2156 results about "Antibiotics" patented technology

Provided are compositions and methods for selectively reducing the amount of antibiotic resistant and/or virulent bacteria in a mixed bacteria population, or for reducing any other type of unwanted bacteria in a mixed bacteria population. The compositions and methods involve targeting bacteria that are differentiated from other members of the population by at least one unique clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) targeted DNA sequence. The compositions and methods can be readily adapted to target any bacteria or any bacteria plasmid, or both.

The present invention relates to amphiphilic drug-oligomer conjugates capable of traversing the blood-brain barrier ("BBB") and to methods of making and using such conjugates. An amphiphilic drug-oligomer conjugates comprise a therapeutic compound conjugated to an oligomer, wherein the oligomer comprises a lipophilic moiety coupled to a hydrophilic moiety. The conjugates of the invention further comprise therapeutic agents such as proteins, peptides, nucleosides, nucleotides, antiviral agents, antineoplastic agents, antibiotics, etc., and prodrugs, precursors, derivatives and intermediates thereof, chemically coupled to amphiphilic oligomers.

An isolated Bacillus amyloliquefaciens Ba-BPD1 having an Accession No. of DSM 21836 is provided. This novel strain has unique 16S ribosomal RNA sequenced as SEQ ID NO:1 and produces amylase, protease, cellulase and lipase, fibrinolytic enzyme to show their biodegradation capacities. Further, B. amyloliquefaciens Ba-BPD1 produces the antibiotic substances, such as iturin, fengycin and surfactin, and has antimicrobial capacity for inhibiting the fungal or bacterial growth. In conclusion, the novel strain of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens Ba-BPD1 and its products can be applied in agriculture, wastewater treatment, food industry and chemical industry.

A novel product comprising a mixture of probiotic and prebiotic ingredients for the treatment of IBS, IBD, Crohn's disease, antibiotic induced diarrhea and other bowel disorders is described herein. Stabilized rice bran derivatives, including stabilized rice bran, RiSolubles, RiceMucil, and Cea100, are used as the source of prebiotics. The prebiotic source is not only rich in fructo-oligosaccharides, but also has potent antioxidants and phytonutrients for intestinal health and the proliferation of bifido-bacteria in the intestines. The probiotics used are different combinations and concentrations of Lactobacilli species, depending on the specific gastrointestinal disease which is targeted. When refrigerated, the products are shelf-stable (95-99%) for at least one year.

The invention provides a bacterium containing a polynucleotide comprising a nucleic acid encoding a heterologous antigen, as well as fusion protein partners. Also provided are vectors for mediating site-specific recombination and vectors comprising removable antibiotic resistance genes.

The invention discloses martensite antibacterial stainless steel, the weight percentage compositions of which are: 0.05 to 1.0 percent by weight of C, less than or equal to 3 percent by weight of Si, less than or equal to 1.5 percent by weight of Mn, 10 to 30 percent by weight of Cr, less than or equal to 1 percent by weight of Ni, 0.5 to 5 percent by weight of Cu, less than or equal to 1 percent by weight of Nb, less than or equal to 1 percent by weight of Ti, uniformly dispersed nano-precipitation phases epsilon-cu, and the balance Fe and unavoidable impurities. The invention also discloses a hot treatment method of the martensite antibacterial stainless steel, which comprising the following steps of: firstly, performing hot rolling and cold rolling, followed by antibacterial treatment on the martensite antibacterial stainless steel to making an antibacterial part of the martensite antibacterial stainless steel; and then performing quenching and tempering sequentially. The invention has a broad spectrum antibacterial property, rapid sterilization property and a long-lasting antibacterial property, maintains good mechanical performance of the materials and has significant economic and social value.

The present invention relates to microbial fodder additive, and a kind of microbial fodder additive comprising beneficial microbes and their metabolites and its preparation process and use. The microbial fodder additive is the mixture of fermented liquid or dry powder obtained with Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus cereus, lactobacillus and Saccharomyices cerevisiae and through high density deep layer liquid fermentation. It may be prepared into different specific liquid or powder preparations. The microbial fodder additive has high live bacillus content, long product preserving period and less foreign bacteria contamination, and has the functions of raise fodder utilization, promote animal's growth, increase animal product yield and quality, etc.

The invention relates to a core premix for organic beef cattle, which comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 10-40% of compound galenical preparation, 10-40% of compound enzyme preparation, 10-30% of compound micro-ecological preparation, 20-40% of natural mineral substances, 15-30% of natural vitamins and 5-30% of other preparations. The product can be mixed with organic crop straws, corn, cakes, wheat bran, grass powder, iodized salt, bone powder, calcium powder and the like in certain proportions to be used as a diet for the beef cattle; and by feeding the beef cattle with the diet all year round, not only the immunity of the organic beef cattle can be improved in the feeding process, but also the quality and taste of the beef are improved. Because the product uses the galenical preparation of a plurality of natural traditional Chinese medicines such as cordate houttuynia, honeysuckle flower, radix astragali, forsythia, tuckahoe, fleece-flower root, atractylodes rhizome, white atractylodes rhizome, hawthorn, liquorice and the like as additives to replace the western medicines and antibiotics, uses the compound enzyme preparation to improve the feed utilization ratio and uses the compound micro-ecological preparation to improve the intestinal tract environment of the beef cattle, thus ensuring the food safety of the organic beef.

