Polymicrobial communities impose a great challenge for clinical management of chronic infections. It is a consensus now that microbes exist as aggregated colonies shielded within polymeric matrix. Within this matrix more than one bacterial species can exist either in symbiotic or rival relationships. Herein, we investigated the host-specific interspecies interactions between Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in...

The usage of potassium bromate (PB) in various consumer items and food and chemical industries poses a serious health risk like nephrotoxicity along with other toxic abuses. The compound elicits mild to severe toxic insults in a dose-dependent way in vivo and can even trigger carcinogenesis if exposed for long. This investigation ascertains the protective effect of naringenin (NIR), a polyphenol, in the PB-challenged rats. The...

The global consumption of antiviral drugs (AVD) during the ongoing pandemic has overwhelmed wastewater treatment plants, which struggle to effectively remove these compounds due to their hydrophilic nature. Current methods fall short of fully degrading AVDs, leaving behind potentially harmful residues. In this study, we aim to investigate the photocatalytic degradation of oseltamivir phosphate under UV light, with and without...