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Moisture content (MC) influences substance transformation during composting and the function of exogenous microbial agents. Unsuitable MC could cause leaching, nutrient loss, and secondary contamination. In this study, chicken manure composting with varied MC (45-61%) was conducted under functional microbial agent inoculation to explore the optimum condition for composting and the potential mechanism. Due to the enhanced decomposing, nitrosation, and nitrification effect lead by the functional microorganism, treatment with the optimal MC (53%) exhibited the highest composting temperature (61 °C) and longest high-temperature period (15 days), achieving a final carbon-nitrogen ratio (C/N), humic acids and fulvic acids ratio (HA/FA), and NH-N/NO-N at 19.20, 2.00, and 0.93, respectively. After composting, the total nitrogen (TN) increased by 13.01-22.10% in the treatments with microbial agent inoculation compared with original stack, while it decreased by 7.76% in control. The highest nutrient (5.63%, 5.63-14.20% higher than the other composts) and better product safety (11.43-23.58% higher seed germination than others) were observed in treatment with MC at 53%, exceeding the Chinese national standard for organic fertilizer. Obviously, under optimum MC, microbial agent augmentation lead to high quality and safe compost products after a short composting period (25 days) without any leaching, which suggested an efficient way to promote the recycling and recovery of husbandry waste.
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BMC Infect Dis
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Department of Laboratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
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School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, 14300, Nibong Tebal, Penang, Malaysia.
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College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, PR China. Electronic address:
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The National Neisseria Network (NNN), Australia, established in 1979, comprises reference laboratories in each state and territory. Since 1981, the NNN has reported data for the Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme (AGSP), on antimicrobial susceptibility profiles for Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated from each jurisdiction for an agreed group of agents. The antibiotics reported represent current or potential agents used for the treatment of gonorrhoea, and include ceftriaxone, azithromycin, ciprofloxacin and penicillin.
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Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Objectives: Antibiotic resistance towards penicillin has been attempted to counter by chemically modifying ampicillin through the conjugation with silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). The current study optimizes the conditions for synthesizing and characterizing AgNP-ampicillin to quantify the conjugation extent, evaluate the antibacterial efficacy, and explore the underlying antibacterial mechanisms.
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