β-lactamase enzymes have generated significant interest due to their ability to confer
resistance to the most commonly used family of antibiotics in human medicine. Among these …

Saline environments, such as marine and hypersaline habitats, are widely distributed
around the world. They include sea waters, saline lakes, solar salterns, or hypersaline soils …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that forms biofilms during infection,
resulting in recalcitrance to antibiotic treatment. Biofilm inhibition is a promising research …

Quorum sensing (QS) is a phenomenon of intercellular communication discovered mainly in
bacteria. A QS system consisting of QS signal molecules and regulatory protein components …

Membrane biofouling is a process that can impede the development of membrane
bioreactor (MBR), which constitutes an important system of the wastewater treatment …

Background Nowadays, microbial infections have caused increasing economic losses in
aquaculture industry and deteriorated worldwide environments. Many of these infections are …

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are the most common probiotics, and they present excellent
inhibitory effects on pathogenic bacteria. This study aimed to explore the anti-biofilm …

Burkholderia cepacia is well known as the causative agent of infections in humans where
often shares niche with other pathogens, like Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Clinical isolate …

Interference with quorum-sensing (QS) intercellular communication systems by the
enzymatic disruption of N-acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) in Gram-negative bacteria has …

Objectives To screen for a variety of marine bacteria with anti-quorum sensing and anti-
biofilm activities. Results Among 188 bacterial isolates from water, sediment, and corals in …