A gram-negative, rod-shaped, isoproturon (IPU) utilizing bacterium was isolated from herbicide-applied wheat fields of Tarai agro-ecosystem, Pantnagar. The phylogenetic sequence analysis based on 16S rRNA sequence revealed that the isolate could be a distinct species within the genus Pseudomonas. The isolate was a close relative of Pseudoxanthomonas japonensis (95 % similarity) and designated a...

Abstract Background The chance of achieving a successful pregnancy through in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) is limited despite recent scientific advances this field due to several factors that are known affect the outcome. There studies linking presence bacteria male genital tract poor semen parameters IVF-ET outcomes. Results are, however, contradictory. finding confirmed in...

phytosis complex." 2,3 A bacterial and fungal culture may thus be necessary to identify all nail and foot pathogens. A clue that a patient has a significant bacterial infection is green discoloration of the nail, as in our patient. Unfortunately, because of the faster growth rate of bacteria, isolation of fungi is often not possible. The inability to isolate a fungus because of bacterial overgr...

Well-differentiated cultures established from airway epithelia of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF cultures) exhibited goblet cell hyperplasia, increased secretion of mucus, and higher basal levels of interleukin-8 than similarly cultured cells from healthy donors. Upon apical infection with low doses (10(4) to 10(5) CFU) of Burkholderia cenocepacia isolate BC7, the two cultures gave different...

OBJECTIVE To determine the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of bacterial pathogens in the patients of urinary tract infection reporting at a tertiary care hospital. STUDY DESIGN Laboratory based study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Microbiology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi, from January to December 2012. METHODOLOGY A total of 440 culture positive bacte...

Certain plant growth promoting bacteria have ability to ameliorate abiotic and/or biotic stressors, which can be exploited to enhance plant growth and productivity of the plants under stress conditions. Therefore, the present study aimed to examine the role of a rhizospheric bacterial isolate SBP-9 isolated from Sorghum bicolor (i) in promoting the wheat plant growth under salinity stress, and ...

To achieve a functioning and stable process with high methane production, it is important to create and maintain a beneficial environment for the activity of bacterial consortia of suitable species. Therefore, an experiment has been carried out to isolate methanogenic and nonmethanogenic bacteria from anaerobic biogas system. With this view, a microbial consortium and their relative performance...

the prospects of using the biostimulation and bioaugmentation treatment for the removal of the polychlorinated biphenyl (pcbs) from contaminated sediment collected from the sewage canal in the surroundings of a former pcb manufacturing plant in slovakia is described. the eleven bacterial strains isolated in our previous work from sewage strážsky canal sediments were able to aerobically degrade ...