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Esther Karunakaran

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Vital-Vilchis I, Karunakaran E
Insects . 2025 Feb; 16(2). PMID: 40003794
Plastic pollution is one of the biggest current global threats to the environment given that petroleum-based plastic is recalcitrant and can stay in the environment for decades, even centuries, depending...
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Okurowska K, MacNeil S, Roy S, Garg P, Monk P, Karunakaran E
J Med Microbiol . 2024 Dec; 73(12. PMID: 39670831
Interspecies differences in human, pig and sheep corneal thickness may affect the colonization. Currently, there is no research investigating the impact of these differences, along with variable storage and culture...
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Ragupathi N, Muthuirulandi Sethuvel D, Ganesan A, Murugan D, Baskaran A, Wannigama D, et al.
Sci Rep . 2024 Oct; 14(1):23572. PMID: 39384811
Klebsiella pneumoniae has been identified as one of the most important opportunistic pathogens responsible for nosocomial infections. Antibiotic resistance and the ability to form biofilms are the two main factors...
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Okurowska K, Monk P, Karunakaran E
Microbiology (Reading) . 2024 May; 170(5). PMID: 38739119
. Bacterial keratitis, particularly caused by , is challenging to treat because of multi-drug tolerance, often associated with the formation of biofilms. Antibiotics in development are typically evaluated against planktonic...
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Cai Z, Karunakaran E, Pandhal J
Front Microbiol . 2024 Feb; 15:1349016. PMID: 38389536
Microbial communities have been used as important biological tools for a variety of purposes associated with agriculture, the food industry and human health. Artificial engineering of microbial communities is an...
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Karunakaran E, Battarbee R, Tait S, Brentan B, Berney C, Grinham J, et al.
Sci Total Environ . 2023 Nov; 912:168565. PMID: 37979848
Rivers are at risk from a variety of pollution sources. Faecal pollution is of particular concern since it disperses pathogenic microorganisms in the aquatic environment. Currently, faecal pollution levels in...
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Ragupathi N, Muthuirulandi Sethuvel D, Gopikrishnan M, Dwarakanathan H, Murugan D, Biswas I, et al.
Microb Pathog . 2023 Mar; 178:106064. PMID: 36898591
Persistent antibiotic use results in the rise of antimicrobial resistance with limited or no choice for multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) bacteria. This necessitates a need for alternative...
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Regan H, Taylor A, Karunakaran E
J Vis Exp . 2022 Oct; (187). PMID: 36190274
The development of antimicrobials is an expensive process with increasingly low success rates, which makes further investment in antimicrobial discovery research less attractive. Antimicrobial drug discovery and subsequent commercialization can...
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Ragupathi N, Veeraraghavan B, Karunakaran E, Monk P
Front Med (Lausanne) . 2022 Aug; 9:987011. PMID: 35979211
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Santos M, Pereira S, Flores C, Principe C, Couto N, Karunakaran E, et al.
mSphere . 2021 Jan; 6(1). PMID: 33504656
Many cyanobacteria produce extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), composed mainly of heteropolysaccharides, that play a variety of physiological roles, being crucial for cell protection, motility, and biofilm formation. However, due to...