In response to the need for highly-sensitive antibiotic susceptibility assays and identification assays that do not require extensive incubation times, the present invention provides automated assay methods and systems that permit the determination of antibiotic susceptibilities and/or microorganism identification in a timeframe that is substantially shorter than has previously been attainable using a hybrid system that combines turbimetric and fluorescence determinations using a single, clear-plastic assay platform. Related devices, kits, and components thereof are also disclosed.

The invention relates to a method for preparing health-benefiting fermented soybean meal enriched in small peptides, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), reducing sugar, lactobacillus plantarum and antimicrobial peptide. By utilizing strains of aspergillus oryzae, saccharomyces cerevisiae, bacillus subtilis and lactobacillus plantarum, the small peptides, free amino acids, reducing sugar, GABA and high viable count content in the lactobacillus plantarum in the health-benefiting fermented soybean meal are obtained through the two-stage solid state fermentation method, the small peptides account for 8.01-18 percent, the free amino acids has the content of 80-300mg/g, the reducing sugar reaches 20-80mg/g, the GABA reaches 0.317-0.5mg/g, the viable count content in the lactobacillus plantarum is 2-6.5*1010cfu/g, the antibacterial titer of antimicrobial peptides is 2.0*103-7.0*104 IU/g, and the yield of the health-benefiting fermented soybean meal is 82.03-90 percent. According to the process, the nutrient effect of the soybean meal can be improved, the prepared fermented soybean meal has the antibacterial effect, partial antibiotics can be replaced, the fermented soybean meal is conveniently preserved and saved, the process is simple and feasible, and the fermented soybean meal is green and environment-friendly and has application significance and wide prospect in the feed industry and breeding industry.

Ocular solutions containing at least one macrolide antibiotic and/or mycophenolic acid provide anti-inflammatory, anti-cell proliferation, anti-cell migration, anti-angiogenesis, antimicrobial, and antifungal effects. In one embodiment, the solution is administered intraocularly after cataract surgery before insertion of a replacement intraocular lens, resulting in reduced posterior capsular opacification which may eliminate the need for a subsequent surgery. The solution may be one that is invasively administered, for example, an irrigation or volume replacement solution containing at least one macrolide antibiotic such as tacrolimus, sirolimus, everolimus, cyclosporine, and ascomycin, or mycophenolic acid. The solution may be one that is non-invasively or topically administered in the form of drops, ointments, gels, creams, etc. and may include eye lubricants and contact lens solutions.

The invention discloses a production method of a pig feed additive containing traditional Chinese medicine and active probiotics, which comprises the steps of: respectively conducting single-spawn strain quantity expanding culture to the parent strains of active probiotics for pigs; mixing equiponderant first-order seed liquid of all kinds of active probiotics for pigs, inoculating the liquid into seed tank culture mediums for multi-spawn mixed culture and then inoculating the liquid into traditional Chinese medicine liquid culture mediums for primary traditional Chinese medicine fermentation; and mixing multi-spawn mixed traditional Chinese medicine fermentation liquid with corn cob meal with the same volume to obtain solid fermented seeds and then inoculating the seeds into traditional Chinese medicine solid culture mediums for secondary traditional Chinese medicine fermentation. By implementing the embodiment of the invention, the strain activity of the active probiotics in the pigfeed additive and the colonization performance in intestinal canals can be greatly improved, the produced pig feed additive is rich in traditional Chinese medicine compositions, the effect of active compositions which take a pharmacological effect in the traditional Chinese medicine compositions can be fully exerted, the body strengthening and disease curing performance and the growth promoting performance of the pig feed additive are improved and therefore the use of antibiotics can be fully avoided.

The present invention provides compositions and crystals of the carboxyltransferase (CT) domain (the C-terminal ˜90 kDa fragment) of various acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) proteins, including yeast, mouse and human ACCs. Further, the present invention provides methods for identifying and designing compounds that can modulate ACC activity. These methods are based, in part, on the X-ray crystallographic structures of the CT domain of yeast ACC, either alone or bound to acetyl-CoA or a CT inhibitor, such as haloxyfop or diclofop or CP-640186. Thus, the present invention relates to the crystal structures of the carboxyltransferase (“CT”) domain of acetyl-CoA carboxylase (“ACC”), and to the use of these structures in the design of anti-obesity compounds, anti-diabetes compounds, antibiotic compounds, herbicide compounds, and in the design of herbicide resistant plants.

Treatment of refused pollutant is carried out by EC treating for sludge in sewage treatment plant, removing heavy metal, pesticides and antibiotics residues, entering into sludge dewatering apparatus to dewater, delivering dewatered sludge to air-drying farm to air dry, adding into additives to adjust N, P and K proportion in sludge, entering dried sludge into composting chamber to compost, transferring air to composing chamber, spraying water while timing agitating, adding into EM, fermenting, delivering manure mixture to livestock farm and feeding by earthworm. Earthworm's excrement can be used as biological organic fertilizer. It's cheap and economical.

A vegetative additive for the mixed feed used to culture quatic animals is proportionally prepared from adhesive, allicin, and 8 Chinese-medicinal materials including dandelion herb, phellodendron bark, scutellaria root, liquorice root, etc. Its advantage is high effect to kill bacteria and virus and promote the development of immune organs.