health and prosperity. According to the World Health Organization, with limited therapeutic options, AMR cu…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The basis of this continuation experimentation has evolved from the growing threat of antibiotic resistance. This experiment investigated the effects of synthetic antibiotics and natural ant…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Ionizing radiation, including atomic radiation and high energy electromagnetic radiation, causes numerous adverse health effects. Ionizing radiation creates fear which limits the potential f…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The purpose of this project was to discover and analyze a new phage to continue to add to the scientific community’s knowledge of bacteriophages. Using the bacterial host Microbacterium folo…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Invasive mold infection can cause damage to various creatures, including arthropods. My previous observation that mold does not grow in the rearing containers of pill bugs (Armadillidium vul…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
This research examined the risk of recurrence of viable but nonculturable (VBNC) Escherichia Coli (E. Coli) in long-term water storage. New research has shown that E. Coli can enter the VBNC…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The Research ECIG (E. coli Inhibitor Garlic) has the goal to inhibit the increase of Escherichia coli bacterium by creating an organic product more effective and less harmful to the environm…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Poultry producers spend 1.5 billion dollars annually on the treatment and prevention of coccidiosis (Sundar, 2017). Industrial changes, due to regulations of antibiotic usage by the FDA and…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
This project studied the Effects of Declining pH Levels of Seawater Caused by Ocean Acidification on Zooxanthellae and Coral Bleaching. This is important because coral reefs are considered a…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the most produced plastic globally, composing single-use plastic bottles, shopping bags, and more. Consequently, the environment suffers from its producti…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Three years of preliminary research suggested that Southwestern Native medicines may possess antibacterial properties against Streptococcus pyogenes ATCC 19615 (S. pyogenes), the bacteria re…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Anthracnose is a post-harvest disease caused by the fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Penz) and is present throughout Brazil, mainly in the Southern and southeastern regions characteriz…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
I did research last year for my school science class testing out how well different cleaners you bought from the store, actually killed E.coli bacteria as advertised. I found the one that wo…