The human gut microbiota play a major role in host health, and attempts are being made to manipulate the composition of the gut microbiota-increase the composition of bacterial groups, such as lactobacilli and bifidobacteria ...

Xanthomonas campestris pv phaseoli produced an extracellular endoinulinase on various carbon sources. The highest inulinase production of 9.24 ± 0.03 IU ml¯¹by X. campestris pv. phaseoli was attained using an optimized ...

Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris is a spore-forming spoilage micro-organism found in fruit juices whose spores are not destroyed by typical pasteurisation. Once its spores outgrow and multiply in finished juice products, ...

Eighteen traditionally leafy vegetables consumed as food or medicinal compounds by a majority of people in the KwaZulu Natal province of South Africa were analysed for the presence of potentially harmful chemicals ...

The thermodynamic properties of binary liquid mixtures involving ionic liquids (ILs) with alcohols were determined. ILs are an important class of solvents since they are being investigated as environmentally benign solvents, ...

Nearly half of all individuals living with HIV worldwide at present are woman and the best current strategy to prevent sexually transmitted HIV is antiretrovirals (ARVs). Microbicides are ARV’s which directly target viral ...

Many secondary metabolites that have been extracted from medicinal plants have been used as source of clinical drugs. However, the concentration of the active metabolites in plants is generally low. An attractive alternative ...

Dichrostachys cinerea, Carpobrotus dimidiatus, Capparis tomentosa and Leonotis leonurus are all plants that are indigenous to South Africa. These plants are used in traditional medicine to treat various ailments. However, ...

Interest in xylanases from different microbial sources has increased markedly in the past decade, in part because of the application of these enzymes in a number of industries, the main area being the pulp and paper industry. ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate T. lanuginosus for the production of hemicellulases, its yield enhancement using mutagenesis and application of a selected xylanase on bagasse pupl to assess the improvement of pulp ...