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Antimicrobial activity of the pygidial gland secretion of three ground beetle species (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae)

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Title
Antimicrobial activity of the pygidial gland secretion of three ground beetle species (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Published in
Naturwissenschaften, March 2016
DOI 10.1007/s00114-016-1358-z
Pubmed ID
27000261
Authors

Marija Nenadić, Marina Soković, Jasmina Glamočlija, Ana Ćirić, Vesna Perić-Mataruga, Larisa Ilijin, Vele Tešević, Ljubodrag Vujisić, Marina Todosijević, Nikola Vesović, Srećko Ćurčić

Abstract

The antimicrobial properties of the pygidial gland secretions released by the adults of the three ground beetle species, Carabus ullrichii, C. coriaceus, and Abax parallelepipedus, have been tested. Microdilution method was applied for detection of minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs), minimal bactericidal concentrations (MBCs), and minimal fungicidal concentrations (MFCs). Additionally, morpho-histology of the pygidial glands is investigated. We have tested 16 laboratory and clinical strains of human pathogens-eight bacterial both gram-positive and gram-negative species and eight fungal species. The pygidial secretion samples of C. ullrichii have showed the strongest antimicrobial effect against all strains of treated bacteria and fungi. Staphylococcus aureus, Lysteria monocytogenes, and Salmonella typhimurium proved to be the most sensitive bacterial strains. Penicillium funiculosum proved to be the most sensitive micromycete, while P. ochrochloron and P. verrucosum var. cyclopium the most resistant micromycetes. The pygidial secretion of C. coriaceus has showed antibacterial potential solely against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and antifungal activity against Aspergillus fumigatus, A. versicolor, A. ochraceus, and P. ochrochloron. Antibacterial properties of pygidial gland secretion of A. parallelepipedus were achieved against P. aeruginosa, while antifungal activity was detected against five of the eight tested micromycetes (A. fumigatus, A. versicolor, A. ochraceus, Trichoderma viride, and P. verrucosum var. cyclopium). Commercial antibiotics Streptomycin and Ampicillin and mycotics Ketoconazole and Bifonazole, applied as the positive controls, showed higher antibacterial/antifungal properties for all bacterial and fungal strains. The results of this observation might have a significant impact on the environmental aspects and possible medical purpose in the future.

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Country Count As %
Serbia 1 4%
Unknown 25 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 19%
Student > Master 2 8%
Other 1 4%
Professor 1 4%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 8 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 23%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 15%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 8%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 4%
Social Sciences 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 11 42%

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 April 2016.
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#13,973,215
of 22,858,915 outputs
Outputs from Naturwissenschaften
#1,764
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#153,821
of 299,501 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Naturwissenschaften
#18
of 28 outputs
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