In order to establish data be used for comparison with future evolution related climate change, physical, chemical and biological characteristics of dew rainwater as collected during the 2005 dry season (plus a few 2004 season) are reported. They have been in two characteristic tropical islands French Polynesia, Tikehau (TKH), low-lying coral atoll Tuamotu Archipelago, mountainous Tahiti island...

French Bacteriologist Alexander Yersinia in 1894 first described eniterocolitica as causative organisms for food-borne illness. enterocolitica is an enteropathogenic organism and causes “yersiniosis” that denotes infections such as, gastroenteritis infants young children it considered bacillary dysentery or campylobacter - like enterocolitis with abdominal pain diarrhea. Even give rise to acute...

Abstract. Complex microbial communities facilitate iron and methane transformations in anoxic methanic sediments of freshwater lakes, such as Lake Kinneret (the Sea Galilee, Israel). The phylogenetic functional diversity these consortia are not fully understood, it is clear which lineages perform reduction anaerobic oxidation (AOM). Here, we investigated from both natural iron-rich (>20 cm d...

A phylogenetically novel aerobic bacterium was isolated from an anaerobic-aerobic sequential batch reactor operated under enhanced biological phosphorus removal conditions for wastewater treatment. The isolation strategy used targeted slowly growing polyphosphate-accumulating bacteria by combining low-speed centrifugations and prolonged incubation on a low-nutrient medium. The isolate, designat...

BACKGROUND Over the recent years the production of Ehrlich pathway derived chemicals was shown in a variety of hosts such as Escherichia coli, Corynebacterium glutamicum, and yeast. Exemplarily the production of isobutyric acid was demonstrated in Escherichia coli with remarkable titers and yields. However, these examples suffer from byproduct formation due to the fermentative growth mode of th...

The role of the gynaecologist in the treatment of female-to-male transsexual patients is largely confined to hysterectomy and vaginectomy. We showed that laparoscopic hysterectomy is feasible and safe in this group. When surgery is not performed completely, follow-up of the remaining organs is necessary. The major part of this thesis deals with the necessity and acceptability of gynaecological ...