Sir,?Dr. R. N. Chaudhuri published case notes of Bacterium alcaligenes infection resembling typhoid lever in the April issue of your journal. That some ?f the cases of typhoid-like fever may be of this origin had been described by previous workers also. I 'described similar cases either of primary origin or succeeding typhoid fever (resembling a relapse) in the Indian Journal of Medicine, Vol. ...

Abstract Behavioral manipulation (BM) is a multimodal control approach based on the interference with stimuli mediating insect perception and interaction surroundings. BM could represent win–win strategy for management of vector-borne plant pathogens as bacterium Xylella fastidiosa , since it reduce number vectors alighting host plants and, consequently, chances transmission to occur. In this r...

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a rod-shaped, Gram-positive soil bacterium that belongs to the phylum Firmicutes and genus Bacillus. It spore-forming bacterium. During sporulation, it produces wide range of crystalline proteins are toxic different orders insects. Sporulation, structure assembly, germination essential stages in cell cycle B. thuringiensis. The majority studies on these issues hav...

Rhodococcus kyotonensis KB10 is an endophytic bacterium isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana The organism showed mild antibacterial activity against the phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000. This study reports the genome sequence of R. kyotonensis KB10. This bacterium contains an ectoine biosynthesis gene cluster and has the potential to degrade nitroaromatic compounds. The identi...

An uncultured bacterium associated with the ectomycorrhizal fungus Tuber borchii Vittad. was identified as a novel member of the Cytophaga-Flexibacter-Bacteroides group. Utilizing a quantitative PCR targeting the 16S rRNA gene, we relatively quantified this bacterium in the host. The estimated number of bacteria was found to be approximately 10(6) cells per 30-day-old T. borchii mycelium cultur...

Enterobacter sp. G-1 is a bacterium isolated preyiously as a chitinase-preducing bacterium. We found this bacterium also produced IVLacetylglucesaminidase and characterized that in this study. Extracellular IVLacetylglucosaminidase of 92.0kDa was purified near hemogeneity by 8.57-fold from Enterobacter sp. G-1. The eptirn-m temperature and the optimum pH of the purified iVLacetylglucosaminidase...

Methylomicrobium strains are widespread in saline environments. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum 20Z, a haloalkaliphilic methanotrophic bacterium, which will provide the basis for detailed characterization of the core pathways of both single-carbon metabolism and responses to osmotic and high-pH stresses. Final assembly of the genome sequence reveale...

In this study, search for new mosquitocidal bacterium was attempted from the gut content of fresh water fish Clarias batrachus (walking cat fish) which resulted in isolation a highly potential bacterium. The isolate identified as Bacillus cereus VCRC 641 by species specific molecular markers ilvD, pur and pycA gene sequence analysis. Laboratory mosquito larval toxicity assay (bioassay) against ...

1. Bacterium lepisepticum, Type D, inoculated in small amounts into meat extract broth, pH 7.4, under aerobic conditions failed to grow. Larger inoculations underwent a period of lag before the logarithmic growth phase began. 2. In this medium, dissociation of Microbe D to the variant G occurred readily. 3. A lowered oxygen tension in this broth resulted in growth of small numbers of Type D wit...

In this paper we have attempted to describe the manner of spread of an endemic, native, respiratory infection and a method for its control. The essential factor determining the prevalence of such an endemic disease is, we believe, host susceptibility, which is controlled by hereditary and environmental influences. Furthermore, it seems probable that the amount of this population susceptibility ...